Spoiler mission

[Sabaithal]

Please do not read if you haven't made it to NG++ yet.

So the mission "Escort the weaponized mining ship"... any tips? I did beat it, barely, by spamming plasma and split missiles. Nothing else I tried worked.

Its mostly the wheels, the rest is doable, but ♥♥♥♥ those wheels. I have no idea how to minimize damage when fighting them, much less try and S rank the mission.

[Raptor85]

On my S rank attempt I did flamethrower for the wheels and the hand rocket launcher and shoulder missiles for the rest, reverse joint to just hop over them as they charge at me.

[Kain]

They are pretty weak against explosions. Just use the largest grenade launches and you'll be fine, also on your way to the first enemies there is an area with some rocks and a crater it's the perfect place to deal with those rollers.

[John Titor]

Missile boat baby tank. Stay in the air a good amount of time when the bonewheels show up. Pretty easy S-rank (imho)

Edit: in fact, it was the mission I spammed at the end to buy the rest of the parts in the shop.

[ImHelping]

keep in mind the wheels and C weapons can strafe faster than most missiles. plasma and x12 vertical will spend most of the time missing or trailing an inch away from them uselessly.

the wheels can also hurl themselves a mile away when staggered so that even stun cannon bounces off them even though they are flat on their side. "Twin shotguns are OP" is a lie half the time due to their more durable frontsides.

flamethrower counts as explosive. napalm lancher burns through ammo fast but can be real nasty with a full hit to C weapons. SOUP launcher can do it's job with multidirectional spam enough to catch them more often than most missile type supposedly good at catching things.

Usually I brought at least one bazooka along for the ride too having a long range capable "just shoot them now" explosive is faster than any high damage missiles and will not bounce as a punisher. But watch out for the dive kick of the C weapons, shooting them in the crotch with a bazooka will not interrupt it (probably won't even stop it with a full stagger, considering spider boss gets to finish their melee attack then not stagger until after they finish and land)

[Raptor85]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

keep in mind the wheels and C weapons can strafe faster than most missiles. plasma and x12 vertical will spend most of the time missing. the wheels can also hurl themselves a mile away when staggered so that even stun cannon bounces off them even though they are flat on their side. "Twin shotguns are OP" is a lie half the time due to their more durable frontsides.

flamethrower counts as explosive. napalm lancher burns through ammo fast but can be real nasty with a full hit to C weapons. SOUP launcher can do it's job with multidirectional spam enough to catch them more often.

Usually I brought a bazooka along for the ride too.

the HML-G2 P19MLT-04 's lock onto them and hit them pretty easily, i'd probably just avoid vertical missiles, those are easier for the fast boys to dodge. That's what I used alongside a flamethrower on the S rank for this one, was honestly pretty easy

[Triple-D Lloyd]

As I've said in the other 5 threads that asked about this mission, a single songbird will instakill the wheels, and it can be manually aimed to kill them from about 600m out. Two songbirds will also immediately stun the speedy guys, and they always stand perfectly still for a few seconds after theyre done boosting. Pile bunker in the offhand to beat up the fast ones, and whatever you want in the right hand.

[Krono]

I played matador with hard-hitting weapons for the wheels, their armor is nutty so you gotta stay close to be effective

[John Titor]

https://youtu.be/e5-pbTBL3gE

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by Kain:

They are pretty weak against explosions. Just use the largest grenade launches and you'll be fine, also on your way to the first enemies there is an area with some rocks and a crater it's the perfect place to deal with those rollers.

Didn't work. Wheels avoid grenades too much, AC destroyed by overwhelming missile fire from all directions while trying frantically to reload constantly.

Originally posted by John Titor:

Missile boat baby tank. Stay in the air a good amount of time when the bonewheels show up. Pretty easy S-rank (imho)

Edit: in fact, it was the mission I spammed at the end to buy the rest of the parts in the shop.

Worked but still got a B-rank. Still had to go through all my repair kits.

Originally posted by Raptor85:

On my S rank attempt I did flamethrower for the wheels and the hand rocket launcher and shoulder missiles for the rest, reverse joint to just hop over them as they charge at me.

Worked and got A-rank, but hand bazooka was utterly useless and generic missiles missed half the time.

[Raptor85]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Worked and got A-rank, but hand bazooka was utterly useless and generic missiles missed half the time.

use the HML-G2 P19MLT-04, they lock and turn pretty fast, they can pretty much instant stagger on this mission, make sure you have a fast FCS so you get a quick lock.

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by Triple-D Lloyd:

As I've said in the other 5 threads that asked about this mission, a single songbird will instakill the wheels, and it can be manually aimed to kill them from about 600m out.

And unless you're a crackshot you will always miss. Tried it lots of times, the grenades never managed to hit them even when they landed very close. The larger grenade cannon does a much better job.

[John Titor]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Originally posted by John Titor:

Missile boat baby tank. Stay in the air a good amount of time when the bonewheels show up. Pretty easy S-rank (imho)

Edit: in fact, it was the mission I spammed at the end to buy the rest of the parts in the shop.

Worked but still got a B-rank. Still had to go through all my repair kits.

Vid is finally up. ♥♥♥♥, that was a slow upload. Give it a few minutes to process.

It puts the video on its eyes, or else it's crushed between my thighs.

[Sabaithal]

Ended up doing it with dual flamethrowers and dual large grenade launchers in the end. No repair kits used, quad legs to hover while manual-shotting the incoming wheels. Aggressively closing in and flamethrowing the MTs seems to work.

[Kain]

I never used the Flamethrowers, I guess it makes sense to be strong against coral ♥♥♥♥

[Young Erusean Officer]

Explosives have one shot potential per weapon slot. I got a triple kill with just one arm once (100% to 0). The wheels love making their first attack run all grouped up together.