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Completed Let's Play Doom RL: RNG busting edition

Which class to pick?

  • Marine

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Scout

    Votes: 7 30.4%
  • Technician

    Votes: 16 69.6%

  • Total voters
    23

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Not too shabby this time. If you can kill cybie before berserk wears off you should hardly get scratched. Full fire resist and no way he's going to beat you in melee during berserk.
 

Renegen

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Yeah, this is one time I want to get spawn ambushed. I don't want to walk 20 times to get to him.
 

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Double update special! Spoiler warning, we win against the cyberdemon. :smug:

update 23: the arena
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We start the last level of Deimos, no sign of our augmented foe.

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As you have indeed noticed, we don't have Malicious Blades and its 75% resistance. But we are very lucky to enter with berserk.

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At this point I'm not even hearing anything, maybe he committed suicide? Fuck my berserk might run out.

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Ah, I hear him, to the north.

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Come on dodge, help me avoid a rocket to the face!

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He fires a rocket and misses as I manage to close in melee range. Well this is it, someone will get brutally hurt.

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I hit him twice and he's already at wounded, :eek: . He also doesn't do that much damage to us.

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:smug: :smug: :smug:
Four more swipes and the cyberdemon goes down, six in total.
Wow, I fussed over this battle so much and he took as many hits as a hell baron, amazing. New strategy kids, go melee on the cyberdemon, it can payoff handsomely. Also, why does he drop rockets?

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Final Grade: A+
Fuck this man, this was so anti climatic it OWNED.

update 24: Hell lvl 1, every color from green to brown
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Feeling so pumped after that last level. Let's pick up where we left off.

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Imps, haha, how quaint. There's 2 of them, but also a barrel, where do you think I will aim?

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The barrel of course.

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Well this level started off nicely. I like the open layout and the lack of huge lava. Hell levels are synonymous with lava. For now we'll use the nuclear plasma, why not when it's got infinite ammo?

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This hell baron looks more like the type of person to greet us here. I trust my superior positioning and dodging skills..

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And they're not even needed. He goes down really quick, did the gun become better?

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We proceed forward, doing the same old cover shooting we were so successful with the shotgun except it's now with the plasma. It feels so natural it's like I don't even have a shotgun anymore.

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Unholy Cathedral so soon? Didn't expect that.

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Good thing there's a Supercharge Globe near those stairs.

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We meet our first real foe, a pain elemental and his groupies. The plasma is ill-suited of course for this guy, or so I thought.

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Three bursts and he goes down.

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After that melee takes easy care of the skulls, except the fact they are still so fast they hit me. Well that encounter was a pleasant surprise. Let's go for that health globe since it's just standing there.

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Oh shit, a commando ambush. This is hell alright. Maybe I should shoot first and ask questions later.

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He never stood a chance. These level layouts are really nice, they offer all the cover or room you need to do what you like. I also find they look quite attractive.

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What more will this level hold?

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Shotgun formers. How nice, it's like it's reminding me to use the shotgun. But the nuclear plasma has just the right amount of versatility to be inseparable.

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More commandos! Good positioning saves us.

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And he goes down in 1 volley. With a plasma, everything appears low on hp apparently.

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A berserk pack, quite far from the stairs. I'm going to have to take it.

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It's so empty all of a sudden.

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It appears all that's left are some formers, lame.

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Last one drops a phase device.

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We're gonna have to drop something for that phase, I want it. We could drop the BFG 9000s, apparently we don't need them for bosses anymore.

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I part with the plasma rifle, (the one that's not nuclear!) it's a hard one to drop but it looks like commandos are frequent from now on.

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Just for good measure, I turn on the switch before heading down, it's lava of course.

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Our work here is done. After 3 good floors, my confidence is back. No medpacks but this looks bright. On the other side, we are about to enter the Unholy Cathedral and we have no melee resistance at all, we're 9% away from our level up still. It's going to be tricky that's for sure.

Final Grade: A
Bah some skulls hit us, but when you have level 2 architecture in Hell, things will go well for you.
 

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Oh boy. The cathedral is a place where it would be REALLY nice to have that malicious blades trait. That, or about 8 large medpacks. :roll:
 

Renegen

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update 25: Hell lvl 1, no reload necessary

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Green won't save us here. The map of course only allows you to use melee weapons. Believe me it was a shock when I first came here.

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In the right hand, we equip our combat knife just in case we get our level up.

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Here goes nothing.

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It's impossible to prevent getting hit, so we just stand in the doorway.

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If you have trouble against these, yeah, you shouldn't venture deeper.

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Next room is up. And what I notice is that the exp is progressing very quickly, we shall level up this level.

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Same strategy applies. I swing my cleaver confidently, but he doesn't die in 1 hit! Preposterous.

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Level up.

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:love:
God that took so long.

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First time I ever take the trait, we even see the resistance upgrades in the character info, it looks so amazing.

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When killing these demons, I'm making sure to leave many corpses standing. Not taking any chances, I'll probably use a hatred skull for the boss. We need the inventory spot anyway.

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All done. Most still went down in 1 hit.

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This is it, 100% melee resistance, too.

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The angel of Death is here.

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I don't think I've ever done this without the red filter of berserk.

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He goes down just as quickly as the cyberdemon.

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In hindsight, I should've trusted my 75% melee resistance without berserk, I have a lot of overflowing health left.

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Walls collapse.

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The Longinus Spear is ours. Wow, it is substantially better than the Butcher's Cleaver.

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We hold all of God's fury at the tip of this spear.

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Well, that's it. It may be used against some of the bosses around, for now the Butcher's Cleaver will be equipped because it gives us resistances.

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Hell level 2 awaits.

Final Grade: A
This was pretty standard, the Butcher's Cleaver prevents you from ever getting surrounded.
 

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Nicely done. Though you probably didn't need the hatred skull and might regret not having it in the mortuary.

Doesn't the longinus spear count as a blade? I was pretty sure it did.
 

Renegen

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Not sure it does unfortunately, I checked like 10 times on the wiki. But will test it in game.

And yeah, I can also drop the combat knife from now on and could've held on to the hatred skull. But our inventory could benefit from a plasma or medpack.
 

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I have a bit of a strategy for it, and we should have 100% fire resistance :). I hope the Vault is ahead of the Mortuary so that we can get our hands on a killer item.
 

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update 26: Hell lvl 2, a scare

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What will this level bring? At least 6 imps and a hell baron from the spawn we have.

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Should I go in and melee? Always a worthy solution to one's problems.

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But I just take the coward's way out. Let's hope we don't get ambushed on the other side (and even if we do, we have melee, which makes ambushes less deadly, isn't that great)

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The stupid fuckers destroy the barrel and kill themselves. A good decision.

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Don baron there on the other hand is almost unhurt.

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A few plasma shots in the dark... and now melee.

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Shit fickles, it really doesn't end well. I think I even had 75% resistances.

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Let's go back and wonder through the destroyed landscape. This shot is so nice I would love to see it in first person. You can see the corpses, blood and some hints something very big happened.

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A small medkit. We're not leaving it around, not with how many enemies remain.

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I think I see something. This time we go melee but no more Butcher's Cleaver.

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Me Gusta. 1 hit, damn.

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Powerup by the stairs, good.

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We've had 2 hell barons so far, does the floor have any more reserves for us?

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A former commando. Let's take him out in 1 hit.

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Doesn't really work as intended.

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How cute, they think they can take me on.

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As I am on my way out, more of these sergeants show up. Fuck, this one could even kill me right there.

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AI didn't fire, thank goodness.

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How many are there? It looks like they're respawning, an arch vile perhaps.

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We go through the backdoor, the last enemies should be there.

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Hey, an agility mod pack.

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Aha, I got these fuckers.

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We even meet a commando...

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But no arch vile, that was a close one.

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All those shells would be so nice for the shotgun, we'll still use it on the mortuary and vault perhaps.

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The agility pack goes on the shotgun for better accuracy. Now that I look at the plasma, I wonder why I didn't use it on that. +2 accuracy isn't enough.

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Let's hope the next level has even worse ambushes in store.

Final Grade:B
Got hit a bunch of times, I didn't play very defdefensively knowing my health would be restored at the end of the level.
 

Renegen

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Why the fail? Let's take this opportunity to hear about the mechanics of shotgun accuracy here, afterall it's a LP about how to get better at DoomRL. :D
 

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Question: How many times has your shotgun missed while playing DoomRL (Hint: the answer is a multiple of zero.)
 

Renegen

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But shotgun fires multiple fragments. A long range shot clearly does less damage than a short range shot despite not missing. Maybe the spread is reduced.
 

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You're overthinking it. If it worked the way you imagine (multiple individual attacks), even a single point of armor would render the shotgun useless at any range. You get a single damage roll on each target, modified by range and armor. There is no to-hit roll. Everything in the shrapnel cloud gets hit; there are no projectiles. Hence why you can fire down a hallway with 5 demons in it and hit every single one.
 

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update 27: Hell lvl 3, caution to the wind

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A new level and some new enemies.

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We meet our first mancubus. Dangerous fellows if it wasn't for the headstart and the invincibility.

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He goes down in two hits. That's something to remember.

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A large medpack! It's been forever since we had those.

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So far it's a great level, wide open, little lava and items we can use.

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A second mancubus! Let's risk it and use the invincibility to be aggressive, they must be my worst enemy.

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They are tough. They fire 3 rockets at a time and pretty quickly too, probably the worst DoomRL monster.

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What a good start to the level, we've killed 2 mancubus with our invincibility. If you can kill the tough monsters easily, the rest of the level should go smooth.

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However I'm getting the idea this is a mancubus-only level....

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Let's try something, let's equip the fireproof armor and see how it goes. It's not invulnerable yet but with armor shards lying around, we can test it.

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Typically a very very bad position to find yourself into.

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:smug:
He fires his rockets, I lose 4% hp and only 2% armor durability. Yeah, that's the stuff.

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We will melee him.

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But for some strange reason I pull the Cleaver forgetting that now gives us -30% melee resistance. Complete retard mode. And he destroys the armor shard.

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As long as we stop any more stupid mistakes, we won't die. I go back to the basic armor falsely believing that huge blood loss was caused by the fireproof armor when it was actually caused by the lack of blades in our hands.

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A computer map, I'm going for it no matter the danger.

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Yikes, there's one right here.

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And a second far away. That's all the map had, 5 mancubus.

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We're certainly lucky to still benefit from the technician's ability so late, now we should be able to ambush this one.

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I don't like where the door is located.

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So I make a new door.

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He sees me, just enough for an aggro.

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Aw yeah, this is a good weapon. One down, one left.

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The last fucker is kind of annoying. He's in a very large open room and there's only one way in.

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We soften him up a little bit with the plasma, why not. He might even aggro to us.

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Well he doesn't. Maybe we could make a more accessible door for the fatass and then he would go after us.

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Ever so slowly he's coming.

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What a level. And to think I did half of it with 50% health and no worries.

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The level is good for one more medpack and we're up to 7, nice! That onyx pack looks almost useless now too, the fireproof armor has enough durability.

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We learned a valuable lesson today.

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Armor builds are OP. I think from now on I will try to do these type of builds.

Final Grade: B-
Just a few fuck ups but man it's fun to kill 5 mancubus.
 

Renegen

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You can build some bitchin' boots with that onyx pack and just one other common mod pack if you find it. :smug:
Thanks for the hint. I think I may just do that given how unnecessary the onyx pack is now for the armor and given what happened on the next level (hint. the Vault is done, will be uploading)
 

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I would love it if there was a mashup mod for this that rolled in monsters and weapons from many of the classic FPS, Duke Nukem, Quake, Unreal, RoTT, Hexen etc.
 

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