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I got two ideas, one harder than the other. Hard idea: Use PDA infinite jumps to leave the battlefield to restock. Unsure if Drek might deload during this. You'd also need to go through more of the level to grab more Toads, introducing more chances to die while restocking. There is a teleporter to the ship before the boss, maybe you could grab some toads from the beginning of the level? Second idea is, can't you infinite PDA jump to the final arena? I don't mean the glitch where Drek is already defeated, iirc that should skip to the final phase no matter what, which as you pointed out does have suckable enemies.

Since you did this run, maybe we could do the upgraded form of this run. Can you beat Ratchet: Deadlocked with only the Holo Shield Launcher* *The Opening mission maybe a mission failed and there's challenges that make you swap weapons

It's basically zodiac, but with 50 ammo instead of 4.

Fire vid🔥🔥🔥

Is the Ry3no weaker at V5+? It does disintegrate weak enemies but against bosses it does next to nothing compared to the V4 version.

It seems the difference between projectiles and "projectiles" is whether they have a mesh attached or if it is "just" a particle effect.

I forgive you for skipping the Oltanis planet because if i was you... I'll be dead

where you been brotha

I really hate that Qwark skip was patched out of the PS3 version.

The R.Y.3.N.O. is the only Ratchet & Clank weapon I wish I could revert back to LV1 and keep it there. The upgrades ruin it.

1:47 bruh 😂

You beat dr Nefarious with the holoshield glove *MIND BLOWN*

Incredible

Damn I need a full raw footage link make sure this isn't cheated

Is there a link to the full playthrough?

Using skips this run would have been easier, but a full run it's more entertaining

Did anyone else notice the holoshield moving at 36:27?

Do you have the second Ratchet and Clank game?

What good reason did I have to watch this whole video at 26 years of age?

"That's a story for another da- a year and a half ago" lol that's great

do the shield charger

What about pyrocitor only? (no upgrades for it)

What's nice about frustrating runs like this is that afterwards, you can do a normal challenge mode run where you can spam the ryno and rift ripper

I mean, I probably _could_ come up with a different name, but Challenge Mode is sick

RYNO only

He is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will

I really hate this ryno , i want a ryno that wrecks 1 thing This wrenks everything But single target on bosses, its not good

FYI: On Batalia you have infinite ammo via an enemy spawner on top of the building opposite the tresspasser puzzle at the beginning of the planet. It's easily missed if you aren't looking for it so I can understand thinking you only have limited ammo for the planet.

I think u should do a infecter or lava gun run those would be cool

Its always bugged me you cant suck up most of the spiked mines in this game but you can suck up dreks very similar looking mines in the fibal boss. Which is very important to know if you want to beat the boss and you dont have the tesla cannon, the pda and a crap ton of bolts to buy ammo, or don't know the dumb arbitrary mechanics to the final boss respawning ammo. Seriously, i never would have beaten drek as a kid on my original save file if i hadn't thought to use the suck cannon on him

Itd be fun to see the devs reaction to this video and the gloves funky properties lol. Maybe mike stout or tony garcia would have a story about this weird thing's creation

I’ve honestly only just noticed the health drain thing, I’ve had it for all these years and can’t believe I only found that out today.

If I had to guess, the reason they had two flags for the gauntlet is because they were likely aware of the neutral long jump would allow players to easily skip the chopper boss, so they had a flag for getting the Courtney Gears cut scene, and a flag for the boss being dead.

Probably my least favorite version of the ryno, honestly. The first one had more punch despite being weaker, the second was an almost perfect jack of all trades, the fifth one was literally almost perfect, and the fourth was just this one but more consistent. And that's my main problem with it. It goes from a rocket launcher to a laser launcher to the zodiac. And as cool as the zodiac was, it was also incredibly buggy, overpriced, underpowered, and should have just stayed its own weapon. I would have much preferred if the RY3NO just stayed a rocket launcher like it's supposed to be.

How about some basic elemental weapons only? Beat R&C 1 only with flamethrower (no upgrade), and Going Commando with tesla claw only (can upgrade, but must play in first person only, too).

Do flamethrower only run now!

I'm sure by now you've seen The Golden Bolt's retrospectives on the R&C series, but just in case, the reason Daxx is coded as is was due to a limited stretch of time for making that entire level, which is why parts of it is lifted wholesale from a level in Going Commando, and other parts are janky as all get out programming wise. Like the entire game, the developers, to use their words, were crunching pretty hard to get this game done as quickly as they did, so stuff like this snuck in. It's also one of those things where the intended developer path for 99% of players is for them to kill the boss, then be able to proceed to the cutscene that finishes the mission, and because of that, there's no need to worry about people bypassing the boss. Doing so requires abusing a number of glitches that most players wouldn't ever encounter, and playtesters wouldn't have had time or the wherewithal to manage. Also, if you'd like an interesting challenge, what about trying to do Tools of Destruction with only devices?

You have a great presence for a small channel and some pretty decent editing and sound quality for what I'm presuming is limited equipment, so you're doing great. This challenge was fun and I *had* to watch it as soon as I saw what it was about because having gone through this game like six million times, the thought of trying to do it with only the Holoshield sounded beyond painful. Maybe if this was Deadlocked you could pull that off--and that might be a worthwhile challenge in and of itself--but on R&C 3 I knew immediately the places where you'd be stonewalled and I was right. One slight bit of constructive criticism for your video editing: the volume on the explosive effects you used for the triple jump bit was overly loud compared to the rest of the video, in a way that didn't feel intentional; might want to be more careful about the volume mixing. I'm gonna check out other stuff of yours too and probably subscribe because I like seeing small channels like yours have a good chance to succeed, and I think you've got it. You clearly have the enthusiasm and the wherewithal, you just need a big break.

For future challenges, I would personally recommend playing in NG+. No cheats, no shortcuts, you get the weapon at the start, and the only real complication is in 2 and 3 where enemies scale up in strength and you start with more health and better armor.

So this run could technically be possible if you allowed for PDA at the start, and the two main hard caps without it are Scorpio and Courtney.

Its garbage as a weapon, but in certain situations it *is* decent at keeping you alive, especially when you hit V5 and get the health drain for it. In the really long Annihilation Nation rounds that health steal can extend how long I can go without health crates by a decent bit if I farm a few enemies for health.

TL;DR Yes, yes you can

Holoshield is criminally underrated. Not only it doesn't have lifespan like shield charger so it can reliable defend you against spamming enemies and snipers while you can shoot through it yourself, but it also shoots enemies back with devastating projectile upon hit and most importantly - it's the one and only weapon in game that can HEAL you. It's drain health of nearby enemies, and the more there enemies the faster it heal, plus you can spam plenty of these and they all damage nearby enemies and transfer their damage to heal you, as result you heal pretty fast especially from tradhy enemies that holoshoeld also kills you quickly. It's incredible useful in times when you're low on health and no nanohealth boxes around, especially when you play 100 wave arena mode where your shield charger most likely will run out of ammo pretty quick, this kept me healed at most times and I was still being able to shoot other weapons while holoshield does passive damage and healing. Sure, the deadlocked holoshield is "technically" better, since you have a much wider and slightly taller shield that as well does constant damage anything that touches it so it can be used as area denial tool, plus you can apply extra affliction mode to it, but it lacks the ability to reflect damage back to enemy to shoot them on its own, plus the health drain is gone; would be best if holoshield from UYA and Deadlocked mixed in a perfect shield, maybe on maximum level it could shoot enemies on its own a tiny bit without even if anyone shooting it, just because. Saying shield charger is superior in every way is lying, because it still has life span, and if enemy hit you while it's life span is short but shield is still on you - you just get full damage regardless; you also lose your 20x bolt applifier if you get hit regardless, so shield doesn't save you from that; plus on later levels it attacks nearby enemies on its own with small electric laser that quickly drains the shield charger life span without getting hit, which is really stupid and annoying downside for "upgrade" that shortens the protection usefulness, even if it looks cool and useful on its own; another downside is it's ammo count is too low compared to going commando and you can't even buy ammo for it with GDPA which sucks. If anything shield charger is a cheap way to make you tank more damage more carelessly and make you closer to be invulnerable - which is still awesome and useful, while holoshield is actual defense tool that requires skill to use properly.

It took me a while to realize, but the theme song of the Arena on Annihilation Nation is the same as the Thugs-4-Less prison in R&C2.

Your Videos are funny af for real

You can do this challenge on non-NG+ by adding the Holoshield through the debug mode.

You deserve so much more subs for that quality of videos!

RY3NO after the shield challenge, I see you needed some big time relief. The amount of effort you put into that shield challenge even though it wasn't even possible to fully complete.

I may be able to assist with this