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Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Marauder on March 29, 2005, 05:20:23 am
Uhh, I'm having problems finding Lieutenant Snipes in the foggy mission for SOC.  They say follow the buoys, but I'm lost.  Can someone help me please?!
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Kie99 on March 29, 2005, 06:29:43 am
Jump out 5 times.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: aldo_14 on March 29, 2005, 06:36:15 am
The buoys don't show up particularly clearly; IIRc the buoys will appear as a small black jiggly blip on your sensors until you are close enough; you need to turn at every buoy in order to see the next one.

Most important thing is that all the buoys are the same height; i.e. don't go too far up or down.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: kv1at3485 on March 29, 2005, 07:42:33 am
You really don't even need to follow the bouys at all.  There's a real quick and easy way (the 'sissy way', the 'dark side' way) to finishing the mission.

If you open it up in FRED, you'll see what I mean.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Charismatic on March 29, 2005, 07:45:33 am
Whats the mission name, ya happen to know offhand (Like X_grayfight.fs2)?
If not Nm.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Col. Fishguts on March 29, 2005, 07:56:58 am
Fly towards the first buoy, when you get close to it a new gray blip will appear on the radar, so head for the new contact. When you apprach the 2nd buoy the 3rd will show up on the radsr....and so on.

The next buoy always shows up always just before you reach the current one. That's how you can identify them among the other ones.
Of course there are all the Shivans that require your attention....but since it's the first mission which lets you equip the Kayser that shouldn't be a problem ;)
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: BlackDove on March 29, 2005, 07:59:44 am
Basically, stare at the radar and maneouver towards the gray dots, then the gray blips.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Marauder on March 29, 2005, 01:52:20 pm
No, no.  I know how to find the buoys.  It's finding Snipes thats causing me trouble.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: BlackDove on March 29, 2005, 02:03:22 pm
Snipes is at the last bouey.

You're not looking hard enough.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Ghost on March 29, 2005, 08:58:22 pm
Heh.. yeah, buddy.. Snipes is the last buoy. It really isn't that hard.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Carl on March 30, 2005, 02:57:32 am
i hate this mission, just so you all know.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Andreas on March 30, 2005, 03:27:09 am
I happen to love this mission myself; one of my favorite missions in FS2.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: BlackDove on March 30, 2005, 05:58:25 am
I got my nick in 98 from that mission.

(http://smalltimerivalry.com/sschost/scriptblackdove/BlackDove.gif)

YARR!
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on March 30, 2005, 12:10:56 pm
I hate that mission too. If you think its hard now, just wait til you find snipes.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Marauder on March 30, 2005, 01:25:40 pm
OK, another question.  How do you get those animations from the game?  *points to transmission by Snipes in Blackdove's post*
That is, as a file?
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Unknown Target on March 30, 2005, 02:10:02 pm
You open up the VP folder with VPVIEW. Extract the animation, open it up with ANIVIEW. Save the frames you want as bitmaps with ANIVIEW (or you can save all of them as bitmaps, which it does for you). Piece together with another program :)


And anyway, I could never find Snipes. I just died five times or so when this big wave of shivan fighters (I literally remember it as a wave: all of a sudden they warped in, went up in unison, then down in unison, just like a wave would). Then skipped it.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Sesquipedalian on March 30, 2005, 03:21:15 pm
Wimp. ;)
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: phreak on March 30, 2005, 03:23:30 pm
extract the mission and get rid of the nebulas :p
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: BlackDove on March 30, 2005, 03:46:33 pm
You people dissapoint me.

I'd FRAPS it for you, but I just don't have the system for it.


The best advice I could give you is probably to open it in FRED and find him that way, although I don't know if that works considering I've never done it.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: copiae on March 30, 2005, 03:59:18 pm
Perhaps try turning off 3d-radar, just for this mission?
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: J.P. on March 30, 2005, 05:04:25 pm
The mission is called loop2-1.fs2

From what I saw when I opened it up all you have to do is go straight forward the moment you get into the game. It will take a while but sooner or later you will come upon the NTT Grall which has snipes in it.

The navbuoys take you on a winding path away from the direction the Grall is in at first but then the trail winds back around to the Grall.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Snipes on March 30, 2005, 05:29:26 pm
Quote
Can't Find Snipes!

Here I am. :)
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Carl on March 30, 2005, 05:40:33 pm
Quote
Originally posted by BlackDove
I got my nick in 98 from that mission.

(http://smalltimerivalry.com/sschost/scriptblackdove/BlackDove.gif)

YARR!


funny how the game came out in 99.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2005, 06:01:40 pm
ffs...

Just fly to the first navbuoy. Note the number of the navbuoy you're flying to (1). Once you reach the navbuoy you're flying to, look for the next one (2).

Repeat until you reach buoy 8.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Charismatic on March 30, 2005, 09:31:41 pm
I agree with above post.

Anyone find out the code, to that ani, of Snipes transmissoin?

Would be cool (If they used a code at all, instead of just scrambling triangles:P), if someone  used the code in a future campaign or whatever..
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: aldo_14 on March 31, 2005, 02:25:45 am
From the looks of it, it's Dingbats or similar.

Guess cryptography is a mite lazy in the GTVA.......
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: Kie99 on March 31, 2005, 05:17:41 am
Anyone know a program that can put Bitmaps/JPEGs together into Gifs??
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: aldo_14 on March 31, 2005, 05:29:19 am
The PSP trial includes an animation editor that can.

Nothing else springs immediately to mind, though.
Title: Can't find Snipes!
Post by: BlackDove on March 31, 2005, 08:31:20 am
Quote
Originally posted by Carl


funny how the game came out in 99.


Hmm....that's right.

'99 then. I took the nick two days after the release. Bought it on release, finished it the second day. Took it on the second day.