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XPiratez / WTF is "Capture Aurora" mission?
« on: July 09, 2023, 05:11:03 pm »
So. After some time in the game, you can get topic "Capture Aurora". Why would you try to assault head of state? Plot actively discourages you to attack governments (they hate aliens, they pay you money, thanks to their help you turned from bunch of savages into world feared pirates and without their support you quickly degrade back to savages). But whatever.
After several months mission appears. I mount best force I could and attack.
First phase is fine. Of course, there's lots of enemies and lots of field guns, but at that point you should be able to defeat this (I certainly was).
Second phase. Oh, the second phase. It's a mansion map, and I HATE THIS MAP! It's gigantic, it's full of walls, and it has four floors (or more, I didn't count). The alien/faction bases have two, the second barely count since map blocks joined only through lower level, and have long corridors flowing through them. The fact that it's mansion is enough to make it insufferable. How to make it even worse? Of course, add few enemies in power armour, making usual for mansion strategy "send one gal in every direction of the map" irrelevant (or you have to give each gal antitank rocket). How to make it even worse? Add unsurrendering enemies, of course! Good luck searching that last robo-maid in this gigantic, unobservable mansion!
After 3 hours of trying to beat this (the fact that after first phase I had only 6 gals, one of which was in tank, might have contributed to that) I broke down and edited save to make everyone surrender.
Third phase. First one was much labyrinth like, but this... Well, at least it's meant to be labyrinth and thus is relatively small. Tip: if you still decided to go through all of this, equip all of your gals with Vibro blade or similar weapon with cutting damage. You will need it for third phase. And remember, it must be on gals all the time - only equipment that carries through phases is equipment on gals.
And after all of this pain, what do you get? You get -2000 rating (because of course, what else you expected after killing company worth of government soldiers without any good reason?), all of your equipment from the ship is gone (either it's a bug or I've been unlucky and all of it was destroyed with field gun blast) and, worst of all, @&#*@& %#&@*!
I know, Xpiratez is not for faintest souls, but shouldn't this mission be tweaked a little bit? Or removed completely, since it doesn't make any sense story-wise.
After several months mission appears. I mount best force I could and attack.
First phase is fine. Of course, there's lots of enemies and lots of field guns, but at that point you should be able to defeat this (I certainly was).
Second phase. Oh, the second phase. It's a mansion map, and I HATE THIS MAP! It's gigantic, it's full of walls, and it has four floors (or more, I didn't count). The alien/faction bases have two, the second barely count since map blocks joined only through lower level, and have long corridors flowing through them. The fact that it's mansion is enough to make it insufferable. How to make it even worse? Of course, add few enemies in power armour, making usual for mansion strategy "send one gal in every direction of the map" irrelevant (or you have to give each gal antitank rocket). How to make it even worse? Add unsurrendering enemies, of course! Good luck searching that last robo-maid in this gigantic, unobservable mansion!
After 3 hours of trying to beat this (the fact that after first phase I had only 6 gals, one of which was in tank, might have contributed to that) I broke down and edited save to make everyone surrender.
Third phase. First one was much labyrinth like, but this... Well, at least it's meant to be labyrinth and thus is relatively small. Tip: if you still decided to go through all of this, equip all of your gals with Vibro blade or similar weapon with cutting damage. You will need it for third phase. And remember, it must be on gals all the time - only equipment that carries through phases is equipment on gals.
And after all of this pain, what do you get? You get -2000 rating (because of course, what else you expected after killing company worth of government soldiers without any good reason?), all of your equipment from the ship is gone (either it's a bug or I've been unlucky and all of it was destroyed with field gun blast) and, worst of all,
Spoiler:
I know, Xpiratez is not for faintest souls, but shouldn't this mission be tweaked a little bit? Or removed completely, since it doesn't make any sense story-wise.
