Topic: Weekly Seed #68 [Alpha 12] [Seed: Nuclear Meltdown] (Read 4357 times)

zxc · « **on:** December 10, 2016, 02:08:49 AM »

This week's seed: Nuclear Meltdown

Feel the heat

The Weekly Seed is open to anyone, and we encourage you to share your experiences, stories, and tactics over the course of your run.

The rules are as follows:

The Weekly Seed begins from the date this thread is posted and lasts about seven days.
Make sure you are running the correct version of Cogmind (see thread subject).
Enter the seed and abort your current game to initiate the seed (more details are below).
Verify you are not running the tutorial and that the screenshots below match your game.
Play through the game once. This is a friendly event and we are all honest people.
When finished, post your scoresheet here (it should be the newest file in /scores) and any other screenshots/stories/strategies you wish to share with the community.
If you want to share details about the seed or your approach, make sure you use spoiler tags.
Due to the spoilerific nature of this thread, be sure to avoid reading details about the seed if you haven't completed your run.

Good luck and have fun!

No screenshots because I have a game in progress already and I don't like messing around with save files.

HOW TO ENTER A SEED

Press F1 to go to the MENU, select OPTIONS, select Seed, and enter this week's seed:

Select GAME, select ABORT:

If you have followed the steps [Manual seed applied: Nuclear Meltdown] should display in the log window.

Congratulations on entering the seed, now get in there!

DDarkray · « **Reply #1 on:** December 10, 2016, 04:28:40 PM »

At first, I tried to do a stealth build with flight units instead of combat build. Of course, I'm so bad at it! I find it very difficult to replace the flight units that was lost. Mostly due to:

1) Lack of weapons to fight
http://imgur.com/a/22eAM (Better get outta here!)

2) Too many incoming enemies
http://imgur.com/a/SKB1b (Ooooooh!!!)
http://imgur.com/a/rjdny (Ahhhhh!!!)

3) Too many reinforcements from damaging Conveyors
http://imgur.com/a/5NK4s (My last flight unit gone...)

So then, I switched over to legs and hopefully I can get outta this place with just 2 weapon slot...

http://imgur.com/a/5dW1W (Or not...)
http://imgur.com/a/lrpQY
http://imgur.com/a/1MfT3

And I died with full inventory but zero core. Stealth build seems too difficult for me!

Scoresheet:

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Kyzrati · « **Reply #2 on:** December 11, 2016, 01:57:55 AM »

Stealth is really a very different way of thinking about things. I find it hard to take that approach myself. I always just want to shoot stuff

Kyzrati · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2016, 02:29:48 AM »

Well, an almost win for me on this seed. Disclaimer: I wasn't trying to win

It was a lot of fun, though, doing a few things that I normally wouldn't, or trying different strategies, just whatever seemed like fun at the time.

Turned out to be a pretty wild ride, heading into Storage at -8, then after messing up half the floor I decided to duck into Recycling to skip up a couple floors.

Later I intentionally set off into the Upper Caves, where I proceeded to attach yet a third Lrg. Storage after meeting a couple Minesweepers. Had a pack full of traps and setting them was great. In fact, one of those traps saved my life later! ...I was completed disarmed and retreating from two Programmers and a Sentry, when I installed my last dirty bomb near a doorway and headed back behind a machine--first Programmer sidestepped my trap and advanced, but the second ran over it, blowing himself up, taking out two nearby Power Conduits, and disabling both the Sentry and his friend

. I had just enough time to grab all the loot in the room, rebuild, and escape to the exit I'd already identified earlier via intel.

While spelunking I made a visit to a special someone in the caves, and wow the resulting chaos in Research was a sight to behold. I spent 4.7k turns in that place, and got beaten to a pulp multiple times, only to come back each time and eventually ascended to the subsurface level.

Seriously, look at this fight

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Me and my 197 core, and it wasn't really possible to acquire any storage on that floor to replace what I'd lost, so I couldn't bring much of the awesome loot to the next floor :/

Before that I was looking much better:

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(but, you know, 4.7k turns facing off against all kinds of crazy stuff...)

Oh yeah, and before all that I visited Armory, where I also got beaten to a pulp. I've never been there before on a real run; fun

. Here's me bypassing the guards to head straight for the exit--44 core left! Yay for derelict intel!

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Access wasn't going too bad, until I dug through the wrong wall and knocked on the wrong door. The Behemoth wasn't happy, and neither were his Hunter friends. Nor the other Hunter friends who came from the other direction. Nor the Programmers coming from both directions xD

Basically it turned into a mess, but I had made several careless mistakes both here and before this on the run. (Cogmind requires a good bit of concentration to consider all the important factors, and doesn't go well with streaming, at least not for me

) This is about where I died, accosted from all sides:

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Very close to the end.

Actually, if not for a bug already scheduled to be fixed for Alpha 13, I may have survived that confrontation! If you see in my inventory, I'd saved up a couple Adv. Hacking Suites I was going to use to locate the exit, and had a datajack taken from a Programmer not long before. So after retreating north I had all my legs shot off, attached armor and hacking gear, successfully rebooted the main Programmer, then was going to overload or reboot his friends, but the Programmer was remotely blocking my hacks despite being in the process of rebooting! Argh, not cool, Programmer! Obviously that should not be allowed. I'll get you next time!!!

This whole run was streamed (VOD), and we even had a visit from streamer livebyfoma (KY) and DoomRL/Jupiter Hell developer Kornel (KS in progress) which brought in 70 viewers at one point

. A fair number of spoilers at various points in this run, something I wasn't bothering to avoid like I sometimes do (e.g. last stream).

Spoiler: Score: 23,761 (click to show/hide)

Cogmind - Alpha 12 Name: Kyzrati ---[ CORE DESTROYED ]--- Performance ------------- Evolutions ( 4000 Robots Destroyed (276) 1380 Value Destroyed (15341) 15341 Prototype IDs (27) 540 Alien Tech Recovered (0) 0 Bonus (2500) 2500 TOTAL SCORE: 23761 Cogmind --------- Core Integrity 0/1600 Matter 22/300 Energy 100/100 System Corruption 22% Temperature Cool (0) Location -1/Access Parts ------- Power (2) (None) Propulsion (6) (None) Utility (13) Advanced Coolant Injector Experimental Targeting Computer Advanced Target Analyzer Experimental Core Analyzer Centrium Heavy Armor Plating Advanced Hacking Suite Advanced Hacking Suite Weapon (4) (None) Inventory (4) Light Particle Reactor Advanced Coolant Injector Peak State ------------ Power Reinforced Antimatter Reactor Improved Quantum Reactor Propulsion Myomer Leg Enhanced Biometal Leg Centrium Leg Centrium Leg Centrium Leg Centrium Leg Utility Advanced Coolant Injector Advanced Coolant Injector Advanced Targeting Computer Experimental Targeting Computer Experimental Targeting Computer Advanced Target Analyzer Experimental Core Analyzer Advanced Armor Integrity Analyzer Centrium Light Armor Plating Centrium Light Armor Plating Centrium Light Armor Plating Centrium Heavy Armor Plating Weapon Enhanced Quantum Rifle Enhanced Quantum Rifle Enhanced Nova Cannon Compact Mass Driver Inventory Advanced Hacking Suite Advanced Hacking Suite Enhanced Quantum Rifle Micro-nuke Launcher [Rating: 203] Favorites ----------- Power Light Antimatter Reactor Engine Cooled Ion Engine Power Core Neutrino Core Reactor Light Antimatter Reactor Propulsion Carbon-fiber Leg Treads Heavy Treads Wheel Wheel Leg Carbon-fiber Leg Hover Unit Antigrav System Utility Large Storage Unit Device Advanced Heat Sink Storage Large Storage Unit Processor Improved Targeting Computer Hackware Advanced Hacking Suite Protection Centrium Light Armor Plating Weapon Improved Heavy Machine Gun Energy Gun Enhanced Quantum Rifle Energy Cannon Enhanced Nova Cannon Ballistic Gun Improved Heavy Machine Gun Ballistic Cannon Compact Mass Driver Launcher Missile Launcher Special Weapon Enhanced Flamer Piercing Weapon Spear Stats ------- Bonus Breakdown 2500 Met Warlord at Base 500 Met Warlord at Research 2000 Classes Destroyed 21 Worker 7 Builder 7 Tunneler 2 Hauler 3 Recycler 11 Minesweeper 2 Operator 2 Watcher 2 Swarmer 43 Saboteur 1 Grunt 82 Brawler 6 Duelist 6 Sentry 24 Demolisher 5 Specialist 2 Hunter 26 Programmer 36 Striker 5 Executioner 3 Mutant 1 NPCs Destroyed 0 Best Kill Streak 9 Combat Bots Only 7 Matter Collected 9694 Salvage Created 14622 Parts Attached 404 Power 45 Propulsion 96 Utility 132 Weapon 131 Parts Lost 148 Power 24 Propulsion 31 Utility 35 Weapon 58 Average Slot Usage (%) 93 Naked Turns 1 Spaces Moved 8384 Fastest Speed (%) 200 Average Speed (%) 71 Slowest Speed (%) 6 Overloaded Moves 0 Propulsion Burnouts 0 Targets Rammed 2 Cave-ins Triggered 0 Heaviest Build 138 Greatest Support 207 Greatest Overweight (x) 40 Average Overweight (x) 0 Largest Inventory 22 Average Capacity 14 Most Carried 22 Average Carried 13 Final Capacity 4 Final Carried 2 Core Damage Taken 5629 Average Core Remaining (%) 57 Depth 11 Exit 100 Depth 10 Exit 54 Depth 9 Exit 92 Depth 8 Exit 52 Depth 6 Exit 91 Depth 5 Exit 67 Depth 4 Exit 51 Depth 3 Exit 3 Depth 2 Exit 3 Volleys Fired 644 Largest 4 Hottest 480 Shots Fired 2037 Gun 1243 Cannon 755 Launcher 19 Special 20 Kinetic 1269 Thermal 630 Explosive 19 Electromagnetic 81 Entropic 31 Shots Hit Robots 1319 Core Hits 554 Critical Hits 442 Kills 133 Parts Destroyed 183 Overload Shots 0 Energy Bleed 0 Heat Surge 0 Short Circuit 0 Meltdown 0 Melee Attacks 0 Impact 0 Slashing 0 Piercing 0 Damage Inflicted 38445 Projectiles 35285 Explosions 3149 Melee 0 Ramming 11 Kinetic 16516 Thermal 16572 Explosive 2470 Electromagnetic 1559 Impact 0 Slashing 0 Piercing 0 Entropic 1317 Overflow Damage 377 Projectiles 58 Explosions 90 Melee 229 Self-Inflicted Damage 289 Shots 6 Rammed 2 Highest Temperature 386 Average Temperature 93 Received Heat Transfer 3725 Shutdowns 0 Energy Bleed 0 Interference 0 Matter Decay 0 Short Circuit 0 Damage (minor) 0 Damage (major) 0 Damage (core) 0 Highest Corruption 24 Average Corruption 5 Message Errors 43 Matter Fused 31 Heat Flow Error 24 Energy Discharge 22 Parts Rejected 23 Data loss (map) 0 Data loss (database) 30 Misfires 3 Misdirections 24 Targeting Errors 79 Weapon Failures 19 Depth 8 End 3 Depth 4 End 7 Depth 3 End 24 Haulers Intercepted 3 Robots Corrupted 4 Parts Fried 11 Robots Melted 2 Parts Melted 54 Heat Transferred 17713 Parts Self-Destructed 111 Prevented 25 Power Chain Reactions 3 Tactical Retreats 41 Communications Jammed 498 Parts Field Recycled 0 Retrieved Matter 0 Parts Merge Repaired 0 Drone Launches 8 Drone Recoveries 0 Derelicts Assembled 0 Traps Triggered 3 Indirectly 0 Trap Hack Attempts 0 Triggered 0 Disarmed 0 Reprogrammed 0 Reused 19 Traps Extracted 17 Installed 8 Triggered 22 Machines Disabled 30 Data Cores Recovered 1 Used 0 Machines Hacked 32 Terminals 21 Fabricators 1 Repair Stations 0 Recycling Units 2 Scanalyzers 0 Garrison Access 3 Total Hacks 85 Successful 40 Failed 40 Catastrophic 9 Database Lockouts 0 Manual 34 Unauthorized 22 Terminals 58 Fabricators 1 Repair Stations 0 Recycling Units 4 Scanalyzers 0 Garrison Access 9 Terminal Hacks 33 Record 6 Part Schematic 1 Open Door 4 Level Access Points 1 Alert Level 2 Unreport Threat 8 Locate Traps 1 Recall Investigation 1 Zone Layout 1 Hacking Detections 25 Full Trace Events 2 Feedback Events 0 Feedback Corruption 0 Feedback Part Disabled 0 Feedback Blocked 0 Trojans Installed 11 Terminals 11 Fabricators 0 Repair Stations 0 Recycling Units 0 Scanalyzers 0 Garrison Access 0 Fabricators Overloaded 0 Garrisons Disabled 6 Garrisons Compromised 0 Fab Network Shutdowns 0 Robot Schematics Acquired 0 Robots Built 0 Total Robot Build Rating 0 Robot Fabrication Matter 0 Robot Fabrication Time 0 Part Schematics Acquired 1 Parts Built 0 Total Part Build Rating 0 Part Fabrication Matter 0 Part Fabrication Time 0 Parts Repaired 0 Part Repair Time 0 Parts Recycled 0 Recycled Matter 138 Retrieved Matter 0 Retrieved Components 0 Parts Scanalyzed 0 Part Schematics Acquired 0 Parts Damaged 0 Robot Analysis Total 0 Robots Rewired 5 Robots Hacked 1 Non-combat 0 Combat 1 Rebooted 1 Robot Hack Failures 0 Allies Hacked 6 Hacks Repelled 0 Total Allies 23 Largest Group 10 Highest-Rated Group 359 Highest-Rated Ally 44 Total Orders 8 STAY 1 COLLECT 7 Terraforming Orders 0 Walls Built 0 Walls Tunneled 0 Ally Attacks 87 Total Damage 1423 Kills 12 Allies Corrupted 6 Allies Melted 0 Peak Influence 954 Average Influence 220 Final Influence 251 Maximum Alert Level 3 Low Security (%) 54 Level 1 34 Level 2 5 Level 3 5 Level 4 0 Level 5 0 Squads Dispatched 86 Investigation 4 Extermination 10 Reinforcement 15 Assault 57 Garrison 0 Intercept 0 Derelict Logs Recovered 3 Exploration Rate (%) 30 Regions Visited 17 Pre-discovered Areas 0 Garrisons Visited 0 Relays Disabled 0 Generators Disabled 0 Network Hubs Disabled 0 Actions Taken 10600 Turns Passed 15565 Depth 11 65 Depth 10 440 Depth 9 413 Depth 8 2077 Depth 6 633 Depth 5 3841 Depth 4 1109 Depth 3 3197 Depth 2 2941 Depth 1 849 Scrapyard 65 Materials 1356 Factory 2566 Research 4727 Access 849 Storage 1085 Recycling 489 Upper Caves 1632 Proximity Caves 567 Warlord 818 Armory 1411 Prototype IDs --------------- Cooled Ion Engine Improved Quantum Reactor Enhanced Biometal Leg Experimental Heat Sink Spectral Analyzer Experimental Signal Interpreter Experimental Targeting Computer Experimental Core Analyzer Advanced Particle Charger Centrium Light Armor Plating Centrium Heavy Armor Plating Quantum Shroud Heavy Particle Gun Vortex Rifle Heavy EM Shotgun Advanced Beam Cannon Vortex Cannon Improved Matter Neutralizer Heavy Proton Cannon Enhanced Autogun Improved Heavy Machine Gun Enhanced Coil Gun Helical Railgun Compact Mass Driver Compact Linear Accelerator Fabricated ------------ Nothing Alien Tech Recovered ---------------------- None Route ------- -11/Scrapyard -10/Materials -9/Materials (discovered 2 exits: *Mat / [*Min]) -8/Materials -8/Storage -8/Recycling -6/Factory (discovered 4 exits: *Fac x4) -5/Factory -5/Upper Caves -5/Upper Caves (discovered 2 exits: *Fac / *War) -5/Warlord -4/Proximity Caves -4/Factory -3/Research -3/Armory (discovered 2 exits: [*Res x2]) -2/Research (discovered 2 exits: [*Acc] / [*Tes]) -1/Access Game ------ Seed: Nuclear Meltdown ^Manual?: 1 Play Time: 302 min Sessions: 1 Mod: N/A Game No.: 9 Lore%: 8 Gallery%: 36 ASCII: 0 Keyboard: 1 Movement: Numpad Fullscreen: 2 Font: 20/SmallcapsGlow Map View: 66x50 FOV Handling: Fade In

elite277 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 13, 2016, 06:42:08 AM »

I'm going to play anyway so I may as well take part in this I figure. I stand ready to begin my adventure, notepad open for the tales of my quest. let's go.

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Diary of run, screenshots, fluff, such alike.

TOTAL SCORE: 7526

I enjoyed this run, despite not being particularly well scoring. I had hoped my luck would hold with my evasive equipment but that fateful sensor jamming and swarmer sealed my fate, though it took a few floors to catch up with me. It took me a day to find time to format the data for a forum post, I'm not familiar with the code so i hope it's OK.

Kyzrati · « **Reply #5 on:** December 13, 2016, 11:03:02 PM »

I love it when players write these

Haha, identity crisis... And your Defender buddy should've kept his same name, the "3" being a reference to the depth he joined you on (third upward), and the letter being the sequence (so "A" is first, followed by "B" etc.). That used to work, but I did recently change the code for bringing allies from one floor to another, so there appears to be an oversight that's allowing them to be renamed. I'll need to look into that again, fix it up, and credit you for it.

That's a harrowing escape into Research, and you rebuilt pretty well in -2! Until you're more familiar with what kinds of things you'll encounter up there, though, it's a brutal place to be

elite277 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 14, 2016, 05:36:30 AM »

It was amusing to write. Taking the time to think about my actions and record them makes for better decision making and part of the fun of such things are the emergent stories and such that arise. I've probably had as much fun explaining various situations and events that arise in games like dwarf fortress to my friends as I had playing to begin with. It's the journey not the destination as they say.

It's interesting to know the naming behavior wasn't intended. I wasn't really sure by what means the naming conventions were derived but it's interesting to know exactly how it works. I'd assumed it was the type of thing that under normal conditions people wouldn't care about enough to check, far less notice. If it wasn't for my recording of events I probably wouldn't have either. I didn't think of it as a bug so much as a quirk, I'm glad It's been of use to you and thanks for the credit.

Far too many times in this run i found myself forced to flee a floor and lucky to have been able to. The margin for error seems low on this type of build, one bad exchange can really set me back badly, and a fear of exchanges at all starves resources and score seemingly. Research is certainly where most my runs end, if I don't get too sloppy in factory anyway. I was quite pleased at my covert approach and how much ground i covered with it, something of a first for me.

Thanks for the opportunity zxc

Kyzrati · « **Reply #7 on:** December 14, 2016, 06:38:24 AM »

Quote from: elite277 on December 14, 2016, 05:36:30 AM

I've probably had as much fun explaining various situations and events that arise in games like dwarf fortress to my friends as I had playing to begin with. It's the journey not the destination as they say.

Quite true! There are a bunch of roguelikes I don't play myself but am happy to read what others write about their experiences. But someone has to play them, too

Quote from: elite277 on December 14, 2016, 05:36:30 AM

It's interesting to know the naming behavior wasn't intended. I wasn't really sure by what means the naming conventions were derived but it's interesting to know exactly how it works.

The goal was simply to 1) allow you to differentiate each ally by name, even those of the same variant, and 2) remind you how far you might have brought particular allies, in case you managed to keep one for longer, as in your case. Though honestly most allies don't last long enough for that to matter! This aspect is changing with time, though--as we approach 1.0 one of the intended newer styles of play is maintaining a small army of allies, i.e. the "summoner build."

In any case, there is certainly a distinct purpose behind pretty much every design decision you'll come across out there!

DDarkray · « **Reply #8 on:** December 14, 2016, 07:45:40 AM »

Quote from: Kyzrati on December 14, 2016, 06:38:24 AM

as we approach 1.0 one of the intended newer styles of play is maintaining a small army of allies, i.e. the "summoner build."

I. Want. This.

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