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Title: [H|99%|16|YASD] 0.9.9.5 Cybie is too big a bully
Post by: snowstorm on January 06, 2012, 08:14: First off, this version is a lot more interesting with the new AI. Much more challenging, but also more time-consuming. This was my first try on it. Sad that everything was going great before that big cyberdouche did me like I was nothing. Everything else was pretty sweet.

Firestorm pack on lvl 6 yawzaaa, perfect for my pistol game. The wall - horribly hard :( . I had 40% health, no medpacks, busted green armor and i could hear at least one baron left. Man that was hard one to swallow, but survival is more important.

Cybie did me bad. First moment I see him BOOM and 4 squares away with no idea where to shoot at. Then as usual, he knows where I am and keeps on going. Pillars didn't do much for cover and as soon as I was next to a wall I knew it was over. Those medkits wouldn't have done the trick, and the phase ... well i was afraid that once again he would do me from distance. Never saw a homing device though. This guy is too damn accurate, I dodged only 2 of his rockets sidestepping.

Also, my guns and chaingun couldn't bust through the first line of doors in the Halls of Carnage. Don't know whether a bug or intentional.
P.s. NOT going to try a speedrun on THIS version. Not with this big "C" in the way.

-------------------------------------------------------------- DoomRL (v.0.9.9.5) roguelike post-mortem character dump -------------------------------------------------------------- Horatio, level 9 Human Private Technician, was splattered by a cyberdemon on level 8 of the Deimos base. He survived 97367 turns and scored 84542 points. He played for 2 hours, 39 minutes and 59 seconds. He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty. He killed 586 out of 591 hellspawn. (99%) He was a real killing machine... He saved himself 2 times. -- Special levels -------------------------------------------- Levels generated : 11 Levels visited : 7 Levels completed : 6 -- Awards ---------------------------------------------------- UAC Star (bronze cluster) UAC Star (silver cluster) Hell Champion Medal Hell Armorer Badge Technician Bronze Badge Technician Silver Badge Armorer Bronze Badge Gatekeeper Bronze Badge Arachno Bronze Badge Arena Bronze Badge Skull Bronze Badge -- Graveyard ------------------------------------------------- ########################################################### #.......................................................... #.......................................................... #..................###..................................... #..................###......###............................ #..................###......###............................ #...........................###........................###. #......................................................###. #....................................###...............###. #........C##.........................###................... #.........##.........................###................... #........###..................###.......................... #.............................###.......................... #...............###......###..###.......................... #...............###......###.........###................... #...............###......###.........###................... #....................................###................... #.......................................................... #.......X.................................................. ########################################################### -- Statistics ------------------------------------------------ Health 0/50 Experience 38039/9 ToHit Ranged +6 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0 -- Traits ---------------------------------------------------- Class : Technician Son of a gun (Level 3) Eagle Eye (Level 3) Whizkid (Level 2) Sharpshooter (Level 1) SoG->EE->EE->EE->WK->WK->SoG->SoG->MSs-> -- Equipment ------------------------------------------------- [a] [ Armor ] blue armor [1/2] (11%) (AT) [b] [ Weapon ] storm bolter pistol (1d10)x6 [18/30] (P1) [c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [1/1] (100%) (A) [d] [ Prepared ] Trigun (3d6) [6/6] -- Inventory ------------------------------------------------- [a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1] (B2) [b] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100] [c] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100] [d] blue armor [2/2] (63%) [e] 10mm ammo (x50) [f] rocket (x9) [g] small med-pack [h] large med-pack [i] large med-pack [j] phase device [k] power mod pack [l] fire skull [m] hatred skull [n] Arena Master's Staff [o] plasteel boots [2/2] (93%) [p] 10mm ammo chain (x250) [q] 10mm ammo chain (x250) [r] 10mm ammo chain (x250) [s] power battery (x120) [t] power battery (x120) -- Resistances ----------------------------------------------- Fire - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0% -- Kills ----------------------------------------------------- 61 former humans 54 former sergeants 14 former captains 89 imps 49 demons 216 lost souls 16 cacodemons 20 hell knights 19 barons of hell 25 arachnotrons 2 former commandos 15 pain elementals 1 revenant 2 bruiser brothers 1 shambler 1 agony elemental 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 7 he witnessed the Wall. On level 7 he assembled a storm bolter pistol! On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots! He broke into the Wall, but gave up against the overwhelming forces. 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 12 he found the Trigun! 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 16 he finally was splattered by a cyberdemon. -- Messages -------------------------------------------------- footsteps... You are hit! You are hit! You use a small med-pack. You feel healed. You use a small med-pack. You feel healed. You are hit! Your blue armor is damaged! Fire -- Choose target... You see : a Cyberdemon (unhurt) [m]ore | blood The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. You are hit! Fire -- Choose target... You see : a Cyberdemon (scratched) [m]ore | floor The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. Boom! The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The missile hits the Cyberdemon. You are hit! You die!... Press <Enter>... -- General --------------------------------------------------- He's the first brave soul to have ventured into Hell... --------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Re: [H|99%|16|YASD] 0.9.9.5 Cybie is too big a bully
Post by: GrimmC on January 06, 2012, 17:11: Hmm, Storm Bolter has crazy stats. Another assembly I'll probably never figure out :P

Anyway, you were a technician, so you definitely could have been fine. Item use is only 0.1s for that class. You could have almost instantly used a large med-pack, then crossed your fingers and phased out. Plus you had two cell-packs AND two BFGs...Cybie was toast in the making.

Red armor would have helped though. (Especially fireproofed.) The increase in Cyber accuracy you're noting is probably just the +1 accuracy all enemies have on HMP. Really, he's just a big softie deep down. :P

I don't know if there's any old-school Doomers out here, but there was a Doom II deathmatch PWAD that was uploaded around 1995...it was just a large square courtyard with marble pillars. Anyway, on single player, it spawned four Cyberdemons...The darn level shipped with like a 5-10 minute demo of the author just circlestrafing around them and taking them ALL down with the supershotgun. I think he got hit like once. Crazy....I mean I was good, but not that good...:-)
Title: Re: [H|99%|16|YASD] 0.9.9.5 Cybie is too big a bully
Post by: AlterAsc on January 07, 2012, 02:16: You had plasteel boots, they give you -50% knockback, if you T-modded them it would be -75% which usually reduces knockback to zero.
Actually with MSS and SBP you don't need to see anything to kill it.Just shoot in the dark.I killed Cybie that way in 0994.
Also use runnning.-2 to-hit isn't much when you have EE3, but it really helps sidestepping and moving closer.