Side Story - Sigma: Left Behind Alone - ACT 1: 1-2 Information Gathering

[Shimaaji]

I'm currently dying on that stage ... again and again and again.

It's one of those side stories where you cannot replace the guest units with higher-level versions from your own roster and you also cannot add any own units beyond the guest units.

I googled a bit and actually found a YouTube video from Nov 13 ... so less than three weeks ago. THAT person did the entire stage on auto ... from the first to the last second not doing anything manually.
So I tried that as well ... like ten times. And well ... that way every. single. time. ... I die during wave 2 of 3 ... so not even close to beating it.

Is there some account-wide unit-buff needed here that applies to guest units as well and that I just haven't found yet? Did the developers nerf the guest units or buff the mobs during the last three weeks, just making this stage impossible?

It's really annoying since I need a later stage from that side story for the taskforce plan and I just cannot progress.

How do I get past this wall that supposedly is not lowered by progressing my account? (So leaving it for later will probably do nothing, right?)

[Dr. Atrocious]

It's best not to play this part on auto. You may also want to play at normal speed for this one.

Sigma acts as a turret, so you'll want to let the enemies get close enough for her to target them. Then, drop the Bulwark to stop them and use the CO suppressor at a little distance in front of the bulwark to get full use of it's range. From there, just replace the CO suppressor each time the last is finished.

[Mobile Doll Cordelia]

There really aren't any drawbacks to leaving side stories alone, other than missing out farming the unit data (which is capped at 3/day). Going from memory, Sigma's side story doesn't provide a very good unit anyway. The best reason to complete it is really the story itself.

Seconding Dr. Atrocious, don't play it on auto at all. The game makes laughably terrible decisions, I don't quite get how that user managed to finish it on auto.

[Shimaaji]

Originally posted by Dr. Atrocious:

It's best not to play this part on auto. You may also want to play at normal speed for this one.

Sigma acts as a turret, so you'll want to let the enemies get close enough for her to target them. Then, drop the Bulwark to stop them and use the CO suppressor at a little distance in front of the bulwark to get full use of it's range. From there, just replace the CO suppressor each time the last is finished.

Thanks! That helped! :) (EDIT: Specifically not using the other units besides bulwark and CO suppressor when available ... so to have resources to instant re-deploy the CO2 supressor when it goes down seems to be very valuable here)

Originally posted by Mobile Doll Cordelia:

There really aren't any drawbacks to leaving side stories alone, other than missing out farming the unit data (which is capped at 3/day). Going from memory, Sigma's side story doesn't provide a very good unit anyway. The best reason to complete it is really the story itself.

In this special case it actually does matter, since these specific side story stages are part of the Master level of the Taskforce Plan. I don't know .. maybe they added this for new players and it's not there for you or it's so far back you have forgotten, but within that reward-system you can only complete the single one active objective and fulfilling requirements for later objectives doesn't count until they become active. So (among other things) I'd basically do daily simulations without getting the taskforce-plan-rewards for them just because I did not finish the stupid Sigma story arc. ;)

also EDIT 2:

Originally posted by Mobile Doll Cordelia:

Seconding Dr. Atrocious, don't play it on auto at all. The game makes laughably terrible decisions, I don't quite get how that user managed to finish it on auto.

Seriously! I didn't realize the bulwark taunts. Auto mode deploys it right on the tower ... so all the damage "splashes" (?) over to it. ^^

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https://youtu.be/RnRHeF4GPe4

here you go buddy, just dont auto

[Slayn]

This mission is such bullwater. I can't for the life of me get any to 3 star. If only we could get more DP because the Bullwark cost 5 AND you can't replace it ever! Whoever come up with this clearly didn't try it themselves!