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Hey man, good to hear from you too - I don't think we were in touch much before either of us temporarily dropped out, but I hear ya on the DRL itch. Recently moved to a new house and still working to get my office/studio set up (I finally have a room to myself rather than occupying space in the living room), but I'll be sure to give 998 a spin once it's up.

Yeah I unfortunately wasn't involved much in the community side pre-JH, only making about a dozen forum posts here and then sporadically editing the wiki over the years. Aside from playing 0.9.9.8, 0.9.9.9 just had its first beta come out (check out JH's discord channel to get it), and getting more help with testing it would be swell.

Without wishing to bring the mood down or anything, Diamond sadly passed away a few years ago, pre-pandemic time.  Autopsy was inconclusive about what caused it, though it did reveal that Diamond was female and I had been misgendering her all along.  :P  It happened suddenly and mysteriously while I was at a New Year's party;  I came home to find she'd been coughing up blood all night.  It was a very gory and upsetting thing to come home to.  :(

Aw man, that sucks. Bit late to still offer my condolences, but they're yours if you want them.

I came back around about a year and a half ago after getting the itch to play DRL again, which was probably going to be a month or two burst that ended after getting a few more Diamonds, but then development on 0.9.9.8 finally started back up after all this time and so I remained around since, both playing the game a lot and helping around where I can on here, beta testing, and on the wiki.

Hey man, good to hear from you too - I don't think we were in touch much before either of us temporarily dropped out, but I hear ya on the DRL itch. Recently moved to a new house and still working to get my office/studio set up (I finally have a room to myself rather than occupying space in the living room), but I'll be sure to give 998 a spin once it's up.

... and there's more to come.

I bet you say that to all the girls :x

...how's Diamond doing?

Without wishing to bring the mood down or anything, Diamond sadly passed away a few years ago, pre-pandemic time.  Autopsy was inconclusive about what caused it, though it did reveal that Diamond was female and I had been misgendering her all along.  :P  It happened suddenly and mysteriously while I was at a New Year's party;  I came home to find she'd been coughing up blood all night.  It was a very gory and upsetting thing to come home to.  :(

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The funny part is I only did this run because I was curious to see if you could use targeting mode in conjunction with "assassinate" trait to assassinate inanimate objects like doors and furniture.  It turns out...  you can not...  but it turned into a nice YAAM UV game anyway.  :)  This would've been a Berserker Gold badge if I hadn't already gotten it, though I think it's worth noting that I'm pretty sure I previously achieved it in an earlier version of the game before Dante or medusae existed, so this still had some significant difficulty.

I've come to the conclusion that Assassinate is probably the best melee master trait in the game, as long as you're careful with it.  It's really easy to accidentally teleport yourself into the middle of a crowd of dangerous enemies, so it's always important to be mindful of that, trying to isolate enemies or at least maneuver them into a position that when you teleport to them, you'll be behind cover.  The fact that it has a 100% to hit chance made it vital for taking out medusae;  any other build would have had a lot more trouble with them, I think.  I had stockpiled gas grenades to help me deal with medusae, but they turned out to be unnecessary.  :)

I made the decision to invest in four levels' worth of traits to get whizkid 3, because I was running low on healing sources and I needed the auto-repair on the medi-fibre armour.  (Or so I told myself;  I didn't actually reach that level until partway through Shattered Abyss, so I guess I was doing okay)  :P  I'm a little surprised to realize that I had 6 stim packs left over at the end, but the 2 ancient salves I got plus the end level large medkit proved more than sufficient for my healing needs in the final battle.

Tormuse, level 19 Scout,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.

He survived for 18996 turns.
The run time was 6h 17m 20s.
World seed was 83871.
He scored 7941 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!
He was an Angel of Berserk!

CALLISTO L3 - Volatile Storage
CALLISTO L5 -> Callisto Docking Bay
Callisto Docking Bay - Cleared!
EUROPA L5 - Lockdown
EUROPA L5 -> The Pit
The Pit - found Hate
The Pit - Cleared!
IO L3 -> Io Black Site L1
Io Black Site L1 - Desolation
Io Black Site L2 -> Black Site Vaults
Black Site Vaults - Cleared!
The Shattered Abyss - Cleared!
The Shattered Abyss - found Soulstealer
Dante Station L2 - The Hunt
Dante Inferno - Cleared!
Dante Inferno - found Avalanche

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  Conqueror Ribbon (+200)
   * Completed all encountered special levels

He killed 894 out of 894 enemies.

 37 former grunts           14 CalSec sentries
 3  corrupted grunts        4  security sentries
 1  former CRI grunt        4  military sentries
 11 former grenadiers       19 CalSec bots
 5  corrupted grenadiers    12 security bots
 3  hellish grenadiers      3  military bots
 19 former soldiers         1  guardian bot
 29 corrupted soldiers      38 reavers
 2  hellish soldiers        21 cryoreavers
 6  former CRI soldiers     29 toxic reavers
 5  former sergeants        53 archreavers
 3  corrupted sergeants     14 kerberi
 1  hellish sergeant        9  cyberi
 1  former CRI sergeant     11 cryoberi
 1  CRI sergeant            10 toxiberi
 12 former guards           14 medusae
 3  former commandoes       11 archmedusae
 20 corrupted commandoes    21 ravagers
 12 hellish commandoes      19 armored ravagers
 7  former CRI commandoes   3  siege ravagers
 3  former heavies          14 plasma ravagers
 3  corrupted heavies       29 CRI marines
 2  hellish heavies         31 CRI bots
 2  former CRI heavies      17 guardians
 6  fanatics                14 frost guardians
 16 security drones         2  sentinels
 4  combat drones           9  warlocks
 2  military drones         9  archwarlocks
 70 fiends                  2  watchers
 19 fire fiends             3  cryowatchers
 34 ice fiends              3  pyrowatchers
 17 toxic fiends

Traits
  Skilled L3
  Dash L1
  Hellrunner L1
  Executioner L3
  Hacker L1
  Whizkid L3
  Energy leech L3
  ASSASSINATE L3

Trait order
  Exe->Exe->Exe->Das->MAS->Skl->EnL->EnL->
  EnL->Skl->Skl->Hak->Whk->Whk->Whk->MAS->
  MAS->Hr

Equipment
  Slot #1 : Soulstealer
  Slot #2 : AV3 katana BA
   * Guarded 10
   * Resilient
   * Mechabane
   * Deadly 30

  Slot #3 : AV2 machete BA
   * Guarded 10
   * Resilient
   * Rush 20
   * Surrounded

  Body : medi-fiber armor PBA
   * Metabolic boost
   * Auto-repair
   * Camoboost
   * Meshed
   * Medi-fiber

  Head : JS analytic visor B2
   * Auto-repair
   * Durable
   * JoviSec
   * Aim assist
   * Bot scanner
   * Tactical computer

  Utility : AV3 utility AMP
   * Energetic
   * Improved stealth

  Relic : ancient necklace
   * Ancient Resistance


Permanents
  CRI backpack

Inventory
  cold mod pack
  plasma grenade (x1)
  gas grenade (x3)
  gas grenade (x3)
  smoke grenade (x1)
  multitool (x5)
  multitool (x1)
  stimpack (x3)
  stimpack (x3)



I came back around about a year and a half ago after getting the itch to play DRL again, which was probably going to be a month or two burst that ended after getting a few more Diamonds, but then development on 0.9.9.8 finally started back up after all this time and so I remained around since, both playing the game a lot and helping around where I can on here, beta testing, and on the wiki.

It's slowly picking up pace since the DRL release to my surprise :).

... and there's more to come.

Hey dude, good to hear from you - how's Diamond doing? I hear you on getting anxious about daily affairs - things aren't really looking better when you live in Europe instead of Canada, but at least I'm still a dab hand at creating my own problems so I can blame myself most of the time XD

I found out DRL actually has its own TvTropes page, which triggered me into wanting to fire up the game again, not to mention I still have a JH Steam key to cash in. It's just that we moved into a new house a month and a half ago, and my setup is currently waiting for my own room to be furnished, so it'll be another couple of weeks.

Regardless, I thought it'd be good to get reacquainted with the Forge again. It's been good to me pre-JH, and I don't easily forget where I came from.

Looking forward to seeing what else is going on here.

Hey LuckyDee.  :)

I still peek in here from time to time.  I recently idly picked up JH and DRL again after a long absence, but I haven't done much in the way of serious attempts at challenges.

Other than that, I haven't been doing great, if I'm honest.  World politics are giving me anxiety, and I'm already prone to anxiety in the first place.  :P  I'm surviving, though, and occasionally streaming myself playing games on my Twitch channel, so good times are still had, at least sometimes.  :)

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My best attempt at the Gauntlet trial so far.  It's a neat challenge, even if the difficulty ramps up pretty ridiculously.  :)

I played with a Wizard build, leaning into the fact that the smokescreen becomes a cooldown skill, so I had unlimited ability to hide whenever overly strong enemies were coming at me...  which was all the time.  :P  An early Valsec focused shotgun was a big help for early to mid game, firing it into smoke/gas clouds to thin out the hordes, with occasional assistance from my grenade launcher, and a very nice hunter rifle as backup.  The impact damage of the focused shotgun was helpful against bots in the early game, but I later replaced it with a plasma shotgun when "adaptive" enemies became too much and I needed a different damage type.

I was also helped along by medi-fibre armour that I modded to have auto-repair for unlimited healing, which was a huge help in mid to late game.

The smoke blade was also a really nice find...  basically, a katana that does double damage if you hit enemies while hiding in smoke.  (And luckily, gas counts as smoke for this purpose)  :)

In the end, I died to a really dumb game mechanic that I have no idea why exists.  I had pushed "T" to activate targeting mode so I could specify the square of a bot I had just hacked so I could look at its stats, just like I'd done hundreds of times before.  After doing that, I moved the target back to a "deadly" armoured ravager and decided to use smokescreen to hide myself from its view, same as I'd done a gajillion times before by that point, but because I was still in targeting mode, attempting to activate smokescreen made Jupeguy shoot him instead, and as you can see from the mortem, his return fire did 93 damage, which was just enough to kill me instantly.  If that seems like a lot of damage for one shot...  well, it is, but that's par for the course in this challenge.

Anyway, why is it that pushing "5," the key for smokescreen, makes Jupeguy fire in this case?  It's just a bad design choice, as far as I'm concerned;  I'm supposed to be battling demons, not the game interface.  :P  This could have easily been a Gauntlet Diamond badge, otherwise.

Oh well, I guess...

Tormuse, level 34 Technician,
killed on Gauntlet L28 by a armored ravager.

He survived for 47215 turns.
The run time was 11h 13m 45s.
World seed was 87081.
He scored 5814 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!
He challenged the Gauntlet trial.

Death log
 * your action, you're at 92 health
 * your action, you're at 92 health
 * armored ravager deals 93 damage to you
 * health down to -1, you die

Gauntlet L2 - Low Power
Gauntlet L4 - Lockdown
Gauntlet L7 - The Hunt
Gauntlet L9 - Low Power
Gauntlet L18 - Exalted Curse
Gauntlet L20 - Exalted Curse
Gauntlet L22 - Infestation
Gauntlet L24 - Secure Vault
Gauntlet L26 - Exalted Summons

Awards
  CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
   * 25+ kills without taking damage
  Gauntlet Silver Badge
   * Reach L10 in the Gauntlet Trial
  Gauntlet Gold Badge
   * Reach L20 in the Gauntlet Trial

He killed 1126 out of 1156 enemies.

 39 former grunts           20 CalSec sentries
 3  corrupted grunts        12 security sentries
 4  former grenadiers       13 military sentries
 3  corrupted grenadiers    6  CalSec bots
 4  hellish grenadiers      4  security bots
 4  CRI grenadiers          22 military bots
 6  former soldiers         3  guardian bots
 39 corrupted soldiers      32 reavers
 18 hellish soldiers        28 cryoreavers
 4  former CRI soldiers     35 toxic reavers
 4  CRI soldiers            60 archreavers
 4  former sergeants        29 kerberi
 3  corrupted sergeants     38 cyberi
 9  hellish sergeants       18 cryoberi
 2  former CRI sergeants    12 toxiberi
 1  CRI sergeant            81 medusae
 12 former guards           56 archmedusae
 2  CRI guards              31 ravagers
 2  former commandoes       33 armored ravagers
 16 corrupted commandoes    9  siege ravagers
 27 hellish commandoes      20 plasma ravagers
 4  former CRI commandoes   15 CRI marines
 4  CRI commandoes          4  CRI bots
 3  former heavies          13 guardians
 5  corrupted heavies       3  frost guardians
 2  hellish heavies         8  sentinels
 9  fanatics                12 warlocks
 3  security drones         7  archwarlocks
 107combat drones           5  watchers
 43 fiends                  6  cryowatchers
 16 fire fiends             4  pyrowatchers
 4  ice fiends

Traits
  Skilled L2
  Whizkid L3
  Powerjack L1
  Cover Master L2
  Son of a Gun L3
  Juggler L2
  Hacker L3
  Juggernaut L1
  Hoarder L3
  Toxicologist L2
  Headshot L1
  Remote Hack L2
  Scavenger L3
  Sysop L1
  Bladedancer L2
  WIZARD L1

Trait order
  Pow->Tox->Skl->Hak->MWZ->Tox->Cov->Cov->
  Skl->Hor->Hor->SoG->Whk->Whk->Whk->Hor->
  Jgn->Bda->SoG->Hak->SoG->Jug->Scv->Hsh->
  RHa->Hak->Jug->Scv->Sys->Bda->RHa->Scv->


Equipment
  Slot #1 : JS .44 hunter rifle +B2VC
   * Freezing 2
   * Vampiric 3
   * Auto-calibrated
   * Barbed 3
   * Swap Harness
   * JoviSec
   * Scope

  Slot #2 : AV1 grenade launcher BAVC
   * Vampiric 3
   * Critical 40
   * Barbed 3
   * Precise
   * Freezing 2

  Slot #3 : AV2 plasma shotgun +B2C
   * Auto-calibrating 48%
   * Freezing 2
   * Second chamber
   * Barbed 3
   * Loading holster
   * Critical 50
   * Slowdown

  Slot #4 : smoke blade A2V
   * Critical 25
   * Vampiric 3
   * Resilient
   * Guarded 15
   * Smoke strike

  Body : AT medi-fiber armor PBA
   * Metabolic boost
   * Meshed
   * Auto-repair
   * AsterTech
   * Medi-fiber

  Head : AV2 marine helmet PA2O
   * Long-range tracking
   * Aim assist
   * Crit Enhancer 25
   * Onyx
   * Plated
   * Scent dampener

  Utility : AV2 shotgun AMP
   * Shotgun pellet boost
   * Shotgun shred capacitor

  Relic : fiend's heart
   * Fiendish resilience


Permanents
  Medusa's Curse

Inventory
  energy cell (x67)
  40mm grenade (x15)
  40mm grenade (x5)
  .44 ammo (x50)
  .44 ammo (x4)
  gas grenade (x2)
  CRI phase kit (x3)
  multitool (x4)
  combat pack (x3)
  military stimpack
  stimpack (x3)
  stimpack (x1)


Hey all,

Been a while since I last dropped in, but I figured I'd have another look seeing as how activity has been picking up again due to more TLC for DRL. How's everyone doing? Any people from the pre-JH era still around?

Cheers,


D