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Tweak to explanation of saucer mode in Classic difficulty
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Bear in mind that the selected difficulty affects your decision making.

The cyberisc has two modes, obviously:

  1. Saucer: increased movement. I believe I've been told on Classic and above it has significantly increased armor in this mode. They claimed that at one point before the game came out, but I can't verify this personally. On normal, I appear to be doing either full, or nearly full damage to discs in Saucer modethey get crit immunity here.

  2. Combat: it puts out lots of damage, but is very vulnerable.

Because of the high amount of HP a disc has, you need to focus fire. But you also need to be wary of it's helper drones, which can heal it. These are extremely easy to destroy, so don't waste high damage attacks on them but do take them out first unless you are extremely confident you can "alpha strike" the cyber disc. There is nothing more painful than reducing one to low hp only to have it withdraw and get healed a bunch. Behavior I have witnessed on normal.

I don't know if it is particularly vulnerable to a type of damage (I don't think my autopsy said, I'll double check when I get home). Also, do not bunch up. It can hurl plasma grenades and tends to do so when you give it a nice cluster of 3+ targets.

Bear in mind that the selected difficulty affects your decision making.

The cyberisc has two modes, obviously:

  1. Saucer: increased movement. I believe on Classic and above it has significantly increased armor in this mode. They claimed that at one point before the game came out, but I can't verify this personally. On normal, I appear to be doing either full, or nearly full damage to discs in Saucer mode.

  2. Combat: it puts out lots of damage, but is very vulnerable.

Because of the high amount of HP a disc has, you need to focus fire. But you also need to be wary of it's helper drones, which can heal it. These are extremely easy to destroy, so don't waste high damage attacks on them but do take them out first unless you are extremely confident you can "alpha strike" the cyber disc. There is nothing more painful than reducing one to low hp only to have it withdraw and get healed a bunch. Behavior I have witnessed on normal.

I don't know if it is particularly vulnerable to a type of damage (I don't think my autopsy said, I'll double check when I get home). Also, do not bunch up. It can hurl plasma grenades and tends to do so when you give it a nice cluster of 3+ targets.

Bear in mind that the selected difficulty affects your decision making.

The cyberisc has two modes, obviously:

  1. Saucer: increased movement. I've been told on Classic they get crit immunity here.

  2. Combat: it puts out lots of damage, but is very vulnerable.

Because of the high amount of HP a disc has, you need to focus fire. But you also need to be wary of it's helper drones, which can heal it. These are extremely easy to destroy, so don't waste high damage attacks on them but do take them out first unless you are extremely confident you can "alpha strike" the cyber disc. There is nothing more painful than reducing one to low hp only to have it withdraw and get healed a bunch. Behavior I have witnessed on normal.

I don't know if it is particularly vulnerable to a type of damage (I don't think my autopsy said, I'll double check when I get home). Also, do not bunch up. It can hurl plasma grenades and tends to do so when you give it a nice cluster of 3+ targets.

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peacedog
peacedog
  • 12.2k
  • 1
  • 66
  • 63

Bear in mind that the selected difficulty affects your decision making.

The cyberisc has two modes, obviously:

  1. Saucer: increased movement. I believe on Classic and above it has significantly increased armor in this mode. They claimed that at one point before the game came out, but I can't verify this personally. On normal, I appear to be doing either full, or nearly full damage to discs in Saucer mode.

  2. Combat: it puts out lots of damage, but is very vulnerable.

Because of the high amount of HP a disc has, you need to focus fire. But you also need to be wary of it's helper drones, which can heal it. These are extremely easy to destroy, so don't waste high damage attacks on them but do take them out first unless you are extremely confident you can "alpha strike" the cyber disc. There is nothing more painful than reducing one to low hp only to have it withdraw and get healed a bunch. Behavior I have witnessed on normal.

I don't know if it is particularly vulnerable to a type of damage (I don't think my autopsy said, I'll double check when I get home). Also, do not bunch up. It can hurl plasma grenades and tends to do so when you give it a nice cluster of 3+ targets.