This level is VERY HARD to survive, and is extremely hard to do over 100.
IDCSNDFR = insane difficulty, cold start, no death, full rescue.
The reactor room often freezes the game, making you reset.
That red mech at 12:00 slowly sneaked downwards... He almost got me at the end.
The main concern is the lack of energy centers. Notable things:
- Destroy gopher robots with one shot at a time, to minimize energy usage. You must destroy them because you need all the stuff they drop. Also to prevent them from mislocking your mega missiles, when you go back to the reactor.
- Abuse the supermechs to kill those laser platform robots, and the other robots they drop. So I don't need to.
- Lure the spiders dropped by the supermechs near the grated corridor so they won't attack you at a close range, when you go out to the outer tunnel.
- Use of the proxy bombs to block the upper matcen: it produce class 1 drillers which materialize too quickly, and begin shoot at you before you can leave. This way one proxybomb can get it if that pesky driller materializes first.
- Usage of concussions to save energy.
- Making the advanced lifters merge in secret area, they become inactive then: they won't emit sound, only turn at you: yet another HILARIOUS BUG. :D
- Also there is a glitch related to the doors: some doors tend to open faster than usual: they also tend close together without animation, I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, so you must time your door opening accordingly.
Regardless how good you are at saving energy. Your batteries will be pretty much dry when you return at the reactor area: you must use all you megas and smarts to clear it. 4 megas and 4 smarts usually do the job.
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