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0.9.9.6 / Re: [U|AoMC|YAAM] I bought earphones.
« on: June 14, 2012, 16:54 »
Wow. I've never heard anyone talk maxing out their system specs for a roguelike before. That's awesome.
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0.9.9.6 / Re: [M|AoSh|YAAM] Finally I can move on!
« on: June 12, 2012, 08:56 »
In some ways, the hell knights in CC+ are easier to deal with than cacos. If you cornershoot from inside the first room, hell knights will only be able to approach you along the safe paths between the lava, so you have more control over where they move. If they manage to get all the way to one of the door tiles, next to your cornershooting position, hopefully they'll already be injured enough that one last push into the lava will finish them off.
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0.9.9.6 / Re: [U|AoMC|99%|17|YASD] Didn't think Conqueror through...
« on: June 06, 2012, 08:54 »
As long as you don't over-specialize, melee characters should do fine in AoMC. By that I mean: don't drop every weapon besides the chainsaw. Keep getting most of your kills with ranged weapons and only use melee when it's absolutely appropriate.
The Angel of Death is tough, but actually not any tougher in AoMC than in regular games. He does 1d3+15 damage, meaning that in regular games he does 17 damage per attack on average, and in AoMC he does... 18. Non-melee characters should actually have an easier time fighting him in AoMC than in regular games because your attacks are guaranteed to hit, and for max damage, even without any points in brute.
Red armor definitely isn't enough, since 18-4 is still 14 damage per attack. Wearing ballistic red armor, you'll still take (18 x 0.7) - 4 = 8 or 9 damage, depending on how the engine rounds off numbers. What you want is a lot of melee resistance, which you can get from berserker, malicious blades or just some really good armour. If you're lucky enough you'll find a ballistic vest, which you can mod into a ballistic ballistic vest. Using a hatred skull in UC is a good idea if you have none of the above advantages.
The Angel of Death is tough, but actually not any tougher in AoMC than in regular games. He does 1d3+15 damage, meaning that in regular games he does 17 damage per attack on average, and in AoMC he does... 18. Non-melee characters should actually have an easier time fighting him in AoMC than in regular games because your attacks are guaranteed to hit, and for max damage, even without any points in brute.
Red armor definitely isn't enough, since 18-4 is still 14 damage per attack. Wearing ballistic red armor, you'll still take (18 x 0.7) - 4 = 8 or 9 damage, depending on how the engine rounds off numbers. What you want is a lot of melee resistance, which you can get from berserker, malicious blades or just some really good armour. If you're lucky enough you'll find a ballistic vest, which you can mod into a ballistic ballistic vest. Using a hatred skull in UC is a good idea if you have none of the above advantages.
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Discussion / Re: Let's go shoe shopping!
« on: June 05, 2012, 18:28 »
Do phaseshifts make better antigrav boots than other boots without a movespeed cost? According to the wiki you should end up with +50% move speed either way.
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Discussion / Re: Let's go shoe shopping!
« on: June 03, 2012, 09:35 »
According to my player.wad, I've assembled tactical boots... 33 times. That's actually lower than I expected.
I usually have my eyes on the endgame, so if WK2 is part of my build I always wait until I have it before I assemble the tac boots so I can add the extra A mod. Fun fact: You can also A-mod antigrav boots, despite the +50% movespeed cap when assembling them. They become +60% after, which is fairly insane.
I've never made cerberus boots - I rarely have so many power mods lying around that I can stick two on my footwear. I made environmental acid-proof boots once. It actually lowers their acid resistance. I've made lava boots often, though; I don't see them as a waste of an onyx mod. My feeling is that if my armour is getting destroyed that's my own fault, but if I can walk in lava with impunity that's a potentially huge tactical advantage.
I usually have my eyes on the endgame, so if WK2 is part of my build I always wait until I have it before I assemble the tac boots so I can add the extra A mod. Fun fact: You can also A-mod antigrav boots, despite the +50% movespeed cap when assembling them. They become +60% after, which is fairly insane.
I've never made cerberus boots - I rarely have so many power mods lying around that I can stick two on my footwear. I made environmental acid-proof boots once. It actually lowers their acid resistance. I've made lava boots often, though; I don't see them as a waste of an onyx mod. My feeling is that if my armour is getting destroyed that's my own fault, but if I can walk in lava with impunity that's a potentially huge tactical advantage.
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0.9.9.6 / Re: [U|AoI|100%|14|YASD] Killed by a soldier.
« on: June 01, 2012, 07:46 »Dying with a 100% kill rate should be worth a medal.
Haha, good point. I guess it doesn't happen very often.
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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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Discussion / Re: Arachnophobia: Spider's Lair discussion
« on: May 31, 2012, 07:56 »
I think that the last time I entered Spider's Lair I was playing AoMC, and I started it off with some BFG shots. If that doesn't destroy a teleport tile (and it didn't), nothing will.
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Discussion / Re: Corner Gibbing
« on: May 27, 2012, 20:18 »
Corpses disappear if killed on open door tiles. I think that's because there's no good ASCII character for "corpse in open door" so the developers decided to simply erase the corpse from existence instead.
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Discussion / Re: Phobos Base Entry
« on: May 23, 2012, 20:09 »
What I like about the base entry levels is that they're the one place in the entire game where you can use cover that the enemy's don't treat as cover. A former human will shoot an entire clip into a tree, giving you a free turn while he reloads.
But yeah, I'm not a big fan of all those things you mentioned.
But yeah, I'm not a big fan of all those things you mentioned.
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Requests For Features / Re: The Horrible Ideas Thread
« on: May 22, 2012, 08:34 »
Except the levels are made of nitroglycerin, not ice.
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Discussion / Re: City of Skulls: All the Nails my Coffin Will Ever Need
« on: May 21, 2012, 17:44 »
Not to diminish your struggles or anything, but I'm honestly at a loss how City of Skulls can be causing anybody trouble outside of AoMr or non-blademaster AoB runs. A major part of the problem is that you're actually over-preparing. Blasting the agony elemental with rockets will just scatter the pain elementals and lost souls that it spawns and leave you surrounded. Just keep bathing the agony elemental and its spawn in shrapnel damage and they'll die before they leave their starting tiles. Also, lost souls do 3 damage on average, so unless you're planning on meleeing the agony elemental, wearing any armor with more than 2 protection is fairly pointless and will just drag your move speed down. Wear light armor or go naked so that you can actually run when you need to.
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Requests For Features / Re: The Horrible Ideas Thread
« on: May 20, 2012, 14:41 »
That leads seamlessly into my challenge idea:
Angel of Onyx. The player is indestructible and cannot move. You can only complete levels by getting blasted in the direction of the stairs.
Angel of Onyx. The player is indestructible and cannot move. You can only complete levels by getting blasted in the direction of the stairs.
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Century Lounge / Re: [M|Ao100|YAAM] Pistol Prodigy
« on: May 19, 2012, 13:06 »
I beat AoLT on UV with a MBM scout and it wasn't at all strenuous. The combined scout and Light Travel speed boosts give you a ridiculous advantage right from the start, which only gets more extreme if you focus on speed traits and gear. Light travel is also much easier than AoB in that you get to keep a secondary ranged weapon or two.
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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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