Goonhub
05-08-2025, 05:21 PM
I'm gonna say this, but know I'm not being a huge turd. It's a skill issue. There's strategies and things to learn about fighting the trench creatures. I have some tips to hopefully help your mining misadventures:
You can tank a gunshark face on while simply wearing the full dive suit. Whack it until it dies and you'll have most of your health remaining. Alternatively the weak mining phaser can enable you to beat the gunshark (and most other critters sans the big evil syndicate drones) with no physical damage. Just don't forget a welder to repair. Alternatively find some cover (or make it by mining!) and duck behind the cover when the shark shoots, then duck out and take a few whacks at it before retreating again.
Use Z to resist out of grabs of the pikaia. Punch/whack them to death. Moving away before it gets an aggressive grab on you will also break the grab.
Try to avoid upsetting big groups of buried trilobytes, they're nasty in large groups. Keep your headlight on so you can see the little cracks in the ground that means there's a creature buried there better.
The pikaia and hallucigenia drop goo that heals you pretty well when you eat it. Yes, really.
Ramming into a hallucigenia with your submarine will kill it instantly.
Overall just use a submarine as a critter fighting machine.
Use the special attack of your mining tools if you're having trouble clicking the critters.
Loot the trench loot crates. Phasers, lasers, and zip guns make killing trench critters super easy.
RUN THE FUCK AWAY from the big syndicate drones. Those WILL fuck you up.
Fish drones are another one that can fuck you up.
DON'T RUN THE FUCK AWAY from most other trench critters unless massively outnumbered. 2 or 3 trilobytes? Stand and fight, that gives you better fighting odds. Running away just gives them free shots at you. But if there's a huge group, probably best to run. Try to confuse their pathing if you have to run. Don't run in a straight line, run around corners repeatedly until they stop chasing you.
You can tank a gunshark face on while simply wearing the full dive suit. Whack it until it dies and you'll have most of your health remaining. Alternatively the weak mining phaser can enable you to beat the gunshark (and most other critters sans the big evil syndicate drones) with no physical damage. Just don't forget a welder to repair. Alternatively find some cover (or make it by mining!) and duck behind the cover when the shark shoots, then duck out and take a few whacks at it before retreating again.
Use Z to resist out of grabs of the pikaia. Punch/whack them to death. Moving away before it gets an aggressive grab on you will also break the grab.
Try to avoid upsetting big groups of buried trilobytes, they're nasty in large groups. Keep your headlight on so you can see the little cracks in the ground that means there's a creature buried there better.
The pikaia and hallucigenia drop goo that heals you pretty well when you eat it. Yes, really.
Ramming into a hallucigenia with your submarine will kill it instantly.
Overall just use a submarine as a critter fighting machine.
Use the special attack of your mining tools if you're having trouble clicking the critters.
Loot the trench loot crates. Phasers, lasers, and zip guns make killing trench critters super easy.
RUN THE FUCK AWAY from the big syndicate drones. Those WILL fuck you up.
Fish drones are another one that can fuck you up.
DON'T RUN THE FUCK AWAY from most other trench critters unless massively outnumbered. 2 or 3 trilobytes? Stand and fight, that gives you better fighting odds. Running away just gives them free shots at you. But if there's a huge group, probably best to run. Try to confuse their pathing if you have to run. Don't run in a straight line, run around corners repeatedly until they stop chasing you.