If I had to guess, they use a second type of science goop to fix the problems created by the first type of science goop. That also creates problems, but luckily there's a third type of science goop for those...
Boom tubes are also uniquely superior to power ring transit in that the default version can take you directly to anywhere in the setting - including pocket dimensions, the Dream, the Phantom Zone, the Source Wall, and various afterlives. Probably the Hondens as well. As far as I can tell, the only places they can't go without help are the past, the future, and differently-numbered alternate realities (though I wouldn't be surprised if they can at least connect the positive and negative sides of the same universe)
I'm pretty sure the Renegade has used Boom Tubes to go to Earth 50, and they can indeed be blocked, though usually by the metaphysique of another New God, and only in some circumstances.
I think there's only supposed to be one of those?
That's rough, buddy.
Thank you, corrected.
Still, get a clean hit on just about any unshielded bot and they're out of the fight. Unfortunately, I suspect most of the dangerous bots do have shielding strong enough to make it difficult, not that they'll let him have the moment needed to try.
And the miniguns the bots seem to be using as standard wouldn't have much trouble with the tanker's armour, either. So not useful as mobile cover.
Not that she'd be leaving with him either way, given her mainframe's size.
Better to have a voice on the inside, so to speak.
Ah, the lovely sound of hundreds of bullets in rapid succession.
Heh. Not easy to make them all that stable on two legs, so...
...They can be knocked over easily enough. Even with big stompy boots.
Combat looting at its' finest. Gun too slow to reload? Just grab another one off the ground!
Heh. And now some jury-rigging, eh? All those little-used talents getting a workout.
...Right, silly question.
Heh, she's not that dumb, eh? Pity she has to turn all those smarts to such a frivolous goal.
...and I just said she isn't that dumb...
Marginally better! At least for the initial turns.
Because of course it repaired its static defences the first chance it got.
Although, with good reflexes and a little applied telekinesis, you could probably bull-rush one into scrap...
No doubt securing weapons and fighting their way out as we speak, hopefully.
And there's the useful aspect of having a voice on the inside.
In other words, expect heavy resistance. A minigun might not cut it against the big lads.
Hopefully they don't have that many miniguns to go around, so you'll face some only wielding assault rifles...
Only...Damn, place is a deathtrap.
Might want to yoink that gun if you get the chance, it'll probably be more useful against some bots.
Grace under fire, at least. Telekinesis is such a useful power...
Also making it harder for the Calculator to track you, to some degree. Place is probably wired out the wazoo with cameras, but if it sees bot after bot going dark whenever they meet you... Might make it sweat, figuratively speaking.
Glad she's so confident in Krono's skills.
Okay, now what.
...Umm, bad news on that front.
Yeah, that about sums your position up, buddy.
Perhaps 'headset' there?
The Scurry Robot flies though the air and smashes it to wreckage!
"at me"
Thank you, corrected.
Typo spotted.
Thank you, corrected.
You hope, anyway. No telling what the Calculator can keep Doki from knowing, if he's plugged into her systems like that. Hell, we know he can use her voice. What's to stop him tricking Krono into a trap... And he's going to do exactly that, isn't he?
Honestly, he's quite reasonably annoyed, you know. I doubt he asked to have his brain gently removed from his head and shoved into a tube like this...
...Putting him in total sensory isolation for god knows how long until he can be retrieved...
Perhaps even clone a human body at some point, or acquire some near-human androids from that one place in the northeast? From Fallout 4?
Either way, he needs to stop being linked to Calculator, and giving him the choice is nice of Krono.
Hope you're right, or he might be in for a low death from oxygen starvation...
And there's always the possibility of making mental contact to help him not go nuts.
On the other hand, it's telling him exactly where you (or one of your allies) last were. Assuming he has security overwatch.
Ah, the old 'subrooms radiating out form a central one' design logic.
Onward,s then!
...Right into a trap. Great.
Ow, right in the face. He can regrow his eyes, right?
Even worse if you can feel bone through the meaty bits, though. At least it isn't that badly burnt.
Lucky. I suspect even he'd have trouble breathing through an ersatz tracheotomy.
And Krono can't even work out a code-phrase with Doki, because Calculator knows everything she does.
Right, it's not going to stop moving because you're taking a moment to think. No tactical pause here!
Gonna have to do this Daredevil-style until he can fix up his eyeballs.
Ah, Fallout medical technology. Rapid healing in a syringe.
...Possibly not even then, I would suspect.
AoE beats DPS, in this case.
Well, at least he'll be able to see soon enough. Hey, Han Solo got pretty far with 'it's all a blur', right?
Thankfully, it'll get better. Tough luck for any tattoos he might have had, though.
...Doki, Keep in mind he got his eyes melted out. Vocal directions, please.
Oh, yes. that's a killing ground. For which side remains to be seen.
First rule of room-to-room: Never fill the doorway with your very-not-bulletproof ass.
Sounds like it's time for a handy distracting rock toss...
...Or mobile cover. Sadly, the walls aren't exactly the kind you can shoot through, so no wall-banging here, 'Rainbow Six: Siege'-style
Smart enough not to waste bullets, I see, even if they have a couple of thousand rounds in the box.
Vision's coming back nicely, at least. And one upside of regrowing your eyes, any optical issues might have corrected themselves.
Thankfully, the turrets aren't that smart, unless Calculator is micromanaging them.
This could take a while. Be sure to keep count of your ammo...
love it when it's simple like that
The original success rate was zero percent. So it went up by 0.000297% to a new rate of... 0.000297%.