hey guys - any tips for the second boss?

so after yet another embarrassingly long binge session with starbound, i've realized that i am pretty sure i could take on the second boss! pretty excited because i've never attempted him/(her?) before.

any tips for the fight?

 

Shoot him until he dies.

 

glad to hear that, was thinking of something along those lines...

(seriously, anything i should know before attempting the fight? assembling that guy isn't trivial)

 

I'm gonna be serious now and just say that pulse jump helped me a lot on the battle, so I recommend using that tech at least.

 

Heh. Golden Boy remembers his first time assembling the robot. Golden Boy believed the robot was some kind of cool sidekick. Golden Boy flicked the robot's activation switch with excitement only to be one shot killed on the spot.

 

that is the only piece of tech i have, so that's good news heh.

appreciate the responses. if you (or anyone else) think of anything to add, please post within the next few minutes! i would really love to see what tier 3 is like.

 

about halfway through assembly i realized it's the only boss-looking crafting thing, so i almost did the exact same thing. the draw of a robot sidekick friend can temporarily blind reason, i think.

 

I beat him last night. I'd recommend building a flat platform.(Doesn't have to be that long) and kitting him. Also, Red Stims or Bandages are a godsend so stock up on those if you have them.

 

He's not too bad really, for me he just chased me around trying to punch me. So I guess jump over him and smack him on the way down, then repeat. Basically what I did except for the beginning of the fight. I ended up walking him past a hole, which he fell into. Made the fight considerably easier, I was able to wail away at him til he was under half health before he finally managed to angle a jump properly to get out.

 

thanks folks!

just the sort of advice i was looking for - going to start clearing out an area and pray to my glitch god...

 

I just kept shooting him with my steel bow. He killed me, but when I beamed back down, he was still there! He eventually got stuck, and I finished him off.

 

worst case scenario i can try to whack him with my fancy new lantern-on-a-stick backpack thing

(ok at this point i'm just wasting message board space, thanks again guys for the tips!)

 

Put him in a box, activate him from under the box, poke a small hole on the side of the box, shoot him until he dies..

That is if you don't feel bad afterwards...

 

The robot will get stuck on almost anything at the moment, meaning it's actually kinda hard to not cheese it.

 

whelp, set up an arena and tried to kill him without any workarounds etc (avoiding him, running to the walls and jumping off platforms over him to avoid) but i died while he had three bars of health left.

re-spawned and he wasn't there anymore. surprisingly soul-crushing, considering how expensive it is to put that thing together. ah well, take a break for a while and try at it again i guess

 

Thought it was a pet for the first time but then got murdered Anyway, what I did was bought a lot of bombs from the frogman, activated the bot and threw a lot of bombs at him until he got a little stuck on a deep hole then kept throwing bombs until I ran out and started shooting arrows.