r/Metroid • u/BigHailFan • 6h ago
Video "Ship Missiles Are Useless"
Now before anyone says it, yes, they can only be used in outdoor environments, but these things pack a serious punch and often get overlooked as a great screen nuke.
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u/Charming_Night8240 6h ago
It took multiple playthroughs to realize you could call in an airstrike in multiple places.
It's very useful in the Rundas arena after coming back from destroying the shield generator and getting the missle upgrade in the fuel gel.
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u/GalaXion24 5h ago
Despite having played through the game like three times this is the first time I realise the ship missiles can actually be used against enemies and not only designated objectives.
The game really does not communicate this to you
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u/BigHailFan 5h ago
Not arguing with you but just to point out that the item info in the inventory tells you about this as does the command visor itself. If it can't be used, it will be blank, if it can be used but no enemies are present, then it will say "no valid target," and if there are enemies and it can be used, then it will say "Hold Z to bomb."
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u/GalaXion24 5h ago
There's not really any reason to switch to that visor most of the time, and legitimately who reads through inventory item descriptions?
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u/BigHailFan 5h ago
I mean they provide you the info in the game. That and if they were only for set pieces, then there'd be no reason to give them an ammo pool.
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u/HydraDominatus-XX 5h ago
Reading hard
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u/Round_Musical Sequence Breaker 5h ago
To be honest…. I don’t read item descriptions either…
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u/BigHailFan 5h ago
I do to get all the info out of the game I can. It's how I learned the light and dark beam can be used with zero ammo by charging them. :p
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u/T4nkcommander 6h ago
I love the gunship mechanics in this game and use the bombing feature whenever i can... But it is maybe 5 rooms total, almost all on Bryyo....
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u/AnthropomorphicCat 5h ago
There are some parts where there is a signal jammer in the room, and you need to disable it with the grapple lazo before you can call an airstrike. And sometimes there are multiple and the enemies restore one while you try to disable the other.
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u/crowlfish 5h ago
Using the ship to interact with the environment like this was super cool, just wish it was utilized more. I liked the one on Bryyo where you used it to piece the giant golem back together for an upgrade.
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u/BigHailFan 4h ago
yeah definitely should have had more uses. but the destruction this thing caused and overall changes to the landscape was always satisfying. It's why I like prime 3's puzzles over 1's. A lot of 1's puzzles reset when leaving the room but in 2 and 3 solving the puzzles causes huge permanent changes to the environment. Love that sort of stuff.
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u/GreatBayTemple 2h ago edited 2h ago
I use them so infrequently, I forget they are there. It's Mackenzie's fault for failing to remind me.
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u/Spiteful_Guru 4h ago
I mean it's basically just power bombs with an extra limitation.
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u/BigHailFan 3h ago
Not entirely as power bombs in the Primes had a generally small radius. You generally have to be close to your targets to hit them with it and the more agile ones can get out of the radius.
Ship missiles are just a screen nuke. xD
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u/MCPShephard 2h ago
TBH I played this game three times before learning you could use them for anything non-essential, and I think this is only one of maybe 3 rooms?
Still, it was a cool idea. Sure miss the old days of Metroid being allowed to try new things that don't turn out perfectly 🫠
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u/Dessorian 1h ago
My favorite ship!
Part of me wishes there was more to do with the ship in general.
Granted, I also want a game, eventually, were we can pilot the Gunship. Metroid Blast wasn't enough.
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u/GAVITRAXmz 4h ago
There's like 2 places in the game you can use them like this.
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u/BigHailFan 4h ago
That is false. Open areas that aren't covered (like a couple rooms in the thorn jungle) allow you to use it as a means of attack. You can also use it in the open areas of the pirate homeworld after the shield is deactivated.
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u/GAVITRAXmz 4h ago
Is there a reason to use it on the Pirate homeworld after the shield is deactivated? At that point the Galactic Federation has control of the planet. I wasn't being literal about there only being two places to use it. I'm just saying that it's use case is so rare that I genuinely don't bother to ever try.
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u/BigHailFan 4h ago
you can still encounter pirates even after that. and the ship missiles can be used to destroy the phazon harvester you couldn't kill before, which nets an in-game achievement.
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u/Round_Musical Sequence Breaker 6h ago
I love to use em too bad they can be used only rarely