[Joey_21]

I remember a long time ago when the FRED Zone released a mission pack which included a converted version of Their Finest Hour to multi. Darkage and I personally destroyed all the cannons on the Sathanas before it could take down the Colossus and we destroyed it. I can't remember exactly how we did it. I guess we didn't lose very many wingmen (bombers mainly). Although, in the debriefing we got yelled at for failing the mission.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Joey_21
I remember a long time ago when the FRED Zone released a mission pack which included a converted version of Their Finest Hour to multi. Darkage and I personally destroyed all the cannons on the Sathanas before it could take down the Colossus and we destroyed it. I can't remember exactly how we did it. I guess we didn't lose very many wingmen (bombers mainly). Although, in the debriefing we got yelled at for failing the mission.

Failing the mission? Not 'leaving without authorization'?
I have played that multi mission. that was a good one, but PXO produces heavy LAGs, and is not enjoyable.

[ChronoReverse]

Further proof that had the GTVA had an entire _wing_ of Alpha1's the entire Sathanas fleet could've been destroyed XD

[Joey_21]

Originally posted by TopAce


Failing the mission? Not 'leaving without authorization'?
I have played that multi mission. that was a good one, but PXP produces heavy LAGs, and is not enjoyable.

Exactly.
As you could imagine, it left us in anger.

[TopAce]

Why were you so angry? You got the score for killing the Sathie, not?

[Setekh]

Heh, I have the kills for several dozen Saths. Ahhh, non-kill-counting capship beams.

[SuperCoolAl]

Originally posted by TopAce
Why were you so angry? You got the score for killing the Sathie, not?

if u fail the mission it isnt logged isnt it?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by SuperCoolAi
if u fail the mission it isnt logged isnt it?

Every validated mission finsihed without using hacked data, and cheats is logged(so you get your achieved score).

The program doesn't know when is a mission completed, or failed. The .fc2 file must tell it to the game. That mission is individual, and has no .fc2 file included, because it is not a campaign.

[Thylrial]

I am guilty, I tried to do so, with the good old Treb. And yes it works, the Sathanas is virtually destroyed that way, if you have hours. (Even with X4 time compression, I needed no less than eight games minutes to take the Sathanas from 100 to 99. 2 real time minutes I believe)

If only there were Helioi available on that mission, or at least, a few additional Alpha One.

[Carl]

easy enough to just sit directly in the defenseless back of the sath and fire trebuchets for a while. you can have your wingmen disarm it just in case.

[Thylrial]

You don't even have to close in with the Sathanas, firing Trebuchets at four clicks work fine enough. Sure, then you only have to wait for a while. A *long* while.

Around the same lines, you could *attempt* to engage the Ravana on the second nebula mission. (I forgot the name of the mission. That's the one where the Actium and the Lysander are present) Unfortunately, with the weaponry available on this mission, you aren't going to go far with your Subach and a few Hornets. (Not to mention the "Big Damage" thingie)

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Thylrial
You don't even have to close in with the Sathanas, firing Trebuchets at four clicks work fine enough. Sure, then you only have to wait for a while. A *long* while.

Around the same lines, you could *attempt* to engage the Ravana on the second nebula mission. ....

You cannot .... It jumps out too soon ....
The mission title is: 'The Great Hunt'

[Thylrial]

It didn't jump out when I tried to engage it. Strange. I stayed with the Ravana for three minutes or so, which should have warped out since then according to FRED. *Frowns* The Actium survived this time, so perhaps this puzzled the Ravana.

In either case, the Ravana isn't supposed to remain for long. And anyway, you would have trouble to take down a Destroyer with Subach lasers and the Big Damage flag.

[Gloriano]

i just watched when Collossus died and drinked rum;)


last time i played freespace main campaign

[Trivial Psychic]

Sorry to bump this thread, especialy after going inactive for so long, but I wanted to post this.  Its been nagging me for months now, and with locking-crashes (somewhat overcome), joystick issues (solved for now), time issues (post-Xmas, I work retail, you do the math), and finally following my own proceedure correctly, I haven't been able to do this... until now.  I bring you... the Colossus avenged!!



Note the Sathanas fleet it the background, the directives list on the left, and the big fireball consuming the Sathanas, all confirming which mission this is.  Also note the multiple hull explosion HT&L thing, the low FPS in the upper lefthand corner, giving a ball-park estimate of my PC's capabilities, and what you can't see, such as the near 200 minute mission time it took to reach this state... it coulda been less, but I tried to Treb the last 1% on my own and failed.  Do the Trebs' "bomb" flag not beat a "supercap" flag?

Well, one down, another... 80 or so to go.

Later!

[Goober5000]

Hehe.  Cool.

[TopAce]

The time display is not visible. How much time did it take? I would have armed myself with two banks of Trebuchets. It is much faster.

[Goober5000]

Mm, it is a little bright to see too much.

Wow, TP, I just thought of something.  Which version of Freespace were you using with this?  Were you using retail or FS2_open?

If it isn't too much trouble, could you try repeating this with the 01_20_2004 build?  It would provide us with an excellent stress test.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by TopAce
The time display is not visible. How much time did it take? I would have armed myself with two banks of Trebuchets. It is much faster.

I could read part of the time gauge, and it said 197 minutes (three hours and 17 minutes! Damn, you must be patient!), but I couldn't read the number of seconds.

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Goober5000
If it isn't too much trouble, could you try repeating this with the 01_20_2004 build?  It would provide us with an excellent stress test.

Way ahead of you Goob, that WAS the 01_20_2004 "r" build with flags -htl, -jpgtga, -fps, using the 356c mediaVP and Lightspeed's low-res tga planet pack, though not the advanced weapons or thrusters.

If you're interested, system specs.:
AMD 800 MHz. (thunderbird)
256MB PC133
ASUS A7V
120GB WDC
ASUS V7100 GF2 MX 32MB AGP (drivers 53.04)
WinME

Woolie:  You're about right on the time, and I used time acceleration to get that, but yes I had to be patient.

Ace:  In my experience, trebs don't do the trick against a Sathanas.  Take a look at my proceedure on the previous page... that's how I did it.

Later!