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?

[Capwaters]

Hiver: Mindswap and swat.
Key: Floated a rock out there and just hopped, took a few tries.
SB: Gave my WBird Groupthink - Railgun - Hate SB. Then it was just my trusty flying rock mount.

Least proud? I never picked up Parasite... also don't have the Hatchworm name.

[Squigzy]

Securitron: Rushed it with my corpse minions and trapped it when I got close enough, stripped it for parts then used the railgun to kill the whirlybird in the next room for flight (also used a tractor beam on a rock to keep the Whirlybird from getting away)

Hive Queen: Used the Railgun from Sec to kill Hive Queen by setting the Enemy of my Corpse with a Railgun to hive Queen.

Key: Had my Jugalodon with Teleport sit at my feet, then changed a Rock to be able to be picked up and thrown, edited it to also have Teleport, and threw it to the other side and teleported myself. Later on I just used a flying Jug (second time playing through for fun)

SB: An army of Hivers/Corpses with Group Think (did it twice) that were equipped with Railguns (Thank you Group Think) and set enemy to Whirlybirds and then SB. Then took my flying Jug to the other side.

Most of the challenges involving crossing something (like lava or a pit) I solved by simply throwing a teleport Rock (like with the key) or flying over with my Jug.

[curious nu]

I can't believe I missed the Securitron/Whirlybird area in my first run. That would've made getting over the SB so much easier.

[Daraclore]

Hiver Queen - Whirlybird with Railgun
Getting the key - Killed myself in the lava, then jumped across the ghosted turtles, carried the ghost key down and revived.
SB - Killed with mindlinked railgun Whirlybirds, striped a teleport of its specials, gave it flight and used waypoints to ride to its corpse.


Although, in hindsight, giving a rock flight, railgun, and mindlink would be rather OP, just thinking of how many there were in the game.

[apieceoffruit]

Hiver Queen - Parasite worm, after 4-5 failed rush attempts
Getting the key - stood ON the Erase key button, threw a floating turtle and jumped on him from the button.
SB - Used a hover railgun securitron to kill the whirlys, then stood on my good friend rocky and just flew over.

[DeltaStrata]

Securitron: Parasite, like most.
Key: 1st time, tossed a floating, fireproof Juggodillo. 2nd time, hopped on the ghosted juggos to pick up the ghosted key.
Hiver Queen: Securitron with railgun, with flamethrower Whirlybird running interference and Doorbot-turned-Shieldbot doing shield things. I liked Doorbot; I had him do ALL the support tasks.
Sky expletive: 1st time, tractor beamed it over to me ("Whirlybirds, help?"). 2nd time, tractor beamed the Whirlybirds first ("Whirlybirds, come back?"), then set them up with railguns and groupthink; floated over on flying rock.

The thought never occurred to me to put Flight on any platform creatures until my second playthrough. I had Float on a Juggodillo, but its usefulness was limited. As such, my expanded explorations of the map were done by pointing a Whirlybird where I wanted to go, then teleporting to it. This is how I got to the SB platform in my 1st playthrough, how I got into the various cells of Nadir's prison, and how I got to the top of the volcano. And it was noooot easy.

[rujuro]

Flying teleporter, clever. I don't think I have heard of that tactic before (shockingly), I like it.

[Tico]

Hiver Queen: Ambushed her on my first try... although admittedly it was one of the last areas I visited, so I just summoned a ton of allies
SB: Three telepads. Leave one on the floor, one with fly and one with float. Throw the one with float, disable teleport other on the flight, and teleport to the float with the ground. Throw the flight, disable allied so it doesn't fly back to me, disable teleport other on the float, travel back to the crack, and use the ground to teleport to the flight. Summon the float, throw the float, and repeat...

It was disheartening to learn that all I had to do was set a telepad with flight to have the SB as an enemy and then teleport to it...

I could never figure out how Groupthink worked, and decided when I got it that Mindswap was counterproductive after watching the cerebra and corpse duke it out three times in a row after continuously reviving both of them...

[GlazinDonuts]

I'm still stuck on the Xeno Labs I've tried using rat attack the cebra with telport other and with another rat

[Wingyl]

Hiver Queen: I think the first time I used my railgun rock, the second time I threw a flamer at it and repeatedly revived the flamer (hellhound has a short flame range).
Securitron: first playthrough, brute force, lots of revives, Shield Ally, and running madly down the hall to get behind it. EDIT: Second time, all the Hivers with Repulsor set to hate Securitrons so it was bouncing around and couldn't aim, so I could trap it. The hivers even bounced themselves closer to the Securitron to hit it better! They also bounced me around too because Repulsor is AOE.
Whirlybird: can't remember what I did at first, but the second time I tried to get it with a hatchworm.
End result: about 8 hatchworms, one dead whirlybird, and a LOT of having to revive allies because whoops.

[ThriceFive]

Shuttlebay: Used the dillo with float half way up then jumped from the elevator and jumped from there to get the powerup in the second level shuttle.
Hiver Queen: Had 5 flamers and just got them to get things toasty.
Haven't found the securitron yet - feel like I'm stuck in the teleport area not able to get to the tractor place. Still mid-game, came here for a hint and learned about securitron.

[Aegix Drakan]

Wow some of the solutions here are downright GENIUS.

Securitron: Howler and Mushroom Zerg rush with a side of desperate running to try to trap it. It was one of the first sub-routines I got. I died a LOT. >_>

Key: Made the ghost turtles fireproof, Filled them...then sighed as they fell through the fire damage sector, then went "Wait. I have a flying turtle. Why am I bothering?!" And just sky-surfed to it. Then, quickly got tired of carrying around the key looking for the lock, so I went "wait, why don't I just slap some legs on it?!" XD

Parasite: I got ghosted by the space decompression and just jumped over to it, then respawned at another crack. XD

Hiver swarm: A mob of fireproof mushrooms, howlers and a telepad, all of them with flame burst or melee (and a flying turtle with a railgun).

Hiver queen: Sent my mob of flaming guys at it, and then chucked an allied flamer at her face. Improvised grenade. It worked pretty well, I think. I can't tell. It died really quick with very few casualties (thanks Wizard!)

Eye In The Sky: Surfed over there on my flying turtle, with a Float whirlybird in hand. When Coda's Whirlybirds noticed me, I grinned and said "I think we're in range", chucked my whirlybird out in front of me, and hacked in Groupthink-Float-Railgun-HateSkyGods. Cue mass whirlybird defection. It was glorious.

E4 presentation: One guard with Railgun and Groupthink set to hate the hero. Put flight and repulsor on the baby. Unfortunately I didn't have time to set the remaining guards to have flames and hate the hero too (the guards got massacred pretty pathetically in the end), but the repulsor-baby worked absolute wonders, and had me laughing my ass off. It was GLORIOUS. XD

[Wingyl]

E4: First time, melee baby and angry guards.
Second time, flying repulsor baby that hated EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING.
It was hilarious.
I should have made the guards have Group Think and Repulsor and ALSO hate everything though, that would've been even funnier, everything would be bouncing forever.

[Skye Mars]

Finished the game but never found a parasite. Wondering if there are more things I shoudl have done, could have done.

[Wingyl]

Parasite is in an open shuttle in space.
The shuttle and everything in it is ghosted.