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DoomRL => Post Mortem => Nightmare! => Topic started by: Tormuse on May 01, 2013, 19:32

Title: [N!|95%|16|YASD] Failed Strongman Angelic Attempt :(
Post by: Tormuse on May 01, 2013, 19:32

So, technically, I sort of got this badge a while back. (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,4767.0.html) (though it wasn't a badge back then)  ;)  So, I figured, "how hard could it be to do it again?"  Well...  pretty hard...  :P  This is my best attempt so far, and I'm sure I can do it, but it'll have to wait 'til another day.

I said before in another thread (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,6313.0.html) that I'm having trouble using Vampyre to farm Pain Elementals for health in this version, but I guess I'm getting better at it.  :)  It helped that on Deimos level 4, there were four Pain Elementals fairly close together and I think that having several of them together helped.  During the game in the thread I just mentioned, part of the reason I had trouble was the one Pain Elemental wasn't spawning Lost Souls fast enough to sustain my berserk and so the Lost Soul hits were occasionally doing extra damage.  This time around, I was able to keep up the berserk constantly and I was able to successfully gain more health than I lost.  Having cover and tight corners and places to run helped too for any time the Lost Soul numbers became overwhelming.

Spoiler: Here's a screenshot: (click to show/hide)

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You hit the lost soul. The lost soul dies. You're going berserk! The lost     
 soul hits you. The pain elemental spawns lost souls! You need to taste blood! 
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  Tormuse                    Armor : none                                       
  Health: 128% Exp:  7/38%   Weapon: none                                       
  cautious     brk                                            Deimos       Lev4

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(EDIT:  Why does the screenshot look so weird?  :S  Is it just my browser?  There are a whole lot of unknown characters on the screen where there are supposed to be blood pools)

So, being in this situation, I decided that it was an excellent opportunity to pad my kills, so I decided that I would hang out there until I got my ratio up to around 95% before continuing on, so that if I needed to do some stair-diving, I would still be above 90% and get the badge.  Once I reached my goal of 95% kills, I noticed from the character screen that I had taken around 6000 damage, so I thought, "hey, this is an excellent opportunity to get Iron Skull too, and I'm probably never going to do this again!"  :P  So I continued to hang out, killing Lost Souls, intending to leave when I had taken over 9000 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI) damage.  I didn't do it all in one go; I didn't want to get tired or bored and mess up, so I took frequent breaks to eat, watch a movie, sleep, work, shop, etc. and came back periodically to kill a bunch more Lost Souls at a time.

Spoiler: Screenshot from when I finally decided to move on: (click to show/hide)

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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ DoomRL Character Info ( N ) ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
                                                                               
                                                                               
   Tormuse, level 7 Marine,                               =IVtt;,               
   currently on level 12 of the Phobos base.            +RY;=+=;VR             
   He survived 163056 turns, which took him 145124 seconds. YMW:+#             
   He took 9423 damage, 8358 on this floor alone.  .=###RYI;ItI;iiVVB:.   . ,tYt
   He killed 9563 out of 9913 enemies total.       #WWtXtXX: ;IXRIi  .=,tVMB,, 
   His current killing spree is 1, with a record of 34.  :+==;;    ,:;tB=  =   
                                                  ;R#:,       +VYt+: :.,R##     
   Current movement speed is 0.60 second/move.    ;iRX; :t ;VIt;, ,: VItIi:     
   Current fire speed is 0.67 second/shot.        ,Y###Ytt:;,. ,,:,+           
   Current reload speed is 0.67 second/reload.     ,  ,,.. .,,.=  ,=           
   Current to hit chance (point blank) is 50%         tI ;IYI+.+;:=+:           
   Current melee hit chance is 98%                     :;=:...:=;:,:i           
                                                      :+:;i. ,,:+=,;i           
                                                       .=;:,.;=:.=;             
                                                        ;,,. =+RXI+:           
                                                        .+;;,=;=;=;             
                                                           : i==+=I,           
                                                             =t:;+Y:           
                                                           ,, =tiii             
                                                           t, .ii+:             
                                                              tB#WWt           
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ[ <Enter>,<Escape>,<Space> ]ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

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In the end, I died due to my stupidity, forgetting what I had planned to do and forgetting what resources I had.  I faced the Cyberdemon berserk, and my original plan was to Chainsaw him nearly to death and finish him off with my fists, but I completely forgot about my Chainsaw and just went in with fists flying.  At the end, he was wounded and I had 10% health and I was concerned that my last med pack wouldn't be enough to finish him, so, figuring that every second counts, I took a step back, going around a corner, thinking that he would take a step toward me and during that second, I could heal myself and resume fighting.  Instead, he shot a rocket at me and killed me.  :(

A disappointing end to what was a very promising game.

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Tormuse, level 8 Cyberdemon Lt. Colonel Marine,
 was splattered by a Cyberdemon at the Tower of Babel.
 He survived 169088 turns and scored 170965 points.
 He played for 1 day, 16 hours, 33 minutes and 10 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 9897 out of 10346 hellspawn. (95%)
 He held his right to remain violent.

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 3
  Levels completed : 0

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

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)

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

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

  Health 0/60   Experience 25260/8
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Marine

    Tough as nails   (Level 1)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 2)
    Vampyre          (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->Bad->MVm->TaN->Bad->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   green armor [1/1] (27%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   nothing
    [c] [ Boots      ]   steel boots [1/1] (76%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shotgun (8d3) [1/1]

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

    [a] pistol (2d4) [6/6]
    [b] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
    [c] chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40]
    [d] combat knife (2d5)
    [e] chainsaw (4d6)
    [f] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [h] shotgun shell (x50)
    [i] shotgun shell (x32)
    [j] rocket (x6)
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] phase device
    [m] phase device
    [n] technical mod pack
    [o] bulk mod pack
    [p] plasteel boots [2/2] (100%)
    [q] plasteel boots [2/2] (70%)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 67%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 67%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    62 former humans
    55 former sergeants
    18 former captains
    59 imps
    21 demons
    9624 lost souls
    4 cacodemons
    8 hell knights
    5 barons of hell
    3 arachnotrons
    7 former commandos
    7 pain elementals
    3 mancubi
    3 arch-viles
    4 nightmare imps
    4 nightmare cacodemons
    8 nightmare demons
    2 bruiser brothers

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  He left level 2 as soon as possible.
  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.
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  He left the Armory without drawing too much attention.
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 16 he finally was splattered by a Cyberdemon.

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

 You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! The Cyberdemon hits you. You
 need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! The Cyberdemon hits you. You
 need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
 You see : a Cyberdemon (wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You are hit! That hurt! You' going berserk! You die!... Press <Enter>...

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

 378 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 274 of those were killed.
 4 of those were killed by something unknown.
 69 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 10 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 21 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 13 killed the bitch and survived.
 7 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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Title: Re: [N!|95%|16|YASD] Failed Strongman Angelic Attempt :(
Post by: Sereg on May 01, 2013, 20:49

So... you can do Sunrise Iron Fist and Malicious Knives Cross by using other weapons, provided you just don't last hit with them?

Wish I'd known that when I did my Malicious Knives run on ITYTD, lol... I literally only used a knife.

Though I suppose that's unbelievably easy compared to a 90% N! run under any conditions....

Title: Re: [N!|95%|16|YASD] Failed Strongman Angelic Attempt :(
Post by: thelaptop on May 01, 2013, 21:27

The weird characters is from the untranslated high-ASCII text to the utf-8 stuff that you see in notepad/the forums.

I usually run the game with low ASCII characters instead, because I really don't like having to stare at a screen of large white dots.  >.<

Title: Re: [N!|95%|16|YASD] Failed Strongman Angelic Attempt :(
Post by: Tormuse on May 01, 2013, 22:22

Quote from: Sereg on May 01, 2013, 20:49

So... you can do Sunrise Iron Fist and Malicious Knives Cross by using other weapons, provided you just don't last hit with them?

Wish I'd known that when I did my Malicious Knives run on ITYTD, lol... I literally only used a knife.

LOL!  I did the same thing in my above-linked mortem!  :D  I didn't find out that I could have used weapons until much later.  I would've at least brought a Rocket Launcher along to do wall-busting.  Oh well...

Quote from: thelaptop on May 01, 2013, 21:27

I usually run the game with low ASCII characters instead, because I really don't like having to stare at a screen of large white dots.  >.<

Is there an option for that somewhere?  I don't remember seeing it.

Title: Re: [N!|95%|16|YASD] Failed Strongman Angelic Attempt :(
Post by: ParaSait on May 01, 2013, 22:24

Quote from: Tormuse on May 01, 2013, 22:22

Is there an option for that somewhere?  I don't remember seeing it.

Add AllowHighAscii = false to config.lua