bride of idun kills a run

[mechasonic9000]

she is so tanky that a bomber cant even do permanent damage to her life. her healing out heals 5 mini-guns. her randomly showing up in a mission means you fail. and if its the raid missions and you have no other options then you just lose because the hoard that comes after you is more than enough to distract your weapons while she systematically destroys everything

[RicardIII]

+1

[Luis_Alberto]

Yeah if the turrets had a targeting preference, I think it would be a more fair encounter. Same happens with acid bois its just that they are easier to distract and kill.

[IDUN Interactive]

Sorry about that. She was reintroduced in a rough state. Her scaling is way off. I will fix that in the next patch.

[uSpartacuz]

I was doing some test runs today on this and found some options to deal with her. You need to use a hero to tank her, her regeneration seems to stop, or be very reduced, when she is engaged in melee combat with something. So a fully upgraded wall or a hero, preferably Q can tank her while the turrets and tools do the damage. She can be taken down like this, even on a hard raid.

But yeah, she needs some adjustments. I think I saw like 250k health when she showed up on doom dunes and was taking missiles to the face like it was nothing with that health pool + uber regeneration before she was melee locked.

[IDUN Interactive]

I just pushed a new build to the beta branch (Build 0.92 "Chain Lightning"). I would love if you could try it out and let me know it the bride is more balanced now.

[K4Dragoon]

havnt a issue with the bride just the tree eater blocking the whole screen

[IDUN Interactive]

Originally posted by K4Dragoon:

havnt a issue with the bride just the tree eater blocking the whole screen

It's supposed to, it is part of the challenge. But maybe it isn't a fun challenge....

[Ralifur]

Originally posted by IDUN Interactive:

Originally posted by K4Dragoon:

havnt a issue with the bride just the tree eater blocking the whole screen

It's supposed to, it is part of the challenge. But maybe it isn't a fun challenge....

Think that depends on the player. I think the tree eater is a fun challenge but i had an issue where the treeeater stepped on the hub i had to defend which forced me to loose the mission. As there was no way to stop the treeeater from doing that and i couldnt move the hub then my run was doomed from the beginning and that wasnt so fun. :-D

But I do think its still a worthy challenge to deal with so i dont know if theres any way to prevent the above. I personally dont want to see it removed. :-)

As for the bride of idun - The way I found easiest to deal with her is to slow time down to 0.5 and then move turrets back and forth to kite her if you dont have the firepower to kill her.

Managed to finish raid missions this way.

Tho also what uSpartacuz says about having Q tank her seems to work quite well.

Edit: An idea for the bride of idun. Maybe if you tie her regen ability to the tumor nodes that spread the red ground and she only has regen if there are tumor nodes up?

Maybe you could make it so the more tumor nodes that are up, the faster she heals and if theres fewer of them, she heals slower? Gives another objective to control while dealing with her but also makes it controllable

[IDUN Interactive]

Originally posted by Ralifur:

I think the tree eater is a fun challenge but i had an issue where the treeeater stepped on the hub i had to defend which forced me to loose the mission.

I'm adding a fix to prevent this from ever happening in the next patch (0.92).

[uSpartacuz]

Ok, having fought the new bride in patch 0.92 in the doom dunes raid I can say personally I think she is good now. In the mech missions you can destroy her, but outside of those she is actually a challenge. The tanking hero strategy is still a good one

[IDUN Interactive]

I'm happy to hear it. She is not a challenge by herself, at least not for me. But she forces you to relocate a lot of defenses to deal with her, and that is where the challenge really is.

[RicardIII]

Originally posted by IDUN Interactive:

I'm happy to hear it. She is not a challenge by herself, at least not for me. But she forces you to relocate a lot of defenses to deal with her, and that is where the challenge really is.

Just got her, and she is in a good spot for me. Cool addition !

[IDUN Interactive]

To get to play her for you who don't know, you have to complete Red Dawn. After the last missions she stops showing up on the planet missions, but can still be encountered on Raids (They are in a parallel universe or something)

[Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform]

Originally posted by IDUN Interactive:

To get to play her for you who don't know, you have to complete Red Dawn. After the last missions she stops showing up on the planet missions, but can still be encountered on Raids (They are in a parallel universe or something)

Is red dawn the finial mission? is she supposed to replace ham or something? ham stops talking after i deploy him after red dawn so is he like an undead now?

[IDUN Interactive]

Red Dawn is not the final mission. It is called Under Siege. And Ham.... he will get disabled, after that mission. As soon as I get around fixing his replacement... Trying to talk spoiler free. : )