Massive Bug - chaos campaign "Blind Rage" Mission

[Captain Titus]

Heya guy's,

on the Chaos mission "Blind Rage", after meeting all the requirements and mission objectives the phalanx kinda bugs put. Does not move, begins self destruct but kinda just sits there.

Does not allow you to win the mission. Can you please look into this. I've sunk alot of time into this campaign, would hate to have to write your game of because of a triviality.

[Romalee]

Was it stuck in call to arms? Had a similar problem. The game does not expect you to actually win that fight and destroy the Phalanx, just damage it enough so it retreats. If you force it into call to arms, instead of warping out like it is supposed to, it just kind of sits their until it reaches 0 hp, and then nothing happens. Not sure if it warps out after leaving call to arms though; the first fight I turned it into a drifting hulk, second fight I didn't board at all to avoid breaking the game again.

[Captain Titus]

After many MANY swear words, I invested in like 9 Desolators and chipped at him from long range. The warp out Phalanx warp out cutscene finally initated and i beat the level.

So yes indeedy, i dont think you are supposed to "win" as such.,

[RobinHood192000]

After playing this missing 3 times now and getting the same result I'm afraid to say the chaos campaign is unwinnable then.

I reduce the Phalanx to 0 hp, destroy all it's weapons and will not disengage. I even tried boarding it but cannot reduce it's crew past red 49 no matter what. there are no further mission objectives on screen and the mission will not end.

The phalanx simply roams around in god mode ramming all remaining ships to death if it can catch up to them.

I am at a loss as to how to end this mission.

[Captain Titus]

There is a work around, do not board! Go for long range dammage, deplete HP and it will dissengage allowing you to fight hellbreed when the phalanx disengages

[RobinHood192000]

I read that before about boarding, so I never did. And the phalanx still just sits there invincible at 0HP no matter what I do. But you said something interesting, fight hellbreed.... what happens if his ships is dead already? Pretty sure the phalanx takes him out in my play through's.

[Captain Titus]

Just depends on your initial setup. I was hammering the Phalanx with at least 3-4 Grand cruisers at range,

[Tom]

Well, it happened also to me. I will try again. I figured that maybe the bug kicks in if you destroy the fleet before forcing the phalanx to (supposedly) warp its way out. I will find out pretty soon I hope

[Leveelahti]

Two theories
1. The quote~ "None of our ships are in range to stop the Phalanx's emergency jump" Literally meaning that you can't have any ship close enough to board the Phalanx at that point of dialogue
2. You need to destroy the small spawn of ships that are on the map. Not sure if there's one on each side or on just the one you reach first, but anyhow that's theory two.

I think theory one 1 is much more probable as I had completed the mission to that point many times without really losing my shields by simply juking the Phalanx inside a bigger cloud. And every time I got the bug I was practically hugging the side of Phalanx so the quote about not being able to stop the warp jump makes sense. And many people here would seemingly support as they say "I shot it from afar" and in a roundabout way saying "Didn't go to boarding range". Theory 2 is just pretty much my own sighting that has very little probability of being true.

Also, yes, ♥♥♥♥ this mission so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ irritating. Like the mission is easier than a 3k invasion fleet; however, because of the bug, it took me way way too much time.