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New game path of 0.9.9.2. Nukes for all -=BIG SPOILERS=-

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Sambojin:
I've been playing a fair bit of the new version recently and I've noticed something. You are MEANT to nuke the Cyber-daemon. It's not random, it's not a maybe, it's a given. You have the items to do it every time as long as you do the special levels. And it seems that the levels to do it ALWAYS spawn.

Let me explain. Everyone knows how good the arena/chained court/the wall run is. You get some nifty weapons, a good melee weapon for berserkers, some very handy mods and a missile launcher/backpack. In fact, these three levels when all completed give you the weaponry and items that you have no excuse to not get to hell.

But now there's another run. It's the mortuary/unholy cathedral/lava pits run. In the mortuary you get a nuclear BFG and some angelic armour. In the unholy cathedral you get the longinus spear. In the lava pits you get the lava-element. Admittedly you can skip the cathedral if you're not a H2H character. This means that as long as you do the mortuary and the lava pits you ALWAYS have a nuke(overcharged nuclear BFG) and an invulnerability(lava-element) to nuke the cybie. ALWAYS.

Thus JC isn't just for that lucky "I got a white globe at level 24" kind of run. You are meant to kill him on every run if you can. There's no excuses any more. You've got the nuke, you've got the invulnerabilty, you've got some spiffy armour you won't need until JC and a good melee weapon if you want it. Nuke that cybie and kill some iDsoftware arse!

Kamikaze14:
The nukes were always there.  Also, you forgot the Spider's Lair.

Sambojin:
Yeah, I did. Still, it's just one more option I guess. I'm going to have to stop whimping out on the lava pits though. I've never actually seen the lava elemental fire at me. I'm assuming he does some kind of napalm launcher type damage. Does someone have some stats on him to update the wiki? Or is it still "wait until more people finish it"?

And does he only spawn in the southern section of the second island from the left or is it random? He's spawned there all the times I've killed him AFAIK.

thelaptop:
Did someone say something about gunning for the Mortuary?

That is... usually not the greatest idea unless you have excessive firepower and know what you are doing.  Winning the normal way by killing Cybie isn't really that hard, it's just that now, full wins are a little less luck based.  You stilll need to factor in the restrictions from the various challenges and the mercy (or lack thereof) of the RNG for a truly successful run.

Tuomari Jim:
So far I haven't been killed by the lava elemental (of the two times I went that far). He does hit like a ton of bricks, though, when he finally decides to shoot.

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