Posted June 29, 2009
In short, it's impossible to finish some of the simulator's single missions without using cheat codes. "Loner," "Roadkill," and "The White Flag" are among these.
There seems to be some kind of error that prevents scripted events from happening, or if they do happen they happen very slowly.
In "The White Flag," you have the mission of forcing an enemy ship to surrender, and then watching as a freighter arrives to collect prisoners from it. The freighter docks with the enemy ship, and then nothing happens. Jumping out at this point automatically means failing some mission objectives.
In "Loner," your mission is to go into an asteroid field and destroy all the Shivan and Hammer of Light forces you find there. There is also supposed to be an HOL flying ace who wants to kill you personally. However, after I destroyed all the enemy forces, the ace did not show up. I spent a few miinutes flying around in circles, shooting rocks, but no more foes appeared, and I jumped out. Apparently that caused me to fail the mission completely.
In "Roadkill," you need to escort a ship to a point where a such of shipping containers are floating in space. However, once the ship arrives at its destination point and stops moving, the directive is not marked as complete. If you just go on to scan the cargo and then leave, the mission is declared a failure.
What's going on? I didn't have any problems like these in the campaign mission...
EDIT: Update; I've come across another snag of a different sort in the Silent Threat campaign. It comes from the level "Exodus" in which you need to protect a bunch of escape pods as they travel between an Orion-class cruiser and a jump point. I keep losing because I'm all alone, flying an Ursa bomber and all of my enemies are Loki fighters, so they can easily race ahead of me and destroy all the pods before I can even get a targeting lock on them. However, according to some online walkthroughs, I'm supposed to be flying a Valkyrie and there are supposed to be some other pilots backing me up. I have no idea why the ship arrangement has changed...
There seems to be some kind of error that prevents scripted events from happening, or if they do happen they happen very slowly.
In "The White Flag," you have the mission of forcing an enemy ship to surrender, and then watching as a freighter arrives to collect prisoners from it. The freighter docks with the enemy ship, and then nothing happens. Jumping out at this point automatically means failing some mission objectives.
In "Loner," your mission is to go into an asteroid field and destroy all the Shivan and Hammer of Light forces you find there. There is also supposed to be an HOL flying ace who wants to kill you personally. However, after I destroyed all the enemy forces, the ace did not show up. I spent a few miinutes flying around in circles, shooting rocks, but no more foes appeared, and I jumped out. Apparently that caused me to fail the mission completely.
In "Roadkill," you need to escort a ship to a point where a such of shipping containers are floating in space. However, once the ship arrives at its destination point and stops moving, the directive is not marked as complete. If you just go on to scan the cargo and then leave, the mission is declared a failure.
What's going on? I didn't have any problems like these in the campaign mission...
EDIT: Update; I've come across another snag of a different sort in the Silent Threat campaign. It comes from the level "Exodus" in which you need to protect a bunch of escape pods as they travel between an Orion-class cruiser and a jump point. I keep losing because I'm all alone, flying an Ursa bomber and all of my enemies are Loki fighters, so they can easily race ahead of me and destroy all the pods before I can even get a targeting lock on them. However, according to some online walkthroughs, I'm supposed to be flying a Valkyrie and there are supposed to be some other pilots backing me up. I have no idea why the ship arrangement has changed...
Post edited June 29, 2009 by Prator
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