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DoomRL => Post Mortem => Topic started by: Ridonk on February 06, 2014, 16:10

Title: [U|100%|YAFW] Elite Platinum + Scavenger Diamond :)
Post by: Ridonk on February 06, 2014, 16:10
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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Ridonk, level 15 Cyberdemon Br. General Marine,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 562041 turns and scored 402571 points.
 He played for 3 hours, 7 minutes and 29 seconds.
 He was a man of Ultra-Violence!

 He killed 1387 out of 1387 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

 He saved himself once.

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 11
  Levels completed : 11

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Conqueror Badge
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Elite Platinum Badge
  Scavenger Platinum Badge
  Scavenger Diamond Badge

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

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

  Health 120/60   Experience 119887/15
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Marine

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

  Fin->Bad->Bru->Bru->Ber->MVm->Fin->TaN->WK->WK->Bad->TaN->TaN->Jug->Bru->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [6] (AOP)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Acid Spitter (10d10) [0/10] {a}
    [c] [ Boots      ]   cerberus steel boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)

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

    [a] double shotgun (11d3)x2 [2/2] (P2)
    [b] assault shotgun (9d3) [6/6] (P2)
    [c] missile launcher (6d6) [4/4]
    [d] nuclear plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [31/31] (B1)
    [e] Railgun (8d8) [30/40]
    [f] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
    [g] shotgun shell (x70)
    [h] rocket (x14)
    [i] rocket (x14)
    [j] rocket (x14)
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] thermonuclear bomb
    [o] power mod pack
    [p] power mod pack
    [q] blood skull
    [r] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (99%)
    [s] shell box (x100)
    [t] rocket box (x20)

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

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 100%
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 85%   feet 100%
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    126 former humans
    118 former sergeants
    75 former captains
    208 imps
    99 demons
    350 lost souls
    77 cacodemons
    23 hell knights
    77 barons of hell
    39 arachnotrons
    23 former commandos
    37 pain elementals
    25 revenants
    52 mancubi
    29 arch-viles
    7 elite former humans
    5 elite former sergeants
    5 elite former captains
    2 elite former commandos
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 shambler
    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 marched into the Military Base.
  He purified his fellow comrades.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
  On level 12 he assembled a cerberus boots!
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he found the Acid Spitter!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 17 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 19 he found the Railgun!
  He managed to clear the Vaults completely!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  On level 22 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits 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 --------------------------------------------------

 You miss the cacodemon. You need to taste blood!
 You hit the cacodemon. The cacodemon dies. You're going berserk! The lost
 soul hits you. John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher. You need to taste
 blood!
 The lost soul hits you. You need to taste blood!
 You dodge! You dodge! The missile hits John Carmack. You are hit! The
 cacodemon dies. The lost soul dies. That hurt! You' going berserk! You need
 to taste blood!
 You hit John Carmack. You are hit! The lost soul dies. You dodge! The missile
 hits John Carmack. You dodge! The missile hits John Carmack. You dodge! The
 missile hits John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
 You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! John Carmack reloads his rocket
 launcher. You need to taste blood!
 You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
 Carmack! Press <Enter>...
 You feel relatively safe now.

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

 345 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 292 of those were killed.
 2 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 23 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 28 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 3 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 23 killed the bitch and survived.
 2 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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I seem to be on a bit of a roll this week - got lucky again here with some fancy phasing in The Vaults.

After pondering how to best go for Elite Platinum I decided a Vampyre Marine (after getting all the way to the Unholy Cathedral with some Shottyhead guy - and getting predictably torn to shreds by that angry chap in the back room....) would be able to handle the UC and have enough beans to get through the Mortuary too.

As I've read on here before, Vampyre is very powerful, especially when you can pair it up with indestructible armour. A lot of your inventory problems are gone there and then. It's quite hard getting to that stage though as you are playing the early game with fairly unhelpful traits, (you all know this, but bear with me..) quite afew Marines died trying to get Vampyre.

Anyway once the OP red armour came onto the scene after Hell's Armoury things mostly got more relaxing. I did have quite a lot of maneuvering problems as this guy was pretty slow for the most part, so if i got caught out by a commando or arachnotron they could easily get afew barrages off. He was fairly tough though and could usually take it and then smack them around for a small health boost. Fairly sloppy play though, I may have got a bit lazy.

I didn't forget the Arena Staff this time! But I didn't use it :)
I cleared the 2 vaults either side and saw that I had a phase device so thought - why not? Bingo. I'm in and everyone dies in a red haze, had to be careful not to let the goodies get destroyed though. I'm even more pleased as I didn't even realise that would get me a Diamond at the time, I thought it was Scavenger Platinum...

The Mortuary was where the trouble was, of course. That scared me - I was fairly confident going in, had my plan of rushing round in a berserk rage seeking out the Arch-Viles and smacking demons on the way to them to keep me alive... After about 10 or 15 moves I was surrounded by, well, everything and I wasn't really fast enough to actually close range with many enemies - coupled with getting knocked back everywhere by all the mancubi - I thought I was a gonner. Especially after I used a Homing Phase to grab a Supercharge in the corner and everything getting instantly destroyed by fire and stuff... Then I remembered I had the Railgun! (Doh..) Broke that out and pop pop popped all the mancubi around me to get some breathing room and then resumed my violent run around the block. Things kindof calmed down then and everyone died eventually :)

And at the end, after nearly persuading myself not to fight JC (I didn't want to lose my precious badges) he died very quickly as I repeatedly hit him in the head (I imagine) with a big scythe.

Two things remain.. Firstly that acid spitter is fantastic with juggler as you can carry it in your prepared slot and get the resistance bonus and still use your primary weapon. Nice. Barons? Who cares?
Second, I was hoping that the Scythe would form a set with the Angelic armour like the Spear does ... I am confused because it's harder to get the Scythe, is there a way to choose the Spear instead? (Apart from not getting 100% kills?)


Title: Re: [U|100%|YAFW] Elite Platinum + Scavenger Diamond :)
Post by: LuckyDee on February 06, 2014, 23:21
Holy cow. You went from amusing through impressive to rather intimidating in no time (:
Congratulations yet again!

Quote from: Ridonk on February 06, 2014, 16:10
And at the end, after nearly persuading myself not to fight JC (I didn't want to lose my precious badges)

Good call. You made me look it up: even if you die to JC, the game counts as 'won', but won't give you any medals or badges that require you to beat the game.

Quote from: Ridonk on February 06, 2014, 16:10
Two things remain.. Firstly that acid spitter is fantastic with juggler as you can carry it in your prepared slot and get the resistance bonus and still use your primary weapon. Nice. Barons? Who cares?

How do you go about this? It's not like you can insta-switch after you fire a shot, so once you've engaged something, you're hooked. Although you combined it with a melee build of course... makes sense.
Title: Re: [U|100%|YAFW] Elite Platinum + Scavenger Diamond :)
Post by: Ridonk on February 07, 2014, 04:50
Quote from: LuckyDee on February 06, 2014, 23:21
How do you go about this? It's not like you can insta-switch after you fire a shot, so once you've engaged something, you're hooked. Although you combined it with a melee build of course... makes sense.

Yeah I don't think it would work as well with a non-melee build, but you could insta switch to it each time you wanted to move I suppose.
Title: Re: [U|100%|YAFW] Elite Platinum + Scavenger Diamond :)
Post by: Sylph on February 10, 2014, 10:48
Can you talk me through how you got in the side vaults? I haven't been able to blow up walls (or even know which walls to blow up) since I came back to doomrl about a year ago...
Title: Re: [U|100%|YAFW] Elite Platinum + Scavenger Diamond :)
Post by: ZicherCZ on February 10, 2014, 10:56
Quote from: Sylph on February 10, 2014, 10:48
Can you talk me through how you got in the side vaults? I haven't been able to blow up walls (or even know which walls to blow up) since I came back to doomrl about a year ago...
Check the level map at the Wiki. Certain tiles are breakable.
Title: Re: [U|100%|YAFW] Elite Platinum + Scavenger Diamond :)
Post by: Tormuse on February 11, 2014, 18:11
Woo!  Vampyre!  My favourite build!  :D  Pretty cool that you were able to spin that into an Elite Platinum; that's tricky to pull off.  Kudos!  :)

Quote from: ZicherCZ on February 10, 2014, 10:56
Check the level map at the Wiki. Certain tiles are breakable.

And if you don't feel like looking at the Wiki...

Spoiler: Vault break-points (click to show/hide)