STUCK any suggestions?

[VortexMars]

Im stuck near the end of the game when you have to scan the coral samples. I literally cannot get past this part to save my life. Every time I go in through the maintinence hatches each coral sample is overrun by 1-2 weavers who spam 5-10 cystoids all at once as soon as I enter. If I had nullwave grenades I'd use them, and I've tried throwing objects to keep the cystoids away from me when I enter. I'm hoping I dont need to backtrack and get more supplies to pass this part, but if I have to I will. I just wanted to see if anyone had their own tactic for taking down this mission easily.

[Goose]

weavers go down quick with the q-beam. Cystoids don't seem to do much damage... just use the Gloo gun on them?

[wirs]

q-beamed the weavers without a problem before entering the hatch

[ThunderZorb]

I had a few spare nullwave grenades when I stumbled upon that area before the mission. Nullwave and a couple of shotgun blasts took care of the weavers.

[Entrails]

I would throw an object at him to start and follow it in with a psychic blast and several shotgun rounds for the kill. If you have the anti radiation chipset that helps alot should you get hit by the cystoids.

[CloudSeeker]

If you throw in a nullwave the Weavers are defenseless. The cystoidnests can be destoryed by simply throwing in a item or using a fome dart.

Maybe you should read up on the weaknesses enemies have.

[FamouZ_PT]

my game stuck at the beggin in publicity...and then black screen and stuck...
Radeon R9 380 4GB up to date my drivers.

[Animeye]

As others have mentioned:
Motion in general deals with cystoids. My weapon of choice for them is the huntress crossbow (yes it does zero damage, but it launches a physical projectile that the cystoids will go after and self destruct on).
Weavers are incredibly annoying until you read their research and understand how they work. They put up a shield that makes damaging them with standard weapons incredibly difficult, but things like the q-beam (and I believe the psi skills) pierce the shield and will make short work of them.
If nothing else, generally speaking, the weavers aren't too interested in attacking you. Equip farscope if you have it, fire off some foam darts to pop the cystoids, and then stick to the dark corners while you scan. As long as you don't run straight in and get point-blank, the weavers with mostly ignore you (this is how I got through this section on my no-needles run)

[Ultra Superior]

Originally posted by Vortex Mars:

Im stuck near the end of the game when you have to scan the coral samples. I literally cannot get past this part to save my life. Every time I go in through the maintinence hatches each coral sample is overrun by 1-2 weavers who spam 5-10 cystoids all at once as soon as I enter. If I had nullwave grenades I'd use them, and I've tried throwing objects to keep the cystoids away from me when I enter. I'm hoping I dont need to backtrack and get more supplies to pass this part, but if I have to I will. I just wanted to see if anyone had their own tactic for taking down this mission easily.

Use Huntress Boltcaster on cystoids. Q-Beam on Weavers.
Float slowly, don't provoke them too much.

[Thomas]

I never found the q-beam in my first play through... ;) But i used Lure in this section to get them away so i could work in peace. Worked pretty good.

[VortexMars]

Update: I ended up passing the part earlier this morning, just forgot to let everyone know lol. Also forgot to mention that I'm going for a no Typhon power playthrough, so Psychoshock and all of that were out of the picture. And I did read up on the weavers, I knew what their weaknesses were but I had no nullwave grenades or Typhon Lures. And when I scan the Cystoids it said "No weaknesses" So I just assumed shooting them was the best option.

I wish I wouldve brought more Q-Beam ammo with me previously, it probably wouldve helped a lot. The Weavers almost always popped off group of cystoids as soon as I entered the hatches. One was even right outside of the 2nd hatch, which made it somewhat difficult to get in but I was able to scare the weaver off pretty easily. Pretty much what I ended up doing was going through the hatch and immediately popping a few pistol shots at the weaver, and it made them float away from me as fast as they could and only spawned one batch of cystoids which I killed with my gluegun, after I was away from the weavers I was able to get a scan of the Coral. I just ran into one of those moments where I didnt have a lot of health and didnt really have a whole lot of ways to get any back, so once the cystoids attached to me I was literally ♥♥♥♥♥♥ no matter what I did. Glad I made it through that part though, I'm excited to finally finish the game.

[VortexMars]

Never even thought about using the boltcaster to distract the cystoids.... I feel stupid lmfao

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Vortex Mars:

Never even thought about using the boltcaster to distract the cystoids.... I feel stupid lmfao

Dont be, i also never thought about it. I always used the Gloo Gun to deal with Csytoids which also worked ok but costs a lot of ammunition. Felt stupid when i read about using the boltcaster.
I think many people just think of the boltcaster as a joke and never really try to use it for different things.

[VortexMars]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Vortex Mars:

Never even thought about using the boltcaster to distract the cystoids.... I feel stupid lmfao

Dont be, i also never thought about it. I always used the Gloo Gun to deal with Csytoids which also worked ok but costs a lot of ammunition. Felt stupid when i read about using the boltcaster.
I think many people just think of the boltcaster as a joke and never really try to use it for different things.

Yeah, I used the boltcaster once to open a locked door through a tiny slot in a window. That was about it, good to know that theres a little more than that to use it for!