Ok, so I have to ask this question of all of you, because I need your opinions. Today, I was playing SM1 on the mission where you encounter 5 Rapiers and the Gwenhyvar. I nuked the 4 Grathas and 4 Jalthi with ease, and moved onto thr nav where I knew the Rapiers and the Exeter would be waiting.
Here's the weird part. Normally, I have always flown this mission with Spirit, IIRC. This time, she was KIA before we'd even flown together in the Secret Missions, which I can't ever recall happening before. Which meant I'd flown all thr missions that I normally flew with her alone, which was a nightmare at best.
After I'd gotten to the Gwenhyvar, I managed to shoot down 1 of the 5 Rapiers (holy cow) before they killed me. I knew I had no real hope of out maneuvering 5 Rapiers in a Raptor all by my lonesome, so I decided to ignore them and try to kill the Gwenhyvar as fast as humanly possible, then bolt.
I was trying to do this before work, so I didn't have time to re-fight 4 Grathas and 4 Jalthi, so I used the alt delete cheat to explode them and the 1 Rapier I'd previously shot down so that I could try the other tactic. It bears mentioning that previously, I made it to the Gwenhyvar with minimal damage, minimal afterburner usage, and all missiles intact. Then, something weird happened.
As I was desperately chewing away ag the Gwenhyvar, the other 4 Rapiers disappeared. Had I drawn them so close to the cruiser that they accidentally crashed into it? Was it a game glitch? A by product of activating the alt delete mode? I didn't alt delete them, that is for sure. I took down the Gwenhyvar, and the wing of Krants at the next nav as normal, but fled from the ensuing wing of Gratha, as I was pretty beat and all used up by then. My question is, is the above story cheating?
I only blew the ships up that I previously had killed with ease plus the one Rapier, and this was to save time, as I didn't want to be late to work, not because I couldn't kill those enemies by myself. I couldn't believe the phenominal stroke of luck with the disappearing Rapiers, but I figured I'd best not look a gift horse in the mouth.
I also tried ejecting before I did all this just to see if losing would put me on the retreat path, and it wouldn't have, so the only difference between ejecting and what I did is the 14 kills I managed to score before I booked.
Thoughts? Thanks.
Here's the weird part. Normally, I have always flown this mission with Spirit, IIRC. This time, she was KIA before we'd even flown together in the Secret Missions, which I can't ever recall happening before. Which meant I'd flown all thr missions that I normally flew with her alone, which was a nightmare at best.
After I'd gotten to the Gwenhyvar, I managed to shoot down 1 of the 5 Rapiers (holy cow) before they killed me. I knew I had no real hope of out maneuvering 5 Rapiers in a Raptor all by my lonesome, so I decided to ignore them and try to kill the Gwenhyvar as fast as humanly possible, then bolt.
I was trying to do this before work, so I didn't have time to re-fight 4 Grathas and 4 Jalthi, so I used the alt delete cheat to explode them and the 1 Rapier I'd previously shot down so that I could try the other tactic. It bears mentioning that previously, I made it to the Gwenhyvar with minimal damage, minimal afterburner usage, and all missiles intact. Then, something weird happened.
As I was desperately chewing away ag the Gwenhyvar, the other 4 Rapiers disappeared. Had I drawn them so close to the cruiser that they accidentally crashed into it? Was it a game glitch? A by product of activating the alt delete mode? I didn't alt delete them, that is for sure. I took down the Gwenhyvar, and the wing of Krants at the next nav as normal, but fled from the ensuing wing of Gratha, as I was pretty beat and all used up by then. My question is, is the above story cheating?
I only blew the ships up that I previously had killed with ease plus the one Rapier, and this was to save time, as I didn't want to be late to work, not because I couldn't kill those enemies by myself. I couldn't believe the phenominal stroke of luck with the disappearing Rapiers, but I figured I'd best not look a gift horse in the mouth.
I also tried ejecting before I did all this just to see if losing would put me on the retreat path, and it wouldn't have, so the only difference between ejecting and what I did is the 14 kills I managed to score before I booked.
Thoughts? Thanks.