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Title: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: dr_costas on November 14, 2008, 09:30:48 pm

hi all,

I am playing the deus ex machina campaign but I am stuck to the level where you have a ship surrounded my shivan ships and you need to find a way out for it (when they test the translator device). It asks for me to press 1  which I do, I have been all around the ship and pressed 1 but nothing, I even cheated and destroyed the shivan ship right in front but still nothing. Is there something I am missing?

Many thanks

costas

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: Goober5000 on November 14, 2008, 09:47:02 pm

Hint: Notice that the Shivan cruisers form a ring around the Iceni.

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 14, 2008, 09:55:28 pm

Also, space is not 2D.

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: haloboy100 on November 14, 2008, 10:27:01 pm

[worthlessadvice]Also: Play Descent. It trains your mind to think in 3D[/worthlessadvice]

Actually, I never got through that mission myself. Even if I did what I was supposed too.

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: eliex on November 15, 2008, 01:07:31 am

Even if you <somehow> managed to get the Iceni to jump, once you attempt to get back to base, you self-destruct.
I managed to get the Iceni to jump . . . but I think it's an unbeatable campaign.   :lol:

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 15, 2008, 01:14:55 am

There's a way.

The blow up on jump out is just another DEM joke.  Apparently if you hit Alt-J, ESC, then Alt-J again real fast, it'll work.

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: eliex on November 16, 2008, 01:34:50 am

YES! I actually completed the DEM campaign! <through sheer persistence of pressing 1 all the place so don't ask me to tell you  ;)>

Thanks nuclear1! That campaign has defeated me for the past 2 years . . .  :p

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: Goober5000 on November 16, 2008, 11:36:13 am

I guess you never read the readme then? :p

Title: Re: deus ex machina tips?
Post by: eliex on November 16, 2008, 10:17:29 pm

 . . . no  :nervous:

Guess that there is always something to surprise you in a readme  :D