Having trouble killing one. My first time down in a lab. I’m probably currently not equipped to deal with a Shoggoth but I was wondering if there’s any exotic or special ways to deal with them. Here’s what I’ve tried so far.
Lured it on a burning tile. Either it’s immune to fire or it heals faster than the fire damages it.
Emptied my tazer into it. At least it got stunned for quite a while (over the burning tile, might I add). Couldn’t kill it though and/or didn’t want to waste my AK bullets either, not after shooting a burst into it for nearly no effect.
Thought it might need oxygen, so I trapped it into a closed room and started a fire there. Smoke and/or carbon monoxide is irrelevant to Shoggoth, just like my attempts to destroy it.
Would it die if I lured it on a dissector? Or would it just eat the dissector?
What if I tazed it and placed a lump of C4 on it and ran? It doesn’t consume items if it’s stunned… right?
Does Shoggoth retain the properties of the materials it absorbs? What if I have it absorb a gasoline puddle and THEN tried to burn it?
I feel like I should lure it somewhere but where?
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…But now I feel like a monster for trying to kill it, when it hasn’t even really done anything to me. I think it even tries to talk to me as it mimics or echoes past convos, which is amazing, even if it drove me crazy when I thought there’s someone alive in the lab. What if it’s just lonely? Also, I accidentally stepped onto the same burning tile that was meant for the Shog and it’s totally its fault that I got my feet burned. Totally. Should… should I just let it live? Is it supposed to be a pet after all? Follows you everywhere: check. Eats or tries to eat everything: check. Tries to communicate or cuddle up with you: check. What if it thought I was trying to feed it when I shot a burst into it from my AK? What the hell am I going to do with it… Lock it up again in the darkness of the empty lab and leave it there forever? No. Not with this empathy.
No… I have to set it free. It’s the only way, isn’t it? It’ll be free AND cleanse the world of its wretchedness. Handy. How do I get it to the surface?
Lure it to the surface and hop in your trusty co-dependent automobile, then zoom away.
When you have done this, find a nuclear launch silo (this may take several weeks of exploration; they are extremely rare). Hack the computer (robots will try to kill you if you fail, so, um… succeed!) and turn the lab and everything around it into a 5x5 radioactive crater
Alternate methods include…
-ramming it with a heavily armored, spike-fronted vehicle at 100+ miles an hour. Remember, your loyal car likes slaying, just like you!
-becoming an unstoppable god of death (10+ dodging and melee) and hacking it to pieces with a high-damage melee weapon and dangerous narcotics. Chainsaws and cocaine mix GREAT, varoom varoom!
-stockpiling a few dozen rocket launchers and using all of them on it in quick succession. Cocaine will help with this, too!
-luring it into a corridor lined with high explosives and gasoline and setting it off with a rocket launcher… it’s LIKE nuking the site from orbit, but you get to watch up close. But not up TOO close :3
But none of those are as fun as nuking the site from orbit
Nuking it is a waste of a missile. I prefer to shoot the missile with 20x66 explosive rounds from my short shotgun and collect the ~150 plutonium cells.
[quote=“Rhodri, post:5, topic:8677”]Nuking it is a waste of a missile. I prefer to shoot the missile with 20x66 explosive rounds from my short shotgun and collect the ~150 plutonium cells.
Am I the only one who does this?[/quote]
I’ll do that if I manage to find a second missile. The first I’m going to launch somewhere and damned be the consequences.
Yes, because you don’t get to take their precious loot out of their dead cold… paws.
[quote=“Rhodri, post:5, topic:8677”]Nuking it is a waste of a missile. I prefer to shoot the missile with 20x66 explosive rounds from my short shotgun and collect the ~150 plutonium cells.
when I see shoggoths I typically unequip my current weapon and start training unarmed, then after a few hours of hitting it I just put back on my weapon and hit it until its dead
…Yeah well there’s that… But isn’t it cute when it looks at you with sociopathic hatred?
[quote=“Aluminumfoil, post:4, topic:8677”]Lure it to the surface and hop in your trusty co-dependent automobile, then zoom away.
When you have done this, find a nuclear launch silo (this may take several weeks of exploration; they are extremely rare). Hack the computer (robots will try to kill you if you fail, so, um… succeed!) and turn the lab and everything around it into a 5x5 radioactive crater
Alternate methods include…
-ramming it with a heavily armored, spike-fronted vehicle at 100+ miles an hour. Remember, your loyal car likes slaying, just like you!
-becoming an unstoppable god of death (10+ dodging and melee) and hacking it to pieces with a high-damage melee weapon and dangerous narcotics. Chainsaws and cocaine mix GREAT, varoom varoom!
-stockpiling a few dozen rocket launchers and using all of them on it in quick succession. Cocaine will help with this, too!
-luring it into a corridor lined with high explosives and gasoline and setting it off with a rocket launcher… it’s LIKE nuking the site from orbit, but you get to watch up close. But not up TOO close :3
But none of those are as fun as nuking the site from orbit ^_[1]
I’m still flabbergasted and in disbelief that there are nuke silos in this game. Unless it’s a lie. You wouldn’t lie to a stranger on the internet, would you? I see there’s a wiki article for missile silo, so that either makes its existence true or even a more elaborate lie. 8D
I’m still uncertain if creatures can be lured between z-levels aka floors. I wouldn’t know. Even so, if Shog doesn’t come to the car, the car will be brought to Shog… in pieces, constructed underground… Oh God… I have a .50 cal and some ammo stashed away I’ve been waiting to use… M-maybe I’ll even dismantle the bullets and make some incendiary rounds or something… Maybe I’ll bring just the .50 cal, and build a single frame just for it.
[quote=“Rhodri, post:5, topic:8677”]Nuking it is a waste of a missile. I prefer to shoot the missile with 20x66 explosive rounds from my short shotgun and collect the ~150 plutonium cells.
Am I the only one who does this?[/quote]
Wait wait WAIT.
THE THING DROPS PLUTONIUM IF SHOT? WHY HAS nobody told me that before???
And I actually thought that nuking rural New England was the reasonable choice.
[quote=“John Candlebury, post:11, topic:8677”][quote=“Rhodri, post:5, topic:8677”]Nuking it is a waste of a missile. I prefer to shoot the missile with 20x66 explosive rounds from my short shotgun and collect the ~150 plutonium cells.
Am I the only one who does this?[/quote]
Wait wait WAIT.
THE THING DROPS PLUTONIUM IF SHOT? WHY HAS nobody told me that before???
And I actually thought that nuking rural New England was the reasonable choice.[/quote]
Great, now I have to weigh my desire to cause insane amounts of Chaos with my desire for bionic power…
You’re questioning why you would get plutonium out of a nuke if you shot it.
Im questioning why the fuck would you shoot at a nuke in the first place?
That couldn’t have ever seemed like a good idea.
“Oh hey, a nuke. Better rip this thing open with some shotgun slugs and loot it’s delicious plutonium”
[quote=“SeigeLion, post:14, topic:8677”]You’re questioning why you would get plutonium out of a nuke if you shot it.
Im questioning why the fuck would you shoot at a nuke in the first place?
That couldn’t have ever seemed like a good idea.
“Oh hey, a nuke. Better rip this thing open with some shotgun slugs and loot it’s delicious plutonium”[/quote]
Well… nukes are pretty save, untill you arm them… You don’t really want them go of if someone bumps them accidentially, would you? But SHOOTING at them… well that’s a bit extreme, you COULD do it as long as you don’t hit the parts that initiate the explosion. And I can also imagine that using explosives is a VERY bad idea… Unless you want a nice green and glowing future!
[quote=“Aluminumfoil, post:4, topic:8677”]Lure it to the surface and hop in your trusty co-dependent automobile, then zoom away.
When you have done this, find a nuclear launch silo (this may take several weeks of exploration; they are extremely rare). Hack the computer (robots will try to kill you if you fail, so, um… succeed!) and turn the lab and everything around it into a 5x5 radioactive crater
Alternate methods include…
-ramming it with a heavily armored, spike-fronted vehicle at 100+ miles an hour. Remember, your loyal car likes slaying, just like you!
-becoming an unstoppable god of death (10+ dodging and melee) and hacking it to pieces with a high-damage melee weapon and dangerous narcotics. Chainsaws and cocaine mix GREAT, varoom varoom!
-stockpiling a few dozen rocket launchers and using all of them on it in quick succession. Cocaine will help with this, too!
-luring it into a corridor lined with high explosives and gasoline and setting it off with a rocket launcher… it’s LIKE nuking the site from orbit, but you get to watch up close. But not up TOO close :3
But none of those are as fun as nuking the site from orbit ^_^[/quote]
Also arrows seem to work fairly well. I don’t think there is anything in the game I’ve been unable to kill with a full quiver of arrows, though the dancer came really close.
[quote=“Darkfirephoenix, post:15, topic:8677”][quote=“SeigeLion, post:14, topic:8677”]You’re questioning why you would get plutonium out of a nuke if you shot it.
Im questioning why the fuck would you shoot at a nuke in the first place?
That couldn’t have ever seemed like a good idea.
“Oh hey, a nuke. Better rip this thing open with some shotgun slugs and loot it’s delicious plutonium”[/quote]
Well… nukes are pretty save, untill you arm them… You don’t really want them go of if someone bumps them accidentially, would you? But SHOOTING at them… well that’s a bit extreme, you COULD do it as long as you don’t hit the parts that initiate the explosion. And I can also imagine that using explosives is a VERY bad idea… Unless you want a nice green and glowing future! :D[/quote]
You’d be surprised, nukes are designed to not go off until a precisely timed electric charge sets off all the explosive plates at once. If you shoot enough of the plates you can damage it in a way that renders the nuke incapable of going critical and ruining A LOT of days. Of course, you’re probably still dead if it goes off at this point, but at least it’s only to a conventional explosion.
Ooh! I like zis one although IDK what a telefrag is… Never stepped on a teleport trap. Disarmed a few though. For some reason this reminds me of lava. Must get Shog on a lava tile. Maybe I’ll try stepping on a lava tile first, just to see how much it burns… If I get a Shog on a lava tile, maybe I’ll taze it there if it doesn’t burn to crisp immediately. Can I… Can I displace monsters? I think a brute once pounded me against the wall, hurling me back several squares. What sort of strength would one need to punch a Shog so hard that it is displaced onto the adjacent tile? (which would ideally be a lava tile) Lava doesn’t count as wall, does it? I mean, I could step in it if I insisted, just like smoke or dissector?
