Demolishers?

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

SO me and a buddy just barely made our way to vulcanus the platform is barely holding together and we struggel with even scratching a demolisher what is a good way to fight them? somehow everything just tickels them we dont have nuclear yet and red ammo is the max.....

[RawCode]

you can keep away from it's area and stay inside safe zone and it won't attack, there is no pollution

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

Originally posted by RawCode:

you can keep away from it's area and stay inside safe zone and it won't attack, there is no pollution

jea but we need the Ore in his territory because the starting area doesn't have it.....

[Nargon]

You need high DPS. Use everything you have at once. If that's enough, you win. If not, you need more DPS.

[Spitfire]

Try a tank with the non-explosive cannon shells.

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

Originally posted by Nargon:

You need high DPS. Use everything you have at once. If that's enough, you win. If not, you need more DPS.

so it's just a dps race to outdamage his regeneration then....

[mrxak]

Use a tank with uranium rounds. They die easy.

[Ishimuro]

you maybe want stuff like poison caps and defenders, it helps if you have items that reduce the regen, i couldnt kill a 30k hp worm with nukes and grenades...but it did die quite easy when i added defenders and poison instead of grenades

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

Originally posted by Ishimuro:

you maybe want stuff like poison caps and defenders, it helps if you have items that reduce the regen, i couldnt kill a 30k hp worm with nukes and grenades...but it did die quite easy when i added defenders and poison instead of grenades

poison and a small turret battery is all it took high quality poison goes a long way but probably will not work on the bigger guys because there regen is just insane......
Defenders are useless against the worm they just die in it's dirt aoe like any other bots...

[Leyla]

Do they respawn?

[Avloren]

Anything iron/copper/steel based is basically free and easy to produce on Vulcanus, so I took the brute force approach.

I made 100 gun turrets and 1000 red ammo, made a big square of turrets and gave each one 10 ammo, and it killed a small demolisher easily. Lost around 20-30 turrets, but who cares? Iron and copper are infinite.

That was with all military/chem science upgrades (I think that gets you to damage 5 and shooting speed 5), but no yellow/purple science. At that point - I calculated - it only takes 11 turrets to cancel out the small demolisher's regen. He died in like 3 seconds with 50ish turrets hitting him at once.

Originally posted by Leyla:

Do they respawn?

Nope. Each 'territory' has exactly one demolisher, you kill him and he's permanently gone, then the territory is yours and you can build in it safely.

[Entropy]

Originally posted by Das Trojanische Pferd:

Originally posted by RawCode:

you can keep away from it's area and stay inside safe zone and it won't attack, there is no pollution

jea but we need the Ore in his territory because the starting area doesn't have it.....

Bug reported about it 1-2 weeks ago

[Vovarush]

Originally posted by Chastity Belt Enjoyer:

Originally posted by Das Trojanische Pferd:

jea but we need the Ore in his territory because the starting area doesn't have it.....

Bug reported about it 1-2 weeks ago

If you are talcking about tungsten then it isnt a bug. You are supposed to scrap together enough stuff from rocks to build rudimentary factory and kill demolisher to access proper deposits for science production.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Ishimuro:

you maybe want stuff like poison caps and defenders, it helps if you have items that reduce the regen, i couldnt kill a 30k hp worm with nukes and grenades...but it did die quite easy when i added defenders and poison instead of grenades

You only need one thing - literally one instance-thereof - to very effectively deal with the starting small demolisher worms.

A single uranium cannon shell. The regular kind; not the explosive kind.

It has huge amount of regular damage and it's piercing. If you drive up a tank to a demolisher's tail and then fire a shell up the length of their body, it pierces enough segments of the body to transfer all that damage to the head section (because that's how segmented entities work) and instantly kill the worm in one shot.

[Entropy]

Originally posted by Vovarush:

Originally posted by Chastity Belt Enjoyer:

Bug reported about it 1-2 weeks ago

If you are talcking about tungsten then it isnt a bug. You are supposed to scrap together enough stuff from rocks to build rudimentary factory and kill demolisher to access proper deposits for science production.

Nilaus reported it

[RiO]

Originally posted by Chastity Belt Enjoyer:

Originally posted by Vovarush:

If you are talcking about tungsten then it isnt a bug. You are supposed to scrap together enough stuff from rocks to build rudimentary factory and kill demolisher to access proper deposits for science production.

Nilaus reported it

What Nilaus reported was a bug where his game's Vulcanus didn't generate any resource patches at all. Which was presumably related to him previewing the surface with remote view before making landfall.