Has anyone played Legendary with Festering Skies?

[Muton]

How did you deal with Abaddons? They self heal rather quickly.. You'd need like 6 aircraft and a really closeby haven to get bumped out to before being able to fly it back, and that was on Hero which was difficult enough

[Artek [General]]

I tried.
I quit the playthrough when I realized what was happening. ♥♥♥♥ that. I have no idea how are you supposed to take them out without hit'n'run.

[Muton]

can you tell me a little info on what problems you were running into on your campaign? I'm curious as to how bad it got before you quit

[LeftPaw]

I would rather sleep on barbed wire.

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by Muton:

can you tell me a little info on what problems you were running into on your campaign? I'm curious as to how bad it got before you quit

Well, i wasn't really intending to commit - it was a test run to see how bad it would get.
And get bad it did.

First of of all those soldiers' starting stats. Blergh.

Then the scyllas appeared faster than i could ever imagine and immediately proceeded to f*ck with my B-team who basically stood no chance. I had to save scum like mad just to have even a chance of succesfully completing that BS haven defense.
I didn't even had Jericho's MG, it was 3 heavies with f*cking HEL-2 cannons, because i had nobody else (thank lord for the promo stuff).

And then the abbadons came. They literally cannot be defeated in a single engagement - hit'n'run was the only viable solution against them (either that or losing planes in suicide missions).
And at first it was like - okay, their weapon regenerates slowly, i can live with a couple of extra potshots to win... BUT THEN THE ALREADY BROKEN EYE CANNON REGENERATED BACK INTO OPERATIONAL STATE.
At that point i realized that Legendary was not intended to provide fun. It was there to do anything but that. So i quit and restarted with a normal campaign to get a couple of extra achievements i wanted.

[Muton]

you did beat Legendary though, right? Without Festering Skies? I beat legendary but dont think I could if I had festering skies activated

[Muton]

yea the Void cannon (eye) is by far their worst weapon and it regenerates, so you have to keep knocking it out on on your hit and runs with 5-6 different ships

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by Muton:

you did beat Legendary though, right? Without Festering Skies? I beat legendary but dont think I could if I had festering skies activated

Nah, that was literally my one and only attempt. Never tried it again.
Maybe i'll try it one day without any DLCs but Kaos engines, but dear lord the weak-ass soldiers make me cringe.

Hell, maybe one day i'll make the SP-changing mod myself at this point as that's literally the only thing that i hate about Legend.

[Muton]

every mission was a nail biter on legendary.. It was brutal torture. But it can be done. Not with festering skies though

[Just me n my pc...]

Welp, even I beat legendary vanilla; but only just... had only 2 PP guys plus Exalted left of the nine when I finally killed the boss bug.

[Muton]

I played all DLC but festering skies.. I'm wondering if anyone has beaten Legendary w/ FS

[Artek [General]]

Okay, let's try thinking about how one would defeat abbadons under these conditions.

The eye cannon is the main problem. Pretty much the only one. So if we deal with that - we deal with abbadons.

Hit'n'run is only good enough to disabling it partially...
So we need to at best get it a point where the next plane can disable it in 1 shot and then proceed shooting the rest and hoping you can handle the other 4 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guns. And you'll probably get shot by the eye once too, for a good measure.

If these tactics won't work... Then it literally means that you just have to ignore them on legend until you unlock the module that allows you to dodge the eye and then you just aim straight for the ship's Hull ignoring the guns and pray you can kill it faster than you run out of dodge charges.

[Muton]

When I did it, yes hit and run the only way.. Equip ships with Thunderbolt HC-9 or Hand of Tyr. You can get 1 shot off on the Void gun and then retreat. You can get 2 shots off but the timing is too narrow and there is a high risk of getting one of your guns destroyed until repairs. Keep going in with at least 5 ships. Keep targeting the Void if its online. Then shoot their next longest range gun.. You need at least 5 ships though and a close by haven to get bumped out to. Otherwise Void cannon and the pandoran flyers HP will heal. I wonder what it's like on Legendary.

[Strygald]

Thunderbolt HC-9 ... most other aircraft weapons are useless on legendary, hit and run is the standard tactic, knocking out 1 enemy weapon each engagement and having multiple flyers intercepting at the same time, so the enemy doesn't have time to heal. Using this strategy its very easy but also very tedious and boring.

There is a reason Festering Skies has mostly negative reviews...

[Muton]

Originally posted by Strygald:

Thunderbolt HC-9 ... most other aircraft weapons are useless on legendary, hit and run is the standard tactic, knocking out 1 enemy weapon each engagement and having multiple flyers intercepting at the same time, so the enemy doesn't have time to heal. Using this strategy its very easy but also very tedious and boring.

There is a reason Festering Skies has mostly negative reviews...

Did you play/beat Legendary with Festering Skies?

[lily40k]

I guess its negative because there is very little skill factor.
Its not like the battles when with good tactics you can make wonders with bunch of rookies...