How about making it so that very rarely a battlepod will be in a Deconstruction zone level.
battlepod idea.
Makes things harder and more entertaining. +1.
From the one that Razwog attacks you with to the one in OCH.
The harder Battlepods only appear in later stratums.
Example: The Battlepod from "Silence the Guns" only appears in Stratum 6.
And the easy Battlepods only appear in early stratums.
Example: The Battlepod that Razwog tries to kill you with only appears in stratum 1.
Battlepdos themselves are easy. They follow a pattern and have pretty limited abilities. The only annoying ones are those that can release a mist bomb effect (but again, that doesnt really kill you, just another obstacle so a monster can finish you off)
The difficulty comes from the enemies that respawn and interrupt you. Just throwing a battlepod out in the open of a Decon Zone means nothing. Now, a special closed room with respawn pads is another story.
Then maybe we can put them in a key room with one spawner that spaws either a scuttlebot, a Mecha knight or a retrode.
You get a battlepod in a decon zone in High Temperature Hostages.