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Post Mortem / [1.8j|U|AoB|YAAM] Berserk assassin
« on: November 29, 2024, 23:38 »
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)


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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)

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Someone told me that the "Endless" trial actually does have an end on level 666, so I decided to see for myself, and confirmed that to be true.  :)  (With 100% kills on Inferno difficulty!)  :D  Endless Diamond badge too!  WOO!  :D

I've been working on this particular run since...  Mid-March, I think?  It took just over four months from beginning to end, playing a few levels at a time each day.  I did it with a Survivor build, which wouldn't have been my first choice, but it's the first one that took off after a whole bunch of failed attempts with other classes and builds.  (Most of which didn't get further than level 2)

I was helped from the beginning by Inferno difficulty randomly giving me the "lethal" buff, which gave me a 50% damage bonus for the entire game.  (I haven't seen Kornel comment on that, but I suspect it might be unintended;  I sure took advantage of it, though)  :P

The other big help was the AV2 grenade launcher you see in slot 3 which kept me alive in the early game, since it has a "haze" modifier on it, which basically acted as unlimited smoke grenades, for keeping enemies from shooting at me, and was useful enough that I kept it around for the entire game.

My real workhorse weapon, though, was that "Git Gud" rifle (okay, the AWP long rifle, if you prefer)  :P  which I found on level 20 and gets a bonus for each kill, so in a game with as long a timeline as this one, it got up to almost 30,000% crit bonus, and I spent a majority of the game being able to one-shot anything, including charging archmedusae.

I also had a super shotgun with second chambre as backup, which was pretty nice.  Once I got all the damage bonuses from low health, (including a damage bonus from the Kerberos' Heart relic) very little could survive two shots from it, so it was good for getting enemies that were around corners or hiding in smoke or otherwise couldn't be hit reliably with the GG rifle.  :)

I also streamed myself live playing the last six levels, as you can see here.  :)

I've noted before that you have to get really good at killing medusae in this challenge, as evidenced by the fact that it was the number one most common enemy.  This frequently meant I had to tank at least one hit from each of them, so I could do a wait action to guarantee a hit from the GG rifle, but it was very doable.  Other things I noticed:  I found 8 Mk3 manufacturing stations in the whole game, 7 of which were before level 364, and the last being on level 660.  Also, I found 6 uniques in the whole run, all of which were after level 400.  (Gives some interesting insight into RNG distribution)

I'm sure there's plenty more to say about this run, but I can't think of it right now, so I'll just say...  yay!  I've finally finished this thing!  :D

Tormuse, level 122 Marine,
defeated The Summoner against all odds.

He survived for 184583 turns.
The run time was 50h 44m 45s.
World seed was 92869.
He scored 305250 points.
He challenged the INFERNO!
He challenged the Endless trial.

Endless L30 - Exalted Curse
Endless L31 - Infestation
Endless L36 - Secure Vault
Endless L38 - Secure Vault
Endless L50 - The Hunt
Endless L68 - Exalted Summons
Endless L72 - Toxic Contamination
Endless L83 - The Hunt
Endless L98 - Lockdown
Endless L100 - Exalted Summons
Endless L107 - Secure Vault
Endless L110 - The Hunt
Endless L119 - Exalted Summons
Endless L125 - Low Power
Endless L127 - The Hunt
Endless L131 - Exalted Curse
Endless L135 - Secure Vault
Endless L173 - Exalted Summons
Endless L178 - Low Power
Endless L182 - Lockdown
Endless L194 - The Hunt
Endless L200 - Exalted Curse
Endless L203 - The Hunt
Endless L209 - The Hunt
Endless L215 - The Hunt
Endless L222 - Exalted Summons
Endless L233 - Lockdown
Endless L237 - The Hunt
Endless L239 - The Hunt
Endless L266 - The Hunt
Endless L272 - Exalted Curse
Endless L283 - Exalted Curse
Endless L287 - Lockdown
Endless L295 - Secure Vault
Endless L305 - Exalted Summons
Endless L312 - Exalted Summons
Endless L313 - The Hunt
Endless L319 - Low Power
Endless L323 - Volatile Storage
Endless L327 - Exalted Summons
Endless L333 - Lockdown
Endless L340 - Lockdown
Endless L344 - Exalted Summons
Endless L354 - Toxic Contamination
Endless L355 - Secure Vault
Endless L359 - The Hunt
Endless L363 - Toxic Contamination
Endless L367 - The Hunt
Endless L375 - Secure Vault
Endless L392 - Toxic Contamination
Endless L400 - Secure Vault
Endless L400 - found BFT 10K
Endless L405 - Lockdown
Endless L407 - Secure Vault
Endless L417 - Lockdown
Endless L420 - The Hunt
Endless L444 - Secure Vault
Endless L447 - The Hunt
Endless L456 - Exalted Summons
Endless L463 - Exalted Summons
Endless L479 - The Hunt
Endless L484 - Exalted Curse
Endless L491 - Infestation
Endless L497 - Secure Vault
Endless L497 - found Shadowhunter
Endless L502 - Toxic Contamination
Endless L508 - Toxic Contamination
Endless L524 - Secure Vault
Endless L529 - found Void
Endless L530 - Infestation
Endless L532 - Exalted Summons
Endless L538 - Infestation
Endless L541 - found Wavedancer
Endless L551 - The Hunt
Endless L553 - Exalted Summons
Endless L560 - Exalted Curse
Endless L574 - Exalted Curse
Endless L584 - Low Power
Endless L588 - The Hunt
Endless L596 - Exalted Summons
Endless L609 - Secure Vault
Endless L620 - The Hunt
Endless L623 - Low Power
Endless L634 - found Death
Endless L636 - Exalted Curse
Endless L638 - Exalted Curse
Endless L643 - found Avalanche
Endless L648 - The Hunt
Endless L664 - The Hunt

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  CRI Star (silver cluster) (+100)
   * 50+ kills without taking damage
  Blind Luck Star (+50)
   * Won despite getting down to 1hp at some point
  Endless Silver Badge
   * Reach L25 in the Endless Trial
  Endless Gold Badge
   * Reach L50 in the Endless Trial
  Endless Platinum Badge
   * Reach L30 in the Endless Trial on UV+
  Endless Diamond Badge
   * Reach L30 in the Endless Trial on Nightmare!

He killed 33900 out of 33900 enemies.

 189former grunts           160fire fiends
 64 former grenadiers       418ice fiends
 343corrupted grenadiers    195toxic fiends
 48 hellish grenadiers      129CalSec sentries
 80 former CRI  grenadiers  1290security sentries
 104CRI grenadiers          225military sentries
 94 former soldiers         59 CalSec bots
 1995corrupted soldiers      630security bots
 153hellish soldiers        127military bots
 150former CRI soldiers     22 guardian bots
 356CRI soldiers            715reavers
 43 former sergeants        1871cryoreavers
 426corrupted sergeants     865toxic reavers
 39 hellish sergeants       1816archreavers
 75 former CRI sergeants    510kerberi
 168CRI sergeants           360cyberi
 163former guards           842cryoberi
 172CRI guards              409toxiberi
 86 former commandoes       2846medusae
 1136corrupted commandoes    2092archmedusae
 99 hellish commandoes      1309ravagers
 172former CRI commandoes   1183armored ravagers
 318CRI commandoes          191siege ravagers
 19 former heavies          560plasma ravagers
 373corrupted heavies       1144CRI marines
 36 hellish heavies         510CRI bots
 34 former CRI heavies      487warlocks
 37 CRI heavies             4  archwarlocks
 35 fanatics                25 watchers
 15 security drones         202cryowatchers
 983fiends                  42 pyrowatchers

Traits
  Skilled L3
  Ironman L3
  Furious L3
  Hellrunner L3
  Son of a Gun L3
  Reloader L3
  Sustained fire L3
  Tough as Nails L3
  Rip and tear L3
  Army Surplus L3
  Cover Master L3
  Gunslinger L3
  Bloodhound L3
  Field Medic L3
  Whizkid L3
  Angry Motherfucker L3
  Running L3
  SURVIVOR L3

Trait order
  Hr->AMf->AMf->TaN->MSV->AMf->Iro->Fur->
  MSV->TaN->Arm->Cov->Cov->Whk->Fur->RaT->
  TaN->Iro->Iro->FMc->FMc->FMc->Whk->Whk->
  Arm->Arm->Ski->Blo->Blo->Blo->Rel->RaT->
  Rel->Fur->Rel->MSV->Hr->Hr->Run->SF->
  SF->SoG->Run->Cov->RaT->Run->SoG->SoG->
  SF->Gsl->Gsl->Gsl->Ski->Ski

Equipment
  Slot #1 : AT AWP 7.62 long rifle BA
   * Hunter 6
   * Balanced 1
   * Speed-loader
   * AsterTech
   * Git gud
   * Scope

  Slot #2 : MDF 12ga super shotgun +B
   * Auto-calibrated
   * Swap Harness
   * Mimir Defence Force
   * Second chamber
   * Rinse, Repeat

  Slot #3 : AV2 grenade launcher +AC
   * Calibrated 1
   * Freezing 2
   * Auto-calibrated
   * Haze
   * Barbed 6

  Body : MDF necrotic armor B2A
   * Compartments
   * Padded
   * Fire-resistant
   * Metabolic boost
   * Mimir Defence Force
   * Necrotic

  Head : AV3 combat helmet PAO
   * Target tracking
   * Crit Enhancer 25
   * Aim assist
   * Onyx
   * Filtered

  Utility : AV2 auto AMP
   * Automatic reloader
   * Auto gyro-stabilizer

  Relic : kerberos's heart
   * Kerberos's Rage


Inventory
  12ga shell (x50)
  12ga shell (x48)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x26)
  40mm grenade (x15)
  40mm grenade (x14)
  plasma grenade (x3)
  gas grenade (x3)
  CRI phase kit (x3)
  multitool (x3)
  stimpack (x3)
  small medkit (x3)
  small medkit (x3)

4
I've been making a lot of attempts at the Royal Trial challenge lately at Inferno difficulty, and I finally won with a Survivor build, nabbing the Royal Diamond badge in the process.  Yay!  :D  I can't take all the credit, though, since Rexio kind of stole the show partway through.  :P

It wasn't the first time I tried to put Rexio to use in this challenge, but it was the first time I was able to level him up enough to properly take on the late game opposition.  I think what was different this time was a combination of me being extra careful with early Rexio, due to losing him early in previous attempts, and the fact that this time, he had the "toxin" modifier, so he had a ranged attack, so he pulled aggro of the enemies really easily, which helped me move into positions to control the battlefield more easily.  (Though the beginning was still a bit touch and go, because on his first level-up, he lost his 100% poison resistance, so he took damage from his own attacks, and it took time for him to level up enough to get it back again)

One thing that did complicate matters a bit was that I encountered a bug where walking into Rexio while holding a melee weapon displayed the message "ouch" on the screen and permanently disabled my ability to bring up the menu for trading places with him and so on for the rest of the game.  After that, any time I walked into him, I melee attacked him instead of bringing up the usual menu.  I'm reliably informed that the "ouch" message is supposed to be displayed if your very first move into Rexio is with a melee weapon, and it isn't supposed to display this after he's been tamed, but apparently, if you do it after taming, he remains tamed, but you're unable to interact with him any more.  This meant I had to generally be very careful about any movement when he was around, and it made navigating single-file paths quite tedious, because I frequently had to just wait on the spot for him to decide to randomly move in the correct direction for every step I wanted to take.

The only other really notable thing was that this was my first time seeing the Summoner as the final boss again since JH was released to the public.  (He's so shiny now!)  :D  He's had some super mean design revisions, including doing a simultaneous summon of two archwarlocks on either side of me at point-blank range when he entered his last stage, one of which had the "deadly" modifier.  If I hadn't had a phase kit, I probably would've been in trouble there.  Also, he was notably uninterested in Rexio and kept making a beeline toward me.  I was thankful for my autoloader barbed double shotgun, which let me keep pounding on him while running away, while Rexio handled most of the other mobs that got summoned in.  It allowed me to deliver the coup de grace, myself.  :)

Tormuse, level 16 Marine,
defeated The Summoner against all odds.

He survived for 21144 turns.
The run time was 5h 35m 48s.
World seed was 10615.
He scored 20196 points.
He challenged the INFERNO!
He took the royal way!

CALLISTO L1 -> MDF Central
MDF Central - Cleared!
MDF Central -> Callisto Docking Bay
Callisto Docking Bay - Cleared!
Callisto Docking Bay -> The Rift
The Rift - Cleared!
The Rift -> Valhalla Command
Valhalla Command - Cleared!
Valhalla Command -> Callisto Anomaly
Callisto Anomaly - Cleared!
Callisto Anomaly -> Military Barracks
Military Barracks - Cleared!
Military Barracks -> Valhalla Spaceport
EUROPA L1 -> The Pit
The Pit - Cleared!
The Pit -> Containment Area
Containment Area - Cleared!
Containment Area -> Tyre Outpost
Tyre Outpost - Cleared!
Tyre Outpost -> Frozen Temple
Frozen Temple - Cleared!
Frozen Temple -> Asterius Breach
Asterius Breach - Cleared!
Asterius Breach -> Refueling Base
Refueling Base - Cleared!
Refueling Base -> Europa Central Dig
IO L1 -> Infernal Lock
Infernal Lock - Cleared!
Infernal Lock - found Exosuit
Infernal Lock -> Dark Cathedral
Dark Cathedral - Cleared!
Dark Cathedral -> Noxious Hollow
Noxious Hollow - Cleared!
Noxious Hollow -> CRI Armory
CRI Armory - Cleared!
CRI Armory -> Black Site Vaults
Black Site Vaults - Cleared!
Black Site Vaults -> Io Warehouse
Io Warehouse - Cleared!
Io Warehouse -> Gateway
The Shattered Abyss - Cleared!
The Shattered Abyss - found Soulstealer
Limbo - Cleared!
Limbo -> Precipice of Defeat

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
   * 25+ kills without taking damage
  Conqueror Ribbon (+200)
   * Completed all encountered special levels
  Blind Luck Star (+50)
   * Won despite getting down to 1hp at some point
  Royal Silver Badge
   * Complete the Royal Trial
  Royal Gold Badge
   * Fully complete (all levels) the Royal Trial
  Royal Platinum Badge
   * Fully complete the Royal Trial on Hard+
  Royal Diamond Badge
   * Complete Royal Trial on Nightmare!

He killed 632 out of 632 enemies.

 7  former grunts           4  military sentries
 1  former CRI grunt        14 CalSec bots
 4  former soldiers         8  security bots
 13 hellish soldiers        5  military bots
 3  former CRI soldiers     5  guardian bots
 11 CRI soldiers            38 reavers
 1  former sergeant         44 cryoreavers
 3  hellish sergeants       36 toxic reavers
 1  former CRI sergeant     86 archreavers
 13 former guards           7  kerberi
 4  CRI guards              3  cyberi
 6  former commandoes       26 cryoberi
 8  hellish commandoes      7  toxiberi
 2  former CRI commandoes   2  medusae
 8  CRI commandoes          1  archmedusa
 2  former heavies          16 ravagers
 5  hellish heavies         5  armored ravagers
 1  CRI heavy               4  siege ravagers
 5  fanatics                1  plasma ravager
 2  security drones         6  CRI marines
 6  combat drones           14 CRI bots
 60 fiends                  7  warlocks
 20 fire fiends             4  archwarlocks
 42 ice fiends              4  cryowatchers
 11 toxic fiends            2  pyrowatchers
 2  CalSec sentries         4  AsterTech sentries
 5  security sentries

Traits
  Ironman L3
  Furious L2
  Hellrunner L1
  Tough as Nails L3
  Rip and tear L1
  Angry Motherfucker L3
  SURVIVOR L2

Trait order
  Hr->AMf->AMf->TaN->MSV->AMf->TaN->TaN->
  MSV->Iro->Fur->Fur->Iro->RaT->Iro

Equipment
  Slot #1 : AV3 7.62 assault rifle +B
   * Speed-loader
   * Auto-calibrated
   * Calibrated 2
   * Freezing 2

  Slot #2 : CCB katana BAC
   * Retaliate
   * Freezing 2
   * Guarded 10
   * CC BioLabs

  Slot #3 : AV2 12ga dual shotgun BA
   * Stabilized 1
   * Swap Harness
   * Barbed 10
   * Autoloader

  Body : AV2 marine armor PB
   * Acid shield
   * Durable
   * Meshed
   * Compartments

  Head : analytic visor B
   * Durable
   * Aim assist
   * Tactical computer

  Utility : AV3 utility AMP
   * Metabolic boost
   * Improved adrenaline

  Relic : reaver's tendon
   * Reaver's speed


Permanents
  Demonblood
  CRI backpack
  Crystal skin
  CRI backpack

Inventory
  12ga shell (x50)
  12ga shell (x2)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x55)
  plasma grenade (x3)
  gas grenade (x3)
  krak grenade (x3)
  smoke grenade (x2)
  multitool (x4)
  military stimpack
  military stimpack
  stimpack (x2)
  large medkit
  large medkit
  large medkit
  large medkit

5
Nightmare! / [N!|94%|YASD] Joint stream with Sylph
« on: October 02, 2022, 02:35 »
So...  Sylph and I were feeling inspired to play DoomRL again, and we did simultaneous livestreams of ourselves playing the game at Nightmare difficulty while on voice chat.

Here's my recording.

(I was going to post Sylph's perspective here, but I don't think she put it on Youtube)

Both games were unsuccessful, owing largely, I think, to the RNG being stingy with healing sources.  :P  Still, I like to think we put on a good show, and got to Deimos, at least.  :)

--------------------------------------------------------------
 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------

 Tormuse, level 9 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Technician,
 couldn't evade a revenant's fireball on level 1 of the Deimos base.
 He survived 249688 turns and scored 187011 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 2 minutes and 52 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 676 out of 717 hellspawn. (94%)
 He held his right to remain violent.

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 3
  Levels completed : 3

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

  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Hell Champion Medal

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

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

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

  Health 0/50   Experience 37108/9
  ToHit Ranged +4  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +2  ToDmg Melee +2

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

  Class : Technician

    Finesse          (Level 1)
    Hellrunner       (Level 1)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 2)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)

  SoB->SoB->EE->HR->Fin->Jug->EE->WK->WK->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   green armor [1/1] (83%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5] (T1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   chaingun (1d6)x4 [52/52] (B1)

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

    [a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
    [b] plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40]
    [c] green armor [1/1] (31%)
    [d] blue armor [2/2] (54%)
    [e] red armor [1/4] (11%)
    [f] chainsaw (4d6) (T)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x60)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [i] shotgun shell (x50)
    [j] shotgun shell (x22)
    [k] shotgun shell (x50)
    [l] rocket (x10)
    [m] power cell (x50)
    [n] power cell (x50)
    [o] power cell (x50)
    [p] power cell (x50)
    [q] power cell (x42)
    [r] large med-pack
    [s] phase device
    [t] envirosuit pack
    [u] Arena Master's Staff
    [v] 10mm ammo chain (x250)

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

    Bullet     - internal 0%    torso 15%   feet 0%   
    Shrapnel   - internal 0%    torso 15%   feet 0%   

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

    228 former humans
    92 former sergeants
    68 former captains
    91 imps
    52 demons
    46 lost souls
    16 cacodemons
    13 hell knights
    15 barons of hell
    1 arachnotron
    9 former commandos
    4 pain elementals
    5 nightmare imps
    4 nightmare cacodemons
    10 nightmare demons
    7 elite former humans
    5 elite former sergeants
    7 elite former commandos
    2 bruiser brothers
    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 marched into the Military Base.
  He purified his fellow comrades.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 8 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 9 he finally couldn't evade a revenant's fireball.

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

 You pump a shell into the shotgun chamber.
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : floor
 You pump a shell into the shotgun chamber.
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : rocket (x10) | blood
 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber.
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun.
 You hear an explosion!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : 10mm ammo (x24) | floor
 You pump a shell into the combat shotgun chamber.
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun. You are hit! You die!... Press
 <Enter>...

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

 1760 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 1380 of those were killed.
 8 of those were killed by something unknown.
 189 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 60 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 123 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 85 killed the bitch and survived.
 32 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

--------------------------------------------------------------

6
Post Mortem / [1.5a|I|Ma|YASD] Dual Inferno with Sylph
« on: September 16, 2022, 19:39 »
So, much like last week, I streamed myself playing JH along with Sylph, who was playing at the same time with the same random number seed...  this time at the newly introduced Inferno difficulty level!  :)  (My first time attempting it!)  :D

I played with a Survivor build, while Sylph played with an Entrenchment build.  Neither of us survived, though Sylph got a little further than me.  The difficulty just ramped up more quickly than either of us were prepared for, I guess.  The nice part is that this means you get more experience earlier, (if you can survive)  :P  but it's gonna take some practice and effort to make any headway in this difficulty, I think.

Anyway, here's the video from my perspective...

...and here's Sylph's perspective.

Tormuse, level 9 Marine,
killed on Europa Concourse by a security bot.

He survived for 8498 turns.
The run time was 3h 6m 2s.
World seed was fixed at 3939.
He scored 4239 points.
He challenged the INFERNO!

Death log
 * your action, you're at 6 health
 * corrupted soldier deals 4 damage to you
 * your action, you're at 2 health
 * your action, you're at 2 health
 * security bot deals 2 damage to you
 * health down to 0, you die

CALLISTO L2 -> Callisto Rift L1
Callisto Rift L1 - Exalted Summons
Callisto Rift L3 - Low Power
Callisto Rift L3 -> The Rift
The Rift - Cleared!
The Rift - found Thompson
CALLISTO L6 - Low Power
EUROPA L2 - Infestation

He killed 313 out of 337 enemies.

 40 former grunts           29 fiends
 8  former grenadiers       35 fire fiends
 2  corrupted grenadiers    16 ice fiends
 17 former soldiers         12 toxic fiends
 8  corrupted soldiers      7  CalSec sentries
 3  former sergeants        2  military sentries
 1  corrupted sergeant      13 CalSec bots
 22 former guards           1  military bot
 7  former commandoes       25 reavers
 4  former heavies          13 cryoreavers
 1  corrupted heavy         3  toxic reavers
 5  fanatics                1  medusa
 8  security drones         1  ravager

Traits
  Hellrunner L2
  Tough as Nails L1
  Army Surplus L1
  Angry Motherfucker L3
  SURVIVOR L1

Trait order
  Hr->AMf->AMf->TaN->MSV->AMf->Arm->Hr->


Equipment
  Slot #1 : Thompson
  Slot #2 : AV2 machete
   * Hunter 20
   * Ambush 20

  Slot #3 : rocket launcher
  Body : AV2 basic armor PB
   * Durable
   * Meshed
   * Auto-med 10
   * Auto-repair

  Head : analytic visor B
   * Durable
   * Aim assist
   * Tactical computer

  Utility : AV2 auto AMP
   * Automatic reloader
   * Auto gyro-stabilizer

  Relic : reaver's tendon
   * Reaver's speed


Permanents
  Rift Attunement

Inventory
  rocket (x4)
  12ga shell (x32)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  .44 ammo (x50)
  .44 ammo (x50)
  .44 ammo (x5)
  9mm ammo (x32)
  multitool (x1)

7
Post Mortem / [1.5a|M|Ma|YAAM] I am never entering Purgatory again
« on: September 11, 2022, 21:12 »
I've wanted to check out this new "Inferno" difficulty level I keep hearing about, but I understand the game wants me to jump through a bunch of hoops to unlock it, including going through a specific path through the new secret "Purgatory" section.  Even knowing how to get there, it took many attempts to succeed.  I can't imagine how someone could figure it out from scratch.

In a previous attempt, I came very close to doing it at UV difficulty with a Vampyre build, which failed, because an unfortunately timed hit by a cryoreaver slowed me down enough to allow a warlock in the final battle to get a double move on me and target my square and hit me before I could react.  (I had to review the recording/mortem to figure out what happened there)

Anyway, at some point, I stopped trying to do anything fancy, and just played a medium difficulty game, because I'm sick of playing Purgatory and just wanted to get it over with.  The bright white tileset used in Purgatory is not easy on the eyes.  Like...  it's seriously blinding, and I decided that as much fun as this game is, it's not worth going blind in real life.  I get the feeling the Devteam was going for the aesthetic used with invulnerability spheres from the original Doom of the 90's, which is fine when it's only a minute long...  but not when it's several hours.  Like...  let's not mince words here.  The colours used in Purgatory in Jupiter Hell are a bad choice and need to be changed.  (In my opinion)

I didn't record this game, but I did a recording of my very first attempt at Purgatory here, accompanied by Sylph in voice chat, so you can see what I mean.  (I don't think I saved the mortem for that one)  A Survivor build was a very poor choice for UV difficulty, since each level you pass in Purgatory takes off 5 max hp, and Survivor works better when your max hp is higher...  but it turns out that at medium difficulty, you only lose 2 max hp per level, so Survivor suddenly became viable again, particularly when I took a couple levels of Ironman and boosted my max hp from the health terminal in Callisto Mines.

The final battle with Harbinger was still pretty harrowing, though, since the Purgatory route causes warlocks to teleport in, and they have the ability to heal Harbinger into overhealth!  (Yikes!)  I had a previous attempt at this challenge fail at Harbinger, because I didn't realize at first that this was what was happening, plus one of the warlocks was hiding somewhere behind Harbinger, so I couldn't find it to stop healing him, and also, when I got Harbinger into his final phase, more warlocks teleported in, one of which was on the wrong side of the cover I was using to protect me from Harbinger.  (Grr!)

Anyway, on this attempt, I was better prepared, and anticipated all of these difficulties, but I still would have had a lot more difficulty without the Warlock's Eye relic, which did a lot to mitigate the warlock's effects.  I don't know if the relic did much to hurt Harbinger himself, but it at least helped clear the smaller minions, which let me focus my firepower on Harbinger and bring him down faster.

I'm glad I have that all over with.  Hopefully, my next stream of this game will be Inferno difficulty!  :D

Tormuse, level 10 Marine,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.

He survived for 8653 turns.
The run time was 3h 2m 3s.
World seed was 26903.
He scored 4024 points.
He took MEDIUM risks.

CALLISTO L3 -> Callisto Mines L1
Callisto Mines L2 -> Callisto Anomaly
Callisto Anomaly - Cleared!
Purgatory - found Firestorm
Purgatory - found Denial

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills

He killed 324 out of 324 enemies.

 38 former grunts           17 toxic fiends
 6  hellish grunts          6  CalSec sentries
 2  former grenadiers       1  military bot
 8  hellish grenadiers      25 reavers
 11 former soldiers         7  toxic reavers
 18 hellish soldiers        41 archreavers
 2  former sergeants        8  kerberi
 7  hellish sergeants       2  cyberi
 6  former guards           4  toxiberi
 27 hellish commandoes      13 ravagers
 12 hellish heavies         3  armored ravagers
 2  fanatics                6  siege ravagers
 5  security drones         4  plasma ravagers
 12 fiends                  4  warlocks
 49 fire fiends

Traits
  Ironman L2
  Hellrunner L2
  Tough as Nails L1
  Angry Motherfucker L3
  SURVIVOR L1

Trait order
  Hr->Hr->AMf->AMf->TaN->MSV->AMf->Iro->
  Iro

Equipment
  Slot #1 : JS 7.62 assault rifle BAV
   * Swap Harness
   * Vampiric 3
   * Calibrated 1
   * JoviSec

  Slot #2 : Firestorm
  Slot #3 : Denial
  Body : AV1 marine armor P
   * Carrier
   * Painkiller

  Head : AV3 tactical visor B
   * Durable
   * Target tracking
   * Aim assist

  Utility : AV3 shotgun AMP
   * Shotgun shred capacitor
   * Shotgun crit system

  Relic : warlocks's eye
   * Mirrored Gaze


Permanents
  Catharsis

Inventory
  12ga shell (x30)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x4)
  CRI phase kit (x3)
  multitool (x2)
  large combat pack
  stimpack (x2)
  small medkit (x1)

8
Post Mortem / [1.5a|U|Te|YAAM] Good doggy!
« on: September 10, 2022, 13:50 »
So this was a little different.  I was chatting with Sylph the other day, and we got the idea to each do a stream of Jupiter Hell at the same time with the same difficulty, class, and random seed, sort of as a test to see how our gameplay styles compare.  My streaming software bugged out partway through and split the resulting recording into three videos, but it looks like I didn't lose any footage, and you can find them here:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

And Sylph's perspective is here.

The game took about 6 hours overall, partly because we both play slowly, and partly because we were chatting via voice chat the whole time, and may have distracted each other.  :)

The highlight of the run was discovering the secret pet kerberos, Rexio.  (Okay, someone told me directly what to do while I was playing, but no complaints)  :P  Rexio starts out weak, but can be leveled up over time, eventually being strong enough to face down any enemy, including the Harbinger itself!  I still kept a close eye on him while he fought enemies, in case I needed to step in and help him, but he never seemed to actually be in any danger, since any time his hp got halfway down, he'd flip into "enraged" mode and rip any enemies apart while also regenerating.  I honestly could probably have just sat back and let him complete every level for me, and not have to lift a finger myself.  (He could probably stand to be nerfed a little)

Aside from that, not much else to say, since the above recordings speak for themselves.  I played with an Entrenchment build while Sylph played with a Sharpshooter build, up until facing the Ancient at the end of Io, where Sylph died, due to underestimating the boss, and I sent my save file over to her, so she could continue playing.

Incidentally, we streamed the games on Twitch.  My channel is here, while Sylph's channel is here.

Tormuse, level 16 Technician,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.

He survived for 21634 turns.
The run time was 5h 51m 36s.
World seed was fixed at 1919.
He scored 7680 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!

CALLISTO L3 -> Valhalla Terminal L1
Valhalla Terminal L2 - The Hunt
Valhalla Terminal L3 -> Valhalla Command
Valhalla Command - Cleared!
EUROPA L5 - Low Power
EUROPA L5 -> The Pit
The Pit - Cleared!
IO L2 - Infestation
IO L3 -> CRI Laboratory L1
CRI Laboratory L1 - Low Power
CRI Laboratory L2 -> CRI Armory
CRI Armory - found Firecrown
CRI Armory - Cleared!
Dante Station L2 - Exalted Summons
Dante Inferno - Cleared!
Dante Inferno - found Apocalypse

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
   * 25+ kills without taking damage
  Conqueror Ribbon (+200)
   * Completed all encountered special levels

He killed 870 out of 870 enemies.

 46 former grunts           18 ice fiends
 3  corrupted grunts        21 CalSec sentries
 1  former CRI grunt        10 security sentries
 8  former grenadiers       18 CalSec bots
 1  corrupted grenadier     7  security bots
 2  CRI grenadiers          2  guardian bots
 13 former soldiers         8  reavers
 22 corrupted soldiers      28 cryoreavers
 5  former CRI soldiers     28 toxic reavers
 31 CRI soldiers            27 archreavers
 8  former sergeants        22 kerberi
 5  corrupted sergeants     13 cyberi
 2  former CRI sergeants    14 cryoberi
 5  CRI sergeants           7  toxiberi
 22 former guards           16 medusae
 2  corrupted guards        10 archmedusae
 10 CRI guards              19 ravagers
 4  former commandoes       9  armored ravagers
 14 corrupted commandoes    3  siege ravagers
 4  former CRI commandoes   12 plasma ravagers
 10 CRI commandoes          74 CRI marines
 3  former heavies          43 CRI bots
 3  corrupted heavies       14 guardians
 8  fanatics                7  sentinels
 18 security drones         6  warlocks
 67 fiends                  9  archwarlocks
 22 fire fiends

Traits
  Whizkid L2
  Powerjack L1
  Cover Master L2
  Son of a Gun L3
  Sustained fire L1
  Hoarder L1
  Toxicologist L1
  ENTRENCHMENT L3

Trait order
  Cov->SoG->Cov->SF->MEN->Hor->SoG->Whk->
  MEN->SoG->Pow->Tox->Whk->MEN

Equipment
  Slot #1 : CRI 7.62 gatling B
   * Barbed 1
   * CRI
   * Sustain
   * Peacekeeper
   * Spin-up

  Slot #2 : plasma rifle +BA2
   * Critical 25
   * Auto-calibrating 90%
   * Balanced 1
   * Swap Harness

  Slot #3 : AV2 12ga auto-shotgun AC
   * Critical 25
   * Freezing 2
   * Retaliate
   * Calibrated 2

  Slot #4 : Apocalypse
   * Spin-up

  Body : necrotic armor B
   * Loading feed
   * Necrotic

  Head : Firecrown
  Utility : AV2 utility AMP
   * Metabolic boost
   * Carrier

  Relic : ancient necklace
   * Ancient Resistance


Permanents
  CRI backpack

Inventory
  energy cell (x100)
  energy cell (x96)
  rocket (x10)
  12ga shell (x50)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  7.62 ammo (x100)
  plasma grenade (x2)
  gas grenade (x3)
  gas grenade (x2)
  smoke grenade (x3)
  CRI phase kit (x1)
  military stimpack
  stimpack (x3)
  large medkit
  large medkit

9
Post Mortem / [1.4f|U|Sc|AoB|YAAM] Quad Ghost
« on: July 31, 2022, 15:05 »
For no particular reason, I felt like playing an Angel of Berserk game with a Ghost build.  :)

Leaning into the Scout's stealthing ability was a very shaky strategy in the early game, and for a time, I was living med kit to med kit, and very uncertain if I'd be able to win.  The Shadow Blade that I found mid-Europa was a big help, letting me do triple damage with my stealth strikes, (and quadruple damage once I got Executioner) and getting the Demonblood effect from the Dark Cathedral helped considerably, and that was when I knew I had the game in the bag.

That was also around the time I found the armour with the "silent" perk, which helped me get more out of my stealthing.  I was using the melee amp I found in Frozen Temple (that gave a damage and guard boost) up until the end of Dante Inferno, where I couldn't resist switching it up for a utility amp that also had "silent," so my two silent perks, combined with Skilled 2, meant that for the last two levels, I was getting four stealth strikes per stealth, (if there were enough enemies present) and since Ghost 3 made my stealth cost 12, and I was getting 3 energy back per kill thanks to Energy Leech 3, I was able to break even for each of my stealths.  :)

I got the Medusa's Fang toward the end, which instantly kills damaged biological enemies at the cost of permanently reducing your health, and I almost got rid of it, figuring I didn't want my health reduced, until I realized that it only triggers the health reduction if you deal non-fatal damage...  and my quad damage from the Shadow Blade was pretty good at one-shotting everything, and once Soulstealer was leveled up with smaller enemies, it was able to one-shot pretty much everything too, so I don't think I ever actually activated the Medusa's Fang ability at all.

In the end, Harbinger didn't even see me coming.  I ran up to him while stealthed, whacked him for four stealth strikes, then stealthed again, and whacked him for four more stealth strikes.  He spent his last moments firing off his mortars blindly, and was dead without ever seeing his attacker.  :)

Tormuse, level 18 Scout,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.

He survived for 18334 turns.
The run time was 5h 49m 2s.
World seed was 40288.
He scored 7761 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!
He was an Angel of Berserk!

CALLISTO L5 - Lockdown
CALLISTO L5 -> Military Barracks
Military Barracks - Cleared!
EUROPA L2 - Volatile Storage
Europa Concourse -> Europa Ruins L1
Europa Ruins L1 - found Twin Viper
Europa Ruins L2 - The Hunt
Europa Ruins L2 -> Frozen Temple
Frozen Temple - Cleared!
IO L2 -> Shadow Halls L1
Shadow Halls L1 - Low Power
Shadow Halls L3 -> Dark Cathedral
Dark Cathedral - Cleared!
Dark Cathedral - found Exosuit
The Shattered Abyss - Cleared!
The Shattered Abyss - found Soulstealer
Dante Inferno - Cleared!
Dante Inferno - found Firecrown
Dante Station L3 - Exalted Summons

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  CRI Star (silver cluster) (+100)
   * 50+ kills without taking damage
  Conqueror Ribbon (+200)
   * Completed all encountered special levels

He killed 774 out of 774 enemies.

 46 former grunts           40 ice fiends
 6  corrupted grunts        8  toxic fiends
 1  former CRI grunt        20 CalSec sentries
 11 former grenadiers       8  security sentries
 5  corrupted grenadiers    2  military sentries
 2  former CRI  grenadiers  11 CalSec bots
 11 former soldiers         4  security bots
 18 corrupted soldiers      72 reavers
 5  hellish soldiers        39 cryoreavers
 3  former CRI soldiers     25 toxic reavers
 4  former sergeants        39 archreavers
 2  corrupted sergeants     5  cyberi
 1  hellish sergeant        9  cryoberi
 1  former CRI sergeant     6  toxiberi
 11 former guards           12 medusae
 6  corrupted guards        12 archmedusae
 5  former commandoes       35 ravagers
 6  corrupted commandoes    19 armored ravagers
 3  hellish commandoes      13 siege ravagers
 4  former CRI commandoes   17 plasma ravagers
 1  former heavy            25 CRI marines
 2  corrupted heavies       8  CRI bots
 1  hellish heavy           21 guardians
 5  security drones         12 sentinels
 7  combat drones           5  warlocks
 46 fiends                  12 archwarlocks
 17 fire fiends

Traits
  Skilled L3
  Hellrunner L3
  Executioner L3
  Hacker L1
  Dodgemaster L1
  Energy leech L3
  GHOST L3

Trait order
  Skl->EnL->Skl->EnL->EnL->Hak->MGH->Exe->
  Exe->Exe->Skl->MGH->MGH->Hr->Hr->Hr->
  Dm

Equipment
  Slot #1 : Soulstealer
  Slot #2 : shadow blade A
   * Guarded 15
   * Resilient
   * Shadow blade

  Body : AV3 combat armor PA
   * Swift
   * Meshed
   * Durable
   * Silent

  Head : Firecrown
  Utility : AV3 utility AMP
   * Energetic
   * Silent

  Relic : medusa's fang
   * Kiss of Death


Permanents
  Demonblood

Inventory
  gas grenade (x3)
  krak grenade (x1)
  frag grenade (x3)
  smoke grenade (x3)
  CRI phase kit (x3)
  multitool (x3)
  combat pack (x3)
  military stimpack
  stimpack (x3)
  small medkit (x3)
  large medkit
  large medkit

10
Post Mortem / [1.4f|U|Ma|YAAM] Ultimate survivor
« on: July 16, 2022, 16:13 »
A fun little run where I had Survivor, health Demonblood, and Ravager's Heart, so I was healing up to 25% health from Survivor, up to 50% from Demonblood, and up to 75% from Ravager's Heart.  :)  The neat thing is the health regen stacked, so I was getting healed at triple rate below 25%, and double rate below 50%.  (This meant I basically never got the Survivor-based critical bonuses;  oh well...)

The game started as sort of a test of the viability of the Warlock's Horn relic, which I found in Callisto Anomaly, to see if the game is still playable with the 20% experience reduction, and I was still able to get up to level 17 by the end, so I wasn't hampered too badly.  I didn't get to actually use the Warlock's Horn for its true purpose, to block the Archwarlock's gaze, since I had to switch it out for the Ravager's Heart, (which I didn't really want to, but I felt compelled to, to see how the health regen worked)  :)  but for a while, the Warlock's Horn's bleeding protection was helpful for occasions I wanted to use melee.

For early/midgame, I mostly used a nice AV1 7.62 rifle with 40% critical on it, and didn't really make the switch over to melee until Io when I was able to get a decent katana.  I never found any indestructible armour, so my armour got shredded pretty consistently, but I had some pretty nice powered armour for a while, which helped me zip around, cutting enemies more quickly, but it finally broke against Harbinger himself.  Oh well...

One other funny thing, since Demonblood and Ravager's Heart both reduce healing effects down to 25%, and they stack, small medkits would only heal me for 2hp, and small healing orbs and combat packs didn't heal me at all.  :)

Tormuse, level 17 Marine,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.

He survived for 15632 turns.
The run time was 4h 49m 1s.
World seed was 79056.
He scored 7734 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!

CALLISTO L2 -> Callisto Mines L1
Callisto Mines L1 - The Hunt
Callisto Mines L3 -> Callisto Anomaly
Callisto Anomaly - Cleared!
CALLISTO L6 - Lockdown
EUROPA L3 - Volatile Storage
Europa Concourse - found Thompson
Europa Concourse -> Europa Ruins L1
Europa Ruins L2 - Lockdown
Europa Ruins L2 -> Frozen Temple
Frozen Temple - Cleared!
IO L3 -> Shadow Halls L1
Shadow Halls L1 - Volatile Storage
Shadow Halls L2 -> Dark Cathedral
Dark Cathedral - Cleared!
Dark Cathedral - found BFT 10K
The Shattered Abyss - Cleared!
The Shattered Abyss - found Soulstealer
Dante Inferno - Cleared!
Dante Inferno - found Avalanche
Dante Station L3 - The Hunt

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
   * 25+ kills without taking damage
  Conqueror Ribbon (+200)
   * Completed all encountered special levels

He killed 806 out of 806 enemies.

 43 former grunts           10 ice fiends
 6  corrupted grunts        17 toxic fiends
 1  former CRI grunt        10 CalSec sentries
 11 former grenadiers       15 security sentries
 2  corrupted grenadiers    4  military sentries
 2  former CRI  grenadiers  7  CalSec bots
 21 former soldiers         8  security bots
 24 corrupted soldiers      70 reavers
 12 former CRI soldiers     41 cryoreavers
 2  CRI soldiers            29 toxic reavers
 10 former sergeants        57 archreavers
 3  corrupted sergeants     11 kerberi
 4  former CRI sergeants    7  cyberi
 1  CRI sergeant            19 cryoberi
 27 former guards           3  toxiberi
 6  corrupted guards        17 medusae
 2  former CRI guards       10 archmedusae
 3  former commandoes       25 ravagers
 9  corrupted commandoes    18 armored ravagers
 3  former CRI commandoes   9  siege ravagers
 1  former heavy            16 plasma ravagers
 2  corrupted heavies       20 CRI marines
 7  security drones         22 CRI bots
 2  combat drones           14 guardians
 2  military drones         9  warlocks
 62 fiends                  12 archwarlocks
 32 fire fiends

Traits
  Ironman L3
  Hellrunner L3
  Tough as Nails L2
  Rip and tear L2
  Angry Motherfucker L3
  SURVIVOR L3

Trait order
  Hr->Hr->Hr->TaN->MSV->AMf->Iro->AMf->
  AMf->MSV->RaT->RaT->MSV->Iro->Iro->TaN->


Equipment
  Slot #1 : Avalanche
  Slot #2 : BFT 10K
  Slot #3 : Soulstealer
  Body :  - NONE -
  Head :  - NONE -
  Utility : AV3 utility AMP
   * Carrier
   * Adrenal

  Relic : ravager's heart
   * Ravager's Blood


Permanents
  Medusa's Curse
  Relic Corruption
  Demonblood

Inventory
  energy cell (x100)
  energy cell (x85)
  plasma grenade (x1)
  gas grenade (x2)
  krak grenade (x3)
  frag grenade (x1)
  smoke grenade (x1)
  large combat pack
  military stimpack
  stimpack (x1)
  large medkit
  large medkit

11
After my Gunrunner game from the other day, I got the idea to do another Gunrunner build, this time focusing on melee, for a "Bladerunner" build.  :D

This was considerably easier than the game where I was relying on ranged weapons, since this time, I didn't have to improvise any ammo-saving strategies.  Also, one of the nice things about using melee with this build is that the act of attacking into a square (assuming you kill the target) counts as a move, so sometimes, I was able to chain together several melee attacks in a row, each one taking 0.25 seconds of time.  :)  (I pretty much knew this was going to be a fun run once I hit Gunrunner 2, and proceeded to use my katana to cut down three exalted ravagers in less than a second)  :D

Of course, for the early game, I had to rely on ranged weapons more, and I was helped along immensely by the Scrapgun unique, and to a lesser degree by an advanced hunter rifle with barbed 6.  By late game, I had a really nice advanced plasma shotgun with critical 50, which combined with SoG 3, gave me 100% critical chance with each shot, and also sustain, which took away ammo worries, but by then, I already had a really nice katana, and SoG combined with Executioner 1 gave me 100% crit chance with that, so I had pretty much switched exclusively to melee anyway.

Other things that helped the run included the duramesh armour, that I modded for bleeding protection, and...


Toward the end, I pumped all my levels into hellrunner, dodgemaster, and dash, to help me get out of (and sometimes into) danger faster, and to max out my dodge chance, so my enemies could barely touch me.  There were still a few close calls where I nearly died due to trying to bite off more than I could chew, but I had enough contingencies in place, such as stealthing, smoke grenades, phase kits, etc, that I was able to keep going, and I managed to take out Harbinger by simply charging up to him and whacking him repeatedly with Soulstealer, and he fell in a few seconds.  (Soulstealer was so charged up that the killing blow did no less than 766 damage!)  :D

Tormuse, level 18 Scout,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.

He survived for 17177 turns.
The run time was 5h 4m 13s.
World seed was 2508.
He scored 7798 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!

CALLISTO L2 -> Callisto Mines L1
Callisto Mines L1 - Infestation
Callisto Mines L3 -> Callisto Anomaly
Callisto Anomaly - Cleared!
Callisto Anomaly - found Scrapgun
EUROPA L2 - Low Power
Europa Concourse -> Europa Ruins L1
Europa Ruins L2 - Exalted Summons
Europa Ruins L2 -> Frozen Temple
Frozen Temple - Cleared!
IO L3 -> Shadow Halls L1
Shadow Halls L1 - Exalted Summons
Shadow Halls L2 -> Dark Cathedral
Dark Cathedral - Cleared!
The Shattered Abyss - Cleared!
The Shattered Abyss - found Soulstealer
Dante Inferno - Cleared!
Dante Inferno - found BFT 10K

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
   * 25+ kills without taking damage
  Conqueror Ribbon (+200)
   * Completed all encountered special levels

He killed 849 out of 849 enemies.

 46 former grunts           7  security sentries
 6  corrupted grunts        9  CalSec bots
 1  former CRI grunt        4  security bots
 6  former grenadiers       55 reavers
 1  corrupted grenadier     43 cryoreavers
 2  former CRI  grenadiers  19 toxic reavers
 19 former soldiers         47 archreavers
 21 corrupted soldiers      8  kerberi
 9  former CRI soldiers     10 cyberi
 6  former sergeants        17 cryoberi
 4  corrupted sergeants     6  toxiberi
 4  former CRI sergeants    16 medusae
 25 former guards           8  archmedusae
 2  corrupted guards        29 ravagers
 3  former commandoes       21 armored ravagers
 14 corrupted commandoes    8  siege ravagers
 2  former CRI commandoes   21 plasma ravagers
 7  security drones         22 CRI marines
 12 combat drones           21 CRI bots
 115fiends                  15 guardians
 26 fire fiends             4  sentinels
 32 ice fiends              13 warlocks
 22 toxic fiends            5  archwarlocks
 11 CalSec sentries

Traits
  Dash L2
  Hellrunner L3
  Son of a Gun L3
  Executioner L1
  Hoarder L1
  Dodgemaster L3
  Scavenger L1
  GUNRUNNER L3

Trait order
  SoG->SoG->SoG->Das->Hor->MGU->Hr->Scv->
  MGU->Exe->Hr->Dm->MGU->Dm->Hr->Dm->
  Das

Equipment
  Slot #1 : Scrapgun +A
   * Calibrated 1
   * Auto-calibrated
   * Spin-up

  Slot #2 : AV3 plasma shotgun +A
   * Calibrated 1
   * Auto-calibrating 6%
   * Critical 50
   * Sustain

  Slot #3 : Soulstealer
  Body : duramesh scout armor P
   * Meshed
   * Duramesh

  Head :  - NONE -
  Utility : AV3 utility AMP
   * Camoboost
   * Silent

  Relic : cryoreaver's claw
   * Windchill


Permanents
  Medusa's Curse
  Demonblood

Inventory
  energy cell (x100)
  9mm ammo (x100)
  plasma grenade (x1)
  gas grenade (x3)
  EMP grenade (x1)
  krak grenade (x3)
  smoke grenade (x3)
  CRI phase kit (x2)
  large combat pack
  large combat pack
  combat pack (x2)
  stimpack (x1)

12
Post Mortem / [1.3a|U|Sc|YAAM] Run 'n gun
« on: April 09, 2022, 11:07 »
For no particular reason, I decided to do a UV game with a Gunrunner build, and got conqueror.  Yay!  :D  (100% kills too!)  :)  I had serious doubts about my ability to win toward the end, since I was almost completely out of ammo, even with scavenger 3, but I just barely managed to pull it off.

I was very speedy!  Between HR 3, the Exosuit unique, and the metabolic boost from my amp, I was moving at 0.5 seconds per move, (0.3 seconds while dashing) which went well with my chaingun with barbed 3, and actually turned out to be crucial for saving ammo at the end, since I could hit enemies with a few rounds, and then move fast enough to keep away from them while they bled to death.  In some cases, I even just danced back and forth in front of them, while they had a lot of difficulty hitting me, due to my dodge chance.  (Although I seriously wonder how to hit chances work in this, since they were sometimes still able to hit me, despite, in some cases, supposedly having -290% accuracy from bleeding stacks)

Another thing that was a big help was that super shotgun with rush 10, (damage bonus after move) which synergized nicely with the build, which is based on constantly moving.  I was pretty pleased to be able to deliver the coup de grace to Harbinger with my last shot from that gun.  :)

I was disappointed to find that the sustain mod didn't seem to work with the rail rifle.  (Or didn't work consistently?)  I think there were some shots that returned ammo as expected, but mostly not, and I'm not sure why that is.  If the mod had worked properly, a lot of my ammo worries would have been alleviated, particularly in Dante Inferno, which was a huge ammo drain, with very little return.

At one point, in the interest of saving ammo, I picked up a katana from the ground to whack a couple of reavers, and I noticed that Gunrunner's reduced attack time applied to melee weapons too, so now, I really want to do a melee-focused Gunrunner build game.  (Bladerunner, anyone?)  :D

Tormuse, level 18 Scout,
defeated the Harbinger against all odds.

He survived for 16286 turns.
The run time was 6h 25m 47s.
World seed was 8888.
He scored 7621 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!

CALLISTO L2 -> Callisto Rift L1
Callisto Rift L2 - Infestation
Callisto Rift L3 -> The Rift
The Rift - Cleared!
Europa Concourse - Secure Vault
EUROPA L5 -> The Pit
The Pit - found Denial
The Pit - Cleared!
IO L5 - Lockdown
IO L5 -> Io Warehouse
Io Warehouse - found Exosuit
Io Warehouse - Cleared!
Dante Inferno - Cleared!
Dante Inferno - found BFT 10K

Awards
  Medal of Prejudice (+200)
   * Won with 100% kills
  CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
   * 25+ kills without taking damage
  Conqueror Ribbon (+200)
   * Completed all encountered special levels

He killed 831 out of 831 enemies.

 60 former grunts           14 toxic fiends
 6  corrupted grunts        11 CalSec sentries
 1  former CRI grunt        7  security sentries
 6  former grenadiers       2  military sentries
 5  corrupted grenadiers    8  CalSec bots
 6  former CRI  grenadiers  4  security bots
 2  CRI grenadiers          1  military bot
 7  former soldiers         28 reavers
 16 corrupted soldiers      29 cryoreavers
 7  former CRI soldiers     18 toxic reavers
 6  former sergeants        54 archreavers
 6  corrupted sergeants     12 kerberi
 3  former CRI sergeants    8  cyberi
 25 former guards           13 cryoberi
 4  corrupted guards        8  toxiberi
 4  former commandoes       11 medusae
 10 corrupted commandoes    4  archmedusae
 6  former CRI commandoes   31 ravagers
 2  CRI commandoes          14 armored ravagers
 1  former heavy            7  siege ravagers
 3  corrupted heavies       7  plasma ravagers
 5  security drones         34 CRI marines
 4  combat drones           9  CRI bots
 2  military drones         15 guardians
 77 fiends                  2  sentinels
 39 fire fiends             9  warlocks
 50 ice fiends              12 archwarlocks

Traits
  Dash L1
  Hellrunner L3
  Son of a Gun L3
  Hoarder L2
  Dodgemaster L2
  Scavenger L3
  GUNRUNNER L3

Trait order
  SoG->SoG->SoG->Das->MGU->Hr->Hr->Dm->
  MGU->Hor->Hor->Scv->MGU->Dm->Scv->Hr->
  Scv

Equipment
  Slot #1 : AV1 chaingun +BA
   * Swap Harness
   * Calibrated 1
   * Auto-calibrated
   * Barbed 3
   * Spin-up

  Slot #2 : AV2 rail rifle BS
   * Swap Harness
   * Sustain
   * Extended Mag 8
   * Hunter 8
   * Scope

  Slot #3 : 12ga super shotgun A
   * Calibrated 1
   * Rush 10
   * Rinse, Repeat

  Body : Exosuit
  Head : analytic visor B
   * Durable
   * Aim assist
   * Tactical computer

  Utility : AV2 utility AMP
   * Metabolic boost
   * Energetic

  Relic :  - NONE -

Permanents
  CRI backpack

Inventory
  energy cell (x21)
  7.62 ammo (x2)
  gas grenade (x2)
  smoke grenade (x2)
  CRI phase kit (x2)
  multitool (x1)
  large medkit

13
Post Mortem / [1.2d|N!|Te|YASD] Explored a little too far
« on: March 11, 2022, 22:53 »
So I wanted to get the CRI and Jovisec Diamond badges for winning on Nightmare difficulty masterless as an explorer, and I decided to try playing as a technician, since I have the fewest victories with that class.  Ultimately, I failed, I'd say mostly due to trying to complete the Dante Inferno special level, even though (as I found out from Kornel after the fact) it wasn't actually necessary to do so.  (Oops!)

The run was carried by finding "Vengeance," a unique hunter rifle with a significant damage boost, plus incremental critical chance boosts from consecutive shots without reloading, which was later helped by armour with "loading feed," so I didn't have to manually reload it, so it permanently kept the critical bonus maxed out, consistently doing quadruple+ damage with each shot.  (I was slightly disappointed to discover that there's a cap on how high the critical bonus can go;  I half expected it to keep climbing into the thousands of percent, until I could one-shot anything;  oh well...)  :P

I recorded the whole run, which you can watch at the following links.

Part 1 - Callisto

Part 2 - Europa

Part 3 - Io

Part 4 - Dante

The recordings mostly speak for themselves, so I can't think what else to comment on.  The only other really notable decision I made along the way was getting rid of the Ravager's Heart relic at the end of Io.  I have no idea whether or not that was the right decision, but considering that I ran out of health items at the end, maybe it was a mistake?  Who knows?

Tormuse, level 16 Technician,
killed on Dante Inferno by a toxic reaver.

He survived for 11555 turns.
The run time was 5h 40m 50s.
World seed was 6449.
He scored 6626 points.
He opposed the NIGHTMARE!

Death log
 * your action, you're at 5 health
 * your action, you're at 5 health
 * toxic reaver deals 8 damage to you
 * health down to -3, you die

CALLISTO L2 - Volatile Storage
Callisto Hub -> Valhalla Terminal L1
Valhalla Terminal L2 - Low Power
Valhalla Terminal L2 -> Valhalla Command
Valhalla Command - found Vengeance
Valhalla Command - Cleared!
EUROPA L3 -> Europa Dig Zone L1
Europa Dig Zone L3 - Low Power
Europa Dig Zone L3 -> Tyre Outpost
IO L3 - Volatile Storage
Io Nexus -> Io Black Site L1
Io Black Site L1 - The Hunt
Io Black Site L2 -> Black Site Vaults
Dante Station L2 - The Hunt

Awards
  CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+50)
   * 25+ kills without taking damage
  Explorer Ribbon (+100)
   * Visited all encountered special levels

He killed 863 out of 1033 enemies.

 34 former grunts           3  toxic fiends
 1  former CRI grunt        14 CalSec sentries
 1  former grenadier        12 security sentries
 1  corrupted grenadier     2  military sentries
 6  former CRI  grenadiers  16 CalSec bots
 19 former soldiers         8  security bots
 24 corrupted soldiers      2  guardian bots
 15 hellish soldiers        16 reavers
 1  former CRI soldier      26 cryoreavers
 12 former sergeants        22 toxic reavers
 1  corrupted sergeant      24 archreavers
 1  hellish sergeant        9  cyberi
 2  former CRI sergeants    9  cryoberi
 18 former guards           9  toxiberi
 6  former commandoes       16 medusae
 17 corrupted commandoes    11 archmedusae
 16 hellish commandoes      19 ravagers
 7  former CRI commandoes   24 armored ravagers
 3  former heavies          4  siege ravagers
 2  corrupted heavies       17 plasma ravagers
 3  hellish heavies         22 CRI marines
 2  security drones         10 CRI bots
 2  combat drones           13 guardians
 52 fiends                  9  sentinels
 26 fire fiends             3  warlocks
 15 ice fiends              5  archwarlocks

Traits
  Whizkid L3
  Cover Master L3
  Son of a Gun L3
  Hoarder L2
  Headshot L2
  Scavenger L1
  Grenadier L1

Trait order
  SoG->SoG->SoG->Cov->Cov->Hor->Hsh->Whk->
  Whk->Whk->Gre->Scv->Hor->Cov->Hsh

Equipment
  Slot #1 : Vengeance
   * Scope

  Slot #2 : AV2 9mm SMG +B2
   * Barbed 1
   * Critical 40
   * Auto-calibrated
   * Speed-loader
   * Frenzy 3

  Slot #3 : AV2 12ga auto-shotgun +BA
   * Autoloader
   * Specialist
   * Calibrated 1
   * Auto-calibrating 74%
   * Critical 40

  Slot #4 : CRI BFT9K B
   * Swap Harness
   * BFT

  Body : AV2 basic armor PB2
   * Loading feed
   * Durable
   * Carrier
   * Compartments
   * Padded

  Head : AV2 tactical visor PB
   * Crit Enhancer 25
   * Health Monitor
   * Durable
   * Aim assist

  Utility : AV2 utility AMP
   * Metabolic boost
   * Auto-med 10

  Relic :  - NONE -

Permanents
  Relic Corruption

Inventory
  energy cell (x100)
  energy cell (x57)
  12ga shell (x50)
  12ga shell (x16)
  .44 ammo (x50)
  .44 ammo (x50)
  .44 ammo (x2)
  9mm ammo (x16)
  gas grenade (x2)
  EMP grenade (x1)
  smoke grenade (x2)
  multitool (x2)

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Post Mortem / [U|YAAM/YAFW] Focused Shottyhead
« on: January 22, 2022, 18:18 »
I recently got inspired to see if I could make use of a focused double shotgun with a Shottyhead build.  It's something I got the idea for forever ago, but somehow, never actually put it into practice.  I played on ultraviolence, because I wasn't in the mood for anything too strenuous.

Fortunately, for this run, I got all the mods I needed fairly early on, but unfortunately, the first double shotgun spawned in Deimos Lab.  (Normally, I'd find probably three of them by that time;  oh well...)  I basically didn't use the combat shotgun after that;  I'm not even sure why I carried it with me to the end, quite frankly.  :P

I nearly died to the pair of shamblers, (brought me down to one med pack) since they don't seem to be very susceptible to shotguns, and the lack of eagle eye meant my other weapons were less effective, but after that, it was pretty smooth sailing, as long as I could keep my shotgun shell supply up, which I managed by occasionally luring arch-viles over to sergeant groups, so I could farm them for shells.

The Shottyhead build is ridiculously ammo-hungry, due to...
  a)  the simple fact that you just fire so damn fast...
  b)  it blocks SoB trait, so you can't increase your damage much, and...
  c)  the fact that firing so fast means you push all enemies to the edge of your weapon's range in the space of a second, so you're doing even less damage.

The focused double shotgun helps mitigate this, though in practice I don't think it made a huge difference.  I still had to rely on my other weapons, which I juggled between, including Azrael's Scythe in the late game, for which I took a detour to berserker.  I used up all my shells in the Mortuary, and I never really built the supply up after that, but I made sure to save some for the end, so I could use them to deliver the coup de grace to JC.  :)

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Tormuse, level 16 Apostle Chaos Lt. General Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 244955 turns and scored 422793 points.
 He played for 6 hours, 15 minutes and 29 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 1217 out of 1217 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

 He saved himself 3 times.

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

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

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Conqueror Badge
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal

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

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

  Health 92/60   Experience 128564/16
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +6

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

  Class : Scout

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

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

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [4] (AO)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   focused double shotgun (9d4)x2 [0/2] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)

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

    [a] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5] (T1)
    [b] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [5/5] (T1)
    [c] gatling gun (1d7)x6 [60/60]
    [d] hyperblaster (2d4)x3 [40/40]
    [e] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [f] shotgun shell (x33)
    [g] rocket (x13)
    [h] power cell (x70)
    [i] power cell (x70)
    [j] power cell (x70)
    [k] small med-pack
    [l] small med-pack
    [m] small med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] homing phase device
    [q] lava steel boots [1]
    [r] 10mm ammo chain (x204)
    [s] rocket box (x20)
    [t] power battery (x120)

-- 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 85%   feet 60% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    83 former humans
    67 former sergeants
    72 former captains
    130 imps
    108 demons
    322 lost souls
    80 cacodemons
    35 hell knights
    77 barons of hell
    48 arachnotrons
    17 former commandos
    26 pain elementals
    53 revenants
    25 mancubi
    44 arch-viles
    7 elite former humans
    5 elite former sergeants
    5 elite former captains
    2 elite former commandos
    2 bruiser brothers
    2 shamblers
    1 lava elemental
    1 agony elemental
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 John Carmack
    1 Arena Master

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
  He purified his fellow comrades.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
  On level 9 he assembled a focused double shotgun!
  On level 9 he assembled a gatling gun!
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 12 he found the Acid Spitter!
  On level 12 he assembled a lava boots!
  On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
  He slaughtered the beasts living there.
  On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
  On level 15 he found the Medical Powerarmor!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 17 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 20 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  On level 21 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  On level 21 he assembled a hyperblaster!
  On level 22 he ran for his life from lava!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He overloaded a nuclear BFG 9000 on level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 The lost soul dies. The revenant dies. The revenant dies. The lost soul dies.
 The revenant dies. The revenant dies. You need to taste blood!
 The lost soul hits you. You need to taste blood! There is rocket (x3) lying
 here.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 You need to taste blood! There is rocket (x3) lying here.
 You reload the focused double shotgun. The lost soul hits you. You need to
 taste blood! There is rocket (x3) lying here. There is rocket (x3) lying
 here.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press
 <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

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

 1758 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 1378 of those were killed.
 8 of those were killed by something unknown.
 189 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 60 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 123 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 85 killed the bitch and survived.
 32 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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15
Century Lounge / [M|Ao100|3%|YAVP] Pacifistic tendencies
« on: December 29, 2021, 22:39 »
So a while ago, (eight and a half years ago?  Whoa!)   :o  I managed to get a win that showed 0% kills, by killing nothing but the Cyberdemon and the Mastermind.  It was a fun little challenge to see how few kills I could get, but I always thought it could be interesting to try it in Angel of 100, so I could truly get 0% kills.  :)

Well...  I didn't quite do it this time, but I got it as low as 3% kills, so that's pretty good, I think.  :)  Bonus:  I made sure to unwield my starting weapon at the beginning, and never wielded a weapon, so I got Sunrise Iron Fist as well.  :D

All 60 of those enemies that got killed died in crossfire, since I never fired a single shot...  unless you count the time an arachnotron stepped into a doorway unexpectedly, and I accidentally walked into it and punched it.  (Don't worry;  it didn't die, and I apologized afterward)  :P

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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,
 completed 100 levels of torture on level 100 of Hell.
 He survived 25552 turns and scored 149884 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 20 minutes and 28 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 60 out of 1538 hellspawn. (3%)
 My, wasn't he a wimpy chump.
 He was an Angel of 100!

 He saved himself once.

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

  Levels generated : 0
  Levels visited   : 0
  Levels completed : 0

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

  Sunrise Iron Fist
  Minor Icarus Cross

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

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

  Health 42/50   Experience 5698/4
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

  Class : Scout

    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Tough as nails   (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)

  HR->HR->DM->TaN->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nanofiber red armor [2]
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   nothing
    [c] [ Boots      ]   grappling gothic boots [11/11] (190%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing

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

    [a] nanofiber blue armor [1]
    [b] large med-pack
    [c] large med-pack
    [d] large med-pack
    [e] large med-pack
    [f] power mod pack
    [g] power mod pack
    [h] power mod pack
    [i] agility mod pack
    [j] bulk mod pack
    [k] phaseshift boots [2/4] (45%) (A)

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

    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 13%   feet 0%   

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

    7 former humans
    11 former sergeants
    14 former captains
    8 imps
    5 demons
    2 lost souls
    1 hell knight
    4 barons of hell
    1 revenant
    1 nightmare imp
    6 nightmare demons

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

  He left level 20 as soon as possible.
  He left level 21 as soon as possible.
  Level 22 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
  On level 23 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  He left level 25 as soon as possible.
  On level 29 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  Level 29 blasted him with an unholy atmosphere!
  He left level 29 as soon as possible.
  On level 30 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  On level 31 he found the Subtle Knife!
  On level 33 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 36 he found the Revenant's Launcher!
  On level 37 he found the Jackhammer!
  On level 37 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  He sounded the alarm on level 39!
  He left level 39 as soon as possible.
  On level 40, hell froze over!
  On level 40 he found the Butcher's Cleaver!
  On level 42 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
  He left level 42 as soon as possible.
  He left level 43 as soon as possible.
  On level 45 he encountered an armed nuke!
  On level 46 he encountered an armed nuke!
  He left level 46 as soon as possible.
  Level 47 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 49 he encountered an armed nuke!
  On level 51 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  On level 53 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
  He left level 56 as soon as possible.
  He left level 58 as soon as possible.
  On level 59 he assembled a grappling boots!
  He left level 63 as soon as possible.
  He left level 66 as soon as possible.
  He sounded the alarm on level 68!
  He left level 68 as soon as possible.
  He left level 70 as soon as possible.
  On level 73 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  He left level 73 as soon as possible.
  On level 74 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  He left level 74 as soon as possible.
  He left level 75 as soon as possible.
  He left level 76 as soon as possible.
  On level 77 he found the BFG 10K!
  He left level 81 as soon as possible.
  On level 85 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  On level 87 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  He left level 88 as soon as possible.
  On level 91 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
  He left level 91 as soon as possible.
  On level 92, hell froze over!
  He left level 92 as soon as possible.
  On level 95 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
  He left level 95 as soon as possible.
  He left level 97 as soon as possible.
  He sounded the alarm on level 98!
  He left level 98 as soon as possible.
  He left level 99 as soon as possible.
  On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.

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

 You dodge!
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The arch-vile raises his
 arms!
 You dodge! You are hit!
 You start running!
 The arch-vile raises his arms!
 Boom! The missile hits the arch-vile.
 The mancubus hits you.
 You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The mancubus hits you.
 You start running!
 The barrel explodes! Boom! You dodge! Boom! Boom! There are stairs leading
 downward here.
 You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
 <Enter>...

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

 1755 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 1377 of those were killed.
 8 of those were killed by something unknown.
 189 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 60 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 121 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 84 killed the bitch and survived.
 31 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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