I owned this game many years ago when it first came out. I love this game, so much so, it's been good to play it again after so long thanks to GOG. I've played it now 7 times in the last month, but I keep getting stuck on the research station mission.

I've learned now, it's a scripting problem with the game engine. You have to allow (I call him #2, you know, the male voice, "research reports they are now available to research plasma technology. We advise commencing research immediately"). Okay, I get irritated with him, and call him number two. Yeah I know, literally number two, but also because he's second in command. "Hyperspace at your discretion". Well, thank you number 2 for giving me permission to hyperspace when I want to, but I'M in charge. He interferes a lot. Especially in this mission. Just let me do my damn job dammit and get out of my way and shut the hell up and stop taking control of the screen 5 to 7 times every mission! I've played this game probably 30 times in over 20 years. I know what I need to do!!!! Or I'll put you in the brig number 2, I say to myself. Yeah I get into this game. Yeah, number 2 like "going number 2". He annoys the hell out of me....

Okay, I've had a few drinks, playing this game, with that awesome sounding medieval music, is awesome...

Okay. So I find this particular mission very frustrating. I have to play it 3 to 5 times to pass it, because I've discovered now it's a scripting problem with the game engine. You can't get ahead of the game, you have to let number 2 talk and the script get updated. You have to destroy the carrier before it escapes. You have to destroy the research station and ALL forces. I do this, again and again, and it almost NEVER triggers the script that I destroyed all enemy forces, even though I have. Again and again I play this particular mission, trying to progress. The middle eastern music plays non-stop (which sounds awesome), but I've destroyed and/or captured everything. It wont let me progress.

Frustrating as hell.

I don't like the remastered version. I prefer the classic version myself. That one has always stuck with me. But seriously, and I know it's not GOG's fault, the classic version was made more than two decades ago and is no longer in development. But I feel frustrated that even though I complete missions, some of the scripts don't "engage" and let me hyperspace out, even though I did all the objectives.... Blah....

Still love this game though. But I've tried 4 times now today to get passed that mission. No dice. It's a scripting problem with the game engine.

I've looked, there are no cheats to progress. I guess I just have to keep playing the mission until the game engine is "satisfied" that I completed all the objectives?