Killed Mr X with the A10

[Atomicus]

Playing the game for the first time. When starting mission 18, I picked the A10 thinking it would be a Air to Ground mission. Then Mr X came and I had to make due. And I killed him on first try.

Not trying to brag or anything. Just felt really disappointing. Since he was made out to be the ultimate flying badass. Then he gets shot down easily with standard missiles from an aircraft with the same maneuverability as a bathtub.

Playing on Normal tho.

[cyäegha]

it's probably worse because the game talked him up to being this messianic flying god-killer, but this is only demonstrable via the game literally allowing him to cheat, such as with hits to supposedly "non-critical" areas... however few of those a modern combat aircraft can possibly possess

[Cotyora]

You should play on Hard to feel atleast a bit of challenge throughout the end, then if more eager to play forward, you can try the Ace difficulty

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by URIZEN:

You should play on Hard to feel atleast a bit of challenge throughout the end, then if more eager to play forward, you can try the Ace difficulty

will do.

[Meme_1284]

nice

[Rastrelly]

All Mister X encounters are rather easy on any difficulty if you track his pattern. Next try beating him without using missiles, say, on MiG-21 with MGPs. Way more fun.

[Devsman]

lol nice

Also, attackers are a waste in this game. They all suck and you can get the best ATG weapons on multiples or even fighters anyway.

Originally posted by Rastrelly:

All Mister X encounters are rather easy on any difficulty if you track his pattern. Next try beating him without using missiles, say, on MiG-21 with MGPs. Way more fun.

I really always found the special boss drones (for example the Unknown in Mission 10) to be a lot harder. Like, sure, Mihaily can one-shot you in mission 18, if you somehow manage to get hit, and he takes like a thousand shots to go down because he for some reason pilots his craft well enough to take a hit in the best possible place, when simply dodging the missile would be a lot easier. But at least you can hit him. The boss drones don't even move like airplanes.

There's this BS going around the internet that says they go straight for a while after dodging a missile. They do sometimes go straight for a while, but it definitely has nothing to do with dodging missiles. As far as I can tell, it's totally random, and not particularly common.

[Rastrelly]

Originally posted by Devsman:

I really always found the special boss drones (for example the Unknown in Mission 10) to be a lot harder. Like, sure, Mihaily can one-shot you in mission 18, if you somehow manage to get hit, and he takes like a thousand shots to go down because he for some reason pilots his craft well enough to take a hit in the best possible place, when simply dodging the missile would be a lot easier. But at least you can hit him. The boss drones don't even move like airplanes.

There's this BS going around the internet that says they go straight for a while after dodging a missile. They do sometimes go straight for a while, but it definitely has nothing to do with dodging missiles. As far as I can tell, it's totally random, and not particularly common.

I'd say Hugger and Mugger are the two harsher dudes, but even they eat QAAMs like cookies if timed right. I think they go straight not after a dodge, but by some sort of a fuzzy timer. But the funniest thing is, if you take that same MIG-21, you can literally head-to-head most drone bosses by pushing both MG and MGP buttons XD Mission 10 boss dies in less then a second, hist MIssion 20 bro does so as well. H&M can burn you with their lazors with equal ease, though.