🚀 go-pugleaf

David Boeren (ak...@netcom.com) wrote:

: I was wondering, what kind of tactics do most people prefer when entering
: an area with many opponents?  There seem to be quite a few rooms which
: have 4 or more enemies, should you go for the weakest first, strongest first,
: bunched-up ones first since there's less chance to miss?  Can the robots
: hit each other in the crossfire as in Doom?  If so, going between opponents
: may be helpful.

My tactics are a bit different.  Hang out near the opening to the room if 
you can.  It provides good cover, as well as a way to escape the deadlier 
projectiles (missles, esp. homing missles).  I'd probably go for the 
strongest 1st, because once they are gone, they can't hurt you...an the 
weaker ones can't hurt you too much.  As for going inbetween opponents, 
that doesn't help much since this game is truly 3-d.  If you are a little 
too high or too low, they don't hit each other.

: Oh, and here are a couple of notes about walls that may not be immediately
: obvious to first-time players.  The walls that face each other with
: yellow stuff flying between them is NOT lightning.  It recharges your
: energy.  The first time I saw this it looked like something dangerous to
: me.  If you find an alcove where the walls are coverd with purple, be
: careful.  These seem to generate new robots periodically.  I don't know
: if they can be destroyed/deactivated.

The lightning field will only recharge you to a level of 100.  As for he 
purple veined walls, they generate only a finite # of ships of a 
specified type (around 10).  Once this is done (at least at rookie 
level...may be different in the others), the wall is deactivated.  
Sometimes, though, the wall only plays dead..if you pass through it or 
near it, it may re-activate.