Something to add here:

Freezing point and Unarmed master have a weird interaction together.

I've noticed that freezing point has a blue glow on your character when it is charged, which sometimes allows you to choose its direction. The blue fire from unarmed master's transformation seems to completely suppress this visual cue.

Adding another layer to this bad interaction is the kill count requirement being almost identical. Unarmed Master has 26 and Freezing Point has 27, which makes this happen quite frequently.

Yes, people still use this guide.

Trying for the 7000 kill survival. I'm learning there's no easy way to do it. I can't seem to get much further than 5500.

Honestly, I think that plain text is probably good. I'm not sure that enough people still play this game to justify the image additions, lol. If you do put the work in to add images, though, I'll see if I can get some people into OFDP so they can benefit from it.

On that note: Would you like me to attempt adding images to this guide, or is the current plain text format suitable enough?

Oh gosh, people still use this guide? Haha, thank you! I've decided to revamp the text and formatting a little, now that I've gained a halfway decent vocabulary. Remember, do not button mash and good luck!

Thanks a lot for putting this down! I decided to try to get back into this game, and there's some interesting stuff here.

Update: Turns out that Unarmed Master does not prevent you from using weapons, only while it's active (attempting to catch or pick up a weapon results in a deflect instead). Sorry!

Personally I use weapon rain with ALL of the mastery skills so I'm basically holding a weapon at all points in time except the start, but that's just what I do. I also use all three throwing skills with throw weapon so I can take out a lot of enemies from a distance, and it works surprisingly well.

Huh, today I learned! Thanks for the heads-up, I'll go fix it!