Apex

"The Apex of Evolution"

The Apex is a modified-exclusive enemy (except story missions), it appears once any enemy evolves 4 times, resulting in it becoming a miniboss.

The Apex has multiple dangerous attacks, which needs to be avoided at all costs if you value your hull. Fortunately, Apex doesn't repeat previous attacks. The first attack is a series of Nukes, dealing medium damage each shot, follows up with bullets and two orange shields, which instantly recharge your shield-breaking abilities. The second attack is by far the hardest one to dodge, and if you are not careful, can easily take you out, the Apex summons two giant cubes, which fire big red beams, while by itself the beams not really have a lot of damage, it ramps up quite quickly if you keep standing in the hitbox of the lasers. The Apex then just repeats the attack of the Hyper enemy, without adding anything else indefinetly.

When fighting the Apex it is recommended to max out the Shatter ability, it deals 300% more damage to Shielded enemies with the base damage, and since the Apex uses shields twice, you can easily take out a chunk of health out of it.