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Article #5470Re: Stuck in DESCENT.
From: James R. Ivie
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:00
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I have solved the entire thing, but its not easy. That guy is the hardest one in the whole game, including the guy at the end of level 27, because there are a zillion invulnerability powerups there. Anyway, here's how I did it (After losing about 50 ships). Run down to the last room and go through the door, but don't go in very far, shoot a few shot, and come back out. See if you can lure a few of the bad guys right in front of the door so you can kill them without having to enter the last room (and get stuck there). Alternatively, you can just peek around the corner and shoot at them to kill as many as you can. (They can't get you if only the tip of one of your guns is sticking around the corner). There are a bunch of goodies scattered around that room, but don't bother with them, you'll most likely get killed trying to gather them up, although if you could make it to the invisibility powerup at the bottom of the pit, that might help you collect some shields, IF you can get to it!. Find the laser energy recharging spot, and kill all the guys except the big one from that "safe zone". Then wait in there until the big guy shows up. (He can dematerialize and show up some other place at will, so stereo speakers will help here). If you're luck and wait long enough, he'll show up just below your field of vision outside of the tunnel. If this happens, you're in luck, because he won't be able to see you, but you'll be able to hammer him. Shoot like mad with everything you've got. He'll probably disappear, but you can just sit back and wait for him to show up again. If he happens to show up right in front of the tunnel, high tail it out of there and run around the sides to avoid those seekers, but with practice, you should be able to avoid them and make it back into the charger. Eventually, he'll start spinning around and die. Good Luck. You might want to get to know the room using the cheat codes first (instead of wasting 50 ships like I did). They are, in case you don't have them yet: GABBAGABBAHEY - enable cheats RACERX - invulnerability (fo about 10 minutes) GUILE - invisibility BIGRED - all weapons (only in the registered version, I can't remember the one for shareware) FARMERJOE - level warp Good Luck!
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From: "James R. Ivie" <ji...@folio.com> Subject: Re: Stuck in DESCENT. Date: 1995/09/11 Message-ID: <9b7cb$f192c.16b@nntp.folio.com> X-Deja-AN: 109903878 references: <430lc8$hv0@calvin.st-and.ac.uk> organization: Folio Corporation mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action x-mailer: Mozilla 1.2b6 (Windows; I; 32bit) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit