In my ongoing quest to dominate both the "old standard" DRL and "modern" JHC-era DRL, it's time to get one of DRL's most infamous Diamond badges, Everyman Diamond. I got this badge in
0.9.9.8, but as I mentioned in my writeup for my
0.9.9.7 Eagerness Angelic run, I've come to feel the badges won in 0.9.9.8 to be undeserved even if one didn't abuse that version's utterly broken Vampyre, due to a myriad of significant player-helping bugs that don't exist in other versions. The most major of such balance-tilting bugs was a dodging bug where the player had a 95% dodge rate at all times regardless of HR levels nor the dodging stats of the enemy's projectile, which is especially huge in Angel Of Humanity when this bug neuters rapid-fire enemies that would normally be extremely deadly in AoH. Aside from that run in a dodgy version though, there aren't many recorded Everyman Diamond runs; according to the
0.9.9.7 Badge Hunters thread, there have been only four recorded Everyman Diamond runs, of which two did it by AoOC and Whisper Of Death cheese (
appuru and
Icy), one by mixing it with A100 exploiting a programming oversight where Thomas's Medal and the Everyman Badges just required the amount of special "levels generated" and "levels completed" to be equal (done by
Tormuse, which while not in the spirit of the badge, was still an extremely impressive run in its own right), and only one done purely (by
papilio of course). Even in pre-.0.9.9.7 versions, no one did it other than this supposed one in 0.9.9.4 by
2DevisionsOut, which aside from Everyman Diamond having a different and easier requirement back then (beat AoH on N! without Badass), is one of 2Dev's more bullshit mortems (getting an Iron Skull in AoH without even having Vampyre? Come on, there's nowhere near enough healing available for that to be remotely believable). I seen a couple other people offhandedly mention getting Everyman Diamond... but it doesn't seem they posted any mortems of it as I never found any missed by the Badge Hunters thread when searching, so they can be dismissed until proven otherwise. So was Everyman Diamond really that difficult without a cheesy dodging bug to help you?
So for the build; in my 0.9.9.8 run I used Survivalist, but that version's Survivalist was drastically better even before considering all of 0.9.9.8's bugs, between it having lighter prereqs, Ironman getting buffed to give physical resistances in addition to more max HP, Survivalist getting a new perk to double the healing of medkits and Health Globes, and the Marine getting a massive 20% inherent energy resistances. 0.9.9.7 Survivalist is just awful, and while being able to reduce hits to 0 damage would be very helpful against the rapid fire enemies that are the biggest threat, you need very good armor to take advantage of that perk, which you won't be able to get WK2 to build Cerberus Armor and have Survivalist until level 11 at earliest, and until then you'll have to slug through most of the first half with no offense nor speed whatsoever nor even being all that tanky. Papilio in his run used a masterless Technician that relied on building several different modded armor assemblies to always have strong resistance available against the most immediate pressing threat and according to him it took "immensely many tries", while when he
did it again after his file restart, he just admitted to cheating it with blatant save scumming (7 fucking saves.... at least he was honest?), so his strategy doesn't seem all that reliable if even a proven top tier player would rather resort to save scumming than winning legit with it again. I do think the concept behind my 0.9.9.8 Survivalist run of minimizing my margin of error is the way to go, so I'll just do what I did for my
Everyman Platinum run so many years ago and use Vampyre again. With trait order, I open with and use my free trait on Finesse, to help buff my ability to corner shoot enemies to death and build to Whizkid later that's going to be very important. Then unusually compared to any other of my Vampyre runs, I get Badass for the second level, since Health Globes are basically mini-Supercharges in AoH and being able to retain 18 HP after picking one up instead of 12 makes me significantly less fragile. It's getting the rest of Vampyre's prereqs after that, Vampyre should absolutely not be delayed when Berserker triggering off of any hit that deals 10+ damage is a massive survivability boost once the bigger enemies start showing up and Vampyre's healing will keep me alive, as well as ensure I can keep running around with more than 12 HP without the aid of globes. With Vampyre achieved, it's Fin2 and getting WK2 ASAP for the all-around combat + speed + defensive boost it provides, then Juggler so I don't take any additional hits when switching to a melee weapon after rocket jumping into enemies, then Badass 2 to effectively increase my max HP to a not so fragile 24, then Ironman instead of TaN for farther survivability since I already reduce basically everything to 1 damage when wearing P-modded Cerberus Armor while berserked and even +2 HP (effectively +4 with Badass 2) helps a lot with keeping rapid fire enemies from grinding me down. Brute 3 comes when I got a Ripper and need the accuracy boost to hit with it, Fin3 for the always desired additional attack time eed reduction, Iro2 for farther lategame assurance, and finally Bru4 for one more offensive boost.
As for the run itself, we start with Phobos Base Entry of course, which is of little danger thanks to your starting Red Armor reducing most pistol and shotgun shots to 1 damage. Even with the Red Armor's -20% speed penalty, my usual strat of just immediately running to the building and get in a Former Human's face still works as long as the Shotgunners don't come out immediately. If you do get shot up a lot or eat some high damage rolls, and so your Red Armor takes decent damage as a result (say 10+%), you should just reset until you get a good Phobos Base Entry; you don't really need the Small Medkits since they heal so little in AoH and you start with two extra Large Medkits anyway, rather minimizing damage to your Red Armor is important as you'll need it for later and Armor Shards don't start spawning until floor 5, so you won't be able to repair it until then without getting lucky with armor repairing levers (and hitting levers without Intuition is an absolute nogo, when hitting a lava lever will instantly kill you without Berserker and an acid lever may as well be instant death without at least Protective Boots unless escape is only 1 tile away). Speaking of preserving the Red Armor, I repeat my 0.9.9.8 strat of taking it off on floor 2, since I need it to preserve it for Hell's Arena and dying on floor 2 doesn't matter anyway, fortunately though I don't lose any runs on floor 2 doing that this time, even with it having a Pinky vault I had to carefully approach to not get instantly mauled to death. Hell's Arena would give me a bad opening wave with a Cacodemon, two Pinkies, and a Lost Soul immediately in view, while floor 2 had no Berserks to bring in to it, but I am able to run behind a pillar to escape the Caco and the Red Armor protects me well enough from the Pinkies to shotgun them down, while the pillar formed a 1-tile wide pathway so the Pinkies couldn't double team me. The rest of Hell's Arena went smoothly, I'm able to corner shoot the Barons to death by gift dropping a Green Armor at the farthest point in vision from behind a pillar (I used up a Small Medkit to restore my Tactics just in case a Baron did get through my corner shooting but neither do), and then I get a Ballistic Vest for the AoH-exclusive reward; I would have preferred Phaseshift Armor since it's much better pre-assembly and berserk's +60% resistances on top of its 30% physical resistances would have been enough to reduce all physical hits to 1 damage (plus it has the potential for the Phaseshift set), but a Ballistic Vest is still acceptable as it helps for later special levels or when a big enemy gets in melee range without me being berserked and it'll be great for creating Cerberus Armor later, meanwhile if I got Acid-proof Boots I would have resetted (the armor is far more important than acid-immunity). I immediately slap on one of my starting P mods onto the Ballistic Vest, to start prepping it for Cerberizing and when it really needs that extra defense to do its job better (and to help prevent me from getting instantly killed if I get hit by a high roll Imp fireball in it while not berserked).
Phobos 3 through 5 go very well with no mazes nor Cacodemon caves nor terrible Hell Knight spawns, and I crucially get Berserker before the Unchained Court. Unusually it's not the Barons or Arena Master that are the major problems, as with Berserker and Red Armor, the Barons won't deal more than 1 in melee and will usually deal 1 or 2 with their acid balls, while the Arena Master will never deal more than 1, and I adequately preserved the Red Armor for Unchained Court. It is instead all the Chaingunners, who will deal 4 damage minimum (i.e. 33% of my health) no matter how strong my defenses are if they connect every shot with their chainguns, and I can't safely fight them in the open when long-range shotgun blasts will usually fail to one-shot them and can fail to knock them back at edge-of-vision if your damage roll is slightly below average, while Unchained Court offers lousy cover even if you avoid the bunker getting blown up when fighting the Barons and Arena Master. I get through it, but waiting for all the Chaingunners to come in the bunker after disposing of the Barons and Arena Master gets stressful, and I do end up burning several medkits from just taking a few Chaingunner bursts. I get A and T mods from the Unchained Court, I T-mod the Chainsaw as the attack speed boost is most useful, and A mod my Steel Boots but don't make Tactical Boots yet despite still having my starting A mod for two important reasons; one, if I get a Nano mod from Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab, I really want Antigrav Boots for a melee build that is blocked HR, and if I don't get a Nano mod, I don't want to build Tactical Boots until
after I get WK2, as I really want to A-mod them after when I need all the speed I can get. Not making Tactical Boots now will make late Phobos and early Deimos a little harder, but I'm confident I can survive without until then. Also since I haven't mentioned it, I put my starting B mod on my Rocket Launcher to start prepping it towards assembling a Tactical Rocket Launcher and the faster reload could save me if I need to do multiple rocket jumps with enemies in view, which is especially probable with Badass nerfing my rocket jumps (one reason why I really don't like taking Badass normally, I hope DRL's Badass eventually swaps the permanent knockback resistance for powerup extension like JHC did).
Phobos 6 and 7 also go well, with Berserker + getting Vampyre in this range significantly nerfing the threat of Barons and a Revenant that spawned, while I avoid getting caught in the open by the lone Commando that spawned and no Arachnotrons spawned. Phobos 7 had a vault that apparently had an Onyx Armor in it as a Former dropped it after being killed, very lucky to get a repeat of what my 0.9.9.8 Everyman Diamond run got with a floor 7 Onyx Armor. Getting good indestructible armor as Vampyre is very powerful, but the Onyx Armor would give no physical resistances to Cerberus Armor, and I already started modding the Ballistic Vest... however if Cerberus Onyx Armor is P-modded, with berserk's +60% resistances, that will be enough to reduce nearly all physical damage to 1... That's enough of a dilemma to make me put off modding the Ballistic Vest farther until I see if I get an Onyx mod from Armory/Deimos Lab. Anyway, I rolled Phobos Lab for the floor 7 special level, normally a terrifying prospect for players but Nightmare Demon bites will always trigger Berserker in AoH and the Ballistic Vest will reduce them to 1 damage, while with Vampyre I get a hefty 8 HP back from killing them, so it was very easy. I get a P mod that I hold onto, and a T mod I put on the Combat Shotgun for the fire speed boost when I'm still shotgunning a lot + to prep towards a Tactical Shotgun. UV Anomaly is also such a breather when you're used to N! Anomaly. I actually leave Phobos
on pace for an Untouchable Pin (though it won't last once I start leaning more into Vampyre), and I haven't mentioned it but I also got
a couple Homing Phases, which is nice to secure these early as there are a few special levels where they can be potentially very handy.
After an unremarkable Deimos 1, I get disappointed with rolling Hell's Armory instead of Deimos Lab; normally you would want that in AoH when the dual Shamblers are so utterly terrifying, but Berserker of course frees them up like any boss and thus I miss out on my chance at two rare mods. However Deimos 1 does
have an Invuln, and I got another Phase Device on this floor, which I could use to pull off a Shambler's Head if I can get to the Shambler lever and kill him then set up camp before the Invuln runs out. Unfortunately the Phase
doesn't get me any farther than a single rocket jump would have. I do
make it to the lever with Invuln intact thanks to rocket jumping, but unfortunately with the enemies along the way slowing me down enough, and the Shambler not being cooperative with its teleports, the
Invuln runs out right when I finish off the Shambler on lava. So I don't get the guaranteed Nano mod, and the lab cache ends up being just a
Firestorm mod, not terrible since larger BFG explosions does help for the crucial Mortuary/Limbo later and I might get a shot at building a Biggest Fucking Gun to completely invalidate them or any bad level if I come across a random Firestorm, but a Nano mod would have been much preferable. Also with no Onyx mod and finding enough additional P mods, I pivot to Cerberizing the Onyx Armor instead, but can't quite build it yet when
I don't got WK2 (oh the weapon cache just had a Combat Pistol for any exotic weapons there, completely useless for this run).
Deimos 2 would more than make up for the disappointing Hell's Armory with giving me a...
Butcher's Cleaver!. This is huge when one of the biggest worries for this run dying is killing something in a group and then getting rapidly chipped down by Arachnotrons or Commandos, and being able to get instant melee kills greatly reduces the threat of that. I don't ditch the Chainsaw though, as with it being T-modded, it can still attack faster and thus I can use it to trigger Berserker faster against a bigger enemy, or when fighting something I can't one-shot with the Cleaver once I get Juggler, I can hit them with the Chainsaw first and then swap to the Cleaver to finish them off for the instant kill. I similarly don't abandon building the Ripper for the same benefits of the much greater attack speed making it much better in situations where the Cleaver can't kill. I get WK2 on Deimos 2 and so can build that sweet P-modded Onyx Cerberus Armor at last, as well as build Tactical Boots and immediately A mod them for a much needed big speed boost (and clearing my inventory of the mod clutter is always nice). I rolled Containment Area for the Deimos 3 special, normally one of the scariest special levels even without factoring in AoH, but with this gear on Vampyre, I was
outhealing the damage the Barons dealt, and so didn't need to resort to using one of my Homing Phases to camp them at the start. I get City Of Skulls for the Deimos 4 special, already free for Vampyre normally, is made super free for Vampyre with the Cleaver, but very unfortunately
I don't get any Hatred Skulls, and will have to settle for a Fire Skull + Blood Skull for Mortuary/Limbo. Haven't been talking about the normal floors, but they have been of little threat, except for one instance in this range where I got overly cocky after building the Cerberus Armor and rushing down a Commando that got me down to 2 HP, just a stark reminder that with no dodging bug helping, I cannot safely approach these guys and Arachnotrons in the open. Would get the most unfortunate roll of all however when I got Halls Of Carnage instead of Spider's Lair for the Hell 6 special; this should be desired when Spider's Lair is one of the biggest threats to this run, but the Spider-Killer Cross is one of the six medals I'm missing after I didn't get Spider's Lair in my Everyman Platinum run, and so will need to play AoH again to get it (which AoH runs not being easily spammable is going to make this extra annoying to grind out). Well being able to make a Tactical Rocket Launcher on the prior floor makes Halls Of Carnage even easier when rocket jumps compensate for my lack of exceptional movement speed, but I would burn one of my Homing Phases after reaching the first mod just to make it extra free and make space for the BFG. It's also nice I got Plasteel Boots on Deimos 6, so I can step into lava for only 1 damage instead of 5 damage (I A-mod them and save a spare A mod, just in case I find a random Nano to Antigrav them later). As for the Cyberdemon, he is free as always for any Berserker build, just had to make sure to put on the Ballistic Vest once he moved into melee range, since he'll deal 4-5 melee damage to me in the Cerberus Onyx Armor and thus could actually kill me if I wore it when trading melee blows.
Upon entering Hell, I would get greeted with the last Power mod I need to
finish the Ripper, and then when playing Vampyre equipped with a Ripper, Unholy Cathedral is completely free rather than the heart-stopper it is when doing the hit-and-run timing strategy with non-melee builds in AoH (just again needed to put on the Ballistic Vest to ensure the AoD did 1 damage instead of 4-5, but with the Ripper, he only got a couple hits in anyway). Armed with the ultimate trifecta of melee weapons (the Ripper for very fast attack speed and sheer DPS, Cleaver for no-time kills, and the Scythe for gibbing or if I really need to kill something in one hit), the Cerberus Onyx Armor, and the Tactical rocket Launcher, the only normal levels that could threaten me would be an Arachnotron cave, and I do finally get a cave on Hell 2... but it was a
Pain Elemental cave that is just an all-you-can-eat buffet for Vampyre with this equipment. I do get
this scenario on Hell 3 that should normally be at least a pickle in AoH, but again Vampyre with this equipment comes out of it with
200% health. I get more Power mods though that I can't do much else with it, so I finally build a Tactical Shotgun and then P-mod it, which can at least be nice for killing Formers at long range more reliably, Chaingunners can still be a threat after all. Then come The Vaults, which I don't need any strategy for when it's so laughably ineffectual above HNTR in this version, I even pop the Staff immediately instead of clearing out the side vaults individually first because why make this take any longer than it needs to. There's almost nothing exceptional Vaults could have for me at this point, but getting a
second BFG is nice if I roll Mortuary, and I get a
Trigun to have the option of just nuking Mortuary if I get a Hell 4 Invuln.
For the pivotal Hell 4 special level, I luckily end up rolling
Limbo instead of Mortuary; aside from Limbo being much easier in general, Mortuary did scare me a bit since it has Commandos and Chaingunners in addition to the Arachnotrons, and will generally get much more enemies on you at once, while if things get hairy in Limbo, I can also cheese it by hitting the two levels and then using my other Homing Phase to camp the stairs that offer a perfectly concealed camping spot. With my equipment loadout and two BFGs, I was confident I could do Mortuary anyway, not even needing Hatred Skulls since I'm basically permanently berserked at this point of the game between most enemies triggering Berserker, my rocket jumps triggering Berserker, any steps into lava triggering Berserker, and coming across several Berserk Packs. I appreciate the breather for the special level I've been most prepping for, and I don't even need to cheese Limbo with the aforementioned stair camping to
clear it near effortlessly; aside from my build being ridiculously strong and near immortal as long as I don't let Arachnotrons blast away at me, being able to shoot the BFG at out-of-vision tiles in this version is really busted and so I could blow up most of the island corpses without even needing to rocket jump over to them (coming in with a Radsuit was also helpful to make the lava a non-threat in Tactical Boots, with it not running out until right near the end).
With Limbo done, the run is basically a wrap. I did encounter a Hell Knight with a
Gothic Armor on that I barely noticed as the Cleaver still took him out in only a few hits, and even getting my
first maze of the run at Hell 6 was
barely a speed bump. Lava Pits is a nonissue even without lava immune boots; I just use a Radsuit I had catching dust in my inventory, kill the Lost Soul and Pain Elementals near the start, then use a Phase Device that drops me on the long thin middle island with no care for all the enemies around with the Cleaver to kill them all while not losing any Radsuit duration on the kills, and I'm able to reach the overly plentiful three Radsuits on the other side before the one I used is even close to running out. I just use them up rather bothering to make inventory room and rationing them out, and they easily last the entire rest of the level and most of the next floor. The only thing of note with Lava Pits is that it had
Malek's Armor spawn in, the one armor I would have preferred over the Cerberus Onyx Armor as they are nearly identical once the berserk resistances are added except I would have been way faster and the regeneration would have kept it from getting worn down, but oh well, nice to have it for the penultimate floor that was nothing of note. I end up going into Dis with
974 damage taken, nowhere close to the Untouchable Pin I was on pace for through Phobos but still remarkably low for a Vampyre run that would normally be over 2000 easily. Since I had the Trigun still and didn't get the Spider-Killer Cross, I thought I could use this opportunity to get one other annoying medal I'm missing with the Fallout Platinum Cross by spamming Angel Arm in Dis with the Lava Element's Invuln active. Unfortunately I forgot you need more than 10 max HP to trigger Angel Arm and so I could only activate it twice, while I set no other nukes off throughout the run... so no Fallout Platinum and I just wasted HP for nothing. Not that I needed the extra HP though, as against a berserk Ripper,
Carmack went down without firing a single shot nor summoning any enemies.
So there's Everyman Diamond done in 0.9.9.7, and in one try too, not even needing to exclude any early Q+Ys. Overall yeah this is a tough Diamond, but certainly a tier or two below the hardest ones, and more people should have won it if they used Vampyre or some other defensive Berserker build, instead of playing a masterless Technician that relies on lucking upon a ton of mods early on to make the perfect armor for every situation and then hoping you don't get caught in a bad spot in the wrong armor, or playing a Cateye/masterless Scout that tries to avoid ever getting hit by anything that can deal 10+ damage. I think Inquisitor Diamond was harder even when accounting for me using a worse build in my run of it, as was Quartermaster Diamond without cheesing it with AoMC, and I think it's even arguable that Marksman Diamond was harder without Sereging, at least I would rather do Everyman Diamond again than doing another run locked to 0.9.9.7's shitty ass pistols with 0.9.9.7's N! mechanics (yet I'll need to for Marksman Angelic...). With this being UV, you don't need to worry about respawns and the whole corpse disposal minigame, and you can camp to your heart's content in any good camping spot, while with a Berserker build, there's only a few special levels you truly need to worry about (Unchained Court, maybe Containment Area if you don't do Vampyre and don't have a Homing Phase, maybe Abyssal Plains if you're also not Vampyre, Spider's Lair, and Mortuary, maybe Limbo if you're not good with your opener and also don't have a Homing Phase), so you just need to be able to survive rough floor starts and have some built-in margin of error to avoid dying in only a couple hits (no matter how good you are, trying to play near damageless is a fool's errand). Despite not being a badge that required N! and so it's one of the few Diamonds not affected by the major N! changes, Everyman Diamond should get more interesting in newer DRL versions, especially once the proposed special level rebalancing goes through; even in the current version you now have the Enraged Timer to invalidate camping strategies that neutered many special levels and countless normal floors, several defensive traits got buffed while Berserker and Vampyre got nerfed, several armors got rebalanced and Technical Mods now increase resistances on armor, some special levels have already been made much harder (The Vaults, Limbo, and The Lava Pits getting the biggest glow ups), and you got a whole new special level pair on floor 4 that are going to be tough on UV. It's probably going to be noticeably harder, but you would have more viable options.
Well if you read this far, here is the mortem:
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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IDDQDVAMP, level 16 Cyberdemon Chaos Mjr General Marine,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 1288039 turns and scored 445784 points.
He played for 3 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1390 out of 1390 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Humanity!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 11
Levels completed : 11
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Conqueror Badge
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Armorer Badge
Every Soldier's Medal
Thomas's Medal
Hell Champion Medal
Everyman Diamond Badge
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 20/10 Experience 129213/16
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +8 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +12
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 2)
Finesse (Level 3)
Brute (Level 4)
Juggler (Level 1)
Berserker (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Badass (Level 2)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Fin->Bad->Bru->Bru->Ber->MVm->Fin->WK->WK->Jug->Bad->Iro->Bru->Fin->Iro->Bru->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Malek's Armor [3/3] (98%)
[b] [ Weapon ] ripper (6d6)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] shell box (x91)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] tactical shotgun (9d3) [3/5] (P1)
[b] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [3/5] (T1)
[c] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d6) [40/40]
[d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [169/169] (B2F1)
[e] BFG 9000 (13d6) [130/130] (B1P3)
[f] Trigun (3d6) [6/6]
[g] cerberus onyx armor [2] (P)
[h] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
[i] Butcher's Cleaver (5d6)
[j] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
[k] rocket (x14)
[l] rocket (x7)
[m] rocket (x14)
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] large med-pack
[q] large med-pack
[r] phase device
[s] homing phase device
[t] agility mod pack
[u] plasteel boots [2/2] (100%) (A)
-- 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 90% feet 60%
Fire - internal 60% torso 90% feet 60%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 90% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
101 former humans
80 former sergeants
39 former captains
144 imps
92 demons
552 lost souls
56 cacodemons
35 hell knights
53 barons of hell
20 arachnotrons
13 former commandos
58 pain elementals
43 revenants
30 mancubi
40 arch-viles
7 nightmare imps
1 nightmare cacodemon
16 nightmare demons
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.
On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
He broke through the lab.
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 10 he found the Butcher's Cleaver!
On level 10 he assembled a cerberus armor!
On level 10 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 13 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 17 he assembled a ripper!
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 assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
On level 19 he found the Trigun!
He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
Level 20 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
Level 22 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
On level 22 he found the Malek's Armor!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
He activated the Angel Arm on level 24!
He activated the Angel Arm on level 24!
He left level 24 as soon as possible.
He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You hit John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
You prepare the tactical rocket launcher instantly!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : pool of blood
That hurt! You' going berserk! You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You prepare the ripper instantly!
You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
Carmack! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
271 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
86 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
96 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
82 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
42 killed the bitch and survived.
34 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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EDIT: Ran a couple AoH + AoCn games on HNTR and was able to get Spider-Killer Cross, it wasn't that bad to survive with a melee build as long as you got an ok floor 1. You should be able to get this with nuking even without Invuln as the source code doesn't appear to have a no nuking exception for it, and I did find a nuke along the way, but after Deimos 6 gave me an Invuln + Berserk while I had plenty of rockets for rocket jumping, I go and beat it conventionally to be safe in case the nuke didn't work. I kill myself after as I had no interest in trying to finish the run, and with that I'm only five medals away from getting every medal for Heroic Diamond:
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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GIVEMESPIDERKILLER@,
level 7 Cyberdemon Chaos Mjr General Marine,
committed a stupid suicide on level 7 of the Deimos base.
He survived 490634 turns and scored 24958 points.
He played for 40 minutes and 4 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 184 out of 203 hellspawn. (90%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Angel of Humanity!
He was also an Angel of Confidence!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 8
Levels visited : 3
Levels completed : 3
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Hell Armorer Badge
Every Soldier's Medal
Spider-Killer Cross
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/12 Experience 16914/7
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Finesse (Level 1)
Brute (Level 3)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 1)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->Bad->Fin->MVm->Bru->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] red armor [4/4] (87%) (A)
[b] [ Weapon ] chainsword (8d2)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (80%)
[d] [ Prepared ] shell box (x20)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] shotgun (8d3) [1/1]
[b] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1] (B1)
[c] missile launcher (6d6) [4/4] (T1)
[d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [100/100]
[e] red armor [4] (O)
[f] medical armor [2/2] (84%) (A)
[g] shotgun shell (x70)
[h] shotgun shell (x70)
[i] rocket
[j] rocket (x14)
[k] small med-pack
[l] small med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] phase device
[q] thermonuclear bomb
[r] power mod pack
[s] technical mod pack
[t] agility mod pack
[u] bulk mod pack
[v] bulk mod pack
-- 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 60% feet 60%
Fire - internal 60% torso 85% feet 60%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
16 former humans
14 former sergeants
7 former captains
41 imps
22 demons
44 lost souls
4 cacodemons
11 hell knights
7 barons of hell
12 arachnotrons
1 former commando
3 pain elementals
1 revenant
1 shambler
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 1 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 1 he assembled a chainsword!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 3 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 3 he arrived at the Containment Area.
He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
Level 6 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 6 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
Level 7 was a hard nut to crack!
On level 7 he finally committed a stupid suicide.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You feel more calm.
There are stairs leading downward here.
Silence rules the spidery lands...
You enter Deimos, level 7. The walls here seem tough!
You prepare the chainsword!
The barrel explodes! That hurt! You' going berserk! You feel like a killing
machine! You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
The pain elemental spawns lost souls! Argh!!! Lava! That hurt! You' going
berserk! You need to taste blood!
Argh!!! Lava! That hurt! You' going berserk! You need to taste blood!
Argh!!! Lava! That hurt! You' going berserk! You need to taste blood!
Argh!!! Lava! That hurt! You' going berserk! You die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
273 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
87 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
96 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 7 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
82 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
42 killed the bitch and survived.
34 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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