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[Vester]

I'll also argue that Shottyman is nigh-useless: You shouldn't ever be reloading in combat. If you're fighting when positioned somewhere you can't retreat from, then you have bigger problems than reload times.

That's true, but then Shottyman has its own pros. the double and super shotguns pretty much rely on you getting close enough to hammer an opponent, which means if you're not corner-shooting (like in those horrible arena maps where baron/mancubus fire reduces all your cover into smoldering cinders) you pretty much can spend all of your time dodging while knocking the opponent out of range/advancing to deal big damage. My first Hurt Me Plenty standard win was with a Shottyman focused character (in tactical armor/boots too, meaning I was reloading that lovely elephant gun in a fourth of the time that it would have taken for me to retreat to cover and reload it!)

Recently I've been playing on AoMc when I have the time, which means that I'm playing either Ammochain or Cateye. As a side note, never put a Hi-Power mod on your plasma rifle. If you're firing at a diagonal you're going to end up knocking your target out of the way, which is super inconvenient.

[Mephansteras]

Finally played the new version last night. Did a basic Marine run, and did pretty well. Took too much damage taking out the Armory, though, and got slammed by some Barons on the next level without enough health to get to cover.

Pity, but it was good fun!

[Demilich]

Just finished my first Hurt Me Plenty game. It only took fifty attempts! I managed to clear the Mortuary in that run, which was pretty sweet. Power armour is off the fucking chain. Although the "cursed" messages when trying to take it off are a bit weird. Nanopacks are the servants of the Chaos gods, apparently.

Any thoughts on the napalm launcher or acid spitter? The enemies I'd really like to use the napalm launcher against are immune to lava and while the acid spitter is kind of cool, only having one shot before reloading is pretty ridiculous. Since the missile launcher is already the apex of monster splattering technology, I find I don't have much use for them. The RNG insists on throwing napalm launchers at me constantly, however.

[Vester]

The napalm launcher and acid spitter are good for area denial, but then it turns out that most of the demons you'd need to block off (that is, the ones you can't reliably kill in the first couple of turns) are also either immune to fluids or don't actually need to get within melee range to murder your man-and-a-half's butt.

[Duke 2.0]

 Ammochain and a nuclear plasma rifle means classic ammochain excellence baby! And high powered assemblies work wonders on it.

[onyhow]

Need help: I got chaingun from the Arena, and is planning to make assault rifle out of it (didn't get whizkid yet, plan to get it next level)...here's the weird thing: when I tried to apply second agility mod to it, the game refused, saying "This item can't be modified anymore with this mod!"
Can anyone help?
 
Update: turns out I need whizkid first...huh???

[Vester]

You... kinda need that second Whizkid level.

[Duke 2.0]

 There are three levels of assemblies. The first level can be assembled at any time. The second level requires a level of whizkid. The last tier requires two levels in Whizkid. Some uniques can be modded, but only by a Technician.

[S.K. Ren]

As per the request of Kornel himself, I am bumping this thread to new heights. I do this because.... A NEW RELEASE HAS BEEN RELEASED! So go, download it and die countless times to the enemies you know and love.

[ToonyMan]

Another update?  Man I'm so behind I haven't even played the latest one.

[zchris13]

Everything has changed, ToonyMan. Everything. Well, I mean the final boss is still the final boss, but the cybie is no longer the curtain.

[Haspen]

Plus now you have 8 maps of Phobos, 8 maps of Deimos, 8 maps of Hell.

Before it was like 15 Phobos bases and around 10 hell maps.

[Robsoie]

Great news, been reading the changelog and it's not a small update at all, very impressive.

And what got me even more excited is

and if you didn’t before, follow ChaosForge and my humble self on Twitter to stay fully informed of the next GRAPHICAL release!

Yes, the graphical version you all waited for is almost ready. Even more! ChaosForge Supporters have already been granted access to 0.9.9.5 graphical version beta. 

Can't wait then for the next version, that amazing Derek Yu tiles made me drool since the first few screenshot appeared

there's a youtube demonstration of a beta version of it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jjzoISYUPM
the video is a bit darker than it should be according to the comments

[Robsoie]

Ouch.

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got down to the Cyberdemon, and unless my memory is blurry the thing is more resistant than it was in previous versions.

I was playing at the lowest difficulty to start with 0.9.9.5, and the Cyberdemon
-took 2 shots of the BFG9000 that i got from the Hall of Carnage
-took an insane amount of rockets from my Missile Launcher that i got from the Wall
-took me then nearly all my dozen of large and small medikits+phase devices to escape to survive

And finally the monster was down, as i didn't have nuclear device+invulnerability, i wasn't going to the real ending.

But ... that wasn't the end in 0.9.9.5 , i was sent in the Hell chapter, the Cyberdemon despite being more powerfull than in my memory isn't the last stage anymore.

And out of every ammo but only my tactical shotgun and some shells (assembly of combat shotgun) , and without any armor left (damned Cyberdemon rockets), got melted by an arachnotron+2 plasma rifle commandos as i was out of phase device sadly.
Damn, DoomRL is even harder than before, be very very carefull when reaching the Cyberdemon, there's even more levels after him

Is Army of the Dead worth the points wasted in it ? The description mention armor piercing from shrapnel shots (shotguns) but after getting it, i didn't noticed obvious better killing sprees than before while using my shotgun.

[Duke 2.0]

 Oh, dang

Spoiler: Oh DANG (click to show/hide)

 

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[mod] -- TR#---: rapid fire shotguns now benefit from Trigger Happy (kornel)
[new] -- TR#---: New Arch-Vile AI, also damage changed to 20 fire-based
[mod] -- TR#---: New rewards in Hell's Arena for Berserk, Impatience, Red Alert, Purity, Masochism, Humanity (game_hunter)


 But yeah, it was pretty useful in 0994. It replaces your damage type from Pellets, which I think has either double or triple armor weakness(So a demon with two armor would shrug off four or six damage), to Piercing, which ignores armor. On end-game enemies that have pretty hefty armor, and barons/knights which can wear armor on top of their natural armor, it is immensely useful. It also makes the double shotty worth a damn.

I'm sorry, it still takes either just as many shots to take down enemies, or the range of possible values is too unreliable to rely on it. I'll need to play the new version to see how it fares though.