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Title: sadness
Post by: Knight Templar on September 28, 2007, 02:46:29 am
Clash of the Titans II - Very Hard

All my wingmates are dead. My convoy is bleeding from its ass after being raped by squadron after squadron of Shivan bombers. I use all my ordinance to stop the Shivan cruisers that engage the Lemnos. The Lemnos goes down. All the Lamda transports go down, thousands of Marines die. The medical frigates go down. Half my subsystems are  ****ed. My own hull integrity is compromised. I do what any true Klingon warrior would do - I stare down the face of death and die gloriously. I fly my Hercules Mark II straight into the Capellan star as its going nova. At two seconds to impact, I am shot down by four Nahemas and four Nephilims. I fail the mission...

and to top it all off, I'm out of goddamn Guinness.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Jeff Vader on September 28, 2007, 03:08:21 am
Most of that sounded like the basic scenario of 'when things start to go bad, they're really gonna go bad', but with the last line you won all my sympathy. 'A Guinness a day keeps the doctor away', as the old proverb goes, or something.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: colecampbell666 on September 28, 2007, 07:13:25 am
I think I see where this is going... (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,46641.0.html)
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: DiabloRojo on September 28, 2007, 09:25:45 am
I think the scenario properly demonstrates why pilots are not allowed to drink while on duty.  They pick poor fighters for the mission at hand, likely a bad loadout to boot, and don't pay attention to their incoming fire/missile lock warning indicators.  Not to mention that they end up pasting some prosthetic to their forehead and start talking in gibberish.  Qapla'!

Terrible shame about the Guinness, regardless.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Knight Templar on September 28, 2007, 01:35:23 pm
That's actually quite ironic, as I was ****ing trashed the night before when I started the first half of Clash of the Titans II. Aelous Anti-fighter beam friendly fire is a mother****er.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: ShadowGorrath on September 28, 2007, 02:13:46 pm
The mission is called Apocalypse though ...

And good thing it never happened to me  :yes:
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Knight Templar on September 28, 2007, 04:41:06 pm
Wow, Captain Geeksauce over here. It's called Clash in the last mission briefing you see.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Snail on September 28, 2007, 04:45:11 pm
Quote from: ShadowGorrath on September 28, 2007, 02:13:46 pm
The mission is called Apocalypse though ...

Ya never see what it's called in-game... Even in the simulator. Some people call it "INCOMING TRANSMISSION." ;)
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Hades on September 28, 2007, 04:47:17 pm
Hmm, I really need to play FS2's campaign again.

P.S. My 1000th post!
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Hippo on September 28, 2007, 09:30:01 pm
****ing batman.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Knight Templar on September 28, 2007, 10:50:40 pm
nigga stole my bus.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: ShadowGorrath on September 29, 2007, 05:12:07 am
It's called Apocalypse . The previous mission is called Clash of the Titans II .

Also , when you "save Capella" , you get a 'no debriefing for mission apocalypse' .

So don't question my glorious knowledge  :p
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Snail on September 29, 2007, 05:18:53 am
Quote from: ShadowGorrath on September 29, 2007, 05:12:07 am
It's called Apocalypse . The previous mission is called Clash of the Titans II .

Also , when you "save Capella" , you get a 'no debriefing for mission apocalypse' .

So don't question my glorious knowledge  :p

I can question your boundless and unparalleled knowledge. If you "Save Capella" you do not get a "no debriefing for mission apocalypse". You get "no debriefing for mission sm3-xxx" What you do get, is a bit of writing at the top of the debriefing saying "Apocalypse."

:ha:
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Excalibur on September 30, 2007, 10:53:02 pm
2 seconds before impact? I thought you were dead when it reached 3 seconds. i.e when I was returning to base with 7 seconds left, I died after about 3.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: WeatherOp on September 30, 2007, 11:14:06 pm
Quote from: Hippo on September 28, 2007, 09:30:01 pm
****ing batman.

That guy is gonna kick your butt someday if you keep saying that. :p

In other news.

(http://www.chuckseafood.com/images/albacore-tuna-1.jpg)
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: BS403 on October 01, 2007, 12:47:22 am
Quote from: Hades on September 28, 2007, 04:47:17 pm
Hmm, I really need to play FS2's campaign again.

P.S. My 1000th post!

How the F*** did you get to 1000 posts so fast? F***, i've been here almost twice as long as you and i don't have that much, I guess i need to spam more.
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Fearless Leader on October 01, 2007, 08:31:34 am
Dont the Off Topic boards not add to your post count?
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: ShadowGorrath on October 01, 2007, 08:39:02 am
Off topics don't increase your post count .

Speaking of off topic - this thread is getting very deep into that .
Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Aardwolf on October 01, 2007, 08:50:42 am
What I don't get is how there are idiots out there who think "Incoming Transmission" is the name of the mission. It displays that before ANY red alert mission... have these morons never played FS1? I suppose they think the last mission of that is also called Incoming Transmission? And that so is the one where you warp in to see the Eva departing? Use your brains, people!

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Title: Re: sadness
Post by: Topgun on October 01, 2007, 08:14:00 pm
I have been here since MV_special_effects and I only got how many posts?

Kudos to whoever knows what that is.