[Droid803]

I've never "completed" A Game of Tag, even on very easy.
I've always lost the Lucidity, or died to friendly beam fire :/

[Hades]

Really? I find it easy on insane.

[SpardaSon21]

It would be easier if you were flying something that had more reasonably placed secondary banks and wasn't equipped with Subachs and Prom R.

[Hades]

It doesn't help any that the mission has a stupid premise, yeah.

[Snail]

Least favorite canon mission.

[Solatar]

Yeah, the fact that I basically have to protect the Warspite with a single Subach bank isn't fun.

[Shivan Hunter]

It's even worse if you know that the single redeeming point in that mission- the Kappa wing foreshadowing- was not originally planned for it, but thrown in on a whim. The original mission did nothing for the plot in any way, and was just as annoying.

[Kolgena]

I think it was just showing off their scripting.

"Hey, check this out. We can get this warship to specifically nail whatever it is that you've tagged. Neat hey?"

And yeah, personally I haven't had much trouble in that mission. I think the trick is to stay close to the Warspite and to make sure not to get in between it and your target. If you can manage that, each of your TAG missiles are essentially OHKO tempests.

[General Battuta]

This is actually one of my favorite missions.

[Hades]

It's one of my least favorites, not due to the gameplay addition of the tag, but due to the fact its premise is absolutely idiotic and that it has no reason to be in the campaign since TAGs don't even function correctly in any other mission.

'Oh hey, let's slave our weapons into this experimental missile which is carried on a 30-year-old, outdated piece-of-junk which also has a Prom R with no way of retaining control over our weapon systems. Also, we'll do it in the Shivan infested nebula instead of using drones. Great idea, huh, what could go wrong.'

[Spoon]

It's one of my least favorites, not due to the gameplay addition of the tag, but due to the fact its premise is absolutely idiotic and that it has no reason to be in the campaign since TAGs don't even function correctly in any other mission.

'Oh hey, let's slave our weapons into this experimental missile which is carried on a 30-year-old, outdated piece-of-junk which also has a Prom R with no way of retaining control over our weapon systems. Also, we'll do it in the Shivan infested nebula instead of using drones. Great idea, huh, what could go wrong.'

And you know what? This never occured to me when I played the mission 

[Snail]

If TAGs were actually useful further on in the campaign, that mission might have had a purpose.

[Hades]

And you know what? This never occured to me when I played the mission 

Just because it didn't occur to you doesn't mean it isn't true.

[Spoon]

And you know what? This never occured to me when I played the mission 

Just because it didn't occur to you doesn't mean it isn't true.

>Implying I said anything of the sort
Nope.avi

[chief1983]

But that it didn't occur to many players like that does mean the mission designers didn't do as bad a job as you claim.  Even if it didn't serve a purpose to you later on, so what?  You were part of a failed experiment.  It was showing that the GTVA was trying any means it could to gain an edge on the Shivans, and a live test probably provides much more useful data than a drone simulation.  We know Command was more than willing to put lives at risk, so it's no surprise to me what happened.

[Hades]

It's not so much the location as it is they force you to use the Ulysses and the Deimos can't regain control of its weapon systems in case of an emergency.

[Qent]

I hated the gameplay, but loved the premise. At the time, I thought it was meant to show that Command was busy inventing useless weapon systems and underestimating the Shivan threat, without considering the situation of the pilots. Now (partly thanks to working TAGs in other campaigns), it seems that they may have known what they were doing after all.

[Kolgena]

But that it didn't occur to many players like that does mean the mission designers didn't do as bad a job as you claim.  Even if it didn't serve a purpose to you later on, so what?  You were part of a failed experiment.  It was showing that the GTVA was trying any means it could to gain an edge on the Shivans, and a live test probably provides much more useful data than a drone simulation.  We know Command was more than willing to put lives at risk, so it's no surprise to me what happened.

Except then they're all proud when they give you two new TAG missiles. They're like "hey dude, these are awesome" when they're completely useless.
And yeah, how do you even manage to slave a weapons system with no way to regain control if Alpha 1 and 2 flying Ulysses die? They also throw away a lot of Lokis and pilots simply to lure in some fighters.

[Qent]

Well they didn't force you to use them or equip them by default, so it's like "Oh here's more stuff to test if you want" WoD-like.

And for the beams my guess is they removed the targeting system to make room for ULTRAness or something.

[Hades]

No, they do force you to use an Ulysses, Prom R, etc. You don't get to choose your loadout.