I ran a tech with malicious blades for the UC. Got ripped apart bad by the big baddie at the end. 75% melee resist was far from enough. 
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Completed Let's Play Doom RL: RNG busting edition
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You can easily close to melee range on the cyberdemon while he reloads if you turn on running.
As for melee, the only things that don't melee you are pain elementals and the real final boss iirc. Maybe either revenants or mancubi too, I recall them being buffed for melee recently, but it was probably jsut their damage, not switching to suicidal rocket barrages.
Also, I'm not sure if you're going to be able to use the melee resist for the UC if you don't find a combat knife soon. Unless you can wield nothing in your main hand and it still swings the offhand when you punch? I think juggler does something like that anyways.
As for melee, the only things that don't melee you are pain elementals and the real final boss iirc. Maybe either revenants or mancubi too, I recall them being buffed for melee recently, but it was probably jsut their damage, not switching to suicidal rocket barrages.
Also, I'm not sure if you're going to be able to use the melee resist for the UC if you don't find a combat knife soon. Unless you can wield nothing in your main hand and it still swings the offhand when you punch? I think juggler does something like that anyways.
The Butcher's Cleaver counts as a blade IIRC.
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Yeah but the blade needs to be in the off hand to get the resists. If you main the cleaver and then get into melee, you'll have no resists.
Well, that explains why I was wasted so elegantly by the Angel of Death. 
Should've tried fisting him to death.
Should've tried fisting him to death.
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That's what the chainsword is for, or did I drop it? o_O
edit: oh fuck I did. I dropped the chainsword, on update 18.
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update 20: Deimos lvl 6, much too soon
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New level, better find a knife or our build will be useless. Oh hey, a knife. That was easy. (and incredibly lucky)
Not taking any chances, I'd rather have the barrel blow up in my face than destroy the combat knife.
And indeed barrels may blow up in my face because I hear... a revenant.
I get the fuck away from there as quick as possible.
We even kill someone with blindfire, how quaint. Let's have a look.
This isn't the place I want to be.
Our first encounter with a revenant is a painful one. I didn't think we'd meet one now.
Might aswell blindfire him no matter the range. A bunch of flies go down with him.
Is it clear? let's venture with the missile launcher.
As soon as I step forward he hits me again, and we get knocked back, how cool.
And we waste him finally. On the plus side, he only did 15% damage, on the negative side, he did 15% damage.
Hardly any reprieve, another revenant assumes perfect rape position. I ready the missile launcher, that's our only hope.
He hits us again and with it we learned something valuable, we learned that going into inventory doesn't take 0.1 seconds.
A few rockets later and he's desperately crawling on his knees for the easy kill. I have to say the rocket launcher is reliable.
Level up! We're gonna take dodgemaster, because after our brilliant dodging of rockets so far, we must apply our skills to the cyberdemon.
Not shown, horrible pain elemental butchering. Thanks goodness he's easy.
I've never been so happy to find a health globe. Random health globes, the way to hide how much hp you really lost on a level.
In fact things get easier. This looks like a regular level now, like it shouldv'e been.
Woot.
The final room reveals health globes!dozens three of them!
We use up a medpack, but not because we needed to no, no, of course not. Because we want the combat knifie in our inventory.
After this rude awakening, we'll need all the health we can get.
Because the Spider's Lair is next.
Final Grade: B-
Hey, it should be a good thing that the revenants only took 15% hp or so, our build must be good! maybe
New level, better find a knife or our build will be useless. Oh hey, a knife. That was easy. (and incredibly lucky)
Not taking any chances, I'd rather have the barrel blow up in my face than destroy the combat knife.
And indeed barrels may blow up in my face because I hear... a revenant.
I get the fuck away from there as quick as possible.
We even kill someone with blindfire, how quaint. Let's have a look.
This isn't the place I want to be.
Our first encounter with a revenant is a painful one. I didn't think we'd meet one now.
Might aswell blindfire him no matter the range. A bunch of flies go down with him.
Is it clear? let's venture with the missile launcher.
As soon as I step forward he hits me again, and we get knocked back, how cool.
And we waste him finally. On the plus side, he only did 15% damage, on the negative side, he did 15% damage.
Hardly any reprieve, another revenant assumes perfect rape position. I ready the missile launcher, that's our only hope.
He hits us again and with it we learned something valuable, we learned that going into inventory doesn't take 0.1 seconds.
A few rockets later and he's desperately crawling on his knees for the easy kill. I have to say the rocket launcher is reliable.
Level up! We're gonna take dodgemaster, because after our brilliant dodging of rockets so far, we must apply our skills to the cyberdemon.
Not shown, horrible pain elemental butchering. Thanks goodness he's easy.
I've never been so happy to find a health globe. Random health globes, the way to hide how much hp you really lost on a level.
In fact things get easier. This looks like a regular level now, like it shouldv'e been.
Woot.
The final room reveals health globes!
We use up a medpack, but not because we needed to no, no, of course not. Because we want the combat knifie in our inventory.
After this rude awakening, we'll need all the health we can get.
Because the Spider's Lair is next.
Final Grade: B-
Hey, it should be a good thing that the revenants only took 15% hp or so, our build must be good! maybe
Prepare for the pain of the Spider's Nest. 
I've found one weapon I like better than all the rest so far. A modified nuclear plasma rifle making it a burst cannon nuclear plasma rifle. It handily doubles its magazine and boosts damage as well. For this reason alone, I usually carry around the mods required to assemble it.
With that weapon and level 2 intuition, clearing normal levels is suddenly much less of a hassle.
That said, looking forward to how you're going to handle the Spider's Lair. Having lost 32 games (and won 4 ) now, I feel like I have a pretty good image of dos and don'ts, and looking at your trait distribution, the Spider's Lair has the potential to be quite painful. 
I've found one weapon I like better than all the rest so far. A modified nuclear plasma rifle making it a burst cannon nuclear plasma rifle. It handily doubles its magazine and boosts damage as well. For this reason alone, I usually carry around the mods required to assemble it.
With that weapon and level 2 intuition, clearing normal levels is suddenly much less of a hassle.
That said, looking forward to how you're going to handle the Spider's Lair. Having lost 32 games (and won 4
) now, I feel like I have a pretty good image of dos and don'ts, and looking at your trait distribution, the Spider's Lair has the potential to be quite painful.
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Could also be incredibly easy (and profitable) if he does it right... but I think he'll do things the hard way. Which will be more entertaining anyways.
Side note: just finished Angel of Shotgunnery. 
The mastermind was a bit scary, as I'd messed up and had to face it armorless. Just managed to scrape by however.
The mastermind was a bit scary, as I'd messed up and had to face it armorless. Just managed to scrape by however.
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Revenants! :boo: :hiss:
Um, with rockets, the plasma rifle + ammo from the spiders, you should be fine in the Spider's Lair... pretty sure DR already gave out some tips for it.
Um, with rockets, the plasma rifle + ammo from the spiders, you should be fine in the Spider's Lair... pretty sure DR already gave out some tips for it.
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Congrats, I could never do it and I must've tried 15 times. What's your secret? I painfully learned that I needed Army of the Dead, but that's all.Side note: just finished Angel of Shotgunnery.
The mastermind was a bit scary, as I'd messed up and had to face it armorless. Just managed to scrape by however.
No big secret, but yes. Army of the Dead. Shottyman helps. Fire, move away from the monster, fire again. The first two mods I found were power mods, meaning I rather early on had an elephant gun. That helped. Didn't get to assemble a tactical shotgun until after the cyberdemon, otherwise that would have been my priority.
I guess I just took it slow and careful. Being restricted to shotguns also meant that I could ignore all other types of ammo. That clears up the inventory something nice.
There was one hairy situation, where I spawned on a level right next to 5 arachnotrons, but a phase device saved the day. I think that was on level 23.. Would've been a real shame to die there.
Was quite lucky and got an invulnerability sphere just next to the stairs leading to the cyberdemon fight, so won that without taking damage. And the lava element was what made taking down the mastermind possible, what with me screwing up and ending up armorless for that fight.
Mind you, this was my fifth attempt at that challenge, the others have died before even reaching the bruiser brothers.
I guess I just took it slow and careful. Being restricted to shotguns also meant that I could ignore all other types of ammo. That clears up the inventory something nice.
There was one hairy situation, where I spawned on a level right next to 5 arachnotrons, but a phase device saved the day. I think that was on level 23.. Would've been a real shame to die there. Was quite lucky and got an invulnerability sphere just next to the stairs leading to the cyberdemon fight, so won that without taking damage.
And the lava element was what made taking down the mastermind possible, what with me screwing up and ending up armorless for that fight.Mind you, this was my fifth attempt at that challenge, the others have died before even reaching the bruiser brothers.
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update 21: Deimos lvl 6, a set level
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Let's do this. I'm not afraid.
I vaguely remember something about rushing? Going to the left doesn't work. May it's to the right.
Oh fuck. That didn't work either. I have the feeling that as soon as the grace period ends, 7 arachnotrons have their guns within range of me. On the bright side, you get to see the level layout, I never really noticed until today that you start in an ambush with every single enemy spawn camping you.
Maybe I can break out of this, let's see how the BFG holds up.
No one dies and no other shots line up. Maybe if I shoot again...
Now they're angry. Let's just use a phase device and be done with it.
Perfect phase! I instantly feel safe and know I'll have time to reload and setup everything properly.
They can teleport now so we have our rocket launcher ready for them. All we need to do is rocket the nine remaining arachnotrons and we're done. It should go well, I hope.
The first surprises us and takes a big chunk of life.
I wonder if I have what it takes to win in a fair fight with them. Will we get eight more ambushes?
Two more at least.
The arachnotrons keep hitting us and this rocket launcher makes hiding behind cover very risky. There's just no strategy!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF, just when things go well I start to have ammo problems. Gotta pop behind cover and reload, if only we also had health regeneration.
How did it get so bad? Two lousy spiders took almost all my health away. I reload and use my first medpack...
The fucker is still not dead btw. Finally a quick burst should do it.
We regroup, let's move forward.
Ambushed again. The good news is that I'm taking less damage that I thought I would, they only get to fire once and do maximum 10% per burst, that's entirely manageable.
We finally get to surprise one, down to four.
Down to three. I remember that we've just taken dodgemaster last update and so start making use of it.
Yeah, dodging saving the day. This should go well, wooo!
Two left. Except that I'm getting worried by the fact the missile launcher is destroying the plasma ammo so I switch to the plasma.
Terrible decision. The next surprises us as always but because the plasma doesn't kill as quickly and the dodging sort of fails, we find ourselves close to death.
medpack #2 used. What have we learned to defeating arachnotrons? First you need speed, lots of speed, and second you need to heal fast and get out of danger fast, the technician is good at those later things.
The last one barely scratches us. All done!
Wait a minute, there's plasma ammo everywhere now. I really shouldn't have switched to the plasma rifle at the end there.
At least we have room for everything we want.
That second large medpack really left a hole in our inventory though. And just like that we are down from 10 to 5 medpacks. Funny how things change so quickly.
The hair on my back may even be standing straight again as things get tighter. Next up should be the last Deimos level.
Final Grade: D
They didn't kill us.
Let's do this. I'm not afraid.
I vaguely remember something about rushing? Going to the left doesn't work. May it's to the right.
Oh fuck. That didn't work either. I have the feeling that as soon as the grace period ends, 7 arachnotrons have their guns within range of me. On the bright side, you get to see the level layout, I never really noticed until today that you start in an ambush with every single enemy spawn camping you.
Maybe I can break out of this, let's see how the BFG holds up.
No one dies and no other shots line up. Maybe if I shoot again...
Now they're angry. Let's just use a phase device and be done with it.
Perfect phase! I instantly feel safe and know I'll have time to reload and setup everything properly.
They can teleport now so we have our rocket launcher ready for them. All we need to do is rocket the nine remaining arachnotrons and we're done. It should go well, I hope.
The first surprises us and takes a big chunk of life.
I wonder if I have what it takes to win in a fair fight with them. Will we get eight more ambushes?
Two more at least.
The arachnotrons keep hitting us and this rocket launcher makes hiding behind cover very risky. There's just no strategy!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF, just when things go well I start to have ammo problems. Gotta pop behind cover and reload, if only we also had health regeneration.
How did it get so bad? Two lousy spiders took almost all my health away. I reload and use my first medpack...
The fucker is still not dead btw. Finally a quick burst should do it.
We regroup, let's move forward.
Ambushed again. The good news is that I'm taking less damage that I thought I would, they only get to fire once and do maximum 10% per burst, that's entirely manageable.
We finally get to surprise one, down to four.
Down to three. I remember that we've just taken dodgemaster last update and so start making use of it.
Yeah, dodging saving the day. This should go well, wooo!
Two left. Except that I'm getting worried by the fact the missile launcher is destroying the plasma ammo so I switch to the plasma.
Terrible decision. The next surprises us as always but because the plasma doesn't kill as quickly and the dodging sort of fails, we find ourselves close to death.
medpack #2 used. What have we learned to defeating arachnotrons? First you need speed, lots of speed, and second you need to heal fast and get out of danger fast, the technician is good at those later things.
The last one barely scratches us. All done!
Wait a minute, there's plasma ammo everywhere now. I really shouldn't have switched to the plasma rifle at the end there.
At least we have room for everything we want.
That second large medpack really left a hole in our inventory though. And just like that we are down from 10 to 5 medpacks. Funny how things change so quickly.
The hair on my back may even be standing straight again as things get tighter. Next up should be the last Deimos level.
Final Grade: D
They didn't kill us.
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Well you're alive, so I guess it wasn't that bad. Kinda.
Well you're alive, so I guess it wasn't that bad. Kinda.
Spider's Lair is pain, pure pain.
Well, the most fun I've had there was with a fast-running, butcher's cleaver wielding scout who ambushed and whacked them in melee while wall-dancing.
Well, the most fun I've had there was with a fast-running, butcher's cleaver wielding scout who ambushed and whacked them in melee while wall-dancing.
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Oh dear... You do know what the teleporter pads on this level do right?
It would appear not.
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They teleport you around. To the same places every time. (It's a good place.)
It's the best way to get out of the Arachnotron ambush. Bee-line for a teleporter, get 'ported behind one of the 4 walls (which depends on what teleporter you chose), then prepare a Cunning Plan.
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update 22: Deimos lvl 7, the calm before the storm
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New level and the first thing we see is an exotic item, WOOOO.
Let's pull the Cleaver and get our confidence back with an easy kill.
This needs to be an easy level to get us ready for the cyber demon.
Two shots, one kill, I really like our new gun too.
Beginning to feel this is a cacodemon-only level. That's cool I guess.
The dude doesn't want to die in 2 shots.
Switching to the normal ammo plasma to finish him quickly.
You'd think 1 shot would be enough, but no, it took 3. Fuck you.
I can't dodge. Not that I care in the slightest, cacodemons are easy by now.
The level layout is really good, it brings us back to those easier levels. And there's berserk pack by the stairs, YEAH.
Technical mod pack, interesting. We've had almost no mod packs in Deimos.
These next cacodemons are a bit hard to kill. Though I can hear them, the lava makes it hard to navigate.
I fire a shot or two and just retreat to let the nuclear plasma recharge, there's no rush. Only my health that's going down with every move.
I dodged that one like a pro, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to in these wide open spaces...
Unfortunately things slow down as I am cautious and for some reason the AI is equally cautious. They're out there, I just can't see them.
Holy shit, he was close.
And he was the only one left. I fail another dodge amazingly too.
Where should the tech mod pack go? I still miss the loss of my chainsword, but I can't assemble that. It looks like the boots can finally benefit.
The boots are upgraded to -75% knockback, very useful against the cyber demon and later it may become fireproof boots. What nice little luck we had there.
The exotic armor is kinda bad, just a bullet proof vest. But I don't know why I'm so giddy picking this up, even though Iwe threw an old better armor away a few updates ago. We could always upgrade it with an onyx pack and laugh at the spider mastermind. To keep for now.
Let's do this properly. My armor isn't the greatest against the cyberdemon, but it should hold a bit, I fear his rockets. I also equip a BFG 9000 and the power battery, we want the showdown with him to go as smoothly as possible. The ammo should be enough for some quick shots.
Our last objective is to use the berserk packs and go in. The level actually has two of them, nice!
Thanks to this easy level we are well prepared to take on the cyberdemon, I hope it all goes well and WE DONT USE ANY MEDPACKS.
Final Grade: B -
Those damn cacodemons hit us too often compared to how easy they are
New level and the first thing we see is an exotic item, WOOOO.
Let's pull the Cleaver and get our confidence back with an easy kill.
This needs to be an easy level to get us ready for the cyber demon.
Two shots, one kill, I really like our new gun too.
Beginning to feel this is a cacodemon-only level. That's cool I guess.
The dude doesn't want to die in 2 shots.
Switching to the normal ammo plasma to finish him quickly.
You'd think 1 shot would be enough, but no, it took 3. Fuck you.
I can't dodge. Not that I care in the slightest, cacodemons are easy by now.
The level layout is really good, it brings us back to those easier levels. And there's berserk pack by the stairs, YEAH.
Technical mod pack, interesting. We've had almost no mod packs in Deimos.
These next cacodemons are a bit hard to kill. Though I can hear them, the lava makes it hard to navigate.
I fire a shot or two and just retreat to let the nuclear plasma recharge, there's no rush. Only my health that's going down with every move.
I dodged that one like a pro, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to in these wide open spaces...
Unfortunately things slow down as I am cautious and for some reason the AI is equally cautious. They're out there, I just can't see them.
Holy shit, he was close.
And he was the only one left. I fail another dodge amazingly too.
Where should the tech mod pack go? I still miss the loss of my chainsword, but I can't assemble that. It looks like the boots can finally benefit.
The boots are upgraded to -75% knockback, very useful against the cyber demon and later it may become fireproof boots. What nice little luck we had there.
The exotic armor is kinda bad, just a bullet proof vest. But I don't know why I'm so giddy picking this up, even though Iwe threw an old better armor away a few updates ago. We could always upgrade it with an onyx pack and laugh at the spider mastermind. To keep for now.
Let's do this properly. My armor isn't the greatest against the cyberdemon, but it should hold a bit, I fear his rockets. I also equip a BFG 9000 and the power battery, we want the showdown with him to go as smoothly as possible. The ammo should be enough for some quick shots.
Our last objective is to use the berserk packs and go in. The level actually has two of them, nice!
Thanks to this easy level we are well prepared to take on the cyberdemon, I hope it all goes well and WE DONT USE ANY MEDPACKS.
Final Grade: B -
Those damn cacodemons hit us too often compared to how easy they are
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