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0.9.9.6 / [U|AoI|99%|24|YASD]
« on: June 26, 2012, 09:22 »
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at second you don't succeed, well, maybe just call it a "pass" and move on.
The Armory gave me a sniper mod. I thought about saving it for a plasmatic assault shotgun later but stuck it to a chaingun for safe keeping. Later on, though, disassembling some exotic (perhaps a blaster) gave me a second S mod, and I've never had two in one game before, so I knew I had to exploit that. I stuck them both on the nuclear plasma rifle and picked up Int2 so I could murder every magenta 'X' with efficiency.
I decided to ruin my 100% kill rate by entering the vaults, even though I knew I'd only be able to clear the outer two. It definitely paid off - I found the GCB, which I dismantled for an onyx mod (don't ask me how that works). The onyx went towards a pair of lava boots, always helpful in AoI.
I had lots of cells saved up by the time I hit the mortuary so I was able to clear it pretty easily with my nuclear sniper rifle, burst plasma and BFG.
A nuke pickup spawned on level 22 or so. If it hadn't been for Klear's recent post about nuking himself in AoI, I would have done the same thing. I was idly thinking about whether or not I should bring it along and try for a full win when I remembered with a start: oh yeah, that's not such a good idea.
I'm not sure exactly what happened with me and the mastermind. I went in equipping my sniper rifle, thinking that I might be able to do some damage to that big X from outside its attack range. When I got closer, the X was behind one of those boxy obstructions so I attacked it from a cornershooting position. It quickly caught up to me, though, which I somehow hadn't been expecting. When it closed to melee range I somehow decided that I'd be better off running away in my blue armor instead of just tanking its melee attacks in my phaseshift. Even worse, I got shot to death on a turn when I ran backwards from the mastermind instead of dodging to the side.
Out of curiosity, how do most players get Mastermind's Brain? I don't reach her too often so I haven't had enough opportunities to practice.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Bloat Punch, level 15 Arch-Vile Major Technician,
let the Spider Mastermind pwn him on level 8 of Hell.
He survived 115501 turns and scored 264345 points.
He played for 4 hours, 16 minutes and 42 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1061 out of 1070 hellspawn. (99%)
He was a real killing machine...
He was an Angel of Impatience!
He saved himself once.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 10
Levels completed : 9
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Grim Reaper's Badge
Chessmaster's Token
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Lava Silver Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 104748/15
ToHit Ranged +4 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +3 ToDmg Melee +3
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Finesse (Level 1)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Son of a bitch (Level 3)
Eagle Eye (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Scavenger (Level 1)
SoB->SoB->EE->EE->Fin->Jug->WK->WK->Int->MSc->Int->HR->HR->HR->SoB->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2/2] (54%) (A)
[b] [ Weapon ] nuclear plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [29/52] (B3S2)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] assault shotgun (9d3) [6/6] (P2T1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
[b] burst plasma rifle (1d9)x8 [80/80] (A1)
[c] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
[d] fireproof red armor [4/4] (97%) (A)
[e] phaseshift armor [2/2] (100%) (A)
[f] shotgun shell (x70)
[g] shotgun shell (x8)
[h] shotgun shell (x70)
[i] rocket (x14)
[j] rocket (x14)
[k] power cell (x70)
[l] power cell (x70)
[m] power cell (x6)
[n] power cell (x70)
[o] power cell (x70)
[p] power cell (x70)
[q] power cell (x70)
[r] lava plasteel boots [2] (A)
[s] shell box (x81)
[t] power battery (x120)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Plasma - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
131 former humans
87 former sergeants
57 former captains
118 imps
41 demons
259 lost souls
85 cacodemons
18 hell knights
50 barons of hell
59 arachnotrons
38 former commandos
30 pain elementals
30 revenants
20 mancubi
31 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
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 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 7 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he assembled a burst cannon!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 15 he assembled a hyperblaster!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
On level 18 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
On level 18 he assembled a lava boots!
He managed to scavenge a part of the Vaults treasures.
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
On level 21 he stumbled into complex full of former humans!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally let the Spider Mastermind pwn him.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a Spider Mastermind (scratched) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the
Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits
the Spider Mastermind.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (lightly wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the
Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits
the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. Boom! The
missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Targeting canceled.
You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You die!... Press
<Enter>...
There is 10mm ammo (x100) lying here.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
403 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
388 of those were killed.
3 of those were killed by something unknown.
11 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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The Armory gave me a sniper mod. I thought about saving it for a plasmatic assault shotgun later but stuck it to a chaingun for safe keeping. Later on, though, disassembling some exotic (perhaps a blaster) gave me a second S mod, and I've never had two in one game before, so I knew I had to exploit that. I stuck them both on the nuclear plasma rifle and picked up Int2 so I could murder every magenta 'X' with efficiency.
I decided to ruin my 100% kill rate by entering the vaults, even though I knew I'd only be able to clear the outer two. It definitely paid off - I found the GCB, which I dismantled for an onyx mod (don't ask me how that works). The onyx went towards a pair of lava boots, always helpful in AoI.
I had lots of cells saved up by the time I hit the mortuary so I was able to clear it pretty easily with my nuclear sniper rifle, burst plasma and BFG.
A nuke pickup spawned on level 22 or so. If it hadn't been for Klear's recent post about nuking himself in AoI, I would have done the same thing. I was idly thinking about whether or not I should bring it along and try for a full win when I remembered with a start: oh yeah, that's not such a good idea.
I'm not sure exactly what happened with me and the mastermind. I went in equipping my sniper rifle, thinking that I might be able to do some damage to that big X from outside its attack range. When I got closer, the X was behind one of those boxy obstructions so I attacked it from a cornershooting position. It quickly caught up to me, though, which I somehow hadn't been expecting. When it closed to melee range I somehow decided that I'd be better off running away in my blue armor instead of just tanking its melee attacks in my phaseshift. Even worse, I got shot to death on a turn when I ran backwards from the mastermind instead of dodging to the side.
Out of curiosity, how do most players get Mastermind's Brain? I don't reach her too often so I haven't had enough opportunities to practice.
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0.9.9.6 / [U|AoI|100%|14|YASD] Killed by a soldier.
« on: May 31, 2012, 16:30 »
The next challenge on my to-do list is Angel of Impatience. I figured I'd use rapid-fire Scavenger builds for this one, partly because the extra challenge is forcing me to play carefully (active, passive and tactical defence are all quite weak while this build gets going) and also because I wanted to see if the Scavenger trait could get around the tricky restrictions on mod use that this challenge imposes. The answer: yes! If you find a mod before you have a use for it, slap it on a random pistol that's lying around and just dismantle the weapon later. For the curious, once you've taken apart a modded weapon in AoI, the mod remains in your inventory, where it can be used at your leisure. No time to waste? We'll see about that.
In this particular game, I found a plasma rifle in a vault on the first level of Phobos. This was a great safety net for the first few levels and helped me get the Hell Arena Key badge, something I almost never earn thanks to my careless playstyle. I killed the Arena Master by chainfiring the rifle, which is just as turn-efficient as rocket-jumping into his face and chainsawing him, while considerably less risky. Side note: I was astounded to find out the first time I got this far that you can't even pick up the Arena Master's staff on this challenge, which makes the vaults impossible to complete (since you can't carry phases either). The mods and XP still make CC+ worth doing, but I'm less than thrilled.
The wall was quite doable thanks to a shell box I'd found a floor or two above, but I was careful to gib all corpses as they dropped since a slowpoke character like this with no portable health is very vulnerable here. This is usually where I drop the rocket launcher from Hell's Arena but I saved it so I could rocket-jump out of the demon horde on Phobos Anomaly. I usually forget about that alt-fire but it's surprisingly effective in the right circumstances.
The lab cache in Hell's Armory had an onyx mod, which is a great find in this challenge. Even though you can't slap it on a weapon and use it later with Scavenger, an easy pair of lava boots is great when you can't carry envirosuits around. This also let me grab the supercharge from behind the lab - a little treasure I only recently discovered.
City of Skulls was the beginning of the end. I stupidly got nearly-surrounded by the agony elemental's spawn, and in retrospect I should have rocket-jumped away to save the majority of my HP. I optimistically used the blood skull he dropped hoping to get a few HP back, but, of course, nothing happened. The next level after that was an arachnotron cave with no healing items except for a single health globe, and the stairs to Spider's Lair. I was just walking around the level, collecting scraps of ammo and thinking about my disturbingly low chance of survival no matter which stairs I took, when I accidentally walked into one completely isolated lava tile, my lava boots stowed safely in my bag.
In this particular game, I found a plasma rifle in a vault on the first level of Phobos. This was a great safety net for the first few levels and helped me get the Hell Arena Key badge, something I almost never earn thanks to my careless playstyle. I killed the Arena Master by chainfiring the rifle, which is just as turn-efficient as rocket-jumping into his face and chainsawing him, while considerably less risky. Side note: I was astounded to find out the first time I got this far that you can't even pick up the Arena Master's staff on this challenge, which makes the vaults impossible to complete (since you can't carry phases either). The mods and XP still make CC+ worth doing, but I'm less than thrilled.
The wall was quite doable thanks to a shell box I'd found a floor or two above, but I was careful to gib all corpses as they dropped since a slowpoke character like this with no portable health is very vulnerable here. This is usually where I drop the rocket launcher from Hell's Arena but I saved it so I could rocket-jump out of the demon horde on Phobos Anomaly. I usually forget about that alt-fire but it's surprisingly effective in the right circumstances.
The lab cache in Hell's Armory had an onyx mod, which is a great find in this challenge. Even though you can't slap it on a weapon and use it later with Scavenger, an easy pair of lava boots is great when you can't carry envirosuits around. This also let me grab the supercharge from behind the lab - a little treasure I only recently discovered.
City of Skulls was the beginning of the end. I stupidly got nearly-surrounded by the agony elemental's spawn, and in retrospect I should have rocket-jumped away to save the majority of my HP. I optimistically used the blood skull he dropped hoping to get a few HP back, but, of course, nothing happened. The next level after that was an arachnotron cave with no healing items except for a single health globe, and the stairs to Spider's Lair. I was just walking around the level, collecting scraps of ammo and thinking about my disturbingly low chance of survival no matter which stairs I took, when I accidentally walked into one completely isolated lava tile, my lava boots stowed safely in my bag.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Goode, level 10 Arch-Vile Major Technician,
killed by a soldier on level 6 of the Deimos base.
He survived 107543 turns and scored 130796 points.
He played for 2 hours, 18 minutes and 19 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 693 out of 693 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Impatience!
He saved himself once.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 6
Levels completed : 6
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Chessmaster's Token
Hell Arena Key
Hell Armorer Badge
Eagerness Bronze Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 49350/10
ToHit Ranged +4 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Finesse (Level 1)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Eagle Eye (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Scavenger (Level 1)
EE->SoB->EE->SoB->WK->WK->Int->MSc->Fin->Jug->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2/2] (96%)
[b] [ Weapon ] burst plasma rifle (1d9)x8 [80/80]
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (88%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] missile launcher (6d6) [4/4]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
[b] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
[c] chaingun (1d7)x4 [52/52] (B1P1)
[d] plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] (A1T1)
[e] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
[f] blue armor [1/2] (46%)
[g] fireproof red armor [4/4] (75%)
[h] 10mm ammo (x140)
[i] 10mm ammo (x52)
[j] shotgun shell (x70)
[k] shotgun shell (x70)
[l] rocket (x14)
[m] power cell (x70)
[n] power cell (x70)
[o] power cell (x38)
[p] power cell (x70)
[q] power cell (x70)
[r] power cell (x70)
[s] lava protective boots [2]
[t] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[u] shell box (x82)
[v] rocket box (x20)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Plasma - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
52 former humans
42 former sergeants
26 former captains
103 imps
74 demons
246 lost souls
30 cacodemons
15 hell knights
34 barons of hell
18 arachnotrons
12 former commandos
30 pain elementals
3 revenants
1 mancubus
2 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 agony elemental
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 7 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 10 he assembled a lava boots!
On level 10 he assembled a burst cannon!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 12 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he finally killed by a soldier.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
There are stairs leading to Spider's Lair here.
There are stairs leading to Spider's Lair here.
There is a tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5] lying here.
You picked up a tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5].
There are stairs leading to Spider's Lair here.
You dropped shotgun shell (x15). There is shotgun shell (x15) lying here.
There is power cell (x18) lying here.
You found 18 of power cell.
There is power cell (x20) lying here.
You found 20 of power cell.
There is shotgun shell (x12) lying here.
There is 10mm ammo (x36) lying here.
You found 36 of 10mm ammo.
There is shotgun shell (x12) lying here.
Argh!!! Lava! You die!... Press <Enter>...
You reload the tactical shotgun.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
391 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
376 of those were killed.
3 of those were killed by something unknown.
11 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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0.9.9.6 / [U|AoMC|74%|4|YASD] I have been judged unworthy
« on: May 18, 2012, 14:23 »
Here's a quick one. Playing Max Carnage, I descended to depth 4. I found myself surrounded on three sides by demons, a shotgun guy behind some barrels, and a pain elemental and his pre-spawned souls. After some awkward maneuvering to keep the shotgun guy from blowing up the barrels in my face (I couldn't kill him as the barrels were in the way) I was overcome by the lost souls. My mistake was not equipping the blue armor, which would have made the lost souls much more survivable.
I'm posting this just because the gods of DoomRL have clearly judged me as wanting. I am not destined to be their champion. A minigun and a powermod in a depth 2 vault, in AoMC, is something I will have to earn.
I'm posting this just because the gods of DoomRL have clearly judged me as wanting. I am not destined to be their champion. A minigun and a powermod in a depth 2 vault, in AoMC, is something I will have to earn.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Spiff, level 4 Arch-Vile Major Scout,
was spooked by a lost soul on level 4 of the Phobos base.
He survived 19583 turns and scored 18852 points.
He played for 19 minutes and 4 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 94 out of 127 hellspawn. (74%)
He was an Angel of Max Carnage!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 1
Levels completed : 1
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Hell Champion Medal
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 5011/4
ToHit Ranged +12 ToHit Melee +12 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Intuition (Level 2)
Int->Int->SoB->SoB->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] nothing
[b] [ Weapon ] shotgun (8d3) [1/1]
[c] [ Boots ] nothing
[d] [ Prepared ] minigun (1d7)x8 [152/200] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
[b] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
[c] 10mm ammo (x100)
[d] 10mm ammo (x100)
[e] 10mm ammo (x100)
[f] 10mm ammo (x100)
[g] 10mm ammo (x100)
[h] 10mm ammo (x100)
[i] 10mm ammo (x100)
[j] 10mm ammo (x100)
[k] shotgun shell (x49)
[l] shotgun shell (x50)
[m] shotgun shell (x50)
[n] shotgun shell (x50)
[o] rocket (x10)
[p] rocket (x10)
[q] rocket (x7)
[r] small med-pack
[s] small med-pack
[t] small med-pack
[u] small med-pack
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
None
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
23 former humans
8 former sergeants
2 former captains
25 imps
18 demons
6 lost souls
7 cacodemons
3 hell knights
2 barons of hell
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 4 he finally was spooked by a lost soul.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
missile hits the lost soul. The missile hits the lost soul. The lost soul
dies. The missile hits the pain elemental. The missile hits the pain
elemental. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you.
The pain elemental spawns lost souls! The lost soul hits you. The lost soul
hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you.
You start running!
The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you.
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. The lost soul hits you. The
lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The lost
soul hits you. The lost soul hits you.
You swap your weapons. The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you. The
lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you.
You start running!
The lost soul hits you. The lost soul hits you.
You reload the shotgun. The lost soul hits you. You die!... Press <Enter>...
You found 5 of shotgun shell. There is shotgun shell (x7) lying here.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
359 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
345 of those were killed.
3 of those were killed by something unknown.
10 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
4 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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0.9.9.6 / [U|AoSh|100%|YAFW] Should I keep posting these?
« on: May 08, 2012, 11:46 »
I don't know that there's anything to say about this mortem, really. I seem to be a middle-tier sort of player, where there's no need for others to give me helpful advice but I also have no truly impressive achievements to my name. Eh, whatever. Just look at what I found in the armory and feel jealous.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Worser, level 15 Hell Baron Major Scout,
nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
He survived 90208 turns and scored 363514 points.
He played for 3 hours, 20 minutes and 27 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1289 out of 1289 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 9
Levels completed : 9
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Shottyman Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 50/50 Experience 105935/15
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 2)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Shottyhead (Level 1)
Rel->Rel->SM->HR->Fin->Jug->MSh->Fin->WK->WK->HR->HR->DM->Int->Int->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] phaseshift armor [4/4] (127%) (ABP)
[b] [ Weapon ] Jackhammer (8d3)x3 [3/9]
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] tactical shotgun (9d3) [5/5] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] fireproof red armor [4/4] (200%) (B)
[b] shotgun shell (x42)
[c] shotgun shell (x50)
[d] large med-pack
[e] large med-pack
[f] large med-pack
[g] large med-pack
[h] large med-pack
[i] phase device
[j] envirosuit pack
[k] power mod pack
[l] technical mod pack
[m] bulk mod pack
[n] fireproof plasteel boots [4/4] (71%) (P)
[o] shell box (x100)
[p] shell box (x100)
[q] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Melee - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
104 former humans
111 former sergeants
48 former captains
132 imps
56 demons
480 lost souls
33 cacodemons
36 hell knights
42 barons of hell
67 arachnotrons
26 former commandos
53 pain elementals
41 revenants
20 mancubi
31 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 10 he found the Jackhammer!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
Level 12 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
On level 13 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 13 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 13 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 13 he assembled a fireproof armor!
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
On level 14 he assembled a fireproof boots!
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
On level 18 he found the Railgun!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
He 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
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
You are hit!
An ammopack might serve better in the Prepared slot. Continuing will unload
the ammo destroying the pack. Are you sure? [Y/n]
You fully unload the shell box.
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed.
Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
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.
There is a lever (woah!) here.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
348 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
334 of those were killed.
3 of those were killed by something unknown.
10 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
4 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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0.9.9.6 / [U|AoLT|100%|YAFW] Another challenge down...
« on: May 03, 2012, 23:17 »
Angel of Light Travel was the next challenge on my list. I figured I'd play a scout to make the absolute most of the challenge's speed boost, and play a melee character to avoid ammo problems.
I got whizkid (2) as early as possible with the idea that I could stick mods onto my gear as soon as I'd find them and avoid having to carry them around. In practice that worked pretty well, though I never found enough tech mods (my phaseshift boots were supposed to be fireproof). One of those tech mods was wasted on a fireproof armor which I made out of habit, not considering the negative melee resistance. I idly let that armor get destroyed and made a red power armor instead. A waste of a nano mod? Perhaps, but I needed something durable and multi-purpose to replace the three highly-specialized armours I'd be carrying around in any other game.
I wasn't initially expecting to get Conquerer but the level with the stairs to the wall spawned a rocket launcher and two rocket stacks, which encouraged me to clear the wall and go for the badge.
I built a ripper out of curiosity as much as anything, even though I knew the Scythe would end up replacing it. I turns out the ripper is like a poor man's blademaster. With 'zerk, finesse and other bonuses, the attack time of the ripper gets so low that I was able to clear the City of Skulls mostly in melee even without Blademaster (which I finally unlocked shortly afterward).
JC died this time without giving me even a point of damage. There should be a badge for that.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Scuttlebutt, level 16 Hell Baron 1st Lieutenant Scout,
nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
He survived 91508 turns and scored 416699 points.
He played for 3 hours, 24 minutes and 33 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1161 out of 1161 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Light Travel!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 11
Levels completed : 11
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Conqueror Badge
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Lightfoot Bronze Badge
Lightfoot Silver Badge
Lightfoot Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 50/50 Experience 126042/16
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +10 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +15
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Brute (Level 5)
Berserker (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Blademaster (Level 1)
Fin->Fin->WK->WK->HR->HR->Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->MBm->DM->Bru->Bru->HR->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] powered red armor [5/5] (100%) (A)
[b] [ Weapon ] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
[c] [ Boots ] phaseshift boots [4/4] (127%) (B)
[d] [ Prepared ] tactical shotgun (9d3) [5/5] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] shotgun shell (x67)
[b] small med-pack
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Melee - internal 60% torso 85% feet 60%
Shrapnel - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Acid - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
Fire - internal 60% torso 95% feet 60%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
88 former humans
59 former sergeants
43 former captains
136 imps
72 demons
362 lost souls
46 cacodemons
43 hell knights
82 barons of hell
65 arachnotrons
18 former commandos
37 pain elementals
34 revenants
25 mancubi
41 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 4 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 7 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 10 he assembled a fireproof armor!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he assembled a ripper!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he assembled a power armor!
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
Level 15 was a hard nut to crack!
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 18 he entered the Vaults.
On level 18 he found the Anti-Freak Jackal!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
Level 21 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 22 he ran for his life from lava!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 22 he found the Necroarmor!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
On level 23 he encountered an armed nuke!
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 --------------------------------------------------
Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next! You feel like a killing
machine! You're going berserk!
You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
You miss the lost soul. You need to taste blood!
You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next! You're going berserk!
You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. Next!
You hit John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
Carmack! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now. Next! You're going berserk!
You need to taste blood!
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
333 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
320 of those were killed.
3 of those were killed by something unknown.
9 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
3 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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I got whizkid (2) as early as possible with the idea that I could stick mods onto my gear as soon as I'd find them and avoid having to carry them around. In practice that worked pretty well, though I never found enough tech mods (my phaseshift boots were supposed to be fireproof). One of those tech mods was wasted on a fireproof armor which I made out of habit, not considering the negative melee resistance. I idly let that armor get destroyed and made a red power armor instead. A waste of a nano mod? Perhaps, but I needed something durable and multi-purpose to replace the three highly-specialized armours I'd be carrying around in any other game.
I wasn't initially expecting to get Conquerer but the level with the stairs to the wall spawned a rocket launcher and two rocket stacks, which encouraged me to clear the wall and go for the badge.
I built a ripper out of curiosity as much as anything, even though I knew the Scythe would end up replacing it. I turns out the ripper is like a poor man's blademaster. With 'zerk, finesse and other bonuses, the attack time of the ripper gets so low that I was able to clear the City of Skulls mostly in melee even without Blademaster (which I finally unlocked shortly afterward).
JC died this time without giving me even a point of damage. There should be a badge for that.
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0.9.9.6 / [U|AoMr|YAFW] Car Max Knn Dishin' is that He's Dead
« on: April 27, 2012, 22:49 »
So, I'm working my way through the challenge games, I guess, and I got a platinum badge and a full win in the process. I wasn't expecting either; I was just playing how I like to play - on UV, tackling as many special levels as possible, and not leaving until the level's name is blue.
The only pistol characters I played before this challenge were sharpshooters, and I've grown fond of the luxury of having whizkid. Four levels' worth of traits seemed like too much to spend, though, so I had to figure out how to live without it. Looking through other Gun Kata mortems, I saw that people are using high power pistols. Dualgunning with two 4-shot pistols is both completely ridiculous yet somehow the only viable strategy that doesn't count on finding exotics so I resigned myself to trying it. It does actually work pretty well, as long as everything dies when it's supposed to.
It helps that I found a blaster pretty early on, which I mostly used to deal with single revenants. (For some reason I decided to ruin its clip size by making it high power as well.) I also found a combat pistol and the mods to make it high-powered on the level before the Mortuary. That's also when I got level 5 SoG, which made me decide just barely in favour of being foolish enough to enter it. I didn't actually think I'd live through it but I was just aching to try. It actually went pretty well. With a movement time of around 0.25 seconds and my firing time at the floor, it was easy to keep chipping away at the horde as this or that monster came into the edge of my vision. Gradually I pushed forward until everything was dead.
This is the first game where I've used intuition. It's nice, but I still don't like shooting at monsters I can't see, especially when I'm working with such a small clip and need my shots to hit.
This is also the first time I've fought JC properly (instead of nuking him). The boss fight actually reminded me of the cyberdemon fight at the end of Doom 3. There, you have to charge your soul sphere by killing imps as they pop out of a hole. Here, I shot JC three times and then reloaded by popping one of the lost souls he summoned.
Can anyone tell me: is there a point to the "almost instant" counter-attacks you can make after dodging when firing your pistols only takes 0.1 seconds anyway?
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Dude, level 15 Hell Baron 1st Lieutenant Scout,
nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
He survived 95155 turns and scored 363514 points.
He played for 3 hours, 5 minutes and 7 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1079 out of 1079 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Marksmanship!
He saved himself 2 times.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 8
Levels completed : 8
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Veteran Gold Badge
Veteran Platinum Badge
Marksman Silver Badge
Marksman Gold Badge
Marksman Platinum Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 53/60 Experience 105998/15
ToHit Ranged +2 ToHit Melee +2 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Ironman (Level 1)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Son of a gun (Level 5)
Eagle Eye (Level 1)
Dualgunner (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Gun Kata (Level 1)
SoG->SoG->DG->SoG->HR->HR->DM->MGK->EE->Int->Int->SoG->SoG->HR->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] fireproof red armor [4/4] (93%)
[b] [ Weapon ] high power pistol (2d6) [4/4]
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] high power combat pistol (3d5) [10/10]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] high power blaster (2d6) [1/6]
[b] onyx armor [4] (P)
[c] phaseshift armor [2/2] (79%) (A)
[d] 10mm ammo (x100)
[e] 10mm ammo (x2)
[f] 10mm ammo (x100)
[g] large med-pack
[h] large med-pack
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] phase device
[m] technical mod pack
[n] bulk mod pack
[o] lava plasteel boots [2]
[p] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[q] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[r] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[s] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[t] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Melee - internal 0% torso -30% feet 0%
Fire - internal 0% torso 55% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
96 former humans
103 former sergeants
86 former captains
124 imps
90 demons
171 lost souls
79 cacodemons
33 hell knights
88 barons of hell
50 arachnotrons
20 former commandos
17 pain elementals
57 revenants
25 mancubi
32 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 4 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 5 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 10 he assembled a high power weapon!
On level 10 he assembled a high power weapon!
On level 10 he assembled a fireproof armor!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 12 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he assembled a high power weapon!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 19 he assembled a lava boots!
On level 20 he assembled a high power weapon!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
Level 21 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 22 he found the Necroarmor!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
On level 23 he ran for his life from lava!
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 --------------------------------------------------
Targeting canceled.
You see : a baron of hell (unhurt) | floor | [ m ]ore
Targeting canceled.
You see : a revenant (severely wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the revenant. The missile hits the revenant. The revenant
dies. You dualreload your guns!
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack.
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack
reloads his rocket launcher.
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack
dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now. You dualreload your guns!
Targeting canceled.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
331 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
319 of those were killed.
3 of those were killed by something unknown.
8 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
2 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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The only pistol characters I played before this challenge were sharpshooters, and I've grown fond of the luxury of having whizkid. Four levels' worth of traits seemed like too much to spend, though, so I had to figure out how to live without it. Looking through other Gun Kata mortems, I saw that people are using high power pistols. Dualgunning with two 4-shot pistols is both completely ridiculous yet somehow the only viable strategy that doesn't count on finding exotics so I resigned myself to trying it. It does actually work pretty well, as long as everything dies when it's supposed to.
It helps that I found a blaster pretty early on, which I mostly used to deal with single revenants. (For some reason I decided to ruin its clip size by making it high power as well.) I also found a combat pistol and the mods to make it high-powered on the level before the Mortuary. That's also when I got level 5 SoG, which made me decide just barely in favour of being foolish enough to enter it. I didn't actually think I'd live through it but I was just aching to try. It actually went pretty well. With a movement time of around 0.25 seconds and my firing time at the floor, it was easy to keep chipping away at the horde as this or that monster came into the edge of my vision. Gradually I pushed forward until everything was dead.
This is the first game where I've used intuition. It's nice, but I still don't like shooting at monsters I can't see, especially when I'm working with such a small clip and need my shots to hit.
This is also the first time I've fought JC properly (instead of nuking him). The boss fight actually reminded me of the cyberdemon fight at the end of Doom 3. There, you have to charge your soul sphere by killing imps as they pop out of a hole. Here, I shot JC three times and then reloaded by popping one of the lost souls he summoned.
Can anyone tell me: is there a point to the "almost instant" counter-attacks you can make after dodging when firing your pistols only takes 0.1 seconds anyway?
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0.9.9.6 / [M|AoB|99%|18|YASD] Knives, knives, kni -
« on: April 20, 2012, 16:06 »
- and then, our hero's voice was suddenly silenced when a former sergeant, taking advantage of certain features of his environment, blasted a napalm barrel sending our hero soaring towards a river of acid, in which he promptly sank to the bottom.
There isn't really anything special about the mortem. I think I just want to talk about Malicious Blades. It really isn't an offensive trait, is it? I found a load of mods this game and was able to make what I consider to be the ultimate pair of blades: two piercing combat knives (4d6) (B). (You have to add the P mod before the A or else they'll be 4d5.) Even with the doubled brute damage bonus (from having two attacks every turn) my DPS was still the same as when I just used the Longinus spear, and lower than when I used the ripper. The only reason to take MMB right now is for the passive resistances. I think I'd be a lot more excited about Malicious Blades if the trait description read like this:
"Knives, knives, knives! You can now attack with a blade in your off hand at the same time as any other melee attack! You also parry 75% melee damage and deflect 50% bullet and shrapnel damage!"
Powerful? Yes, but other melee masters will still do more raw damage in most cases thanks to their easy access to berserk. Also, note that I'm willing to give up fire resistance for this.
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Gnat, level 10 Hell Baron 1st Lieutenant Technician,
killed by a soldier on level 2 of Hell.
He survived 78182 turns and scored 62389 points.
He played for 2 hours, 3 minutes and 34 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 528 out of 531 hellspawn. (99%)
He was a real killing machine...
He was an Angel of Berserk!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 7
Levels completed : 7
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Berserker Bronze Badge
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 41774/10
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Finesse (Level 1)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Brute (Level 3)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Malicious Blades (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Fin->HR->HR->DM->MMB->WK->WK->Bru->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] plasma shield [0/0] (37%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Longinus Spear (8d8)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (88%)
[d] [ Prepared ] piercing combat knife (4d6) (B)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] Acid Spitter (10d10) [0/10] {a}
[b] green armor [1/1] (28%) (A)
[c] blue armor [2/2] (63%)
[d] fireproof red armor [4/4] (88%)
[e] piercing combat knife (4d6) (B)
[f] ripper (6d6)
[g] large med-pack
[h] large med-pack
[i] large med-pack
[j] phase device
[k] homing phase device
[l] envirosuit pack
[m] thermonuclear bomb
[n] power mod pack
[o] power mod pack
[p] onyx armor pack
[q] fire skull
[r] fire skull
[s] fire skull
[t] hatred skull
[u] Arena Master's Staff
[v] plasteel boots [2/2] (100%)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Melee - internal 0% torso 75% feet 75%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Fire - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 95% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
62 former humans
61 former sergeants
12 former captains
67 imps
46 demons
200 lost souls
26 cacodemons
9 hell knights
2 barons of hell
13 arachnotrons
5 former commandos
12 pain elementals
1 revenant
5 mancubi
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 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 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he found the Acid Spitter!
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 15 he assembled a piercing blade!
On level 15 he assembled a piercing blade!
On level 15 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 15 he assembled a ripper!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 17 he found the Longinus Spear!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 18 he finally killed by a soldier.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
There is a Small Health Globe lying here.
You feel better.
There is a plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] lying here.
There is a rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1] lying here.
You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit!
You dodge! Boom! You dodge! Boom! You are hit! You dodge! Boom! You dodge!
Boom!
You wear/wield : a plasma shield [0/0] (66%)
You hit the former commando. The former commando dies.
There is a plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [28/40] lying here.
There is a blue armor [2/2] (63%) lying here.
You picked up a blue armor [2/2] (63%).
The former sergeant reloads his shotgun.
The former sergeant reloads his shotgun. The barrel explodes! Argh!!! Acid!
You die!... Press <Enter>...
hits you.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
269 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
260 of those were killed.
2 of those were killed by something unknown.
6 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
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There isn't really anything special about the mortem. I think I just want to talk about Malicious Blades. It really isn't an offensive trait, is it? I found a load of mods this game and was able to make what I consider to be the ultimate pair of blades: two piercing combat knives (4d6) (B). (You have to add the P mod before the A or else they'll be 4d5.) Even with the doubled brute damage bonus (from having two attacks every turn) my DPS was still the same as when I just used the Longinus spear, and lower than when I used the ripper. The only reason to take MMB right now is for the passive resistances. I think I'd be a lot more excited about Malicious Blades if the trait description read like this:
"Knives, knives, knives! You can now attack with a blade in your off hand at the same time as any other melee attack! You also parry 75% melee damage and deflect 50% bullet and shrapnel damage!"
Powerful? Yes, but other melee masters will still do more raw damage in most cases thanks to their easy access to berserk. Also, note that I'm willing to give up fire resistance for this.
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0.9.9.6 / [H|AoSh|YAAM] Adventures of a shotgun attached to a brick wall.
« on: April 20, 2012, 09:07 »
I thought I'd keep experimenting with different challenges and master traits. The result is this game:
Army of the Dead is like a sub-challenge on top of the Angel of Shotgunnery challenge. I'm used to loading everything with mods and focusing on active defence traits, so it took some lateral thinking to make the most of basic assemblies and passive defence. I think buying berserker was a good move; I didn't know that when you take a big hit with berserker, the berserk resistance kicks in before damage is calculated. Going berserk and taking just one damage when a rocket hits you makes the cyberdemon a joke. The ranks of ironman that I got at the end might actually have been detrimental, since higher max health means berserker kicks in less often.
The first part of the game didn't feel too different than normal, as I always tend to go pretty heavy on the shotguns. Things started to change with chained court - I had to trap the arena master against a wall and chip away at him with a double shotgun while 'zerked. Phobos anomaly went well as I found an invulnerability sphere close to the stairs to it. I got lucky and was able to corner shoot the bruiser brothers without taking damage even after invulnerability wore off.
In Deimos, I left the medical powerarmor where it spawned as I've just never found a good use for it. I mostly used tactical armour and common armours instead. I found an onyx armour pack in the Armory which I saved for lava boots so I'd have more route options in hell levels. I beat Halls of Carnage because I knew it would be easy - same goes for City of Skulls, which spawned a hatred skull. An invulnerability sphere spawned close to the stairs to the Spider's Lair so I decided to tackle that too, though it got scary after the sphere ran out. Luckily, a combat shotgun with MAD does a decent amount of damage even beyond sight range, so I radar-shot my way to victory.
I was foolish enough to enter the mortuary. I used the hatred skull and a fire skull that I got from City of Skulls pretty much right away. Even while 'zerked I burned through every red armour and supercharge in the right half of the level, and when my 'zerk ran out on my way back to the left side I started to worry. Luckily, it seemed that I'd already managed to kill every vile in my all-consuming rage, so I just had to radar- and corner-shoot from the centre structure until everything was properly dead. The damage was done, though - I only had a stack and a half of shells left, which left me on a pretty tight schedule for the rest of the game. For some reason I went into the lava pits anyway, and wasted even more shells killing most monsters from out of sight range. I only had about thirty shells left leaving that level, so I knew that my one chance left was to nuke the last level of hell, wasting a nuke and lava element I was thinking about spending elsewhere, and then spend those last shells on the mastermind. I equipped the shielded armour and lured the mastermind into melee range so I could chip her health away with point-blank double shotgun blasts while she feebly scratched me. She died. The end!
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Brock, level 14 Hell Baron 2nd Lieutenant Marine,
defeated the Mastermind on level 8 of Hell.
He survived 127112 turns and scored 207005 points.
He played for 2 hours, 22 minutes and 56 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 962 out of 962 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 9
Levels completed : 9
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Gatekeeper Silver Badge
Shottyman Silver Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 69/80 Experience 81611/14
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +6
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 2)
Tough as nails (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Brute (Level 2)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 2)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Army of the Dead (Level 1)
Rel->Rel->SM->Bad->Bad->MAD->Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->TaN->TaN->Iro->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Shielded Armor [2]
[b] [ Weapon ] double shotgun (9d3)x2 [0/2]
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] fireproof red armor [2/4] (45%)
[b] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
[c] shotgun shell (x12)
[d] large med-pack
[e] large med-pack
[f] homing phase device
[g] power mod pack
[h] power mod pack
[i] agility mod pack
[j] bulk mod pack
[k] lava acid-proof boots [0]
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 90% feet 0%
Melee - internal 0% torso 90% feet 0%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 90% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
96 former humans
91 former sergeants
36 former captains
95 imps
69 demons
289 lost souls
41 cacodemons
43 hell knights
54 barons of hell
44 arachnotrons
19 former commandos
16 pain elementals
20 revenants
25 mancubi
16 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 10 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 10 he found the Medical Powerarmor!
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 18 he stumbled into complex full of hell knights!
On level 18 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 18 he assembled a lava boots!
On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
On level 18 he found the Shielded Armor!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 22 he found the Malek's Armor!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
He nuked level 23!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You reload the double shotgun. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You reload the double shotgun. The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider
Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You reload the double shotgun. The Spider Mastermind hits you. The Spider
Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations! You defeated the Spider
Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
There is an envirosuit pack lying here.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
258 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
249 of those were killed.
2 of those were killed by something unknown.
6 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
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Army of the Dead is like a sub-challenge on top of the Angel of Shotgunnery challenge. I'm used to loading everything with mods and focusing on active defence traits, so it took some lateral thinking to make the most of basic assemblies and passive defence. I think buying berserker was a good move; I didn't know that when you take a big hit with berserker, the berserk resistance kicks in before damage is calculated. Going berserk and taking just one damage when a rocket hits you makes the cyberdemon a joke. The ranks of ironman that I got at the end might actually have been detrimental, since higher max health means berserker kicks in less often.
The first part of the game didn't feel too different than normal, as I always tend to go pretty heavy on the shotguns. Things started to change with chained court - I had to trap the arena master against a wall and chip away at him with a double shotgun while 'zerked. Phobos anomaly went well as I found an invulnerability sphere close to the stairs to it. I got lucky and was able to corner shoot the bruiser brothers without taking damage even after invulnerability wore off.
In Deimos, I left the medical powerarmor where it spawned as I've just never found a good use for it. I mostly used tactical armour and common armours instead. I found an onyx armour pack in the Armory which I saved for lava boots so I'd have more route options in hell levels. I beat Halls of Carnage because I knew it would be easy - same goes for City of Skulls, which spawned a hatred skull. An invulnerability sphere spawned close to the stairs to the Spider's Lair so I decided to tackle that too, though it got scary after the sphere ran out. Luckily, a combat shotgun with MAD does a decent amount of damage even beyond sight range, so I radar-shot my way to victory.
I was foolish enough to enter the mortuary. I used the hatred skull and a fire skull that I got from City of Skulls pretty much right away. Even while 'zerked I burned through every red armour and supercharge in the right half of the level, and when my 'zerk ran out on my way back to the left side I started to worry. Luckily, it seemed that I'd already managed to kill every vile in my all-consuming rage, so I just had to radar- and corner-shoot from the centre structure until everything was properly dead. The damage was done, though - I only had a stack and a half of shells left, which left me on a pretty tight schedule for the rest of the game. For some reason I went into the lava pits anyway, and wasted even more shells killing most monsters from out of sight range. I only had about thirty shells left leaving that level, so I knew that my one chance left was to nuke the last level of hell, wasting a nuke and lava element I was thinking about spending elsewhere, and then spend those last shells on the mastermind. I equipped the shielded armour and lured the mastermind into melee range so I could chip her health away with point-blank double shotgun blasts while she feebly scratched me. She died. The end!
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Century Lounge / [H|Ao100|YAAM] zort kaash zort kaash zort kaash
« on: April 18, 2012, 22:36 »
After about a million failed experiments with pistol builds on different challenges and difficulties, I finally won something. The thread title is a crude onomatopoeic rendering of the soundtrack of this run: chipping away at yet another archvile with an energy pistol.
My strategy is to never plan on getting exotics/uniques, but to take advantage of them once they do show up. And man, did they show up. Finding the lava armor on level 20 won the game for me right then and there - it's such an amazing piece of gear that I was able to carelessly tank as much damage as I wanted afterwards. It also helps that I found an onyx armor pack early on. I made a pair of lava boots to help charge my armor, and I ended up wearing them for most of the game. I also made tactical and antigrav boots, but they mostly sat in my pack as it gets annoying having to constantly switch to protective boots in the lava-jammed hell levels.
Even with all the pistol builds I've been playing lately I've still never once unlocked "dualgunner." Sharpshooters all the way! MSs just seems like a better trait to me - it's more accurate, more ammo efficient, and you spend less time reloading. Plus, you get to experiment with oddball pistol assemblies without worrying about whether your pistols match. I started off with a regular T-modded pistol until I was finally able to find enough B mods to turn it into a storm bolter. This is, as far as I know, the best pistol you can get without any exotic drops, and it served me well through most of the game. Once I found a combat pistol I turned it into an energy pistol, so that I'd be able to make good use of more than just one ammo type. This turned out to be very wise as there were occasional dry spells where bullets or cells wouldn't spawn. I found a second combat pistol fairly late in the game and decided to just mod it up. Overall, the P3 combat pistol was stronger than the energy pistol, but it took 3 shots to kill a revenant where the energy pistol only took 2. I was hoping to find a second sniper mod so I could play around with killing viles from across the map but only one ever turned up, not that I can really complain.
For shotguns, I went from a plain shotty to a lightly modded combat shotgun to a heavily modded assault shotgun. I finally dropped the latter when I found the Jackhammer, which I mostly just kept as a souvenir (though I did bust it out in a few nightmare demon caves). For rocket launchers, I went from a plain RL to a lightly modded missile launcher, which I eventually dropped when I had the idea of making a nanomanufacture napalm launcher. I was very happy to find the second nano pack I needed. A nanomachic napalm launcher is definitely one of the more ridiculous things you can assemble in this game, and since I already had lava boots I could blanket entire levels in lava without any real consequence. I also wanted to see if I could make a nuclear biggest fucking gun but no F mods ever spawned (though I easily could have destroyed a few with the aforementioned napalm launcher).
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Pinky, level 22 Hell Baron 2nd Lieutenant Technician,
completed 100 levels of torture on level 100 of Hell.
He survived 261744 turns and scored 1189206 points.
He played for 7 hours, 55 minutes and 7 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 2520 out of 2520 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of 100!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 0
Levels visited : 0
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Experience Medal
Centurial Silver Badge
Centurial Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 35/50 Experience 523265/22
ToHit Ranged +6 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Son of a gun (Level 5)
Reloader (Level 3)
Eagle Eye (Level 3)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Sharpshooter (Level 1)
SoG->SoG->SoG->EE->EE->EE->MSs->WK->WK->HR->HR->SoG->SoG->DM->HR->Rel->Rel->Rel->Fin->Jug->Fin->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Lava Armor [4/4] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] nanomachic napalm launcher (7d7) (T1)
[c] [ Boots ] lava plasteel boots [2] (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] energy combat pistol (3d5) [15/15] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] combat pistol (3d6) [15/15] (P3S1)
[b] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d8) [43/68] (B2)
[c] Jackhammer (8d3)x3 [9/9]
[d] tactical armor [2/2] (100%) (P)
[e] Shielded Armor [2]
[f] 10mm ammo (x100)
[g] 10mm ammo (x100)
[h] 10mm ammo (x94)
[i] shotgun shell (x50)
[j] power cell (x50)
[k] power cell (x50)
[l] power cell (x50)
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] Hell Staff
[q] antigrav steel boots [1/1] (100%) (A)
[r] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[s] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
[t] shell box (x100)
[u] shell box (x100)
[v] power battery (x120)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 50%
Fire - internal 0% torso 75% feet 100%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
178 former humans
219 former sergeants
277 former captains
95 imps
52 demons
233 lost souls
41 cacodemons
102 hell knights
361 barons of hell
83 arachnotrons
12 former commandos
22 pain elementals
162 revenants
187 mancubi
228 arch-viles
35 nightmare imps
48 nightmare cacodemons
116 nightmare demons
30 nightmare arachnotrons
5 nightmare arch-viles
23 bruiser brothers
4 shamblers
4 lava elemental
2 agony elementals
1 Cyberdemon
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 19 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 20 he stumbled into complex full of mancubi!
On level 20 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 20 he found the Lava Armor!
On level 21 he found the Shielded Armor!
On level 24 he assembled a lava boots!
Level 28 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
On level 29 he assembled a antigrav boots!
On level 33 he assembled a storm bolter pistol!
On level 34 he assembled a energy pistol!
On level 38, hell froze over!
He sounded the alarm on level 39!
On level 46 he found the Jackhammer!
On level 47 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 49 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 52 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 54 he stumbled into complex full of former humans!
On level 55 he ran for his life from acid!
Level 59 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 64 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 66, hell froze over!
On level 68 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 69 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 70 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 72 he found the Hellwave Pack!
On level 73 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He sounded the alarm on level 76!
On level 80 he assembled a nanomanufacture ammo!
On level 81 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 84 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 85 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 88 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 90, hell froze over!
On level 92 he ran for his life from acid!
On level 93 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He sounded the alarm on level 95!
On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : floor
Targeting canceled. There is a combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5] lying here.
You hear the scream of a freed soul!
You see : Pinky (wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Targeting canceled.
You hear the scream of a freed soul!
You hear the scream of a freed soul!
The missile hits the mancubus. You hear the scream of a freed soul! You feel
relatively safe now.
The weapon doesn't need to be reloaded!
There are stairs leading downward here.
You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
<Enter>...
You see : a mancubus (severely wounded) | blood | [ m ]ore
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
256 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
248 of those were killed.
2 of those were killed by something unknown.
5 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
4 killed the bitch and survived.
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My strategy is to never plan on getting exotics/uniques, but to take advantage of them once they do show up. And man, did they show up. Finding the lava armor on level 20 won the game for me right then and there - it's such an amazing piece of gear that I was able to carelessly tank as much damage as I wanted afterwards. It also helps that I found an onyx armor pack early on. I made a pair of lava boots to help charge my armor, and I ended up wearing them for most of the game. I also made tactical and antigrav boots, but they mostly sat in my pack as it gets annoying having to constantly switch to protective boots in the lava-jammed hell levels.
Even with all the pistol builds I've been playing lately I've still never once unlocked "dualgunner." Sharpshooters all the way! MSs just seems like a better trait to me - it's more accurate, more ammo efficient, and you spend less time reloading. Plus, you get to experiment with oddball pistol assemblies without worrying about whether your pistols match. I started off with a regular T-modded pistol until I was finally able to find enough B mods to turn it into a storm bolter. This is, as far as I know, the best pistol you can get without any exotic drops, and it served me well through most of the game. Once I found a combat pistol I turned it into an energy pistol, so that I'd be able to make good use of more than just one ammo type. This turned out to be very wise as there were occasional dry spells where bullets or cells wouldn't spawn. I found a second combat pistol fairly late in the game and decided to just mod it up. Overall, the P3 combat pistol was stronger than the energy pistol, but it took 3 shots to kill a revenant where the energy pistol only took 2. I was hoping to find a second sniper mod so I could play around with killing viles from across the map but only one ever turned up, not that I can really complain.
For shotguns, I went from a plain shotty to a lightly modded combat shotgun to a heavily modded assault shotgun. I finally dropped the latter when I found the Jackhammer, which I mostly just kept as a souvenir (though I did bust it out in a few nightmare demon caves). For rocket launchers, I went from a plain RL to a lightly modded missile launcher, which I eventually dropped when I had the idea of making a nanomanufacture napalm launcher. I was very happy to find the second nano pack I needed. A nanomachic napalm launcher is definitely one of the more ridiculous things you can assemble in this game, and since I already had lava boots I could blanket entire levels in lava without any real consequence. I also wanted to see if I could make a nuclear biggest fucking gun but no F mods ever spawned (though I easily could have destroyed a few with the aforementioned napalm launcher).
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0.9.9.6 / [U|99%|YAVP] Shotgun shells shmotgun shmells
« on: March 26, 2012, 17:14 »
I've read that shotgun builds are supposed to be hard, since the supply of shells in hell is a touch low, so this game felt way too easy. The only thing that almost killed me was overconfidence. I got a bit closer to death than I should have a couple of times just by running and gunning without watching my health. The mastermind also almost did me in - I was pretty sure going into the fight that it deals bullet damage - but the only reason it was able to hit me at all is because I just stood out in the open while raining damage on it. It's just pretty hard to feel threatened when your action speeds are all hovering around 0.20 seconds.
It helps that I wasn't depending solely on shells to do damage - I was making full use of all the rockets and cells I found (most of the latter got funnelled back out through a plasma shotgun). It also helps that the requirement traits for Shottyhead are all extremely useful in general. Juggler, finesse, reloader and hellrunner all serve to keep you alive. As a point of contrast, I've also been attempting sharpshooter builds lately. Eagle eye is significantly less important after the first point you put into it, and son of a gun is useless without a good pistol. This being the case, none of my sharpshooters have lived long enough to earn the master.
Back to the mortem: I skipped the Cathedral as I didn't bother to invest in brute, and I skipped the lava pits as no envirosuits were ever generated and I didn't feel like wading through lava without one. Also, I have no idea where I missed that one kill.
It helps that I wasn't depending solely on shells to do damage - I was making full use of all the rockets and cells I found (most of the latter got funnelled back out through a plasma shotgun). It also helps that the requirement traits for Shottyhead are all extremely useful in general. Juggler, finesse, reloader and hellrunner all serve to keep you alive. As a point of contrast, I've also been attempting sharpshooter builds lately. Eagle eye is significantly less important after the first point you put into it, and son of a gun is useless without a good pistol. This being the case, none of my sharpshooters have lived long enough to earn the master.
Back to the mortem: I skipped the Cathedral as I didn't bother to invest in brute, and I skipped the lava pits as no envirosuits were ever generated and I didn't feel like wading through lava without one. Also, I have no idea where I missed that one kill.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Crumbs, level 15 Demon Sergeant Major Scout,
defeated the Mastermind on level 8 of Hell.
He survived 93131 turns and scored 339689 points.
He played for 4 hours, 44 minutes and 44 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1063 out of 1064 hellspawn. (99%)
A natural born killer!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 9
Levels completed : 9
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
UAC Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 36/50 Experience 107768/15
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Shottyhead (Level 1)
Fin->Jug->Rel->Rel->SM->Fin->WK->WK->HR->MSh->HR->DM->HR->Fin->Int->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] duelist armor [2/4] (39%) (ABP)
[b] [ Weapon ] BFG 9000 (10d8) [60/220] (B3)
[c] [ Boots ] antigrav acid-proof boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] plasma shotgun (9d3) [24/30] (P2T2)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5] (T1)
[b] hyperblaster (2d4)x3 [40/40] (S1)
[c] missile launcher (6d6) [4/4] (T3)
[d] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d8) [88/88] (B3)
[e] energy shield [0/0] (93%)
[f] shotgun shell (x70)
[g] shotgun shell (x16)
[h] rocket (x14)
[i] rocket (x10)
[j] power cell (x70)
[k] power cell
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] thermonuclear bomb
[o] bulk mod pack
[p] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 25% feet 0%
Melee - internal 0% torso 25% feet 0%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 25% feet 0%
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 100%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
74 former humans
60 former sergeants
47 former captains
125 imps
74 demons
349 lost souls
51 cacodemons
24 hell knights
58 barons of hell
46 arachnotrons
28 former commandos
31 pain elementals
22 revenants
33 mancubi
34 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
On level 7 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 10 he assembled a hyperblaster!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 12 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 18 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 found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
On level 23 he stumbled into complex full of mancubi!
On level 23 he assembled a antigrav boots!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. You are hit! You are hit!
You are hit! Your duelist armor is damaged! Boom!
Boom! Boom!
You reload the BFG 9000.
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit!
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies.
Congratulations! You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
You reload the tactical shotgun.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
134 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
129 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
3 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
3 killed the bitch and survived.
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Bug Reports / [0.9.9.6G Windows]Crashes when dying on Angel of Pacifist
« on: March 19, 2012, 10:28 »
I was goofing around in Angel of Pacifist today, HNTR difficulty, and the game crashed several times for me when I died in the late game. Looking through my mortems, the farthest that I got without the game crashing when I died was Deimos level 1. The last crash in the log posted below occurred at the instant of being killed by a lost soul on JC's level (shoulda packed another nuke). DoomRL attempted to save my game after each crash but the saves were corrupted.
I hope this is useful.
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:42:06
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua call OnDestroy caught ELuaException!
Call path : cells.30.OnDestroy
Call params : (74,11)
Error message : Get(items.4.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:42:06
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path : beings[captain].OnAction
Call params : ()
Error message : LuaError: cells.30.OnDestroy -- Get(items.4.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:42:09
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[captain].OnAction -- LuaError: cells.30.OnDestroy -- Get(items.4.group) failed!
$004624B9 TDOOMLUA__ONERROR, line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
$00450DE7 TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK, line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
$004A719B TTHING__CALLHOOK, line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
$0049E4D4 TBEING__ACTION, line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0049E5EB TBEING__CALL, line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0041EFDA TDOOM__RUN, line 369 of src/doombase.pas
$00401B15 main, line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:58:29
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path : beings[sergeant].OnAction
Call params : ()
Error message : Get(items.5.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:58:42
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[sergeant].OnAction -- Get(items.5.group) failed!
$004624B9 TDOOMLUA__ONERROR, line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
$00450DE7 TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK, line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
$004A719B TTHING__CALLHOOK, line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
$0049E4D4 TBEING__ACTION, line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0049E5EB TBEING__CALL, line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0041EFDA TDOOM__RUN, line 369 of src/doombase.pas
$00401B15 main, line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 11:11:16
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path : beings[lostsoul].OnAction
Call params : ()
Error message : Get(items.5.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 11:11:25
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[lostsoul].OnAction -- Get(items.5.group) failed!
$004624B9 TDOOMLUA__ONERROR, line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
$00450DE7 TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK, line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
$004A719B TTHING__CALLHOOK, line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
$0049E4D4 TBEING__ACTION, line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0049E5EB TBEING__CALL, line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0041EFDA TDOOM__RUN, line 369 of src/doombase.pas
$00401B15 main, line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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I hope this is useful.
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:42:06
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua call OnDestroy caught ELuaException!
Call path : cells.30.OnDestroy
Call params : (74,11)
Error message : Get(items.4.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:42:06
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path : beings[captain].OnAction
Call params : ()
Error message : LuaError: cells.30.OnDestroy -- Get(items.4.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:42:09
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[captain].OnAction -- LuaError: cells.30.OnDestroy -- Get(items.4.group) failed!
$004624B9 TDOOMLUA__ONERROR, line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
$00450DE7 TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK, line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
$004A719B TTHING__CALLHOOK, line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
$0049E4D4 TBEING__ACTION, line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0049E5EB TBEING__CALL, line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0041EFDA TDOOM__RUN, line 369 of src/doombase.pas
$00401B15 main, line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:58:29
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path : beings[sergeant].OnAction
Call params : ()
Error message : Get(items.5.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 1:58:42
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[sergeant].OnAction -- Get(items.5.group) failed!
$004624B9 TDOOMLUA__ONERROR, line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
$00450DE7 TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK, line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
$004A719B TTHING__CALLHOOK, line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
$0049E4D4 TBEING__ACTION, line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0049E5EB TBEING__CALL, line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0041EFDA TDOOM__RUN, line 369 of src/doombase.pas
$00401B15 main, line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 11:11:16
Error level : ERROR
Message : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path : beings[lostsoul].OnAction
Call params : ()
Error message : Get(items.5.group) failed!
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Timestamp : 19/03/2012 11:11:25
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[lostsoul].OnAction -- Get(items.5.group) failed!
$004624B9 TDOOMLUA__ONERROR, line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
$00450DE7 TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK, line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
$004A719B TTHING__CALLHOOK, line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
$0049E4D4 TBEING__ACTION, line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0049E5EB TBEING__CALL, line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
$0041EFDA TDOOM__RUN, line 369 of src/doombase.pas
$00401B15 main, line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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Requests For Features / Small change request for Juggler
« on: March 17, 2012, 10:16 »
When I started playing (which was only about a week ago, I guess) I didn't know what quickkeys were, or I didn't think I should bother to use them, so the only benefit I got from juggler was the instant swapping with a prepared weapon. Now I realize that you can use juggler to instantly swap to any weapon from your inventory, as long as you have a quickkey bound to it. The problem that I have with this is that to get the full benefit of juggler, once you start using assemblies and uniques that don't have a quickkey by default, you have to save your game and edit the quickkeys configuration file to assign keys to your new weapons. I feel that the full benefits of juggler should be accessible from within the game itself. How about we just change juggler's functionality to, "You can now swap your weapons or equip any weapon from the inventory instantly," as this is effectively what the trait already does?
Or, if that seems overpowered when it's written out like this, how about "You can now swap your weapons instantly and equip weapons from the inventory in 0.5 seconds?" I think this would be interesting, as then there's still a major benefit to having a sidearm in your prepared slot rather than in the inventory, and the player then has to consider whether it's more important to equip a second weapon (for faster swapping) or ammo (for faster reloading).
Or, if that seems overpowered when it's written out like this, how about "You can now swap your weapons instantly and equip weapons from the inventory in 0.5 seconds?" I think this would be interesting, as then there's still a major benefit to having a sidearm in your prepared slot rather than in the inventory, and the player then has to consider whether it's more important to equip a second weapon (for faster swapping) or ammo (for faster reloading).
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