There's this one mission that I simply cannot fully accomplish and I don't see how you can without cheating, something I am adamantly opposed to. Anyway, for anyone out there who knows everything about the game, the mission designation is Proxima 9.GD. You're flying a "Black" Devastator, you've got two wingmen and a wing of "Black" Vampires supporting your wing. Now, I can simply just accomplish the main objective and go home but there's no fun in that. It's the personal objective I'm having a hard time with. For some reason, Casey finds it necessary for him to destroy 75% of the fighters. I don't see how this can be accomplished while you're in a Devastator going up against a wing of Vampires. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
WCP Secret Ops mission question.
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Mad Hatter
Spaceman
Try rookie mode.
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I already tried that. It's not that the mission is hard. It's just that I'm always one or two kills away from that 75% and those one or two kills are always the ones the Vampires get. I only have so many missiles and the plasma gun just can't compete with the faster firing guns on the Vampires.
Secret Ops was designed that way, and you have to give the creators credit.
Destroying 75% of the fighters is a hard job, but not if you do this:
Get the Vampires on you Wing to weaken the enemy fighters (I know, this can only be done by watching, but, just listen).
The Plasma Gun is of course, pathetically weak against those, so once the Vampires get a couple of shots in, go for the kill with a missle/plasma gun. Keep doing this.
The Vampires will only score kills if you are not watching them, and in essence, 'stealing' the kills from your wingmen. But, if you want to get that 75%, you'll have to.
Good luck, its a doozy ...
Destroying 75% of the fighters is a hard job, but not if you do this:
Get the Vampires on you Wing to weaken the enemy fighters (I know, this can only be done by watching, but, just listen).
The Plasma Gun is of course, pathetically weak against those, so once the Vampires get a couple of shots in, go for the kill with a missle/plasma gun. Keep doing this.
The Vampires will only score kills if you are not watching them, and in essence, 'stealing' the kills from your wingmen. But, if you want to get that 75%, you'll have to.
Good luck, its a doozy ...
Death's Head
Spaceman
If you don't steal from them, they'll steal from you.
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lol
Got it in one.
The whole point of the objective is to:
A. Make it a challenge in itself.
B. Improve you co-op skill with your Wingmen.
C. Improve you likeability to you know who
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Metras
Member of BlackLance HQ
"To take one step forward, you must look back three steps... and walk forward while looking back... "
Got it in one.
The whole point of the objective is to:
A. Make it a challenge in itself.
B. Improve you co-op skill with your Wingmen.
C. Improve you likeability to you know who
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Metras
Member of BlackLance HQ
"To take one step forward, you must look back three steps... and walk forward while looking back... "
THEY aren't asking you to kill 75% of the ships. It's a personal objective. And another thing about Special Ops. Is it just me or do you all have a grotesquely higher number of kills than all of your wingmen? LOL. It's insane how many kills you get if you accomplish every mission objective.
Mad Hatter
Spaceman
To tell the truth, I don`t really care much about my scores in the game, as long as I got the primary and important secondary objectives complete. That`s what I liked about the first 4 games. War is not about statistcs, it`s about survival and completing your objectives. Your job is to complete your mission: if it`s destroying every ship in every navpoint or if it`s making sure the ship you escort arrives at it`s destination safely. It`s not about destroying X% of all fighters before your wingmen do.
Prophecy and SO kind`a forgot that, and changed the game to a more arcade style one.
Prophecy and SO kind`a forgot that, and changed the game to a more arcade style one.
war - (n) 1. A state or period of armed conflict between nations or states. 2. A determined struggle or attack. 3. A condition of antagonism or conflict. 4. The techniques or procedures of war; military science.
conflict - (n) 1. Prolonged warfare. 2. A clash of opposing ideas, interests, etc.; disagreement.
Now, is it just me or does it seem really coincidental that the words war and conflict are both used to define the other word. Weird.
conflict - (n) 1. Prolonged warfare. 2. A clash of opposing ideas, interests, etc.; disagreement.
Now, is it just me or does it seem really coincidental that the words war and conflict are both used to define the other word. Weird.
Quarto said:Hear, hear!
I personally liked WC1 best on that score - you could often accomplish your mission without wholesale slaughter. Why, I had one or two missions that were successful without any kills.
Yeah, but if you do that, you'll get less medals
It's been so long sience I've played any WC games, but now [after finishing Starcraft & Brood Wars again (you know who to blame for that *cough* Quarto *cough*
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Mad Hatter
Spaceman
Earthworm said:
Maybe Prophecy started during peacetime, but it sure as hell didn`t continue like that.
Anyway, you`ve totally misunderstood what I said. Nobody`s going to yell at you if you destroyed 5 and not 10 ships in a mission, they especially don`t care if you hit 50% of your fired shots or only 33%. What`s important is completing your objectives not statistics.
Another thing, is that you have to remember that you`re operating as a wing, not as an individual pilot, and if your wingman destroyed 6 ships and you only 4, it doesn`t mean that you failed the mission.
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No no no. You’ve misunderstood what I said. Sure, for you it’s not important, it’s not important to me, and it’s not important to a lot of people in the navy. But the people on the top do care. Missiles are expensive, and so are the guns. The more missiles you fire, the more money the navy lost, and it’s even worse if you miss. The guns that don’t use ammo can also be damaged if you fire them to much. And it’s only a matter of time before they’ll have to get replaced. The same thing goes for the fuel, though our score doesn’t depend on that.