larrymurk
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I was able to kill the snake all by myself. Pretty good, eh?

As someone else mentioned in the hold thread, I also managed to kill the queen with 4 roaches passing. I think it's a bit much for me to manage 0 passing.

Any hints/demo?

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File: CoP Area51 The Entrance Excerpt.demo (1.4 KB)
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I feel partly to blame for the fact that this room accidentally got to be this difficult (in my final playthrough I didn't even try doing it by letting any roaches slip past the mimic), so I'll attach a demo illustrating the manoeuvre I used to kill the roaches.

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larrymurk
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It looks like this demo is only 11 moves.

No full demo for whimps?

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Stefan
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Yeah, the demo above just shows you how to prevent roaches to pass. However, the same manoeuvre can be used several times in different places to kill the roaches, so no full demo should be required. If you really want the full demo, I could perhaps attach it.

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hrm. I'd be surprised. I keep encountering the roaches at a slightly different position as I get closer to the queen. I've gotten waves 1 and 2 to die on the wall, and wave 3 to die in midair, but still have 3-4 more waves before I can get to her. wave 4 breaks over a post and pushes the top/left roach out of reach of the same manuever I used for wave 3.


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File: CoP Area51 The Entrance RQ Kill.demo (1.4 KB)
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Ok, then. Here's a demo on how to kill the queen in four cycles.

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Geiler Hengst
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Really sorry about this room, it wasnt intended to be that hard...

Earlier you were allowed to let sth like 8 roaches pass, as there was another line in the left bottom corner was "safe" to the left. The thing was that the roaches in this line allowed you to block the mimic to the top and therefore kill all the roaches which went into the south gangway. On public demand i made it harder by killing this line and then tested it in the same way as Stefan did, which is with no roach passing. And then i already forgot that it might not be possible anymore to go south to kill the last roach... Sorry for that... at least it is solveable... :-)

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Thanks for the demo

Onward..