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My strategy against them was hide and seek. The tactical peekaboo. I would look fast, see where the Gatling gun sparks appeared, hide fast, wait a second for t
by Shorel 3y ago
My strategy against them was hide and seek. The tactical peekaboo.
I would look fast, see where the Gatling gun sparks appeared, hide fast, wait a second for the bullets to hit something, then move again, shoot at where the sparks were an instant before, and hide again.
This was my tactic for the invisible ones, the others were easy, as they can't aim while being shot. For the visible ones, the missiles were made just for them.
- Delk 3y agoBy the time the sparks appear, you're already hit. It doesn't take a second or any time for them to hit something. They're actually hitscan. That tactic can still work against them but generally not without a cost to shields, at least not if you take the time to see the sparks. You can use that tactic effectively to deal with other kinds of robots without taking a hit because their projectiles take time to travel. And Descent 2 and 3 had gatling gun robots that IIRC were not quite hitscan, so you could in principle do that with them too. Homing missiles are great against the (visible) vulcan robots but you still need to know where they are, or spend missiles speculatively.