[Androgeos Exeunt]

What difficulty do most people play FS2 in, anyway? I'm perpetually stuck on Very Easy.

[Stormkeeper]

Easy for me. I used to play at normal, then I met this mission.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I played the main campaign on Medium, but I got stuck at the very last mission. Most user-made campaigns are slightly more difficult, however.

[Molybdenum]

You are not the only one. I beat the entire FS2 campaign on hard except for this mission that you specify. It is beyond me why this is happening but I get owned by the cruisers while I hope to kill the last 2 Lokis. In the end after failing something like 50 times I decided to skip... On normal difficulty this mission was a single try... Hell i beat "Feint, Parry, Riposte!" on my first try on hard... My theory is that difference is caused by the lowered player health but also by the fact that on hard the Lokis link their Subachs and therefore do greater damage.

I for one have to lessen my skill by half when I'm in a Myrmidon.  That ship is just such an utter piece of junk for me... it's the primary reason keeping me away from playing on insane that I would have fly it again.

[Fenrir]

I`ve been playing in Easy for years. But I`ve recently made the jump to *gasp!* Normal.

[Polpolion]

I've beaten the game a few times on normal/medium/whatever. I forget how far I got on hard when I tried it, but I can remember that it was frustrating. FS2 doesn't load fast enough for me to keep trying.

[Bob-san]

Usually I play on Insane. To get used to the trackpad, I decided to give myself a break and play on Hard.

Anyway--for the mission you speak of--I do something a few others do as well. I order all wingmen to protect the Rampart and lure in the enemies--keep out of range, boost engines to max, and they'll follow you most of the time. Even closing too close, you will likely get in range of cruisers before the fighters (on Coward AI!!) will give chase. They chase, you fly past the Rampart, dive about 30-50 degrees (so to not be hit by NTF's beams), and then keep going for 3-5km.

The mission is hard to do--but you have to do it. Usually drawing the AI out of cover is best--and then you can use Harpoons or something to finish them off. Just don't forget that you can use your own ships too for cover.

[NGTM-1R]

I've tried to play it once on each level of difficulty, but I find the latter half of the campaign impossible then on Insane. User-made campaigns tend to get impossible on anything more than Medium, and usually I play them at Easy or Very Easy because I don't trust you all to know how to balance something.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I've tried to play it once on each level of difficulty, but I find the latter half of the campaign impossible then on Insane. User-made campaigns tend to get impossible on anything more than Medium, and usually I play them at Easy or Very Easy because I don't trust you all to know how to balance something.

Balancing a mission is very difficult. I've tried remaking Slaying Ravana once, and it was completely unbalanced. On the lower difficulty levels, the Ravana gets minced. On the higher difficulty levels, the Psamtik and Aquitaine, as well as their cruiser and corvette complement, get minced.

...by the way, did you change your username?

[Jeff Vader]

Psst. Missed a bracket.

...by the way, did you change your username?

His username was changed after a comment on what he originally wanted to have.

[Stormkeeper]

And his title also based on that same comment.

[WMCoolmon]

I usually play on medium or hard. I prefer to push it and do hard, but on some user campaigns it's just not worth it to play the same mission over again six times.

[Roanoke]

I don't have the patience to play games on very hard/impossible/insane etc anymore. I think the last game I 100% finished was either Goldeneye (all cheats opened up) or GranTurismo (all gold on all 3 licence tests, boy that sucked). I usually play on normal nowadays.

Though I did SystemShock2 on impossible and it wasn't so hard.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Psst. Missed a bracket.

Whoops...thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.

[BlackDove]

Personally I can't really play on anything else than Insane, except when I'm doing OTHER stuff (like BWO). The game feels WEAK on all difficulties other than insane. Not that I mean because it's easy. It's just that there's no "oomph". Capitols weapons are weaker, and everyone in general is a pussy. When I see beams flying, I want them to do massive damage to the enemy's weak point.

Best example of that is the Colo v Satha. It takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr on the normal difficulties. At least that's how I remember it. Haven't tried it in about seven years, every run since then has been Insane.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Personally I can't really play on anything else than Insane, except when I'm doing OTHER stuff (like BWO). The game feels WEAK on all difficulties other than insane. Not that I mean because it's easy. It's just that there's no "oomph". Capitols weapons are weaker, and everyone in general is a pussy. When I see beams flying, I want them to do massive damage to the enemy's weak point.

Best example of that is the Colo v Satha. It takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr on the normal difficulties. At least that's how I remember it. Haven't tried it in about seven years, every run since then has been Insane.

Why don't you call in a supply ship and do bombing runs on the juggernaut, then? You'll get a kill for that, and it's quite...interesting...to have an SJ Sathanas in your kill count.

[Stormkeeper]

I forced my primaries to the BFRed and gave Sathy a taste of its own medicine. I am a cheater. I am proud of it.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I forced my primaries to the BFRed and gave Sathy a taste of its own medicine. I am a cheater. I am proud of it.

I'm a cheater too (on Insane)!

[Droid803]

Personally I can't really play on anything else than Insane, except when I'm doing OTHER stuff (like BWO). The game feels WEAK on all difficulties other than insane. Not that I mean because it's easy. It's just that there's no "oomph". Capitols weapons are weaker, and everyone in general is a pussy. When I see beams flying, I want them to do massive damage to the enemy's weak point.

Best example of that is the Colo v Satha. It takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr on the normal difficulties. At least that's how I remember it. Haven't tried it in about seven years, every run since then has been Insane.

Why don't you call in a supply ship and do bombing runs on the juggernaut, then? You'll get a kill for that, and it's quite...interesting...to have an SJ Sathanas in your kill count.

you can get the sath kill by ordering your wingmen to depart, and firing one round of Mehkus at it. Yes. One shot. All the colly sprouts is beams, so you do 100% of the non-beam damage XD

[Stormkeeper]

you can get the sath kill by ordering your wingmen to depart, and firing one round of Mehkus at it. Yes. One shot. All the colly sprouts is beams, so you do 100% of the non-beam damage XD

... Damnit....

Stil it was fun spamming BFReds at the Sathy. Made the mission fast.