Killing a Cyclops in under a minute

[Warflower]

The Thargoids better run because with the new Guardian Tech, most specifically the Large Shard Cannons ... I figured out how to kill Cyclops’ in under a minute if shots are timed properly:

Video: https://youtu.be/9h00rWydo5Y

Here is how to do it:
Scan, Exert first heart, Stay close and kill first heart. Remain close..wait for lightning attack...unload Shard Cannons and watch the hull melt... fire quickly because if you get a full salvo on it you can kill the Thargoid without using the exert each heart strategy we have all grown to love!

Thargoids Beware!

CMDR Warflower

 

[Oaktree]

Great find Cmdr! Have some rep!

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

cyclops is the lowest interceptor variant.
against the bigger ones that tactic will probably not work so well, as the weapons do less % damage, the damage heals fasters away, and there are bigger swarms just ripping your ship apart

but thats nothing you can't overcome by doing it in a wing (as we have seen basilisk insta-kills already)

 

[Warflower]

Agreed. The Basilisk regens way too fast. But in a wing it does work

 

[Oaktree]

Did you used premium ammo cmdr Warflower?

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

Did you used premium ammo cmdr Warflower?

due to the abysmal droprate of sentinel wreakage component parts, the "premium" synthesis is the cheaper one for shards

 

[Warflower]

Did you used premium ammo cmdr Warflower?

No sir. Just standard ammo.

 

[Warflower]

Just an addendum: If you Wing with just 1 other CMDR with a 4 Lg Shard Cannon loadout you can kill a Cyclops in literally seconds.

 

[BDelacroix]

Works fairly well. I use a cutter so I could only put on 3 large shard cannons. Still, got the thing half dead then just couldn't keep up. Went back to my gauss setup and got some payback.

 

[space voyager]

I only managed to kill a Cyclops before it was able to raise its last shield (three Gausses) but with more powerful weapons it can definitely be done sooner, especially since Gausses will cook you faster than a frying pan.

 

[Warflower]

Works fairly well. I use a cutter so I could only put on 3 large shard cannons. Still, got the thing half dead then just couldn't keep up. Went back to my gauss setup and got some payback.

Gauss setup works great too. But it can get a bit hot ... Many ways to skin these Goids. My demonstration just showed what can be done with 4 Large Shards and a little timing.

 

[Jaylem]

Gauss setup works great too. But it can get a bit hot ... Many ways to skin these Goids. My demonstration just showed what can be done with 4 Large Shards and a little timing.

Noted, I have soled Cyclops' before with just shards, but nothing like this! great job with this! I am sure FDev is working frantically to nerf it

 

[Warflower]

Noted, I have soled Cyclops' before with just shards, but nothing like this! great job with this! I am sure FDev is working frantically to nerf it

That was my one reservation about posting this -- the NERF hammer. But, I really was hoping to draw more CMDRs into a part of the game that some of them have not ventured. Perhaps it seemed too hard, but it can be rewarding to go through all the grind of engineering and guardian to eventually emerge to smoke some Thargoids

 

[Cmdr Ultra]

You are doing God's work Warflower [up]

 

[Karamon]

I don't believe they will nerf those guns as they are far less useful against Basilisk and Medusa . You just can't sit there at point blank and shoot them .

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

I don't believe they will nerf those guns as they are far less useful against Basilisk and Medusa . You just can't sit there at point blank and shoot them .

i would actually hope to get the AX missiles unnerfed at some point (eg. by allowing engineering of them)

 

[Karamon]

Frst i would love to see large and even huge versions of AX weapons that could compete with current Guardian weapon meta but it feels like devs abandoned all ax weapons right now and they become obsolete.

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

Frst i would love to see large and even huge versions of AX weapons that could compete with current Guardian weapon meta but it feels like devs abandoned all ax weapons right now and they become obsolete.

where are the AX Seeker, AX Torps and AX Cannons? or even AX anti-swarm mines?
i doubt they will ever make lasers that work vs. interceptors, but those are the missing weapon types for AEGIS to release.

plasma, frag and rails are covered by the guardian weapons, and there is no point in making AX version of them.

 

[Warflower]

I don't believe they will nerf those guns as they are far less useful against Basilisk and Medusa . You just can't sit there at point blank and shoot them .

This is absolutely true. The Basilisk and Medusa regenerate way too fast, and their damage is more as well.
You also cant do the 1 minute kill every time on the Cyclops either - you still need to know a bit what you are doing. The key is spinning to kill the hearts as they are quickly exerted then finish it off. The timing and the heart kills need to coincide to do the super fast kill.

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

short bump -
but how well would this work with plasma charger?
currently i have no access to fixed shards, nor an Anaconda.

against scouts i noticed, that the GPCs absolute damage is more effective then the GSCs thermal.