For once, I wasn't trying for an achievement this time; I saw other people
having fun with the new Blademaster trait, and I wanted to get in on that. :D After a few false starts playing at Nightmare difficulty, I decided to take it (relatively) easy with an Ultraviolence game. :) (Naturally, Angel of Berserk was the way to go)
I delayed getting Bladedancer for a while, for the simple reason that it took me a long time to find any blades. In all my recent past games, sergeants drop combat knives, but in this game, only the one on level 1 did. I'm not sure if it's a difficulty level thing or a version thing, but I decided to put my levels into Hacker instead, and found that Valhalla Command, normally pretty harrowing, becomes super easy with Hacker 3 combined with Remote Hack. All the Calsec Bots on the level could be remotely hacked for free! :D (I don't really get to use the hacked bots much, since Calsec gets shut down at the end, but it was still fun) :)
Blademaster works very well with my usual strategy of waiting two squares around a corner, so that when an enemy pokes his head around, I can run up and cut it off. :P They often get a hit on me when I do that, normally, but Blademaster auto-attacks them before they can react, which is very nice. :)
I did encounter a crash a couple times toward the end after Shattered Abyss. It seems that the Demonic Sword doesn't play nicely with Blademaster trait. Oh well... I kinda liked two-weaponing my katanas anyway. :)
Tormuse, level 17 Technician, defeated
The Summoner against all odds.
He survived for 17406 turns.
The run time was 5h 53m 22s.
He scored 7336 points.
He was ULTRAVIOLENT!
He was an Angel of Berserk!
Callisto Hub -> Valhalla Terminal L1
Valhalla Terminal L2 - Low Power
Valhalla Terminal L2 -> Valhalla Command
Valhalla Command - cleared
EUROPA L2 - Secure Vault
EUROPA L2 -> Asterius Habitat L1
Asterius Habitat L2 - Exalted Summons
Asterius Habitat L3 -> Asterius Breach
Asterius Breach - cleared
IO L5 - Lockdown
IO L5 -> Infernal Lock
Infernal Lock - cleared
The Shattered Abyss - cleared
BEYOND L2 - The Hunt
BEYOND L2 -> Limbo
Limbo - cleared
Awards
Medal of Prejudice (+200)
* Won with 100% kills
CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+25)
* 25+ kills without taking damage
Explorer Ribbon (+50)
* Visited all encountered special levels
Conqueror Ribbon (+100)
* Completed all encountered special levels
He killed 616 out of 616 enemies.
8 corrupted commandos
55 reavers
22 ice fiends
2 cybeross
3 hellish sergeants
38 fiends
21 cryoreavers
8 security drones
4 military sentrys
9 exalted ravagers
5 toxibeross
24 armored ravagers
3 hellish soldiers
3 corrupted grunts
25 former grunts
13 exalted reavers
5 corrupted heavys
6 combat drones
6 exalted kerbeross
1 kerberos
9 hellish commandos
4 military bots
4 CRI bots
5 guardian bots
2 plasma ravagers
4 former CRI sergeants
14 former guards
9 former sergeants
6 CRI marines
22 ravagers
5 corrupted sergeants
28 fire fiends
1 former CRI grunt
1 Summoner
16 siege ravagers
2 former CRI heavys
15 turrets
2 former heavys
10 cryobeross
2 former commandos
23 CalSec bots
12 security bots
6 former CRI commandos
34 toxic reavers
71 archreavers
16 exalted soldiers
35 exalted fiends
21 security sentrys
9 rocket turrets
21 CalSec sentrys
1 Swordmaster
31 corrupted soldiers
17 former soldiers
5 former CRI soldiers
16 toxic fiends
Traits
Skilled L1
Cover Master L2
Hacker L3
Juggernaut L3
Remote Hack L1
Bladedancer L3
BLADEMASTER L3
Trait order
Jgn->Hak->Hak->RHa->Hak->Bda->Bda->Bda->
MBM->MBM->Skl->Cov->MBM->Jgn->Jgn->Cov->
Equipment
Slot #1 : AV2 katana BA
* Resilient
* Guarded 10
* Surrounded
* Frenzy 10
Slot #2 : AV3 katana PA
* Hunter 5
* Resilient
* Ripper 30
* Freezing 2
Slot #3 : demonic sword
* Frenzy 10
* Vampiric 5
Body : AV3 combat armor PB
* Durable
* Meshed
* Loading feed
* Powered
Head : analytic visor A
* Critical 10
* Tactical computer
* Aim assist
Utility : AV2 utility AMP
* Powerful
* Metabolic boost
Inventory
plasma grenade (x1)
gas grenade (x2)
krak grenade (x3)
smoke grenade (x3)
CRI phase kit (x3)
multitool (x3)
military stimpack
military stimpack
military stimpack
military stimpack
large medkit