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Requests For Features / Wandering Monsters?
« on: May 27, 2013, 08:32 »
How come? The original game doesn't have them. Other Roguelikes do, but mainly as mechanic to disturb resting and keeping the player from recovering resources between every other step - which DoomRL doesn't feature. As is, the only gameplay element that encourages players to rest for any extended amount of time is to wait for aforementioned monsters to blunder into sight, which is.. an interesting subversion.

Not really proposing that this should be changed now (because cornershooting, radarshooting, closet monsters requiring the map code to be built from scratch etc) but I'm interested in hearing some thoughts about it.

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Post Mortem / [U|YAAM|YAFV] a conqueror is I
« on: May 07, 2013, 07:22 »
My second victory overall, first UV victory and first conqueror victory.

Since my last succesful run was Ammochain I knew I wanted something different and eventually ended up with Shotgun Scout. Build was Ok, I feel that Intuition isn't really needed what with all the waiting and radarshooting you need to do anyway, albeit there was a few times in hell where open door -> Mancubus almost killed me. Mortuary kind of sucked, it was the first time I entered it so I "only" packed about four stacks of missiles. In the end, I used up all of my ammo, my meager healthkit stockpile and my fireproofed red armor. I did get a combat shotgun for the trouble though, to go along with several hundred shells dropped by former sergeants, which lasted the rest of the game. The Lava Pits -Really- sucked, since I only bothered to bring one envirosuit. After camping the spawn for several irl minutes to draw out the pain elementals I finally advanced, killed the first swarm of revenants and.. ran out. Cue island hopping, 4 or 5 small medpacks, lots of radarshooting and a nasty set of blisters. The lava elemental was a pushover though, my power modded combat shotty pushed him out of my LOS and I had found a Lasrifle to capitalize on juggler and my speed at that point. The last level was kind, with an early motion tracking map for leuisurely Nuclear BFG Sniping of the resident Barons. To top it off it dropped an invulnerability right by the entrance to dis. Nuke. Putting a point in Brawler only to settle on Jackhammer over Azrael's Scythe for the final battle anyway. Used everything but the kitchen sink. Flawless victory.

And now Imma take a break from this game until the next version comes along, 'twas fun whilst it lasted.

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Igor Savin, level 16 Imp Sergeant Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 167001 turns and scored 401187 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 43 minutes and 10 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 1486 out of 1486 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

 He saved himself once.

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 11
  Levels completed : 11

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Explorer Badge
  Conqueror Badge
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Armorer Silver Badge
  Heroic Bronze Badge
  UAC Gold Badge
  Veteran Bronze Badge
  Veteran Silver Badge
  Veteran Gold Badge
  Veteran Platinum Badge
  Elite Platinum Badge
  Longinus Gold Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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  ###########################################################

-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 60/60   Experience 120623/16
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +2  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +3

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Scout

    Ironman          (Level 1)
    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Hellrunner       (Level 3)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 1)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Shottyhead       (Level 1)

  HR->HR->Rel->Rel->Fin->Fin->SM->DM->Jug->MSh->WK->WK->HR->Fin->Iro->Bru->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Angelic Armor [3/7] (45%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Jackhammer (8d3)x3 [3/9]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   BFG 9000 (10d6) [9/220] (B3T1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] assault shotgun (9d3) [6/6] (P2)
    [b] laser rifle (1d7)x5 [15/40] (T1)
    [c] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d6) [40/40]
    [d] duelist armor [4/4] (100%) (P)
    [e] Shielded Armor [2]
    [f] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [g] shotgun shell (x20)
    [h] rocket (x3)
    [i] homing phase device
    [j] envirosuit pack

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Bullet     - internal 0%    torso 25%   feet 0%   
    Melee      - internal 0%    torso 25%   feet 0%   
    Shrapnel   - internal 0%    torso 25%   feet 0%   

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    102 former humans
    122 former sergeants
    66 former captains
    171 imps
    111 demons
    481 lost souls
    70 cacodemons
    53 hell knights
    88 barons of hell
    37 arachnotrons
    20 former commandos
    45 pain elementals
    41 revenants
    29 mancubi
    28 arch-viles
    12 nightmare demons
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 shambler
    1 lava elemental
    1 agony elemental
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 John Carmack
    1 Arena Master

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  He broke through the lab.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 8 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  On level 9 he found the Mega Buster!
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical armor!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 10 he found the Shielded Armor!
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
  On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 14 he assembled a double chainsaw!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  Level 15 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he stumbled into a complex full of mancubi!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 17 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 19 he found the Jackhammer!
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He nuked level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You dodge! Boom!
 You dodge! Boom!
 You swap your weapons instantly!
 The baron of hell dies. The hell knight dies. The hell knight dies. The baron
 of hell dies. You hear the scream of a freed soul! The hell knight dies. The
 baron of hell dies. The baron of hell dies. You are hit!
 You dodge! Boom!
 You feel vulnerable again.
 You swap your weapons instantly!
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
 The revenant dies.
 You hear the scream of a freed soul!
 The revenant dies. You hear the scream of a freed soul!
 John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press
 <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 83 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 72 of those were killed.
 And 9 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 2 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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Post Mortem / [H|99%|YAFW] A winner is I
« on: April 26, 2013, 15:59 »
Hellu, just managed my first victory. I have quite some roguelike and DOOM experience beforehand so decided to try my hand at HMP to begin with and could never get myself to lower the difficulty afterwards, despite the game repeatedly shooting down my early attempts to get off the ground. Decided on a Rapid Fire marine build early and then pretty much bruteforced that until success.

Early game was uneventful with the exception of the Arena Master unexpectedly deciding to go for a walk to the level start within moments of me spawning (basically I bumped into him as I returned from killing the first set of Hell knights). Turns out I got to the Berserk pack faster than he could blast me though. After that it was rough sailing with a Heavy Weapon Chaingun up until Hell's armory, which turned out to be the power tipping point as I was getting my grubby hands on a laser rifle and proceeded to 2HKO pretty much everything from that point onward. Ammo consumption turned out to be kind of heinous however, and as I didn't find a Nano mod (or any advanced mod for the entire game..), this made me abandon my original plan of assembling an early Nano Rifle  and beeline Ammo Chain, which turned up a few levels down (I chose to skip skulls due to this though, screw that noise). Oh, and Burst Cannon Laser? It's where it's at. Ammo chain incidentally out to be double fortuitous as I somehow managed to Rocket Launcher away the Backpack in Containment Area. Had some serious breaks from the RNG otherwise, finding Nuke and Invincibility before UC, a hatred Skull before Limbo and a Gothic Armor to complement my Fireproof Red early in hell (as well as a few unique sets I ended up not using). Nuked Spider because I could, blew an early BFG blast on the great evil due to inexperience and then proceeded to murder him in a matter of turns anyway. He did almost blpw away my Fireproof Red though, which made me switch to the Angelic Armor at the last moment.

The lone thing that got away was a Hell knight on the chase level which I couldn't bring myself to hunt down due to the time restraint. I did hear it fry some on the approaching wall of lava, but that reached the stairs before he died unfortunately. Ah well.

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Joker, level 14 Imp Lance Corporal Marine,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 183115 turns and scored 241079 points.
 He played for 2 hours, 38 minutes and 10 seconds.
 He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.

 He killed 854 out of 855 hellspawn. (99%)
 He was a real killing machine...

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 10
  Levels completed : 9

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Armorer Bronze Badge
  UAC Bronze Badge
  UAC Silver Badge
  Lava Bronze Badge
  Reaper Bronze Badge
  Reaper Silver Badge
  Reaper Gold Badge
  Scavenger Bronze Badge
  Scavenger Silver Badge
  Scavenger Gold Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 52/80   Experience 88880/14
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +2  ToDmg Melee +2

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Marine

    Ironman          (Level 2)
    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 2)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Triggerhappy     (Level 2)
    Ammochain        (Level 1)

  SoB->SoB->TH->TH->Fin->Fin->WK->Rel->Rel->MAc->Iro->Iro->Fin->Bad->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Angelic Armor [7/7] (90%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   burst laser rifle (1d9)x7 [62/80]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nuclear BFG 9000 (8d6) [26/40]

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] minigun (1d8)x8 [199/200] (A1P2)
    [b] red armor [6/6] (100%) (P)
    [c] fireproof red armor [2/4] (34%)
    [d] plasma shield [0/0] (100%)
    [e] Longinus Spear (8d8)
    [f] power cell (x50)
    [g] power cell (x50)
    [h] power cell (x50)
    [i] power cell (x50)
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] phase device
    [p] phase device
    [q] envirosuit pack
    [r] power mod pack
    [s] technical mod pack
    [t] technical mod pack

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Bullet     - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 0%   
    Melee      - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 0%   
    Shrapnel   - internal 0%    torso 50%   feet 0%   

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    104 former humans
    88 former sergeants
    41 former captains
    115 imps
    86 demons
    146 lost souls
    60 cacodemons
    41 hell knights
    37 barons of hell
    16 arachnotrons
    6 former commandos
    6 pain elementals
    23 revenants
    43 mancubi
    17 arch-viles
    1 nightmare cacodemon
    3 nightmare demons
    5 elite former humans
    5 elite former sergeants
    2 elite former captains
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 shambler
    1 lava elemental
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 John Carmack
    1 Arena Master

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 7 he assembled a high power weapon!
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
  He purified his fellow comrades.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 8 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  On level 9 he assembled a burst cannon!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  He nuked level 17!
  On level 17 he found the Longinus Spear!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 19 he found the Trigun!
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
  On level 20 he assembled a burst cannon!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
  On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
  On level 22 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  He managed to raise Mt. Erebus completely!
  On level 23 he stumbled into a complex full of mancubi!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He nuked level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You start running!
 You are hit!
 You stop running.
 The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
 hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
 Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The
 missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. You are hit! Your
 fireproof red armor is damaged!
 The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
 hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
 Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The
 missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. You are hit!
 You wear/wield : a Angelic Armor [7/7] (98%) You are hit!
 Boom! The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. John
 Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 41 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 34 of those were killed.
 And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 1 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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In Doom, pulling a switch meant changed the level layout somehow - opening a door, raising a platform, lowering walls, what have you. Worst case scenario you triggered an ambush and got some goodies as compensation. Here.. it's more akin to reading an un-id'd scroll, pulling random stunts that is nothing like the original game and with a bad enough risk/reward ratio that pulling them just isn't worth it without points in Intuition. There are instances where they work where the player groks them to, such as in special levels, but there's no reason why they couldn't work like this all the while.

I'd like to see each switch being linked to some sort of terrain feature on the level - such as raising (or lowering) a bridge through hazardous pools, opening or closing doors to otherwise inaccesible areas. Triggering ambushes (proper ones, lowering walls to inaccessinble alcoves and not just spawning monsters). Turning the level lights on or off (increasing or decreasing the players LOS). One way switches. Persistent switches (such as operating presses for fun and profit). Switches that are only active for a limited amount of time (forcing the player to run gauntlets or the like).

Anything but what they are now.

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Seeing as assymetrical LOS is such a central game concept, it'd be helpful if the game was less opaque about exactly which monsters could see the PC or not. Having to memorize LOS patterns is at best artificial difficulty and needlessly adds to the games difficuly curve (especially as players familiar with the mechanic from other roguelikes get a head start). A simple dimming of affected tiles would suffice and probably look neat to boot.

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As per thread title. Having to pause and check in order to assess ammo usage kind of breaks the game's flow.

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