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Post Mortem / Re: [H|97%|24|YAVP] Nothing extraordinary, but my first win
« on: May 02, 2014, 13:49 »
Congrats on your first win! Your insisting on playing [H] right of the bat is the way to go, I also couldn't bring myself to play HNTR from the very first day I witnessed the greatness that is DoomRL xD
Wanted to comment a little on that -
Wanted to comment a little on that -
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AoLT actually doesn't do all that much in teaching you inventory management if you ask me. This morning I've earned Lightfoot Gold (AoLT on HMP) on the very first attempt. Playing melee and then being lucky enough to find a special armor that has infinite durability kinda spoils the game :S But even without said armor, this particular challenge is actually a piece of cake on melee. I think playing a non-MAc rapidfire build (on Ao100) or MBD will go a lot further than that.I just had my first "serious" AoLT run, and it was non-melee. In fact, it does teach a bit about inventory management, BUT it is not good as an "educational" run because it changes the entire game by making you 20% faster, and it's a HUGE factor which makes the game itself somewhat different. Easier, actually.
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Very nice work on the win! Luckydee is right about AoLT not teaching you much about inventory. If anything you learn more from playing angel of impatience - playing with zero medpacks and zero phase devices make you appreciate how rarely you need them, and how nice it would be just to have *1* of them in your inventory! :DAngel of Impatience is challenging, but it does not teach you about inventory management. Because you can't pick things xD It teaches you about not getting hit, I think, especially on special levels where there's next to none healing.
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For the record, probably the most glaring 'unusual' trait of your inventory in this mortem are carrying hatred skulls around with you (when you've already passed the cathedral and the mortuary), carrying more than 2 spare armours, and carrying more than 1 stack of rockets.Ha-ha! I am often guilty on all of these counts, too xD But usually after the mortuary I don't care much about what I carry, because the game is usually almost won, so there are usually skulls I didn't need to use in there or obsessively collected uniques or unused mods xD And there's nothing wrong with carrying extra rockets, especially right BEFORE the Mortuary.
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Nightmare! / [N!|AOLT|81%|YAVP] Must have smacked someone...
« on: May 02, 2014, 13:20 »
A good run...
But, wait, what? No Lightfoot Diamond badge for no melee kills? I feel cheated, it was the whole purpose of the damn thing! Perhaps, I smacked some former human in melee? But I am almost sure I had no melee kills. I feel quite upset about not being rewarded for this run, because this one was very different and intense. My first AoLT win, too xD
Oh, wait, I remember having misclicked into a demon while being invulnerable, but I checked the message buffer, it said MISSED, not even hit and definitely not killed. Perhaps, something died when my hands were empty and it counted as a "fist kill" by some mysterious DoomRL logic - can this be a possible reason? If it is, then it's a pretty unpleasant glitch.
Oh, well.
What's to say about this run, I avoided most of the special levels, and the single most brutal moment was the Phobos Anomaly. I only had a T-modded chaingun and an assault shotgun with a shellbox, I cleaned out the ambush just fine by cornershooting from the right section of the map, but messed up with the brothers somewhat and had to retreat all the way to the start, AFTER which I realized I had no choice but to run right through them. I was down to 7% with no medkits zigzagging wildly to the exit, and as soon as I got away from the bruisers, there was a nightmare imp throwing fireballs at me. It was a miraculous escape, and the next level was a Cacodemon cave with an instant supercharge. Got the laser rifle in Deimos Lab, but after I got it from the warehouse I decided to chicken out on the shamblers. Wouldn't want to risk this quick and dirty run, especially having the perfect weapon for my build now.
I really liked this challenge, but before I try N!-AoLT again I think I should ask you DoomRL pros out there - what could be the reason for failing to get the badge? Nuking the mastermind? Aforementioned "fist kill" bug? Maybe, I also need to do it in less than 20k turns (as for the Platinum badge)?
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Wyvern, level 14 Arch-Vile General Marine,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 70070 turns and scored 690096 points.
He played for 2 hours, 6 minutes and 13 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1059 out of 1297 hellspawn. (81%)
He was an Angel of Light Travel!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 5
Levels completed : 1
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Lightfoot Silver Badge
Lightfoot Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 60/60 Experience 98930/14
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +5 ToDmg Melee +5
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Finesse (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 5)
Reloader (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Triggerhappy (Level 2)
Ammochain (Level 1)
Rel->Rel->SoB->SoB->TH->TH->MAc->SoB->Fin->Fin->WK->SoB->SoB->WK->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Necroarmor [6/6] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] burst laser rifle (1d9)x7 [47/80] (T1)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] chaingun (1d6)x4 [2/40] (S1T1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] Medical Powerarmor [4/4] (94%)
[b] small med-pack
[c] lava element
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 25% torso 25% feet 25%
Fire - internal 25% torso 25% feet 25%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
89 former humans
102 former sergeants
78 former captains
176 imps
73 demons
235 lost souls
93 cacodemons
28 hell knights
46 barons of hell
4 arachnotrons
21 former commandos
20 pain elementals
23 revenants
32 mancubi
18 arch-viles
5 nightmare imps
3 nightmare cacodemons
9 nightmare demons
1 lava elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
He cowardly fled the Arena.
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
Entering level 9 he was almost dead...
On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
He left the Deimos Lab without drawing too much attention.
On level 14 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 17 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
On level 19 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 19 he found the Necroarmor!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
He came, he saw, but he left.
On level 21 he assembled a burst cannon!
On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
On level 22 he found the Medical Powerarmor!
He managed to raise Mt. Erebus completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
He nuked level 24!
He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack.
Chain fire ( full ) -- Choose target or abort...
You see : John Carmack (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The
missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits
John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack.
You feel vulnerable again.
Chain fire ( full ) -- Choose target or abort...
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The
missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated
John Carmack! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
381 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
327 of those were killed.
11 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 12 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
31 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
14 killed the bitch and survived.
15 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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But, wait, what? No Lightfoot Diamond badge for no melee kills? I feel cheated, it was the whole purpose of the damn thing! Perhaps, I smacked some former human in melee? But I am almost sure I had no melee kills. I feel quite upset about not being rewarded for this run, because this one was very different and intense. My first AoLT win, too xD
Oh, wait, I remember having misclicked into a demon while being invulnerable, but I checked the message buffer, it said MISSED, not even hit and definitely not killed. Perhaps, something died when my hands were empty and it counted as a "fist kill" by some mysterious DoomRL logic - can this be a possible reason? If it is, then it's a pretty unpleasant glitch.
Oh, well.
What's to say about this run, I avoided most of the special levels, and the single most brutal moment was the Phobos Anomaly. I only had a T-modded chaingun and an assault shotgun with a shellbox, I cleaned out the ambush just fine by cornershooting from the right section of the map, but messed up with the brothers somewhat and had to retreat all the way to the start, AFTER which I realized I had no choice but to run right through them. I was down to 7% with no medkits zigzagging wildly to the exit, and as soon as I got away from the bruisers, there was a nightmare imp throwing fireballs at me. It was a miraculous escape, and the next level was a Cacodemon cave with an instant supercharge. Got the laser rifle in Deimos Lab, but after I got it from the warehouse I decided to chicken out on the shamblers. Wouldn't want to risk this quick and dirty run, especially having the perfect weapon for my build now.
I really liked this challenge, but before I try N!-AoLT again I think I should ask you DoomRL pros out there - what could be the reason for failing to get the badge? Nuking the mastermind? Aforementioned "fist kill" bug? Maybe, I also need to do it in less than 20k turns (as for the Platinum badge)?
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Releases / Re: The Inferno Module
« on: April 08, 2014, 23:22 »
The greatness of this mod compels me to revive this ancient thread.
It's so good I'd love to see it as sorts of an "official" expansion for DoomRL after some balance tweaks and other adjustments. I hope the mod's author has not abandoned it, and I think it deserves way, way more attention (It doesn't help that you have to search for the ol' 0.9.9.6 to even launch the thing...)
As for the actual gameplay, I finished the above playthrough quite some time ago and only got to write about it now, so I might not remember everything in detail, still, here we go.
The mod is DOOMish as hell, I like how it mimics the E3M1 from the original game right from the start. The first level is a tad unforgiving and I had to die a lot, usually ending up on the second floor with no ammo and no healthpacks, and it is obvious from the start that the mod is somewhat harder than the original game. The gameplay is a bit slower, mostly because monsters "sleep" until you wake them up, but this is balanced by a DIRE shortage of medpacks, ammo and an occasional "you feel uneasy" ambush. It tends to get easier after Acheron, which is probably one of the hardest (and coolest) parts in the entire mod. The end boss was kind of a pushover, though.
But now for the interesting part - the new stuff! The sinking bridge in Hell Keep, the secrets (extremely doomish! though it kind of made me compulsively search every single wall in every special level xD), the random shambler lab or a non-guaranteed backpack cache on regular levels were all nice touches. The invisibility globe was a funny addition, in fact, I remember entering a level low on health and short on ammo and an invisibility globe nearby, which I grabbed and made my way quietly past stacks of monsters to an Invulnerability powerup displayed by Intuition. This kind of stealth action is something I don't see in my regular DoomRL runs. The "blue stairs" special levels were also fun, though they vary in difficulty wildly. Fool's Tomb? Ok, that's cute. Hell's Furnace? That hurt somewhat. Antenora? Holy freaking hell, I died here once already but I'll enter on this run again, because I'm just stubborn. Ptolomea? Thanks, but no thanks. The "red" special levels were all very good too (altough the Spawning Pits tended to get tedious after several runs), Singularity probably being the most intense. I like how the middle-game breakthrough, Acheron, really puts your character to test, it feels like you conquer every single step to the exit with blood, sweat, righteousness and superior firepower.
The new monsters were not particularly threatening, but they are all fun. I love the sounds that Asuras make (and the fact that they dropped shells for my Shottyhead run. Pity I wandered into Ptolomea with the same guy...)
And last but not least, this mod has, whatdoyoucallit, style? Atmosphere? It really is darker than the original DoomRL shootfest. The shadowy specters and achlyses, the darkness of Erebus, allusions to mythology in the names of special levels and new monsters, the corpses flowing quietly down Acheron, turning invisible, the stillness on the levels before you fire the first shot or wander into a roomful of enemies... this is certainly something different from the DoomRL RIP AND TEAR! And, one last thing - though it has nothing to do with the mod itself - it's a good thing it forced me to play in console mode. I usually play DoomRL in graphics these days, but this mod made me remember the true roguelike charm of ASCII which makes you apply your imagination more while playing.
Conclusion - Remake this for 0.9.9.7!
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It's so good I'd love to see it as sorts of an "official" expansion for DoomRL after some balance tweaks and other adjustments. I hope the mod's author has not abandoned it, and I think it deserves way, way more attention (It doesn't help that you have to search for the ol' 0.9.9.6 to even launch the thing...)
As for the actual gameplay, I finished the above playthrough quite some time ago and only got to write about it now, so I might not remember everything in detail, still, here we go.
The mod is DOOMish as hell, I like how it mimics the E3M1 from the original game right from the start. The first level is a tad unforgiving and I had to die a lot, usually ending up on the second floor with no ammo and no healthpacks, and it is obvious from the start that the mod is somewhat harder than the original game. The gameplay is a bit slower, mostly because monsters "sleep" until you wake them up, but this is balanced by a DIRE shortage of medpacks, ammo and an occasional "you feel uneasy" ambush. It tends to get easier after Acheron, which is probably one of the hardest (and coolest) parts in the entire mod. The end boss was kind of a pushover, though.
But now for the interesting part - the new stuff! The sinking bridge in Hell Keep, the secrets (extremely doomish! though it kind of made me compulsively search every single wall in every special level xD), the random shambler lab or a non-guaranteed backpack cache on regular levels were all nice touches. The invisibility globe was a funny addition, in fact, I remember entering a level low on health and short on ammo and an invisibility globe nearby, which I grabbed and made my way quietly past stacks of monsters to an Invulnerability powerup displayed by Intuition. This kind of stealth action is something I don't see in my regular DoomRL runs. The "blue stairs" special levels were also fun, though they vary in difficulty wildly. Fool's Tomb? Ok, that's cute. Hell's Furnace? That hurt somewhat. Antenora? Holy freaking hell, I died here once already but I'll enter on this run again, because I'm just stubborn. Ptolomea? Thanks, but no thanks. The "red" special levels were all very good too (altough the Spawning Pits tended to get tedious after several runs), Singularity probably being the most intense. I like how the middle-game breakthrough, Acheron, really puts your character to test, it feels like you conquer every single step to the exit with blood, sweat, righteousness and superior firepower.
The new monsters were not particularly threatening, but they are all fun. I love the sounds that Asuras make (and the fact that they dropped shells for my Shottyhead run. Pity I wandered into Ptolomea with the same guy...)
And last but not least, this mod has, whatdoyoucallit, style? Atmosphere? It really is darker than the original DoomRL shootfest. The shadowy specters and achlyses, the darkness of Erebus, allusions to mythology in the names of special levels and new monsters, the corpses flowing quietly down Acheron, turning invisible, the stillness on the levels before you fire the first shot or wander into a roomful of enemies... this is certainly something different from the DoomRL RIP AND TEAR! And, one last thing - though it has nothing to do with the mod itself - it's a good thing it forced me to play in console mode. I usually play DoomRL in graphics these days, but this mod made me remember the true roguelike charm of ASCII which makes you apply your imagination more while playing.
Conclusion - Remake this for 0.9.9.7!
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Nightmare! / [N!|94%|YAVP] Janitor Mode, huh?
« on: March 21, 2014, 13:43 »
So, having delayed tackling the Nightmare! for quite some time due to it ruffling my perfectionist feathers (What do you mean I can't safely kill everyone?), I finally did it right off the second try. I decided to play it safe and pick a build I'm comfortable with, Shottyhead, to the point of playing it so pussylike safe as to pick INT 2 immediately to not get unexpected respawns in my back and so on. Gotta learn to play less with Intuition, it spoils your tactical thinking a lot. Anyway, the run was unexpectedly easy - even before the RNG started favoring me with stuff.
Well, the early regular levels were not much different from UV expect from a quite fun sense of urgency and that lovely "I'm knee-deep in respawning undead" feeling, which I kind of started to like. Learning to use water and barrels and doorways to minimize later respawns was interesting, but I honestly don't think I could be patient enough to employ those to get 100% kill ratio. Leading cacodemons or hell knights to water and making them dri..., I mean, die, is very useful, but I can't be bothered to do it with every single former human. My first try at N! killed me on Hell's Arena, so I decided to skip it this time - I know it's doable by stacking corpses and utilizing cacodemon blasts, but I thought, screw it. Hence, the Chained Court was easy, and so was the Phobos Lab - the nightmare demons were still easily lurable into acid and knockbackable with shotguns. In fact, I'm glad the lab generated instead of the Military Base, because the base, I think, could have killed me easily with a super-shotgun packing former sergeant or a napalm-launcher former commando respawning at the inappropriate moment, even with Intuition. In fact, I really hate the Military Base even on UV.
Now the Anomaly was a fun twist. I was so accustomed to it being easy on UV that I honestly didn't expect the ambush to be that tough. Could have easily died in the leftmost room, but phased out right to the Bruisers, killed them, and decided to chicken out on clearing out the ambush.
Hell's Armory granted me the Holy Grail of Corpse Busting, and an all-around kickass weapon for Shottyhead - The Plasma Shotgun, which was the precise reason for my getting the Elite Diamond and clearing out Limbo. I could probably still beat N! with but the good ol' P-modded tac shotgun, but with less kill ratio and I'd probably stay the hell away from Mortuary/Limbo. Shortly after obtaining the Plasma Shotgun and reaching the Containment Area stairs, I was getting tired a bit and getting reckless and had to go anyway, so decided to (s)ave the game... and, yeah, NO ESCAPE FROM NIGHTMARE! GO AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN! Damn. Fine, DoomRL, if you wanna be like that, I'll just leave you alone for a while, and when I return, you're going down xD. Hence, the 15 hours of game time, that's just taking a break.
Abyssal Plains are not even worth mentioning, 'cause, come on, shotgun build and all, Cybie - Dodgemaster, and I could probably do the Unholy Cathedral if I didn't get a bit reckless and didn't forget to lead all the demons into lava. I think there's a diamond badge for doing it on N! without Bru, but, meh. Diamond badges, who needs 'em? xD
I entered the Vaults having picked up a Hell Staff earlier, so decided to break in on luck, and succeeded to get into the middle after burning one medkit. For some odd reason, I didn't get the Scavenger Diamond (is it UV only, or did some random revenant respawning prevent me from "clearing" it?), but I had achieved it before. The best thing was that I got the Malek's Armor right after getting Nyarlo-blahblah boots on the previous level, giving me 100% fire res. Too much favor from RNG, please! Once again, I don't think those were necessary for beating the game, but it sure made the Limbo an absolute walk in the park. It's fun to just stand there and let the Mancubi and Viles fire at you and burn away corpses xD
The rest was pretty obvious, I even got an invul sphere before Dis, so if I had two nukes I could even nuke JC (I had one thermie on the Phobos Anomaly, but I blasted it right before shipping off to Deimos. I always blast away nukes I don't need when leaving a level in hopes of getting Fallout Platinum xD)
So, that's it. Although I was heavily favored by RNG drops, I can safely say that the Nightmare! is not as terrifying as I thought it to be. I even get delusions of grandeur enough to one day hope for that 100% Angelic clean sweep, but I don't have that kind of angelic patience xD
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Wyvern, level 18 Arch-Vile Br. General Scout,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 122526 turns and scored 1081501 points.
He played for 15 hours, 51 minutes and 44 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1594 out of 1679 hellspawn. (94%)
He held his right to remain violent.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 10
Levels completed : 4
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Armorer Badge
UAC Platinum Badge
Veteran Diamond Badge
Elite Diamond Badge
Reaper Platinum Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 129/70 Experience 174396/18
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Ironman (Level 2)
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Shottyhead (Level 1)
Int->Int->HR->Fin->Jug->HR->DM->Rel->Rel->SM->MSh->Fin->WK->WK->HR->Iro->Iro->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] plasma shotgun (10d3) [9/30] (P3T2)
[c] [ Boots ] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] power battery (x37)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] focused double shotgun (8d4)x2 [2/2]
[b] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
[c] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [4/5] (T1)
[d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [130/130] (B1F1)
[e] Lava Armor [4/4] (100%)
[f] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
[g] shotgun shell (x70)
[h] shotgun shell (x51)
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] lava element
[o] Hell Staff
[p] shell box (x100)
[q] shell box (x100)
[r] rocket box (x20)
[s] rocket box (x20)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 30% feet 30%
Fire - internal 0% torso 100% feet 100%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
109 former humans
127 former sergeants
49 former captains
269 imps
93 demons
424 lost souls
50 cacodemons
59 hell knights
75 barons of hell
46 arachnotrons
26 former commandos
43 pain elementals
40 revenants
54 mancubi
49 arch-viles
22 nightmare imps
8 nightmare cacodemons
36 nightmare demons
6 nightmare arachnotrons
3 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
He broke through the lab.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
He nuked level 8!
On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 9 he assembled a fireproof armor!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
He broke into the Containment Area, but gave up against the overwhelming forces.
On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He slaughtered the beasts living there.
On level 13 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 14 he assembled a focused double shotgun!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 15 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
On level 18 he stumbled into a complex full of mancubi!
On level 18 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
On level 19 he found the Subtle Knife!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
On level 19 he found the Malek's Armor!
He managed to scavenge a part of the Vaults treasures.
On level 20 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
On level 22 he found the Lava Armor!
He managed to raise Mt. Erebus 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) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | floor | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | floor | [ m ]ore
John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press
<Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
294 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
261 of those were killed.
2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
25 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
10 killed the bitch and survived.
13 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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Well, the early regular levels were not much different from UV expect from a quite fun sense of urgency and that lovely "I'm knee-deep in respawning undead" feeling, which I kind of started to like. Learning to use water and barrels and doorways to minimize later respawns was interesting, but I honestly don't think I could be patient enough to employ those to get 100% kill ratio. Leading cacodemons or hell knights to water and making them dri..., I mean, die, is very useful, but I can't be bothered to do it with every single former human. My first try at N! killed me on Hell's Arena, so I decided to skip it this time - I know it's doable by stacking corpses and utilizing cacodemon blasts, but I thought, screw it. Hence, the Chained Court was easy, and so was the Phobos Lab - the nightmare demons were still easily lurable into acid and knockbackable with shotguns. In fact, I'm glad the lab generated instead of the Military Base, because the base, I think, could have killed me easily with a super-shotgun packing former sergeant or a napalm-launcher former commando respawning at the inappropriate moment, even with Intuition. In fact, I really hate the Military Base even on UV.
Now the Anomaly was a fun twist. I was so accustomed to it being easy on UV that I honestly didn't expect the ambush to be that tough. Could have easily died in the leftmost room, but phased out right to the Bruisers, killed them, and decided to chicken out on clearing out the ambush.
Hell's Armory granted me the Holy Grail of Corpse Busting, and an all-around kickass weapon for Shottyhead - The Plasma Shotgun, which was the precise reason for my getting the Elite Diamond and clearing out Limbo. I could probably still beat N! with but the good ol' P-modded tac shotgun, but with less kill ratio and I'd probably stay the hell away from Mortuary/Limbo. Shortly after obtaining the Plasma Shotgun and reaching the Containment Area stairs, I was getting tired a bit and getting reckless and had to go anyway, so decided to (s)ave the game... and, yeah, NO ESCAPE FROM NIGHTMARE! GO AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN! Damn. Fine, DoomRL, if you wanna be like that, I'll just leave you alone for a while, and when I return, you're going down xD. Hence, the 15 hours of game time, that's just taking a break.
Abyssal Plains are not even worth mentioning, 'cause, come on, shotgun build and all, Cybie - Dodgemaster, and I could probably do the Unholy Cathedral if I didn't get a bit reckless and didn't forget to lead all the demons into lava. I think there's a diamond badge for doing it on N! without Bru, but, meh. Diamond badges, who needs 'em? xD
I entered the Vaults having picked up a Hell Staff earlier, so decided to break in on luck, and succeeded to get into the middle after burning one medkit. For some odd reason, I didn't get the Scavenger Diamond (is it UV only, or did some random revenant respawning prevent me from "clearing" it?), but I had achieved it before. The best thing was that I got the Malek's Armor right after getting Nyarlo-blahblah boots on the previous level, giving me 100% fire res. Too much favor from RNG, please! Once again, I don't think those were necessary for beating the game, but it sure made the Limbo an absolute walk in the park. It's fun to just stand there and let the Mancubi and Viles fire at you and burn away corpses xD
The rest was pretty obvious, I even got an invul sphere before Dis, so if I had two nukes I could even nuke JC (I had one thermie on the Phobos Anomaly, but I blasted it right before shipping off to Deimos. I always blast away nukes I don't need when leaving a level in hopes of getting Fallout Platinum xD)
So, that's it. Although I was heavily favored by RNG drops, I can safely say that the Nightmare! is not as terrifying as I thought it to be. I even get delusions of grandeur enough to one day hope for that 100% Angelic clean sweep, but I don't have that kind of angelic patience xD
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Post Mortem / Re: [U|100%|YAAM] MSc run, almost Quit when trapped
« on: March 21, 2014, 12:57 »Egad, you sure know your game. Impressive stuff there, especially since you make it sound so easy.Thanks. DoomRL is *kind of* easy once you get the hang of things, although I still don't know or utilize many basic tactics, like, for example, gift-dropping, I never use it.
Nice victory! Well played, and I love your modpack drops! Actually, I play almost exclusively Nightmare, and usually go for 100% clearance. I very rarely actually get it - I end up with some disaster forcing me to homing phase for my life! But for at least the first half of the game I always have 100%. It just requires a lot of new tactics before you master the corpse disposal, which, as a 100% UV player, you'd probably really enjoy!Speaking of which, had my first N! full win just a couple of days after, and 94% kills, no less. I honestly can't think of the patience it'd require to clear it 100%, because early game corpse disposal is way too tedious, for me at least. Will post the mortem in a jiffy.
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Post Mortem / [U|100%|YAAM] MSc run, almost Quit when trapped
« on: March 19, 2014, 14:49 »
First of all, hi everyone! I've been playing DoomRL for quite some time now, back from when it was only ASCII, had no classes and Cybie was the main boss. Oh, the times when getting to The Wall was an achievement and entering the Unholy Cathedral or, god forbid, The Mortuary was completely out of the question! I started playing from HMP immediately, because, meh, playing Doom (or this interesting variation of it) on anything less is a sacrilege, and I thought, hey, it can't be harder than ADOM, can it? xD Now, getting 100% UV Conquerors on a regular basis, I still find this game lots and lots of fun, not to mention that there are still many Angel challenges I should try. Also, there's the Nightmare! difficulty, which I kind of hate, because it does not allow me to clear out everything and everyone xD
Usually, these days I like to run a Shottyhead/Gunrunner build, or a Sharpshooter, if I'm not playing an AOB. So, I decided, for a change, to try something that I thought must be kind of a lousy generalist build, and, voila - Scavenger. Turned out that with 2 INT, 3 Fin, Juggler, and later, HR/DM (not that I really needed those, just picked them out of habit) it is very much playable. Luck, though, is also a huge factor for Scavengers, but, hey, RNG favors or murders many a doomguy. So, here's the mortem, and after it, the good stuff.
The early game was, well, kind of generic early game. The Hell Arena is a breeze on UV, especially as I decided to go for Juggler first, allowing me to swap shotguns and chainguns if the knockback wasn't enough to keep monsters away. I kind of got reckless in the Chained Court and fought the Arena Master with the rocket launcher in the open, burning away my medkits and rockets, but everything was fine in the end xD The thing I learned from this run was that the chainsaw (and later, the scythe) is actually a pretty reliable backup weapon with EE and Juggler. The Phobos lab was also easy with juggling around a shotgun and a double shotgun in the nightmare demons' faces, usually knocking them back into acid. Phobos Anomaly, Deimos Lab - everything nice and smooth, especially with Deimos Lab giving me TWO nano packs, one of which I put into making powered red armor, the other - into the rocket launcher, planning to turn it into nanomanufacture later. Assembling a T-modded hyperblaster was a good idea, as it turned out to be unexpectedly good even without rapid fire traits, in fact, good enough to bring down Cybie - also, HR2 was enough to sidestep all of his rockets but one.
I entered The Unholy Cathedral packing a P-modded ballistic vest, a gothic armor, a piercing chainsaw (thought to make a double chainsaw, but had tons of spare A-Mods and remembred that AoD was armored as hell), and a hatred skull, so didn't even have to use the aforementioned armors, just stood there in my powered red, having zapped the hate skull, and AoD went down very fast. Moreso, I had enough speed to circle him if I wanted to, but, thankfully, I didn't have to do this (the most tedious thing in non-melee Conqueror runs, really). Got to the vaults, disassembled the Trigun to get a THIRD nano pack, which later went into agrav boots. By the time I reached Mortuary, I lacked one B-mod to assemble the nanomachic RL, so when I entered, I zapped anothed hatred skull and ran all the way to the rightmost corner, slicing viles with the scythe to get the B-mod, assembled the Infinite Rocket Tube, and proceeded to clear out the Mortuary with ease. The T-modded nanomachic RL is sick, sick, sick, makes you feel like a one-man artillery unit.
And then I got to Mt. Erebus without the cerberus boots due to poor mod management xD (what a fine Technician huh), neither did I have an enviro, but I grabbed two phase devices from the previous level, so I thought, what the hell. It turned out to be the worst mistake in the run. The first phase put me INSIDE the island with the revs with no means of escape; killed the revs and used the second one in hopes of getting out... and appeared deeper in the island with the mancubi. Goddammit. The rockets, the BFG, - nothing brought down the walls. For a while, I thought that I messed up and will have to [q]uit, but then, I realized - hey, the Scythe's alt fire. I never used it ever, because losing stats is lame, but if I kill every single creature on the map, the Lava Elemental will teleport inside, I'll kill him, grab the lava element, and nuke the walls with the Nuclear BFG. I'll lose a nuke, and have to settle for a standard win, but what the hell. It took me three Whispers of Death, and it turned out that once you kill all the critters, the walls come down themselves, so I wasted the elemental and left Erebus both with a lava element AND my nuclear BFG intact. The fight with JC was, well, an uneven exchange of rockets, I didn't even bother to take advantage of Dodgemaster with that powered red armor, and, voila, another win.
So, all in all, it was a solid UV conqueror run, I wouldn't have bothered to post it like all my previous runs if it wasn't for that situation on Mt. Erebus which took me several minutes of firing rockets into the wall in frustration to come up with means of escape. Also, I always wanted to say thanks to Kornel and the team for this masterpiece of roguelike gaming, and it'd be impolite to come without an offering of a UV mortem and 1500 dead hellspawn xD
See you around, doomguys and doomgals.
Usually, these days I like to run a Shottyhead/Gunrunner build, or a Sharpshooter, if I'm not playing an AOB. So, I decided, for a change, to try something that I thought must be kind of a lousy generalist build, and, voila - Scavenger. Turned out that with 2 INT, 3 Fin, Juggler, and later, HR/DM (not that I really needed those, just picked them out of habit) it is very much playable. Luck, though, is also a huge factor for Scavengers, but, hey, RNG favors or murders many a doomguy. So, here's the mortem, and after it, the good stuff.
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Wyvern, level 16 Arch-Vile Br. General Technician,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 171538 turns and scored 420023 points.
He played for 4 hours, 15 minutes and 44 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1500 out of 1500 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 11
Levels completed : 11
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Conqueror Badge
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 50/40 Experience 127335/16
ToHit Ranged +4 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Ironman (Level 1)
Finesse (Level 3)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Eagle Eye (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Scavenger (Level 1)
EE->Fin->Jug->EE->Int->Int->WK->WK->MSc->Fin->HR->HR->DM->Fin->HR->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] powered red armor [5/5] (100%) (A)
[b] [ Weapon ] nanomachic rocket launcher (6d6) (T1)
[c] [ Boots ] antigrav protective boots [2/2] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5] (T1)
[b] hyperblaster (2d4)x3 [40/40] (T1)
[c] BFG 9000 (10d6) [130/130] (B1F2)
[d] gothic armor [6/6] (200%) (A)
[e] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
[f] shotgun shell (x69)
[g] power cell (x70)
[h] power cell (x70)
[i] power cell (x18)
[j] large med-pack
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] sniper weapon pack
[p] plasteel boots [4/4] (100%) (APT)
[q] shell box (x100)
[r] power battery (x120)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Melee - internal 0% torso 25% feet 0%
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 25%
Fire - internal 0% torso 50% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
85 former humans
72 former sergeants
69 former captains
163 imps
92 demons
564 lost souls
62 cacodemons
25 hell knights
75 barons of hell
61 arachnotrons
20 former commandos
50 pain elementals
43 revenants
57 mancubi
39 arch-viles
12 nightmare demons
2 bruiser brothers
2 shamblers
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
He broke through the lab.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 10 he assembled a power armor!
On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he assembled a plasmatic shrapnel!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
On level 14 he assembled a hyperblaster!
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 15 he assembled a piercing blade!
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!
He nuked level 19!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
On level 19 he found the Trigun!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
On level 20 he assembled a focused double shotgun!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 20 he assembled a nanomanufacture ammo!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
On level 22 he assembled a antigrav boots!
On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
He managed to raise Mt. Erebus completely!
On level 23 he found the Acid Spitter!
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 --------------------------------------------------
The missile hits John Carmack.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack.
You dodge!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You
defeated John Carmack! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
292 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
260 of those were killed.
2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
24 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
10 killed the bitch and survived.
12 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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The early game was, well, kind of generic early game. The Hell Arena is a breeze on UV, especially as I decided to go for Juggler first, allowing me to swap shotguns and chainguns if the knockback wasn't enough to keep monsters away. I kind of got reckless in the Chained Court and fought the Arena Master with the rocket launcher in the open, burning away my medkits and rockets, but everything was fine in the end xD The thing I learned from this run was that the chainsaw (and later, the scythe) is actually a pretty reliable backup weapon with EE and Juggler. The Phobos lab was also easy with juggling around a shotgun and a double shotgun in the nightmare demons' faces, usually knocking them back into acid. Phobos Anomaly, Deimos Lab - everything nice and smooth, especially with Deimos Lab giving me TWO nano packs, one of which I put into making powered red armor, the other - into the rocket launcher, planning to turn it into nanomanufacture later. Assembling a T-modded hyperblaster was a good idea, as it turned out to be unexpectedly good even without rapid fire traits, in fact, good enough to bring down Cybie - also, HR2 was enough to sidestep all of his rockets but one.
I entered The Unholy Cathedral packing a P-modded ballistic vest, a gothic armor, a piercing chainsaw (thought to make a double chainsaw, but had tons of spare A-Mods and remembred that AoD was armored as hell), and a hatred skull, so didn't even have to use the aforementioned armors, just stood there in my powered red, having zapped the hate skull, and AoD went down very fast. Moreso, I had enough speed to circle him if I wanted to, but, thankfully, I didn't have to do this (the most tedious thing in non-melee Conqueror runs, really). Got to the vaults, disassembled the Trigun to get a THIRD nano pack, which later went into agrav boots. By the time I reached Mortuary, I lacked one B-mod to assemble the nanomachic RL, so when I entered, I zapped anothed hatred skull and ran all the way to the rightmost corner, slicing viles with the scythe to get the B-mod, assembled the Infinite Rocket Tube, and proceeded to clear out the Mortuary with ease. The T-modded nanomachic RL is sick, sick, sick, makes you feel like a one-man artillery unit.
And then I got to Mt. Erebus without the cerberus boots due to poor mod management xD (what a fine Technician huh), neither did I have an enviro, but I grabbed two phase devices from the previous level, so I thought, what the hell. It turned out to be the worst mistake in the run. The first phase put me INSIDE the island with the revs with no means of escape; killed the revs and used the second one in hopes of getting out... and appeared deeper in the island with the mancubi. Goddammit. The rockets, the BFG, - nothing brought down the walls. For a while, I thought that I messed up and will have to [q]uit, but then, I realized - hey, the Scythe's alt fire. I never used it ever, because losing stats is lame, but if I kill every single creature on the map, the Lava Elemental will teleport inside, I'll kill him, grab the lava element, and nuke the walls with the Nuclear BFG. I'll lose a nuke, and have to settle for a standard win, but what the hell. It took me three Whispers of Death, and it turned out that once you kill all the critters, the walls come down themselves, so I wasted the elemental and left Erebus both with a lava element AND my nuclear BFG intact. The fight with JC was, well, an uneven exchange of rockets, I didn't even bother to take advantage of Dodgemaster with that powered red armor, and, voila, another win.
So, all in all, it was a solid UV conqueror run, I wouldn't have bothered to post it like all my previous runs if it wasn't for that situation on Mt. Erebus which took me several minutes of firing rockets into the wall in frustration to come up with means of escape. Also, I always wanted to say thanks to Kornel and the team for this masterpiece of roguelike gaming, and it'd be impolite to come without an offering of a UV mortem and 1500 dead hellspawn xD
See you around, doomguys and doomgals.
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