[Mars]

I'd have to say King's Gambit I've never gotten through in insane... there's always that golden BB that does me in.

[Bob-san]

I'm still on that mission......

I'll go use the high-poly models and sit in the orion's fighterbay...

I usually get swamped one time or another... its hard to fight off 4 Mara with a Subach and Ahketon SDG, loaded with 25 rockeyes (surprizing good against the Rakshasa's fighterbeams, fast to fire, fast moving, and long range) and 80 hornets. I usually try to get some off me with the rockeyes in singlefire mode. Its hard to beat the mission... the Maras outnumber friendlies about 4-to-1 at times, if not more. The final fighter jumpin is the deadly one... you have to engage them because if you don't, they will all get on your tail with shivan swarms... a mix of luck and skill while flying an unmaneuverable heavy fighter... Its just like trying to take out Ulysses while in the original Herc... hard when theyre flying circles around you (literally).

But anyways, the bombers have to be taken out or the Orion will be destroyed... as you all know, Orions die against heavy bombers... when there are no AAAf beams on the sides, only on the top. You have to lean over the edge and fire about 2 salvos of doublefire against the dang bombers...

Insane is... well, insane. You die about three times on average, per mission. It will make you rethink Insane mode quickly...

[Blue Haired Maniac]

But is it enough curve to deter you from triggering the event of Snipes' transmission and picking up the Grall on your radar?

I tested this the other day. If you just fly in a straight line from the start point, you won't hit the Grall exactly, but you will get close enough to trigger the events.

[BlackDove]

Or you can just... you know... FOLLOW THE ****ING NAV BOUY'S

[Colonol Dekker]

Or you can just... you know... FOLLOW THE ****ING NAV BOUY'S

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Whoa there,...........

[Bob-san]

Whats the big deal w/ nav buoys? Just fly strait, wait a lil, and let your wingmen kill shivans...

someone should find out the exact distance between start and the transport, and see how hard or easy it is to get like 1km from the transport, get ur wings after you, then go in guns blazing

[Freespace Freak]

I'm currently testin' me FS2 prowess by completin' th' entire campaign on Insane mode...

So far, I'm on th' Gamma Draconis mission...  th' destroyer an' corvette jumped in, an' th' cain is in there now too...  it is rather hard t' do =P

That always takes me a couple of tries on insane. It's pretty easy if you make a run for where the Sobek jumps in, but if you want that Cain kill you need to take out it's weapons pretty quick and order one of your wings to defend you, and of course you'll probably die anyway.

F that!  Just let the damn Orion and Sobek kill that Lilith-class Cain. 

[Snail]

I'm currently testin' me FS2 prowess by completin' th' entire campaign on Insane mode...

So far, I'm on th' Gamma Draconis mission...  th' destroyer an' corvette jumped in, an' th' cain is in there now too...  it is rather hard t' do =P

That always takes me a couple of tries on insane. It's pretty easy if you make a run for where the Sobek jumps in, but if you want that Cain kill you need to take out it's weapons pretty quick and order one of your wings to defend you, and of course you'll probably die anyway.

F that!  Just let the damn Orion and Sobek kill that Lilith-class Cain. 

Lilith-class Cain?

Anyway, it is much better to get the Allied Defense Citation than killing a Cain, which you can do in many other missions in the campaign.

[Freespace Freak]

It says it's a Cain, but apparantly, it's actually a Lilith.  Not only does it have a Lilith textures in SCP, but you can tell by how long it takes both an Orion and a Sobek to kill it.

[Blue Haired Maniac]

Or you can just... you know... FOLLOW THE ****ING NAV BOUY'S

Pfft...nav bouy's. We don't need no stinking bouy's.

I prefer charging straight ahead in an EMP storm.

[Mars]

It says it's a Cain, but apparantly, it's actually a Lilith.  Not only does it have a Lilith textures in SCP, but you can tell by how long it takes both an Orion and a Sobek to kill it.

No, in a default mission it is definitely a Cain.

The Orion has had the BGreen removed, which is why it takes so long to take out a Cain

[BlackDove]

Removed.

[BlackDove]

There, better encode, focus is solely to get to the Grall, just look at the radar and the gray dots basically.

If you still can't finish it after watching this video, god have mercy on your soul.

http://rapidshare.de/files/33934873/AsLightningFall.avi.html

[Ulala]

Well done.

[Dan1]

Something I found by accident about this mission is that if you turn up the time compression to about 4 or 8 then you no longer have any annoying EMP's  .  However fighting in this way may prove difficuly beyond medium difficulty.

[Colonol Dekker]

Don your cheat pants and just ctrl+K them 

@ Video-- 99meg i'm good without it........

[BlackDove]

Yeah, the quality couldn't suck because you needed to see the dots on the radar.

...and also it could be that I was too lazy to **** around with different types of codec's.

At any rate, if you can't download 100 megabytes, I pity you.

[Colonol Dekker]

I can in 4 minutes flat at work, But i cant be doing with it snooping round cos of my dept using 8 times more bandwith than the rest of the floor. The typical transfer size is about 4 meg for a layered doc with interlaced images. If i DL a hundred meg video. They'll see a spike and kick my ass