Destroying One Tank in Black Cerberus Fight: Bug or Feature?

[BrickBarto]

During the Black Cerberus fight, I managed to destroy one of the fuel tanks (the one next to the door for the PAX). The result was something that seemed like a bug, but maybe not.

Cerberus kept retreating to his room behind the force field after a period of fighting, and recharging his health, but no more PAXs were summoned. He did this several times before I managed to kill him, and each time I had to wait 30 seconds for him to finish recharging.

I know that destroying both tanks prevents PAXs from being summoned and Cerberus from retreating. But I haven't found anyone mention what happened for me when only one tank was destroyed. Is this a bug or an intended mechanic? If the latter, it's interesting that no one seems to have mentioned it.

[Tamaster]

As far as I now destroying 1 tank will remove 1 PAX from being summoned. In total if you dont destroy the tanks he will summon 2 additional PAX in addition to the mandatory first one.

So 1 Tank = 1 PAX.

Seems like a bug.

[MundM]

The tanks are used for hardcore kills and have nothing to do with the spawning of the robots, as far as I've noticed. Destryoing both tanks and cutting of the right arm of the gerneral, gives you his whole set.

[Tamaster]

Originally posted by MundM:

The tanks are used for hardcore kills and have nothing to do with the spawning of the robots, as far as I've noticed. Destryoing both tanks and cutting of the right arm of the gerneral, gives you his whole set.

No this is not true, if you have the first PAX destroy both tanks, then it will never spawn more PAX after the first one is destroyed. I am 100% sure.

[MundM]

Originally posted by Tamaster:

Originally posted by MundM:

The tanks are used for hardcore kills and have nothing to do with the spawning of the robots, as far as I've noticed. Destryoing both tanks and cutting of the right arm of the gerneral, gives you his whole set.

No this is not true, if you have the first PAX destroy both tanks, then it will never spawn more PAX after the first one is destroyed. I am 100% sure.

Good to know, that'll make the hole fight less tedious.

[BrickBarto]

Originally posted by Tamaster:

As far as I now destroying 1 tank will remove 1 PAX from being summoned. In total if you dont destroy the tanks he will summon 2 additional PAX in addition to the mandatory first one.

So 1 Tank = 1 PAX.

I don't think this is the case though because it seems that BC can summon an unlimited number of PAXs. There's one post on the forum about a guy fighting more than 80 of them!

It seems to me that unless both tanks are destroyed, BC will continue to summon PAXs.So what happened to me was a bug where he continued to retreat to summon, but no additional PAXs came (just the first one).

I think your idea is a better one in terms of boss design, however. I think the trick with the tanks should be a shortcut for beating BC, not a quasi-obligatory strategy as it seemed for me at my Core Level.