Mission 6 - Long Day Help

[Kyuvee]

I've been using the F-2A with the Guided Air-to-Land Rockets. I only play Normal difficulty (17000 score quota). But I always lack the score to finish the mission.

I also don't know if I should focus on aerial units more than land units.

I need tips on which aircraft, SP, and strategy to use.

Thank you!

[namo]

Try to take down some bombers before they take off. Each worth 1k or something

[M88]

First head to the airport and try to shoot one of the F16s before taking off but if you can't don't go chase, just destroy the remaining 2 F-16s before taking off. Then make a loop and destroy the 3 bombers they are worth a lot (you need 2 missiles and some bullets to go down).

Generally speaking, you need to be efficient. For example at the first airport area there are two fuel tanks and an AA gun besides them, just shoot one of the tanks and the explosion from the tank will destroy the other 2 targets nearby. Also pay attention that your special weapon (LAGM) might have a blast radius and can take multiple targets if they are grouped up.

Also, use as much special weapons as possible in the first two "areas" and then head back behind the dotted line for resupply.

And most importantly, this is a difficult game, it's really fine to play on easy especially if you're not an AC veteran. I've been playing AC games since AC3 so I don't find the game that much difficult, but I can understand how it can be to newcomers.

Also, watch some videos of people getting S Rank on ACE difficulty. You will learn some good tactics, builds, and approach to missions that you haven't thought of.

[M88]

https://youtu.be/a33VUbKLzBc

Check this dude out, he has some excellent skills in the game and has a playlist of all missions S rank on ACE difficulty.

[Lafettie]

Funny i just did that Mission ..... difficulty hard https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1642370379 its not hard at all .... i used the Su-33 with ELM. As you can see on the lower right. 31,700 Points. Every single Ground target destroyed + drones and some Planes. So if you Focus and destroy every ground target you can make it.

[Virtuosah]

Originally posted by Viciou : Stratos Ultimatum:

I've been using the F-2A with the Guided Air-to-Land Rockets. I only play Normal difficulty (17000 score quota). But I always lack the score to finish the mission.

I also don't know if I should focus on aerial units more than land units.

I need tips on which aircraft, SP, and strategy to use.

Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vySAn9gWXfw
So the ATG missiles have a blast radius:
use those on concentrated units, e.g. radar towers in range of AA guns, trucks travelling on the road
The video above is my try on it using a F-2

[GroundDeadFilip]

Hard difficulty. Used f-14 and those long range aa missiles. Shot down f-16s and bombers at beginning before they took off which is some 5k pts in under two minutes or so (2 "runs"). Finished the base, moved to canyon part and shot ah-64s and av-8bs from far away with sp missiles. Cherrypicked SAMs (and AA guns if there weren't SAMs in lock-on range) and machinegunned everything that was in the path in the meanwhile. Eventually drones got here and those were free points.

[Kyuvee]

I know my problem now. I can't utilize the machine gun without crashing and I keep on losing control when I rotate the aircraft. I don't know which is the correct speed to be in, and altitude when dealing with ground units. I also can't seem to shake off the missiles from the F-16. (Having a hard time shooting them down.)

I wanna try doing easy, but, I don't wanna restart the whole campaign again.

[Banjo]

You may have been having the same problem I was having then. Steam just released an update that fixed an issue where the controls would start to become unresponsive after a while when using the Big Picture DS4 driver.

As for dodging the missiles, most of the time doing a hi-g roll or corkscrew will shake the missiles.

[Windwalker]

Like you I had a lot of trouble passing this one. In the end, once I stopped trying to pickup targets from afar in the two biggest bases but instead started flying low between the mountains and shooting stuff down with the basic missiles it became a lot more manageable. I also always targeted oil and bombers. I avoided the drones totally. Hope it helps.

[GroundDeadFilip]

Originally posted by Cosmonaut:

As for dodging the missiles, most of the time doing a hi-g roll or corkscrew will shake the missiles.

Yup, hi-g, hi-g and hi-g. And some more hi-g. Oh, and pay attention to radar and direction incoming missile is coming from. Anything that flies at you at angles higher than, guesstimating, 30° will not hit you if you continue flying forward or steer to the side the missile is coming from.

F.e. if missile is inbound from 4 o'clock (around bottom-right corner of the radar), it should not hit if you continue forward or steer to the right. Particular situations depending to speeds, distances and missile type should be taken into consideration but more often than not, especially so early into campaign, hi-g turn to any direction but the one that aligns your rear with a missile and radar awareness will keep your ass up in the air.
This holds true for most of the game.