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Title: so, who is a top gun? :)
Post by: Nighteyes on September 19, 2012, 11:55:13 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxuxRKRO23o&feature=youtu.be

its possible to get a medal in M1, who of you guys managed to get it? :)
I thought it might be fun to post your highest kill numbers for M1(and possibly other missions as well)

the reward?
(http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/QMBSG0037lg.jpg)

I'll start this off at 58 kills:
(http://imageshack.us/a/img843/5871/screen0064.jpg)

Title: Re: so, who is a top gun? :)
Post by: StarSlayer on September 19, 2012, 12:15:40 pm
Just to be clear the Galactica Stein is redeemable only via Nighteyes and is not officially offered by the Diaspora Development Team.  So nobody show up at my address looking for their stoneware mug, I'll loose the warhounds.
Title: Re: so, who is a top gun? :)
Post by: Nighteyes on September 19, 2012, 12:22:12 pm
Just to be clear the Galactica Stein is redeemable only via Nighteyes and is not officially offered by the Diaspora Development Team.  So nobody show up at my address looking for their stoneware mug, I'll loose the warhounds.

lol and I'll be further clear, there is no redeemable "reward", just the fuzzy warm feeling of accomplishment :)
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Post by: MatthTheGeek on September 19, 2012, 12:25:59 pm
I doubt that was in Insane, was it.
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Post by: Dragon on September 19, 2012, 12:36:27 pm
Unlikely, but when I have some time, I'm gonna beat his score on insane. :)
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Post by: torc on September 19, 2012, 01:23:32 pm
Shame on your landing sequence!!!!!!!!! :D
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Post by: Aether on September 19, 2012, 02:08:51 pm
Video says the difficulty is set to normal so that's pretty impressive! Well done! Now I am going to try and beat it! (If at all possible  :blah:)

Honestly, I didn't even think there were 58 raiders in M-1, but there you go :lol:
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Post by: Nighteyes on September 19, 2012, 02:17:58 pm
In the video description it states this was on Normal, I didn't like all those videos ending with 10-15 kills(not to mention a certain sepia post processing effect) and thought I'd show how its meant to be played IMO...
the main issue is to conserve the ammo, in the video I got 54, but on another run when I wasn't recording got the 58

dragon, let the games begin! :D

Aether: there are many more raiders, 58 is all I got, Theseus and the other vipers are effective and its a race to kill the raiders before they do
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Post by: Dirt McStain on September 19, 2012, 02:55:37 pm
Epic landing!  I'm quite envious.  I get an average of 4-5 kills per mission.  Usually, I actually shoot down twice as many but they get counted as assist due to the Raiders already being heavily damaged by flak, collisions with Theseus, and NPC Vipers (in that order).
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Post by: Aether on September 19, 2012, 04:00:55 pm
Story of my life. I'll be chasing a bandit, 30% left, 10% left, 2% left, THESEUS SHOOTS IT DOWN  :sigh:
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Post by: Demitri on September 19, 2012, 04:59:31 pm
I just had a quick run through the first mission on Normal and got a pitiful 25 before getting jumped by a particularly sneaky raider! :hopping:
Having said that, most of my damage came from repeatedly flying through the flak screen! Will be attempting to improve upon that score tho. :)
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 19, 2012, 05:02:09 pm
Anybody getting that many kills on Advanced yet?
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Post by: Sushi on September 19, 2012, 05:05:28 pm
I'm more curious to see who can beat the last dogfight in training mission 2 on Insane. Without using missiles. :)

Just remember, the AI can get quite a lot harder than that. :D

For the record, I think the most I got while counting was 40+ kills on Hard (or whatever we renamed it to, second-highest) on M6. That was an earlier version of M6, though, that was slightly broken (I was able to get so many raiders because I was keeping the Theseus alive for far, far, far too long).

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Post by: Demitri on September 19, 2012, 05:13:39 pm
33 kills, 15 assists second run through on Normal. And there aint no way i'm trying Insane. Dont want to be resarting the mission every 10 seconds!!!
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Post by: newman on September 19, 2012, 06:15:00 pm
Meh.. normal difficulty. If you guys are going to have a top gun contest, it should be at least on advanced or above. On difficulties below advanced you still have autoaim which means killing raiders is as hard as popping bubble wrap. I once completed the game on insane, then went to play on normal just to compare with having autoim. I recall having about 60+ kills in M1 (61, 62.. somewhere in that vicinity), then running out of ammo :) Without autoim that kill count drops, drastically. And I find a lower amount of kills when you have to work hard for each one a lot more fun than dozens of easy ones.
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Post by: torc on September 19, 2012, 06:18:17 pm
i'm all for an insane level  contest.... let's start to become MEN!!!! :D

I think the Galactica top gun Contest  could wait until the MP will works good.
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Post by: rscaper1070 on September 19, 2012, 06:38:53 pm
That's why I'd like to see the difficulty setting show on the stats screen. Then we could get a competition going. :)
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Post by: Aether on September 19, 2012, 07:34:10 pm
Insane level contest?  :shaking:

I played M1 on Insane 4 times, did not survive one...

I'm getting pretty excited with Torc's idea of having a MP Top Gun tournament when Multiplayer gets fleshed out. Just the idea of having Tournaments alone is getting me pretty giddy :lol: Clan vs. Clan type matches until there's an eventual Top Squadron also. Maybe make it like a one weekend a month kinda thing?

Ah! So many plans! :P

I'm going off topic anyway. Looks like this weekend I'm going to try and get 50+ kills on *gulp* Insane difficulty...  :nervous: Good practice for Multiplayer anyway. ;)
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Post by: Nighteyes on September 19, 2012, 08:32:11 pm
hmm a contest for insane will probably scare off some of the new guys... maybe we can just have a rank for each difficulty?
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Post by: karajorma on September 19, 2012, 08:49:03 pm
Just use this and play on whatever difficulty you like.

http://fs2downloads.com/Misc-Downloads/Builds/Top_Gun_Competition_Builds.zip

Based on current trunk (the only uncommitted code from Diaspora builds is to do with FRED anyway, so why not). these builds will print the skill level at the top of the stats screen.

To use, extract to the Diaspora folder and select from the launcher. Remember that when patches come out you'll need to go back to using the official Diaspora build.
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Post by: Cerebus on September 24, 2012, 12:31:21 am
I accept this challenge
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Post by: Cerebus on September 24, 2012, 07:19:37 pm
I accept this challenge

(http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7457/acemp.jpg)

bam (normal)

your 58 is going to be tough to touch, the balance of speed and ammo conservation is impressive.


we should dogfight sometime

and I what's the deal with the scoring system? 

(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4524/doubleace.jpg)
I got this double ace after trying it on easy and getting 52 kills
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Post by: Nighteyes on September 25, 2012, 07:04:40 am
hehe nice! not so easy is it?
to be fair the number of kills goes down drastically on higher difficulties... I got to around 18 kills on Insane before I died... will need to try a few more times, you need a different approach on Insane... its... interesting  :yes:
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Post by: newman on September 25, 2012, 10:35:36 am
Not having autoaim means a lot less kills.
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Post by: MatthTheGeek on September 25, 2012, 10:37:43 am
Not having autoaim means a lot more skill.
ftfy :p
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Post by: torc on September 25, 2012, 12:13:38 pm
lol!!!!