I'm no expert player at all in the several years i played in 0.997 i only have 17 wins, heavy majority in "I'm Too Young To Die" and only a few in "Hey, Not Too Rough" with countless failures in higher difficulty levels.
But Classic mode has always eluded me even on lower difficulty the Cyberdemon was extremely hard.
So in this successful run i decided to aim again for Dodgemaster as it had always been the trait i had when i was so close to kill the damn thing (usually dying to repeated splash damage and lack of more healing item after a while
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But what changed all there is that i had an invulnerability sphere at some distance from the stairs leading to the monster.
It allowed me to position myself correctly in a way i could just easily side-step for his rocket to miss without risking a splash damage throwing me off balance between my micro launcher shots/reload (micro launcher because it's so much more accurate than that crappy rocket launcher so i only very rarely missed instead of missing more than half the time) moves.
To my surprise i didn't got hit a single time, it confirmed the position of the fight i could choose thanks to the early invulnerability was the best choice + the good distance between the monster and my character (so it would not come at close range and ruin everything)
Useless thing is that after killing the Cyberdemon the game made me win 2 levels, picked 2 times Reloader , without and use as the game is ending then (i don't know if the secret boss is available in Classic Mode)
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
Module : Classic Mode (0.3.0)
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Derrick Sund, level 5 Soldier, defeated the Cyberdemon
He survived 31152 turns and scored 12223 points.
He played for 29 minutes and 55 seconds.
He was too young to die!
He killed 88 out of 88 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Classicist (Bronze)
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 32/50 Experience 7761/5
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Soldier
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Reloader (Level 2)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
HR->HR->DM->Rel->Rel->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2/2] (82%) (A)
[b] [ Weapon ] micro launcher (5d5) [0/1]
[c] [ Boots ] protective boots [2/2] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] nothing
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] combat shotgun (7d3) [5/5]
[b] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
[c] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
[d] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
[e] shotgun shell (x50)
[f] shotgun shell (x35)
[g] rocket (x10)
[h] rocket (x6)
[i] small med-pack
[j] small med-pack
[k] small med-pack
[l] small med-pack
[m] small med-pack
[n] small med-pack
[o] small med-pack
[p] large med-pack
[q] large med-pack
[r] large med-pack
[s] phase device
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 25%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
19 former humans
13 former sergeants
6 former captains
40 imps
3 demons
5 lost souls
1 hell knight
1 Cyberdemon
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 9 he assembled a micro launcher!
Then at last he found the Phobos Arena!
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You dodge!
The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
You dodge!
The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
You reload the micro launcher.
You dodge!
The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
You reload the micro launcher.
You dodge!
The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
You reload the micro launcher.
You dodge!
The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You advance to level 4!
Press <Enter>...
You advance to level 5! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
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