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Volatile Chemical bot mission. Adjust it please! For the sake of future noobs.
I've done it nearly a dozen times and I've lost as many ships. Is it really supposed to be so tedious?
I load my vulture (with cheapest gear mind you) and jump in to the system. Okay, try and keep all the malfunctioning bots separated.. check. Dont shoot any bot thats closest to the volatile one.. check. "try to draw the other bots away from the volatile one and deal with them one by one.. " okay good advice.. i'll try that this time.. check. There they are! okay now to target th>KAPOOOOWWWWW<.
Oh gee that was bad luck.. okay try again.. remember the strategy.. load my vulture.. its a good system, not many rocks. no aputechs.. jump in to the system. get my bearin>KAPOOOOWW<
Ouch! Wise guy eh? get a vulture,loadit up, jump in to
syst>KAPOOOOWWWWW<...
No exaggeration on that last one. The bot exploded a few seconds after i jumped in. I had no chance in hell. I swear the volatile bot spawned on to an asteroid.
The longest i've lasted is about 60 seconds where I managed to fire a few shots. Even if i can last long enough to apply clever tactics, the bots are so tight in formation and so clumbsy..
I've patiently listened to good advice regarding the mission. But the advice is no good considering the sector explodes in 10-20 seconds after I jump in. There's no chance for me to apply any common sense or skill at all! Im sure everybody has passed this godforsaken mission. Either by pure luck (somehow the conditions were just right) Or by blatant persistance.
Now im sure I'll probably try it again tomorrow and peg it on the first go. In retrospect I will probably think this was a redundant thread. But do future noobs have to go through the same thing? A mission where you have to kamikazi a dozen ships and just put up with the fact that you are playing russian roulette with your ship? (a gun with 5 out of 6 chambers loaded. with nukes.)
Surely the mission can be adjusted, or atleast put lower down in the mission queue. I think this is mission #3? Ouch! I'm going to persist because a fat windfall will provide me with a few thousand ships to waste. But I feel sorry for the future noobies having to go through this, wasting what little cash they have on a really harsh mission.
I load my vulture (with cheapest gear mind you) and jump in to the system. Okay, try and keep all the malfunctioning bots separated.. check. Dont shoot any bot thats closest to the volatile one.. check. "try to draw the other bots away from the volatile one and deal with them one by one.. " okay good advice.. i'll try that this time.. check. There they are! okay now to target th>KAPOOOOWWWWW<.
Oh gee that was bad luck.. okay try again.. remember the strategy.. load my vulture.. its a good system, not many rocks. no aputechs.. jump in to the system. get my bearin>KAPOOOOWW<
Ouch! Wise guy eh? get a vulture,loadit up, jump in to
syst>KAPOOOOWWWWW<...
No exaggeration on that last one. The bot exploded a few seconds after i jumped in. I had no chance in hell. I swear the volatile bot spawned on to an asteroid.
The longest i've lasted is about 60 seconds where I managed to fire a few shots. Even if i can last long enough to apply clever tactics, the bots are so tight in formation and so clumbsy..
I've patiently listened to good advice regarding the mission. But the advice is no good considering the sector explodes in 10-20 seconds after I jump in. There's no chance for me to apply any common sense or skill at all! Im sure everybody has passed this godforsaken mission. Either by pure luck (somehow the conditions were just right) Or by blatant persistance.
Now im sure I'll probably try it again tomorrow and peg it on the first go. In retrospect I will probably think this was a redundant thread. But do future noobs have to go through the same thing? A mission where you have to kamikazi a dozen ships and just put up with the fact that you are playing russian roulette with your ship? (a gun with 5 out of 6 chambers loaded. with nukes.)
Surely the mission can be adjusted, or atleast put lower down in the mission queue. I think this is mission #3? Ouch! I'm going to persist because a fat windfall will provide me with a few thousand ships to waste. But I feel sorry for the future noobies having to go through this, wasting what little cash they have on a really harsh mission.
This mission is bugged. I am under the impression the devs are aware of it and working on a fix.
i gave up on this mission a loooooooong time ago after someone said it had a bug in it.
I dunno, I never had too much trouble with it. You just had to get in there and kill the bots fast, or when they were in a group, you made sure you knew where the one with the chemicals was, and only blew up the other ones when they were at a safe distance.
If you're worried about asteroids, you should know that every now and then the mission location is in a wh. Maybe just go in and out of the station till you get it there.
If you're worried about asteroids, you should know that every now and then the mission location is in a wh. Maybe just go in and out of the station till you get it there.
Got to say i did give these missions a go, and although i heard it was bugged, i manged it in 5 just ships, heh =) but i have heard numerous complaints on 100 about this....
It'd be a lot easier if they just changed it so the bot exploaded when it takes damage to some percentage... say if it drops below 75%.