Danforth and the Mark of the Void

[rasvoja]

@mcarver2000

. As it stands, the final mission is a bullet sponge bore. 2 buffed Scyllas, buffed Sirens, the final boss, etc.

Not only it requires quite a lot of ammo, but Entity is both too passive (while Scyla and even Sirens are example of active and engaging enemy) and overpowered in combo of its protection and multiple hit power that increases over time., plus the enemy still appearing. While last boss should be difficult, it also needs to be engaging - e.g. it could use it tentacles to hit, dislocate your soldiers by throwing them, spit acid from the eyes …

@etermes

You don’t need a ton of medkits, because the last area in the Palace is a joke, reinforcements are lame,
and you finish the final boss in a blink of an eye

Only if you know exactly how. Unless you do, its quite a pain, constant run from side to side, not knowing which soldiers might get hit, endzone is such you cannot keep needed distance and use soldiers to shoot two possible Entity angles.

I have checked the video, what if you did not use 2 or 3 rage bursts? Try playing 10-20 turns vs Entity!

@Lodestar

So, what I say is more based on the comments in the thread here and what I frequently see on forums. Not in the context of this one mission.

If that mission can effectively null hundreds of hours of previous gameplay and disable you to finish game, it is very important, more then many other bugs.

@MadSkunky

AFAIK you can’t get in melee range to the YE, but not sure, never tried it.

may be from 2 angles, but you could use it only one turn and no way you can run to other side …

However, I have seen 1-2 shoots can be played as early as you come near the endzone, its open. So you can put one or two snipes before it closes

[VOLAND]

@MadSkunky

AFAIK you can’t get in melee range to the YE, but not sure, never tried it.

You can’t, I tried

@rasvoja the final entity is a bullet sponge in the same way that the Spawnery is: I mean, you can shoot the thing with a 1000 bullets, or just go for the egg sacks. Same with the final boss: it has 10 eyes with 100 HP (and no armor) each. Disabling one eye reduces max HP by 900. So if you disable all the eyes you knock off 9000 HP of the 9600 that the YE has.

You don’t need Rage Burst, you don’t need ancient weapons, tons of medkits or extra ammo…

[rasvoja]

@VOLAND

Disabling one eye reduces max HP by 900. So if you disable all the eyes you knock off 9000 HP of the 9600 that the YE has.

Tried the … eyeees … you can kick few, but its hard to reach all 10 due to angles. So, sure tactics, but takes time and MOV just stacks and stacks …

I am not saying its impossible, just that it could be way more interesting and action paced then chasing the angles while being exposed to super attack that you dont even see.

To that matter, fighting to reach YE is far more interesting, then fighting it.

[etermes]

@rasvoja

Only if you know exactly how. Unless you do, its quite a pain, constant run from side to side, not knowing which soldiers might get hit, endzone is such you cannot keep needed distance and use soldiers to shoot two possible Entity angles.

I have checked the video, what if you did not use 2 or 3 rage bursts? Try playing 10-20 turns vs Entity!

You are right, because this post is old, things changed , I have completed the Palace mission playing YOE, Legend, and reinforcements are better, also Praetorian Pandorans is a new thing.