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I started having a better time with Zenith once I had a time traveler who started every mission with shields. As soon as she gets some decent level up abilities I think it'll completely negate how awful the starting ramming car can be.
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Having a good island 1 snowballs hard when you max your grid and start pumpin defense, letting you play more aggressively on later maps with 25-35% resist chance.
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Feb 28, 2018 17:50
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Fresh Shesh Besh posted:Okay is it me or is the Zenith Guard squad fuckin' awful? The Rustmans are godly and I don't really have anyone else unlocked yet. If you have the pilot that gives his mech + 1 armor, toss him in the Charger and go ham. It completely negates the self damage.
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Feb 28, 2018 17:54
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Broken Cog posted:If you have the pilot that gives his mech + 1 armor, toss him in the Charger and go ham. It completely negates the self damage. I haven't been lucky enough to find that dude yet. I DID however get lucky enough to get a Brute-class gun for the Grapple Mech that did one point of self-damage. Since the Grapple Mech has innate armor this was a complete non-issue and suddenly I had the ability to do direct damage AND push with the Grappler.
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Feb 28, 2018 17:59
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Broken Cog posted:If you have the pilot that gives his mech + 1 armor, toss him in the Charger and go ham. It completely negates the self damage. Well yeah, but you only get to use the shield twice on the charger (three times with the upgrade) and then you're SOL if the battle isn't over by then because he'll blow himself up. That's what I'm struggling with mostly.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:01
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Fresh Shesh Besh posted:Well yeah, but you only get to use the shield twice on the charger (three times with the upgrade) and then you're SOL if the battle isn't over by then because he'll blow himself up. That's what I'm struggling with mostly. Do you not take a turn now and then to repair yourself? Also 1-2 damage isn't a huge deal, the Charger has some health to spare and you shouldn't be worried too much about high damage attacks early one. The worst they'll throw at you in island one is Leapers that do 3 HP, but at the same time they only have 1 themselves. You don't need your units to end the battle pristine.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:16
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Alkydere posted:Do you not take a turn now and then to repair yourself? Also 1-2 damage isn't a huge deal, the Charger has some health to spare and you shouldn't be worried too much about high damage attacks early one. The worst they'll throw at you in island one is Leapers that do 3 HP, but at the same time they only have 1 themselves. If you're not killing things fast enough you may not have the option to take a repair without either taking damage on a different mech or on a building as a result.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:23
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Nephzinho posted:If you're not killing things fast enough Think I found yer problem. Figure out how to kill 'em faster. The charger bot is why you're given a crazy laser great at taking down multiple people. You're gonna have to sacrifice something if you can't figure it out. Them's the breaks.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:26
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It just seems like a waste when you could have another mech killing bugs in the time it would take to repair the charger. Turn counts are low and there's always at least a couple bugs rushing down your buildings. The laser mech very good, but overall it feels like a weak squad.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:27
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Zenith Guard loving rule and I'm glad I went with them for my first unlock. They've got some minor issues with knockback/disruption compared to the basic squad, but they make up for it well enough with the laser mech and being able to shield buildings. The rammer's not fantastic, but some extra health quickly mitigates its main issues and it can cover an insane amount of ground.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:31
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That's strange because it seems like it's one of the easiest, most murderous squads out there. Even with the RNG mega-gently caress I got (The tiles I started my Laser and Charger both became lightning tiles, and then they both got webbed) leading to a full squad-wipe I still facerolled the final battle with that squad.
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Feb 28, 2018 18:32
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I found... a secret? I destroyed a mountain, which spawned a green light! I collected the green light, which spawned a time pod! I collected the time pod, which contained... A ZOLTAN! He give bonus reactor power and starts every turn with a shield, but he also reduces his mech's health to 1. PRETTY COOL.
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Feb 28, 2018 20:21
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Cronodoculous posted:I found... a secret? Hell Yea.
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Feb 28, 2018 20:29
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That's sick as gently caress.
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Feb 28, 2018 20:35
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Not feeling the Steel Judoka. Chugging bugs around is fun, but it feels like you're too dependent on the arbitrary whims of the AI to get stuff done. Especially on the boss levels.
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Feb 28, 2018 20:43
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I have to say I was expecting a little more advance wars and a little less block puzzle with robot/insect skins but hey, game's still good.
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Feb 28, 2018 21:26
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Cronodoculous posted:I found... a secret? I was watching some stream last night before going to bed, and the streamer had a pilot who I'm like 95% certain was a Rockman. Unfortunately I tuned in too late to see him get the pilot, and he never once commented on it, so I might have been mistaken. Now I'm really hoping there's a secret pilot for every FTL race.
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Feb 28, 2018 21:32
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quiggy posted:I was watching some stream last night before going to bed, and the streamer had a pilot who I'm like 95% certain was a Rockman. Unfortunately I tuned in too late to see him get the pilot, and he never once commented on it, so I might have been mistaken. I've found a mantis pilot as well, changes his heal into a 2 damage melee attack. So yeah there probably is, wonder how the crystal guys will be.
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Feb 28, 2018 21:46
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I'm actually pretty disappointed with the soundtrack as compared to FTL's. It's still good don't get me wrong, but it doesn't knock it out of the park like FTL's did. It was probably the transition between combat and non-combat that really made it sing, which makes me wish (solely for musical reasons) that your turn was just 'planning' and all your mechs actions would happen accompanied with the music swelling, followed by the enemy actions. Really minor thing, but noticeable coming off of FTL.
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Feb 28, 2018 21:47
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Well I guess when I'm playing tonight I have to start planning on how to not only kill bugs but explode mountains
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Feb 28, 2018 22:03
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IcePhoenix posted:Well I guess when I'm playing tonight I have to start planning on how to not only kill bugs but explode mountains you can crash one into the other would you like to know more
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Feb 28, 2018 22:10
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Really Pants posted:you can crash one into the other 
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Feb 28, 2018 22:12
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Well at least now i know where to start for that achievement. Oh, once you unlock every squad there's a hidden squad to unlock for another 25 coins. To do that you need to get every single other achievement. No idea what the reward is yet, but I'm sure it's going to be awesome. One hint i have figured out - most of them you don't need to win for. Just aim for the achievement and reset.
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Feb 28, 2018 22:16
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Really Pants posted:you can crash one into the other To be fair, even though I didn't say it, this was definitely going to be my main strategy. But I've already been doing that and not gotten any extra guys so now I just have to blow them up randomly as well, clearly. I've actually only gotten one extra pilot even though I haven't lost a single time pod. Either I'm getting really unlucky or the chances of finding them are just really low.
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Feb 28, 2018 22:18
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Wish they had a few more endgame scenarios. Getting a bit bored with the same final level in every playthrough.
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Feb 28, 2018 22:33
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ymgve posted:Wish they had a few more endgame scenarios. Getting a bit bored with the same final level in every playthrough. Here we go again.
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Feb 28, 2018 22:56
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There should be at least 3 end game scenarios depending if you did 2,3 or 4 islands.
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Feb 28, 2018 23:13
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if you shield a train and hit both tiles of it, apparently it still only gets one bubble that's shared by the entire train and goes away after one hit. so. uh, heads up about that one so you don't have to find out the way i did
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Feb 28, 2018 23:15
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is there a way to determine what order the enemies go in? i keep banging my head against the wall trying to make judoka work, and that's kind of important.
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Feb 28, 2018 23:21
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Fresh Shesh Besh posted:Well yeah, but you only get to use the shield twice on the charger (three times with the upgrade) and then you're SOL if the battle isn't over by then because he'll blow himself up. That's what I'm struggling with mostly. Armor and a shield are two seperate things, they're referring to a different pilot. Armor is a flat 1 damage negation from attacks.
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Feb 28, 2018 23:22
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:is there a way to determine what order the enemies go in? i keep banging my head against the wall trying to make judoka work, and that's kind of important. Left alt I believe
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Feb 28, 2018 23:22
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:is there a way to determine what order the enemies go in? i keep banging my head against the wall trying to make judoka work, and that's kind of important. there's a button you can hover in the top right. easy to miss.
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Feb 28, 2018 23:22
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Olpainless posted:Well at least now i know where to start for that achievement. oh god i'm going to be way too tempted to drop difficulty to easy for some of these
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Feb 28, 2018 23:35
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satellite launches murder your units if you're next to them and don't give a heads-up e: yeah that's a game over. fun stuff.
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Feb 28, 2018 23:36
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Prav posted:satellite launches murder your units if you're next to them and don't give a heads-up They do give a heads up though? Red blinky squares. Not necessarily a big announcement of YO DUMBASS MOVE YOUR poo poo, but you should be mousing over everything you're unfamiliar with anyway. 
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Feb 28, 2018 23:37
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whenever I see one of those octopus things, it all goes red. hate those things.
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Feb 28, 2018 23:53
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Bogart posted:whenever I see one of those octopus things, it all goes red. hate those things. The only non-lategame octopus I really dislike is the orange one because I will inevitably gently caress up and lose grid power to it.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:oh god i'm going to be way too tempted to drop difficulty to easy for some of these Yeah, don't even try some of them on anything over than Easy. That should probably be the default for achievement-earning until you're really, really comfortable otherwise.
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Mar 1, 2018 00:21
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Wow, the Wind Torrent weapon is ridiculously OP
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Broken Cog posted:Not feeling the Steel Judoka. Chugging bugs around is fun, but it feels like you're too dependent on the arbitrary whims of the AI to get stuff done. Especially on the boss levels. My take is that Gravity mech's pull cannon is not strong enough to be your default action in crowded fights, so in the long run you need to keep your eye out for alternatives, even if you have to burn an extra power core for a non-Science option. That's just my take based on raw action economy, anyway. Either after two islands or in a time pod on the third I found the brute projectile that does damage based on distance, and that helped a bit, especially since it was one of only two weapons I had that could damage burrowers (a problem enemy for this squad). For the endgame I found the fire artillery cannon, and that was definitely worth the invested cores.
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