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Freya 2
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Nice mission to scout for scouting Kilrathi 😉 . Little surprise at Nav 1 with uncloaking Strakha formation right infront of your flight which btw from tactical point of view is stupid thing to do as they lost all their advantage this way (they should decloack from behind) but for cinematic feel and explained by "Kilrathi honor" thing (they wont hide before some puny humans) this approach could work. Liked the "Venom is always right" comment 😉 .
Nav 2 was generic encounter with Dralthi and Darkets. Nothing fancy. The message from Admiral on Hermes felt weird as it wasn't directed to anyone. It could begin with "Alpha flight (here the original message)", but that's only my opinion.
Nav 3 - Cabot defense. When I arrived I though "Phew... only some light, medium and heavy fighters... piece of cake". I couldn't be more wrong. When the second wave arrived with all those Paktahn bombers the shit really hit the fan. The only survivors were Cabot with 4 hull rating and Birmingham with 51. I like that approach, you have to be on your toes all the time, here you can learn it the hard way ➡️ .
Nav 4 - at first manageable but after a while a total disaster! Kilrathi pouring into the system like crazy and to make matters worse the Wrathgar among them. There's no way you could stop them, maybe only delay them a bit. True show of the Kirathi force. You can feel that an epic battle is coming. Looking forward to next missions.
On the side note I have to say that I'm getting used to simultaneous playing while rocking my 2.5 month old baby girl in her crib. 😁
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There won't be any more "battle of Endor"s coming. Those are a pain in the ass to script and basically make player totally unimportant. We will have some very nice other missions though and we'll wrap up some storylines and also settle a few debts before this is over 😉
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On a positive note: our own Ice(fire) bites the dust. Wait... somehow this does not make much sense.
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Here are the "first time played" videos:
media.wcsaga.net//FekLeyrTargs Videos/freya2.avi
media.wcsaga.net//FekLeyrTargs Videos/freya2a.avi
What happened after those videos? Thanks to the oversensitive mouse steering caused by Fraps, I wasn't able to intercept many torpedoes. Even if it wasn't oversensitive, I still think there are too many bombers and too many launched torpedoes. I've called in the Longbows and the missile strike and both didn't really help. Even worse, I've lost all 3 cruisers and I failed this mission. This is the hardest mission in this game which I've played so far.
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You can't win this mission.
If this is the best video quality your PC can produce, better stick to writing AARs. Those videos aren't really helpful. (I mean 4 seconds and 50 seconds, practally at 2 FPS? Why did you even bother to push those on the server?) And why on earth are you trying to record at full resolution?? Are you mad? Reduce the resolution to something that actually makes sense. Like 320x240 or something. No wonder those videos are huge..
I compressed those videos using the DivX fast motion codec. The original Videos are about 6 GB big together. Also, Fraps doesn't have any option to change the resolution and I haven't found any in VirtualDub (which I used to compress those videos).
Yes it does, you can select the "half" option, which effectively reduces input resolution by factor 2. Another option is to play in the window mode and use whenever resolution you like..
Ah, thanks Tolwyn. (note to self: Try to be less blind)
I am back. I will explain what has been going on with me in the your status thread after I post my comments on the last five missions.
Now on to Freya 2. The Strakha's at Nav 1 were easy meat for the Excaliburs when using the combination of Auto Target and the auto tracking guns. Not much else to say for nav 1. At Nav 2 defending the carrier group was more of a challenge. If the targets are prioritized right and the player does his part it should not be to bad at Nav 2. I got distracted by some of the fighter escort and lost one capship to Paktahn torpedoes on my first play through.
Nav 3 I died as I was overwhelmed by the Kilrathi force combing through the jump point. That was partly my fault. When we were told that we could call in bomber and CSM support I thought that the flight lead had control of those assets. As such I was waiting for Venom to call one them, I did not realise that I had control of them until the first Kilrathi heavy carrier came through the jump point by which time I and the rest of the Galahads and the cruiser squadron were completely overwhelmed. I died just as the Wrathgar jumped in.
I am going to give this mission another try and give you an update on my comments after I play this mission again.
Eerrmm... Question about the greenlighting post of yours:
Mission must add the following entries to the Techroom:Ships: Jutland, Dubav Intel: TCS Wellington, Brimstone System
Really? 😊 Could you please correct the post? I don't think the Wellington and Dubav were new ships and Brimstone a new star system.
Another question: How do I trigger the third debriefing?
Stinger wrote:Could you please correct the post?
Done
Stinger wrote:Another question: How do I trigger the third debriefing?
There is no third debriefing.
There are three different debriefing voice files for that mission, that's why I asked.
Yep. One ihas been cut.