It's been a while! Whatever skills I had have felt like they are gone, but eventually I was able to get through a UV game. I wanted to play a generalist with Malicious Blades. The early game was fine, lots of shotgunning, except when I did something dumb and died, or couldn't make it through CC+ - this is my first character to get to XL 7. Amusingly once I did get it, I hadn't been carrying a 2nd knife so had to use the chainsaw in melee. Deimos Lab awarded PPBBFO mods, which led to some tough choices. I didn't really want to carry mods around waiting to assemble cerberus etc despite my ballistic vest. Converting shotgun(P) to elephant gun also tempted, but eventually decided on bulking a knife and finishing tactical shotgun and making OP red armour, protection now is better than resistances later. Early micro launcher felt like an error, would rather have had the T mods at this point - especially once I found it wasn't breaking walls, fortunately found a missile launcher before the Wall.
I brought some phases planning to try for the lucky vaults clear, but instead I kind of cheated my way through (and Limbo too) (if I had planned on that, I could have dropped Arena Staff earlier!). Can you see the hint in the mortem?
After getting Malicious Blades and WK2, I alternated between Iro to live (especially when current HP was low) and stuff like Finesse/Brute/Juggler for extra offense.
In the later part of the game the only real problem was Mancubi flinging me (and themselves!) everywhere and destroying all the stuff (many mods, and the double medpack from a HK - I use one of my 2-3 hoarded packs after seeing those drop, step out, and they explode). Not sure what I'm meant to do about those - maybe assemble some low-knockback boots?
--------------------------------------------------------------
DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------
Lispeth Salander,
level 16 Hell Knight Captain Technician,
nuked the Mastermind at the Hell Fortress.
He survived 172997 turns and scored 432765 points.
He played for 6 hours, 49 minutes and 51 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1494 out of 1494 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 (silver cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Conqueror Badge
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
UAC Gold Badge
Veteran Gold Badge
Veteran Platinum Badge
Elite Platinum Badge
Scavenger Platinum Badge
Scavenger Diamond Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
###########################################################
..........................................................#
..................................................|.......#
...................................................}|.....#
..................................................|.X.....#
..........................................................#
..........................................................#
...............................................%..........#
.....................................................%....#
..........................................................#
..................................................%..%....#
..................................................%%%.....#
.................................................%........#
..........................................................#
..........................................................#
..........................................................#
..........................................................#
..........................................................#
..........................................................#
###########################################################
-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 25/50 Experience 133861/16
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Ironman (Level 4)
Finesse (Level 2)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Brute (Level 3)
Juggler (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Malicious Blades (Level 1)
HR->HR->Fin->Bru->Bru->DM->MMB->WK->WK->Iro->Fin->Iro->Jug->Iro->Iro->Bru->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] red armor [6] (AOP)
[b] [ Weapon ] chainsword (9d2) (B)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] chainsword (8d3) (P)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] tactical shotgun (8d3) [4/5] (T1)
[b] hyperblaster (2d4)x5 [40/40] (F1)
[c] missile launcher (6d6) [4/4] (A1)
[d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [100/100] (T2)
[e] Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
[f] shotgun shell (x26)
[g] shotgun shell (x70)
[h] rocket (x3)
[i] rocket (x14)
[j] rocket (x14)
[k] power cell (x70)
[l] power cell (x70)
[m] power cell (x65)
[n] large med-pack
[o] phase device
[p] steel boots [1/1] (100%)
[q] phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%)
[r] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Melee - internal 0% torso 75% feet 75%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 50% feet 50%
Fire - internal 0% torso 75% feet 50%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
103 former humans
92 former sergeants
52 former captains
101 imps
114 demons
637 lost souls
49 cacodemons
60 hell knights
58 barons of hell
21 arachnotrons
10 former commandos
51 pain elementals
30 revenants
36 mancubi
45 arch-viles
3 nightmare imps
1 nightmare cacodemon
1 nightmare demon
7 elite former humans
5 elite former sergeants
5 elite former captains
2 elite former commandos
2 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.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
On level 5 he assembled a micro launcher!
On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
On level 7 he assembled a tactical boots!
He purified his fellow comrades.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he entered Deimos Lab.
On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 12 he assembled a hyperblaster!
On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He slaughtered the beasts living there.
On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 14 he assembled a chainsword!
On level 15 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
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!
On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
He managed to clear the Vaults completely!
On level 20 he was targeted for extermination!
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 assembled a chainsword!
On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
On level 22 he found the Necroarmor!
He managed to raise Mt. Erebus 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 are hit! The hell knight hits you. You dodge! The missile hits the hell
knight. John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher. You dodge! The missile hits
the hell knight.
You start running!
You dodge! The missile hits the hell knight. You dodge!
You dodge! You are hit! You dodge! The missile hits the hell knight. You
dodge! The missile hits the hell knight.
Unknown command. Press "?" for help.
You dodge! The missile hits the hell knight. The hell knight dies. The hell
knight dies. You dodge! The missile hits the lost soul. The lost soul dies.
You hit John Carmack. You hit John Carmack. John Carmack reloads his rocket
launcher.
You hit John Carmack. You hit John Carmack. You are hit!
You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
Carmack! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
215 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
186 of those were killed.
5 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 13 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
12 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
5 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
--------------------------------------------------------------