After Brick and his boys blew up the bridge for us, we now had to get to the Hyperion Info Stockade to find out where the Vault was.
As ever, the expected simple route didn’t work out, so we had to overload the pumping stations to blow a hole in the pipeline to give us access to the Stockade. Cue lots of enjoyable fighting against Hyperion soldiers and robots.
Once into the Stockade, Jack threw more high-level robots at us to fight our way past, including a couple of very challenging battles against the very well armed Saturn robot, and then a Constructor. Downloading the data also led to some more enjoyable battling of robots and the like.
Nothing particularly outstanding in this session, but some pretty decent sections of combat that definitely made this a fun session. Next time we’ll be taking on the Warrior in the final mission of the story. Watch this space!
You will notice at the beginning of this episode I have switched from using the golden gun as a primary to a slag SMG. It has taken me countless hours of gameplay in full knowledge of the world dynamics to realise a slag gun coupled with my corrosive cloud is a deadly combination in B2.
The slag SMG is a great option because it gets a lot of rounds into the enemy in a short time, almost always into a slagged state as the corrosive kicks in. If the enemy is high powered enough to survive the initial onslaught I’ll then pull out the golden pistol to pile on the corrosive damage.
Corrosive works really well against robots but isn’t so effective against flesh, but that’ll take me another few hours to figure. All the way to episode 9 in fact and Finks Slaughterhouse. I believe the penny only dropped because AD mentioned it.
This mission against the Hyperion data centre is pretty good fun, with a combination of challenging robot opponents and some interesting building assaults all the way to the underwhelming data centre. It would have been nice if the kind of assault required to shut down the pumping stations had been deployed inside the data centre which is roughly the size of a three-story house and mostly comprised of a single staircase.
We now have the location of the vault and the mission ends with all our friends in Sanctuary wishing us well in the final assault. Tune in next week for that mission and the finale to the main story campaign.