Spider Frustration aka Quads

[ADWT]

I am stuck and honestly irritated and frustrated. I have spent so much time trying to accomplish this 2 week time frame goal and no matter what I do or what upgrades I purchase for the multi tool, the dang spiders get repaired too fast and I die. I have tried tunneling down into the ground to wait for the sentinels to reload, but I still cannot kill the spider. I cannot destroy even one of them. Anyone have any advice how to complete this stage goal? TIA

[Judgement]

Plasma grande launchers are your friend. I suggest building a hunting base, use a arch to the outside and a long hall with a door you can run through. Piss the quad off and start the turkey shoot.

[ignition]

Option 1. If you've done the previous expedition that unlocks the 'Atlas Staff': get it from the anomaly. The 1st 2 stations have S upgrades for the Neutron Cannon, buy 1/2/3, add to staff and blast away. The 1st or 2nd station all contains a S Class Shield Upgrade, buy that ASAP, from the Exo-Suit Vendor.

Option 2. Buy the 'Scatter Blaster' & its companion the shell greaser from the anomaly. The 1st and 2nd station contain S upgrades for Scatter blaster. Travel between stations to buy 3 of them, install all 3 and the 2 from the anomaly. Put the Scatter blaster in the Supercharged slot: blast way. Buy as many shield upgrades as you can going between stations.

Option 3. Buy the 'Neutron Cannon' and its companion upgrade from the Anomaly. The 1st and 2nd station contain S upgrades for it. Travel between stations to buy 3 of them, install all 3 and the 2 from the anomaly. Put the Neutron Cannon in the Supercharged slot: blast way. Buy as many shield upgrades as you can going between stations. Edit: you'll need some esoteric items to isntall the NC, you can get from blasting sentinels and opening the salvaged glass, or try and buy from the space stations & or the pilots.

Option 4. Install all the Pulse Splitter upgrade and its companion, both of which are rewards for the expedition milestones. The 1st and 2nd station contain S upgrades for it. Travel between stations to buy 3 of them, install all 3 and the 2 from the Rewards. Put the Pulse Spitter in the Supercharged slot: blast way. Buy as many shield upgrades as you can going between stations.

Option 5. Unlock the Minotaur for 14 salvage data (4 for roamer & 10 for Minotaur). Buy the Minotaur cannon from the anomaly; install in SC slot. Blast away. The new hazard meter does not[/b] drain inside the Minotaur. Its the best way to travel during this expedition.[/b]

I used option 3 after scouring space stations 1 & 2.

[Faceplant]

I just used my ship.

You can alternate between and air attack and ground attack by simply taking off or landing and getting out of your ship. When you're in the air with a quad spawned, take it out. Do that until you reach your quota.

I think it took me three or four cycles through all the levels, but they go quick, so it was only a few minutes.

[darknessanubis]

I parked my ship on top of a cliff and fired down on the spider until it died. Then hop in ship, hop out. Reload save. 8 times

Slightly cheaty yes but I am not a combat oriented player and 8 spiders was 7 too many.

[Felis_Exploria]

Originally posted by darknessanubis:

I parked my ship on top of a cliff and fired down on the spider until it died. Then hop in ship, hop out. Reload save. 8 times

Slightly cheaty yes but I am not a combat oriented player and 8 spiders was 7 too many.

[amosdway]

If you shoot the corrupted sentinels while they are healing another they will stop and target you back for a while, using that method you can prevent them from healing the spider, it was more challenging than i have come to expect from this came, but doable without using the starship.

[Faceplant]

In my permadeath run I just completed this by taking out the quads around resonators. You just have to punch out to lose the sentinel ships that follow. Even in permadeath, it works with the starter ship with essentially no upgrades.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by ADWT:

I am stuck and honestly irritated and frustrated. I have spent so much time trying to accomplish this 2 week time frame goal and no matter what I do or what upgrades I purchase for the multi tool, the dang spiders get repaired too fast and I die. I have tried tunneling down into the ground to wait for the sentinels to reload, but I still cannot kill the spider. I cannot destroy even one of them. Anyone have any advice how to complete this stage goal? TIA

There are multiple ways to handle this and I've posted suggestions on this already.

1. Copy over your multitool to handle them.

2. Research up and get the minotaur and use it.

3. Shoot them from your ship and fly off fast to avoid/lose sentinel ship aggro.

4. On foot combat wise either with point 1 and to or not: Locate on planet one of those resonator spots withe big one or find a sentinel citadel spot.

Make a base near. Dig a hole next to the base to go down and around in an L shape, or what have you so the goal being you can drop in and they stop/lose their search for you and stop being aggro.

Focus kill on the big one, if a healer comes in, kill it. Kill as well 1 or 2 of the other ones so it drops green canisters so you can shoot it to reup your shields. Once you get the quad down, drop in the hole, wait out the aggro then come back up, enter then exit your ship to save the progress.

Then exit the game and reenter. Quad will reset and you can rinse and repeat from there.

[bbluetangg]

I also used my ship. It took me 30 minutes but I got my 8 robots. I did redeem my sentinel ship which does a nice hover. After about 6 the sentinel ships stopped trying to attack me. Of course after that I started having trouble with Breach 4.

[Gamer1000]

Farm some and buy the Minotaur, put a cannon on it farm some nanites and get the best upgrades for the cannon, blast them from range.

[Doveheart]

I found a snow dissonant planet with the "mirrors" on it usually guarded by the quads. I just used my minotaur and leaped all over until I got them all.

[ADWT]

Originally posted by Judgement:

Plasma grande launchers are your friend. I suggest building a hunting base, use a arch to the outside and a long hall with a door you can run through. Piss the quad off and start the turkey shoot.

Thanks, I got those and am finally able to kill those things, but I am not getting credit for the kill. Makes me think that I am defeating the wrong robot spider things. I have killed 6 and my goal still says 0/8. These things have the pink spike crystals coming off them, right? Usually guarding the resonators?

[Faceplant]

There are two sizes at the resonators. You need the bigger one, and they they aren't at every resonator.

[ADWT]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

There are two sizes at the resonators. You need the bigger one, and they they aren't at every resonator.

Arrrggggg, thanks. Now I have to go hunting again. Very good to know.

[can'tdecide]

Had the same issues and I made a thread about it a few days ago I think. Best advice I got:

1. Shoot the repair bot, a wrench above it's head. Stops healing of others so you don't insta lose all your progress (harder than it sounds though)

2. Buy upgrades for 1 weapon, if you're going bolt, buy a ton of bolt mods. Space is limited so diversifying without sufficient slots kills your dps on the desired weapon of choice.

3. This is a personal note, the mods have a bunch of stats on them. Focus on attack speed, bullet count and charge time reduction. It's less about doing more damage per shot, more about shooting 50 more rounds per second. Trying to gain dmg will have you pulling your hair out like me. Learned from observation that people who wiped enemies did so by shooting a million shots per second to my 5.

4. Dig a hole to hide in or build a fighting mini base. Drones won't go deep underground but the quads will.

5. Kill the triangular bots because they re-spawn the armored drones.

6. Pick up the capsules they drop for constant shield maintenance.

Since then I've been able to fight my way through hordes of drones, today I realized that after 5 star wanted level, a huge boss drone appears that gives you some goodies and a cool POI if you kill it. Tells you how far I've gone from struggling with walkers to clearing waves. Hope this helps!