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Offline Hippo

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no, but i'll tell you it is a figher... and yo kill it bfore you have shields... and this is all asuming that you kill the ships in the order they arrive, ie; not a wing of scorps and shatains at the same time...
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Offline Jal-18

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What is the name of one of the Fenris cruisers in the FS1 intro?

 

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How are we supposed to know? :blah:

And how do you know it's not a Leviathan?
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Offline Hippo

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ok, the answer to mine is the basalisk... because stealth ships aren't confirmed kills... If the question had been non fighter, the answer would be the trident, from when you scan the exploding containers...
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
err sorry. Scorpion.


Wrong. SB Shaitan.
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Offline Knight Templar

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uhh.. no? look up one post... :rolleyes:



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and either way, that doesn't change the first shivan Ship that I killed. Meaning I didn't vape the Shaitian, buddy.
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Offline karajorma

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As I said before it's theoretically possible to go through the entire game without killing anything so the question is pretty meaningless. Your first kill could be for just about anything.
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Truly. Ships which are invisible to radars are not counted as kills. I would have known t2he answer at once, but I hadn't visited HLP in the last few days. Unfortunately. :(

Otherwise, I thought I can get kills to ships which are hidden from radars, I was forced to realize it while testing my campaign. I was curious how many shielded invisible ships have I killed with the ML-16 Super Destroyer gun :D , and I saw the Kills: 0!
My head was something like this: :mad2:

Stupid thing. :o
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As I said before it's theoretically possible to go through the entire game without killing anything so the question is pretty meaningless. Your first kill could be for just about anything.


Really? How? On Very Easy level? :confused:
Your wingnem require cover, they are not too good to defend themselves.
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Offline Jal-18

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The closest I've come to reading it is either VanBaun, or VanBarn...and weirdly enough, the cruiser icon has a GTT label...

I don't know wheter or not it's a Leviathan.  [V] was lazy and decided to create a new ship using the same mesh...blame them.  (Did the same thing with the Cain and Lilith too.)

 

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Really? How? On Very Easy level? :confused:
Your wingnem require cover, they are not too good to defend themselves.


I did say theoretically! :D

My point is that unless there was a mission where alpha flys solo AND has to kill a certain shivan ship to progress there is no way to be absolutly certain which class gets killed first by the player.

If you concentrate on only knocking enemy shields down and never do more than 20% damage to any ship you could in theory make it through quite a few missions without any kills. Of course you would have to be very lucky (and so would your wingmen) and very skillful. Whether there is a player skillful and lucky enough to do it is another matter but it is theoretically possible :D
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Offline Woolie Wool

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I don't think you can beat the third mission in the first SOC loop (...But Hate the Traitor) without killing the first wave of ships. The Skulls won't arrive until the second wave of ships has been around for some time.
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Offline Hippo

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he was talking mainly about shivans... and possibly FS1... (methinks)
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Offline TopAce

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Hippo supposed we are flying 'grinder mode'. despite, it is not certain what our first kill is. A sentry or a Basilisk. If we don't manage to take down any of the Belials, we can take down one Basilisk for sure in the following mission. The very first time I played the mission to escort the shields(Avenging Angels?), I was firing my Fury missiles continously in order to defend the cargo, and then I have quite a good chance to achieve my first Shivan kill of Basilisk.

Not important, but I completed FS2 earlier than FS1, so I knew what the Basilisk is able to do when not taken care, and surely that led me to follow the 'grinder mode'  to shoot without aiming, and much.

Allow me to suggest some reform in this topic: If somebody answers a question, but does not ask another one, may the first visitor ask the following one.
If a question is unanswered correctly for a determinated amount of time(30 days?), may there be another question, of course asked by the man who asked the question we were not able to answer.

:yes:  or :no:
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Offline Hippo

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30 days?:eek2:
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Offline TopAce

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Long or short time?
Rather long.

How many days would you suggest?
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Offline Knight Templar

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fine, three and a half. :p
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