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Offline TopAce

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I thought FS1 missions were much harder than FS2, I remember when FS2 came out and I started, wow my weapons do damage, and in FS1 aiming is much more of a priority, this is just how it felt to me, maybe I had the dificulty settings diferent


Weapons are surely better, your secondary missiles at last can hit non-stationary targets, too. I remember the moment, when the Interceptor automaticily evades the target, just to make the game hard. Fury and Rockeye are the best'
Hornets are the shame of allied weaponry and technology! I would rather use a machine gun to Hornets.
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Weapons are surely better, your secondary missiles at last can hit non-stationary targets, too. I remember the moment, when the Interceptor automaticily evades the target, just to make the game hard. Fury and Rockeye are the best'
Hornets are the shame of allied weaponry and technology! I would rather use a machine gun to Hornets.
:no: :no: :no:  Hornet :no: :no: :no:


Agree totally!!

Both in FS and FS2. Hornets= suck BIGTIME.

Harpoons=mmmmmmmmmm! trebs=MMMMMMMMMMMM

I`d rather use hellfire missiles than hornets.

And I`d love to fire a meson based missile/bomb :eek:
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What's that mission where the Aquatains been disabled, and you've got to escort it out of the nebula? It's the last 'fly with the Vasudans' mission. That, in my humble opinion, is the hardest mission of FS2.

I tend to find the initial few wings of Shivan bombers usually destroy my wingmen (and their reinforcements) with their cluster bomb leaving poor old me to hold of half the Shivan fleet.

I personally don't find Bearbaiting hard at all, unlike the above mission.

I also have to agree to those who find FS1 mission harder than FS2. At lot of the FS2 mission felt like that you could just sit back do nothing and the mission would still end up as a success - even if this was not the case. In FS1 it felt like you would make a difference, even if this wasn't the case.

I also feel I must disagree with the point above about the Hornets. I think that they are the best 'general perpose' missile around. Trebs are good, but you can't only carry that many, especially compared to the hornet.
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I also feel I must disagree with the point above about the Hornets. I think that they are the best 'general perpose' missile around. Trebs are good, but we can't only carry that many, especially compared to the hornet.


Wha? We are talking about the same missile here, right? The ones that only ever hit slow things from directly behind? That Fail do do any damage at all to capship turrets and subsystems? THOSE Hornets?

Sorry 'bout that, but I can't believe you said that! Sure, Tornados are pretty damn good, but I find the Hornet to be almost useless in most situations. :)

My preferred weapons are double Prometheus S, a bank of Harpoons/Tornados and a bank of Trebuchets. All-round kill-stuff capability. :)
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Prometheus S suck. They are too slow and too energy-consuming for my taste.

Give a Double Subach or Subach/Prometheus or Subach/Kayser, and a pack of harpoons/trebs or /harpoons/tornadoes any day.
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Sorry 'bout that, but I can't believe we said that! Sure, Tornados are pretty damn good, but I find the Hornet to be almost useless in most situations. :)


Do you not find it annoying when a wing of Maras jumps in and blasts your transports with Hornet volleys? Bye bye transport :(

 
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Prometheus S suck. They are too slow and too energy-consuming for your taste.

Give a Double Subach or Subach/Prometheus or Subach/Kayser, and a pack of harpoons/trebs or /harpoons/tornadoes any day.

prom s is great, but only on ships with lot's of power. for the smaller ship, i'll just take subach.
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Double Kaysers in an Erinyes. Yeah! Somehow I don't like Circe and Maxim combination, if the target's shields are down, hull damage is low, and the same is true reversed(inverted, or don't know how the English say) Kaysers can damage both shield and hull well. Otherwise your generators don't like them. But why? :)
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My preferred combination is probably an Ares with a Maxim, a Prometheus S, Tempests and Harpoons.

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Prometheus S suck. They are too slow and too energy-consuming for my taste.

Give a Double Subach or Subach/Prometheus or Subach/Kayser, and a pack of harpoons/trebs or /harpoons/tornadoes any day.


if you think the Prometheus S sucks how come you mention it as a favorite in the next line? :wtf: (unless you meant the R, which is a total piece of crap and arguably the most useless thing in the game)

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Do you not find it annoying when a wing of Maras jumps in and blasts your transports with Hornet volleys? Bye bye transport


They are good against slow or stationary targets but can never hit any fighters. :p

 
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Do you not find it annoying when a wing of Maras jumps in and blasts your transports with Hornet volleys? Bye bye transport :(


well yeah, except that Shivan hornets actually DO SOMETHING!!

harpoons are excellent(except in MP natch). good reload speed, excellent track, lock and intercept speed. Plus two fired at once does some pretty hefty damage to bombers too.

The hornets are slow to load, slower to fire, have the WORST track ability ever! (even rockeyes are better!) and do little damage. Only time they are useful in SP is when you are behind a bomber and fire double vollys.

fav loadout has to be.... Eiryn fighter W one kayser, one maxim- loadout= one bank of harpoons, one bank trebs.

always the loadout fot the final mission, can  save almost every damn thing if I`m in the right area!
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if you think the Prometheus S sucks how come you mention it as a favorite in the next line? :wtf: (unless you meant the R, which is a total piece of crap and arguably the most useless thing in the game)

 

Because they suck in any other combination.
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i think it might have been for FS1 (don't remember exactly) but someone did a (i think it was babylon 5) huge fight. it was do-able, but it was hard, but still fun as hell.

 

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harpoons are excellent(except in MP natch). good reload speed, excellent track, lock and intercept speed. Plus two fired at once does some pretty hefty damage to bombers too.

The hornets are slow to load, slower to fire, have the WORST track ability ever! (even rockeyes are better!) and do little damage. Only time they are useful in SP is when you are behind a bomber and fire double vollys.


That's right Agreed. But the tornado has high bank capacity, but even far better than the Hornets
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Um...no it doesn't, you can carry more Hornets than Tornadoes.  e.g. Perseus can hold 40 Hornets or 32 Tornadoes (in one bank).

 

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Um...no it doesn't, you can carry more Hornets than Tornadoes.  e.g. Perseus can hold 40 Hornets or 32 Tornadoes (in one bank).


I wanted to mean as tornado requires more capacity, so can be less mounted into a fighter.
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I thought he was just saying that every other aspect of Tornadoes is better than Hornets, but that they still have decently high capacity...
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Offline Perry45

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Re: Hardest Mission Evar!!!
I'm just playing the FS2 campaign again on hard and I have to admit the mission is really difficult, if you want the medal. Even the first wave of maras deal sometimes 20-30% dmg to the Aquitaine, I don't know how. And then when the bombers and the Tiamat warp in at the same time you really need some luck.
I got already the medal on hard a few times, but maybe because I'm a little bit out of training or due to bad luck the Aquitaine health dropped to 30% before I even was able to destroy all bomber and the Tiamat.

 
Re: Hardest Mission Evar!!!
Couldn't you just make a new thread for that

 

Offline Perry45

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Re: Hardest Mission Evar!!!
Why? Ye, I know this thread is old, but whats the difference in create a new one or revive a old one? I mean, I searched for this mission on Google and found this thread, so if anyone else will search he will be glad all relevant information are in one thread and not spread apart right? I mean, the missions do not change, so the old information in this thread is still relevant   :nervous:

BTW: I just beat the mission while getting the medal, my problem was I totally overlooked the first bomber wave which comes with the maras, so they (not the maras) dealt this much dmg. After the first bomber wave I concentrate on the second one and then on the Tiamat beam canons, was a piece of cake. Aquitaine survived with 70% health :) Tiamat got also destroyed, but I got no kill on it :(
« Last Edit: April 12, 2020, 08:56:51 am by Perry45 »

 
Re: Hardest Mission Evar!!!
Why? Ye, I know this thread is old, but whats the difference in create a new one or revive a old one? I mean, I searched for this mission on Google and found this thread, so if anyone else will search he will be glad all relevant information are in one thread and not spread apart right? I mean, the missions do not change, so the old information in this thread is still relevant   :nervous:

Kinda true, but depending on how Google works they might next time just post into one from 2001. Not a drama, though it's often considered bad style here.
Anyway, :v-old: made that mission kinda weird, in particular the part with the Tiamat not getting destroyed sometimes.