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Re: Descent 2 Lev 20 Boss

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From: S... Fred Scheifele
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 00:00
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pipegeek@aol.com.nocrap (Pipegeek) wrote in
<20000708100339...@ng-fe1.aol.com>: 

>Err, I am at a loss.  I am playing on Hotshot, and this guy is nearly
>indestructable.  Of course, once I figured out that he was invulnerable
>to all but energy weapons (duh), things sped up a bit.  But, I CAN NOT
>BEAT IT!  I thought that, for the heck of it, i'd use 'almighty' and
>see if it was actually possible.  After using all of my Smarts (10) and
>all of my energy (125) (through phoenix AND through slaser 6 and
>through plasma--tried it three times), he was still fine.  It took
>'honestbob' and 'wildfire' and 20 earthshakers, 20 smarts, and 400 in
>energy to subdue it.  Now, I want to know, is this a bug?  I realize
>that there is a bug in ver 1.0, but I have 1.2 vertigo.  What is wrong
>here? 

He is a tough mother, but, as Moon said, he is beatable.  Tips and a demo 
(recorded on ACE difficulty) can be found on my Web page:

  http://www.Scheif.net

Hope this helps.

-- 

Cheers,
  Fred Scheifele
  E-Mail: Fred [at] Scheif [dot] net
  Web:    http://www.Scheif.net
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Date: 2000/07/08
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