ghostalker
Spaceman
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP, ive been stuck on this mission for almost 2 1/2 weeks. its the "destroy nuclear streamer" mission (i guess thats what youd callit?) on CD #7. this will be very long and i apologize.
ok first i was flying the machete (best ship so far, ive been kickin ass without a scratch up til now). remmber wilco says you cant even get past the navpoint blockade or the nuke defense unless youre flying a neph ship. i was gonna start searchin for a backwater base to buy one but then i heard about the umbriel depot in circe and picked up a nephilim transponder. so i figured hey no problem, i already got a kickass ship, now i can get through.
instead i still get blown away. those umbriel bastards conned me on that transponder cause the enemy ships opened up as SOON as i hit the waypoint. so i said dammit i guess i gotta get a neph ship. did all kinds of searching and flying with navpower at 100 and found a bm dealer hidden in a belt in the euphrates sys--but their prices were OUT RAGEOUS. one of the bartender comments talked about some law being passed awhile ago forbidden the sale of alien ships (i dont remember the name of the law) and make a long story short i realised that i was supposed to win a mission (one of the 'smuggle Dagger prototype' missions) back in CD THREE and by some chain of events, i'd have been able to legally buy non confed/terran civillian ships in the private sector at a reasonable price. but no damn way im going all the way back to CD 3 to fix that.
so i moved to plan C - just fly the mission undetected. i flew a bunch of confed missions off the tcs birmingham and got clearance to buy a mirage from the hamburg PX base, and sure nuff the cloak held up and i slipped past the blockade..but when i tried going through the hangar entrance of the streamer, my ship bounces off the shields and wont let me in!! then i figured, well maybe i need the transponder again, but that didnt work either-bounced off again. so now of course im really flustered.
so i bit the bullet and started flying mission after mission and saving up my $$$ to buy a nephilim craft. now the only ships available at euphrates (and i cant find any more elsewhere, but with that law passed it's probably the only place i can find neph ships) are the moray, urchin, and lamprey, and in my game state the cheapest(lamprey) costs 3,500,000, so i save up and buy that with hardly anything on it cause i wanna make sure it'll get through the nuke streamer shields, and it does, so i breathe a sigh of relief and go back to euphrates to buy some more extras. ONLY to find out that i cant mount FE bombs on a lamprey. DAMMIT! so i figure i guess i gotta go for broke and buy the urchin, which is 6M and i'm like well damn for that money it better suck me and f*ck me as well as be able to load the damn floating electron bombs.
a week later i finally save up enough $$$ and can get the ordnance loaded so i proceed with the mission (which is double red flagged, so i have the "honor" of seeing the cinematic lose sequence if i fail the mission..wont even let me continue privateering in peace, and still i have 3 more discs so i wanna beat the damn mission anyways). i get all the way to the core, release the FE (i woulda dropped more than one but wilco gets on the comm and says 'good job son, now get moving'). i died 3-4 times just trying to get out cause the manta fighters on the way in start firing back once i drop the bomb and its murder tryna fly in those tight spaces, kept crashin into the walls. but even when i can escape them i can never detonate the FE properly. the 1st time i guess i did it too early and it blew me up. then i waited till wilco says 'why dont i see fireworks yet' then hit detonate--still blew me up. then i realised that wilco says about 3 comms before the streamer activates and the mission is automatically failed, so i waited till the last comm ("if you dont mash that button now we're all toast!") and EVERY time i try it i either blow myself up or it's too late.
i have been at this last stage for 3 days trying, i kid you not, ALL day all night and i just refuse to believe this mission is that hard. AND i refuse to go all the way back to CD 3. there has got to be a better way. i just joined cic and havent seen any posts about this yet so either no one has gotten this far yet or i'm the only one struggling, or im in the wrong place altogether. PLEASE HELP!!!
ok first i was flying the machete (best ship so far, ive been kickin ass without a scratch up til now). remmber wilco says you cant even get past the navpoint blockade or the nuke defense unless youre flying a neph ship. i was gonna start searchin for a backwater base to buy one but then i heard about the umbriel depot in circe and picked up a nephilim transponder. so i figured hey no problem, i already got a kickass ship, now i can get through.
instead i still get blown away. those umbriel bastards conned me on that transponder cause the enemy ships opened up as SOON as i hit the waypoint. so i said dammit i guess i gotta get a neph ship. did all kinds of searching and flying with navpower at 100 and found a bm dealer hidden in a belt in the euphrates sys--but their prices were OUT RAGEOUS. one of the bartender comments talked about some law being passed awhile ago forbidden the sale of alien ships (i dont remember the name of the law) and make a long story short i realised that i was supposed to win a mission (one of the 'smuggle Dagger prototype' missions) back in CD THREE and by some chain of events, i'd have been able to legally buy non confed/terran civillian ships in the private sector at a reasonable price. but no damn way im going all the way back to CD 3 to fix that.
so i moved to plan C - just fly the mission undetected. i flew a bunch of confed missions off the tcs birmingham and got clearance to buy a mirage from the hamburg PX base, and sure nuff the cloak held up and i slipped past the blockade..but when i tried going through the hangar entrance of the streamer, my ship bounces off the shields and wont let me in!! then i figured, well maybe i need the transponder again, but that didnt work either-bounced off again. so now of course im really flustered.
so i bit the bullet and started flying mission after mission and saving up my $$$ to buy a nephilim craft. now the only ships available at euphrates (and i cant find any more elsewhere, but with that law passed it's probably the only place i can find neph ships) are the moray, urchin, and lamprey, and in my game state the cheapest(lamprey) costs 3,500,000, so i save up and buy that with hardly anything on it cause i wanna make sure it'll get through the nuke streamer shields, and it does, so i breathe a sigh of relief and go back to euphrates to buy some more extras. ONLY to find out that i cant mount FE bombs on a lamprey. DAMMIT! so i figure i guess i gotta go for broke and buy the urchin, which is 6M and i'm like well damn for that money it better suck me and f*ck me as well as be able to load the damn floating electron bombs.
a week later i finally save up enough $$$ and can get the ordnance loaded so i proceed with the mission (which is double red flagged, so i have the "honor" of seeing the cinematic lose sequence if i fail the mission..wont even let me continue privateering in peace, and still i have 3 more discs so i wanna beat the damn mission anyways). i get all the way to the core, release the FE (i woulda dropped more than one but wilco gets on the comm and says 'good job son, now get moving'). i died 3-4 times just trying to get out cause the manta fighters on the way in start firing back once i drop the bomb and its murder tryna fly in those tight spaces, kept crashin into the walls. but even when i can escape them i can never detonate the FE properly. the 1st time i guess i did it too early and it blew me up. then i waited till wilco says 'why dont i see fireworks yet' then hit detonate--still blew me up. then i realised that wilco says about 3 comms before the streamer activates and the mission is automatically failed, so i waited till the last comm ("if you dont mash that button now we're all toast!") and EVERY time i try it i either blow myself up or it's too late.
i have been at this last stage for 3 days trying, i kid you not, ALL day all night and i just refuse to believe this mission is that hard. AND i refuse to go all the way back to CD 3. there has got to be a better way. i just joined cic and havent seen any posts about this yet so either no one has gotten this far yet or i'm the only one struggling, or im in the wrong place altogether. PLEASE HELP!!!