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• Elite former human
  monster_acc=-2 melee, +5 ranged| ... counterparts, but more resilient and packing quite a punch. Too bad their weapons are set to self-destruct on death.''|
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• Strategy:Former commando
  ...e afraid of, but they share all formers offensive weakness - their pitiful melee attack. On the defensive side they do not go down easily as well. They have ...at them down a bit before they come close. But beware of knockback of your weapons - you don't want to push them away and let them shower you with plasma.
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• Strategy:Juggler
  If you're like me and like to carry several different weapons at once, Juggler can really come in handy. Juggler has 2 main parts, each ...ways get free turns since they are so fast. This also means that swapping weapons this way (or by quickkey) no longer counts as a turn, which can save precio
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• Strategy:Arachnotron
  ...nt to switch weapons- the danger is that you’ll knock the ‘tron out of melee range and it’ll melt you with easy short-range fire on a stationary targe I generally don’t endorse using rapid-fire weapons against ‘trons unless your build really takes advantage of them. A [[chai
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• Modding:being object (0.9.9.7)
  ... |{{modarg|shortint}}|This damage modifier is applied to all the being's melee attacks. ...melee|{{modarg|shortint}}|This accuracy modifier is applied to the being's melee attacks.
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• Modding:Item
  DoomRL has many kinds of items. Weapons, powerups, levers, and other things are all items. Items inherit from the [ ...'s group for purposes of kill counting. The used weapon groups are "weapon-melee", "weapon-pistol", "weapon-shotgun", "weapon-chain", "weapon-rocket", "weap
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• Elite former commando
  monster_acc=+3 melee, +5 (tristar blaster) or +10 (missile launcher, napalm launcher) ranged| ...of the best! Armored, resilient and with superior firepower! Too bad their weapons are set to self-destruct on death.''|
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• Modding:Tutorial/Custom Items
  ...nce for a particular damage type onto the item. This is only important for weapons, armor, and boots, as the resistance can only help if the item is equipped. Ammunition is an inventory item that automatically adds itself to weapons as necessary. (See Ranged Weapon for details regarding how this is accompli
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• Strategy:Melee Types
  Melee weapons are not very useful in general games because they are inaccurate without an ...y fight the [[Cyberdemon]] with your chainsaw too) and claim your artifact melee weapon. From there the game should be reasonably simple; you have an extrem
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• Modding:Tutorial/Custom Beings
  ...what shows at the top of a mortem if the player was killed by this being's melee attack. *''toDam'' is the damage modifier to the being's natural melee attack. It deals 1d3 damage unmodified.
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• Modding:Tutorial/Game Objects
  A very large part of customizing the objects in DoomRL (weapons, powerups, enemies, etc) has to do with creating, manipulating, and referen ...l much more damage. To start, we will first need to initialize the two axe weapons: since the undead warrior will have more than one weapon, we cannot inline
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• Strategy:Arch-vile
  So, explosive weapons (rockets, BFG shockwave/hellwave packs) often do all those three things at Notice melee damage (8) is currently less than half of projectile damage (20). If you en
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• Strategy:Red armor
  ...his assembly; aside from the obvious reason that they will actively get in melee range of enemies, the +60% resistances from [[berserk]] and VMR being great ...e armors and do really need something better than a P-modded Red armor for melee, using Red armor for this assembly would do you better than the other stand
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• Modding:being blueprint (0.9.9.7)
  ...odarg|integer}}|This is the being's todam bonus. The bonus applies only to melee attacks. The default is 0. |res_melee |{{modarg|integer}}|This is the being's resistance to melee damage. The default is 0.
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• Weapon Families
  ...us classifications of [[weapons]] that exist within DoomRL. To see all the weapons that belong to a particular <span class="plainlinks">[http://doom.chaosforg *[[Melee_Types|Melee Types]]
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• Strategy:Shotgun Types
  Shotguns work slightly differently to most weapons. They do not have a projectile - instead they attack a cone-shaped area in ...desperately needing weapon-specific traits to be effective like most other weapons do. Shotguns excel at attacking groups of enemies at close to medium range,
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• Melee Types
  ... the <span class="plainlinks">[http://doom.chaosforge.org/wiki/Melee_Types melee type]</span> for the purposes of [[Challenges]] and [[Traits]]. Note that s == '''About Melee''' ==
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• Strategy:Weapon Families
  This page is a listing of strategies for entire "groups" of weapons by their respective [[Weapon_Families|Weapon Family]]. *[[Strategy:Melee_Types|Melee Types]]
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• Strategy:Weapons
  ...s a listing of strategies for each individual weapon by their respective [[Weapons|name]]. ...tegorized by the two super groups of [[Weapons#Melee_Weapons|Melee]] and [[Weapons#Ranged_Weapons|Ranged]].
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• Strategy:Pistol Types
  ...l that they may have the hardest early game of any build, even harder than melee builds have it; on harder difficulties, you're going to have ''many'' Sharp === w/ Rapid Weapons in Angel of 100/666 ===
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• Strategy:Mancubus
  ...are cornered by one, it is often better to hug it and let it attack you in melee (which is not weak either). If it starts firing, or you see you can't avoid
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• Strategy:The Mortuary
  ...art killing them from maximum distance, giving preference to infinite-ammo weapons, and firing with nuclear bfg or other explosive weapon to clean up corpses. It is not impossible (and very badass) to clear out mortuary with melee, especially as Vampire. You will need good dodge rate and speed, so at leas
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• Elite former sergeant
  monster_acc=+0 melee, +0 ranged| ...mong the former sergeants. And they carry firepower to boot! Too bad their weapons are set to self-destruct on death.''|
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• Elite former captain
  monster_acc=+1 melee, +1 (minigun) OR +8 (laser rifle) ranged| ...among the former captains. Beware of the superior firepower! Too bad their weapons are set to self-destruct on death.''|
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• Strategy:John Carmack
  JC attacks with a rocket launcher ONLY. He doesn't deal any melee damage, so there are 2 methods of taking JC out: .... Stay right up against JC to take advantage of your immediate position to melee attack him.
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• Strategy:Spider Mastermind
  ...probably be able to force Spidey to flinch and stagger. But note that such weapons usually have long firing and reloading times, during which Spidey can easil ...pidey is staggering, she moves randomly, and that includes movement out of melee range, which you need to close again, and this may cost you valuable time.
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• Strategy:Phobos Lab
  ...sted either, as much of the enemies there have [[bullet]] and [[shrapnel]] weapons, and so they'll still be very useful there. [[User:Omega Tyrant|Omega Tyran ... to kill them in time (which only builds with Brute + Berserker + a strong melee weapon or rapid-fire builds with a strong [[Plasma rifle]] will have any sh
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• Strategy:Azrael's Scythe
  ...igger enemies when berserked. This makes the Scythe especially valuable to melee builds planning to take on [[The Mortuary]], [[Limbo]], or for any other sc
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• Strategy:Whizkid
  Whizkid allows one to build advanced and master [[assemblies]] out of [[weapons]], [[armor]], and [[boots]]. Furthermore, it allows one to just slap on [[m ...llows a Technician to "unload" an empty assembled/modded/exotic/unique non-melee weapon and produce a random mod pack, anything from the measly [[technical
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• Strategy:Piercing blade
  ... of a Power mod, the Agility mod itself provides little-to-no benefit to a melee weapon. ...kull]]s from the [[Agony elemental]] or skipped fighting it. Otherwise non-melee builds are going to struggle doing any damage to him, and are gonna have to
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• Strategy:Sharpshooter
  ... Eye]] 1. Never reload in a spot where an enemy can see you or is about to melee you (except formers), you can outrun them all at base speed in [[green armo ...ld yourself an [[Energy pistol]], you'll often be at the mercy of your sub-weapons with them. They just barely don't go down in one clip from a base-power bul
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• Strategy:Mjollnir
  ...eed Chainsaws nor Artifacts, you're still not going to be using it as your melee weapon when it's outdone by modded Combat knives as previously covered. ...ovement speed faster than 0.67 seconds to outrun the Angel of Death, a non-melee build can infinitely run away from him while safely throwing the Mjollnir a
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• Strategy:Angel of Max Carnage
  The ideal build for this challenge is a rapid fire build; these weapons are mainly held back by their abysmal accuracy and unreliable damage output ...e than a few [[Large medkit]]s, provided you wear an [[armor]] with decent melee [[resistance]]. You should probably skip the Unholy Cathedral however if yo
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• Strategy:Angel of 100
  ...ross off [[Blademaster]] unless you're willing to gamble on finding a good melee weapon, as you're going to be really weak unless you're lucky enough to fin ...ill be ok to use it in the lucky case you do find it. If you really want a melee master with the Dragonslayer however, you should use Malicious Blades as po
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• Strategy:Ripper
  ... attacks with the Ripper for every single attack you'll get with any other Melee weapon, while it still possesses formidable power (averaging 21 damage per ...miss, 2 more levels than you would need to achieve the same in other Melee weapons.
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• Strategy:Scavenger
  ...rest, so you don't necessarily have to sigh and discard all the cool rapid weapons you find. You could even dip into Brute later on if you find the cleaver! Y ...is build really takes off, and pistols are probably the most useful modded weapons because of how fast they fire and how reliant they are on mods and assembli
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• Strategy:Bullet Dance
  ...ch and Son of a Gun 3, it knocks back on every hit. You can even use rapid weapons alongside your pistols, and that means [[Triggerhappy]] is no longer a dead ...ill invite a counterattack almost certainly, so you have to lure them into melee range... but if you have any levels of SoB, which you need, you'll knock th
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• Strategy:Army of the Dead
  ...y of the Dead (MAD for short), which turns the damage type of all shrapnel weapons to piercing. This means instead of your shotguns' damage being doubly reduc ...ou get a [[Chainsaw]]). You might even end up finding yourself fighting in melee more often than actually using your shotguns with a MAD build, at which poi
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