Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
Hmm, I seem to recall to have killed a Salthi with one HS in WC1. They do have very little armour.
And I think you can kill Drakhris and obviously Strakhas with one missile too.
Heatseakers or ImRecs? An analysis of missiles
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Hmm, I seem to recall to have killed a Salthi with one HS in WC1. They do have very little armour.
And I think you can kill Drakhris and obviously Strakhas with one missile too.
Wedge009
Rogue Leader
That usually happens to me too, although against the Devil Ray, it's so big that some rockets get through the blasts and hit it.
Funny thing about head to head missile launching is that when the enemy fires a missile towards me [through my gun blasts], more often than not, their missile hits.
Shhh, you'll make another bubble...
Not fair. In WC1 I find that enemies afterburn away (missiles are slow in WC1) and in WC2 chaff pods tend to outnumber my missiles. Hence I seldom use missiles in WC1/2.
) would result in a very quick demise for the poor man.Rami Sihvo
Spaceman
Probably yes, beacuse if you don´t defect at first time game plot will show you are wrong side. Killing the prisoners is not what goody goodies do. I don´t think defection in that situation is same as betray beacuse Blair is trying to prevent the war.
As it is, there are differances between the IR and HS in both lock time and lock aspect, making them very differant weapons to use in gameplay terms. If the HS was an all aspect missile, the differance would be reduced to the lock time, which would make missiles a lot more generic from the player's point of view, and hence the designer's.
If was making a change to the HS, I would boost the warhead, making it more lethal than the IR. That would give the player the option of an easy to use missile that doesn't do as much damage, and a tricky weapon that delivered a killer punch. That would enhance game play a lot more than turning the HS into a poor man's IR, with a longer lock time and a smaller warhead.
Best, Raptor
Most of the times I've pulled "traitor" endings have been annoying, but livable. The one that really got me was on SOP, when pulling a base defense mission against a Nephilim capital ship. I fired either a missile or a torpedo at one of the Nephilim ships, the ship went *boom* before the warhead hit, and the stupid thing kept circling the area the enemy ship had been in until a Confed fighter flew into it and blew up.
grr...
grr...
Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
So sad but true...Originally posted by Wedge009
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Funny thing about head to head missile launching is that when the enemy fires a missile towards me [through my gun blasts], more often than not, their missile hits.
Though I found DF missiles to be very useful against a DRay when flying a Shrike. They are fast enough to hit that sucker before he opens fire.
Also true, WC1 missiles were pretty slow, though so were most of the enemies. And AFAIK, they don't afterburn unless they are severly damaged or badly outnumbered. Thus if you launch a missile into a flight of Salthis coming for you, chances aren't bad that the missile hits and kills a Salthi.
Same works even better against Sarthas in WC2. Though I didn't use missiles against Drakhris because they would almost certainly
fool my missile with their chaff pod and using two missiles against such a lousy foe is a waste. MIssiles (other than Dfs) against Grikaths was a waste too.
Thoug in WCA, I just wanted to find out which ships you could kill
with a single missile, so I build a mission wioth just one enemy and checked it out.