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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: kane544 on February 11, 2004, 10:06:56 am
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Hey guys I would like to now what some of your favorite missons from the main freespace 2 are?
*Beats the crap out of a nearby shivan*:lol: :lol:
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Predicts a page full of people saying Lions Den. :lol:
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Lions Den!!!1111oenoneone
No, really... Pick any of HomeSicks missions and you've got one of my favourites :)
From the main campaign... The one where you can hear the ETAK. I think.
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Bearbaiting. :drevil:
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The mission where you first lay eyes on the sathanas...
oh... who am I kiding... Lion's Den!!!!!! :D :rolleyes:
Dive!! Dive!! Dive!! :eek: :eek2:
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HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!
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Escorting those 2 Tritons to the Warspite. First time I played that, it was one of the most atmospheric experiences I'd had in a game.
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Kings Gambit and Dunkerque
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Bearbaiting and Lion's Den. And not in that order. :D
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Lions Den and High Noon :nod:
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Dive! Dive! Dive!
not to mention the mission where you escorted the Lucidity and the warspite...when the Ravana came through, you were thinking "what the HELL is that thing in the fog firing those REALLY bright red beams!!!!"
(or something like that)
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Love the Treason... :)
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Originally posted by Singh
not to mention the mission where you escorted the Lucidity and the warspite...when the Ravana came through, you were thinking "what the HELL is that thing in the fog firing those REALLY bright red beams!!!!"
(or something like that)
Yep thats my fav aswell. I loved the nebula missions, always kept ya on your toes wondering what is out there.
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Love the Treason... :)
I'm with you on that one... Great mission.
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Main Campaign: King's Gambit
Inferno: Nemesis
Derelict: White Rabbit
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....but hate the traitor :)
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Feint! Parry! Riposte!
Down with Rear Admiral Koth! :no:
:D
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Dunkerque and Feint! Parry! Riposte!
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Originally posted by Flipside
....but hate the traitor :)
Seriously? I always found that a bit of a plain mission. Especially since you can shoot the crap out of all the NTF fighters before they figure you're a traitor and turn on you. What did you like so much about it?
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Well, if you don't shoot the crap out of your wingmen while they are still green, it's a nice little dogfight, followed by all kinds of ****e hitting the fan at the same time, it's well paced, and quite tough to complete on the harder skill levels. The only problem is that you know what's going to happen the moment you hear Commander Snipes has been re-assigned.
That and the fact it was the first mission that came to mind that wasn't Bearbaiting, Lions Den or High Noon ;)
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Originally posted by Flipside
Well, if you don't shoot the crap out of your wingmen while they are still green, it's a nice little dogfight, followed by all kinds of ****e hitting the fan at the same time, it's well paced, and quite tough to complete on the harder skill levels. The only problem is that you know what's going to happen the moment you hear Commander Snipes has been re-assigned.
That and the fact it was the first mission that came to mind that wasn't Bearbaiting, Lions Den or High Noon ;)
If you'd mentioned that you liked them too I'd let you off but it seemed weird to me to say that it was a better mission than Bearbaiting or Lions Den.
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LLIONS DENXORE!!!!1111:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :D
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The 3rd one where the Iceni escapes. I like all the pilot chatter, makes you wonder: did the GTVA let Bosch go?
And of course Lion's Den.
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yah Lion's Den takes the cake for the ones I can remember...
What about the most loathed (disliked) mission from FS2? Maybe post them as well...
I have a particular dislike of the Nav thingos in the neb, trying to find Snipes...
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When I used to play FS2 on my 300 MHz computer I would hate to play A Game of TAG because of the frame rate... I could hardly get a clean shot with the TAG missile. Now the most loathed mission for me would have to be first loop, first mission. That Sobek really ticks me off. :mad:
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Love the Treason, The Stars are Right, and Hail Mary (last two are from Derelict)
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Slaying Ravana. That destroyer is what every FS capship should have been but isn't.
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Feint! Parry! Reposite!
Love the Treason
Return to Babel
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Feint! Perry! Reposte!, The Great Hunt, and The Sicilian Defense would have to be my favorites.
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Originally posted by Jal-18
The Great Hunt
Which one?
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Mission 6: You're flying alongside with Actium and Lysander
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A Flaming Sword with a "fast but fragile" ship is fun, even if all your wing men die straight away.
The music seemed to fit that mission nicely too.
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Originally posted by Mr. Vega
Love the Treason, The Stars are Right, and Hail Mary (last two are from Derelict)
More love for The Stars are Right.
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Lion at the Door
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Apart from those already mentioned, King's Gambit. Hell yeah, lightning bombing and its best. :)
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Though I'm not sure what my favourite mission is, one that I do really like is Exodus (SM3-05), the first mission where the player is leading the blue lions. It's more or less a simple escort mission, but the opening scene of a Sobek and a Moloch destroying one another, along with the Vasudan's speech gives the perfect atmosphere of a system and an alliance on its heels from a massive Shivan invasion. As a Fredder I weigh heavily on the importance of the opening few seconds of a mission, its the only scene that the player is guarenteed to see, so make it a good one. Bearbaiting is another favourite for exactly the same reason. Whereas something like Clash of the Titans II would fail somewhat, because the convoy is supposed to have been under attack but you don't arrive during one, instead you arrive just after and watch a few allied fighters blow up for no particular reason.
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Lions Den (DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!)
I also like "Their Finest Hour" becuase i prefer being on the defensive to being on the offensive, and i like the layout. I used to just wipe out the weapons on the shivan crusiers and then ignore them so they reached the Colossus unarmed :drevil:
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Originally posted by Akalabeth Angel
Though I'm not sure what my favourite mission is, one that I do really like is Exodus (SM3-05), the first mission where the player is leading the blue lions. It's more or less a simple escort mission, but the opening scene of a Sobek and a Moloch destroying one another, along with the Vasudan's speech gives the perfect atmosphere of a system and an alliance on its heels from a massive Shivan invasion. As a Fredder I weigh heavily on the importance of the opening few seconds of a mission, its the only scene that the player is guarenteed to see, so make it a good one. Bearbaiting is another favourite for exactly the same reason. Whereas something like Clash of the Titans II would fail somewhat, because the convoy is supposed to have been under attack but you don't arrive during one, instead you arrive just after and watch a few allied fighters blow up for no particular reason.
Great point. Now that you mention it, Exodus is one of my favourites too, for the same reason. First impressions are critical. :)
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Akalabeth : How can you talk about great starts to a mission and not mention Lions Den?
Dive! Dive! Dive! has to be one of the greatest mission starts in any game ever! :D
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Yeah, but I think Lions' Den has been pretty much covered... ;)
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Not enough :) I predicted that everyone would say Lions Den and I'm seeeing far too much dissent ;)
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Yeah, I was trying to offer alternative favourites. I like Lions Den too. Though I probably don't have a _favourite_, but rather just a few that stand above the rest.
I think someone mentioned their least favourite mission, that'd have to be loop2-1, the one before lions den. There's nothing I enjoy more to waltz around an electromagnetic storm, destroy a bunch of basilisks that can't help running into me, loosing half my wingmen only to find snipes and die to massed numbers of Piranhas. Yeehaw :(
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What difficulty level are you playing on? I've never had serious problems with that - it's challenging, sure, but I can beat it if I'm not being careless.
Incidentally, you don't need to follow all the navbuoys... you can cheat if you fly from nav 1 to nav 2 and then keep on going. :) Several km later, you wind up right next to the transport.
My least favorite mission is Proving Grounds. Especially if I'm trying to get the medal. Ugh.
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What difficulty level are you playing on? I've never had serious problems with that - it's challenging, sure, but I can beat it if I'm not being careless.
Incidentally, you don't need to follow all the navbuoys... you can cheat if you fly from nav 1 to nav 2 and then keep on going. Several km later, you wind up right next to the transport.
Well, I generally don't cheat, and generally play on hard. I probably wouldn't have a problem yet, but what I did originally was spotted the basilisks, and then ran towards my wingmen who were usually a couple kilometers off so they could engage. That didn't really work though, because all my wingmen died. I eventually learned that if you charge into the basilisks they don't really get time to fire off their rockeyes.
I still die to the Piranhas though, I hate Piranhas. On both this mission, and on the mission where you have to save the Aquitaine (after you loose the Psamtik), I'd die to Piranhas ALL THE TIME.
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Yeah, Piranhas are no fun. What I often do is have every fighter protect me while I go after the bombers. My wingmen draw their fire, while usually I can pick the Shivans off quickly enough to save most of my wingmen.
That, and always keeping a finger on X is helpful. :)
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Well, having my finger on button 04 or whatever it is for me is fine, until I run out. I find that Burners don't help too much versus Piranhas, mainly because they're attacking you from several different angles instead of one vector like Hornets or something which are quite easy to dodge
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I find the best way to deal with bombers is to hit your burners and race in behined them before you smash them.
I also like to perform what i call the "Lenier Manuver" (A character from Babylon 5) which is basicly just getting the enemy fighters to follow you, then cutting your engines and doing a complete 180 to blast the enemy ships as they fly towards you.
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The thing about Lion's Den for me was that while the first few minutes were a blast, I nearly always ended up hanging around the node for six, seven minutes because I had already taken out all the comm nodes and Shivan fighters and bombers.
Likewise with High Noon - because I had played Bearbaiting twenty times over to do it perfect, like, all I ever did was stand around waiting for the Colossus to ever so s-l-o-w-l-y destroy the Sathanas while being overdramatic about destroying the disarmed and basically useless Shivan juggernaut.
I enjoyed Bearbaiting though. Hearkening back to the original Freespace, I liked the original Clash of the Titans, 'specially when I did it right, and Playing Judas. The original Exodus was fun too. I remember Shell Game badly, though, 'cause I spent ages trying to get all of the freighters and transports before they escaped.
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Playing Judas would have to be my faverioute ever in histroy...except NO imitations :lol:
I wish there were more strategic missions like that instead of just "Shoot all the badass Shivans"
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Originally posted by Blaise Russel
Likewise with High Noon - because I had played Bearbaiting twenty times over to do it perfect, like, all I ever did was stand around waiting for the Colossus to ever so s-l-o-w-l-y destroy the Sathanas while being overdramatic about destroying the disarmed and basically useless Shivan juggernaut.
You're supposed to help the Colossus. :) It's not the missions fault if you're a coward who hides behind it :p
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And do what, exactly? The Colossus doesn't need my help. I've already disarmed the Sathanas, there's no point in chasing after it to do 1-2% of damage on each attack run when everyone can sit back at a safe distance and the Colossus can lay the smack down with its beam cannons.
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At least it dies more quickly...
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You aren't supposed to know that the Colossus will be able to kill the Sath. That 1-2% might have made the difference :)
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And btw if you fail to destroy all beam cannons in the previous mission you will have to disable them...
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couldn't believe the debrief from the previous mission if you do fail to kill 'em all:
"due to your incompetence(or whatever)"
I was liike, hey screw you!! Maybe if I could dump the trebs and add acouple of Helios'!! And as for the other Pilots...(etc)
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Originally posted by Blaise Russel
The thing about Lion's Den for me was that while the first few minutes were a blast, I nearly always ended up hanging around the node for six, seven minutes because I had already taken out all the comm nodes and Shivan fighters and bombers.
Heh, me too. Then when I'm inside the node waiting and the Nebiros jumps in, Snipes freaks out about the beam cannons while it coasts to a safe 2-3 km away. :lol:
Likewise with High Noon - because I had played Bearbaiting twenty times over to do it perfect, like, all I ever did was stand around waiting for the Colossus to ever so s-l-o-w-l-y destroy the Sathanas while being overdramatic about destroying the disarmed and basically useless Shivan juggernaut.
See, though, beams don't count in the score calculation. So if you bomb the Sathanas, even if you only damage it 1-2%, you get full credit for the kill. :drevil:
I enjoyed Bearbaiting though. Hearkening back to the original Freespace, I liked the original Clash of the Titans, 'specially when I did it right, and Playing Judas. The original Exodus was fun too. I remember Shell Game badly, though, 'cause I spent ages trying to get all of the freighters and transports before they escaped.
Me too. Then I discovered that the transports aren't actually cued to jump out... they reach the node and just sit there. So you can destroy the freighters first and then take out the transports at your leisure. Makes it much easier. ;)
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*resists urge to start up old FS1 and FS2 again, returns to FREDding*
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Oh, and original Clash of the Titans was perhaps even more memorable than Playing Judas.
"This looks like an ambush!" and then the Demon warps in. "oh****oh****oh****..." God, I've must played that mission thirty times because I wanted to beat the secondary objectives and get that medal. Not that it was any use, though.
Resistance is futile.
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What's with "A Game of TAG" is it the mission to make you feel less overconfident?
Crappy mission, you fly an inferior ship, with a dumb missile, that still have to wait for the big ship to hit your target (that begins spinning the moment the beams hit them, so you supporting the kill is awful)
Besides, the MARA are far more agile and fast, to hit a single TAG on them is a pain, not to mention their "infinite missiles" that keep on being fired behind you.
The AWACS stay FAR from the cruiser, so "protecting" them with a kinectic cannon and a subachi-7 alone is simply impossible.
To top things, I simply hate when AI pilots use suicide tactics. They have faster and more maneuvarable flyiers, and keep hammering them on your ship. "collision/collision/collision"
I feel this is the worse mission, pointless flying around trying to hit zero damage dumbfire missiles, and become responsable for the AWACS death at the end simply sucks. You dont have wingmen, cant ask for reforce, is not armed, and fly a recon ship. Still it is your fault the Shivan nail the big ship.
Any of you actually enjoy it?
A good mission? The one you have to fly the stealth, to scan several targets on the Dreadnaught. Really atmospheric that unarmed fly around the behemot.
And do what, exactly? The Colossus doesn't need my help. I've already disarmed the Sathanas, there's no point in chasing after it to do 1-2% of damage on each attack run when everyone can sit back at a safe distance and the Colossus can lay the smack down with its beam cannons.
Well, I have a pilot with a Sathanas on my kill list :D I got that last 1% before the colossus, so for the record, I killed that thing flying a starfighter. :D :D
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The Roman Blunder
Lion at the door
The Great Hunt
The Sixth Wonder
Feint! Parry! Riposte!
Love the treason...
The King's Gambit
Sicilian Defense
Endgame
The Fog of War
A Monster In The Myst
A Flaming Sword
Bearbiting
High Noon
Return to Babel
Argonautica
Lion's Den
Exodus
Dunkerque
Their Finest Hour
Crash Of The Titans II
Apocalypse
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Feint! Parry! Riposte!
Exodus
Lions Den
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Lions Den
King's Gambit
High Noon
Slaying Ravana (Easiest mission in FS2 IMO, the Ravana doesn't even try to jump out and doesn't kill any corvettes, all you've gotta do is take out a few flak/laser turrets)
Bearbaiting
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Return to Babel and Apocalypse.
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RE: Game of Tag
I didn't mind the mission, my main complaint is my wingman was on guardian and kept saying "come on, help me out here" because five maras were sitting there, pelting her disabled piece of crap with laser fire. And that ruined any realism for me.
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The Sixth Wonder
The Sicilian Defense
Into the Lion's Den
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Originally posted by Akalabeth Angel
RE: Game of Tag
I didn't mind the mission, my main complaint is my wingman was on guardian and kept saying "come on, help me out here" because five maras were sitting there, pelting her disabled piece of crap with laser fire. And that ruined any realism for me.
you have to order it to form on your wing in order for it to folow you back to the corvette. But it is not of much use, anyway.
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Oh, thank you HighMax.
Well, I am a big fan of the serie, although not a big pilot, and I have finished the whole original mission but once (going for the second round now) so, knowing the missions by heart is not quite possible here.
I know this is not the thread for strategies, but since it is linked directly to missions itself, I ask: any of you choose fighters even when your role in the mission is supposed to be bomeber?
For instance: you're alpha wing, heavy bombers, and would have beta wing of myrmidons to support.
Usually, I change my own ship for a heavly armed Myrmidon, with Swarm and heat seekers, for dogfighting, and change beta wing for heavy bombers. Then I spend the mission giving radio orders for them to hit on big targets, while I buzz around alone, killing the fighters and bombers that might appear.
Seems easier for me that way, since the AI-wingman pilots are usually better with stationary targets.
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Feint! Parry! Riposte! and the Lion's Den.
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I'm a bomber pilot at heart, and given the option I will actually fly a light or medium bomber rather then a heavy fighter in most cases. (The Eryines is the exception, and I'll fly that in preference to any bomber.) Often if assigned to escort a bomber wing I'll swap them out for fighters and fly a bomber myself.
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The Bakha and Sekhmet are excellent heavy assault fighters.
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..actually, I suspect he doesn't. But I'd disagree about the Bakha. There's something screwy about it, and it doesn't dogfight well...I'm not sure what, but it's there.
The Artemis would be the pinnacle of ownage if its guns weren't so widely spaced and it was possible to hit a fighter with both shots.