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 DRL / Nightmare! / (0.9.9.7) [N!|AoOC|100%|YAFW] - 100% Daredevil Diamond run + AoOC N! Limbo clear
 on: November 30, 2025, 09:50 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Daredevil Diamond is in contention for being the easiest Diamond badge; if you do it "legit" (i.e. no kill farming), you just reset until you get a good level start that preferably has an Invuln or Berserk, or otherwise lets you safely camp, get some levels in after killing a bunch of enemies, and then you'll get 80% naturally as long as you go through most of the remaining floors instead of just stairdiving, with the option to skip any really nasty floors like an Arachnotron cave if you build up enough of a kill buffer. Or you do it the cheesy way where you get a strong start and then rush to the end, while finding yourself a safe respawn along the way to kill over and over until you ensure over 80% kills, whether a former you can repeatedly kill without retaliation and never running out of ammo or anything else if you did the Cathedral and got yourself an Artifact melee weapon. With the nature of AoOC, with its Hell starts that will be unsurvivable at low levels with little to no armor, even top players technically wouldn't be able to win this badge consistently, but with how fast attempts will go and not requiring that much luck to get, most competent players would win this badge without any serious time investment.

As such, I decided to go for 100% kills to make this Daredevil Diamond run a bit more interesting, thus I won't be able to skip out on any bad floor and my kill percent can't get fluffed up by respawns. I initially went a melee-focused Scout, but lost a first good run from getting chipped down, so decided to just go with good old Vampyre; since this isn't 0.9.9.8's outrageously broken Vampyre, I don't feel the guilt of using it even though it's still a strong contender for best build in the game. Now trying to go for Vampyre did make starts harder with the lack of the Scout's speed bonus and having to pick up a level of Badass instead of other much more useful traits, but it still doesn't take much to get a survivable first floor. Also having to use the free trait of Vampyre on Brute 3 (that you're going to need to fight the Angel Of Death after only a single floor with a Combat Knife) instead of the much more useful Finesse made starts harder to survive as well. Making it past the first floor and getting your hands on that lovely Scythe from the Cathedral didn't guarantee safety either, especially as your medkits will likely be drained away and your armor will be battered or gone completely, but again it doesn't take that much attempts to get workable floors.

And indeed on only my fifth attempt I would get a run to Mortuary with 100% kills intact, where with an Invuln near the Mortuary and knowing I effectively had infinite health with Vampyre... I decided to go for the bragging rights of beating N! Mortuary in AoOC. Even with the Invuln though that let me take out a lot of enemies in the beginning, whether directly or through infighting, Vampyre in this game state was rather too slow to safely handle Mortuary without a BFG to do a big corpse disposal at the beginning, and so once the Invuln worn off, I started getting overwhelmed and my armor was getting destroyed fast. I was able to make it to the Nuclear BFG though without it getting destroyed, and then setup a safe corner (well about as safe as you can get in Mortuary) to slowly wait for the rest of the enemies to come while using some corpses left next to me to get health back whenever they respawned and repeatedly shooting out Nuclear BFG blasts whenever it was charged (I forgot how broken being able to shoot the BFG out of vision was before 0.9.9.8 prevented you from doing that). Eventually, slowly but surely I would finish Mortuary, but not without taking a huge beating. Floor 5 would give me a maze though that ended up ruining my freshly acquired Angelic Armor and other remaining armor supply, and then I got a floor 6 that should have been an easy small rooms level, but I got super careless and rushed a VMR group without any real armor that I could have just waited for... being reminded just how insufficient TaN is before its 0.10 buff as I got quickly evaporated away, after Berserker failed to proc from several Mancubi blasts (that extra starting 10 max HP of the Marine can really suck sometimes...)

I'll post the mortem of the failed run still though to keep record of the N! Mortuary 0.9.9.7 AoOC clear:

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After that total throw though, it wouldn't take long to get another good run going, with a floor 1 that had a river that allowed me to safely pick off most of the enemies and a handy Medical Armor for more melee res against the AoD, which when combined with an Invuln near the Cathedral stairs, allowed me to exit the Cathedral with my medkits intact. Then on Hell 4, I got an Arachnotron cave that could be very deadly to 100%, but I was able to manage it, and then that floor blessed me with a Nano mod, so I could build a Powered Red Armor to really help with the armor problem and Vampyre's speed problem. It also had an Invuln near Limbo's stairs, the only thing I was missing was a rocket launcher at this point but I decided to go for it again, and the Invuln would last long enough for me even without rocket jumping to get to the Nuclear BFG. After that it was just abusing Limbo's stairs being easily campable as I killed each enemy that came up to me, popping out occasionally to shoot out Nuclear BFG blasts, until I whittled them down to the last few dozen enemies and then just sought them out (also did a couple Whispers of Death, partially to weaken them but more importantly to ensure Berserker would trigger more reliably without the extra max HP after losing the prior run from that). Not too long after I would finish off Limbo, and though I still took a beating, it was quite a bit less than I took in the prior Mortuary run. With Powered Red Armor, the Scythe, a bunch of medkits, and finding a Rocket Launcher shortly into floor 5, the rest of the run was a cinch, completing Daredevil Diamond with 100% kills and with a Grim Reaper's Badge you rarely if ever see in N! AoOC mortems. Altogether I had six killed runs before this one, and about another half dozen I Q+Y'd on, but this still took me a lot less time than doing a standard 100% N! run would have, even after spending nearly an hour cumulatively on those Mortuary and Limbo clears.

Now for the mortem:

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 DAREDEVIL2EZ, level 13 Cyberdemon Chaos Major Marine,
 defeated the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 292997 turns and scored 479527 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 8 minutes and 52 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 622 out of 622 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Overconfidence!

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

  Levels generated : 4
  Levels visited   : 3
  Levels completed : 3

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Daredevil Diamond Badge

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

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

  Health 100/50   Experience 74228/13
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +8  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +12

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

  Class : Marine

    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 4)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 1)
    Vampyre          (Level 1)

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

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   powered red armor [5/5] (99%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x70)

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

    [a] rocket launcher (6d6) [0/1] (B1)
    [b] assault shotgun (8d3) [6/6] (P1)
    [c] napalm launcher (7d7) [1/1] (T1)
    [d] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [e] Angelic Armor [7/7] (73%)
    [f] shotgun shell (x50)
    [g] shotgun shell (x50)
    [h] rocket (x10)
    [i] rocket (x10)
    [j] rocket
    [k] small med-pack
    [l] small med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] large med-pack
    [r] envirosuit pack
    [s] power mod pack
    [t] bulk mod pack

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

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 85%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 90% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 95%   feet 90% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    4 former humans
    26 former sergeants
    6 former captains
    27 imps
    29 demons
    132 lost souls
    21 cacodemons
    17 hell knights
    51 barons of hell
    101 arachnotrons
    6 former commandos
    12 pain elementals
    51 revenants
    44 mancubi
    29 arch-viles
    14 nightmare imps
    16 nightmare cacodemons
    2 nightmare demons
    30 nightmare arachnotrons
    1 lava elemental
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 John Carmack

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

  Level 1 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 1 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 1 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 2 he found the Railgun!
  On level 4 he assembled a power armor!
  On level 4 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
  On level 4 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
  On level 6 he entered the Lava Pits.
  On level 6 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He overloaded a nuclear BFG 9000 on level 8!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : floor
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn! You need to taste blood!
 Nothing to swap!
 Use scroll to choose weapon, left button to wield, right to cancel... You
 wear/wield : a Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
 You hit John Carmack. 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're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
 Carmack! Press <Enter>...

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

 244 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 74 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 91 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 72 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 36 killed the bitch and survived.
 30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 92 
 DRL / Nightmare! / (0.9.9.7) [N!|AoSh|98%|YAFW] - Pure Shottyman Diamond and all 26 Platinum Badges
 on: November 28, 2025, 19:49 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
The only Platinum Badge I had left in 0.9.9.7 was Shottyman Platinum, so doing Shottyman Diamond next was the logical conclusion to get them both. Most people who got Shottyman Diamond did so by doubling it up with the notoriously easy (for an Angelic) Shottyman Angelic, as the same respawn farming exploit used for Shottyman Angelic could also easily get them Shottyman Diamond (and Daredevil Diamond) by just spending another half hour or so repeatedly blasting away a trapped Shotgunner, and even without kill farming, reaching 80% kills in AoOC isn't all that hard. Given my dislike of Dual Angel cheesing though, I wanted to get Shottyman Diamond the intended "pure way", and so I went for this badge in a pure AoSh run.

For the build used, it's obviously Shottyhead; aside from being my favorite mastery making it an obvious choice for me, Army Of The Dead is horribly awful in 0.9.9.7 with its astonishingly crippling blocks that don't remotely justify such a middling mastery effect (I still wonder what the hell the thinking was behind its blocks, did the old devs really think shotguns getting 2 or 4 more damage before dropoff was some incredibly OP perk?), and Fireangel is already mediocre in 0.9.9.7 before even considering it does nothing to boost Shotguns. The only other real viable option would be to go masterless if you want SoB, but the relatively minor damage boost SoB gives to shotguns doesn't remotely compare to the tremendous offensive boost given by 1/3rd firing time. Well you could go Gunrunner too, but it would be basically a worse Shottyhead that takes longer to come online, especially in 0.9.9.7 when it's blocked Whizkid.

With trait order, it's again opening with Finesse -> Juggler, being able to macgyver a Temu Tactical Shotgun with a bunch of shotguns in the early game gives you such an immediate big leg up, especially pre-Reloader buff. Then it's a level of HR to ensure I can comfortably outmaneuver everything and getting the requisite Rel2 + Shottyman to get Shottyhead ASAP; given how massive an offensive boost Shottyhead gives you and its prereqs already gives you one of the easiest early games, you never want to delay it unless you have really damn good reason to get something outside its prereq path. After that it's getting WK2 ASAP for the big mid and late game all-around power boost it provides, and then maybe unusually I get two levels of Brute + Berserker; Berserker is such an OP defensive trait in 0.9.9.7 and it basically makes the VMR a non-threat for the rest of the game, while berserked Shottyhead gets crazy amounts of DPS (also being able to punch stuff out can occasionally be useful to kill things without knockback, and could be used to save ammo as well, but you don't really need that in this version of N! with the silly ammo farming you can do). Then it's just maxing out my firing, movement, and reloading rate after to make myself as strong as possible; the notable omissions are not getting any Ironman, which I do to have Berserker trigger as often as possible, and then I never get the ever popular Intuition, since I don't need Intuition 2 and much prefer getting actual combat-boosting traits if I'm not playing a challenge where attrition damage is a much more serious factor.

As mentioned, with the aforementioned opening traits, the early game is a relative breeze even on Nightmare, even a Phobos maze wasn't all that bad when those are often run enders on N!. I decided to clear Hell's Arena, which being restricted to shotguns with unpredictable knockback can make a bit tricky when trying to line up corpse stacks, but with such a strong early game build, getting some extra spawns isn't much an issue when you come in with an inventory full of shotguns and shotgun shells, even a Baron getting back up wasn't a big deal. I was thinking of skipping Unchained Court since it's one of the few special levels that gives Shottyhead some real trouble and getting rid of corpses is going to be real annoying without a Rocket Launcher, but I decided to go for it and it ended up not being too bad, not even having to use up all the berserks; if you can manage to get the Barons in a position to shotgun them into the lava or in the doorways, you can kill them without a corpse, or if you kill one while still berserked, you can comfortably eat another Baron's acid ball to destroy it, then the Arena Master it's possible to corner shoot to death with this build + the Double Shotgun from the Arena, or you get a berserk and him against a wall, you can hammer him down with the Double Shotty and kill him that way before he can deal too much damage to you. I then rolled Phobos Lab for the last Phobos special level, which having Shottyhead online by then already largely trivializes, and then considering that Nightmare Demons still get hurt by the acid in this version, I almost forget that this is supposed to be one of the most terrifying special levels. After that is the dreaded N! Phobos Anomaly, but it's another normally terrifying level that Shottyhead largely trivializes; I ended up clearing it taking only 38 damage, most of which was from me intentionally getting hit by Nightmare Cacodemons to destroy corpses. Feats like that just add to my pile of "Shottyhead was the most overlooked mastery", Army Of The Dead is just way too slow to outrun the N! Anomaly ambush without a lucky Phase Device and has no hope to try fighting back, while Fireangel and masterless shotgun Scout could escape the ambush but would have a hell of a time actually trying to kill all those Nightmare enemies.

Deimos would greet me with a level opener that would a major threat for most builds, but that Shottyhead again trivializes without needing to gamble with that Phase Device nor running and praying. I rolled Deimos Lab, and I considered just getting what I could from there without releasing the Shamblers. Especially so when the weapon cache didn't have any of the special shotguns and when I failed to hit WK2 before them, so I was left with the predicament to build the Focused Double Shotgun and Tactical Boots now to help fighting them and be left unable to mod them later (since 0.9.9.7 still has the asinine restriction of being unable to ever mod assemblies you made before getting WK2), or play it safe and just leave. Not to mention that fighting the dual Shamblers in N! AoSh without a Plasma Shotgun is going to be extra dangerous as I have to kill them in very specific spots to prevent them from leaving a corpse. I decided to live extra dangerously though by releasing the Shamblers and not finishing the aforementioned assemblies, and it was by far the closest I came to death in this run. My initial plan was to hide out in the mod rooms, wait for one to teleport in, and then hammer at it until it was nearly dead, then finish it off in the door or acid, but when a Shambler did do so... it immediately teleported back out, and they wouldn't teleport back inside, eventually teleporting outside and opening the door, where in the crossfire one of the doors would get destroyed to ruin the setup. When getting one isolated, I did do the "hammer away" strategy and was able to finish it off in the acid, but the other Shambler was very uncooperative and I would get brought down to my last medkit, however I managed to get him in a workable spot within the acid pool and hammer him down before he could teleport out. If I was any other shotgun build here I would have certainly died, as without Shottyhead's firing speed, I would not have remotely enough DPS to kill them when they teleported into a workable position here. It paid off though, as I got the coveted Onyx + Nano mod combo as my reward, and finally hit WK2 right when I killed the last Shambler, allowing me to build my beloved Focused Double Shotgun and put a Power mod on it. For the Onyx mod, I ended up just putting it on the next Red Armor I found (since I already Bulk modded the Anomaly Red Armor) rather than wait for one of the few exotics that can be better (especially as when berserked, I'll take 1 damage with a P-modded Red Armor from nearly everything after this point), and I thought about waiting for maybe a Super Shotgun to appear for the chance at the utterly game-breaking Shottyhead + Nano Super Shotgun combo, but decided to just make Antigrav Boots instead from the Steel Boots I haven't turned Tactical yet rather than wait around for something that may not come at all. Some may have made a regular Nano Shotgun to ensure they always had infinite ammo, but with how easily you can farm infinite ammo in this version of N!, ammo is just not a concern whatsoever.

I unfortunately had to skip Containment Area, as I had no plasmatic shotgun and didn't carry any normal Phase Devices with me, but the game would conveniently spawn a Plasma Shotgun the floor immediately after. Would have really wanted it a floor sooner to keep the dream of a N! AoSh Conqueror alive, but it's still really nice to make corpse disposal a much less tedious ordeal in the second half of the game. I had a nuke prepped for Unholy Cathedral, but no Invuln spawned on Hell 1, so that's another special level I couldn't do. The rest were beaten with no issue, maybe Mortuary could have dragged on but I got pre-buff Limbo instead, and with the Plasma Shotty, two Hatred Skulls, and Enviroboots, it was nothing more than a speed bump.

With Shottyhead, I'm able to get pure Shottyman Diamond first try, and come the closest anyone has to pulling off a N! AoSh Conqueror, while getting Shottyman Platinum completes the collection of all Platinums in 0.9.9.7 for me, joining I believe Tormuse and Icy as the only players to have verifiably gotten every Platinum badge up through 0.9.9.7. Now here is the mortem:

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 SHOTTYHEADABEST,
 level 18 Cyberdemon Chaos Major Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 1180211 turns and scored 990922 points.
 He played for 3 hours, 57 minutes and 52 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 1738 out of 1756 hellspawn. (98%)
 He held his right to remain violent.
 He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 9
  Levels completed : 9

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

  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Shottyman Platinum Badge
  Shottyman Diamond Badge

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

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

  Health 89/50   Experience 160312/18
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +6

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Hellrunner       (Level 3)
    Reloader         (Level 3)
    Brute            (Level 2)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Shottyhead       (Level 1)

  Fin->Jug->HR->Rel->Rel->SM->MSh->Fin->WK->WK->Bru->Bru->Ber->Fin->HR->HR->Rel->DM->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [6] (AOP)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   focused double shotgun (9d4)x2 [0/2] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   antigrav steel boots [1/1] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x56)

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

    [a] assault shotgun (7d3) [6/6] (T1)
    [b] plasma shotgun (10d3) [39/39] (B1P3T1)
    [c] BFG 9000 (10d6) [130/130] (B1)
    [d] phaseshift armor [2/2] (100%)
    [e] shotgun shell (x14)
    [f] power cell (x50)
    [g] power cell (x50)
    [h] large med-pack
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] homing phase device
    [m] Enviroboots [0]
    [n] shell box (x100)
    [o] shell box (x100)
    [p] shell box (x100)
    [q] shell box (x100)
    [r] shell box (x100)
    [s] power battery (x120)
    [t] power battery (x120)

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

    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 25%   feet 0%   

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

    218 former humans
    263 former sergeants
    72 former captains
    180 imps
    115 demons
    285 lost souls
    109 cacodemons
    39 hell knights
    64 barons of hell
    119 arachnotrons
    41 former commandos
    37 pain elementals
    53 revenants
    19 mancubi
    39 arch-viles
    19 nightmare imps
    6 nightmare cacodemons
    39 nightmare demons
    11 nightmare arachnotrons
    2 bruiser brothers
    2 shamblers
    1 lava elemental
    1 agony elemental
    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 Deimos Lab.
  On level 9 he assembled a focused double shotgun!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 10 he assembled a antigrav boots!
  On level 11 he found the Enviroboots!
  On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
  He slaughtered the beasts living there.
  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 Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  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!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He overloaded a nuclear BFG 9000 on level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You feel more calm.
 John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn!
 The revenant dies. The revenant dies.
 The revenant dies. The revenant dies. The revenant dies. The revenant dies.
 The revenant dies.
 The revenant dies. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
 Carmack! Press <Enter>...

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

 237 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 69 of those were killed.
 91 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 71 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 35 killed the bitch and survived.
 30 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 93 
 DRL / Nightmare! / (0.9.9.7) [N!|AoD|100%|YAFW] - Hunter + Longinus Diamond and a N! AoD Conqueror
 on: November 25, 2025, 18:15 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Ok so after saying I probably wouldn't do another 100% N! in 0.9.9.7 after my Veteran + Elite Angelic run, it seems I lied. I wasn't planning to go for 100% kills nor Conqueror when going for Hunter Platinum + Diamond, but after going halfway through the run with 100% kills intact and having cleared all the special levels, I thought I may as well finish the job, especially as I don't think anyone has done a 100% nor Conqueror run in Angel of Darkness on N! before (at least no one that posted it to the forums).

For the build, it's the boring choice but I just went with Cateye. Was going to do Blademaster first as I did for the HMP AoD 100% Conqueror run I did a year ago, but I got a bit tired of looking at 0.9.9.7's awfully garish berserk red screen for my past few runs, and this gave me the opportunity to get Longinus Diamond too without having to dedicate a run to it or hindering another run to go for it. There was nothing particularly interesting about my trait order, other than picking up a second level of EE later on that I didn't really need just to make Cathedral not take as long and to make my melee sidearm more reliable in general.

For the run itself, Hell's Arena is mostly a nonissue if you're just entering and exiting for Hunter Diamond, but is the obvious immediate obstacle to an AoD conqueror, especially without Finesse, Juggler, or Hellrunner; I lost the first attempt when it got out of hand and I quitted out, but that run was kneecapped with bad medkit + powerup luck on floor 2 that left me with a single small medkit going in and so I wasn't able to take some plasma balls to destroy corpses nor heal much. In AoD you can't safely run -> wait in Hell's Arena, but I find that you shouldn't run -> wait anyway on N! Hell's Arena until you're down to the last wave and are camping on a single corpse, since respawns become more frequent the longer you spend on a level and so you can more effectively get most of the corpses stacked/destroyed by playing the first two waves faster. As for why I completed AoD Hell's Arena instead of just quickly dipping out if I wasn't planning on Conqueror, I really wanted that rocket launcher, everything just becomes so much harder without it.

The early Phobos floors are rough in N! AoD, but with the crazy EXP rate, you should hit level 6 to get Cateye by only floor 3 or 4, at which point you're just basically playing a masterless Scout standard N! game except with no map memory and no stair sense but with much faster leveling that makes it arguably easier than standard N!. I ended up getting this in only my second attempt, Intuition and especially Cateye really takes the bite out of AoD, this experience definitely enforces my proposal to replace Hunter Diamond's Explorer requirement with a no Intuition requirement (as well as add that to Hunter Angelic if it gets added). I suspect Hunter Diamond being one of the rarest Diamonds according to the 0.9.9.7 Badge Hunters thread is moreso due to people being too spooked to try it rather than it being genuinely one of the most difficult Diamonds (though being one of the most Sereg-resistant Diamonds probably also contributed to that, it's much harder to do an AoOC stair dive with no stair sense and AoD's vision penalty).

As for doing Longinus Diamond, I got a surplus of Power and Agility mods, letting me build a Piercing Chainsaw to make the process much quicker without costing me other valuable equipment, and so just needed to make sure I got my attacking and nonrunning movement speed faster than 0.67 seconds before the Cathedral, which AoD's EXP boost helped with. That ended up proving unnecessary though, as I got two Invulnerabilities on Hell 1, which lasted long enough for me to kill all the Lost Souls, Pinkies, and the Angel of Death without having to bother with doing any timing shenanigans (building the Piercing Chainsaw and getting the second EE level still helped though, I probably don't kill them all fast enough before the Invuln ran out without them). One other thing of note is Hell 1 also had a Nano mod, but it was too late to start building a Nanomachic Plasma Rifle or Antigrav Boots, so I just put it on a Plasma Rifle to ensure I always had ammo (not that I needed it though, since you can infinitely farm ammo off of respawns in 0.9.9.7 and nearly every floor at this point has at least one Arachnotron or Commando). Then the game decided to give me a second Nano mod on Hell 7 that I absolutely did not need, the RNG just likes to be funny like that sometimes.

Anyway here is the mortem:

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 ICANSEE, level 20 Cyberdemon Marshal Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 1529020 turns and scored 1936602 points.
 He played for 6 hours, 12 minutes and 22 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 2321 out of 2321 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Darkness!

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

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

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Conqueror Badge
  Experience Medal
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Hunter Platinum Badge
  Hunter Diamond Badge
  Longinus Diamond Badge

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

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

  Health 93/50   Experience 348855/20
  ToHit Ranged +4  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Hellrunner       (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Triggerhappy     (Level 2)
    Cateye           (Level 1)

  Int->Int->SoB->SoB->TH->MCe->EE->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->Jug->HR->Fin->SoB->TH->EE->HR->DM->HR->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [6] (AOP)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   hyperblaster (2d4)x5 [5/40] (F1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] (N2T1)

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

    [a] tactical shotgun (9d3) [5/5] (P1)
    [b] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [5/5]
    [c] napalm launcher (7d7) [1/1]
    [d] BFG 9000 (12d6) [130/130] (B1P2)
    [e] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
    [f] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [g] rocket (x9)
    [h] rocket (x14)
    [i] power cell (x70)
    [j] power cell (x70)
    [k] power cell (x70)
    [l] power cell (x30)
    [m] power cell (x70)
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] large med-pack
    [r] envirosuit pack
    [s] lava element
    [t] cerberus protective boots [0/0] (100%)

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

    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 25%   feet 0%   

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

    265 former humans
    199 former sergeants
    112 former captains
    380 imps
    122 demons
    482 lost souls
    122 cacodemons
    27 hell knights
    92 barons of hell
    75 arachnotrons
    118 former commandos
    55 pain elementals
    100 revenants
    79 mancubi
    35 arch-viles
    7 nightmare imps
    6 nightmare cacodemons
    33 nightmare demons
    3 bruiser brothers
    2 shamblers
    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.
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 7 he assembled a hyperblaster!
  He broke through the lab.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  Level 10 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 11 he assembled a piercing blade!
  On level 11 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  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 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 invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 17 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  He nuked level 18!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 20 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
  On level 20 he assembled a cerberus boots!
  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 Enviroboots!
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He overloaded a nuclear BFG 9000 on level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 missile hits the baron of hell. The missile hits the baron of hell. The
 missile hits the baron of hell. Argh!!! Lava!
 The missile hits the baron of hell. The missile hits the baron of hell. The
 baron of hell dies. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
 Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The
 missile hits John Carmack. Argh!!! Lava!
 The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
 hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
 Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack.
 Argh!!! Lava!
 The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile
 hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John
 Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack.
 Argh!!! Lava!
 The missile hits John Carmack. The missile hits John Carmack. John Carmack
 dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press <Enter>...

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

 236 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 69 of those were killed.
 91 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 70 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 35 killed the bitch and survived.
 29 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 DRL / Nightmare! / (0.9.9.7) [N!|100%|YAFW] - Veteran Diamond+Angelic and Elite Diamond+Angelic
 on: November 24, 2025, 00:22 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
I've done a ton of complete Nightmare runs in the 0.9.9.9/0.10 beta testing and in JHC since the first 0.9.9.9 beta made some big changes to N!'s respawning, but never actually tried doing a standard N! run before in 0.9.9.7 (nor even in 0.9.9.8, stopping at getting Eagerness and Inquisitor Angelic there), as N! and the whole corpse disposal minigame seemed so awful to play; I once tried beating Hell's Arena in Angel of Darkness on only HMP back when I wasn't as good at the game and immediately noped out of the idea of ever dealing with respawning in the special levels even after I've became very consistent at doing 100% UV runs. Since I've been so involved in proposals and balancing suggestions since DRL's development revival, I thought I should experience the old N! 100% playthrough run at least once however (and show my dislike of how N! played prior to 0.10 wasn't a skill issue on my part :p).

For the build, I just went with my favorite mastery of Shottyhead that I always thought was criminally underrated. I open with the trait order of Fin -> Jug -> HR -> Rel2 -> SM -> MSh; just going straight to Shottyhead in this order gives one of the strongest early games, and Shottyhead itself gives such a massive power boost that you don't want to delay getting it. It's then Fin2 and getting both levels of Whizkid to ensure I can do full modding by the end of Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab, and after that I get two levels of Brute + Berserker, I always liked having a melee sidearm and pairing Berserker with Shottyhead to amp up my firing speeds farther as well as get nice lategame defensive insurance. After that it's just maxing out Fin and HR, Reloader as well to amp up my standstill DPS, and then Brute 3 to help lategame gibbing with the Scythe.

For the start of the run, I sure take advantage of respawns dropping their inventory in this version to get a half dozen Shotguns in my inventory for juggling and getting a full inventory of shells from Phobos Base Entry. After Phobos 2 had a very convenient horizontal water river to make corpse disposal less of a pain, it was the infamous N! Hell's Arena, and well it wasn't like it's exceedingly hard, especially with the Fin/Jug/HR opener, but man is it so tedious even when knowing better to seek out enemies and lure them to your corpse piles to limit the respawn rate rather than run -> waiting; can't stress enough how much I'm looking forward to when respawns will finally no longer count towards Hell's Arena wave clearing in the eventual 0.11. After a warehouse level on Phobos 3 that made corpse disposal extra annoying and Phobos 5 having two Cacodemon vaults plus some annoying acid rivers, it was then Unchained Court, one of the very few special levels I think can be a stumbling block for Shottyhead. With berserk being unnerfed in this version though and successfully avoiding let the Barons blow up the berserks, I'm able to take out the Barons and Arena Master without serious issue, it was the cleanup of the formers after that was the very annoying part with the center building near completely destroyed and having too few rockets to just blow up the remaining formers, I am eternally grateful that 0.10 and JHC changed it so respawns no longer count towards a special level's clearing (at least for the ones that aren't bugged about it like Hell's Arena is currently...). After uneventful floors for Phobos 6 and 7, I then get Military Base, which is one of the most cheesable levels with run -> wait camping even on N! but damn is it so fucking tedious, 0.10's Enraged Timer and not counting respawns towards clearing it does wonders towards making the level actually engaging and not a joke compared to Phobos Lab. I can build a Tactical Shotgun and start modding a Double Shotgun towards a Focused Double, but I put off doing so until I reach Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab in case their weapon cache has an Assault or Super Shotgun. Thanks to the Elite Formers giving their obscene pre-nerfed EXP in this version, I hit Shottyhead and Finesse 2 before Phobos Anomaly, so after rocket jumping out of the ambush, I can actually fight back against the terrifying Nightmare horde without taking much damage and then effortlessly cornershoot the Bruisers to death.

Deimos would greet me with an awful maze that's especially annoying when I don't have quite enough rockets to blow up every corpse but I manage it. It's then Deimos Lab, easily the most threatening special level for Shottyhead with the dreaded dual Shamblers, especially when the weapon cache didn't have the Super Shotty nor Assault Shotgun, so I have to settle for making the Tactical Shotgun and I'm still down an A mod to complete the Focused Double before the Shamblers (at least the cache had a Nuclear Plasma Rifle that is nice for saving ammo). When fighting them, at one point one teleports near the wall next to me while the other is out of vision, so with run active, I get a couple spaces away from him and take advantage of Shottyhead's firing rate with a shell box equipped to hammer into him with the Double Shotgun while running mitigate the amount I got hit to kill him before the other Shambler can interfere. The second Shambler I would take some meaty hits from but it wasn't too bad, however I get a stark reminder of why 0.10/JHC not having enemies revive in vision was such a much needed change, as this Shambler would get right back up with full health as I was moving away to blow up his corpse. For a weaker build this could have been a run ender, but with Shottyhead I'm able to handle it after using up a medkit to get run back and repeating the strategy I used to take out the first Shambler. In the lab cache I get two Onyx mods, not really ideal but I just use one on a Red Armor I would mostly use for the rest of the run and then save the second later to make Lava Boots since I got nothing better to use it on. I also get an A mod to complete my Focused Double Shotgun and a P mod to buff it up.

Rather annoyingly, after making that Focused Double Shotgun and P-modding it, I would find a Super Shotgun just a couple floors later... I hold onto it in case I find enough mods to make it better than the modded Focused Double and then enter Containment Area, which can be potentially very nasty but Shottyhead is able to handle it rather easily, especially with a radsuit and indestructible Red Armor, just had to made sure to immediately grab the Backpack since it's still destroyable in this version. Cleanup after was the annoying part with the doors destroyed and my rockets running low, ate quite a few Imp fireballs just to destroy corpses without expending rockets. With a handy Deimos 4 Invuln, the potentially rough Abyssal Plains opening ambush is a nonfactor, and then the Agony Elemental fight is completely free for Shottyhead, super extra free for Shottyhead with Berserker. I get Spider's Lair for the Deimos 6 special level, which is appreciated as it's one of the easiest special levels on N! with its complete lack of enemy layout changes compared to UV while you'll be a couple levels stronger and get supplied with enough rockets to blow up all their corpses, especially compared to Halls Of Carnage that becomes very brutal on N! (however, Shottyhead with Berserker is one of the best builds for doing Halls Of Carnage, so I may have preferred it instead for the extra mods). In Spider's Lair I just get berserked and rocket jump into all the Arachnotrons to chainsaw them down. After an unremarkable Deimos 7, I then get the Cyberdemon fight that is completely free for a Shottyhead with berserker and a PO Red Armor.

After an uneventful Hell 1 (well I guess not technically uneventful as it had a hard walls event), it's the Unholy Cathedral. With Berserker and PO Red Armor, I could just straight chainsaw the Angel Of Death down, but I checked to see if the timing trick I employed in 0.9.9.8 of "get three spaces ahead and then wait, chainsaw if he double moves" worked here after Sylph told me the timing was more complicated than that in 0.9.9.7. I took her word on it since 0.9.9.8 was so buggy and the timing would indeed become more complicated in 0.10, but I find that nope, it is the same timing as 0.9.9.8 and so that is helpful to know for the eventual Longinus Diamond, while I get through Cathedral without taking as much damage as I would have playing roshambo with the AoD. I got an Archvile level on Hell 3, it's funny that what is supposed to be one of the most dangerous lategame level types is actually one of the nicest levels to get when Archviles are a whole lot less threatening without lackeys to revive, especially on N! when it means you won't have to put up with any corpse disposal either. Speaking of funny,  The Vaults is such a laughably easy special level on N! in this version, with any good fire resist the measly 8 Archviles + 8 Revenants poses no threat at all, and you don't have to worry about half the enemies reviving on N! and you get more than enough rockets to destroy the corpses of the other half, I do look forward to any old heads revisiting DRL seeing the massive glow up the Vaults got on UV and especially N! since 0.9.9.7. It is then time for the oh so dreaded N! Mortuary, but after employing my usual opening of immediately popping a Hatred Skull, then rocket jumping around to blow up most of the corpses with the BFG, it wasn't so bad, I only had to deal with 50ish enemies and I would have dealt with even less if I didn't spend precious time near the start to secure the Nuclear BFG. I find the unnerfed Malek's Armor on Hell 6, a bit late for it to matter but it's still nice to have, and then comes Lava Pits that was free with Lava Boots, but I'll mention how sad a boss the Lava Elemental was prior to his 0.9.9.8 glow up, Lava Pits wouldn't have been a issue even if I didn't have Lava Boots. After yet another forgettable penultimate floor, it's then nuking the Mastermind and fighting Carmack, and with my buffed Super Shotgun + Rel 3 + a Shell Box + berserk, I'm able to get over a dozen SSG blasts off on him after he whiffs a rocket, he just didn't stand a chance.

Overall this wasn't really all that hard compared to the Eagerness and Inquisitor Angelic runs, but damn was it tedious. I'm surprised I clocked this run in under 5 hours despite not really trying to play it fast and doing my fair share of run -> wait abuse, it looked like 6+ hours was the average for Elite Angelic runs in 0.9.9.7 and none of the Elite Angelic mortems listed on the Badge Hunters thread even broke under 5 hours. Well it was nice to get the experience and get all those sweet badges to bolster my 0.9.9.7 badge collection, but I don't think I'll do another 100% N! run in 0.9.9.7 anytime soon.

Enough of the yap, here is the mortem:

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 SHOTTYHEAD2GOOD,
 level 18 Cyberdemon General Scout,
 nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
 He survived 887128 turns and scored 1124159 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 46 minutes and 47 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 1983 out of 1983 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!

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

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

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Aurora Medallion
  Conqueror Badge
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  UAC Platinum Badge
  Veteran Diamond Badge
  Veteran Angelic Badge
  Elite Diamond Badge
  Elite Angelic Badge
  Demonic Platinum Badge
  Reaper Platinum Badge
  Arena Platinum Badge
  Longinus Platinum Badge

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

  Health 52/50   Experience 186932/18
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Hellrunner       (Level 3)
    Reloader         (Level 3)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Shottyhead       (Level 1)

  Fin->Jug->HR->Rel->Rel->SM->MSh->Fin->WK->WK->Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->Fin->HR->Rel->Bru->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   super shotgun (10d4)x2 [0/2] (B2P2T1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x58)

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

    [a] focused double shotgun (9d4)x2 [2/2] (P1)
    [b] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [5/5]
    [c] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d6) [52/52] (B1)
    [d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [220/220] (B3)
    [e] red armor [6] (AOP)
    [f] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [g] shotgun shell (x60)
    [h] rocket (x3)
    [i] rocket (x14)
    [j] rocket (x14)
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] homing phase device
    [p] lava plasteel boots [2]
    [q] shell box (x100)
    [r] shell box (x100)
    [s] shell box (x100)
    [t] shell box (x100)

-- 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 -----------------------------------------------------

    234 former humans
    252 former sergeants
    101 former captains
    326 imps
    113 demons
    397 lost souls
    70 cacodemons
    25 hell knights
    91 barons of hell
    85 arachnotrons
    35 former commandos
    46 pain elementals
    55 revenants
    43 mancubi
    52 arch-viles
    14 nightmare imps
    4 nightmare cacodemons
    9 nightmare demons
    7 elite former humans
    5 elite former sergeants
    7 elite former commandos
    2 bruiser brothers
    3 shamblers
    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 marched into the Military Base.
  He purified his fellow comrades.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 8 he assembled a fireproof armor!
  On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  On level 9 he assembled a focused double shotgun!
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  He emerged from the Containment Area victorious!
  On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
  He slaughtered the beasts living there.
  On level 14 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
  On level 15 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  Level 17 was a hard nut to crack!
  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 stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  On level 19 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 19 he found the Mega Buster!
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 20 he assembled a lava boots!
  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 found the Malek's Armor!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  On level 22 he found the Cybernetic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He overloaded a nuclear plasma rifle on level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in Hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 You quickly reload the super shotgun. You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 You need to taste blood!
 You quickly reload the super shotgun.
 You need to taste blood!
 You quickly reload the super shotgun. You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn! You need to taste blood!
 John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press
 <Enter>...

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

 235 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 69 of those were killed.
 91 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 69 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 35 killed the bitch and survived.
 28 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 95 
 DRL / Nightmare! / (0.9.9.7) [N!|AoP + AoRA|62%|YAVP] - Inquisitor Angelic achieved in 0.9.9.7!
 on: November 23, 2025, 11:32 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Like with Eagerness Angelic, I previously won the never-achieved-in-0.9.9.7 Inquisitor Angelic Badge twice, first in the initial 0.9.9.9 beta when I started doubting its perceived impossibility and wanted to see how it was like firsthand, and then in 0.9.9.8 outright. However, as explained in thread for my recent Eagerness Angelic run in 0.9.9.7, in those versions I was helped significantly by a dodging bug that essentially gave you a 95% dodge rate against everything no matter your HR levels, which I've come to realize made 0.9.9.8 a lot easier, especially in a challenge where health is so limited and you're trying to rush through the game. Additionally I used the Marine, where in those versions he had inherent 20% energy resistances that proved rather OP, especially when stacked with berserk's +60% resistances, OP enough that both the Marine and berserk would later get their resistances nerfed in 0.10. As such, I've come to feel that winning Inquisitor Angelic in 0.9.9.8 is rather tainted, and so wanted to show I can win it without the aid of a major bug and a class with OP tankiness, while like with Eagerness Angelic, I wanted to prove definitively that Inquisitor Angelic was very possible even back in 0.9.9.7 before all the major mechanical and balancing changes made in 0.9.9.8 and beyond.

When it came to the build I would use for this badge in 0.9.9.7, I of course go with the Scout instead of the Marine; without any inherent resistances, the Marine isn't taking any less damage throughout the game, and while the extra 10 max HP would be nice to get more health from your crucial medkits, it wouldn't make up for all the extra damage I'm avoiding with the Scout's 10% speed bonus (as well as said speed bonus giving more leeway with actually finding and getting to the stairs in time). I still go with the same starting seven traits though in the same exact order; Fin -> HR -> Rel -> HR -> Bru -> Bru -> Ber. The attack speed boost is obviously useful for a much needed combat boost, but I particularly open with it instead of HR to increase the chances that I get the small medkits in Phobos Base Entry from the formers (if you don't get both, you should just Q+Y out, you'll probably need every single medkit you can get your hands on in this challenge). After Fin is the obvious HR, and then maybe surprisingly I still go with Reloader despite this being 0.9.9.7 with the crappy unbuffed Reloader; going with the second level of Finesse could work and may be arguably better, but I felt "rounding out" the shot and reload time of the Shotgun was the way to go, as aside from giving a slightly better edge in total shot and reload time of the Shotgun, it also gave me more safety in situations where an enemy pops at a bad angle after I shoot (it'll also make a bigger difference with the Rocket Launcher later in the game that has a much longer reload time, and would give me greater leeway to get away with doing full reloads with the Combat/Tactical Shotgun when berserked to preserve my berserk actions). Then it's HR2; while I want Berserker ASAP, it's absolutely necessary to get HR2 before Anomaly, otherwise you're going to take too much damage or die there without a rocket launcher that you likely won't have or a lucky phase device. After that it's Berserker ASAP, which is going to be needed to survive the later floors and get past the Cyberdemon with so little armor + healing and not many levels. I deviate compared to the 0.9.9.8 run though with getting TaN instead of Ironman after Berserker; even without the physical resistances that Ironman gives in 0.9.9.8 onward, it would have been useful to squeeze more health from the scarce amount of medkits you get, but each level of Ironman makes it increasingly more difficult to trigger Berserker from getting hit (as 0.9.9.8 exclusively has Berserker's trigger based on nominal HP while all other DRL versions make it based off your actual max HP), which will result in me losing more relative health from big hits and make it a lot less reliable to intentionally trigger Berserker with face rockets (something I make use of a lot throughout the run). As such, TaN is the much better durability boosting trait here even without it giving energy resistances like it does in 0.10-onward, and it's especially needed given the difficulty of maintaining armor in a challenge where you can't repair armor normally. I then only get one more level after for Fin2, so no Brute 3, WK, or Juggler that I may have considered if I got more levels.

As for the general strategy, it's still pretty much the same; I enter Hell's Arena to clear out the first wave for some extra easy HP and then get out, stop by Chained Court for the Chainsaw and my one free full heal but don't release any of the Barons, and then only enter special levels after that point if they offer you a quick safe escape, except for maybe Deimos Lab for some safe EXP and to gamble with the crates having medkits, or a couple other special levels where you can safely trade a Homing Phase for some nice rewards. The rest of it is getting enough luck and a healthy dose of just "gitting gud", getting through levels fast while avoiding taking too much damage, and after you find the stairs, appropriately judging the risk/reward between exploring more for more EXP and finding some helpful stuff, or just getting out then and there. The nice thing about Inquisitor Angelic compared to Eagerness Angelic is that kill percent does not matter at all, so once you find the stairs you can just dip out of any tough level, and Berserker is all you really need to get past the Cyberdemon, while you don't even need to beat the Mastermind since you can just wait out the nuke timer there when a partial win still rewards the badge. That doesn't mean you stair dive though; as mentioned you need HR2 before Anomaly, the sooner you get Berserker the better as it'll greatly increase your chances of surviving Deimos floors full of VMR, any additional levels after that increases your chances of surviving tough Deimos and Hell floors, and I mean it when I say you'll need nearly every medkit and decent armor you can find, so not exploring floors enough may leave your resources too deficient to survive difficulty floors later.

Unlike the Eagerness Angelic 0.9.9.7 run that took me a few dozen tries, Inquisitor Angelic here took me... only three real attempts (not counting a few runs I Q+Y'd on Phobos Base Entry, or in one instance, accidentally run -> waiting too much and setting off the nuke on Phobos Base Entry), not only a lot less than the aforementioned Eagerness Angelic run took but also surprisingly a lot less than the Inquisitor Angelic runs i did in the 0.9.9.9 beta and 0.9.9.8 versions that each took a dozen. I wouldn't say Inquisitor Angelic was actually easier in 0.9.9.7, but I managed to get some fortunate luck without too many attempts. Such fortunate luck includes; a vault on Phobos 2 with a Power mod i was able to retrieve and immediately put on my Shotgun (as I learned in my 0.9.9.7 Quartermaster Diamond run a couple years ago, just putting an early Power mod on a Shotgun is very useful for significantly increasing the chances of you one-shotting the small fry at farther distances and killing the bigger enemies before they reach you), finding a radsuit on Phobos 5 that I could then use to retrieve the mods in Chained Court without having to hit the levers, only having to burn a single medkit in Phobos Anomaly, getting a Rocket Launcher in early Deimos, getting an easy Lost Soul + Pinky + Caco cave in Deimos and then an even easier Pinky cave after that also had two fresh Red Armors, and no mazes in Deimos nor Hell. Some things were rather unlucky, notably I never found a single unique nor any exotics aside from the guaranteed Chainsaw, guaranteed BFG, and a Hatred Skull I couldn't do much with, I never found any Bulk mods and so couldn't build a Nanofiber Red Armor to ensured I always had a decent armor (but the game giving me several uncontested Red and Blue armors throughout the run meant I never had to run around in Green Armor or nothing after Phobos), I never found a second Agility mod to make Tactical Boots, and I was never doing too good on medkits. I in fact did run out of medkits mid Hell and felt the run was maybe not going to close it out, but then Hell 5 gave me a Nightmare Demon cave, which would normally be a terrible thing, however with berserk and Nightmare Demons not yet having their fluid immunity they would get in 0.9.9.8, I was able to kill them without taking an excessive amount of damage after luring them into a corner with lava puddles and the floor had several Small Medkits with no Formers nor Nobles around to take them. Hell 7 then had an uncontested Large Medkit at the start to seal the deal for me, and with my Phase Devices I was able to immediately get near the stairs to ensure victory with no fear of suddenly dying trying so (there was a Baron, Mancubus, and Archvile near the stairs that battered me a bit, but with the Plasteel Boots I was able to power through them to the stairs without being beaten around too much). I also had a Homing Phase that I would use in Halls Of Carnage to get the BFG there, which I'm not sure was worth it as I did get in a bad spot in early Hell in an open room with a large amount of Barons, but a Phase Device was able to get me out of that and the BFG was pretty useful to help me get through an Arachnotron cave on Hell 6 without taking a lot of damage.

Now here is the mortem:

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 ONLYMEDKITS3, level 10 Cyberdemon General Scout,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 38939 turns and scored 517795 points.
 He played for 48 minutes and 11 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 684 out of 1098 hellspawn. (62%)
 He was an Angel of Purity!
 He was also an Angel of Red Alert!

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 5
  Levels completed : 0

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

  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Minor Icarus Cross
  Inquisitor Angelic Badge

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

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

  Health 15/50   Experience 48396/10
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +6

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 2)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Reloader         (Level 1)
    Brute            (Level 2)
    Berserker        (Level 1)

  Fin->HR->Rel->HR->Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->TaN->Fin->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [2/4] (33%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   chainsaw (4d6) (T)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   plasteel boots [2/2] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   nothing

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

    [a] shotgun (9d3) [1/1] (P1)
    [b] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
    [c] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
    [d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [60/100]
    [e] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [f] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [g] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
    [h] red armor [4/4] (56%)
    [i] shotgun shell (x50)
    [j] shotgun shell (x50)
    [k] shotgun shell (x50)
    [l] shotgun shell (x46)
    [m] shotgun shell (x50)
    [n] rocket (x10)
    [o] rocket (x10)
    [p] rocket (x3)
    [q] small med-pack
    [r] large med-pack
    [s] phase device
    [t] phase device
    [u] steel boots [1/1] (71%) (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 60%   feet 95% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 72%   feet 85% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    79 former humans
    69 former sergeants
    21 former captains
    80 imps
    42 demons
    288 lost souls
    22 cacodemons
    3 hell knights
    11 barons of hell
    11 arachnotrons
    7 former commandos
    16 pain elementals
    1 revenant
    8 mancubi
    6 arch-viles
    18 nightmare demons
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He saw, left a present and left.
  He left level 3 as soon as possible.
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 7 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  Level 15 was a hard nut to crack!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  Entering level 17 he was almost dead...
  He left level 17 as soon as possible.
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  On level 21 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
  On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
  He decided it was too dangerous.
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You're going
 berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You dodge! You are hit!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You're going
 berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
 You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...

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

 234 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 69 of those were killed.
 91 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 68 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 35 killed the bitch and survived.
 27 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 96 
 DRL / Nightmare! / (0.9.9.7) [N!|AoI + AoRA|93%|YAVP] - Eagerness Angelic Badge achieved in 0.9.9.7
 on: November 22, 2025, 02:41 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
I've gotten the previously unwon Eagerness Angelic twice now, once in the first 0.9.9.9 beta, and then won it in the official version of 0.9.9.8. However, 0.9.9.9 made a big change to Nightmare where respawns no longer count towards the kill counter, which obviously makes this badge more winnable. That isn't bad, and is how it should have worked to begin with, but I've come to feel that winning the badge in 0.9.9.8 has become sullied after realizing just how buggy that version was. In particular, 0.9.9.8 has a dodging bug, where you essentially have a 95% dodge rate at all times even with no HR, significantly nerfing the threat of most non-VMR projectile enemies, especially neutering the rapid fire enemies. I will just do it again in 0.11 or whichever DRL version I find updated enough to tryhard 100%ing in, as most of the bugs that 0.9.9.8 introduced have been fixed since, but in the meantime, I thought to go back to 0.9.9.7 and prove that I could win Eagerness Angelic there too, without the aid of several things added to DRL after 0.9.9.7 that made this badge easier (such as the significantly buffed Reloader, buffed Ironman, Technical mods giving extra resistances to armor, enemy reveal on final three enemies, etc.). Granted, 0.9.9.7 has several benefits that may make it not necessarily harder than in DRL versions from 0.10 onward (such as unnerfed berserk, unnerfed Intuition 2, unnerfed Finesse, respawns dropping ammo, lower danger levels in Deimos and Hell, unbuffed Nightmare enemies, and so on), either way though I want to show that this badge wasn't quite as impossible as it was thought to be in the version it was never verifiably won in.

For Eagerness Angelic in 0.9.9.7, I use roughly the same Blademaster build as the one I used in the aforementioned 0.9.9.8 run, so I would suggest reading that thread I linked prior rather than repeat much of the same information here. One major difference though is I swap out the early Reloader level I took in my 0.9.9.8 run for a Finesse level; with 0.9.9.7's Reloader increasing a Shotgun's fire-and-reload rate only 5% more than Finesse does, it's better to just get Finesse here, that is going to help with your meleeing later on and will build towards Juggler/Whizkid. I additionally postponed HR2 until after Berserker; I was initially getting HR2 before building up Berserker, but I was finding I was reaching Phobos Anomaly without Berserker, which is needed to actually kill the enemies there instead of leaving behind a big EXP pile that will put you farther in an EXP and kill count hole that you may not be able to dig out of later, and having Berserker on the dangerous late Phobos floors will also help you survive them, while usually I could find the stairs in time reliably enough with only HR1. Then when it came to the traits after Blademaster, I do end up getting Intuition 2 here unlike in the 0.9.9.8 run, as with no dodging bug, I was simply dying too much from taking too much damage and then being unable to safely reach health or having said health get blown up as I approached it. And then I don't get any levels of Ironman here, as aside from not granting the physical resistances it did in 0.9.9.8, Berserker's damage trigger is also based on your actual max HP here rather than how 0.9.9.8 changed it to being based on nominal max HP, meaning any Ironman levels would make triggering Berserker from facerockets and the hard-hitting enemies less reliable, which could end up costing me.

My overall strategy wasn't much different from my 0.9.9.8 run either, though I found I had to be more aggressive in the Phobos floors, otherwise as aside from falling in a deeper kill count hole in a version where there are less enemies in Deimos/Hell and Pain Elementals stop appearing normally in the final few floors, I may not reach Blademaster before City Of Skulls/Abyssal Plains, which is critical to get yourself a huge kill pad to make up for you being unable to maintain 90% kills in the first half of the game. My fifth attempt made it all the way to Hell 5 (link goes to the Jupiter Hell discord), however I failed to reach Blademaster before City Of Skulls and so had to skip out on it (as well as failed to get Berserker before Anomaly and so had to completely skip trying to kill any of the enemies there), leaving me in a kill hole I probably wouldn't have been able to make up even if I didn't die (I needed about 280 more kills with none missed in that run to hit 90%, which probably wouldn't have been possible in only two more Hell floors unless I got a lucky Pain Elemental cave). Also in this run compared to the 0.9.9.8 run, I don't go in Deimos Lab (without the dodging bug, those Commandos are too dangerous unless you're desperate for health/armor), I don't go to The Wall in the winning run (but did go in a couple failed attempts, if you get a Deimos 3 Invuln and have a Rocket Launcher it's worth going in for a big easy EXP dump + all those rockets), and I skip out on Unholy Cathedral (I would go in, but my health wasn't good at the end of Hell 1 and so going in would have likely put at too low of a health to survive Hell 2 without getting lucky).

Altogether this took me 35 attempts, and was indeed significantly more difficult than doing it in 0.9.9.8, where I did it there in only six attempts. The main reason I would chalk this up to does fall on the absence of the dodging bug here; in most runs I simply failed from taking too much damage and being unable to reach health, all those Former bullets and Imp fireballs I was no longer constantly dodging do really add up, and you can't so easily rush towards a Commando or Arachnotron unscathed, which gets exasperated so much when you're unable to heal on demand. Only a few failed runs was from being unable to reach the stairs in time or falling in too deep of a kill hole to reach 90%. Also making it to Deimos doesn't near guarantee victory, as I had five runs that made it to Deimos and died before getting one that went all the way, all it takes is one bad floor with health deep behind enemy lines when you have the healing constraints of AoI and AoRA preventing you from taking a floor slowly.

Now here is the mortem:

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 NOMEDKITS35, level 15 Cyberdemon General Scout,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 59625 turns and scored 801725 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 40 minutes and 41 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 1447 out of 1553 hellspawn. (93%)
 He held his right to remain violent.
 He was an Angel of Impatience!
 He was also an Angel of Red Alert!

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

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 3
  Levels completed : 1

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

  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Eagerness Angelic Badge
  Quartermaster Platinum Badge

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

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

  Health 89/50   Experience 108944/15
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Scout

    Finesse          (Level 3)
    Hellrunner       (Level 3)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Juggler          (Level 1)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Whizkid          (Level 1)
    Blademaster      (Level 1)

  HR->Fin->Int->Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->Bru->MBm->Int->Jug->Fin->HR->WK->Fin->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [6/6] (98%) (P)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   chainsaw (5d6) (BT)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x79)

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

    [a] shotgun (8d3) [1/1] (T1)
    [b] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]
    [c] rocket launcher (6d6) [0/1] (B2)
    [d] blue armor [2/2] (63%)
    [e] blue armor [2/2] (58%)
    [f] blue armor [2/2] (52%)
    [g] blue armor [4/4] (100%) (P)
    [h] red armor [4/4] (92%)
    [i] red armor [6/6] (100%) (P)
    [j] energy shield [0/0] (90%)
    [k] shotgun shell (x50)
    [l] shotgun shell (x50)
    [m] shotgun shell (x50)
    [n] shotgun shell (x35)
    [o] shotgun shell (x50)
    [p] rocket (x10)
    [q] rocket (x4)
    [r] rocket (x10)
    [s] power cell (x28)
    [t] plasteel boots [2/2] (100%)
    [u] power battery (x120)

-- 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 -----------------------------------------------------

    98 former humans
    126 former sergeants
    47 former captains
    160 imps
    84 demons
    649 lost souls
    34 cacodemons
    19 hell knights
    48 barons of hell
    22 arachnotrons
    21 former commandos
    73 pain elementals
    9 revenants
    16 mancubi
    18 arch-viles
    5 nightmare imps
    4 nightmare cacodemons
    9 nightmare demons
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 agony elemental
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He saw, left a present and left.
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 18 he assembled a tactical boots!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You're going
 berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
 You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 Next!

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

 230 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 69 of those were killed.
 88 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 6 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 67 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 6 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 34 killed the bitch and survived.
 27 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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 97 
 DRL / Discussion / Re: My mortem dump thread and progression record to as close to 100% as I can get
 on: November 14, 2025, 15:11 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Thought to update this since version 0.10 has been out for a couple months now with JHC's release; I decided to wait some more before I tryhard another 100% attempt, as version 0.10 does still lack a lot of key things (such as the special level rebalancing, incorporating all the new enemies into the special levels, and not fixing the unwinnable Angelic badges). I also been pretty focused on JHC too for the timebeing. But once a stable DRL version does do the aforementioned things, I should get back to a new 100% attempt (if it takes a while to get done and I mostly run out of things to do in JHC, I'm thinking I might go and do "100% except for the unwinnables" in 0.9.9.7, just to prove I could have done these runs before the big N! changes and other major mechanical + rebalancing changes).

 98 
 DRL / Discussion / Re: 0.9.9.8 Build Tier List
 on: November 13, 2025, 20:15 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Omega Tyrant
Quote from: Sambojin on November 11, 2025, 22:21
Masterless Scout is at least A+.

Intuition 1 start then Int2, then Finesse + Juggler, or Hellrunner 1+2.

Finesse+ Whizzkid after. Or "choose your own adventure" on the Hellrunner side.

It doesn't look like it adds DPS, but it does. A lot. Weapon switches or Movement do tonnes of damage.

Masterless Scout is incredibly strong.

None of the Scout masteries block any of those traits in 0.9.9.8, so that's not a real advantage for masterless Scout. Instant weapon switching also isn't doing much for DPS except for the early game where you use the Juggler with several Shotguns trick to emulate a bootleg Tactical Shotgun until you get the real deal, and I find Intuition to be a bit overrated (especially after Intuition 2's nerf in 0.9.9.8); detecting enemies outside of vision just doesn't really do all that much to help you survive if you spawn in a bad hot start or there are too many enemies around for you to avoid them anyway (i.e the scenarios most likely to kill or cripple you), and it especially tends to be unhelpful in most special levels where enemy locations are more static (most of the time when I pick it up, it's just to speed the game up after I'm already in a good place power-wise, and I'll almost never get it early on N! outside of specific challenges where it's more valuable like Angel Of Darkness). Masterless Scout's one true advantage over any Scout mastery (if you're not doing a quick stair dive) is that it retains access to Tough as Nails (and Badass by extension), since every Scout mastery blocks it, but those traits are pretty lousy anyway in 0.9.9.8 (in 0.10 where TaN got a serious and perhaps OP buff, it would merit more serious consideration, but this tier list is for specifically 0.9.9.8 and so that doesn't matter here). For a build to be A+, it has to seriously trivialize most of the game and require relatively little loot luck to do so (as Ammochain does with its complete disregard for ammo economy, being able to spam 40+ consecutive Plasma Rifle/Hyperblaster bursts without needing to reload, and not even having a harder early game thanks to buffed Reloader and the Marine's overly strong inherent resistances in 0.9.9.8), and S tier would require outright breaking the game with mundane equipment even on N! (which Vampyre does by being nigh-IDDQD with nothing more than a Nanofiber Red or even without and having a track record of players, that had difficulty with HMP previously, suddenly beating N! with it), while masterless Scout lacks the oomph to do such things; you're not going to see players punching above their skill level by just not getting a mastery with Scout.

 99 
 DRL / Discussion / Re: 0.9.9.8 Build Tier List
 on: November 11, 2025, 22:21 
Started by Omega Tyrant - Last post by Sambojin
Masterless Scout is at least A+.

Intuition 1 start then Int2, then Finesse + Juggler, or Hellrunner 1+2.

Finesse+ Whizzkid after. Or "choose your own adventure" on the Hellrunner side.

It doesn't look like it adds DPS, but it does. A lot. Weapon switches or Movement do tonnes of damage.

Masterless Scout is incredibly strong.

 100 
 DRL / Discussion / DoomRL 0.9.9.8 works fine under Winlator Cmod 13.1
 on: November 11, 2025, 21:46 
Started by Sambojin - Last post by Sambojin
Just a basic PSA. Yeah, sure, we'll have to make up a "proper" touchscreen interface. But DoomRL is awesome to have on your phone.

Pretty sure it was going to Pulse Audio for sound, and Backbuffer for buffering (not FBO), and Vulkan for the graphics back-end that stopped it failing (did access errors before then). Anyway, good news! 0.9.9.7 worked, now so does the current version, 0.9.9.8! Yay!!!!

This is on an old Snapdragon 695/ Motorola g84, so yes, it will play Doom. Even the basic RTS interface is "usable", but we can make a better one.

Probably old news, but I reckon we can make a really good touchscreen interface for this (I did for the old DOS version, and it didn't have mouse support).

(Also plays Dwarf Fortress, strangely enough, if you don't mind waiting a minute or two).

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