Hello everybody
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Welcome to the community man !
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Greetings
ask away… its what were here for 8-)
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Thanks for your welcome messages.
I will explain here my “game problem”.
My Trent is in the following situation:
Level: 11
Location: Dublin System/Battleship Hood
Mission: Defeat Hovis in a one-lap contest of speedShip: B 907 A “Crusader” - Bretonia Heavy Fighter
Comoddities cargo empty
First mission step: Meet Hovis in space near the Racecourse.
Well, the problem is I find impossible to defeat Hovis in the race. I ran the race over 10 times and I always lost the race. Now I want to go ahead with the game and finish it. There is any advice, suggestion you can give me so that I can pass this step?
Maybe I need a particular ship, or I have to use a particular procedure to get my Trent win this race. I used my boost, I tried anything I know to go faster even I tried to give the “Go to” command, but it doesn’t work during the race.
Hope you can help me
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You need Cruise for the race. also, a light fighter has a much better manourability.
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The repair costs shouldn’t be such high. Also, you can save your game right before the game if you are unsure about it.
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Well, thanks for your seggestion
but I think I need the heavy fighter after the race to survive. That’s the point, a light frighter can’t compete with Mollys.
I will try but I’m quite sure I will die in the first combat after the race. Even if I saw that whatever ship you have in the single player game the max speed on the speeometer is always the same: it doesn’t change. Are you sure a cruise is faster?
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With cruise I mean cruise flight. As far as I understood you used thruster in the race? That’s your biggest mistake then.
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I have always won that mission on the first try yet…but I also always flew a cavalier light fighter.
I think you wont need a heavy fighter before you have left bretonia. After the cavalier I always bought a barracuda (in kusari). -
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Welcome To Our Worlds!
Another warning - Hovis will have his cronies (his bad pals) shooting at you near the end too!
So be sure you have some repair botts and shield batteries, and watch out!
It is hard, but keep trying and you will succeed!
We did - eventually!
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Well, I couldn’t beat him my first few tries either. In the end I had to leave the plot line for a while I flew around and made enough money to by a ship more appropriate to the mission. Then come back and beat the snot out of him. Had to do that a couple of times with various missions. that’s one of the nice things about the way FL plays in SP. You can always ditch the plot line for a while to do your own thing.
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hmm, i have never had this problem before, and usually use the bretonia heavy fighter. Also if you use your strafing you can go through the course faster than ever, i even on my last attempt beat hovis through the first section (you get different commentary if you beat him through the half way mark) but you definatly need to use cruise to beat him.
Ozed.
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Bas wrote:
With cruise I mean cruise flight. As far as I understood you used thruster in the race? That’s your biggest mistake then.just to know what do you mean with “thruster” and what do you mean with “cruise flight”?
what I know is that a thruster is an item to mount on the ship, but I really don’t know if it’s what I use with the “TAB” key or what else.
With “cruise flight” you mean free flight or what?
Please assume I’m italian and I don’t get exactly all that you write.
Another warning - Hovis will have his cronies (his bad pals) shooting at you near the end too!
So be sure you have some repair botts and shield batteries, and watch out!
It is hard, but keep trying and you will succeed!
Oh so he will shoot at me…damn it! Thanks for the warning. Obviously if I shoot him down I will fail the mission, I think.
Well, I couldn’t beat him my first few tries either. In the end I had to leave the plot line for a while I flew around and made enough money to by a ship more appropriate to the mission.
What’s the best ship for beat him?
Thanks to all of you men for your suggestions
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Thruster = tab(ulator), speed: 200
Cruise flight = Charged flight, Shift + W - That one with which you fly up to 300 speed -
Did you tried the race with cruise flight?
Anyways, you should be able to purchase police and civil ships at most at larger and important planets. -
and battleships, as well. the race is on vanilla settings possible with every fighter available until then. i managed it even with a cruise speed of 375 in only one try and without modding the course or the enemy. it is pure technique how to get the right vector in the last sections to get the next ring. also fleeing from the missiles is unnecessary, they do not deal too much damage. just start turning in the right moment and there you go. good luck.
Gisteron
