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Title: New Game+ Mode Win!
Post by: Kyzrati on June 04, 2018, 11:43:16 PM
Continuing on the back of my first run (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinxP57TIhI), a win, I streamed the resulting New Game+ mode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpeZCLaHa4g) where everything gets harder, and still managed to pull off another win! It was definitely tougher, and I wasn't too confident on entering the last floor, but things worked out in the end...

I felt like I was purging a lot more than my first run, but it turns out I only purged 6 times compared to last time's 5. This is good because less purging usually means other elements of my tactics and strategy were working out :P

There were lots of heat issues, though, pretty much the biggest problem of my run. I almost never had cooling, or at most just one heat sink, and had to make due.

I didn't start doing any screenshots until the second-to-last floor, Beta D. Here you can see my build starting to go downhill. For a while I was just relying on spears, which are great, but still not all that versatile and result in taking more core damage than necessary.
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I left Beta D after only finding one slot expander because I was worried that attrition would take me down before winning, and I could save up some integrity to run for it in the last floor if I had to. Before entering Beta S I did, however, get hold of two Tesla Bombs, and these really carried for a while. Here's the entrance to Beta S:
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Of course they couldn't last forever, and I lost them right before encountering a ton of enemies, too xD. Fortunately Imp. Gauss Cannons are awesome.
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(there were about 3-4 more bots that weren't in this shot)

Those plus EM weapons (Proton/HERF) were the main carriers through the end. And I'd also accrued some great targeting: +55% chance to hit with this stuff! Time to fight the boss!
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Uberbot took out my only heat sink which was making it possible to fight him, but there happened to be another right next to me so I let him shoot me for a bit so I could pick it up, then blasted him :D

Once on the other side I mostly hovered around 600 core integrity while I located the exit.

Beta Test Complete!
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Spoiler: Score: 64,560 (click to show/hide)

I guess now I'll have to stream NG++ another time!
Title: Re: New Game+ Mode Win!
Post by: Joshua on June 05, 2018, 05:25:29 AM
The scoresheet section with your final stats has "Cogmind" as the heading. :)  Gamma Test Holding Area is a nice touch, though.
Title: Re: New Game+ Mode Win!
Post by: Kyzrati on June 05, 2018, 07:14:00 AM
Hahaha, nice catch. Just one of the things I didn't have time to get to! Scoresheet was very last-minute stuff... I'll have to adjust that in a later update so it makes sense xD

To the Gamma Test! (yeah there isn't really any lore, but it was fun to at least imply a few things indirectly in various places where I could, that being one of them)