but the ace got away.
I suspect the problem lies in their torpedoes--even though the tech room says that "even laser turrets can't shoot it down," laser turrets do shoot Lances down, consistently, at any range beyond 4-5 clicks. But that only works for the player--not AI wingmen whose idea of a bombing run is flying in a straight line through 15 clicks of enemy fire.The description is a holdover from WC3 manual, where this was the case. Unfortunately, here, turrets can shoot down torpedoes, and are rather good at it.
What do?
Charlie's most hilarious foulup for me, was when they took out a Darket...with a Lance.
Are you sure it was a Lance? It is supposed to be impossible to lock a torpedo onto a fighter.No other missile makes a massive blue explosion other than the capship-to-capship missiles I believe.
Are you sure it was a Lance? It is supposed to be impossible to lock a torpedo onto a fighter.No other missile makes a massive blue explosion other than the capship-to-capship missiles I believe.
Plot shield is a wonderful thing
Impossible isn't the beginning of it--at least on HARD difficulty... :-|
I've tried it 30 times now, been stuck on it for a week. I might have to bend over and go to very easy. :( The ace just murders you and those sabres can't do jack **** against the vettes unless you draw fire for them. If they die, it's an automatic restart as it is pointless to kill them on your own.
I put it on Easy and it was cake. The Corvettes were pathetic and couldn't do squat. The Ace though, he almost took me out with a single missile sending me from 100% to 22%. It was close. Hard is HARD... And I'm going right back to it now.
At least until you get to Stalker. Whoever designed that mission is a sadist.
Well yeah, it's not that stealth fighters are hard, you're just given the worst possible fighter for the job :banghead:I think it depends on your aim which is understandably difficult in something as slow as a thunderbolt but with 3 kinds of guns you can unleash allot of hurt at once which is good against stealth fighters cause you could only have a few moments before they recloak.
I'm gonna hand it to WCS, Strakhas here are smarter about their cloaking. You need to clobber one with all your guns when you get the chance, or it'll cloak and you'll lose your target.
Thunderbolt is very good for this, though not as useful as in WC3, it's still a pretty good all-rounder.
you mean like what they did to every other squadron they found that day?I'm gonna hand it to WCS, Strakhas here are smarter about their cloaking. You need to clobber one with all your guns when you get the chance, or it'll cloak and you'll lose your target.
Thunderbolt is very good for this, though not as useful as in WC3, it's still a pretty good all-rounder.
I wonder if there's a limit as to how soon they can cloak. If there wasn't, you'd think they'd just uncloak behind you, fire off a couple of bursts then cloak. Rinse and repeat with nothing you can do except die.