Hi everyone!
I kinda disappeared after the new year, at first overwhelmed by having to go to work again everyday, later sort of putting off my return for the sake of putting it off... Big thanks to LuckyDee for poking me a bit and making me break the cycle.
Anyway, I played my first game in 997 (not counting beta) and the first game this year. Luckily, it didn't turn out to be the disaster I was worried about and I got a new platinum badge out of it, so that's something.
For AoP, I decided to play it safe and get Int2 cateye build. I saw the Deimos lab for the first time (in the beta RNG never allowed me to try it) and it was quite fun. The shamblers didn't stand a chance against me and I got two nano mods out of it. For some reason I decided to make a powered blue armour, a first for me, but it felt pretty good. Between cateye and int2, I didn't really need passive defence that much, but I felt safer. Plus at least I didn't have to worry about armour since then.
The second nano mod was obviously meant for gravity boots, so I carried it with me for several levels, when I suddenly realized that A) nano-modded missile launcher is awesome, and B) Cateye is in fact a rocket launcher build, not pistol build as some people keep insisting. I see people on the forums often writing how infinite rockets are great and all, but you blow up all your loot. Guess what? If you have a nano modded missile launcher, you don't need any loot! Just demolish everything. The only enemies that can stand to that are lost souls, but I just punched them if they got too annoying.
The Containment area caught me a little by surprise - I realized that it is a remake of The Wall, so I busted through, found the backpack and screamed in terror as barons spawned all around me. I was running a little low on ammo at that point, but luckily I had a homing phase and a rocket box, so I just killed everything with fire and that eventually gave me the idea to slap the nano mod on my missile launcher. When everything died, I finally got to pick up the backpack and... impure! Damn, forgot about this being AoP =(
I used an onyx mod to make lava boots since I was missing that assembly (same with the VGFB9000 which I didn't fire once), though I remembered it from 995, and they turned out to be extremely useful in both Limbo and the Lava Lits. The Pits especially were a breeze with unlimited rockets, cateye vision, and immunity to lava.
In the end I decided not to tempt face and confront JC, since I was low on cells, despite firing the plasma rifle only rarely.
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Klear, level 15 Hell Baron Br. General Scout,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 144838 turns and scored 332764 points.
He played for 2 hours, 1 minute and 20 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1016 out of 1016 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Purity!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 7
Levels completed : 7
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Medal of Prejudice
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Untouchable Badge
Grim Reaper's Badge
Hell Armorer Badge
Hell Champion Medal
Inquisitor Gold Badge
Inquisitor Platinum Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 42/50 Experience 105114/15
ToHit Ranged +4 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Finesse (Level 2)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Eagle Eye (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Triggerhappy (Level 1)
Cateye (Level 1)
Int->Int->SoB->SoB->TH->MCe->EE->EE->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->Jug->HR->HR->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Malek's Armor [3/3] (100%)
[b] [ Weapon ] nuclear BFG 9000 (10d6) [0/52] (B1P2)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] missile launcher (6d6) [4/4] (N1S1T1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] plasma rifle (1d8)x6 [33/40] (P1T1)
[b] VBFG9000 (10d8) [0/150]
[c] powered blue armor [3/3] (100%)
[d] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
[e] large med-pack
[f] large med-pack
[g] large med-pack
[h] large med-pack
[i] large med-pack
[j] homing phase device
[k] homing phase device
[l] envirosuit pack
[m] thermonuclear bomb
[n] agility mod pack
[o] lava element
[p] lava plasteel boots [2]
[q] power battery (x120)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Fire - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
80 former humans
79 former sergeants
41 former captains
138 imps
107 demons
234 lost souls
46 cacodemons
30 hell knights
38 barons of hell
35 arachnotrons
16 former commandos
22 pain elementals
39 revenants
31 mancubi
33 arch-viles
7 nightmare imps
9 nightmare cacodemons
5 nightmare demons
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 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
-- 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 7 he marched into the Military Base.
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 power armor!
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 13 he assembled a gatling gun!
On level 13 he assembled a lava boots!
On level 13 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
On level 14 he assembled a VBFG9000!
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
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.
On level 22 he found the Malek's Armor!
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a Spider Mastermind (severely wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
There is a lever (woah!) here.
You pull the lever...
You swap your weapons instantly!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : floor
The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations! You defeated the Spider
Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
228 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
191 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
8 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 11 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
17 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
10 killed the bitch and survived.
6 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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