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[Blaze]

If you mean things like "Mancubus General" or whatever, they're just ranks.

[Apple Master]

Ah right. I've only got to Former Human so far

[Duke 2.0]

 I'm finding their forums a little odd and some rather pointless.

 For example, the suggestions forums. What is the point if every suggestion possible is responded to as either "It is fine as it is.", "It isn't in the spirit of the game" or "It will unbalance this already carefully balanced(Heh) game"? I can understand some suggestions falling under those categories, but mention a change to the shotguns will warrant a response from an automated bot saying "Shotguns are fine as it is" and show a post-mortem of somebody getting a lucky win on AoS on what have you difficulty.

 Also, according to the Wiki the double shotgun has a 10% damage dropoff at point blank range. And for every space that damage is reduced by 10%. I am still adamant that the double shotgun is a trash weapon, not worth picking up.

[ToonyMan]

I seriously hate Forums that reject every idea.
For example, the first post some does is "No."

Although this happens a lot in this forums as well...

> No.

CURSE YOU PANDARSENIC.  YOU ACT LIKE YOU'RE FROM A STEAM FORUMS.

[beorn080]

The double shotgun is good for large groups that you can get close to without being hit. Demons, former human swarms of various types, group of archnotrons, if you can get close, and hit more then one in a shot, its great.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm finding their forums a little odd and some rather pointless.

 For example, the suggestions forums. What is the point if every suggestion possible is responded to as either "It is fine as it is.", "It isn't in the spirit of the game" or "It will unbalance this already carefully balanced(Heh) game"? I can understand some suggestions falling under those categories, but mention a change to the shotguns will warrant a response from an automated bot saying "Shotguns are fine as it is" and show a post-mortem of somebody getting a lucky win on AoS on what have you difficulty.

Well, you have to consider that the forums have VERY little traffic. In fact, it would seem that the only people that populate it are the hardcore fans. This, as you can probably suspect, leads to most of the forum's population being very content with the game's content, backing up Kornel no matter what, and occasionally being irritatingly elitist. If the forum attracted both more people and a larger variety of them, then this probably wouldn't be a problem.

[Strange guy]

Just had a few good runs this weekend- my first partial win which was also my first HNTR win and second overall win, my first death to cybie, my first intuition build which resulted in a win and my first win on an ammochain build.

Not very impressive compared to everyone I'm sure, but I'm pretty proud of it and I think I'm getting a real feel for the game and may be able to get standard wins on HNTR and maybe move up to HMP without dying near instantly soon.

On the double shotgun- up close it is extremely powerful, with knockback and using common ammo. The combat shotgun is still better for most situations, but in close quarters, against melee enemies and against tough foes, so long as you can get close, it is very nasty. Also high damage and spread means it can kill groups of weak enemies very well.

[JoshuaFH]

N-N-N-NEW VERSION!

Do it like you mean it baby!:

http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,2853.msg24866/topicseen.html#new

[Duke 2.0]

 Seems you can destroy corpses now, meaning that Nightmare! is a bit easier.
 If not for upping the speed of enemies on Nightmare!

[Mephansteras]

Nifty. Maybe someday I'll actually win a game of this.

[JoshuaFH]

Alright, even though my limited free time is precious, I thought I'd spend a little quality time with Doomrl to commemorate the new version:

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.1) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Joshua!, level 9 Human Private, sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 131365 turns and scored 80691 points.
 He played for 1 hour, 30 minutes and 22 seconds.
 He didn't like it too rough.

 He killed 439 out of 511 hellspawn. (85%)


-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Hell Champion Medal
  UAC Bronze Badge
  Brick Bronze Badge
  Scavenger Bronze Badge
  Arena Bronze Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health -5899/50   Experience 36478/9
  ToHit Ranged +4  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +2  ToDmg Melee +2

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

    Tough as nails   (Level 3)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 2)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Intuition        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 1)

  TaN->TaN->Bad->EE->EE->Int->SoB->SoB->TaN->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified BFG 9000 (10d8) [130/130] (B1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified protective boots [2/2] (60%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified plasma rifle (1d8)x6 [40/40] (P1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] modified combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5] (T1)
    [b] modified chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40] (T1)
    [c] missile launcher (6d6) [0/4]
    [d] modified red armor [1/4] (25%) (B)
    [e] onyx armor [2]
    [f] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [h] shotgun shell (x69)
    [i] rocket (x4)
    [j] power cell (x70)
    [k] power cell (x70)
    [l] power cell (x70)
    [m] power cell (x30)
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] large med-pack
    [r] thermonuclear bomb

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    66 former humans
    46 former sergeants
    24 former captains
    89 imps
    63 demons
    84 lost souls
    21 cacodemons
    14 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    10 hell knights
    5 arachnotrons
    2 former commandos
    2 pain elementals
    4 arch-viles
    6 revenants
    2 bruiser brothers

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 8 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 10 he found Hell's Armory.
  On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 15 he encoutered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  He came, he saw, but he left.
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  He nuked level 25!
  On level 25 he finally sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 footsteps...
 Are you sure you want activate the thermonuclear bomb? [Y/n] You use a
 thermonuclear bomb. Warning! Explosion in 10 seconds! Warning!
 Explosion in 9 seconds! You feel vulnerable again.
 Warning! Explosion in 8 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 7 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 6 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 5 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 4 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 3 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 2 seconds!
 Warning! Explosion in 1 seconds!
 You hear an explosion! You hear an explosion! You hear an explosion! You
 hear an explosion! You hear an explosion! You hear an explosion!
 You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations! You defeated the

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

  He's the first brave soul to have ventured into Hell...

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Really close to getting a full win, but the dice didn't roll my way.

[Strange guy]

I think there's a new message for picking up the Chained Court chainsaw. I say 'I think' because I'm so used to the same old message I didn't bother reading it properly, but if it said what I thought it did you guys should all check it out.

[Xgamer4]

*reaches level 2*
*sees a lever*
*pulls it*
*watches lava rain down and surround him*

[Strange guy]

I reached the chained court again today (ended up dying to the cyberdemon- with trigun, gunkata, nuke, 4 large health, 4 phase and a missile launcher. Do not ever forget to look at your health) and the chainsaw message definitely has changed to 'Blood for Armok, God of Blood!' or something very similar to that.

[ToonyMan]

Wut.
Dammit, now I'm going to have to see for myself hold on.

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That's so awesome.