You can use the arc shield to pass through corrosive cubes!!!

[ThiefKingIX]

Omg! I just learned this. Someone had their Genmat way up high visible with only a single layer of corrosive cubes. I took a chance and used the arc shield to pass through and it WORKED. I took his genmat and left the exact same way, bypassing the ENTIRE outpost. Take note and correct this in your own outposts before everyone else figures it out!

[Prestige Jinx]

You can grapple through a single cube without the shield too. But the shield will allow you to get through 2, maybe 3 if you're lucky.

I use the melee suit and spike drive (after destroying a trap) and frequently just run through cubes really quickly, no grapple needed.

[Phares]

You can actually fall through up to 4 entire acid cubes in a row if you fall from about 20 blocks up.
And 1 cube if you have about 1 block fall speed.
But you can get through 1 cube in any situation you got a clear shot with a grapple, so, less useful.

[Prestige Jinx]

This post actually inspired me to test how many I could get through with the shield.

I could grapple through 7 blocks, 8 was too many.
and I could run through 6 with the spike drive and melee suit speed boost.
Didn't test falling.

I had no idea you could make it so far with the shield

[Estellese]

Yeah that's why I never use them as walls unless there is a solid wall behind them. I just use them as hazards on the floor to make retrieving your bolts more difficult. Or the cheeky, narrow and straight path between floor of corrosive cubes, kinda like a bridge over lava. Only near the end it unexpectedly shifts one square to the left and doesn't line up properly. It is highly amusing how many people just assume that since the first half of the path is a straight bridge that the last half will be too, and just walk right into it. Even seen some people walk into it 2-4 times because they just forget. Makes me laugh every time. xD

[finfin]

This is why I consider the Arc "op".
You can get through multiple corrosive cubes with it, but not with the standard shield deployable/bubble, or any other way (try dropping a shield bubble into an acid cube and standing in it - you'll die).
The shield bubble also doesn't prevent guards from moving into it and attacking you (or dropping into it with dead-man switch and exploding you) - the Arc does.

So builds like 2+ acid cubes in front of Tomb (or under tomb), or ammo stealers behind 2 acid cubes that can't be reached without the Arc, are impossible to counter any other way.
Thus making Arc barrier+Volt the meta loadout.

If you care for rank/death count, you can't equip anything else than Arc. It's the only weapon that guarantees survivability, while the Volt Lancer gives ranged combat ability against armor.
Any other weapons combo may work, but can't guarantee 0 deaths in every circumstance.

And builders who see this loadout breezing through their outposts, counter it with more cubes, which makes it even more impossible for anyone else, and more essential to have that shield loadout.

[Loot]

I use my corrosive cubes to instil a false sense of security. People walk out past them and my claw traps go off. Then they walk back behind them, thinking they'll avoid the traps, but they just go through the cube and yoink them.

[jtm_alaska]

Originally posted by Loot Repeat:

I use my corrosive cubes to instil a false sense of security. People walk out past them and my claw traps go off. Then they walk back behind them, thinking they'll avoid the traps, but they just go through the cube and yoink them.

Yea I've caught onto this. Not only Iron Claw Traps, but hunter boltshot traps that seek you out can travel through corrosive cubes.

Had a brutal map where this 1 part turned into an acid cube winding corridor. All the acid cubes had Opaque so I couldn't see through them, while custodian-seeking missiles came after me. Basically the walls are lava but also arrows come flying through the walls at you once in awhile. Was tough to beat that map, but I managed it.

[Crafekster]

Originally posted by finfin:

This is why I consider the Arc "op".

I disagree with everything you said.
Arc barrier only gives survivability yes, and I would personally adjust it by nerfing it somewhat. But you clearly forgot there are very easy methods you can lure an arc barrier into a death using only corrosive cubes.

The arc barrier is purely for ones one survivability, meaning you sacrifice a potential useful weapon for a situation. Ive just made a fight room map that would challenge every build except the light crossbow, and my first Raider was one with double gun combo (Just my luck, but hey, he did it without deaths).

I run Sledgeblade+Arc or Lancer+Arc builds, and every time I end up wanting the option that I dont have so I have to be creative with what I have instead.

[jtm_alaska]

Originally posted by Crafekster:

Originally posted by finfin:

This is why I consider the Arc "op".

I disagree with everything you said.
Arc barrier only gives survivability yes, and I would personally adjust it by nerfing it somewhat. But you clearly forgot there are very easy methods you can lure an arc barrier into a death using only corrosive cubes.

The arc barrier is purely for ones one survivability, meaning you sacrifice a potential useful weapon for a situation. Ive just made a fight room map that would challenge every build except the light crossbow, and my first Raider was one with double gun combo (Just my luck, but hey, he did it without deaths).

I run Sledgeblade+Arc or Lancer+Arc builds, and every time I end up wanting the option that I dont have so I have to be creative with what I have instead.

I agree with this. Arc shield is powerful but you take away a lot of your flexibility to deal with threats. I personally find the Arc shield unappealing for that reason and don't use it.

[Ccrack]

after i saw someone use this to get past some traps of mine, i made the second cube in the wall solid, not had anyone else attempt to go through them yet but they are in for a nasty surprise when they do

[ThiefKingIX]

What if putting Corrosive cubes together merged them? So we could make like Corrosive rivers, waterfalls, to create resistance so one using an arc shield could survive a dip, but movement would be slowed so it was less likely they'd get through with ease?

[Mantra]

Originally posted by Ccrack:

after i saw someone use this to get past some traps of mine, i made the second cube in the wall solid, not had anyone else attempt to go through them yet but they are in for a nasty surprise when they do

Yup, that's the way to counter it, but you'll need the first cube to be opaque. Cuz if not, know that you see you can grapple into "something" that is not the wall BEHIND the cubes... hence the trap won't work... That's also why you should'nt try to grapple into opaque cubes if you don't see some trap shoot at you first... and always use shield BEFORE trying to pass through cubes (for obvious trap combo reasons)

To give the OP some learning material, here's my 2 cents.
Put some bombs behind a cube shortcut... or any trap that'll hit 1s later (an arrow trap shooting from far enough is ok). That is some easy counter to bypassing cubes with the shield. Well... if you can see enough what's behind the cube and can react/escape a combo, then sure... don't even hesitate. Builders too need to improve in their skill level after all \o/

[Shuyin178]

If someone makes "maze" walls out of Corrosive Cubes, does the solidify mod prevent players from running through them? I know it stops them from shooting/grappling through.

[A Disembodied Intelligence]

Originally posted by Shuyin178:

If someone makes "maze" walls out of Corrosive Cubes, does the solidify mod prevent players from running through them? I know it stops them from shooting/grappling through.

It does!
I had someone put a solidified corrosive cube behind regular corrosive cubes and the GenMat behind the solidified one (still see-through/not-opaque).

I thought it would be an easy backdoor grapple in with my Arc Shield, but boi I was wrong, and I ended up dying to it because you can't grapple through the solidified one lmao.

It was great, very crafty and well earned kill lol.

You can see by the edges of a corrosive cube if it's solidified or not, but when it's hidden behind non-solidified cubes that becomes a lot harder to spot.