[Roanoke]

I've gone back to playing Hostile Waters....

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm stuck on that stupid stealth mission (on hw) when you get your first puma.

[Roanoke]

Following Train Tracks to find bases ? I like that mission. How are you stuck ?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Um...request split, anyone?

[Stormkeeper]

I'm stuck on that stupid stealth mission (on hw) when you get your first puma.

That takes a lot of trial and error, plus not using your cannon loads. Iirc, dumping the entire load onto a single silo should take it out.

There are two, iirc, and the Scalpel strapped to the Puma should be able to handle it, albeit it'll take a while.

[Roanoke]

Just destroy the Guidance stations. It's easy. I like to avoid the resource objective and take-on the local bases. Takes ages pushing tanker trucks into position with a stealthy puma but it's awesome when it's all set up.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Colonel, are you going to moderate (and split this thread) or is there a rule about the number of off-topic posts required to do a thread split?

[karajorma]

Split and renamed.

I hadn't noticed people were talking about Hostile Waters or I'd have done it long ago since I love Hostile Waters (and Carrier Command for that matter).

[Stormkeeper]

I think it should have a sequel. Too bad I've never played Carrier Command. Was it similar?

[Colonol Dekker]

*shrug* Hostile Waters is the Fans choice i s'pose.




I'm contemplating Uplink when i get home

[Stormkeeper]

Uplink?

Btw, how'd you pass the mission where you have to rescue the Cabal? It took me quite a number of tries to pass it.

[Colonol Dekker]

The ACKBAR trap mission?

or the one with lasers?


edit, regarding UPLINK, i thought i was in the "revisitng classic games" topic

[Stormkeeper]

Tts the one where the Cabal begs you to rescue them, then they deliver you plans for the Shark, the first vehicle with dual weapons.

[Colonol Dekker]

I've not done it yet. Last i played i was on the Puma/stealth level.  SInce i got RA3, i'm gonna be there a while too.

[karajorma]

I think it should have a sequel. Too bad I've never played Carrier Command. Was it similar?

Carrier Command is what Hostile Waters was obviously based on. It's not got quite as much depth as Hostile Waters (It is an Amiga/ST/Spectrum game after all) but it's based on the idea that there is an enemy carrier trying to take over a set of newly formed islands from one end while you try to do the same from the other. You could send out air and amphibious vessels from the carrier and could step in to take control of any of them at any point.

Hostile Waters is without a doubt the better game of the two but CC did give you the option of controlling the Carrier too and the ability to choose whether you made islands into Factory, Resource or Defence islands did give the game a strategic level that was missing in HW.

Hmmmm. I've just noticed that the game is now 20 years old. Boy do I feel old now.

EDIT : OMFG!!!11111

[Colonol Dekker]

So it came out when i was six

[Flipside]

I was 16 and had it on the Spectrum iirc

Good to see it's being remade.

And Hostile Waters was brilliant, the only mission that really annoyed me was the only 'FPS' style one where you had to go in and destroy a computer core or the like, but the rest of the game is still one of my favourites

[Stormkeeper]

... I do believe I've seldom seen Kara so excited.


Added to my gamespot watch list, any how. If it resembles Hostile Waters, I'll definitely love it.

Spoiler:

I love the Antaeus. Too bad it had to self destruct. But its ending just screams sequel!

[Colonol Dekker]

  SPOILER TAGS PLOX

[karajorma]

... I do believe I've seldom seen Kara so excited.

Carrier Command is my 2nd all time favourite game on the Speccy (Which as you can imagine puts it up against some pretty stiff competition) and Hostile Waters gets reinstalled and played once ever 18 months or so since I enjoy that game so much.