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Yikes! Has anyone else encountered him yet in the chained court???????????????

I have NO idea what triggered this special version of the chained court, but its pretty nasty.

Here's a taste.

You see : a Arena Master (scratched) [m]ore | pool of blood The missile hits the Arena Master. The cacodemon fires! Boom! ... ........ ..... .......... ....... ............. ........ ............. .....===# #===.......... .....===##########===........... .........+......../.............. ....}.===#........#===............ .....%|===#........#===............ ........../......../%............... .......===##########===............. ..V...===|.||||||.#===............. ..}....|.O.........%................ .................................... .........@.........................# ..............................##### .....................######### ###################### Bobby Prince Armor : blue armor [2/2] (59%) Health: 100% Exp: 3/85% Weapon: chaingun (1d6)x4 [36/40] running The Chained Court

well. I took him out. Then the next round I was taken out by everything else he kept reviving.
And he left behind something really cool I wanted to pickup, a yellow question mark! :(

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.2) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Bobby Prince, level 4 Demon Corporal, killed by a former human
 on level 5 of the Phobos base. 
 He survived 25678 turns and scored 5272 points. 
 He played for 21 minutes and 30 seconds. 
 He was too young to die!

 He killed 93 out of 95 hellspawn. (97%)
 He held his right to remain violent.


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

  Levels generated : 6
  Levels visited   : 2
  Levels completed : 1

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

  Hell Champion Medal

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

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  ........................................................"..
  .............................}.............................
  .............................|...===#.||||||.#===..........
  ..........................}..}}..===##########===..........
  ........................|.|}|.......+......^.|.............
  ........................}|.|h....===#........#===..........
  ..........................|}.....===#....\...#===..........
  .........................}|........./......^./|............
  ...........................?.....===##########===..........
  .................................===|.||||||.#===..........
  .............................|...|...........%.............
  ."..........................}..O.............}.............
  ..............................X............................
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  ##########......................................###########
  ###########################################################

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

  Health 0/50   Experience 4899/4
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

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

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 1)

  Fin->Jug->Fin->WK->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   combat shotgun (7d3) [1/5]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   steel boots [1/1] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]

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

    [a] shotgun (8d3) [0/1]
    [b] chaingun (1d6)x4 [0/40]
    [c] 10mm ammo (x67)
    [d] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [e] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [f] shotgun shell (x44)
    [g] shotgun shell (x50)
    [h] shotgun shell (x50)
    [i] rocket (x4)
    [j] rocket (x10)
    [k] power cell (x20)

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

    55 former humans
    10 former sergeants
    2 former captains
    8 imps
    7 demons
    2 lost souls
    8 cacodemons
    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 finally was killed by a former human.

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

 Master raises his arms! You are engulfed in flames! The former human
 fires! Boom!
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Arena Master (almost dead) [m]ore | pool of blood
 The former human dies. The Arena Master dies. The former human fires! Boom!
 The cacodemon hits you.
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a cacodemon (wounded) [m]ore | blood
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun. The former human fires! Boom! The
 cacodemon hits you.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a cacodemon (severely wounded) [m]ore | blood
 You load a shell into the combat shotgun. The former human fires! You are
 hit! You die!... Press <Enter>...

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

 Before him 9 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 9 of those were killed.

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It's pretty simple, really.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

His staff (aforementioned yellow question mark) is extremely useful, and if you're spoiler-inclined, that information's on the wiki.

Yep, it might not look like a good thing (fighting an arch-vile type thing with heaps of support on level 3-5) but it is. Not only do you have all the cool weaponry from the arena to do it with, you also get some new toys. Oh, and a damn near guaranteed assembly, which I currently rate as the most powerful of the new batch. Just because you get it here, nice and early, and it's so good for so many characters.

You'd be surprised how easy it can be if you just chuck on some fresh armour, grab the chainsaw and the berserk packs and just run at him swinging. Or just combat shotty walk at him to make sure your damage remains high while your berserk armour lets bullets ping off you. Chaingun sniping doesn't seem to work too well for me, but rockets don't go to badly. I guess it depends on your build and difficulty level/challenge mode.

The amount of room that question mark saves in your backpack for a later level is amazing as well. Keep it if you can.

Anyone ever noticed that the fewer the version number increases, the more changes? :P

Quote from: Sambojin on February 27, 2011, 09:13

Oh, and a damn near guaranteed assembly, which I currently rate as the most powerful of the new batch. Just because you get it here, nice and early, and it's so good for so many characters.

Unless you're in a Chaingun build, in which case it's two-thirds of an Assault Rifle.

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Unless you're in a Chaingun build, in which case it's two-thirds of an Assault Rifle.

Which unfortunately is only about 3/4 of a plasma rifle. I'd rather a set of tactical boots and an agility modded plasma rifle than an Assault Rifle. Plus I don't need WK levels to do it :)

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