All turrets activated in Arena
Tue, 08/30/2011 - 18:23
I was trying to solo a tier three arena and was doing quite well. In the third section for when the two healers and four other monsters spawn i killed the two healers and left one monster alive. I got myself into the corner and waited for it to get near me. I killed it completely all the way in the corner.
Then the 8 jelly turrets spawned and immeadiately the 4 closest ones starting shooting at me. I pretty much had no chance as they shocked me.
Does this happen to anyone else? If this happens everytime with jelly turrets in arena im not gonna be happy.
Tue, 08/30/2011 - 21:36
#2
*sigh*
turrets have always been the worst part of the arenas, no matter if polyp, howlitzer or gun puppy, i always end up getting killed. >:(
Tue, 08/30/2011 - 22:15
#3
What really sucks is when you
What really sucks is when you leave one monster up *knowing* puppies will be next...and they happen to be rocket puppies. Then before you can destroy them, they actually kill that one monster you left up, spawning the 2nd circle of rocket puppies. Not fun.
Tue, 08/30/2011 - 23:27
#4
actually rocket puppies are much easier in the arenas
you can just run around as they destroy each other with their rockets
the worst think that can happen is howlitzers
12 tier 3 howlitzers... *shudder*
Wed, 08/31/2011 - 05:59
#5
Each turret has a different
Each turret has a different advantage.
Howlitzers' heads give chase and self-destruct on defeat.
Polyps have 360-degree vision, but their projectiles are very slow-moving and easy to slip between.
I -think- Gun Puppies have the highest health but I haven't counted it up. (They also almost never appear in the same room as the other two turrets, so it's tough to compare them directly.)
Wed, 08/31/2011 - 11:44
#6
This has happened to me a few
This has happened to me a few times the last couple of days soloing in T3, got to a wave of howlitzers and for no reason almost all of them activate and turn the game into some kind of japanese shoot em up. I died in short order as i got locked down hard despite them not even having any statuses attached, the best i could do was kamikaze them and attempt to use my capsules but yeh...didn't work very well. Not experienced mass polyps so i can't comment on the op but yeh, it's happened to me with normal gunpuppies too so.
Prefer polyps/rockets when soloing honestly, but rockets are hell when in a group >:)
Also playing from the UK doesn't seem to make this sort of stuff that feasible..i'm confident i could dodge 95% of the spam in a lagless environment, ah well!
Wed, 08/31/2011 - 14:17
#7
Random story...
Just a few minutes after I saw the notes that new turrets had come out, I was doing a T2 slime arena. So when 8 fire polyps spawned, I ran to the center charging my Levi because I thought they were Oilers and wanted to hit as many as I could. Boy, that was dumb... spiky fire projectiles EVERYWHERE. At least it wasn't a T3 arena.
Wed, 08/31/2011 - 16:44
#8
Turrets are always the worst part.
The big mecha-knight/silkwing spawn is always easier than the turret phase, assuming you're not directly behind one of the groups when they appear. It's like the game suddenly turns into one of those arcade shooters where you have to move your ship in between various globs of fire that cover the entire screen. Even worse if it's a shock/freeze arena.
Howlitzers are easiest to kill. At t2 right now with an ascended calibur I can kill one with a combo or a spin attack at close range (all three swings hitting). Problem is that kamikaze they do when they die---if I don't lag, I can immediately block and even bump the skull back. If I do lag....well I think they have low hp because OOO wants you to kill them with a sword then get rocketed in the face. :( Sometimes I whack one then back up and finish it with a gun, but it's hard to do that in an arena.
Also, I have to cringe every time I'm in a group and I see all three of my teammates beating on one at close range---"yep, better grab some hearts/pop a pill cuz someone's about to die in the next two seconds."
Polyps aren't that bad, it's basically a gun puppy without the swivel animation. But I see way more howlitzers than gun puppies or polyps nowadays and in just about every arena to boot. It's like all the gun puppies I killed in t1 rose from the dead to get their revenge.
Thu, 09/01/2011 - 07:15
#9
Polyps appear in Slime or
Polyps appear in Slime or Beast stages. (The Primal monsters)
Howlitzers appear in Undead or Fiend stages. (The Grim monsters)
Gun Puppies appear in Construct or Gremlin stages. (The Forge monsters)
Once in a while you'll get the "wrong" turret for your stage's creature type, though... Possibly just trying to catch you off-guard. Stay alert.
Jelly turrets see everywhere, Dont bother with hiding, just charge your sword if you know jelly turrets are gonna spawn, they dont have blind spots but shadow guns and polaris still destroy them