Bonus 9 Gateway

[cclloyd9785]

What exactly is the point of the gateway in the bottom left of Bonus Level 9?  I never saw anything come out of it.  (The one with a billion creeper above it)

[Flameo326]

its probably there just to get your attention for the creeper above it

[lich98]

some people probly didn't notice the creeper the first tim oopsß

[J]

My thoughts about this: If you have completed the level (whiteout removing that block) you'll freak out and post a bunch of forum posts because you think you've completed the level but you didn't. Does anyone have a better reason?

[crazyone76]

how about...... the must to destroy all the creeper in the ground

[Ebon Heart]

I agree that it's just there to force people to dig into that 1 block of terrain. A lot of people might not do that otherwise. And if Virgil really wanted people raging on the forums... he would have replaced the gateway with a capsule. :D

[eudrick]

Or he had a Frain Bart and just plain forgot to add the phantoms and drones.

[cclloyd9785]

I was scared at first and put a ton of units and shields around it cause I was scared a 1000 health drone would come out or something.

[iycgtptyarvg]

LOL!

I thought the creeper was coming out of the gateway!!! It's only coming out of the block?!?
So it's a fixed amount instead of an emitting amount?

This makes the level a lot easier!

[Dubickimus]

I put a hundred shields and a million moarters around that thing
but i still had to fall back to the chamber above it and then to the chamber with my ship.
it was aweful.

[Jay the Juggernaut]

I had repuslars, 2 layers of shields, and the rest of the room was mortars. same with next 2 rooms. Regardless, I still lost the first room

[scoin]

i normally save that room for last after i get all the weapon and energy upgrades then i put 2-3 layers of shields a row of lasers and the rest mortars and all the other rooms reactors then its done in like 2 minutes

[Lioncourt]

I put 2 layers of shields around the dirt block, I fill the front area with lasers (Line Of Sight), the back rest of the room (out of Line Of Sight) with missiles and 1 portal, I leave 1 space by the shields to build a gate buster (forget the name), the 2 rooms (top and right) of this room I block with 2 shields each, then 2 front layers I build lasers, then fill the rest with missiles.  I have extra lasers and missiles in other rooms with portals.  I bust dirt, kill gate while my room is attacking, when I am just about out of ammo in room (and 2nd line of shields are almost toast), I move all my guns out because the creep will definitely take that room over, then while my other guns and missiles are beating the creeper, I swap them out when they run out of ammo and just keep doing that till the creeper weakens, then I move in to sweep up.

[Measure]

Just for fun, I tried to see if I could use the cyrstal-assist method to keep my energy up and clear the last chamber without losing the chamber:

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[close]

I got very close to running out of crystal energy, but it worked:

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[close]

[crazyone76]

the only thing I did was block the surounding chambers with shields and spam some launchers behind the shields so the creeper spreads in the room and becomes less dense