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Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 2:40 pm
by Adam Taylor
How do I do this?
I tried cloaking against the mothership when it was firing its super weapons (all the drones and all the blasts) and that didn't seem to matter.
How do you dodge 9 damage?
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:05 pm
by monkimonkimonk
I managed to dodge the power surge damage without cloak.
I had the Engi cruiser with around 8 or more in engines and fully skilled pilot and engineer, full shield and a defense drone. When ever the power surge was detected I powered down anything non vital (turned off O2, Medbay, some weapons) and put it all into my shield and engines until the burst was over. That way most of the shots missed and the rest was absorbed by the shield and some rockets were destroyed by the drone. I rarely got any damage at all.
After that I powered back my two Ion Blast II that I had (you get one at the start) and a attack drone and fired in bursts to take down the shield and other things so the drone can deal some damage. It is a very slow tactic though, as I was mainly concerned about not dying like in all other previous attempts
You need a lot of power and Shield and Engine upgrades that get very expensive in the end. Zoltan crew are very useful here for getting you the extra power for the engines and shield.
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:52 pm
by Adam Taylor
But the achievement mentions doing it during a single cloak.
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:19 pm
by Gorlom
Adam Taylor wrote:But the achievement mentions doing it during a single cloak.
See if you can time a plasma burst in phase 3 with the regular fireing of missiles and/or plasmabolts.
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:20 pm
by monkimonkimonk
Oh ok I didn't see that this was for a achievement. You might want to mention it somewhere
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:57 pm
by klamka.357
I accidentaly did this druing boss fight. I just cloaked against flagship volley and voila, achievement unlocked.
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:01 pm
by Litestrider
Gorlom wrote:See if you can time a plasma burst in phase 3 with the regular fireing of missiles and/or plasmabolts.
Is it possible to dodge the phase 3 power surge? I've tried but I've never seen any of the projectiles not hit.
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:17 pm
by Maya
Litestrider wrote:Gorlom wrote:See if you can time a plasma burst in phase 3 with the regular fireing of missiles and/or plasmabolts.
Is it possible to dodge the phase 3 power surge? I've tried but I've never seen any of the projectiles not hit.
Yes it's possible if (actually he never hit me with that^^)
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:51 pm
by Adam Taylor
I've dodged the phase 3 blast, but didn't get the achievement. So I guess it wouldn't have done 9 damage?
Re: Dodging 9 damage with a cloak?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:09 pm
by Xantrim
I've managed to do this on stage 3 of the boss battle. Dodged 3 rockets and all blasts from his special ability. Cloaking FTW
