Farbourne
Rear Admiral
So I'm playing through Standoff again, and trying to find hidden missions and things I might have missed before. Meaning I'm trying to do both better and worse than I did on my first playthrough. Worse is easy. Better is hard. So I turned the difficulty down when trying to do better to see what happened. Most missions did get easier... But now things are happening that I didn't expect.
In Ep 3 (winning path), I saved the Verdun, and then, for the first time ever, took down the Snakeir. However, the last Broadsword was nailed as it released its torp (the torp that took down the Snakeir), and I got Stringray saying the mission was fubar just before the Snakeir went up. I got the congratulatory message at the end and the objectives read "Completed" so I assume I got credit for winning it, but I'm not sure. Then, in the minelayer mission, I completed the primary objectives (laid enough mines at each nav point, and got the "Completed" in the mission objective screen), but failed the secondary objective of keeping at least four clydesdales alive (I lost two, so only three survived).
Now I get the "Save the Sao Paolo" mission. Which is fine...I like that mission...but it flies in the face of what I thought people said about the Ep 3 winning mission path. I thought if you saved the Verdun and completed the minelayer mission, you didn't get the Sao Paolo mission. Plus, I took down the Snakeir. Does failing to complete the secondary mission objective in the minelayer mission automatically force you to fly the Sao Paolo mission?
For that matter, a more general question: If you complete all primary objectives but fail or leave incomplete secondary objectives, is the mission considered "won" or "lost"? What about bonus objectives?
It seems strange that a single Clydesdale seems more important than a Snakeir...
In Ep 3 (winning path), I saved the Verdun, and then, for the first time ever, took down the Snakeir. However, the last Broadsword was nailed as it released its torp (the torp that took down the Snakeir), and I got Stringray saying the mission was fubar just before the Snakeir went up. I got the congratulatory message at the end and the objectives read "Completed" so I assume I got credit for winning it, but I'm not sure. Then, in the minelayer mission, I completed the primary objectives (laid enough mines at each nav point, and got the "Completed" in the mission objective screen), but failed the secondary objective of keeping at least four clydesdales alive (I lost two, so only three survived).
Now I get the "Save the Sao Paolo" mission. Which is fine...I like that mission...but it flies in the face of what I thought people said about the Ep 3 winning mission path. I thought if you saved the Verdun and completed the minelayer mission, you didn't get the Sao Paolo mission. Plus, I took down the Snakeir. Does failing to complete the secondary mission objective in the minelayer mission automatically force you to fly the Sao Paolo mission?
For that matter, a more general question: If you complete all primary objectives but fail or leave incomplete secondary objectives, is the mission considered "won" or "lost"? What about bonus objectives?
It seems strange that a single Clydesdale seems more important than a Snakeir...