F-6t BIG FOOT

F-6t BIG FOOT
Game: [[Sonic Adventure 2]][[Category:Sonic Adventure 2 bosses]]
Maximum rings: 12
Hits to defeat: 4
Fought by: Sonic

F-6t BIG FOOT is a Ground/Air Combat Walker robot, part of the GUN's military force. It's controlled by an agent of said organization and is capable of moving by walking or hovering, and attacks by firing a machine gun on the former case while launching homing missile volleys on the latter. It's the first boss encountered in the Hero side story of Sonic Adventure 2 and fought by Sonic after City Escape, who has been confused Sonic for Shadow the Hedgehog.

The boss arena is circular and has four wooden containers, which will be eventually be destroyed by bullets. The robot can leave the arena to the outliers and destroy the containers there as well, but they’re not reachable by Sonic.

F-6t will start about by pulling up its legs into hovering mode and fly through the stage in an almost figure 8 pattern, strafing the ground with its machine gun. Eventually the legs drop back down and it switches movement type to ground. When it lands, it will open up missile launchers on its shoulders and fire two rounds of four homing missiles each. If successfully hit while in this configuration, it will take off and start its pattern over again, regardless of having fired its missiles or not.

The weak point is the cockpit and there are several ways to get there. The first is to wait until it switches configurations to ground mode, where the cockpit is reachable by Sonic. The second is to use the wooden containers as F-6t flies across the stage, because the additional height allows Sonic to reach the cockpit as well. This method is much more dangerous than the previous one, as there is always the risk of hitting the bullets while attacking. It’s worth noting that if this method is used, F-6t will keep flying until it finishes its complete figure 8 pattern. Yet another way of reaching the cockpit is by using the Bounce Bracelet, as Sonic can reach much higher than with his ordinary jump. But like with the wooden container strategy mentioned above, there’s the risk of accidentally running into the Gatling Gun's fire (though said risks are reduced somewhat as bouncing up takes you slightly higher up than jumping off the crate).

Specifications

These specifications appear in-game as scrolling text at the very start of the boss fight:

General Characteristics

• Combat weight: 100,600 lbs.
• Dimensions
  • Full length: 16.0 ft.
  • Width: 10.2 ft.
  • Height: 18.1 ft.
• Power Plan1: GUN F-series Diesel Engine / Two GUN R-series turbofan engines

Speed

• Road: 45 mph
• Air: 96 mph

Armament

• One M32 A-1 22mm Gatling gun
• Two four AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range air-to-surface Missiles

Crew: One

Protection:

• Chobham-type armor on glaois and turret and armored bulkheads between turret and engine
• Depleted uranium armor in production
• Automatic fire detection and suppression
• Collective overpressure Nuclear Biological and Chemical (NBC) protection
• GVDR-1A radiological warning device

Sonic X

The F-6t BIG FOOT, as seen in Sonic X's adaptation of the Sonic Adventure 2 storyline.

The F-6t BIG FOOT appears in episode 34, Sonic the Fugitive (EN: Shadow Knows) and it serves the same purpose as the game. In the card information that is displayed in the japanese version, its dimensions are 3.4m (height) per 4.8m (width (?), while its weight is 9.6t.