• rustyfish@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    2 days ago

    Actually, Gleba is working pretty great. Why? How? Fuck, I don’t know. I think the gods of engineering smiled down on me. Or had pity.

    It’s Aquilo I am concerned about. That base is in a constant state of failing but not actually breaking down. Like a sinking ship that doesn’t have the courtesy to finally submerge.

    Also there is the shattered planet. Bragging rights are the most important rights after all.

      • rustyfish@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 day ago

        A post “end” location on the star map. You can fly there and it’s the only way to gather promethium, a material you need to craft the post game super science. I don’t think the shattered planet is supposed to be reached. It’s insanely far away and the asteroids get bonkers. But that didn’t stop some maniacs to actually do it with a butt load of nukes.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          1 day ago

          Well I may be one of those maniacs. I’ve already shipped the materials to Vulcanus to make myself a couple hundred nukes, not for the worms. Nukes just piss the worms off, and don’t hurt them. The nukes were for the cliffs.

          • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            1 hour ago

            Try taking rail guns to deal with the worms. Apparently even the handheld one easily does enough damage to casually oneshot mediums. 10k base physical damage and the shot keeps going and hitting things until it reaches end of range.

            ETA: if you shoot roughly in line with the worm, you’ll easily get multiple segments. Each one takes the full shot of damage before resistances are applied, so the worm takes a ton of damage in a single shot, even with its resistance.

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              edit-2
              2 hours ago

              I haven’t been to Gleba and Fulgora yet. I just took a tank with uranium explosive shells, and got Physical Weapon Damage to 16. The worms died at that point.

              • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                3
                ·
                2 hours ago

                I heard one tip where, if you want to throw a FUCKTON of materials at worms, build a 4×4 square of nuclear reactors, let them heat up to 1000, then aggro the worm to try to chomp down on the reactors, causing it to nuke itself.

                Advantage: available with only up to chemical science

                Disadvantage: you’ll have to build four nuclear reactors, just to blow them up