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Century Lounge / [M|ArchAo666|45%|608|YASD] No undead Vampyres
« on: March 21, 2019, 19:00 »
So a while back, (just over three years ago!) :o somebody suggested taking advantage of a bug that allows you to hit yourself with your own Dragonslayer and combining it with Vampyre trait to heal yourself by killing yourself. Well, today I pulled off a "successful" test of what happens; I got the message, "you hit you" and died from it, but my final hp displayed as zero, so I guess I didn't get healed from it. (How sad!) :(
I recorded a one minute video of myself doing it, but I don't think it's worth bothering to share. The bug requires knocking myself into the path of the Whirlwind, so I had to use the Phaseshift set to increase knockback, since Badass trait and the Dragonslayer itself reduce it. After all the testing to see how much damage I took over multiple attempts and positioning the barrels properly, and getting my hp down to the right level, it was pretty anti-climactic. Oh well...
Other than that, it was a pretty ordinary Vampyre stairdive. The Necroarmor was a huge help for the early game and the Phaseshift set for the late game. I was tearing around ridiculously fast, while juggling between the Ripper and Butcher's Cleaver, all my moves taking 0.16 seconds and my attacks taking either 0.18 or zero seconds. Basically, everything was dead before they could react. :)
I had hoped for an Onyx mod for the Phaseshift suit, but I never found a single one. (Found 4 Nano mods, though!) :o
I recorded a one minute video of myself doing it, but I don't think it's worth bothering to share. The bug requires knocking myself into the path of the Whirlwind, so I had to use the Phaseshift set to increase knockback, since Badass trait and the Dragonslayer itself reduce it. After all the testing to see how much damage I took over multiple attempts and positioning the barrels properly, and getting my hp down to the right level, it was pretty anti-climactic. Oh well...
Other than that, it was a pretty ordinary Vampyre stairdive. The Necroarmor was a huge help for the early game and the Phaseshift set for the late game. I was tearing around ridiculously fast, while juggling between the Ripper and Butcher's Cleaver, all my moves taking 0.16 seconds and my attacks taking either 0.18 or zero seconds. Basically, everything was dead before they could react. :)
I had hoped for an Onyx mod for the Phaseshift suit, but I never found a single one. (Found 4 Nano mods, though!) :o
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 25 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Marine,
committed a stupid suicide on level 608 of Hell.
He survived 285348 turns and scored 3466842 points.
He played for 12 hours, 52 minutes and 32 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 8300 out of 18432 hellspawn. (45%)
He was an Archangel of 666!
He saved himself 24 times.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 0
Levels visited : 0
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Experience Cross
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/110 Experience 2784192/25
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +10 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +15
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 5)
Finesse (Level 3)
Tough as nails (Level 3)
Son of a gun (Level 2)
Brute (Level 5)
Juggler (Level 1)
Berserker (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Badass (Level 2)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->Bad->MVm->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->TaN->Bad->TaN->TaN->Bru->Bru->Fin->Jug->Iro->Iro->Iro->Iro->Iro->SoG->SoG->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] phaseshift armor [4/4] (83%) (ANP)
[b] [ Weapon ] Dragonslayer (9d9)
[c] [ Boots ] antigrav phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] nanomachic rocket launcher (6d7) (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] nanomachic blaster (2d4) (S1)
[b] plasma shotgun (7d3) [66/66] (B3)
[c] biggest fucking gun (21d12) [250/250] (P1)
[d] phaseshift armor [4/4] (100%) (AP)
[e] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
[f] Berserker Armor [0]
[g] ripper (6d7) (P)
[h] Butcher's Cleaver (5d6)
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] homing phase device
[p] homing phase device
[q] homing phase device
[r] hatred skull
[s] hatred skull
[t] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 60% torso 90% feet 60%
Melee - internal 60% torso 90% feet 60%
Shrapnel - internal 60% torso 90% feet 60%
Acid - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Fire - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
365 former humans
640 former sergeants
935 former captains
109 imps
58 demons
823 lost souls
64 cacodemons
301 hell knights
1109 barons of hell
383 arachnotrons
10 former commandos
148 pain elementals
554 revenants
651 mancubi
879 arch-viles
38 nightmare imps
175 nightmare cacodemons
293 nightmare demons
142 nightmare arachnotrons
82 nightmare arch-viles
33 elite former captains
28 elite former commandos
186 bruiser brothers
149 shamblers
67 lava elemental
40 agony elementals
38 Cyberdemons
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 10 he found the Necroarmor!
On level 13 he ran for his life from acid!
He nuked level 13!
Level 29 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 29 he found the Jackhammer!
On level 30 he assembled a chainsword!
On level 30 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 30 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
Level 32 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He left level 32 as soon as possible.
He left level 33 as soon as possible.
On level 34 he assembled a micro launcher!
He nuked level 36!
He nuked level 38!
He left level 42 as soon as possible.
Level 47 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 47 as soon as possible.
Level 49 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 50 he found the Trigun!
He nuked level 51!
On level 53 he found the Revenant's Launcher!
He left level 55 as soon as possible.
He left level 56 as soon as possible.
On level 63 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 67 he found the Shielded Armor!
He left level 69 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 71!
He left level 71 as soon as possible.
On level 72 he encountered an armed nuke!
He sounded the alarm on level 73!
Level 74 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 74 as soon as possible.
On level 75 he found the Medical Powerarmor!
On level 76 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He nuked level 76!
On level 78 he found the Hellwave Pack!
On level 79, hell froze over!
Level 80 was a hard nut to crack!
Level 82 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
On level 83 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He sounded the alarm on level 85!
Level 87 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 87 as soon as possible.
Level 88 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
On level 96 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 96 he found the Acid Spitter!
On level 97 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 97 he found the Enviroboots!
He left level 98 as soon as possible.
He left level 100 as soon as possible.
Level 103 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 105 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
On level 105 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
On level 106 he found the Butcher's Cleaver!
He left level 111 as soon as possible.
He left level 114 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 117!
On level 118 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 120 he stumbled into a complex full of mancubi!
He nuked level 120!
He left level 123 as soon as possible.
On level 126 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 126 as soon as possible.
Level 127 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He sounded the alarm on level 130!
He left level 133 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 134!
He sounded the alarm on level 137!
He left level 140 as soon as possible.
He sounded the alarm on level 141!
On level 142 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
He left level 144 as soon as possible.
On level 145, hell froze over!
On level 146 he stumbled into a complex full of mancubi!
Level 148 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 148 he found the Hell Staff!
He left level 151 as soon as possible.
Level 152 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He sounded the alarm on level 154!
He left level 154 as soon as possible.
On level 158, hell froze over!
On level 160, hell froze over!
On level 163 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 166 he stumbled into a lava elemental cave!
On level 168 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 168 as soon as possible.
He left level 172 as soon as possible.
He left level 173 as soon as possible.
On level 177 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
He left level 178 as soon as possible.
On level 181 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 185 he encountered an armed nuke!
He sounded the alarm on level 186!
On level 189 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 192 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 192 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
Level 194 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 195 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 196 he stumbled into a agony elemental cave!
He left level 198 as soon as possible.
He sounded the alarm on level 205!
He nuked level 205!
Level 212 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He left level 212 as soon as possible.
On level 222 he was bombarded!
He left level 224 as soon as possible.
On level 225 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 226 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 229 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He nuked level 232!
He left level 233 as soon as possible.
Level 237 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
Level 238 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 238 as soon as possible.
He sounded the alarm on level 239!
He left level 243 as soon as possible.
He left level 244 as soon as possible.
On level 247 he assembled a antigrav boots!
On level 248 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 248 as soon as possible.
On level 249 he encountered an armed nuke!
He left level 251 as soon as possible.
He sounded the alarm on level 253!
On level 254 he encountered an armed nuke!
He left level 256 as soon as possible.
On level 258 he encountered an armed nuke!
He left level 258 as soon as possible.
On level 262, hell froze over!
He left level 263 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 264!
On level 267 he stumbled into a complex full of revenants!
He nuked level 267!
He nuked level 269!
Level 274 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 275 as soon as possible.
On level 277 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He left level 277 as soon as possible.
He left level 278 as soon as possible.
On level 280 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He left level 280 as soon as possible.
He left level 281 as soon as possible.
Level 282 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 284 as soon as possible.
On level 285 he encountered an armed nuke!
He left level 285 as soon as possible.
On level 287, hell froze over!
He left level 287 as soon as possible.
On level 290 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 290 as soon as possible.
He left level 291 as soon as possible.
On level 293 he found the Subtle Knife!
He left level 294 as soon as possible.
On level 295, hell froze over!
On level 297 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 299 as soon as possible.
On level 301 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
He left level 301 as soon as possible.
On level 302 he encountered an armed nuke!
He left level 302 as soon as possible.
He left level 303 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 304!
Level 305 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
On level 306, hell froze over!
Level 308 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 309 as soon as possible.
He left level 310 as soon as possible.
On level 311 he found the Mega Buster!
He left level 313 as soon as possible.
On level 315 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 315 as soon as possible.
He left level 316 as soon as possible.
He left level 318 as soon as possible.
He left level 319 as soon as possible.
Level 321 was a hard nut to crack!
He flooded the entire level 322 with lava!
On level 322 he found the Anti-Freak Jackal!
On level 323, hell froze over!
On level 325 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
He left level 326 as soon as possible.
On level 329 he assembled a ripper!
On level 330, hell froze over!
On level 331 he found the Railgun!
He left level 332 as soon as possible.
On level 338 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 339 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He sounded the alarm on level 340!
He nuked level 340!
He left level 340 as soon as possible.
On level 341 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He left level 341 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 342!
Level 343 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 345 as soon as possible.
Level 346 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 349, hell froze over!
He left level 349 as soon as possible.
He left level 351 as soon as possible.
He left level 352 as soon as possible.
On level 355 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 355 as soon as possible.
Level 356 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 356 as soon as possible.
He left level 358 as soon as possible.
He left level 363 as soon as possible.
On level 365 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 368 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 368 as soon as possible.
He left level 370 as soon as possible.
He sounded the alarm on level 372!
He left level 372 as soon as possible.
On level 373 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 375 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 375 as soon as possible.
Level 376 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
On level 377 he found the Frag Shotgun!
On level 379 he assembled a nanomanufacture ammo!
On level 380 he was bombarded!
He left level 381 as soon as possible.
He left level 383 as soon as possible.
He left level 384 as soon as possible.
Level 385 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 385 as soon as possible.
He left level 388 as soon as possible.
On level 394 he ran for his life from acid!
He sounded the alarm on level 396!
He nuked level 398!
He sounded the alarm on level 399!
He left level 401 as soon as possible.
Level 402 was a hard nut to crack!
Level 405 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 410 he assembled a nanomanufacture ammo!
He left level 413 as soon as possible.
He left level 414 as soon as possible.
Level 416 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 418 as soon as possible.
On level 419 he was bombarded!
On level 420 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
On level 422 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
On level 424 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 425, hell froze over!
He left level 427 as soon as possible.
Level 430 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He left level 431 as soon as possible.
He left level 432 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 434!
He left level 434 as soon as possible.
He overloaded a nuclear plasma rifle on level 435!
He left level 435 as soon as possible.
He left level 437 as soon as possible.
Level 439 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He left level 441 as soon as possible.
He flooded the entire level 444 with lava!
He left level 445 as soon as possible.
He left level 450 as soon as possible.
He left level 451 as soon as possible.
He left level 454 as soon as possible.
He left level 456 as soon as possible.
He left level 457 as soon as possible.
He left level 458 as soon as possible.
He left level 459 as soon as possible.
He left level 460 as soon as possible.
On level 462 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 462 as soon as possible.
He left level 464 as soon as possible.
He left level 465 as soon as possible.
He left level 466 as soon as possible.
On level 468 he was bombarded!
Level 469 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He left level 469 as soon as possible.
He left level 470 as soon as possible.
On level 471 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 471 as soon as possible.
Level 473 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 474 as soon as possible.
He left level 475 as soon as possible.
He left level 476 as soon as possible.
On level 477 he found the Berserker Armor!
He left level 478 as soon as possible.
He left level 479 as soon as possible.
On level 480 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
He left level 481 as soon as possible.
He left level 483 as soon as possible.
On level 484 he stumbled into a lava elemental cave!
He left level 485 as soon as possible.
He left level 487 as soon as possible.
He left level 489 as soon as possible.
He left level 492 as soon as possible.
On level 494 he encountered an armed nuke!
He left level 499 as soon as possible.
On level 503 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He left level 503 as soon as possible.
Level 505 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 505 he assembled a biggest fucking gun!
On level 506 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He left level 507 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 510!
He left level 510 as soon as possible.
He left level 514 as soon as possible.
On level 516, hell froze over!
On level 517 he found the Lava Armor!
On level 519, hell froze over!
On level 520 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
He left level 521 as soon as possible.
On level 522 he ran for his life from acid!
He left level 524 as soon as possible.
He left level 525 as soon as possible.
On level 527 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He left level 527 as soon as possible.
He left level 528 as soon as possible.
He left level 531 as soon as possible.
He left level 533 as soon as possible.
He left level 536 as soon as possible.
He left level 537 as soon as possible.
He left level 539 as soon as possible.
He left level 540 as soon as possible.
On level 541, hell froze over!
He left level 541 as soon as possible.
He left level 542 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 543!
On level 544 he encountered an armed nuke!
He left level 547 as soon as possible.
On level 548 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 549 as soon as possible.
On level 550 he ran for his life from acid!
He left level 550 as soon as possible.
He left level 551 as soon as possible.
Level 552 was a hard nut to crack!
Level 554 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 554 as soon as possible.
Level 555 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
Level 556 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He left level 556 as soon as possible.
Level 557 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He left level 558 as soon as possible.
He left level 559 as soon as possible.
He flooded the entire level 560 with acid!
He left level 561 as soon as possible.
He left level 563 as soon as possible.
He left level 565 as soon as possible.
He left level 566 as soon as possible.
On level 568 he stumbled into a agony elemental cave!
He left level 569 as soon as possible.
He left level 572 as soon as possible.
Level 573 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 574, hell froze over!
He nuked level 574!
He left level 574 as soon as possible.
He left level 575 as soon as possible.
On level 577 he found the Malek's Armor!
He left level 578 as soon as possible.
He left level 579 as soon as possible.
He left level 584 as soon as possible.
He left level 585 as soon as possible.
He left level 586 as soon as possible.
On level 588 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 588 as soon as possible.
He left level 589 as soon as possible.
He sounded the alarm on level 590!
Level 591 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 593 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He left level 593 as soon as possible.
He left level 596 as soon as possible.
On level 597, hell froze over!
He left level 597 as soon as possible.
Level 598 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
On level 601 he stumbled into a lava elemental cave!
He left level 603 as soon as possible.
He left level 605 as soon as possible.
On level 607 he found the Dragonslayer!
On level 608 he stumbled into a complex full of revenants!
On level 608 he finally committed a stupid suicide.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You push the barrel of napalm. You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You push the barrel of napalm. You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You push the barrel of napalm. You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You push the barrel of napalm. You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You push the barrel of napalm. You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You push the barrel of napalm. You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
Whirlwind! The barrel explodes! You hit you. That hurt! You' going berserk!
You die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1620 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1274 of those were killed.
8 of those were killed by something unknown.
167 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 57 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
114 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
5 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
79 killed the bitch and survived.
30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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Berserk! / [0.8.5|Endless|13|YASD] Second best?
« on: September 26, 2018, 03:25 »
This is my first time getting to night 13! :D I thought for sure it would be number one, but this game still holds my top score. Comparing them, it looks like in the previous game, a lot more Wraiths spawned, and as a result, almost twice as many Skeletons were raised. So there were a lot more kills and a lot more time spent on the other game, hence the higher score, even though I didn't get as far.
Oh well... at least I seem to have a strategy that seems to work pretty well in this game. :)
Oh well... at least I seem to have a strategy that seems to work pretty well in this game. :)
-- Berserk! (0.8.5 ) Post Mortem -------------------------------------
Character name : Tormuse
Game type : Endless
Nights survived : 13
Monsters killed : 1877
STR: 12 DEX: 16 END: 12 WIL: 14
Speed: 111 HP: 0/165 EN: 19/130
Base damage: 1d6+7 Weight: 12
-- Graveyard ---------------------------------------------------------
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-- Weapons left ------------------------------------------------------
Crossbow (6/60) Knives (8) Bombs (2)
-- Kills (1877) ------------------------------------------------------
12 demons
63 bulldemons
818 beasts
129 mandagores
20 defilers
178 imps
111 phasehounds
286 skeletons
17 wraiths
8 spores
94 scavengers
19 treespirit
48 treants
20 townspeople
21 ice devils
21 yeti
12 blizzards
-- Skills (14) -------------------------------------------------------
Ironman (level 11)
Running (level 3)
-- Messages ----------------------------------------------------------
You hear a howl!
You evade.
You hit the beast!
The beast dies!
The phasehound evades your
blow.
You evade.
The phasehound hits you!
You die!...
Press <Enter>
-- Achievements ------------------------------------------------------
Max kills in one turn : 31
Longest killing sequence : 31 kills in 1 turns.
Survived for : 11400 turns
Died on : Bridge
Reason of death : killed by a phasehound
63
Nightmare! / [N!|87%|3|YASD] The last medal! :D (Chessmaster's Cross and Heroic Diamond)
« on: July 08, 2018, 22:46 »
Well, it turned out to not be so spectacular, but I did what I set out to do. :) I survived just long enough to get the last medal for clearing Hell's Arena in AoMs at N! difficulty and died on the next level. :P It was good enough to get me Heroic Diamond! :D
I recorded a video of myself playing through Hell's Arena here.
What I did was I stocked up on shells on level one, (taking advantage of N! spawning of Sergeants) and got myself Dodgemaster, so I could dodge the Cacodemon's shots and also outwalk the demons. (I also entered HA while berserk which may have helped a little) I still suck at avoiding damage, but I was still (just barely) able to do it. :) In the end, I died because I got cornered by multiple Cacodemons and there was no room to maneuver my Dodgemaster ability. Oh well...
I recorded a video of myself playing through Hell's Arena here.
What I did was I stocked up on shells on level one, (taking advantage of N! spawning of Sergeants) and got myself Dodgemaster, so I could dodge the Cacodemon's shots and also outwalk the demons. (I also entered HA while berserk which may have helped a little) I still suck at avoiding damage, but I was still (just barely) able to do it. :) In the end, I died because I got cornered by multiple Cacodemons and there was no room to maneuver my Dodgemaster ability. Oh well...
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 4 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Scout,
got too close to a cacodemon on level 3 of the Phobos base.
He survived 44741 turns and scored 36577 points.
He played for 5 hours, 44 minutes and 30 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 163 out of 186 hellspawn. (87%)
He was an Angel of Masochism!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 1
Levels completed : 1
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Chessmaster's Token
Chessmaster's Cross
Hell Champion Medal
Heroic Diamond Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 5928/4
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +1 ToDmg Melee +1
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
HR->HR->DM->SoB->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] red armor [4/4] (58%)
[b] [ Weapon ] shotgun (8d3) [1/1]
[c] [ Boots ] plasteel boots [2/2] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] chaingun (1d6)x4 [36/40]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
[b] green armor [1/1] (87%)
[c] 10mm ammo (x100)
[d] 10mm ammo (x100)
[e] shotgun shell (x50)
[f] shotgun shell (x50)
[g] shotgun shell (x50)
[h] shotgun shell (x50)
[i] shotgun shell (x50)
[j] shotgun shell (x50)
[k] shotgun shell (x50)
[l] shotgun shell (x50)
[m] shotgun shell (x41)
[n] shotgun shell (x50)
[o] shotgun shell (x50)
[p] shotgun shell (x50)
[q] shotgun shell (x50)
[r] rocket (x9)
[s] small med-pack
[t] small med-pack
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 50%
Fire - internal 0% torso 25% feet 25%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
24 former humans
38 former sergeants
16 former captains
33 imps
27 demons
4 lost souls
17 cacodemons
2 hell knights
2 barons of hell
-- 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 3 he finally got too close to a cacodemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a former human (unhurt) | a pistol (2d4) [6/6] | pool of blood | [ m
The former human dies. You stop running.
You reload the shotgun.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : an imp (wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
You dodge! Boom!
You dodge! Boom!
You dodge! Boom! You are hit!
You dodge! Boom!
You dodge!
You see : a cacodemon (almost unhurt) | 10mm ammo (x24) | open door | [ m ]ore
You reload the shotgun. You are hit!
You are hit!
You dodge! The missile hits the cacodemon.
You dodge! Boom! You are hit!
The cacodemon hits you. You die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1604 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1259 of those were killed.
8 of those were killed by something unknown.
167 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 56 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
114 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
5 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
79 killed the bitch and survived.
30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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Berserk! / [0.8.5|Endless|12|YASD] Sudden death (but aren't they all?) :)
« on: July 06, 2018, 18:12 »
So, I decided to try a different strategy this time... I left my Strength low so I could put more focus on Dexterity. It's an expensive investment, since Dexterity points cost more, but I was hoping that the increased dodge chance would pay off in the long run. It meant that I had to spend a lot more time kiting the larger monsters, but I was still doing pretty well and even as late as Night 12, I still had a good collection of resources.
The end came pretty unexpectedly. I was running ahead of that horde of monsters you see in the mortem, (including a demon) and I had a priceless opportunity to get a swing at a Wraith that was severely wounded and at the front of the group. I had 6 hitpoints, but I was berserk at the time. I thought I had a good chance of killing it with one hit. I thought that, even if it got a swing at me, (which wasn't certain) there was a good chance it would miss, and even if it hit, I really didn't expect it to be able to do 6 damage through my extra defense from being berserk. Looking at the game and analyzing it afterward, I still think my death had a really low probability to happen.
Oh well... on the plus side, it's my highest scoring game so far! Highest number of kills too; almost 2000! :D
The end came pretty unexpectedly. I was running ahead of that horde of monsters you see in the mortem, (including a demon) and I had a priceless opportunity to get a swing at a Wraith that was severely wounded and at the front of the group. I had 6 hitpoints, but I was berserk at the time. I thought I had a good chance of killing it with one hit. I thought that, even if it got a swing at me, (which wasn't certain) there was a good chance it would miss, and even if it hit, I really didn't expect it to be able to do 6 damage through my extra defense from being berserk. Looking at the game and analyzing it afterward, I still think my death had a really low probability to happen.
Oh well... on the plus side, it's my highest scoring game so far! Highest number of kills too; almost 2000! :D
-- Berserk! (0.8.5 ) Post Mortem -------------------------------------
Character name : Tormuse
Game type : Endless
Nights survived : 12
Monsters killed : 1995
STR: 12 DEX: 16 END: 12 WIL: 14
Speed: 111 HP: -1/160 EN: 38/130
Base damage: 1d6+7 Weight: 12
-- Graveyard ---------------------------------------------------------
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-- Weapons left ------------------------------------------------------
Cannon (0/2) Crossbow (6/48) Knives (10) Bombs (3) FairyDust (2)
-- Kills (1995) ------------------------------------------------------
11 demons
131 bulldemons
819 beasts
138 mandagores
7 defilers
163 imps
95 phasehounds
488 skeletons
26 wraiths
2 spores
32 scavengers
2 treespirit
6 treants
40 townspeople
29 ice devils
4 yeti
2 blizzards
-- Skills (13) -------------------------------------------------------
Ironman (level 10)
Running (level 3)
-- Messages ----------------------------------------------------------
You hit the blizzard!
You hit the phasehound!
The phasehound dies!
The blizzard freezes you!
You hit the skeleton!
The skeleton dies!
You hit the wraith!
The wraith hits you!
You die!...
Press <Enter>
-- Achievements ------------------------------------------------------
Max kills in one turn : 27
Longest killing sequence : 27 kills in 1 turns.
Survived for : 12026 turns
Died on : Snow
Reason of death : killed by a wraith
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I was playing BerserkRL, doing fairly well, Night 10 with decent equipment, and the game suddenly crashed. :( It displayed the text of the error message right on the game screen and I copy/pasted it from there, so there's a bit of in-game text mixed in with the error message, but I'm sure you can figure it out. :) (I also made a copy of the log.txt file too just in case)
EDIT: Oh, interesting! When I started up the game again, it had a saved game on Night 11. (the following night) I skipped the demon fight! I should invoke this crash more often! :D
Code: [Select]
EAccessViolation : Access violation.b./.......... The bulldemon charges!
$0042978D TBEING__GETNAME, line 1076 of brbeing.pasbulldemon hits you!
$0042A198 TLEVELGENERATOR__TICK, line 157 of brlevgen.pas howl!
$00417DBF TLEVEL__TICK, line 223 of brlevel.pasYou hear a howl!
$0040E2D6 TBERSERK__RUN, line 166 of brmain.pasYou miss the beast.
$0040160C main, line 44 of berserk.pas.... You evade.
.................
Abnormal program termination! Please write down the above
to help get rid Berserk! of all those bugs! You only need
to write down the filenames and linenumbers.
EDIT: Oh, interesting! When I started up the game again, it had a saved game on Night 11. (the following night) I skipped the demon fight! I should invoke this crash more often! :D
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Post Mortem / [E|98%|YAVP] Untouchable Cross! :D
« on: July 03, 2018, 20:22 »
Let this be an indicator of how bad I am at avoiding damage that this is my first time getting the medal for taking less than 50 damage in a game and I had to do it on easy mode. :P
I don't even remember when I started this game; I just loaded up DRL today and there was a saved game there that I'd forgotten about and I decided to finish it off. :) (It was on Hell 2 and had only taken 9 damage so far!) I took 4 more damage before the end from a Cacodemon that was on the other side of a wall which I broke through with a Shockwave pack. (I thought I was far away enough that it wouldn't be able to shoot me; oh well...)
I could have easily gotten 100% kills and conqueror, but by the end, I figured I should just stick to the original goal and I homing phased out on the second last level, so I could be invulnerable against the Mastermind. :) On a related note, I just realized for the first time that the Missile Launcher has a full reload option; going up against the Mastermind while invulnerable was the first time such a feature was welcome. :D
I now have all badges except Chessmaster's Cross! Back in my heyday, I would probably have tried to play some spectacular game to get the last one, but I don't know if anyone's paying attention any more, so maybe I'll just play a short, perfunctory game just for the sake of getting it. :P
I don't even remember when I started this game; I just loaded up DRL today and there was a saved game there that I'd forgotten about and I decided to finish it off. :) (It was on Hell 2 and had only taken 9 damage so far!) I took 4 more damage before the end from a Cacodemon that was on the other side of a wall which I broke through with a Shockwave pack. (I thought I was far away enough that it wouldn't be able to shoot me; oh well...)
I could have easily gotten 100% kills and conqueror, but by the end, I figured I should just stick to the original goal and I homing phased out on the second last level, so I could be invulnerable against the Mastermind. :) On a related note, I just realized for the first time that the Missile Launcher has a full reload option; going up against the Mastermind while invulnerable was the first time such a feature was welcome. :D
I now have all badges except Chessmaster's Cross! Back in my heyday, I would probably have tried to play some spectacular game to get the last one, but I don't know if anyone's paying attention any more, so maybe I'll just play a short, perfunctory game just for the sake of getting it. :P
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 10 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Scout,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 103329 turns and scored 45233 points.
He played for 3 hours and 30 minutes.
He was too young to die!
He killed 502 out of 508 hellspawn. (98%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He saved himself 7 times.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 7
Levels visited : 6
Levels completed : 6
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Mastermind's Brain
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Untouchable Cross
Hell Arena Key
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 50/50 Experience 44129/10
ToHit Ranged +2 ToHit Melee +2 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 1)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Eagle Eye (Level 1)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Int->Int->SoB->EE->Fin->Jug->HR->HR->DM->SoB->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Necroarmor [6/6] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] BFG 9000 (11d6) [60/100] (P1)
[c] [ Boots ] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] shell box (x100)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
[b] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1] (B1)
[c] chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40] (T1)
[d] plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] (T1)
[e] missile launcher (6d6) [0/4] (T1)
[f] Shielded Armor [2]
[g] chainsaw (4d7) (P)
[h] 10mm ammo (x140)
[i] shotgun shell (x70)
[j] rocket (x4)
[k] power cell (x70)
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] phase device
[o] envirosuit pack
[p] power mod pack
[q] hatred skull
[r] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[s] shell box (x100)
[t] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Melee - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Shrapnel - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Acid - internal 60% torso 60% feet 90%
Fire - internal 60% torso 60% feet 90%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
102 former humans
59 former sergeants
10 former captains
72 imps
54 demons
129 lost souls
23 cacodemons
14 hell knights
6 barons of hell
4 arachnotrons
6 former commandos
10 pain elementals
2 revenants
2 mancubi
3 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
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 11 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 romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He slaughtered the beasts living there.
On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 15 he found the Necroarmor!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
He nuked level 22!
He left level 22 as soon as possible.
He left level 23 as soon as possible.
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You
need to taste blood!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You
need to taste blood!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
You prepare the BFG 9000 instantly!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies.
Congratulations! You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1603 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1258 of those were killed.
8 of those were killed by something unknown.
167 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 56 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
114 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
5 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
79 killed the bitch and survived.
30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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Forum / No e-mail notifications for PMs.
« on: June 28, 2018, 18:08 »
I just discovered an unread PM in my inbox from April that I had no idea about! :o My profile settings say to "always" send me an e-mail notification when I receive a PM, but I don't think I got anything. (Unless it got caught by my spam filter?) Anyway, I don't know if anyone is looking after this forum these days, but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else is having this issue.
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Berserk! / [0.8.5|Endless|12|YASD] Run!
« on: June 28, 2018, 15:03 »
So, after my last run failed because I put too many levels into fancy stuff like Whirlwind, I decided to focus purely on running and then put all my levels into Ironman after that. It worked very well, especially once I started putting levels into Willpower so I could replenish my energy faster. (I probably should have put more levels into Willpower, actually, but I wanted to see how high I could make my strength go) :)
Much of my strategy involved running ahead of the mobs of enemies so I would only have to take one or two at a time. (This became especially important when the game was spamming Mandagore spawns all over the place, but fortunately, they're relatively slow, so I was able to kite them somewhat) Any time the hordes built up to unmanageable levels, I would hit them with a bomb or cannon blast to thin their numbers. This strategy turned out to not be the most sustainable, though, because in the last couple of nights, they were spawning far faster than I could kill them and I ran myself out of bombs and cannonballs, and by the end, I was wondering if I should have taken Whirlwind after all.
Toward the end, I got myself completely surrounded by some densely packed enemies and my only way out was very painful. I dropped a bomb into their midst at point-blank range which almost gave me a path out and I started to run, but a nearby Wraith started raising corpses around me and my pain level was too high from the bomb to fight them effectively, so I had to use a second bomb to clear those out, (which was also quite painful) and I expended my energy running away until the pain levels subsided enough to fight again. I held on for a little while longer after that, but eventually they surrounded me again and I was finally done for. (That 23 kill combo listed in the mortem happened right at the end from a well-placed cannon blast) :)
Much of my strategy involved running ahead of the mobs of enemies so I would only have to take one or two at a time. (This became especially important when the game was spamming Mandagore spawns all over the place, but fortunately, they're relatively slow, so I was able to kite them somewhat) Any time the hordes built up to unmanageable levels, I would hit them with a bomb or cannon blast to thin their numbers. This strategy turned out to not be the most sustainable, though, because in the last couple of nights, they were spawning far faster than I could kill them and I ran myself out of bombs and cannonballs, and by the end, I was wondering if I should have taken Whirlwind after all.
Toward the end, I got myself completely surrounded by some densely packed enemies and my only way out was very painful. I dropped a bomb into their midst at point-blank range which almost gave me a path out and I started to run, but a nearby Wraith started raising corpses around me and my pain level was too high from the bomb to fight them effectively, so I had to use a second bomb to clear those out, (which was also quite painful) and I expended my energy running away until the pain levels subsided enough to fight again. I held on for a little while longer after that, but eventually they surrounded me again and I was finally done for. (That 23 kill combo listed in the mortem happened right at the end from a well-placed cannon blast) :)
-- Berserk! (0.8.5 ) Post Mortem -------------------------------------
Character name : Tormuse
Game type : Endless
Nights survived : 12
Monsters killed : 1497
STR: 17 DEX: 13 END: 12 WIL: 14
Speed: 108 HP: 0/155 EN: 75/130
Base damage: 3d6+4 Weight: 12
-- Graveyard ---------------------------------------------------------
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-- Weapons left ------------------------------------------------------
Crossbow (6/57) Knives (8)
-- Kills (1497) ------------------------------------------------------
11 demons
77 bulldemons
749 beasts
121 mandagores
18 defilers
127 imps
84 phasehounds
167 skeletons
14 wraiths
6 spores
53 scavengers
8 treespirit
16 treants
20 townspeople
19 ice devils
7 yeti
-- Skills (12) -------------------------------------------------------
Ironman (level 9)
Running (level 3)
-- Messages ----------------------------------------------------------
You evade.
You evade.
The skeleton misses you.
You hit the skeleton!
The skeleton dies!
You evade.
You evade.
The mandagore hits you!
You die!...
Press <Enter>
-- Achievements ------------------------------------------------------
Max kills in one turn : 19
Longest killing sequence : 23 kills in 3 turns.
Survived for : 5649 turns
Died on : Town
Reason of death : killed by a mandagore
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Berserk! / [0.8.5|Endless|8|YASD] Too much Whirlwind?
« on: June 20, 2018, 01:38 »
On a whim, I decided to play this game the other day for no particular reason.
This feels like the best attempt I've made at it, but according to the score, it's only my second best. I think I would have survived longer if I hadn't been so focused on getting the Whirlwind ability. I was doing better using my energy to run away to take enemies one at a time. Even with level 2 Whirlwind, I wasn't able to take out enemies reliably enough... Like I would have 8 surrounding me and the Whirlwind attack would take 50 energy to kill 2 or 3 of them; it just wasn't worth it. Oh well, lesson for next time, I guess.
This feels like the best attempt I've made at it, but according to the score, it's only my second best. I think I would have survived longer if I hadn't been so focused on getting the Whirlwind ability. I was doing better using my energy to run away to take enemies one at a time. Even with level 2 Whirlwind, I wasn't able to take out enemies reliably enough... Like I would have 8 surrounding me and the Whirlwind attack would take 50 energy to kill 2 or 3 of them; it just wasn't worth it. Oh well, lesson for next time, I guess.
-- Berserk! (0.8.5 ) Post Mortem -------------------------------------
Character name : Tormuse
Game type : Endless
Nights survived : 8
Monsters killed : 771
STR: 16 DEX: 13 END: 12 WIL: 11
Speed: 108 HP: 0/110 EN: 66/115
Base damage: 2d6+7 Weight: 12
-- Graveyard ---------------------------------------------------------
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-- Weapons left ------------------------------------------------------
Cannon (0/1) Crossbow (6/60) Knives (10) Bombs (4) FairyDust (1)
-- Kills (771) -------------------------------------------------------
7 demons
35 bulldemons
424 beasts
38 mandagores
7 defilers
42 imps
31 phasehounds
84 skeletons
5 wraiths
6 spores
29 scavengers
4 treespirit
11 treants
34 ice devils
14 yeti
-- Skills (8) --------------------------------------------------------
Running (level 3)
Sweep attack (level 3)
Whirlwind attack (level 2)
-- Messages ----------------------------------------------------------
You evade.
You evade.
The bulldemon charges!
The bulldemon misses you.
You're hit!
You hit the bulldemon!
The bulldemon dies!
The yeti hits you!
You die!...
Press <Enter>
-- Achievements ------------------------------------------------------
Max kills in one turn : 14
Longest killing sequence : 14 kills in 1 turns.
Survived for : 2947 turns
Died on : Snow
Reason of death : killed by a yeti
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Post Mortem / [U|AoCn|YAAM] Malicious Daredevil
« on: December 22, 2017, 04:19 »
So, yesterday, I got a request from NeonBuddha to record an Angel of Confidence video, so I decided to see if I could get Daredevil Platinum while I was at it and I was successful! :)
I decided to do it with a Malicious Blades build, but quickly came to regret that choice... My reasoning at the time was that I wanted to see if I could get Conqueror while I was at it, so I wanted to get Dodgemaster early on so I could deal with the Shambler(s) and the relatively early Cyberdemon. It was helpful in evading damage, but not so much at killing my enemies, so I had ammo and health worries for about the first half of the game... That all changed when I hit level 7 and could finally pick up the master trait and everything became considerably easier after that, with my dual-wielded Chainswords! :D (Later replaced by Azrael's Scythe) :)
I had to abandon the idea of getting Conqueror very early on, when I exhausted my supplies trying to clear Deimos Lab. I was in no shape to defeat two Shamblers and I didn't want to risk a game in which I found two power mods and two bulk mods so early. (Perfect for my plan of dual-wielding Chainswords!) :D Interestingly, it still credits me as having completed that level even though I didn't unleash the Shamblers. Other than that, I skipped every special level except for Unholy Cathedral, (a must for any melee build) and Lava Pits, which I totally didn't intend to do except that I happened to find a nuke and invulnerability, so I figured, why not? :)
Here are the videos; there's just over 2 hours of gameplay:
Part 1
Part 2
I decided to do it with a Malicious Blades build, but quickly came to regret that choice... My reasoning at the time was that I wanted to see if I could get Conqueror while I was at it, so I wanted to get Dodgemaster early on so I could deal with the Shambler(s) and the relatively early Cyberdemon. It was helpful in evading damage, but not so much at killing my enemies, so I had ammo and health worries for about the first half of the game... That all changed when I hit level 7 and could finally pick up the master trait and everything became considerably easier after that, with my dual-wielded Chainswords! :D (Later replaced by Azrael's Scythe) :)
I had to abandon the idea of getting Conqueror very early on, when I exhausted my supplies trying to clear Deimos Lab. I was in no shape to defeat two Shamblers and I didn't want to risk a game in which I found two power mods and two bulk mods so early. (Perfect for my plan of dual-wielding Chainswords!) :D Interestingly, it still credits me as having completed that level even though I didn't unleash the Shamblers. Other than that, I skipped every special level except for Unholy Cathedral, (a must for any melee build) and Lava Pits, which I totally didn't intend to do except that I happened to find a nuke and invulnerability, so I figured, why not? :)
Here are the videos; there's just over 2 hours of gameplay:
Part 1
Part 2
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 12 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Technician,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 82127 turns and scored 216951 points.
He played for 3 hours, 54 minutes and 8 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 631 out of 631 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Confidence!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 8
Levels visited : 3
Levels completed : 3
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Daredevil Platinum Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 96/70 Experience 66923/12
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Ironman (Level 2)
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Brute (Level 3)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Malicious Blades (Level 1)
HR->HR->DM->Fin->Bru->Bru->MMB->Iro->Fin->Iro->Bru->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2/2] (63%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
[c] [ Boots ] phaseshift boots [4/4] (58%)
[d] [ Prepared ] chainsword (8d2)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5] (T1)
[b] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
[c] chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40]
[d] plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40]
[e] green armor [1/1] (70%)
[f] nanofiber red armor [2]
[g] 10mm ammo (x100)
[h] shotgun shell (x47)
[i] rocket (x9)
[j] power cell (x50)
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] power mod pack
[q] power mod pack
[r] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Melee - internal 0% torso 75% feet 75%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Fire - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
58 former humans
81 former sergeants
58 former captains
62 imps
39 demons
155 lost souls
41 cacodemons
7 hell knights
22 barons of hell
12 arachnotrons
15 former commandos
16 pain elementals
25 revenants
16 mancubi
20 arch-viles
1 lava elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 1 he entered Deimos Lab.
On level 1 he assembled a chainsword!
On level 1 he assembled a chainsword!
He fought hard, but decided the reward was not worth it.
Level 6 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 7 he found the Railgun!
On level 8 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 9 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 9 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 11 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
On level 14 he entered the Lava Pits.
He nuked level 14!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 16 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You dodge! Boom!
You dodge! You dodge! You are hit! You dodge! You are hit! You are hit!
The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You feel
vulnerable again.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
You miss the Spider Mastermind.
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1601 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1257 of those were killed.
8 of those were killed by something unknown.
167 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 56 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
113 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
5 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
78 killed the bitch and survived.
30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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Nightmare! / [N!|AoLT|57%|YAVP] Gutt's Heart
« on: December 21, 2017, 02:16 »
So, after failing a bunch of times to get some more Angelic badges, I decided to try something a little easier and went for the Gutt's Heart medal. This meant going for the secret guaranteed Dragonslayer from Unholy Cathedral that I believe is now common knowledge. This also meant that I had to do Hell's Arena damageless at Nightmare! I decided the easiest way of doing this, short of AoMC, (which would mean a slow, painful slog through the whole game and an even more painful melee-only endgame) was to play Angel of Light Travel for the speed boost to help keep me ahead of Demons and Cacodemons to maneuver them into corpse-stacking positions. I went into HA with the shellbox I started with, 3 stacks of shells, and 2 med packs that I kept around for the stamina boost in case I needed to run. (I finished with just over 50 shells to spare! 36 of which were in the shellbox)
Hell's Arena was the hardest part; using Int 2 to keep Cacodemons from getting any free shots on me and hoping that the shotgun knocked enemies the right number of squares away, so they would stack properly. Chained Court was also fairly challenging, as always; I hadn't been looking forward to dealing with the Arena Master, but I couldn't pass up the Chainsaw on a melee build game. :) After that, I alternated between Chainsaw and Shotgun for a while, until I got Blademaster trait and then it was pretty much a Chainsaw-fueled stair-dive from then on. I also happened to pick up a Hatred Skull in Abyssal Plains, which I used to ensure that my berserk continued in UC long enough for me to pick up DS.
I got Gutt's Heart once before in a different install, but I wanted to get the medal properly, so it's grouped with the rest of my collection. :) I'm up to 41 out of 43 medals now! The only ones I'm missing are Untouchable Cross and Chessmaster's Cross.
Hell's Arena was the hardest part; using Int 2 to keep Cacodemons from getting any free shots on me and hoping that the shotgun knocked enemies the right number of squares away, so they would stack properly. Chained Court was also fairly challenging, as always; I hadn't been looking forward to dealing with the Arena Master, but I couldn't pass up the Chainsaw on a melee build game. :) After that, I alternated between Chainsaw and Shotgun for a while, until I got Blademaster trait and then it was pretty much a Chainsaw-fueled stair-dive from then on. I also happened to pick up a Hatred Skull in Abyssal Plains, which I used to ensure that my berserk continued in UC long enough for me to pick up DS.
I got Gutt's Heart once before in a different install, but I wanted to get the medal properly, so it's grouped with the rest of my collection. :) I'm up to 41 out of 43 medals now! The only ones I'm missing are Untouchable Cross and Chessmaster's Cross.
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 11 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Scout,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 100046 turns and scored 441344 points.
He played for 5 hours, 29 minutes and 32 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 775 out of 1355 hellspawn. (57%)
He was an Angel of Light Travel!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 7
Levels completed : 3
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Cyberdemon's Head
Mastermind's Brain
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Hell Arena Pwnage Medal
Gutts' Heart
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 84/70 Experience 59636/11
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Ironman (Level 2)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Brute (Level 3)
Berserker (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Blademaster (Level 1)
Int->Int->HR->Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->Bru->MBm->Iro->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] nanofiber red armor [2]
[b] [ Weapon ] Dragonslayer (9d9)
[c] [ Boots ] steel boots [1/1] (92%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] chainsaw (5d6) (B)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] small med-pack
[b] large med-pack
[c] large med-pack
[d] large med-pack
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Melee - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Shrapnel - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Acid - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Fire - internal 60% torso 73% feet 60%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
125 former humans
80 former sergeants
44 former captains
133 imps
108 demons
149 lost souls
38 cacodemons
5 hell knights
20 barons of hell
6 arachnotrons
6 former commandos
17 pain elementals
3 revenants
5 mancubi
6 arch-viles
4 nightmare imps
7 elite former humans
5 elite former sergeants
7 elite former commandos
2 bruiser brothers
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
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.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 5 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
He left without a fuss.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
Not knowing what to do, he left.
On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He barely escaped the trap set for him.
He left level 13 as soon as possible.
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 17 he found the Dragonslayer!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
He left level 19 as soon as possible.
On level 20 he was targeted for extermination!
He left level 22 as soon as possible.
On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
He decided it was too dangerous.
On level 23 he ran for his life from lava!
He left level 23 as soon as possible.
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit!
You need to taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
You see : a Spider Mastermind (lightly wounded) | blood | [ m ]ore
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
You miss the Spider Mastermind. You need to taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You're going
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
Next!
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1598 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1255 of those were killed.
8 of those were killed by something unknown.
167 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 56 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
112 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
5 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
77 killed the bitch and survived.
30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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Century Lounge / [U|AoHu+Ao100|YAAM] Everyman Diamond Centurion
« on: November 13, 2017, 14:20 »
So recently, (12 days ago) Icy made the discovery that it's possible to get Thomas' Medal, Everyman Platinum, and Everyman Diamond in Ao100 and I've been trying to do it ever since. This isn't a combination of challenges I had ever seriously considered before; the idea of taking Angel of Humanity, a game which is by nature, a slow, painstaking game, being careful not to ever let anything into your view, and then dragging it out over 100 levels does not really appeal to me... but then, Sereg said some fateful words...
Damn it, Sereg! You should know by now that I see such comments as a challenge! :D
Anyway, that 22 hours down there was solid gameplay time spread over the last couple of weeks; any time I took a break, I saved the game and came back to it later. I didn't bother recording a video of this one for reasons that I think are obvious.
I went back and forth a lot, trying to decide what build to go with. I definitely wanted to be a Technician for the ability to insta-use medpacks; I correctly anticipated that that ability would save my life. I considered Malicious Blades for the protection, but the lack of Eagle Eye or Intuition would have made a lot of the late game very difficult. I also considered Sharpshooter, but I didn't want to be too reliant on one weapon if I ever got mobbed, (and Sharpshooter blocks SoB) so I ended up deciding to go masterless, (though I kept my options open until level 9, when I finally picked up SoB, in case I found a unique pistol or something) and I did pick up Scavenger to get myself a few extra mods, which I didn't end up really getting any benefit out of until I got a Nano pack out of the Trigun toward the end. (I'm still disappointed that I didn't find or scavenge a single Firestorm mod in the entire game; Firestorm-modded Hyperblasters kick ass!) :D I think it's also worth noting that I got three Sniper mods back-to-back within two levels in the late 70's, the first ones I found in the game, one of which created a Plasmatic Shotgun which was very useful for corpse-disposal to prevent pesky Arch-Viles from reviving stuff. :)
That Energy Shield carried me through most of the early and middle levels; things would've been a lot tougher without the 80% fire/acid/plasma protection. It took quite a beating over time, once going as low as 44%, but I was able to repair it with the occasional Megasphere. I had the Ballistic Shield around in case anything reached melee range, but I only used that once when a Nightmare Demon cornered me and I didn't want to shotgun it due to barrels nearby. Before that, I was alternating between agility-modded red armour and power-modded blue armour, depending on what enemies I was facing, and toward the end, I was exclusively using the Phaseshift set, once I made a Cerberus version of the suit, which was extremely useful for the occasional slip-ups where something got a shot at me. Before I got that Cerberus Phaseshift suit, there were two notable slip-ups that nearly got me killed. (Sorry, I don't remember level numbers)
1) Somewhere in the 20's or 30's, I started two tiles away from an Arch-Vile and I figured I'd be able to kill it before it could do anything to me, since it would take a few seconds to wake up and then another couple seconds to do its arm-raising thing, so I shot it with my Gatling Gun, (which at the time, wasn't tech-modded yet) and it unexpectedly got a double move on me, which it used to move one step closer and melee-attack me for 9 damage. (No melee protection from the Energy Shield and 10 max HP meant this brought me to one hit point) O_o
2) Later on, (40's? 50's?) a Former Sergeant got one of those funny angles on me through a doorway where he could see me, but I couldn't see him, and he knocked me back into a pool of lava. Fortunately, I had the Nyarlaptotep Boots on at the time, which mostly protected me from the lava damage and I had a level of TaN to protect me a little bit from the shotgun blast. (The Energy Shield didn't) Again, it brought me down to 1 HP. (I could very easily have died there!) :o
I considered turning that Nuclear Plasma Rifle into a Burst Cannon, since I've had good experiences with that in the past, but I was doing okay with it as it was and I calculated that the Burst Cannon modification would give it occasional knockback, so I figured just giving it some extra speed would be better. I'm glad I did, especially when I started encountering the mini-bosses, Shamblers, Lava Elementals, and a Cyberdemon. (Only one Cyberdemon? I'm almost disappointed!) :P I was really nervous about encountering these guys until I realized that with all my speed-related traits, I could take a move action and fire action together in less than a second, and since Shamblers and Lava Elementals move at 1 move per second, I could safely get a shot off without them firing back any time they moved at the same time I moved.
Speaking of mini-bosses, the wiki is clearly wrong about when they start showing up; I encountered my first Lava Elemental on level 69, but the wiki says they start on level 70. Also, according to the mortem, I had an Agony Elemental cave on level 74 and I know I encountered some before that, but the wiki says they start arriving on level 80. I don't remember when Shamblers started showing up, but I suspect that number is off too. I wonder if the wiki is referring to a lower difficulty level?
I came very, very close to getting an Untouchable Medal; I hovered at 199 damage for something like the last 20 levels of the game, and then it started throwing everything at me, a blast of unholy atmosphere, a Shambler, and two Lava Elementals, all on a level with no cover. Taking damage was unavoidable and it was bad enough for me to consider using my homing phase device and just abandon getting 100% kills. (At first, I was doing that just for the experience, but I didn't want to give up on YAAM after getting that far) Oh well, here's a screenshot of my character screen on the last level for posterity: :)
Anyway, this has been a long, slow, stressful game and I'm glad to finally have it over with. :)
And now for the fateful words - if you manage to earn Thomas' Medal on Ao100, I will be very impressed. (shh, don't let Tormuse overhear >.> <.< >.>)
Damn it, Sereg! You should know by now that I see such comments as a challenge! :D
Anyway, that 22 hours down there was solid gameplay time spread over the last couple of weeks; any time I took a break, I saved the game and came back to it later. I didn't bother recording a video of this one for reasons that I think are obvious.
I went back and forth a lot, trying to decide what build to go with. I definitely wanted to be a Technician for the ability to insta-use medpacks; I correctly anticipated that that ability would save my life. I considered Malicious Blades for the protection, but the lack of Eagle Eye or Intuition would have made a lot of the late game very difficult. I also considered Sharpshooter, but I didn't want to be too reliant on one weapon if I ever got mobbed, (and Sharpshooter blocks SoB) so I ended up deciding to go masterless, (though I kept my options open until level 9, when I finally picked up SoB, in case I found a unique pistol or something) and I did pick up Scavenger to get myself a few extra mods, which I didn't end up really getting any benefit out of until I got a Nano pack out of the Trigun toward the end. (I'm still disappointed that I didn't find or scavenge a single Firestorm mod in the entire game; Firestorm-modded Hyperblasters kick ass!) :D I think it's also worth noting that I got three Sniper mods back-to-back within two levels in the late 70's, the first ones I found in the game, one of which created a Plasmatic Shotgun which was very useful for corpse-disposal to prevent pesky Arch-Viles from reviving stuff. :)
That Energy Shield carried me through most of the early and middle levels; things would've been a lot tougher without the 80% fire/acid/plasma protection. It took quite a beating over time, once going as low as 44%, but I was able to repair it with the occasional Megasphere. I had the Ballistic Shield around in case anything reached melee range, but I only used that once when a Nightmare Demon cornered me and I didn't want to shotgun it due to barrels nearby. Before that, I was alternating between agility-modded red armour and power-modded blue armour, depending on what enemies I was facing, and toward the end, I was exclusively using the Phaseshift set, once I made a Cerberus version of the suit, which was extremely useful for the occasional slip-ups where something got a shot at me. Before I got that Cerberus Phaseshift suit, there were two notable slip-ups that nearly got me killed. (Sorry, I don't remember level numbers)
1) Somewhere in the 20's or 30's, I started two tiles away from an Arch-Vile and I figured I'd be able to kill it before it could do anything to me, since it would take a few seconds to wake up and then another couple seconds to do its arm-raising thing, so I shot it with my Gatling Gun, (which at the time, wasn't tech-modded yet) and it unexpectedly got a double move on me, which it used to move one step closer and melee-attack me for 9 damage. (No melee protection from the Energy Shield and 10 max HP meant this brought me to one hit point) O_o
2) Later on, (40's? 50's?) a Former Sergeant got one of those funny angles on me through a doorway where he could see me, but I couldn't see him, and he knocked me back into a pool of lava. Fortunately, I had the Nyarlaptotep Boots on at the time, which mostly protected me from the lava damage and I had a level of TaN to protect me a little bit from the shotgun blast. (The Energy Shield didn't) Again, it brought me down to 1 HP. (I could very easily have died there!) :o
I considered turning that Nuclear Plasma Rifle into a Burst Cannon, since I've had good experiences with that in the past, but I was doing okay with it as it was and I calculated that the Burst Cannon modification would give it occasional knockback, so I figured just giving it some extra speed would be better. I'm glad I did, especially when I started encountering the mini-bosses, Shamblers, Lava Elementals, and a Cyberdemon. (Only one Cyberdemon? I'm almost disappointed!) :P I was really nervous about encountering these guys until I realized that with all my speed-related traits, I could take a move action and fire action together in less than a second, and since Shamblers and Lava Elementals move at 1 move per second, I could safely get a shot off without them firing back any time they moved at the same time I moved.
Speaking of mini-bosses, the wiki is clearly wrong about when they start showing up; I encountered my first Lava Elemental on level 69, but the wiki says they start on level 70. Also, according to the mortem, I had an Agony Elemental cave on level 74 and I know I encountered some before that, but the wiki says they start arriving on level 80. I don't remember when Shamblers started showing up, but I suspect that number is off too. I wonder if the wiki is referring to a lower difficulty level?
I came very, very close to getting an Untouchable Medal; I hovered at 199 damage for something like the last 20 levels of the game, and then it started throwing everything at me, a blast of unholy atmosphere, a Shambler, and two Lava Elementals, all on a level with no cover. Taking damage was unavoidable and it was bad enough for me to consider using my homing phase device and just abandon getting 100% kills. (At first, I was doing that just for the experience, but I didn't want to give up on YAAM after getting that far) Oh well, here's a screenshot of my character screen on the last level for posterity: :)
Spoiler: Screenshot (click to show/hide)
Anyway, this has been a long, slow, stressful game and I'm glad to finally have it over with. :)
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 24 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Technician,
completed 100 levels of torture on level 100 of Hell.
He survived 407003 turns and scored 2356763 points.
He played for 22 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 4006 out of 4006 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Humanity!
He was also an Angel of 100!
He saved himself 29 times.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 0
Levels visited : 0
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Untouchable Badge
Experience Medal
Thomas's Medal
Everyman Platinum Badge
Everyman Diamond Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 19/12 Experience 831194/24
ToHit Ranged +4 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +3 ToDmg Melee +3
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Ironman (Level 1)
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 1)
Eagle Eye (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Badass (Level 2)
Scavenger (Level 1)
HR->HR->EE->EE->Int->Int->Fin->Jug->SoB->WK->SoB->DM->WK->SoB->Rel->Fin->MSc->TaN->Fin->HR->TaN->Bad->Bad->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] cerberus phaseshift armor [0/0] (74%) (A)
[b] [ Weapon ] nuclear plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [52/52] (B3T2)
[c] [ Boots ] antigrav phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] tactical shotgun (9d3) [4/5] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] plasmatic shotgun (8d3) [1/1] (T1)
[b] tactical rocket launcher (6d7) [5/5] (P1)
[c] gatling gun (1d7)x6 [60/60] (T1)
[d] hyperblaster (2d4)x3 [40/40]
[e] energy shield [0/0] (100%)
[f] ballistic shield [0/0] (100%)
[g] 10mm ammo (x100)
[h] shotgun shell (x50)
[i] shotgun shell (x37)
[j] rocket (x10)
[k] power cell (x50)
[l] power cell (x50)
[m] small med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] homing phase device
[q] Hell Staff
[r] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
[s] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[t] shell box (x100)
[u] shell box (x100)
[v] power battery (x120)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Melee - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Acid - internal 0% torso 70% feet 0%
Fire - internal 0% torso 70% feet 0%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
156 former humans
323 former sergeants
332 former captains
152 imps
45 demons
664 lost souls
80 cacodemons
167 hell knights
457 barons of hell
186 arachnotrons
24 former commandos
64 pain elementals
259 revenants
319 mancubi
368 arch-viles
60 nightmare imps
69 nightmare cacodemons
123 nightmare demons
48 nightmare arachnotrons
8 nightmare arch-viles
6 elite former humans
5 elite former sergeants
5 elite former captains
5 elite former commandos
46 bruiser brothers
12 shamblers
6 lava elemental
16 agony elementals
1 Cyberdemon
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
Level 8 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 11 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 13 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 15 he assembled a gatling gun!
He nuked level 19!
On level 20 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 24 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
He nuked level 26!
On level 28 he assembled a hyperblaster!
On level 30 he found the Acid Spitter!
Level 31 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
On level 32 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
Level 33 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 33 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 35 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
On level 35 he ran for his life from lava!
On level 35 he assembled a gatling gun!
On level 38 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 39 he found the Enviroboots!
He nuked level 40!
He left level 40 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 41!
On level 43 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
Level 47 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 49 he ran for his life from lava!
He nuked level 49!
He left level 49 as soon as possible.
On level 50 he assembled a cerberus armor!
On level 54 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
Level 55 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 57 he was bombarded!
He sounded the alarm on level 58!
Level 59 was a hard nut to crack!
He nuked level 61!
On level 62 he was walking in fire!
Level 65 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
He nuked level 66!
He left level 66 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 67!
On level 69, hell froze over!
On level 71 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 72 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 73 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He nuked level 73!
He left level 73 as soon as possible.
On level 74 he stumbled into a agony elemental cave!
On level 76 he assembled a gatling gun!
On level 76 he assembled a speedloader pistol!
Level 78 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 78 he found the Railgun!
On level 79 he assembled a gatling gun!
On level 79 he assembled a assault rifle!
On level 80 he assembled a plasmatic shrapnel!
On level 82 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
On level 83 he ran for his life from lava!
He nuked level 86!
He left level 86 as soon as possible.
He nuked level 87!
Level 91 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 95 he found the Trigun!
On level 96 he assembled a micro launcher!
On level 97 he assembled a antigrav boots!
Level 100 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : floor
You swap your weapons instantly!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : an arch-vile (heavily wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the arch-vile. The missile hits the arch-vile. The missile
hits the arch-vile. The missile hits the arch-vile. The missile hits the
arch-vile. The arch-vile dies. You feel relatively safe now.
There is a Large Health Globe lying here.
You feel like new!
There is an acid-proof boots [0/0] (100%) lying here.
There are stairs leading downward here.
You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
<Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1593 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
1254 of those were killed.
8 of those were killed by something unknown.
164 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 56 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
111 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
5 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
76 killed the bitch and survived.
30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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DiabloRL / [0.5.0|Rogue|9|YASD] Rogue=Easy mode (Also, bugs!)
« on: October 27, 2017, 21:29 »
A ridiculously easy game which only ended prematurely due to bugs. :(
So, after playing as Warrior and Sorcerer, I wanted to give the Rogue a try and had a heck of an easier time than the other two classes. Having a ranged weapon with limitless ammo in a game where 90% of your enemies have melee attacks is ridiculous. It gets extra ridiculous when you factor in the fact that the Rogue's bow gets a damage boost from Dexterity, so I don't have to bother enhancing any other stats; I can just pump everything into Dexterity to boost damage and to-hit chance at the same time! And even if you don't factor that in, the Rogue definitely has a much higher base to-hit chance than the other classes. I don't know the exact numbers, but I remember really struggling to hit my enemies with my staff in the Sorcerer game, at one point having 5 consecutive misses. Compare that to my Rogue getting 17 consecutive hits despite the fact that the character screen indicated a lower to-hit bonus! And that was all against enemies that were far from me and couldn't hit me back.
For a good chunk of the early game, I was using a bow that conferred knockback, and as much as I complained about the drawbacks of knockback in the Warrior and Sorcerer games, it's much better when you're knocking back with an infinite ammo ranged weapon; any time I encountered a room full of enemies, I could just hold my finger on the F key until they were all dead, without worrying that any of them could touch me. Even moreso, once I got a bow that had enhanced speed on top of the Rogue's already enhanced bow speed, and those groups of monsters seemed to be moving in slow motion as I picked them off one by one before they could react. The whole game really lacked any challenge compared to the other two classes.
My memory of the original Diablo is hazy, but it may have been like this too, so the ridiculous imbalance may just come from copying the original. To balance things properly, the Rogue needs some kind of nerf, like reduced accuracy at longer range, or faster degradation of the bow, or reduced damage per hit, or having to purchase ammo for the bow. Maybe we should get TheLaptop on the Devteam; he's all about nerfing. :)
In the end, though, I was unable to win because I encountered a buttload of bugs. (Details below) Short version is that I was unable to win, but I didn't want to just quit, because I still wanted a mortem, but I didn't have any means of suiciding, so I scoured the early levels until I found a Hidden enemy that I had missed and I let him kill me. :P
(What follows is a description of bugginess I encountered which may only hold interest to the Devteam)
So, it started when I decided to test the Guardian spell, which I cast using a scroll while in a room full of enemies. It summoned a Hydra, like it's supposed to, but the Hydra didn't shoot the enemies like it's supposed to and the message log filled with error messages. I think that something the Hydra was doing was causing the game to go into infinite loops or something, because every action I took, the game froze for several seconds and then spit out another error message. I tried going back up the stairs, thinking that if I could get off the floor with the Hydra, maybe the problem would go away, but I was unable to use the stairs! And when I used the look command on the stairs the description had a single word, "False." So I tried clearing the room of monsters with my bow instead, thinking that maybe the Hydra would stop screwing up once there were no enemies to target. This took a long time, since the game would freeze for several seconds after each shot I fired, but it didn't work and it continued freezing after each action, even after all enemies were dead, and I still couldn't use the stairs and I couldn't access a Town Portal I had cast either. :| I tried (still very slowly) continuing on the level, hoping that the Hydra would disappear with time, since it's only supposed to be there for a limited time to begin with, but it persisted a lot longer than it's supposed to. I even tried shooting the Hydra to see if I could get rid of it that way, but it seemed to be invulnerable.
So, I tried saving and reloading the game to see if that would help and when I reloaded, the Hydra was gone and the game seemed to operate normally... Until the next time I went downstairs, entering the Cave levels, when the game crashed. I started up DiabloRL again and it seemed the game had saved itself before the crash and when I loaded it, I was in the Caves... only there were zero monsters and no staircases, up or down. There were plenty of items, but there seemed to be no way to continue the game. :( I tried using a Town Portal to get back home, which worked, and tried re-entering the Caves from the stairs again and it crashed in the same way and again, when I reloaded, I was in the same stairless Cave level. I tried exiting and re-entering through the Town Portal again and something interesting happened; the game didn't crash, but it froze, without me being able to move or access the menu, but the in-game music was still playing and I could still access my inventory and character screens, and when I tried to forcibly close the game, instead of closing, the game suddenly dumped me back into the Caves again. (Really weird!) That's about the time I gave up entirely and decided to seek some means of killing my character to end the game.
I tried copying the contents of the error log into this thread and almost crashed my computer because the error log is 44 Megs of text! O_o I guess it was printing tons of messages during all the times it froze. I suppose someone from the Devteam can message me if they want to see it.
tl;dr: If you want to play this game, DON'T USE THE GUARDIAN SPELL!!! :P
So, after playing as Warrior and Sorcerer, I wanted to give the Rogue a try and had a heck of an easier time than the other two classes. Having a ranged weapon with limitless ammo in a game where 90% of your enemies have melee attacks is ridiculous. It gets extra ridiculous when you factor in the fact that the Rogue's bow gets a damage boost from Dexterity, so I don't have to bother enhancing any other stats; I can just pump everything into Dexterity to boost damage and to-hit chance at the same time! And even if you don't factor that in, the Rogue definitely has a much higher base to-hit chance than the other classes. I don't know the exact numbers, but I remember really struggling to hit my enemies with my staff in the Sorcerer game, at one point having 5 consecutive misses. Compare that to my Rogue getting 17 consecutive hits despite the fact that the character screen indicated a lower to-hit bonus! And that was all against enemies that were far from me and couldn't hit me back.
For a good chunk of the early game, I was using a bow that conferred knockback, and as much as I complained about the drawbacks of knockback in the Warrior and Sorcerer games, it's much better when you're knocking back with an infinite ammo ranged weapon; any time I encountered a room full of enemies, I could just hold my finger on the F key until they were all dead, without worrying that any of them could touch me. Even moreso, once I got a bow that had enhanced speed on top of the Rogue's already enhanced bow speed, and those groups of monsters seemed to be moving in slow motion as I picked them off one by one before they could react. The whole game really lacked any challenge compared to the other two classes.
My memory of the original Diablo is hazy, but it may have been like this too, so the ridiculous imbalance may just come from copying the original. To balance things properly, the Rogue needs some kind of nerf, like reduced accuracy at longer range, or faster degradation of the bow, or reduced damage per hit, or having to purchase ammo for the bow. Maybe we should get TheLaptop on the Devteam; he's all about nerfing. :)
In the end, though, I was unable to win because I encountered a buttload of bugs. (Details below) Short version is that I was unable to win, but I didn't want to just quit, because I still wanted a mortem, but I didn't have any means of suiciding, so I scoured the early levels until I found a Hidden enemy that I had missed and I let him kill me. :P
(What follows is a description of bugginess I encountered which may only hold interest to the Devteam)
So, it started when I decided to test the Guardian spell, which I cast using a scroll while in a room full of enemies. It summoned a Hydra, like it's supposed to, but the Hydra didn't shoot the enemies like it's supposed to and the message log filled with error messages. I think that something the Hydra was doing was causing the game to go into infinite loops or something, because every action I took, the game froze for several seconds and then spit out another error message. I tried going back up the stairs, thinking that if I could get off the floor with the Hydra, maybe the problem would go away, but I was unable to use the stairs! And when I used the look command on the stairs the description had a single word, "False." So I tried clearing the room of monsters with my bow instead, thinking that maybe the Hydra would stop screwing up once there were no enemies to target. This took a long time, since the game would freeze for several seconds after each shot I fired, but it didn't work and it continued freezing after each action, even after all enemies were dead, and I still couldn't use the stairs and I couldn't access a Town Portal I had cast either. :| I tried (still very slowly) continuing on the level, hoping that the Hydra would disappear with time, since it's only supposed to be there for a limited time to begin with, but it persisted a lot longer than it's supposed to. I even tried shooting the Hydra to see if I could get rid of it that way, but it seemed to be invulnerable.
So, I tried saving and reloading the game to see if that would help and when I reloaded, the Hydra was gone and the game seemed to operate normally... Until the next time I went downstairs, entering the Cave levels, when the game crashed. I started up DiabloRL again and it seemed the game had saved itself before the crash and when I loaded it, I was in the Caves... only there were zero monsters and no staircases, up or down. There were plenty of items, but there seemed to be no way to continue the game. :( I tried using a Town Portal to get back home, which worked, and tried re-entering the Caves from the stairs again and it crashed in the same way and again, when I reloaded, I was in the same stairless Cave level. I tried exiting and re-entering through the Town Portal again and something interesting happened; the game didn't crash, but it froze, without me being able to move or access the menu, but the in-game music was still playing and I could still access my inventory and character screens, and when I tried to forcibly close the game, instead of closing, the game suddenly dumped me back into the Caves again. (Really weird!) That's about the time I gave up entirely and decided to seek some means of killing my character to end the game.
I tried copying the contents of the error log into this thread and almost crashed my computer because the error log is 44 Megs of text! O_o I guess it was printing tons of messages during all the times it froze. I suppose someone from the Devteam can message me if they want to see it.
tl;dr: If you want to play this game, DON'T USE THE GUARDIAN SPELL!!! :P
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DiabloRL v 0.5.0 roguelike postmortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 18 Rogue, killed by a hidden in Catacombs, level 5.
She scored 401810.98 points, killing 0 hellspawn.
She advanced to level 18 gaining 581098 experience.
She amassed 2192 gold coins.
She killed the Butcher.
She purified the town water supply.
She retrieved Ogden's tavern sign.
She uncovered the Arkaine's Valor.
She learned the Guardian spell.
She cleared Halls of Blind.
-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Strength 35/35
Magic 50/45
Dexterity 95/66
Vitality 33/33
Life 92/0 Mana 116/79
Armor 0 ToHit 97
-- Spells ----------------------------------------------------
Firebolt level 5
Holy Bolt level 9
Healing level 6
Town Portal level 1
Flash level 3
Stone Curse level 1
Phasing level 2
Mana Shield level 1
Guardian level 1
Golem level 1
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[ Head ] nothing
[ Neck ] Optic amulet
[ Body ] nothing
[ Wpn ] short war bow of Swiftness (4-8)
[ Shld ] nothing
[ RRng ] Snake's ring of Skill
[ LRng ] Gold ring of Precision
-- Quickslots ------------------------------------------------
[ Slot1 ] scroll of guardian
[ Slot2 ] potion of rejuvenation
[ Slot3 ] scroll of phasing
[ Slot4 ] potion of full healing
[ Slot5 ] scroll of town portal
[ Slot7 ] scroll of healing
[ Slot8 ] scroll of healing
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
2192 gold coins
Arkaine's Valor [29]
Harlequin Crest [1]
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
Gutshank the Quick
Boneripper
Bonehead Keenaxe
Shadowbite
El Chupacabras
Wrathraven
Foulwing
Warpskull
Deathshade Fleshmaul
Bloodgutter
Nightwing of the Cold
Chaoshowler
the Butcher
Snotspill
32 * zombie
13 * black death
55 * skeleton
79 * corpse axe
56 * skeleton captain
9 * corpse captain
80 * horror captain
44 * scavenger
120 * plague eater
52 * bone gasher
69 * fallen one
34 * fallen one
16 * carver
80 * carver
25 * devil kin
36 * devil kin
56 * dark one
6 * dark one
7 * fiend
52 * blink
121 * gloom
64 * familiar
3 * flesh clan
52 * stone clan
111 * fire clan
85 * flesh clan archer
52 * night clan archer
103 * hidden
13 * unseen
4 * overlord
73 * mud man
20 * horned demon
82 * gargoyle
79 * acid beast
79 * poison spitter
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
The hidden misses you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden hits you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden misses you.
The hidden hits you. You die... Press < Enter >...
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DiabloRL / [0.5.0|Sorcerer|6|YASD] I guess I preferred Warrior (+Video)
« on: October 26, 2017, 16:24 »
So, I decided I wanted to record a game of DiabloRL to help promote it and maybe get people more interested in it. (And maybe, maybe prompt the Devteam to finish it?) ;) As in my more recent videos, I included my face in the corner of the screen, but I just realized that I forgot to reposition my lamp in the second video, so you can't see my face very well; just a creepy silhouette. Oh well, maybe it enhances the atmosphere or something. :P
First four levels. (The Church)
First two levels of the Catacombs.
Since I just finished a game as a Warrior, I decided to play as a Sorcerer just to get a feel for the other end of the spectrum and really test the magical abilities rather than brute forcing my way through everything. It makes for a more challenging game and speaks to how well balanced the characters are that I found myself relying quite heavily on my magic to survive, though this meant that I was going through mana potions like crazy. :| Trying to whack the enemies with my staff just wasn't effective a majority of the time, especially in the last half of the game, and I was very dependent on my Firebolt spell. (And later Fireball)
I also found a bug that when you're wielding a weapon that has knockback, it makes all your spells have knockback too! :o This could potentially be a useful exploit if you want to choose when your spells have knockback, but for this game, it just caused lots of problems, since I ran into the same issue as in my Warrior game that I was just knocking back the injured enemies so that only the uninjured ones could get to me and the injured ones healed up while I was dealing with the uninjured ones. This was a big drain on my resources which led to a crisis where I turned to shop-scumming (I don't know if that's a word, but it seems to fit) :P where I repeatedly left town and came back until Adria, the magic-dealer had some decent, non-knockback gear.
In the end, I died from trying to be too efficient. :P I had just started a new dungeon level and enemies were coming at me from all directions and I really should have used my Mana Shield spell that I had just picked up to protect me, but I wanted to use up some mana before reading the spellbook, since it gives your mana a boost when you read it, so I was continuing to pelt my enemies with Firebolts and I saw a particularly nice opportunity to use a Fireball spell to hit a group of enemies when I should have healed myself. I just didn't expect that Stalker to get a double move on me right at the end. :(
First four levels. (The Church)
First two levels of the Catacombs.
Since I just finished a game as a Warrior, I decided to play as a Sorcerer just to get a feel for the other end of the spectrum and really test the magical abilities rather than brute forcing my way through everything. It makes for a more challenging game and speaks to how well balanced the characters are that I found myself relying quite heavily on my magic to survive, though this meant that I was going through mana potions like crazy. :| Trying to whack the enemies with my staff just wasn't effective a majority of the time, especially in the last half of the game, and I was very dependent on my Firebolt spell. (And later Fireball)
I also found a bug that when you're wielding a weapon that has knockback, it makes all your spells have knockback too! :o This could potentially be a useful exploit if you want to choose when your spells have knockback, but for this game, it just caused lots of problems, since I ran into the same issue as in my Warrior game that I was just knocking back the injured enemies so that only the uninjured ones could get to me and the injured ones healed up while I was dealing with the uninjured ones. This was a big drain on my resources which led to a crisis where I turned to shop-scumming (I don't know if that's a word, but it seems to fit) :P where I repeatedly left town and came back until Adria, the magic-dealer had some decent, non-knockback gear.
In the end, I died from trying to be too efficient. :P I had just started a new dungeon level and enemies were coming at me from all directions and I really should have used my Mana Shield spell that I had just picked up to protect me, but I wanted to use up some mana before reading the spellbook, since it gives your mana a boost when you read it, so I was continuing to pelt my enemies with Firebolts and I saw a particularly nice opportunity to use a Fireball spell to hit a group of enemies when I should have healed myself. I just didn't expect that Stalker to get a double move on me right at the end. :(
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DiabloRL v 0.5.0 roguelike postmortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 13 Sorcerer, killed by a stalker in Catacombs, level 6.
He scored 102684.96 points, killing 0 hellspawn.
He advanced to level 13 gaining 168496 experience.
He amassed 3205 gold coins.
He purified the town water supply.
He was patient with Gharbad the Weak.
He retrieved Ogden's tavern sign.
He was a hypohondriac.
-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Strength 20/20
Magic 56/46
Dexterity 74/49
Vitality 30/30
Life 52/-1 Mana 136/73
Armor 14 ToHit 87
-- Spells ----------------------------------------------------
Firebolt level 9
Holy Bolt level 8
Healing level 8
Flash level 3
Phasing level 3
Fireball level 2
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[ Head ] Azure skull cap of the Mind [2]
[ Neck ] nothing
[ Body ] armor of Accuracy [12]
[ Wpn ] Deadly composite staff of Firebolt (5-10) {58/58}
[ Shld ] nothing
[ RRng ] ring of Skill
[ LRng ] nothing
-- Quickslots ------------------------------------------------
[ Slot1 ] potion of mana
[ Slot2 ] scroll of phasing
[ Slot3 ] potion of mana
[ Slot4 ] scroll of healing
[ Slot5 ] potion of healing
[ Slot6 ] potion of healing
[ Slot7 ] scroll of town portal
[ Slot8 ] scroll of identify
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
3205 gold coins
potion of mana
potion of mana
potion of mana
mace (1-8)
scroll of town portal
hunter's bow (2-5)
scimitar (3-7)
Grand cloak [4]
dagger of the Sky (1-4)
short battle bow of Skill (3-7)
book of Mana Shield
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
Rotcarnage
Shadowcrow
Pulsecrawler
Snotspill
Gharbad
10 * zombie
33 * ghoul
27 * rotting carcass
12 * black death
19 * skeleton
53 * horror
50 * skeleton captain
1 * horror captain
19 * corpse bow
2 * burning dead archer
97 * scavenger
63 * plague eater
95 * shadow beast
42 * fallen one
44 * fallen one
19 * carver
18 * carver
34 * devil kin
10 * dark one
129 * dark one
8 * fiend
3 * familiar
39 * flesh clan
68 * stone clan
1 * flesh clan archer
32 * hidden
3 * stalker
4 * overlord
50 * winged demon
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
Tormuse casts Firebolt. You hit the stone clan. The stone clan dies. You gain 480 experience.
A pile of 28 gold coins is lying here.
You got 28 gold coins.
You open the sarcophagus.
You open the door.
You open the door.
You open the book.
A book of Mana Shield is lying here.
You put the book of Mana Shield into your backpack.
You open the door. Click.
You open the door.
Tormuse casts Firebolt. You hit the familiar. The familiar dies. You gain 448 experience.
Tormuse casts Firebolt. You hit the familiar. The familiar dies. You gain 448 experience. The stalker appears. The
stalker appears.
Tormuse casts Firebolt. You hit the stalker. The stalker dies. You gain 378 experience. The stalker misses you.
Tormuse casts Firebolt. You hit the stalker. The stalker dies. You gain 378 experience. The stalker appears. The
stalker appears.
Tormuse casts Firebolt. You hit the familiar. The familiar dies. You gain 448 experience. The stalker hits you.
Tormuse casts Fireball. The horror captain dies. You gain 302 experience. The stalker dies. You gain 378 experience.
The stalker hits you. The stalker hits you. You die... Press < Enter >...
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DiabloRL / [0.5.0|Warrior|YAVP] I should've played this sooner!
« on: October 22, 2017, 23:31 »
I've only played DiabloRL once before, ages ago, (2012, by the looks of it) and never got into it; barely started and just left the saved game there, unfinished. Well, I decided to give it another try the other day and loaded it up. My first impression was that it was buggy as hell, right up to the point that it crashed and erased my game, :| but then I realized that I was playing an old beta and that there are newer, stabler versions out there. So, I went to the main Chaosforge site and downloaded the latest version and followed the instructions on the site to import the music and sound from the original Diablo. (I had to do some digging to find my old Diablo CD, but I wanted to test this properly) :)
Holy crap! :o What a difference having the music and sound makes! O_o It's way more immersive and interesting than the old beta I had been playing and brought back all kinds of nostalgia for the original Diablo. :) And I can see that a lot of work went into DiabloRL making everything look and sound and feel like the original and in some ways improving on it! (Like the ability to use the look command to look over the whole map, and the simplification of the inventory system, and the Fast Travel system is so helpful, I found myself wishing it was in DRL too... and maybe in every game ever, now that I think about it) :P I can see that a lot of work has gone into making a very polished product and I admit that I was kind of disappointed that the game just ended when I got to Hell. :( I'm thinking of playing another game and making a recording of it to help generate more interest in this; maybe we can see the game get finished! :)
Anyway, I played as a warrior, intending to play to his strengths by building up my strength trait and getting strong weapons and armour, though I still found myself picking up some magic skills along the way too. I spent most of the game with a "sword of the bear," thinking that the knockback would be good for dealing with mobs of enemies and help keep me fighting one at a time and it was mostly good for small groups, but the biggest struggles came at the beginnings of levels where I frequently found myself surrounded by 10 or 15 enemies (or more?) and the knockback actually made it harder, because any time I knocked someone back, one of his buddies took his place and so I was constantly facing the ones with full hitpoints because all the injured ones were getting knocked away, and that gave them time to heal before facing me again and it was taking a lot longer than it should have to defeat them, so when I switched to a weapon without knockback, it was a big help. :)
The toughest battle in the game was facing Leoric, the Skeleton King; he would hang back and let his minions fight me and I couldn't even get to him to do any damage because any time I killed one, he would raise it again. The turning point came when I used a scroll of Stone Curse on him to stop him from raising the dead and I was able to thin out their numbers enough to get up to him, but my sword wasn't strong enough to do much to him, (and it kept knocking him away, since I was still foolishly using that sword of the bear at the time) :P so I ended up pounding on him with Holy Bolts and those seemed to work. :) Once I got his crown, and the life stealing effects thereof, the game kind of turned into a Vampyre build like that of DRL and I hardly had to use any more healing potions for the rest of the game after that! :D
All that being said, as much as I enjoyed playing this, I did notice a number of bugs in it so I took notes as I was playing and I was wondering if it's worth reporting them here. Is anyone doing any work on this game lately?
Holy crap! :o What a difference having the music and sound makes! O_o It's way more immersive and interesting than the old beta I had been playing and brought back all kinds of nostalgia for the original Diablo. :) And I can see that a lot of work went into DiabloRL making everything look and sound and feel like the original and in some ways improving on it! (Like the ability to use the look command to look over the whole map, and the simplification of the inventory system, and the Fast Travel system is so helpful, I found myself wishing it was in DRL too... and maybe in every game ever, now that I think about it) :P I can see that a lot of work has gone into making a very polished product and I admit that I was kind of disappointed that the game just ended when I got to Hell. :( I'm thinking of playing another game and making a recording of it to help generate more interest in this; maybe we can see the game get finished! :)
Anyway, I played as a warrior, intending to play to his strengths by building up my strength trait and getting strong weapons and armour, though I still found myself picking up some magic skills along the way too. I spent most of the game with a "sword of the bear," thinking that the knockback would be good for dealing with mobs of enemies and help keep me fighting one at a time and it was mostly good for small groups, but the biggest struggles came at the beginnings of levels where I frequently found myself surrounded by 10 or 15 enemies (or more?) and the knockback actually made it harder, because any time I knocked someone back, one of his buddies took his place and so I was constantly facing the ones with full hitpoints because all the injured ones were getting knocked away, and that gave them time to heal before facing me again and it was taking a lot longer than it should have to defeat them, so when I switched to a weapon without knockback, it was a big help. :)
The toughest battle in the game was facing Leoric, the Skeleton King; he would hang back and let his minions fight me and I couldn't even get to him to do any damage because any time I killed one, he would raise it again. The turning point came when I used a scroll of Stone Curse on him to stop him from raising the dead and I was able to thin out their numbers enough to get up to him, but my sword wasn't strong enough to do much to him, (and it kept knocking him away, since I was still foolishly using that sword of the bear at the time) :P so I ended up pounding on him with Holy Bolts and those seemed to work. :) Once I got his crown, and the life stealing effects thereof, the game kind of turned into a Vampyre build like that of DRL and I hardly had to use any more healing potions for the rest of the game after that! :D
All that being said, as much as I enjoyed playing this, I did notice a number of bugs in it so I took notes as I was playing and I was wondering if it's worth reporting them here. Is anyone doing any work on this game lately?
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DiabloRL v 0.5.0 roguelike postmortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 22 Warrior, reached Hell.
He scored 418934.79 points, killing 0 hellspawn.
He advanced to level 22 gaining 1993479 experience.
He amassed 2350 gold coins.
He granted eternal rest to the Skeleton King.
He was patient with Gharbad the Weak.
He retrieved Ogden's tavern sign.
He uncovered the Arkaine's Valor.
He learned the Guardian spell.
He was a hypohondriac.
-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Strength 79/69
Magic 51/41
Dexterity 54/44
Vitality 57/44
Life 176/176 Mana 108/92
Armor 41 ToHit 77
-- Spells ----------------------------------------------------
Firebolt level 12
Holy Bolt level 6
Healing level 12
Town Portal level 1
Flash level 3
Stone Curse level 1
Phasing level 1
Mana Shield level 2
Fireball level 1
Guardian level 1
Teleport level 1
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[ Head ] The Undead Crown [8]
[ Neck ] Serpent's amulet
[ Body ] Arkaine's Valor [25]
[ Wpn ] sword of the Stars (6-15)
[ Shld ] Blessed large shield of Absorption [7]
[ RRng ] Gold ring of Radiance
[ LRng ] Gold ring
-- Quickslots ------------------------------------------------
[ Slot1 ] potion of full healing
[ Slot2 ] potion of mana
[ Slot3 ] potion of full rejuvenation
[ Slot4 ] scroll of town portal
[ Slot5 ] potion of rejuvenation
[ Slot6 ] scroll of phasing
[ Slot7 ] potion of rejuvenation
[ Slot8 ] potion of mana
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
2350 gold coins
sword of Speed (8-16)
book of Golem
broad axe (8-20)
blade (2-8)
potion of healing
potion of mana
scroll of phasing
long bow (1-6)
great helm [13]
dagger (1-4)
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
Rotfeast the Hungry
Soulpus
Shadowdrinker
Wrathraven
Foulwing
Gorestone
Oozedrool
Skeleton King
Snotspill
Gharbad
93 * zombie
16 * skeleton
64 * corpse axe
72 * burning dead
54 * horror
56 * skeleton captain
16 * corpse captain
52 * burning dead captain
114 * horror captain
48 * corpse bow
37 * burning dead archer
24 * horror archer
55 * scavenger
83 * bone gasher
59 * fallen one
30 * fallen one
38 * carver
54 * devil kin
90 * devil kin
57 * dark one
79 * dark one
46 * blink
35 * gloom
168 * familiar
30 * stone clan
39 * flesh clan archer
64 * night clan archer
34 * hidden
43 * stalker
13 * unseen
4 * overlord
64 * mud man
87 * toad demon
230 * flayed one
199 * horned demon
106 * obsidian lord
143 * hell stone
85 * lava lord
177 * poison spitter
152 * pit beast
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You block the blow of the obsidian lord.
You hit the obsidian lord. The obsidian lord dies. You gain 1266 experience.
A pile of 63 gold coins is lying here.
You got 63 gold coins.
You open the door. Click.
A pile of 114 gold coins is lying here.
You got 114 gold coins.
You open the chest.
A scroll of phasing is lying here.
You put the scroll of phasing into your backpack.
A long bow (1-6) is lying here.
You put the long bow (1-6) into your backpack.
You open the door. Click.
You open the chest.
A great helm [13] is lying here.
You put the great helm [13] into your backpack.
You open the chest.
A dagger (1-4) is lying here.
You put the dagger (1-4) into your backpack.
Congratulations! You have won the Demo version! Press < Enter >...
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