Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2/All Hands on Deck


 * Objectives
 * 1) Defeat Tech Villains
 * 2) Disable Cannons
 * 3) Stop von Bardas

This is a major boss battle against Lucia von Bardas. She has been modified by Tinkerer and is now a super-powerful cyborg, and she has friends with her. Your first job is to destroy the cannons at the four corners of the arena. At the base of each cannon are three green power cells. Blast each cell enough times to disable it. When all three have been disabled on one cannon, it will stop working.

After you disable one cannon, Lucia brings up eight gas jets around the arena; making getting in close to the remaining cannons risky business. If you have a good ranged power, you can fire at the power cells from a distance. Otherwise, you will have to time the gas jets, run in close, throw a couple of punches and run back out. You'll also have a super villain on your back as Lucia brings one out each time you disable a cannon. Try to defeat each super villain before you disable another cannon or you're going to have a lot to deal with.

After the second cannon is disabled, Lucia starts raining bombs on the arena, just to give you one more thing to look out for. The best way to survive this part of the battle is to keep hitting the super villains with Targeted Fusions. Not only will this defeat them more quickly; but, you will also earn Health Tokens, which you will need. When the final cannon is disabled and you have defeated the last super villain, the real fun begins.

Lucia hovers over the center of the arena with the four super villains floating in gas bubbles around the edges. Watch the villains – one of them will lose his or her bubble protection for a moment and you need to blast him or her to the ground.

Lucia then sends the remaining villains away and comes to ground to start fighting you. This is your cue to unleash a can of Targeted Fusion on her. Take away a quarter of her health and she'll jump back up in the air and you get to repeat the process. Of course, you'll still be dodging gas jets and bombs during this whole process, so it's not nearly as easy as it sounds. However, like any other boss fight, the key is quickly hitting Lucia with Targeted Fusions and otherwise just staying out of the way and use ranged attacks to build up another Fusion Star. You have five minutes to complete this part of the battle, so don't dilly-dally and use your Fusions as quickly as possible. That's it, now onto the next HQ interlude.