Power beam has the fastest animation for entering phazon beam I think, and thus you can do the most damage with it, but ice beam has a longer animation that makes it easy to attack cancel.
i wanted to edit the post to say : don't say phazon beam :P
but yeah idk why apparently some/many ppl use ice beam?! also, iirc it was tomlube who told me ice beam was faster in at least any% OR low% (resp. he told me he thought that this was the case). power beam seems to be logical to me since the transition from lets say wave to plasma takes longer than power to plasma, since for wave/ice/plasma to transform into wave/ice/plasma it must first transform wave/ice/plasma into some sort of power beam and THEN it enhances the "power beam" with the stuff you see from wave/ice/plasma. when you transition power beam into any of the other three, the first step of the animation doesn't have to be done and just the additional stuff must be enhanced to have wave/ice/plasma enhanced. for every1 not understanding what I just wrote, take a close look at the beam switch animations and you will see
oh ok mg2 that makes sense with why ice is being used sometimes (mostly in 21%)
I thought Ice Beam 3-pool was faster because Prime will spawn 1 pool after another and it is pretty consistent from what I've seen, correct me if I'm wrong tho
With regard to the AI of Prime phase 1, is there anything I can do to keep it from repeatedly charging at me in the final chamber? I got four charges in a row, which obviously doesn't give me much chance to damage it.
When I began the chamber I had plasma out and it was red. It charged four consecutive times (which were not interrupted by any other attacks) and did not change color. I switched to wave after the fourth charge, and it began attacking more normally. Is that just a coincidence?
Also, this might just be me, but Prime seems more inclined to charge whenever you have the correct beam active.
Has anyone ever successfully transitioned the map from from sunken frigate's Reactor Core to Reactor Access (or Reactor Access to Cargo Freight Lift to Deck Gamma) ?
I have yet to really mess around with it myself, but I remember those doors being an issue in the past when I tried to wallcrawl the sunken frigate (mind you, I didn't know much about wallcrawling back then). I'm planning on looking into it later on my own, but if someone can confirm it possible/not in the mean time, that would be cool.
Is that the Parasite Queen room to the smaller room just before the elevator with the etank in it? I tried for awhile to get it to transition but was never successful. I always wondered if it was possible. I figure it is probably doable but I just don't have the skill/patience to do you it
oh right, forgot to mention that he will charge at you during any face if he hits you with his ice attack. he'll only randomly charge at you if he's plasma though.
Not even with a vent shaft style bomb jump? Not that I can even do that. I have enough trouble with "whatever that bomb jump is called" without adding in slopes and such. Oh well. Thanks anyway.
Its not Very hard. Perhaps harder than 22% vent shaft but in every case, vheck oit my YT video called max% with 21% upgrades compilation. Im pretty sure its done inbounds since it really shouldn't be a problem if you can do the basic HPBJ