Re: I Suck at BK3 and I Need Help
Okay, here's my advice for 11.3 - and yes, before any of you defends it, it's definitely fairly tricky.
1. Use the needle launcher for best effect, IMHO.
2. Whatever you do, do not shoot Carla.
3. Use the d key liberally. Find out where stuff is on the map.
4. Because this is an area where you only have to kill all the enemies around (rather than kill a set number, I mean), it's possible to sprint way, way ahead of Carla and clean off the whole right half of the stage, or most of it. Try and be quick about this, however, as Carla can and will die eventually if left on her own.
5. Use remote medical kits when near Carla to heal her. You can do that, after all. Hopefully you have a few. Remember to be facing her and within a few spaces when you deploy one.
6. Random bombs will fall in the stage, it's true. Left on her own, Carla often dodges these, but not always. They are random, and the way to get out of range is to run a few squares away from the high whistling you heard.
7. Bomb platforms are a different story. There are three or four of them in the level (I misremember their coordinates right now), and if you run under them, you'll take a pounding. Instead, do as has been previously suggested, and grapple up onto the very leftmost edge of them. Check your coordinates, and check Carla's coordinates. Make sure she's behind you (example, if you're at 65-10, she should be at 64 or, more helpfully, about 10-20 spaces back to your left). Then book it across the platform. Carla will not be caught in the rain of bombs. When you fall off the far end of the platform, Carla will walk merrily under the bomb platform without triggering it. Do not, absolutely do not, double back beneath the platform to get close to her, even if there are monsters coming up behind her. why? Because you'll set off more bombs, and she'll die. Wait for her to clear the platform and then heal her if necessary.
8. Proceed slowly and methodically. Don't just sprint, and don't just pray and spray. If you're patient and a wee bit lucky, this will work. It is frustrating though. I hear you on that.
Now, I do want to address - and rather firmly - this business about the developer. When I started yowling about the bio control system - a boss you haven't come anywhere close to yet - the dev took the dropboxed link of my save file and provided proof that yes, I could in fact beat that boss if I was careful. He took time to demonstrate that it was possible, and at different points and during different comments I have gotten the impression that he does in fact test his products. Is he perfect? No. None of us are perfect. There are tweaks that I think could make this a better game. But this game is meant to be a challenge. Rather than trying to say that a dev got too carried away, perhaps this sort of high-action side-scrolling madness is just not your style. There is absolutely zero shame in that. I dismissed Adventure at C for precisely the same reason, and The Gate for similar reasons. What I never did, to my recollection anyway, was to make insinuations about Aaron getting carried away regarding these games, so I don't think anyone is due that sort of criticism here. If it's too much for you, as I was afraid it was for me, that's cool. I get it. I still think there are elements of this game that don't really appeal to me, honestly. But to talk about how the dev maybe got carried away, or wondering whether he tests his own stuff because you're finding it slow going...well the game has been out for awhile now, and if something really was borderline unplayable, I think people'd be saying so by now, and either it would've been fixed or else the game wouldn't have seen any further efforts to keep it relevant. It would've been tossed on the scrap-heap. In other words, dozens if not hundreds of satisfied players can't all be wrong when they beat this stage, albeit narrowly and with much swearing in some cases, so I think it's time for a little redirection. There is a reason the "god damn it Carla" drinking game is a thing.
I do have one further question:
Is there any way at all for me to get medals for modes I've completed? i.e., I'm virtually out of clear medals, but I want more so I can make a hyper buster blade, but there is no point in completing the game on normal just for that. I outlevel everything in a normal playthrough.
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