best team for obtaining the secret characters? (minor spoilers?)

[nvmvoidrays]

so, i'm going to go for the secret characters. which team has the best mountain-destroying capability? can you find the special item from the Terraformer and Disposal Unit destroying mountains? if not, then, i'll probably just go through the normal island and ice island first since those seem to have the most mountains generally.

[Liy4b-Derg]

I found one in a Tidal Wave mission. If not for Ralph telling me there's something wrong with that mountain I wouldnt have noticed lol.

[Cathulhu]

I found one in frozen water, i noticed a light yellow glow, broke the ice and walked into the water.

[Path]

Originally posted by nvmvoidrays:

so, i'm going to go for the secret characters. which team has the best mountain-destroying capability? can you find the special item from the Terraformer and Disposal Unit destroying mountains? if not, then, i'll probably just go through the normal island and ice island first since those seem to have the most mountains generally.

You don't need anything special, because if the beacon's there it'll be visible. No point going around levelling every mountain.

[Kaerius]

Archimedes makes getting them a little bit easier, since you can shoot and move. I noticed the one under ice on the last turn of a map and couldn't both break the ice and grab the pilot that turn... If I'd had Archimedes I could have.

[Kerensky]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1318159933

I recommend using a custom team. Lots of firepower, especially AOE attacks. Judoko's missile mech, frozen's mirror, designs like those to cause maximum destruction. You don't need to level every mountain, but you do have to tag them all at least one to see if there is a pod or not inside.

Same goes for ice. Only damaged ice can reveal a pod.

[Path]

Originally posted by Kerensky:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1318159933

I recommend using a custom team. Lots of firepower, especially AOE attacks. Judoko's missile mech, frozen's mirror, designs like those to cause maximum destruction. You don't need to level every mountain, but you do have to tag them all at least one to see if there is a pod or not inside.

Do you? The ones I've found where on tiles that were already damaged when the battle begun (damaged mountains to be precise).

[Kerensky]

Originally posted by Path:

Do you? The ones I've found where on tiles that were already damaged when the battle begun (damaged mountains to be precise).

I've found both situations to be possible. Sometimes it's buried in an undamaged mountain, and you really have to dig and search. Other times, it does indeed spawn in plain sight in a pre-damaged mountain.

That's how I found my third and final alien in fact.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1318866402

However just waiting for the mountain to eventually show up is not very pro-active, especially when you can manually dig for a chance to uncover the pod. Ultimately though, if you don't know what you are looking for exactly, it doesn't matter if it does appear on the map start because you won't realize it's something special. Exactly what the glow looks like is key to identifying when you've actually found something.

[nvmvoidrays]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

I found one in frozen water, i noticed a light yellow glow, broke the ice and walked into the water.

you can get one in the frozen water too? huh. i'm using mirror, cannon and siege since they seem to have the most destruction capabilities. so far, i haven't found any glows, yet, but i'm still optimistic.

EDIT: just as i post this, i find one, ayy. can you only get one special pod per island?