Room After Last Defender - Mass Explosions?

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Hello everyone.

I have gotten to the room past the Last Defender quite a few times now, but have yet to complete it.

However - just now I had completed it, but then was chased by massive explosions chasing my character which - despite healing and dodging my way out of them, killed me without me being able to do anything.

Could someone explain this? Was there something I was supposed to do? The mission says to take care of the server, but didn't say I needed to be near anything and I couldn't damage anything in the room besides the enemies that spawn. Would be nice if a room it takes 30-40 minutes to reach didn't have a mechanic to instantaneously kill you with no recourse.

Edit: I'm about 95% certain I died because I didn't stand close enough to the "hacking server" that I didn't get any indication I was supposed to stand by, and therefore was killed for taking too long. I'll keep that in mind on my next run that makes it so far. It's further frustrating because I play in co-op with a friend and so there are more and more powerful enemies in that area, which can be a bit rough. Hopefully me and my friend can both survive long enough to help one-another in that stage next time.

[Simonsis13]

After beating the last room (usually called arma cause the thing in the middle is the armageddon device) it drops the armageddon shard, which WILL kill you 3 floors into loop. The way you avoid this is to not pick it up at all or to recycle it IN the arma room.

If you are referring to the explosion of the arma device itself, then you just have to stay away from it during that explosion.

Another thing that comes to mind, you said you completed it, but maybe you confused that with the progress bar of the arma device and instead of winning you lost - which triggers an explosion as well.

And yes, you have to stand somewhat near to it, but hugging it is not necessary. You can tell where you are allowed to be based on the progress bar on top of the screen.

[Simoko]

When you spawn into the room there is structure right in front of you. Just dash into it and hide for the entire sequence. Rarely will an enemy spawn to the south that might alert others but it's an easy cheese. Heart of Armageddon is just a juiced up floor 1 server hack boss.

The orange bar is the enemies progress and the red bar is yours. Stepping outside of the hack zone (which is quite large) even for a few seconds can cost the game. You pretty much have to stay in the zone the entire time.

Originally posted by Echonian:

Hello everyone.

I Would be nice if a room it takes 30-40 minutes to reach didn't have a mechanic to instantaneously kill you with no recourse.

That's why you "win" the game when you beat LD. all the challenges are just beating LD too. Armageddon and loop is just for a couple of achievements really.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by Simonsis13:

Another thing that comes to mind, you said you completed it, but maybe you confused that with the progress bar of the arma device and instead of winning you lost - which triggers an explosion as well.

I believe this is the case. I didn't die due to picking up any item - I simply killed a ton of enemies until I saw the bar at the top of the screen fill up, and then was chased by explosions. It was the fifth or so time I had made it to that room but the first time I had survived that long, so it was frustrating to see.

From what I have been told since then - apparently you have to stand in a "hack zone" to complete that objective. Of course, the game didn't communicate this in any way at all - it didn't say to stand in the circle, or imply that was a required mechanic. It just said to "stop Armageddon," which at first I thought meant shooting things in the room (which did nothing), and then I thought meant just surviving long enough to win.

Originally posted by Simoko:

When you spawn into the room there is structure right in front of you. Just dash into it and hide for the entire sequence. Rarely will an enemy spawn to the south that might alert others but it's an easy cheese. Heart of Armageddon is just a juiced up floor 1 server hack boss.

The orange bar is the enemies progress and the red bar is yours. Stepping outside of the hack zone (which is quite large) even for a few seconds can cost the game. You pretty much have to stay in the zone the entire time.

That's unfortunate, but confirms what I have been told. I really wish that the game told you that you needed to stay in such an arbitrary circle though, or was more forgiving about it. That stage already is difficult to survive given how many strong enemies spawn in, so it isn't as though I would have had the patience or time to analyze the room and figure out that I needed to stand nearby it.

I'm not at all interested in cheesing the game, either, but thanks for the suggestion.

Well, it's annoying that I have spent hours on runs successfully to that place before I get a hint - only after watching videos online and coming to the discussion board - about how to "actually" complete a stage.

It didn't seem at all like the earlier server hacking mission either. Because in that one, there really isn't any zone outside of the server - so logically I never would have left it, unlike in the stop Armageddon section which is a fairly large stage. I didn't know that for either "boss" you needed to stand near anything!

[AeonHeals]

Originally posted by Echonian:

Well, it's annoying that I have spent hours on runs successfully to that place before I get a hint - only after watching videos online and coming to the discussion board - about how to "actually" complete a stage.

It didn't seem at all like the earlier server hacking mission either. Because in that one, there really isn't any zone outside of the server - so logically I never would have left it, unlike in the stop Armageddon section which is a fairly large stage. I didn't know that for either "boss" you needed to stand near anything!

Same thing happened to me the first time I got to the room, managed to kill everything then died because I stepped away from the arma device for a bit too long.