Bionicman on 19/8/2001 at 04:54

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you know when you're on the way back to the mini-sub in the underwater lab, when savage tells you about the second mini-sub, and it's simons, and you fight, and kick his ass? well, for some reason, on my second time through, i never ran into him. his sub was there, but he was nowhere to be found. it kinda surprised me when i ended up talking to him at area 51. he said something about "not getting away this time" then threw a lam at me. it bounced off the truck behind me, and fell at his feet. he gets hurt, drops his plasma gun, and runs. so i pick up the gun, attach a laser that i had been saving to it, get a bead, and shoot him with his own gun. it was pretty funny, watching simons run like a sissie. it was nice to get him back for that "am i behind a desk right now? no!" line.

has this happened to anyone else?

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santaClaws on 19/8/2001 at 13:27

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How did you manage to do so?
When i was in the undersea laboratories, i had to fight him. Otherwise he'd hav kicked my ass.
I played the game 3 times by now, but i never managed to do that.


santaClaws

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Amorpheus on 19/8/2001 at 16:59

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Just run, doesn't matter if you do the conversation first or not.

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Bionicman on 19/8/2001 at 19:36

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yep. in my instance, though, i never even met him. never spoke to me, never saw me, never shot me. i think the area 51 battle is cooler because it's in an open space and you can run around and jump off things and stuff.

yesterday i played dx at a friends house who has a save in every location, and his area 51 save had simons in it. i experimented a bit and here's a few of the funnier situations:

1. talked to him, ran to the sniper tower, and climbed up (npcs can't use ladders, remember). he's running around the base trying to get to me, so i tranq him. then, i stuck him in the middle of the helipad with a bunch of other bodies, and tossed a lam in the center. i fitting memorial. another time, i took the gep gun you find there and shot the pile from the tower.

2. ran into the place with the big fan you can jump down. i took the plunge, it goes to the loading screen, then i'm falling and i hear simons voice next to me, calmly saying "you will not survive, denton". i look up and there he is, standing in mid air and falling with me. SOMEHOW, he got inside the shaft....so, anyway, we hit the water and he drowns. it was weird.

3. set a scrambler on the bot's patrol area so that he'd walk across it about the time that simons fought me (this took A LOT of trial and error, and i don't reccomend it). so, i run behind the bot and i can now use simons as a pencil.

4(this one tops everything). spawned a friendly simons next to me, but they didn't fight. so, i ran behind good simons, and bad simons accidently shoot goodie. well, goodie pulls out his plasma rifle and i have two simons fighting eachother. baddie wins, only because the bot got in the center of them and shot goodie. all this time i'm in the sniper tower with some binoculars (so i don't get shot) and when i see goodie go down, i quickly pull out my sniper rifle. too late, baddie has shot a plasma burst at me. so, i dodge it, forgetting i'm in the tower, and fall off the side. OOPS!! i turn on the speed aug, and hit the ground ON TOP OF BAD SIMONS. the force of my fall kills him. i was laughing so hard i didn't even see the bot come up in front of me and turn ME into a pencil.

anyone else have some good combat stories?

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Amorpheus on 22/8/2001 at 21:21

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Weird, once after I got him down to the "run away" mode he cloaked and ran to the stairs that lead to the water. He kept on running on the spot, not entering the water. I think... :)