Just had a bug on the "Asteroids Dellox" mission when you inevitably end up having to chase asteroid fragments right into the moon's surface. The video clip showing you burning up in the atmosphere (of the moon? wtf?) then just repeats and repeats and repeats until you CTRL/ALT/DEL to quit out back to desktop.

The fact that the asteroids all vanish off seemingly "inside the moon" within minutes also makes the mission impossible without employing cheats.

"Under New Management" is totally broken too.

The UNO enters LDS and zooms off into infinity every time just before you can attach this "recon probe" on it. You can try and chase it with "auto formate" but you'll also end up just zooming off into LDS infinity along with the UNO.
Once that happens it's "darkgoat" and pressing SHIFT-W to totally skip the mission - that's your only choice. SHIFT-S doesn't do anything.

Who playtested this game?

"Retribution" is also IMPOSSIBLE due to bugs. The giant bomb just auto detonates the second it emerges from the lagrange point - ie, you loose.

The only way past it is to use "darkgoat" and "Shift-W" the second the mission starts - hence skipping it entirely.

PS/ I tried it FOUR times..... ALL FOUR the bomb detonated before you could even fart. If it did it 4 out 4, it will do it 40 out of 40, 400 out of 400 - get the picture?

PS/ Love the way I'm being totally blanked now just because I'm telling things as they are with this game instead of the religiously pathological rose-tinted view of everyone else around here :(

Ooooor... other people managed to complete the game without that cheatmode doohickey that you're using. In that case, what are they supposed to say?

I would say "full video proof of this being done or it's never actually happened" to that "other people managed to complete the game without that cheatmode doohickey" claim.... but it's not really practical to have several hours worth of game play put up on YT - and I'd die of boredom watching it! ;)

So IMO - it's never actually happened.

TBQH - the swarm of bugs alone, especially in the final few missions, would make the game utterly unfinishable without cheats - BEFORE even giving regards to the ludicrous difficulty levels. Sorry HFTB, but there is just no way IMO I could ever possibly believe it's ever been done by anyone without some kind of cheating.

At least I'm not being ignored though!!!! :)

Another thing - when I dabbled a little with this game way back in 2000 I am sure I was able to fully explore the games galaxy of star systems (when using "darkgoat" and SHIFT-G of course) freely - I could select a system on the starmap, go thru the nearest Lagrange point and viola! Even the systems outside of those so called "well trodden" systems connected by the blue lines on the star chart.
Now those not "well trodden" systems are all totally empty - no planets no nothing in them, and you can only make jumps to the system/s that are pre-scripted by the mission - trying to choose a destination from the star chart does jack all.

Good job I bought this whilst it was on a 50% discount offer..... it is NOT the game my false memory told me it was!
Hope I-War 2 EOC is better..... bought that too..... still to even try it yet!

I completed most of the missions without cheating.

I'm sorry, but is this stupidity talking or just plain trolling? Have a look at the various Let's Plays on YouTube and see for yourself if your mission runs like theirs. You know, there *might* be bizarre timing/scripting problems that no-one else has yet encountered, but I don't really believe that. Most probably you just plain suck at gaming.

Asteroids Dellox: Blast the asteroids with cannons. Remote missiles will not work here. Make use of the velocity match autopilot (F9) and thrust overrides (A/Z).

UNO: Keep your distance. If you hold position when the Yale tells you to, attaching the recon probe should be easy: on its way off the UNO stops about 120 km from you and conveniently waits for you to attach the probe. The actual chase is a bit tricky because the formation autopilot tries to get close, the velocity matcher does not do LDS and it is also quite difficult to fly on manual. Giving the UNO a head start of 300 km before hitting F7 worked for me. However, there is a bug in this mission that makes it easier: even if you lose track of the UNO and just keep flying, the mission will usually complete successfully. You won't get the cutscene though.

Retribution: Don't harass the indie patcoms before the bomb arrives. If you do they'll send in the bomb with a really short fuse.

The only mission of the original I-War that I have not been able to complete without cheats is The Gift. That and the final mission of Defiance are insanely hard, but Defiance at least has checkpoints.

U mad bro? What a true ambassador for to the friendly spirit of GOG forums you are. Most - not all though? Thanks Odd! I'll try those ones again and see if these help make them do-able. And at least you are polite unlike at least one idiot trying to derail/troll this thread.

Not all, but it was more a matter of impatience than a matter of impossibility.

There were several places where I felt stuck trying to figure out the correct approach, and rather than redo the mission several times to get it right, I cheated. I'm too old and busy to take the time to do it right.

I can seriously empathise with that UW!