Early game was easy as usual, though I should've spent longer in Materials to find a storage cache--ended up playing most of the game with the same Lrg. version I happened to pick up early on. Would have been nice to go with my regular lone Hcp.
Mid-game I came upon an unlocked entrance to Extension, so I took that route like last time, rescued O7, and built the allies which escorted me through another couple floors.
Then by the time they were all gone, -4 was where things really started to go south.
My alert level was spiking like crazy in 4 and 5, and I barely made it out alive, much less with any parts. So I was scraping together a defense for Research, and got chased down and beat on by several Grunts and Programmers, from whom I fled to a nuke I saw in the distance.
Mostly naked I picked up the nuke and it immediately misfired from all my corruption, a direct hit on the group that was following me. Destroyed half of them with that free shot and the other half went down with my second
Then while I was picking up the pieces (not much left...), bracing for my inevitable death on -3, some friends showed up and pretty much turned the floor inside out. Apparently I'm the first player who got to see that happen. (
Don't watch the video if you don't want to spoil it!) So I had plenty of opportunity to reach -2 completely rebuilt, but after roaming around for quite a while I had to flee naked again.
On -1 I did have an amazing launcher (and not much else...) which was sucking enemies into black holes, but that wasn't leaving anything for me to rebuild with
. So I spent most of the time on that floor flying and hovering away in hopes of finding a great cache before finally being cornered without any matter... (damn Terminators!)
As you can see in my sheet, at my build's peak I had an Exp. Thermal Converter feeding my Adv. Force Field, which was a pretty awesome defense. I started with lots of weapon slots in the early/mid-game, then added utilities and propulsion as I could no longer support more weapons given what I had anyway, and ended up with a pretty well-rounded slot distribution.