It leaves the middle, where the Arc Eternal apparently is. Nah, you're just the AI Who Cried Creeper at this point. Which is even faster than I remembered it being, but they don't hang around and discuss the situation in committee. I'm partway through this when, at 2:32 mission time, the stations blow. Much of this hasn't even started building yet, because the relays are still constructing. I space them out for every two relays.Īfter that, I do the same for Beams, with the same spacing, roughly in between the mortars. These are to keep the creeper low enough to contain it within the Ring Wall. The next phase of containment is a ring of Mortars. Should have started that before I went around the ring. I want to surround and contain it.Īfter those are placed, I set down a couple of reactors to start boosting energy, and a relay here in this opening. Next, I want relays up all the way around the circle. That'll hurt me initially but I plan on boosting initial energy with Energy Efficiency upgrades to grow out of the massive deficit I'm about to acquire.
I tried to get cute and put one of the nodes somewhere else the first time around - in retrospect I think you need the energy all in one place, or at least it helped me. That's also how I did it when I eventually beat this mission the first time.Īll three nodes in the southeast, some collectors on the high ground. So instead, I began to instantly prepare for what happens afterwards. Since this was the re-recording, I knew I wasn't going to be able to stop the stations. But I'll let others describe how that's done. I imagine the early one is probably much like Olesh described Farbor the more stations you take out quickly, the more time you have for the others.
However, this is just like Farbor there is a hard 'Early' achievement, and a less-hard 'Late' way to complete the level. The first time I did this I tried to stop them. Red beams connect immediately, and creeper splurts out of the middle and each of the six satellite stations. Now it's Skars cutting Lia off, ignoring her questions almost entirely, and just generally doing his own thing. Getting ahead of myself here, but if so, I hope CW4 is a prequel or something whenever it gets finished, because where do you go from here? The Arc Eternal is the ultimate weapon - literally. If they didn't know where it was, why is all this stuff already here on Arca?!? Those aren't exactly the words I would have chosen. It's actually rather amusing to see Lia flabbergasted. Why does it exist? Who made it? Brain hurting. That's hogwash, Skars! But it's very, very good hogwash. 'I just do'? Has Skars become one with the Force or something? So apparently I lied and I DO recognize these. It's a big square with a bunch of circles inside it! And some strangely broken up terrain in most of the corners. So last visible system on the map, and only one planet here. Not to worry, there'll be plenty of blathering on once we get planetside. Not here, because apparently there aren't any to access. But apparently there isn't any - which is weird but my memory must be playing tricks on me, because I can access 'Archived Transmissions' in other systems. I thought I remembered there being text here, and I blather on in the video about not being able to access it.