boltcaster and reinforced door for sentinel mission.......

[largegroh]

this is not good. my ammo just bounces off t he door and the sentinels attack me with bad results for me. this is the mission at alien base or building anyway. I kept trying and died 3 times with no damage to sentinels (big ones) and no damage except to me at all. what am I missing? or should I not follow the applo guys request and go do something else??

[largegroh]

I am sry if I am asking too many questions. If so, just tell me and I will go away. for awhile at lease. old guys never go away for good. smile

[BonPadre]

make a MANUAL SAVE you can revert back in case what I tell next does not work for your mission, because it's very unclear to me, if oyu are still in "early- mid" base missions or if it's something else. (manual save are made through saving point youplace from Z, saving at a POI post, or interacting with a beacon of yours)

If it's base missions, I have always blasted such doors flying low and slow, shooting the door with the ship's photon cannon.
Never failed me get the missions rewards and completed

[largegroh]

ok I will try it and see. ty. i am following the directions at bottom right of screen. the current one wants me to go mess with the sentinels by busting down their door. not sure what else is in store for me inside but.....will try using ship to bust down door and see what happens. thx.

[redbeard]

after you destroy the door with the ship's weapons, you can continue to fly around until the star counter ends .... or you can go ahead and land and make a mad dash for the door

[largegroh]

ok thx

[Plutheros]

One of your Boltcaster upgrades probably has Ricochet on it. I found this to be "buggy" as it bounced off most objects without doing any damage. I would just replace any Ricochet mods on your Multitool.

[knighttemplar1960]

One question. Is it the mission for the scientist to get a Korvax Convergence cube or the mission for the armorer? If its for the scientist you can use the ship to break the door (if ts for the scientist you don't even have to do that facility, all you need is a Korvax Convergence cube which you can eventually get by trading and by opening the green damaged containers and the yellow containers or you can get by trading with a NPC ship on a freighter or bartering with the locals on space stations). If its for the armorer you'll have to do it on the ground with your multi tool

[Psyclos]

Grenades are the go-to for door destruction - but you've got to be careful of bounce, which can(will) prove fatal - don't be too close to the door, approach and shoot from an angle, rather than head-on.

[knighttemplar1960]

On Perma death I use a scatter blaster.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Grenades are best for doors. I have broke in with the boltcaster...but it takes forever and a day. I did it by ignoring everything and pounding the door until I was in pretty bad shape.

Then I just ran like a rabbit trying to keep them on one side of the building while I healed up. First time I tried this, I ran out of ammo and just had to jump in the ship and run.

Next time I came back with tons of ammo and some health packs. Immediately run in the door once you knock it down.

FYI- the phase beam and terrain manip. does nothing to a door. You have to cycle to the boltcaster (g) if you want to try it. A lot easier with grenades so unless you just want a challenge....

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

If its for the armorer you'll have to do it on the ground with your multi tool

Restarted fresh lately... I have never busted those doors from the ground. Always have done it with my ship (pre NEXT, after NEXT and now). Never had an issue with base missions.

Was I that lucky ?

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by BonPadre:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

If its for the armorer you'll have to do it on the ground with your multi tool

Restarted fresh lately... I have never busted those doors from the ground. Always have done it with my ship (pre NEXT, after NEXT and now). Never had an issue with base missions.

Was I that lucky ?

Likely. If you do the facility from the ship for the armorer it bugs frequently and you have to dismantle the armorer terminal and reassemble it and if he's pointing you to that same facility again you have to go to a space station and select a raid a manufacturing facility from the mission board to complete it.

Several threads on it here on the steam forums a few weeks ago. IIRC Merlin69 was one of the folks that had that happen to him.

[tattmann]

5 shots with scatter blaster does it quick for me. Sentinels rarely get to me before I'm inside the building lol.

[jamesawetzel]

Boltcaster works fine if you stand back about 75-100u from the door.

Just blast away, since the sentinels will rush to the door and completely ignore where the damage is coming from (pretty much like using the mining laser at a distance when sentinels are around).

Once the door is down, just dash inside.

[Asmosis]

Originally posted by Psyclos:

Grenades are the go-to for door destruction - but you've got to be careful of bounce, which can(will) prove fatal - don't be too close to the door, approach and shoot from an angle, rather than head-on.

If your going to use grenades, use the geo launcher and not the plasma one. It explodes on impact, no bouncing to worry about.

(still do *not* use either option in permadeath. too easy to accidently hit fire and kill yourself while trying to do something else).