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Jupiter Hell => Post Mortem => Topic started by: khiijol on January 15, 2020, 15:46

Title: [0.8.7|E|AoNYRL|Te|Beyond 3|YASD] - so close yet so far
Post by: khiijol on January 15, 2020, 15:46
remote hack makes this challenge a lot easier to progress with, i accidentally got meleed by my own friendly cri bot when it walked into me. last few levels i was completely dry on ammo except for one bullet in the golden gun. lots of siege ravagers and archreavers chasing me through the last level, thought i might get lucky and be able to smoke/gas/grenade my way out but no such luck

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Title: Re: [0.8.7|E|AoNYRL|Te|Beyond 3|YASD] - so close yet so far
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on January 15, 2020, 15:59
I'm impressed! I didn't believe this was actually reasonably playable on anything else except Scout (due to the stairs reveal)
Title: Re: [0.8.7|E|AoNYRL|Te|Beyond 3|YASD] - so close yet so far
Post by: khiijol on January 15, 2020, 16:03
thanks! i had tried a couple scout runs in 0.8.6 and despite a better evade ability, hellrunner and stair location, i felt the reduced gun slot was a major hinderance. its incredibly satisfying to hack the turrents on the level and hearing a bunch of shooting and explosions in the distance
Title: Re: [0.8.7|E|AoNYRL|Te|Beyond 3|YASD] - so close yet so far
Post by: Tormuse on January 15, 2020, 19:12
Cool, I've been going back and forth between Scout and Technician for exactly those reasons, but yeah, the ability to hack stuff now should help this challenge.
Title: Re: [0.8.7|E|AoNYRL|Te|Beyond 3|YASD] - so close yet so far
Post by: khiijol on January 16, 2020, 09:08
it really helps with the bullet sponge monsters in europa onward like reavers and ravagers. right now friendlies seem content to shuffle around in a fixed location - i tried moving a combat drone down a one width corridor in the same fashion that i'd do with a nethack dog/cat but it didn't want to go anywhere, so you have to lure monsters into where your friends are, which is slightly more risky, but at least provides some manner of disposing of them without wasting all your ammo
Title: Re: [0.8.7|E|AoNYRL|Te|Beyond 3|YASD] - so close yet so far
Post by: Tormuse on January 16, 2020, 15:34
...in the same fashion that i'd do with a nethack dog/cat...

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