Spiral Knights - Concrete Jungle: Briar Bone Barrage video with special guest: the toxilargo.

Concrete Jungle: Briar Bone Barrage video with special guest: the toxilargo.

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Sat, 12/10/2011 - 00:12

Nicoya-Kitty

So given that the Toxilargo only appears in one place in the game, in Briar Bone Barrage, and given that it's a T3-only level and a somewhat rare one at that, I thought I'd put together a playthrough video so people who haven't had the chance to play it can see what's what.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzXOyAMY0E

For some reason I kept calling the level Dark City instead of Concrete Jungle. And I also forgot which gear I was wearing. /derp

All in all, I kinda feel a bit let down by the Toxilargo. I was expecting a standard enraged giant lichen colony with extra added poison clouds, but it was really a pretty dull monster to fight. Given the rather average difficulty I'm not sure A: why this level doesn't appear in T1 or T2, and B: why the toxilargo doesn't appear in poison themed lichenous lairs.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 00:38

Myllakka

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I guess it's a challenging monster if you don't have a gun? The mist seems to linger a bit, so it's probably tough (well, more like tedious) for pure swordies/bombers. I tend to kill lichen colonies with my Polaris, too. It's nice when you have them cornered and try as they might, their spikes can't reach you. I was expecting the Toxilargo to have spikes too, actually.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 00:48

Nicoya-Kitty

According to the wiki the

According to the wiki the Toxilargo is supposed to have ground spikes. I dunno if maybe I just got lucky and it didn't do that attack or something. It does apparently lack the Dash attack, which is probably the main reason it felt a lot less exciting than a giant lichen colony fight. There's nothing quite like a giant angry red blob rushing up to you, and then doing that towering charge just before the ground spike attack.

Mad props to Ian (I'm assuming) for the animation on that attack charge.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 00:55

Metagenic

Odd…

How come that thing didn't charge at you once in the whole fight?

EDIT: never mind, saw the comment

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 01:02

Nicoya-Kitty

@Metagenic Dunno, as I was

@Metagenic Dunno, as I was saying in the comment above it seems to legitimately lack the Dash ability that the regular giant lichen colony has. I was really expecting it to be a lot more aggressive.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 01:08

Shidara

Toxilargo

The one thing it lacks is aggression. The devs should look into making the Toxilargo more aggressive. As it is now, it's just a novelty pushover more than anything. You'd expect something more from something that's supposed to be the "final boss" of a level-chain, and appears exclusively in Tier 3.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 01:13

Metagenic

Not excited about Toxilargo anymore

Given that most players on T3 have pulsars/catalyzers it looks like a piece of cake.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 13:04

Nicoya-Kitty

Time for me to post another

Time for me to post another suggestion thread, I guess.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 15:03

Armenius

Mini Boss

I love this series of levels in tier 3. Great to use my radiant silvermail and the mini boss at the end is something I saw elsewhere that I would love to see more of.

I do enjoy your videos and would like to see you do some more of the odd danger rooms.

Edit: I actually did this with swords. Leviathan, Divine Avenger, Acheron, and Shivermist. Radiant Silvermail, Vog cap, Grey Owlite shield. Might have been a mite over geared but it was fun.

Sat, 12/10/2011 - 15:47

Nicoya-Kitty

Yeah, I'll probably do a few

Yeah, I'll probably do a few more danger room ones as the opportunity arises.

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Concrete Jungle: Briar Bone Barrage video with special guest: the toxilargo.