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Avg. Rating: 3.0

Reviews

FA Licah Fox on 31 May 2014
Rating: 2
I spent too much of my life just now on this mission. I do not recommend that anyone fly it on Hard as I did many times.

Contrary to what others experienced, I did get the final nav buoy to work, so I could have completed the mission. I had to wait for the INT to leave, as the buoy didn't work while it was hanging around, but once it hypered out I was able to get back to Trask Base. However, I did not have a mission complete because one Skipray Blastboat apparently decided to run for it in open space. He was listed at 99.99 away, but I used the map to find him, and he was still running for his life when I finished the mission around 50 minutes into it. I zoomed out enough that it fit the whole grid on the screen, and I estimated that he was 5 whole grids away from the action already. It could have literally taken me hours of leaving the computer on to go chase him.

On my last run, I discovered that I could have bagged every capital ship out there if I had acted differently. But I didn't want to run the whole mission again just for that. It takes so very long and so much can go wrong. Believe me, I like difficult missions. But this one has many frustrating bugs. For instance, one time the buoy from the 2nd to the 3rd area never showed up. It's also just a frantic run for your life on Hard a lot of the time.

I think the mission can be completed as made. It seems like not all the bugs have been solved though, and it may take several attempts to get the nav buoys to mysteriously work and have no Blastboats flee. I don't think I ever had 100% of enemy patrol destroyed, even though I got far in the mission several times.

":)
Licah

CMDR Jaran "Gunsmoke" Farlance on 29 May 2014
Rating: 4
This is a tough one. Had to run it multiple times before I got the tactics on how to get anywhere. Too many missiles for my liking. Mission is bugged as reported by others. The final nav bouy doesn't work so you can't get home, making the mission impossible to complete. Fun but hard. Bug drops my rating for this mission down to 4 out of 10.

BGN Ray Djo on 27 May 2014
Rating: 2
i cant last more than 3 minutes. im going to try again

MGN CrazyCarl on 26 May 2014
Rating: 3
Not so great, too many missiles, and couldn't get to final hyper region.

LCM InterlinkKnight on 14 May 2014
Rating: 4
Was fun, but is broken. Could not finish mission since at the end you need to return to base and the buy don't work. I try several times, but same happen. Space bar don't do anything.