SOKOL

[Last Seraph]

Anyone else make it to this guy yet?

What were your impressions? It's basically the first "boss fight" in the game. Gave me big Armored Core vibes, which was weird, but not unwelcome.

[MittenMarauder]

I was still on the starting Star config (for the challenge), it went pretty well and I had the team go for the engines separately. Was pretty beat up after, but I am undecided how I felt about it overall.

Though I did not mind the trend of unexpected encounters for that whole arc.

[Gooey Nibbles]

The only problem is how immersion breaking it was, like the whole time your star is making fun of the primative weapons the pirates are using and yet here comes a tanky vtol that absolutely wrecks ur mechs. The game makes no mention of such a thing and I'm quite sure lore wise no vtol is as strong as that even on the clan side much less peripheral pirates.

They could have just done a named heavy mech if they wanted a proper boss fight.

[Last Seraph]

Originally posted by Gooey Nibbles:

The only problem is how immersion breaking it was, like the whole time your star is making fun of the primative weapons the pirates are using and yet here comes a tanky vtol that absolutely wrecks ur mechs. The game makes no mention of such a thing and I'm quite sure lore wise no vtol is as strong as that even on the clan side much less peripheral pirates.

They could have just done a named heavy mech if they wanted a proper boss fight.

IMO they should have just made us fight a dropship. It would have made more sense.

[OKOK]

AI teammate are useless again SOKOL. All u need is to shoot the engines but AI kill shooting the body which seem to have huge HP.

[Last Seraph]

Originally posted by OKOK:

AI teammate are useless again SOKOL. All u need is to shoot the engines but AI kill shooting the body which seem to have huge HP.

You can make them target the engines.

[Delos]

I didn't realise I had to target the engines, and by the time I did realise that I was doing almost no damage to it and then told my star to attack the engines, 3 our of 5 of my mechs were totalled and my mechwarriors had punched out. The repair cost was a king's ransom, I ended up having to hire 6 engineers and buy one new mech to be able to get all my mechs back into working order with 100% health.

[Voyevoda]

They shoulda just made mechs out of the armor that the GODKOL has.

[OldManSkills]

i beat it at expert , but i had only 1 mech left. i have bad news for you though im like a dozen mission ahead and there is way harder missions coming.

[Captain Worthy]

Originally posted by Gooey Nibbles:

The only problem is how immersion breaking it was, like the whole time your star is making fun of the primative weapons the pirates are using and yet here comes a tanky vtol that absolutely wrecks ur mechs. The game makes no mention of such a thing and I'm quite sure lore wise no vtol is as strong as that even on the clan side much less peripheral pirates.

They could have just done a named heavy mech if they wanted a proper boss fight.

Lorewise, this thing does not even exist.

Superheavy combat VTOL's in Battletech range from 30 to 60 tons, larger superheavy VTOL's exist but are unarmed transports.

[Global Worming]

It wasn't mechwarrior.

[BFC_ParaBellum]

On normal difficulty it's not really that difficult. Just make sure to evade the 2nd patrol after scanning the food supplies so that your star doesn't take any damage prior to the engagement at the LZ. Focus fire the incoming mechs down, then target the engines -> F1 ->F1 attack my target.
Finished the mission with 70-80% health on all mechs. Standard loadout.

[Bibig00n]

Originally posted by OKOK:

AI teammate are useless again SOKOL. All u need is to shoot the engines but AI kill shooting the body which seem to have huge HP.

That what happens when you miss inital training. You as star commander have all the tools to order your team what to shoot and how. Learn to use it. If you dont know how to beat one Sokol, there is a big surprise will be waiting for you at the second planet.

[Enderoth]

Wait till you get to the fight with three of them.

[Geeves]

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Originally posted by OKOK:

AI teammate are useless again SOKOL. All u need is to shoot the engines but AI kill shooting the body which seem to have huge HP.

That what happens when you miss inital training. You as star commander have all the tools to order your team what to shoot and how. Learn to use it. If you dont know how to beat one Sokol, there is a big surprise will be waiting for you at the second planet.

I got unlucky. Ordered the star to specifically target the engines multiple times but instead they stood still and bent over to more properly receive its AC5s, leaving me as the sole mech actually shooting at it.

It was probably the AI bugging out. Still beat it, but in the end it made the fight feel unsatisfying.

[OKOK]

Originally posted by Enderoth:

Wait till you get to the fight with three of them.

beat it. 2 mate left. those AI did blow out the hull pf sokol