After Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s newest patch made just about every little thing about the PvE Operations mode tougher, one heroic participant has accomplished the Emperor proud by developing with the sport’s final cheese.
Space Marine 2 Replace 4.0 added a new PvE map and with it the terrifying Tyranid Hierophant Bio-Titan, which ordinarily should be tackled by a squad of three gamers working collectively to down this monumental xenos monstrosity.
After leaving the last elevator room and coming into the map’s boss struggle space, gamers are supposed to activate a central terminal to hyperlink their sidearm with extremely highly effective fortress lascannons — highly effective sufficient to down even a Bio-Titan.
You then use your sidearm as a concentrating on system for the cannons, aiming at the Bio-Titan as the weapons get to work. After one barrage the cannons are out of juice, so you must recharge them by spinning close by vitality stations, which in flip spawns the Tyranid horde. In the meantime, the Bio-Titan will bombard your place with high-damage artillery fireplace.
As soon as the cannons are recharged, you could activate the central terminal to hyperlink your sidearm as soon as once more, intention, and let the cannons fireplace. It is advisable repeat this course of a variety of instances to convey the Bio-Titan down. It’s a demanding boss struggle with a lot going on; the Tyranids can simply overwhelm your squad, even on the simpler difficulties, and the Bio-Titan itself can successfully one-shot you should you hold about the similar space for too lengthy. Crank the mission as much as Lethal — the new, hardest issue added with Replace 4.0 — and also you’re in for a world of harm.
Or are you? One Space Marine 2 participant has labored out a strategy to solo the Bio-Titan even on Lethal issue, exposing a flaw in the design of the mission that the builders at Saber Interactive might wish to patch out in some unspecified time in the future (as soon as they’re accomplished addressing the backlash to Replace 4.0, maybe).
It began with redditor RedditOakley’s discovery that it’s potential to deal injury to the Bio-Titan when it walks previous the Space Marines simply after they step out of the last elevator room however, crucially, earlier than activating the terminal (this imposing second was used to disclose the Bio-Titan in promotional movies). This (tiny) injury is mirrored when the Bio-Titan’s well being bar shows, and you then do all that fortress cannon stuff we talked about earlier than.
RedditOakley theorized that it might thus be potential to proceed to break and ultimately kill the Bio-Titan utilizing Space Marine weapons and with out having to undergo the cannon activation course of, and that principle turned out to be true. The one query was, from the place would you safely shoot the Bio-Titan down? In any case, in Space Marine 2 ammo is scarce; infinite ammo assets are ammo crates and loadout pods solely; and the swarm can rapidly develop into an excessive amount of to deal with.
The reply is the elevator room itself, which, should you by no means activate the terminal, is a secure haven of types (though you gained’t see the Bio-Titan’s well being bar). “I fired up a solo Minimal [the easiest difficulty] run and progressed to the place the door opens and also you meet the titan,” RedditOakley defined. “Now we have the ammo crate subsequent to the elevator and a loadout pod obtainable, the door to these by no means closes as the room is used to spawn enemy waves.
“The titan itself will stroll round the battlefield, and sometimes keep near the place you are standing. That is the vary the place it’s potential to shoot and injury it along with your weapons. The titan will even lob acid globes at you right here after a whereas.
“So that is what I did. I simply stored capturing, and capturing and capturing, clearing the waves and [tougher] extremis that got here alongside the method. I did not have any method of seeing my progress as the well being bar is not seen on this space, so all I may do was hold capturing and praying.
“Then ultimately a pink hit marker confirmed up and the finish cutscene appeared.”
Of their put up, RedditOakley issued the Space Marine 2 neighborhood a problem: kill the Bio-Titan utilizing Space Marine weapons solely on the hardest issue, Lethal. In fact, somebody answered the name: (*2*), who used the Sniper class and the Las Fusil to slowly — and I imply slowly — solo the Bio-Titan on Lethal.
As you may inform from the footage of the run, xD3viLzx popped out and in of the elevator room to snipe at the Bio-Titan, returning to seize ammo from the loadout pod when wanted. Whittling down the Bio-Titan’s well being on this method took 45 minutes, rinsing and repeating whereas sometimes avoiding a barrage from the Tyranid itself and coping with waves of enemies. It’s a monotonous cheese, for certain, however an efficient one. Upon the last blow the mission ended correctly, the victory recorded as it might if the Bio-Titan have been killed as Saber supposed, and the acceptable rewards dished out.
It needs to be famous that this cheese is not a win button. xD3viLzx nonetheless needed to make it to the mission’s last space in a single piece on Lethal solo, which for me is a extra spectacular feat than the Bio-Titan cheese itself. xD3viLzx’s excellent parry was on level, however there have been a few bushy moments in the run when the AI-controlled teammates saved the day with a revive. Nonetheless, the cheese makes the hardest a part of the mission comparatively trivial. You simply want time and the endurance of a saint; the whole run took one hour and 14 minutes.
So, will Saber lower this cheese out the sport? It’s promised a patch this week to deal with steadiness considerations sparked by Replace 4.0’s heavy nerfs. Maybe the poor outdated Bio-Titan will get a buff of its personal.
IGN has lots extra on Space Marine 2, together with a deep-dive on the sport’s burgeoning modding scene and accompanying problems. Final month, Saber Chief Inventive Officer Tim Willits informed IGN how the breakout success of Space Marine 2 had “modified every little thing” for the firm. And eagle-eyed followers have noticed the Space Marine chapter now all-but confirmed to get a beauty pack after the Darkish Angels, and even an unannounced new Thousand Sons enemy kind.
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