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Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense Drone
Posted By: SidohDate: 9/27/01 6:13 p.m.

In Response To: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense Drones (Mark Levin)

And finally, after 12 long hours of wait, the stupid DSL company gives me a # to get on the internet because of some "modem" that wont let me run DSL. Too bad its 56k =(.

: The Pfhor interlude is over, and Marathon's story resumes unfolding. This
: level starts with a bang as you are dropped next to a farily big
: firefight. Throw a rocket through the small window to give the drones a
: hand.

Rocket? What rocket? If you had a rocket you could go the sissy way and rocket yourself back up later in the level...

: Now you have the famous choice: An easy but cowardly run for the pattern
: buffer, or the Express Elevator to Hell(tm)? The level is very different
: depending on how you play, with many fights having totally different
: approaches from either side. Another critical factor in playing this level
: is that nearly every door opens permanently, making them useless as cover.
: Get out there and fight like a man :P

Ill take choice A, I never really had any luck with those enforcers =(.

: Since this must be a proper run, I took the Express Elevator. However, the
: Enforcer that usually guards the corridor woke up early and came down the
: hall at me. Unusual. Then he ran into a pair of defense drones and
: suicided by blowing one of them up right next to him. Typical.

Lol.

: At the bottom of the elevator is your first encounter with the deadly Beserk
: Defense Drones, armed with grenades and flying low. If you play your cards
: right, however, they can be quite useful: They hate the monsters more than
: you (and the monsters hate them), and are significantly more powerful than
: the blue drones. Hang back and they will either get killed by the monsters
: or take a lot of damage and be much easier opponents.

The only deadly part is when the lob a grenade your way, and Durandal said they had none...

: Notable features of the south side of the level include a 3x health charger
: and another unreachable "teaser" room stuffed with weapons, much
: like the one on Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap. In the 3x room is also the
: secret door leading to the almight Super Shield biobus chip, which is very
: useful for conquering the rest of the level, and the middle part of a
: 3-part room elsewhere, which has ammo and Enforcers. Head north and up the
: stairs to reach the blue room (where you would have been if you had jumped
: off the initial ledge) and a door to a large northern room featuring a
: pattern buffer (whew!) and the logs of Bernhard Strauss. This terminal
: reveals the origins of the cyborgs on the Marathon, as well as the fact
: that Tycho is alive, kicking, and not a happy camper.

Love those secrets, in the M1A1 version you can get into the room with alot of weapons. Very useful.

: To the north of this room is the last terminal, crammed with monsters visible
: through a narrow slit in the wall. Wait for the fight to die down, then
: reward the champion with a rocket. Near the final terminal is a 1x health
: charger, but it's much better in the long run to head back to the 3x.
: You'll need it for the next level.

: A S'pht cyborg? Hmm...

Yey, Euphorias next. A level I can actually vid!

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Replies:

Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DronesMark Levin 9/27/01 2:57 p.m.
     Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneSidoh 9/27/01 6:13 p.m.
           Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneHamish Sinclair 9/27/01 10:29 p.m.
                 Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneMartin Antell 9/28/01 2:46 a.m.
                 Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneREB 9/28/01 7:00 p.m.
                       Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneHamish Sinclair 9/29/01 4:29 a.m.
                             Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneREB 9/30/01 11:20 a.m.
                                   Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneHamish Sinclair 10/1/01 12:40 p.m.
                                         Re: Volunteers: Beware of Low-Flying Defense DroneREB 10/1/01 7:49 p.m.



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