![]() Your capital ship (the Reliant) is under attack, your wingmen are inept, you have to kill several waves of fighters, twelve torpedoes, and everything else that the mission throws at you. Even players knowing the developers intentionally made it hard still spend many hours and much Save Scumming to beat the level. Yes, the one with Ralari defense (you have about ten seconds to destroy 4 heavy cat fighters, or else the craft you're supposed to be protecting goes boom). The mine clusters? Sheesh! They are NOTHING compared to infamous Kurasawa-2 mission in WC1.Bonus irritation points, because prior to the Cats deploying cloaking torpedoes at you, you have to spend several minutes flying towards a doomed fleet in what amounts to an unskippable cutscene, and helplessly watch all but one of them die. A similar situation appears in Wing Commander Saga, a WC 3-era total conversion for the FreeSpace engine.Don't stray from that capital ship, or you'll miss the torpedo, and the mission becomes a failure. There's also the mission with cloaking torpedoes in Wing Commander III.Try the same with a space mine, and you're done. At least you can shoot asteroids out of your way. You have to maneuver slowly through these if you want to make it through. Anything dealing with flying through a mine cluster in a Wing Commander game.One of the upgrades you're likely to have maxed out on if you're a terrible shot is, y'know, turrets to do your shooting for you, so that not only aren't you a great shot, but you've managed to set up your ship so you don't have to be. Made no better by the game ramping up the difficulty for every upgrade item you have picked up to that point.Espeically with the second one, which the official forum actually has service to play through that mission. ![]() Unfortunately at times you are taken out of your cockpit, and dumped into a turret mini-game, which compared to a regular space-battle is almost ridiculously hard. For the most part Darkstar One is a forgiving game to people not having the fastest, most accurate trigger finger.
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