[karajorma]

He extracted it with VPview no doubt. Once you've done that it's just a matter of loading the mission in like any other.

Full details on VPView can be found in the FAQ.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Might I say that this was one of the dumbest fricken missions of the whole lot. "Hey alpha, protect the Oberon from those stealth fighters. Hey btw, the Stealth fighters are invulnerable and you can't win."

   YEAH, that's an excellent review of the stealth fighter's capabilities. Make the Pegasii invulnerable, and cut Alpha down to the player's ship only and anyone could smoke all of those dumb stealth fighters.

   A better way to have done it is to have the Pegasii vulnerable (maybe guardian) to damage but becoming invulernable once they go below such and such a level, and when they go below that level they break away and abort the mission. Get all the fighters to abort and you beat 'em.


   At least the TAG mission was semi-amusing. But even so, whose going to use TAGs? The player wants lots of kills and giving those kills to some allied warships is not the way to do it.

[Deathstorm V2]

You lost you wingmen to the stealths?  Never happened to me... but then again, I never let mine leave the Aquitaine's side in the first place.

Just fire a shot near them and they run like hell anyway. (Depending on difficulty, of course)

[karajorma]

One trick is to take out the morning star and just push them away from the Oberon. When they are being battered about like a rag doll they can't hit the Oberon

[Descenterace]

I can't get VPView to work on Windows XP.  Is this a known problem, and is there an update to solve it?  There's no error message; the program just doesn't run.

[magatsu1]

...take out the morning star and push them away....

ah, so that's what it does.
"kinetic weapon". Huh, could mean anything.
As soon as the Shivans arrive, a wing of Seraphim just nails the Oberon anyway.Literally. In my experience.

[Hippo]

Originally posted by magatsu1

Huh, could mean anything.
As soon as the Shivans arrive, a wing of Seraphim just nails the Oberon anyway.Literally. In my experience.

Kenetic does mean force exhetring...

And yes, there are 18ish cyclops aimed at the oberon at that exact moment...

[karajorma]

Originally posted by magatsu1
As soon as the Shivans arrive, a wing of Seraphim just nails the Oberon anyway.Literally. In my experience.

Yeah but by that time FS2 has already determined that you succeeded in protecting it. Since the ship was basically scrap metal anyway it doesn't really matter if it gets blown up afterwards

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Hippo
You don't need to destroy it to get the medal. You only need to protect the Oberon from delta, and keep the Aquitane's Hull above 50, and play it on medium.

'Protect the Oberon from Delta' is not needed, because it is close to be impossible.

[magatsu1]

Actually, I finished that part of the mission with the Oberon at 80% integrity. Only managed it the one time though

[Hippo]

I can keep it above 20% on Hard.

[Woogi]

I had the hardest time killing the Moloch too. I got it down to less than 5 many many times and even to 1 several times. Was very aggravating.

Eventually I took out 3 of the Aquataine's engines which made it take 2 minutes more to get to the jump node. That extra time I made that damn thing stay there made killing the Moloch easy. Of course my friendly fire % was nice and ugly but I was sick of that mission.

[Hippo]

THOU SHALT NOT BUMP!




Don't do it again. Thats why there's a warning you have to click through.

[TopAce]

Welcome to HLP, newcomer. We, the proud and little FreeSpace community, are glad that there are still people interested in this game. If you do not happen to be particularly interested in this game, you should stop reading the text in italic.

It is a general tradition at HLP that we zap the newest member using a weapon like this:

That said we modified the original GTVA beam cannon which is hazardless for friendly fire. The beam we fired at you was successfully absorbed by your Newbie Protection Shield technology(developed in January, 2002). Use the power you absorbed to contribute to the work of the community. To find you way how to assist the HLP people, go to FRED Academy and make a foray.

Enjoy your stay and keep your Newbie Protection System active all the time until you are officially promoted to Senior Member. Avoid asking about FreeSpace 3. Do a search and you will know why.

Thank you for reading all this piece of writing, let me wish you good luck and a happy stay!

[Kie99]

Barracudas suck, I hate them, if you want to be a test pilot you woudn't sign up to the GTVA military division would you?  You'd sign up for the test division, its not like you wouldn't have enough training, the 4th mission in the campaign you are fighting Shivans *continues mindless ranting*



Wow I've made about 50 posts in 4 days. Must be the broadband