DoomRL Arsenal - [1.1.5] [MP-B7.3]

[Yholl]

I agree to this, an Armour is an Armour that should provide you at least "some" protection.

complete immunity to all explosions

Honestly if the tactical set was buffed I'd feel like it was cheating, jeez...

Yeah, exactly.
I mean, I'm not completely opposed to it, I'll buff it if people can convince me it needs it, but you're gonna have to work for it, heh.

[LaputanMachine]

Never mind how the Tactical Armor is, in my humble opinion, any armor with higher-than-normal (ergo, the resistance is significantly higher than the others) bullet resistance is automatically preferred above all else for me. This is why I think among other things, the Ballistic Shield and Armor, the Solo Operative Suit, and especially the Shielded Armor are king. Also, Security variants of armor are all pretty good too.

Besides that, does anyone here have a favorite armor or kind of armor?

[Slax]

I blame Yholl for introducing me to splash damage immunity. Blowing myself up is one of the top 5 reasons why I die in Doom and... and... OH GOD GIMME THAT TACTICAL ARMOR! I'm wearing it, right? RIGHT? AHAHAHAHAH! BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
ded

If anything, maybe give the tac armor set a slight movement speed boost. [/shrug]

[Machine-Reaper]

I blame Yholl for introducing me to splash damage immunity. Blowing myself up is one of the top 5 reasons why I die in Doom and... and... OH GOD GIMME THAT TACTICAL ARMOR! I'm wearing it, right? RIGHT? AHAHAHAHAH! BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
ded

If anything, maybe give the tac armor set a slight movement speed boost. [/shrug]

Well I prefer if it had at least some 10% protection otherwise the Armour has deliberate weakness against attacks at the expense of blast protection, ecm and speed.

One of these are already available to two of the classes.

Also talking about explosions, the Torgue Blast Shield gives you immunity to its own explosions but has an immense jump to the explosion (Cyberdemons get explosive farts) and the leg explosion looks powrful but neither are they that powerful nor they really give the blast which may allow you to perform kick jumping.

[Tranthula]

Besides that, does anyone here have a favorite armor or kind of armor?

The Bee. Kill things before they kill you

[Funky Gnoll]

Bulletproof vest and/or ballistic vest. Dodge everything, no-sell anything that can hit you.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

anything with bullet resistance. some fire resistance is good too, if only because it makes the Nightmare Arch-Vile hilariously ineffective, but on tough nuts like Urania, i definitely want to shield myself from the hitscanners as much as possible. the Ballistic Shield, on some mapsets, can be absolutely invaluable because the only thing you need to worry about are projectiles (arch-viles can be devastating though). also, Hungries can't do jack shit against you. otherwise, high protection value for me. i find it gets myself the least murdered in most circumstances.

but i'll bite though; next time i see Tactical Armor, i'll go ahead and wear it, see if it helps me anything. but probably not on Urania. those chaingunners are scawy.

[Machine-Reaper]

Can you guys recommend to best mapsets to play with RLA?...

The following having been done by me:
Sunlust
BTSX I & II
Doom the way ID did it (Lost & Hell on Earth)
Valiant (Still playing)

[wildweasel]

Ancient Aliens, surprisingly. At first you might think that it sucks to lose your inventory very time you enter a new episode, but the rate at which you tend to pick up all kinds of stuff in the entire megawad more than makes up for it. I annihilated the final episode (on skill 2, though, because 3 and 4 are fucking insane) with a Demolitionist with Nanomachic Tristar Blaster and the Cerberus armor set.

[isaacpop23]

Playing through D64 Consolation Prize was great, there were more mod packs there than on any other map set I've played. I got a full arsenal of top assemblies as the Technician! Other than that I like going through Slade maps, it just seems right with this mod somehow.

[Doomguy914]

Can you guys recommend to best mapsets to play with RLA?...

The following having been done by me:
Sunlust
BTSX I & II
Doom the way ID did it (Lost & Hell on Earth)
Valiant (Still playing)

Eternal Doom
Equinox
Community Chest 3+(1 and 2 have some odd actor conflicts, and on some maps you can just insta-gib at the start due to barrel fuckery)
Requiem
1994 TU
Honestly, pretty much any mapset that isn't a slaughter wad. Depending on the monsters that spawn, it will bring even mighty gaming rigs down to toaster levels if you play on maps with around 1200+monsters,(especially for maps that spawn Nightmare Elementals and Machine Elementals.) AV is quite notorious for it in my eyes.

[SwiftFunk]

Ohh god don't get me started on av. dont. mix anything with that and you get something harder than hard.

[Pokky]

Alien Vendetta is hard?

I think it was ok and I even played through the entire mapset with all 5 classes on uv.

[superdupertrooper]

want a clusterfuck? try jpcp with colourfull hell and enjoy the mess

[Thexare]

I've enjoyed Zone 300. Nice and compact for a quick game.

Early monster replacements can be a real issue for ammo sometimes though.