mission 11 sucks

[mbecks]

I'm curious if anyone else thought mission 12 was not fun. Its the mission where corvettes are going through the debris field and you have to shoot cores to destroy them. The felt annoyed the whole time. If you concentrate on enemy fighters you end up missing cores and the corvettes escape. To pass it you basically just have to move around enough to no get shot down and also make sure you know where the next core is. I kept getting disoriented trying to avoid enemy fire and lose the cores, you miss just a few and you might as well just restart because you know the corvettes will escape. how did you guys do it so it was fun?

[SeraphymC]

It's been awhile since I've done it, but I remember wedging myself between the debris with a shot on the cores before the corvettes showed up. Fighters couldn't get a shot on me, and it was easy to pop the cores when they corvettes came by.

[mbecks]

Originally posted by SeraphymC:

It's been awhile since I've done it, but I remember wedging myself between the debris with a shot on the cores before the corvettes showed up. Fighters couldn't get a shot on me, and it was easy to pop the cores when they corvettes came by.

I must have just not been able to find the right spot. I kept trying to stop behind cover but they always found a way to shoot me if I stood still.

[Dragonrubi]

Notice i suck as a gamer, and i hated it the first time,but after a couple of tries is actually easy knowing the logic.

Like i said i suck and really the campaign has some missions that may be hard at first, but take it as a training of your skills if you want to be an "ace" MP fleet balltes. in that sense the camp. is well done and i only find a mission at the end difficult.

[captaincofresi]

Well, I did like it because it was quite hard. Although this was the first mission where I did not get the Enduring Service Medal though. Took me a couple of tries before I finally decided I really needed the Tie Bomber, because of a way better and wider view from the cockpit to avoid the active cores better.

As for the configuration of the Tie Bomber I recommend:

Get a thick skin for the hull, reinforced hull. Standard lasers with the quick reload, since you mostly need that to hit the active cores. The triple rockets for the right aux. and a strong long distance rocket for the left aux. And just use the standard engine.

So here is a bit of a walkthrough on how I approached mission 11:

Let me first say this: what I did not like was getting towards the end and getting two messages: 'the last corvette is destroyed' and 'if you can't stop a corvette, you can't stop the starhawk' in one sentence ;-). Must have been a VAR descision just then.

In the end I used the first run to scan the active cores as a try-out for the later run for the active cores, since the second one is time sensitive. And you really need to find all the cores for the second time to have any chance at all. Then get your engines to full boost and make a run to get at least the first of the active cores, that for me was the hardest to do. Because if you miss those, you probably won't get the last corvette due to too little active cores remaining.

Small note on the original post: in your title you mention Mission 11, and that is the one. Only in your text you mention mission 12, where you meant mission 11.

[mbecks]

Originally posted by Dragonrubi:

Notice i suck as a gamer, and i hated it the first time,but after a couple of tries is actually easy knowing the logic.

Like i said i suck and really the campaign has some missions that may be hard at first, but take it as a training of your skills if you want to be an "ace" MP fleet balltes. in that sense the camp. is well done and i only find a mission at the end difficult.

Im so happy to hear someone else say this. I really suck at video games and always have but i still love them. I can remember being younger and playing COD with my friends and how much better they were than me. Its odd being a male that just isn't good at video games. Online games can be a real lesson in controlling frustration for people like us