Build research station near acidic yeast colony root

[archaonreich]

hello. i am at this mission. there is a big arrow pointing to where i must place the research station. and i have cleared it out. build a research station.. but nothing happens

been cleaning the map from those acid bulbs but the game wont continue.. am i missing something?
also there is nothing at the point. it is just empty ground....

[Devin]

There's nothing at the point? That's bad.... There's supposed to be a "root colony" a large growth surrounded by the bulbs. Did you destroy it? You can try searching the map to find another, if you have the radar pulse skill it'll help. They're marked as red skulls on the map, typically... You need it to stay intact and build the research station so the root colony falls within the research station's range indicator.

[archaonreich]

ok then i think it is dead..... now what?:-p

[Devin]

Hope there's another on the map, or leave and come back - when you leave, a map gets reset. Please save before trying that suggestion because I have never done it myself and have no idea if it will cause any weirdness!

[Django Fandango]

It seems you destroyed the thing you have to get inside the radius of the research station.
There are more, but beware for your towers will target them (I learned the hard way).
There are more on the map, but funnily they don't get marked until your station did the work, so you should work your way into the colony and put down a radar every now and then, they are on the map as skulls.

[Ghost of Razgriz]

You could destroy it? After I finished researching it, all my towers focused fire on the thing and it would not die.

[Devin]

Depends on the weaponry you're using. I know some of the larger, seemingly invincible constructs can be wiped out by nuclear weaponry. I destroyed one of the super large cryo flowers with a full charged nuke blast, so I assumed it might also destroy the root colony.

[archaonreich]

i found another one.. and i dont use the heavy weapons.. i use the advanced minigun and rocket launcher

[Devin]

Glad you found another. Not sure if rocket launcher can destroy them too.

[archaonreich]

WOW i was very carefully with this one and after the research the whole game went buggy.. the first one at my base respawned. and got blown up immediately.. and respawned again.. and blew up again ( towers near there :-p ) so it crashes.. gives me some germils.. and then continues to respawn die and crash :-p

[Xan84]

My towers destroyed it just as well and I had those long range towers and the regular ones.

I just found another one and this time I just placed those floor things that can take acid and just made the radar and defended it myself, really carefully not to destroy that damn root.