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The Tower is an automatic sentry weapon that appears in Serious Sam's Bogus Detour. There are three types of towers encountered in the game, each of which fire different types of projectiles.

Overview[]

Towers are automatic sentries that are commonly found guarding Orc bases both inside and outside, where they secure them from intruders. They are usually triggered when pressing buttons or destroying powercells. There are three variants of towers; the laser tower, the composite tower, and anti-material tower.[1]

The laser tower is the most basic and commonly occurring tower, and will fire laser beams at the target. These beams can travel quite fast and deal moderate damage in succession to the target if they are not moving.

The composite tower uses the same base as the laser tower, but with a replaced weapons system. This is a more versatile tower with several different projectile types: heat-seeking, ricocheting, and impact-shrapnel. Heat-seeking projectiles are green, and will curve around walls and corners, dealing damage in their path until they dissipate. Ricocheting projectiles are blue, and can ricochet off walls, making them difficult to avoid. Impact-shrapnel projectiles are red, and explode sometime after being fired.[1]

The anti-material tower is equipped with a high-powered railgun. With its special guidance system, it is able to home-in and take down even long-distance targets, such as low-speed aircraft. This tower has a much slower rate of fire than the other towers, but the beams fired by it are far more powerful.

Apperances[]

Towers are common enemies, though this largely depends on the type of tower seen. Laser towers are the most frequently occuring types, and appear on pretty much every level after Knee Deep in Sand. Anti-material towers are the rarest type of tower, and appear exclusively on the secret level Serious Sabotage. Composite towers only appear in the levels set inside the Mental-Altani Moon base.

Tactics[]

  • Strong weapons such as A-24 Devastator, Erasergun, Laser Cannon and XPML21 Rocket Launcher are effective against all types of towers, being able to destroy them in just a few shots. Weaker weapons like the Shotgun, Thompson submachine gun or Pistols are much less effective and take considerably more time to destroy a tower.
  • Towers can be easily destroyed with The Shaft, as they take extra damage from this weapon.
  • When towers are firing at the player, they should take cover behind walls or around corners to avoid getting caught in the line of fire. When they stop shooting, immediately come out of cover and fire at them.
  • The projectiles fired by the composite tower behave in different ways. Keep that in mind when engaging these types of towers.
  • Avoid being hit by the anti-material tower's beams at all costs, as they deal very high damage and can kill the player in one or two hits, especially on Hard and Serious difficulties.
  • Avoid the heat-seeking projectiles fired by the composite tower by taking cover or dashing in the opposite direction they are going in.

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References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 NETRICSA description
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