How'd you solve some of the puzzles?

[curious nu]

After about an hour I was really looking forward to finishing the game because I wanted to be able to talk with others and see how they solved some of these puzzles.

Beating the hiver queen: Howler with Parasite
Getting the key: give turtles float and group think (I only ever found 1 float)
Getting to the SB: this one took me forever. Final setup: teleport pad on the cliff edge, use rocks with group think + float to get to the different midway platforms. Bring another teleport pad onto the midways. For the whirlybirds, added parasites to the rocks.

What solutions are you most proud of?

[rujuro]

Those are awesome! rocks with groupthink and float is totally new to us! Love it when that happens.

[Khazan]

When I found Flight early on, I just flew around on a Juggalodon all game like a flying mount or something. Works really well if you give it stat-upgrades to Speed as well. Basically like a little plane.

I beat the Hiver Queen by using Mindswap. I'm not sure if it actually swapped with it or just stunned it, but I rushed with the rest of my minions while the mindswap seemed to occupy it.

Beat the SB by Group Thinking a whirlybird. Basically turned Codas guardians on herself. Poor Coda.

[curious nu]

Where did you find Flight? Whirlybird at the SB was my first one.

[Boon: Nothing Matters]

There's another WB somewhere in the world, based on your solutions above, seems like you would have found it but it's a turn that can be easily missed.

[emshort]

Getting the key: fitted a turtle with repulse and enemy=key and then threw it onto the ledge. It knocked the key off and I was able to go below and fetch it.

Getting to the shuttle: threw a turtle with float over the ledge and stood on it.

Hiver queen: got an army of howlers to kill the hivers, then approached the queen with mindswap.

Getting to the SB: made a turtle with flight, then stood on its back and used waypoints to get out there.

The Securitron took me the longest, because I didn't have parasite yet when I first encountered it. I tried a lot of useless things (including a bunch of mushrooms and the mushroom wizard, but i guess it's been buffed since that worked easily). Finally I went away, solved some other puzzles, and came back and killed it with parasite.

[rujuro]

That's right, depending on when you tried the shield strategy, it was something we made more viable during early access. Also, LOVE that key solution, never heard that one before.

[JRainbowfist]

I killed the Hiver Queen with the Parasite special. Once it was infested, I just stood there until it eventually died.

[Dogishappy]

Im stumped in the Xeno labs on the ship. How do i get to the other side of the glass, when the hole is so small? i tried getting attacked by a rat with mind swap, but it just killed me.

[rujuro]

The way to do this is to use a rat with teleport other

[Dogishappy]

Originally posted by rujuro:

The way to do this is to use a rat with teleport other

Ah, don't have that yet. Thanks!

[Michel Baie]

Hive Queen : killed it with a rat armed with railgun. Two shots, boom, down.
Key : got it with a dog-creature and tractor beam, aggroing the key - didn't even realize that "float" was actually good for anything :p
SB : Three Turtles with flight and railgun and group thinking, aggroing WB. Riding one is fun, having a little formation of them is great.

[XelNigma]

Originally posted by Dogishappy0:

Im stumped in the Xeno labs on the ship. How do i get to the other side of the glass, when the hole is so small? i tried getting attacked by a rat with mind swap, but it just killed me.

Yah, the way that room is set up it strongly hints that you mind swap with a rat. But thats not do able, for two reasons, 1. you dont have abilitys for the mind swap to swap with. and 2. the origial body, the rat, dies as soon as you transfer to it. It was one of the few puzzles I had to just give up on and came back later when I had the tools to solve it.

[Hidden Boss]

Beating the hiver queen: pet with Parasite power (over before i knew it)
Getting the key: edited the key and made it move to the hero(why go to the key when you can make the key move to you)
Getting past the lava, got on my rock and had it walk past the lava.(yay rocks)
Getting to the SB: Railgun pet and then used rock to fly there(called my rock air ship)

[Free Estrogen]

For much of the game I didnt realize you got to keep the cyber arms, I thought one of the puzzles was to use the cyber arms to send a creature to open the door, then intentionally ghost yourself and come back with normal arms to edit the door bot, so I 'solved' that 'puzzle'.

After that, I gave a turtle fly from a whirlybird and just let it bump around riding it till I was over the key. After that I got shield other from the mushroom wizard and just had a bunch of stuff attack the securotron and kill it. Just had a bunch of creatures melee the hive queen. Then I gave railgun and fly to the wizard, allied him with normal mushrooms, and set a rock with ally mushroom and wizard to follow the wizard around with shield other.

Here's where I felt proud at first, but dumb immediately after. I got to the sky bastard by telling my flying mushrooms to go out to the first floating island, then gave float to the rock tossed it within edit range of the wizard, and took back fly, letting them stand on the island, gave fly to the rock, had it move partway to the second island, gave it float, gave fly back to the wizard, and so on until I got all the way to the main platform. Afterwards I realized it would have been easier to just give the rock fly and groupthink with the mushrooms and ride it all the way there... Oh well, at least everyone was shielded when I got there.

[APeacefulWarrior]

Wow, am I the only one who just teleported themselves over to the key? Rat + Teleport Other, tossed from next to the spawn\despawn button. Easy-peasy.

Then again, I just brute-forced the Hive Queen, since I had a massive army of minions by that point. It was more entertianing watching them swarm bad guys than attempting a "clever" solution to the problem.

Doing the SB was a bit more onerous because, using Hivemind + Flying Howers + Railgun, I ghosted Coda and Whirlys from the far side. Which left the problem of getting over to them. I ended up on a platform halfway across the gulf, unable to continue, then added Tractor Beam to whatever critter I'd used as a teleport pad to bring Coda over to me after I de-ghosted her.

(Her outraged "This is NOT my chosen vector!!!" made me giggle.)