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Fair warning, fellow privateers - There's a MAJOR bug in the Kaydance AWACS missions! If I'm successful in waxing the AWACS Stilletos, I find myself as Confed's Enemy #1 all of a sudden, and I'm WORKING for them! WTF!? Nice doublecross, guys...

I'm sure they're a little weaker, keeping in mind that there's two of them on those Salthis. Oh well, one fully kitted Cent + two fusions on the inside mounts and two tachyons on the outside mounts + tachyon turret = Serious Salthi slayer. Muhaha!! :)

You're kidding, right? The Retro copies of Steltek guns are weak. Looks like the Retros couldn't get the awesome power of the origional to work right, and/or trashed the power booster trying to reverse engineer it. Ten Demons with four lasers each are more dangerous than ten Retro Salthis with...

Try the 'basic repair' on the upgrades screen. That sometimes fixes and/or makes fixable upgrades that can't be fixed or replaced any other way.

That's not a bug, that's a version of autoslide (called the Shelton) that comes with the vegastrike engine. The manual explains it in detail.

Repair droids are lazy slackers and won't fix jack because of a missing line in the config file. The fix is easy. Open vegastrike.config in notepad, scroll down to the "physics" section, and paste in this line: <var name="RepairDroidTime" value="30"/> That'll make R2 get off his fat...

Hawk, the vegastrike engine doesn't get along with Radeons very well. It's a common complaint over on the vegastrike forums. Someone here, I think Hellcat, mentioned a Radeon driver version that fixes the problem. Failing that, try a Geforce. Priv Remake runs flawlessly on my GF FX 5200 Ultra...

Let me guess. The demons are too f'ing fast and overarmed, right? And the randomly appearing Retros don't help, either. I fixed that problem by reducing their speed and turn govenor settings by about 20%, removed their autotracking, and limited them to light and medium guns and medium missiles...

Okay. Then the Dray's turrets will open fire when the Dray is shot at. Keep in mind that those are laser turrets, and fire dim red shots that isn't very visable against certian backgrounds.

When you get close to it, does your Dray look sort of like this? Note two turrets on it's head, and one on it's tail in this shot. The other three turrets are in the same spots on the bottom side.

Not only does the Kamekh have a 'blind spot' right in front of it's nose where none of it's turrets or wing cannons can hit you, but it turns rediculously fast for a ship of it's size and manages to keep it's nose pointed right at you. The only time I've seen it turn away from me is when...

I gave the Drayman six laser turrets, plus reducing the speed and turn governors on the Demons. It was the only way to pass that mission, after restarting it well over 40 times. :( The game cheats, what with throwing out 20-odd insanely flying Demons plus random Retros and Cats to fight off, so...

...When you challenge allycats to a brawl with "Hey, furface! Let's fight!" And you scream "Now the fur's gonna fly!" if they actually take you up on it. :)

Rhygannon base never refreshes it's supply of missiles. Along with the random enemies that appear during the ES missions on top of the mission enemies means you run out of reloads very quickly. I had to hack the savegame in order to reload my launchers.

Actually, you should unzip it to the units directory. The zip contains a modified units.csv. :)

If you have OpenOffice or some other spreadsheet app that can handle .csv formats, then you're in luck. Look for the listings for the Dray. There's three listed, and should be just below the listings for the Cent. Pan over to the entries called "subunits", and paste in this line for all...

Add my Hancock to the list. A defenceless Dray may be 'canon' and what the diehard Retros want, but let's be real here please. In the origional Priv, the enemy pilots flew, as the hero puts it, like a blind grandmother. They weren't very good. Here, they fly like they're demented, pulling...

All turrets include tractors. When in the turret, use G to switch to the tractor. Don't forget to switch back to the turret guns once you've scooped up the goods with the tractor. :)

Comm: Comm keys 6 through 9 are unused. Seemed like good keys to bind wingman commands, which I did. The new bindings don't show on the comm VDU, but they work, and are very handy placed there. Wingmen: To put a stop to the drunken pilot syndrome, tell them to form up, and throttle back to...

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