Less LavaLeeches, please.

5m4llP0X

My god..The Leaches are worse than the damn Lizards! I thought I'd be crafty and make me 6 Ion cells and carry a few regulars as a backup and it should make me to the Primary Containment Facility and back out. I made a few pitstops to clear them off, deal with the lizards and dodge warpers, but it seemed like every 10 minutes of travel netted me 10+ little suckers. Anyone else deal with numbers in that excess in such a short time?

Fathom

Why? If there were fewer of them, they wouldn't be so annoying. If they weren't so annoying, what would be their purpose?

5m4llP0X

They drain the SHIT out of Ion cells. A few of 'em (3-4) will give you noticeable power drain on Ion cells at medium speed. 8-15 will cause the power to drop faster than a wedding dress after the reception and it doesn't take very long to acquire 8-15. Which means there is a LOT of moving a few cyclops lengths, getting out and dealing with the bastards, fighting warpers and lizards, getting back in, moving a few more lengths and repeating process. It's really tedious.
I dunno, maybe my game was bugged and I just had an over-abundance of them spawning in the lava zone.

Silentman

I thought that some fish eat them if you get the cyclops near them but I might be mistaken.
I'm not at that part of the game yet.

Edit: Apparently Lava lizards eat them when they are on your viechle says the wiki.

leenpowell

I made it to the primary containment on 12 regular cells with power to spare. They're annoying but blasting the shield knocks them off, costing tons of energy for sure but better than a constant drain.

TheLordEternal

Maybe they would be more tolerable if they detached on their own after draining only a few units of energy?

5m4llP0X

Silentman wrote: »

I thought that some fish eat them if you get the cyclops near them but I might be mistaken.
I'm not at that part of the game yet.

Edit: Apparently Lava lizards eat them when they are on your viechle says the wiki.

I didn't notice that or at least it didn't seem they were helping. It just felt like my Cyclops had a giant neon sign that read "All you can heat, compliments of Gordon Ramsey" on top of it.

leenpowell wrote: »

I made it to the primary containment on 12 regular cells with power to spare. They're annoying but blasting the shield knocks them off, costing tons of energy for sure but better than a constant drain.

Oh! I didn't know that could happen. I just thought the shield upgrade gave you more shields. Damn.

TheLordEternal wrote: »

Maybe they would be more tolerable if they detached on their own after draining only a few units of energy?

Maybe have them die or just not be able to latch for a minute afterward?
Either way this would make life MUCH easier to deal with.

Timelord_Fred

I always remove most of the power cells when not traveling I'm the LR. This lowers the drain rate. Not my idea

elfcrisis

The last couple of times I've been there, I've ended up leaving my Cyclops just at the border of the ALZ, right where the last blue waterfall pool is*. If you park it far enough back, the leeches won't go all the way to it. At that point I jump in my Prawn and hoof it the rest of the way. If I get leeches I get out and stab them until they go away. That method has worked pretty well for me.

*I also build a small base there with a Moonpool so that I can mine Kyanite and build the thermal power plant and jump jet upgrades for the Prawn right there. Remembering to bring all the necessary materials, and extra titanium, is the biggest challenge with that, but it's better than having to go all the way back to my main base.

adel_50

You can use the thermal reactor upgrade for the cyclops to counter their constant energy draining I just put energy efficiency and the thermal reactor and I'm good to go

Diodon

I've been swimming out and using the stasis rifle on them so I can get enough knife shots in to kill them before they flee (not sure if they respawn, but maybe they can be thinned out). That plus the thermal reactor to assure I always have a way to recover charge. I just take it as part of the challenge (and yea, annoyance) of traveling somewhere so hostile.

NorthernBruce

In addition to the thermal reactor upgrade. Bring along two or three gravspheres. Set them up nose and tail outside of the Cyclops. They'll pull those wretched larva off of the Cyclops and save your power cells. This works really well!

5m4llP0X

NorthernBruce wrote: »

In addition to the thermal reactor upgrade. Bring along two or three gravspheres. Set them up nose and tail outside of the Cyclops. They'll pull those wretched larva off of the Cyclops and save your power cells. This works really well!

Wait they work on those little bastards?!

NorthernBruce

Its very effective!

Jarin

If only you could attach the gravsphere to a pole on the Cyclops, so you can just have it running while you drive.

5m4llP0X

I'll make 6, or 60... As long as every area of the damn thing is protected against those bastards.

Jarin

It sounds like the new shield implementation should help a lot with these. Especially if you have the thermal generator. Just toggle it on/off occasionally to kick things off the hull when too many build up, and let the generator deal with the drain otherwise.