Defend Xylem control tower

[Caboose]

hi guys, trying to S rank that mission, and the suicide drones are my main issue atm, anyone know at what altitude they ram the tower, i want to try to put the dome shield in front of them, but i always miss.

[This PC]

Try assault armor instead ? I do it with that myself.
Shield can take damage, doesn't matter if some get through, it's the building that can't be damaged for s-rank.
https://youtu.be/nKdVOG32H-E
If anything, can probably get the data you need from that footage.

[LonePhantom756]

That's a good question. All I can usually hope for is to take out most of the other foes before they're able to do anything to the shields, and hope they'll hold out long enough.

[Caboose]

Originally posted by This PC:

Try assault armor instead ? I do it with that myself.
Shield can take damage, doesn't matter if some get through, it's the building that can't be damaged for s-rank.
https://youtu.be/nKdVOG32H-E
If anything, can probably get the data you need from that footage.

look fairly close to 400. i tried to close in, and didn't notice they pop, and get some altitude before they boost. hum, gonna give it a try

[KnifeHeart]

If you manage to kill all the snipers before they land a hit on the tower, you can completely ignore the drones. It will knock out the shield but as long as the building is untouched you should get the S rank.

[D. Flame]

You can take out all the snipers before the fire a single shot:
https://i.imgur.com/IMYWrCz.mp4

...then you can completely ignore the drones. Like every single one can hit the tower, and the shield still won't break. It is an easy S rank this way.

[KaelaNikNak]

I never figured out how to stop a single one of those drones.

[FAT WANZER]

Originally posted by Caboose:

hi guys, trying to S rank that mission, and the suicide drones are my main issue atm, anyone know at what altitude they ram the tower, i want to try to put the dome shield in front of them, but i always miss.

try the shield dome,i still got tower full hp with it,you also got 2 charge also the drone explode when goes through it(last time atleast)

[Sabaithal]

Once the drones spawn in:
- Fly directly up into their path
- Assault armor when they get close

This won't destroy all of them, but it should destroy enough to make the rest not do too much damage. As long as both towers are operational it shouldn't matter how much health they have left.

You could also try firing the pulse shield launcher. Apparently some people got results with that.

[Algester]

wont Pulse Protection do the same thing?

[REhorror]

Assault Armor is the best way.

Basically, go back to Xylem control tower, fly high up and try to maintain your altitude, when the drone draws near, go assault armor, it will destroy about 50-75% of the drones.

[REhorror]

Sorry for the bump but this is totally what I did, hehe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqK-Os4UJv4

[Sir Harlz]

I just S ranked it today.

This is probably one of the worst designed missions to S rank. The kamikaze drones there is a spot you need to fly in and assault armor them but it can take a few tries to get the positioning right. Those drones are REALLY annoying because pretty much as soon as they appear and can be targeted they shoot forward almost instantly so you need to be either fast af or be in their path and time it right, not a very good design mission wise. IF you protect the tower really well you can eat the drone damage but then you'll need to work much harder during the last wave.

During the last wave I suggest activating the plasma defenses to help with the heavy and staying near the tower because there are these very annoying helicopters that'll drop MT's with big shoulder guns that'll start murdering the tower.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Sir Harlz:

I just S ranked it today.

This is probably one of the worst designed missions to S rank. The kamikaze drones there is a spot you need to fly in and assault armor them but it can take a few tries to get the positioning right. Those drones are REALLY annoying because pretty much as soon as they appear and can be targeted they shoot forward almost instantly so you need to be either fast af or be in their path and time it right, not a very good design mission wise. IF you protect the tower really well you can eat the drone damage but then you'll need to work much harder during the last wave.

During the last wave I suggest activating the plasma defenses to help with the heavy and staying near the tower because there are these very annoying helicopters that'll drop MT's with big shoulder guns that'll start murdering the tower.

Eh, I would love to have more defense missions like this.
Don't think it's badly designed at all, really.

[Packet ( ﾟ ヮﾟ) Overflow]

I S ranked while failing the stop the suicide drones. It’s not required if you do everything else well.

[Sabaithal]

In theory standard plasma missiles would also work against the drones, some of them anyway, due to their innate AoEs and the fact that the missiles both spread out naturally and detonate when close to the target, rather than colliding with it.