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on: September 16, 2020, 07:38
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| Started by singalen - Last post by khiijol | ||
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very nice run
I built a Sharpshooter. I don't know how people play melee in JH. do a marine vampyre build and camp two squares away from a door. you cant gift drop like DRL so it takes a bit of patience - formers have weak melee attack so when they come into the doorway, you move to the square diagonal from them and give them a good whack. play it slow and try not to enter big rooms, picking off enemies one at a time |
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on: September 16, 2020, 00:24
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| Started by singalen - Last post by singalen | ||
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I built a Sharpshooter. I don't know how people play melee in JH.
Europa was really tough because I was stupid enough to only have a SMG of 9mm weapons. Surely, I lacked ammo BADLY, had to use a random rifle on each level. I had a .44 SMG that I thought would take me out of dire situations! Well, it wasn't so good. At Refueling Base, I thought that's the end, b/c by the end of it I only had the ammo for a 7.62 rifle - everything else was out of ammo. I also ate all three of my medpacks. But I made it through, and got a Backpack - that was the only useful loot there. Just what an Ao-not-so-LT needs. Somehow I managed to make it to Io, where I happily grabbed a plasma pistol, and lived happily ever since. Funny screenshot with exalted blessing attached. Flynn Taggart, level 15 Technician, defeated |
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on: September 16, 2020, 00:12
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| Started by singalen - Last post by singalen | ||
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I was lucky to have a phase kit.
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on: September 16, 2020, 00:11
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| Started by singalen - Last post by singalen | ||
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Now, this...
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on: September 08, 2020, 16:08
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| Started by Kornel Kisielewicz - Last post by khiijol | ||
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tried to duplicate the stabbing thing and while it wasn't consistent, i did stab myself quite a bit on this run - mostly while mashing f when in the proximity of multiple enemies. i also didnt get a red key card for the vahalla command generate - one of the levels had the lockdown event, maybe this makes the end reward inaccessible?
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on: September 08, 2020, 15:43
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| Started by Kornel Kisielewicz - Last post by khiijol | ||
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same! some minor issues, i saw on this weird run - regened nightmare enemies give xp, so is possible to xp farm on calisto 1. i was trying this on angel of berserk to see how far i could get, when i accidentally stabbed myself (?) pressing F a bunch of times when i was near a beefed up exalted soldier
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on: September 08, 2020, 07:42
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| Started by Kornel Kisielewicz - Last post by Moonshine Fox | ||
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This update? Is good. Enjoying it greatly already!
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on: September 07, 2020, 10:18
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| Started by Kornel Kisielewicz - Last post by Kornel Kisielewicz | ||
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It's time to face the ultimate challenge in 0.9.3 Nightmare! Apart from the eponymous difficulty level, we have added Platinum and Diamond level badges, level events, gibbing (fun for everyone, life-saving in Nightmare), ADV AMPs and more - read all about it below!
Nightmare! The borderline unfair and punishing difficulty level from DRL returns! While the balance is close to UV (and there's no accuracy boost for the enemies), each biological enemy that dies leaves a summoning circle. Leave that circle alone and out of sight for a while, and the enemy will respawn... as a progressively-stronger, exalted variant. This difficulty is not for the faint of heart, but is beatable. Different tactics need to be applied, gibbing enemies becomes a valuable tool, and exploring all of the map might become a death trap. You've been warned! Platinum and Diamond badges To make your Nightmare exploits count, we added a fourth and fifth tier of the badge system. While Platinum badges can be achieved on UV difficulty for some challenges, Diamond is all about Nightmare. Platinum badges are all achievable through careful and masterful play; Diamond ones, however... well, let's say that we're interested ourselves in how many of those are actually achievable! ;) Gibbing Borrowing the old Doom term, gibbing might happen when, you deal enough damage in a single attack to overkill an enemy. Depending on how much overkill happens, the gibbing chance goes up (damage equal to twice their health guarantees a gib). To quickly enjoy the lovely visuals, walk up to a former human and sell him a shotgun blast into the face. Note that some weapons (explosive ones and melee) have a hidden factor that makes gibbing easier! Level events Probably the most interesting addition for people who're afraid of the Nightmare are level events - modifiers that might happen when entering a regular level. There's currently 8 of them, ranging from simple ones (the level has many more barrels...) to ones that expect you to do something within a turn-based time limit to gain extra experience. Not all events generate on every level branch, and we will be adding more of them in further releases of the game! ADV AMPs While the initial idea was to ditch the old AMP system altogether, as the first step we're introducing ADV AMPs with random stats for pistols (inlcluding SMGs), auto weapons (rifles and chainguns), and shotguns. The perk pool for them is currently quite shallow; once we improve on it, we will probably remove the old regular AMPs. Plasma grenade The ultimate overkill tool, packing a whopping 200 plasma damage in a single grenade. Useful in Nightmare for gibbing, and in all difficulties for making sure that big dude dies. Don't bother saving them for the summoner though (see below). UI The seed line below the level name has been changed. It now states the difficulty (by single letter), the challenge abbreviation (if present), and the general seed of the run. Apart from helping streamers not answer the basic questions each time, it will help us have all the needed information in a screenshot when reporting issues with level generation. Additionally, as requested, we've added head slot durability to the UI, and removed the armor name, as usually you remember what you're wearing and you can always shift-compare with what's on the ground. Balance changes Summoner now has a damage gate - if you deal more than 80 damage before he takes his turn, all further damage is negated until that time. If you're faster than him, you might notice his health turning violet - don't bother shooting him then (later we'll add a nice shield effect once shields are in!). Barrel damage has been increased - this makes for more gibbing fun, but also might prove fatal if you're not careful! We've increased the amount of loot, too - common chests always drop at least 3 items, with special tier 1 chests and vaults appearing more often. Finally some more minor changes and the regular supply of bugfixes which all can be summed up in the full changelog below: Full changelog Code: [Select] Beta 0.9.3 - Nightmare - September 7, 2020What's next? We're working on a bigger feature, but it's taking more time than anticipated, so in the meantime we'll do a smaller content-focused release next. In hopefully two weeks you'll get 0.9.4 Europa, with various additions to level generation and other new stuff to explore. Until then, try not to fall victim to the Nightmare! |
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on: September 05, 2020, 20:48
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| Started by The DoomRLguy - Last post by The DoomRLguy | ||
--------------------------------------------------------------After quite a few attempts and many breaks in between to pursue other badges, I at last have obtained the Centurial Diamond... along with the silver, gold and platinum, of which the platinum earned me the rank of Marshal. Early game is the hardest, as per usual - and I tend to try for at least a decent few kills before the hell knights show up, especially when there's humid air or a massacre lever around. Although I've seen Dodgemaster get taken before Blademaster, I took MBm first because of its incredible utility not just in shredding hordes, but in doing so in no time, essentially granting free experience and berserk time. (If I understand the mechanics correctly, 0-time kills with MBm also shouldn't count against berserk/invulnerability timers either.) I carried a shotgun for the early game, upgraded to a combat shotgun and eventually a tactical shotgun later as a backup weapon but I don't think I ever even needed to use the tac shotty at all. For the latter part of the early game, melee enemy caves were a blessing - melee enemies to practice on and berserk from, and often easily found powerups too! Invulnerability was a big part of this run, which made Int1 an incredible help - even with colour vision obliterated, there were plenty of times when I could see a ^ near me and move to investigate, leading to a few extra invulnerabilities, berserk packs, supercharges and similar. Beyond that, I took a level in Finesse to further speed up my stabbings, then detoured to grab the extra brute and hellrunner levels that opened up. As it turns out, Brute 5 turns the Chainsword into an absolute death machine. When you can dodge right up to a crowd and cut the whole swarm apart in a hit or two each - with Blademaster cutting the time down significantly - not much is a threat, and anything that is will almost instantly berserk you and cease to be a threat. After those, I took the extra hellrunner to aid both the stairdiving and the ability to close in on enemies - less chances to knock me back and much more chance to dodge rapid fire attacks. Beyond that, I went towards Whizkid in case I got the chance to make anything incredible, or even a second chainsword to upgrade - but I never got much use out of the second level of it. AP Onyx Armour was pretty good for a lot of the game - 4 protection, not a lot of movespeed penalty, pretty decent while berserked. Late game, though, I swapped out for an onyx-modded energy shielded vest for permanent resistance to fire/acid/plasma - pretty effective against almost everything that would be facing me before I got into melee range, at which point I'd be ripping things apart and getting Blademaster freebies anyway. I didn't quite get to make it cybernano, but I did get a power mod on it, giving it 3 protection on top of the resistances - which, incidentally, made me practically immune to those damage types while berserk. (Only 5% damage, minus 3? That's about 100 damage needed to go as high as 2!) I didn't really encounter much of note - there was a nightmare arachnotron cave I passed through, and I deliberatly went after the two cyberdemons I saw to up my kill count, but I didn't even notice a lot of the nasty stuff I chewed through. I noticed exactly one of the 16 bruiser brothers, and I had no idea I'd even met a nightmare arch-vile! Oh, and I carried the rocket launcher in case I needed it or could make it nanomachic, and I did encounter one good time to blow a wall open with it... on an invincible walls level. (Tall room on the left, stairs at the bottom, entrance at the top, viles and mancubi inside) All in all, I'm... honestly still not very sure of what the strategy for N! Ao100 is - other than "grab invulnerability, run towards stairs, stab things in way until overpowered" - but that seems to work just fine. Maybe I'll get around to doing it again on ArchAo666 sometime... but for now, back to the diamond collection! I've managed to get a couple of N! AoMr characters into Deimos, so maybe... |
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on: September 04, 2020, 00:31
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| Started by Moonshine Fox - Last post by Moonshine Fox | ||
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I've run almost exclusively Scout for the last 6 months. Yesterday I decided to branch out a bit and try Technician. Ho-lee-sheet! Compared to Scout, it was easymode deluxe. Headshot carried me all the way to the end and the ability to reshuffle mods made each weapon I picked up be instantly useful. That Plasma Pistol allowed me to oneshot even Armored Ravagers. The Summoner went down in three shots.
Oddly enough, Pinpoint is supposed to do something similar for Scout, but I never felt this incredibly powerful as Gunslinger Scout as I did with Tech. Spoiler (click to show/hide) |
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