Destroying the Xenon Amp in 6.0

[Zloth2]

I'm doing a second playthrough and, given my first playthrough back under 4.0, I brought along 60 laser towers to make the battle easier. I circled around the amp, popping lasers out all over the place, shot some of the pipes, and started flying around... but the lasers just sat there!? Yaki and Xenon swarmed me, and I died.

On re-load, I tried again, this time dropping laser towers after blowing my cover by shooting the amp. That worked, but dropping lasers isn't all that easy, so I tried pausing the game and dumping a bunch at once. Not a good plan. Dropping even one laser while moving with the new physics engine can stick you to it for several seconds - dropping several, well:


I did eventually get the towers out by strafing DOWNWARD after each drop and never dropping more than one.

Another problem was hanging around, though. Thanks to the random number gods, a Xenon solar station was near the amplifier!


I didn't have any trouble with the turrets, but the defense drones came to the amplifier's rescue. Near the end of the battle, it looked like this:

[soladept]

if you were in the plot Moreya/Katana with the IFF spoofing thats probably messing with your lasertowers targeting.

its much easier to run back to report on the Yaki and get the Syn and drive it back to kill the Amp, reporting back to your handler on the Yaki is independent of the Amplifiers status. as long as theres no I hugging a gate or accellerator you can usualy fly through fine. between the Syn and your allied buddies the amp and the Yaki defenders should go down easy as long as random xenon caps dont stroll in.

[Wheem]

if you were in the plot Moreya/Katana with the IFF spoofing thats probably messing with your lasertowers targeting.

Going by the screenshots, he was in a Katana at the time.

[Alia5]

I just got the syn, came back, obliterated the Amp, docked and was done with it,