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Thread: still possible to solo the corvette?
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HardwiredXMan
Fri Jun 27, 2003 10:23 pm
#1
fareone wrote:
its not worked on me........ one time i remamber all ship was aggro..... and they werent even fight eachother....
What do you mean! nothing on the ship should be fighting each other if you do it right....basically the SBD's will stand there like statues and not even flinch.
Basically just run throughout the whole first floor (even in the rooms) and catch arggo....do the same on the second floor....from there it should be smooth sailing....
rebeltrooper9
Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:58 pm
#5
Dannylau wrote:
run very fast
...and know where your going and what you have to do when you get there.
squallff99
Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:18 pm
#6
one time i went up there just to get some powerplants. i ended up dead right at the start lol. i was spamming the wrong button to heal myself. after i died i used the +2000 health crystal from the village and 1 muon or something. i went up top to look in the containers and found nothing. i did that while something was agroed on me from somewhere. i than went to the room with the 20 SBD and the 2 containers. those containers ended up each having a plant. those SBD didn't agro me at all. i was able to make it to a escape hatch alive. if u call just getting the plants solo, than i would say yes. you need to go where u r going and where u r at all times. also running and not stopping to kill guys is a good idea. having a master ranged profession would help a lot too. since u wont be fighting, they would just be shooting at u at all times. a psg could help, but only for a short time. they really slaughter them fast.
RobRoy
Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:41 pm
#7
I do a few runsevery week or so for friends. Although about every 1 in 3 seems to go bad for me in some way. You just have to know the map very well and know what to do and in what order. Having good armor, buffs, and food helps too. Once you know what to do and have the right equipment, you can do the destroy mission in about 10 minutes solo. And study the guide on these forums.
HardwiredXMan
Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:07 pm
#8
Ok, heres the secret to the corvette! The game itself has a maximum amount of mobs that can arggo you at once.....when that max number has been reached, nothing else will arggo you until you lose arggo from one of the other mobs already arggo'd on you. So what this means is that the SBD's will not attack you at all if you take the time to not kill any of the spawns on the first and second floors.....you will have max arggo on you by the time you get to the harder mobs.....90% of the time they won't bother you at all because of this. So you can actually either just run through the whole vet if you know exactly where to go and what to do or you can take your time once you have reached full arggo....
I have no Idea what the max number is for arggo on you......I just get everything that's not a SBD to arggo me before I even think about going near them......
NOTE: there is one mission where you can't complete it if your are arggo'd since you have to talk to an npc on the ship....I think it's the rescue mission....however, I've never run anything but the destroy missions myself....seen no need to do the others.......anyway, for this one mission you need to lose arggo and/or using stealth (walking past the npc's when their back is turned works well like 75% of the time...except for SBD's and the npc's in the important rooms).
Knowing all of this, I've completed the corvette in 15 minutes....so with the arggo limitation, some buffs, food and great armor....you can run like a bat out of hell through the whole ship and barely get scratched enough for you to worry about dying.
Onle fix I can see for this is if the devs make mobs lose arggo after a breif time after losing line of sight with the target.....but then again, that could still make the vette easy too.
It's sad that we have to resort to such tactics though....but it's impossible to enjoy content like this when the spawns on the ship are superior to your group of 10 masters and you only have a 1 hour time limit to finish but it takes 10, 15 or 20 minutes to kill 1 SBD and then there's 200 SBD's on the ship.....so devs leave us no choice but to cheese our way through it....
by the way.....protection against energy and kinetic are what you definitely need (top priority)....so hopefully you can get some 80% armor for both of those resist....
Acid, cold and heat are an added bonus because the npc's sometimes use those damages against you....they also love cryoban grenades as well.
If you do the destry mission, 80% electricity will definetly help you too....with that, you can run into the room with electrified floor and take 2 or 3 surges without worrying about dying...if your fully buffed of course.
Forget about stun protection....they don't use it all that often and besideds....having stun protecting just means all the other areas are probably lower than what you would want to have.
you can also get 90% resist on composite armor with just an average slice....so as long as the resist that you want to slice is not listed under special protections on the armor....those listed there won't go up no matter how good your slice is....they are fixed. everything below that can get signigicant boost though.
All in All...you don't even need to carry a weapon if you do everything right....just your buffs, composite armor, mind food, emergency food and medic skills is optional.....finally, knowledge of the ship and what you need to do and where you need to go....there's detailed guides all over these forums....DO A SEARCH!
Message Edited by HardwiredXMan on 11-01-2004 01:20 AM
fareone
Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:18 pm
#9
HardwiredXMan wrote:
Ok, heres the secret to the corvette! The game itself has a maximum amount of mobs that can arggo you at once.....when that max number has been reached, nothing else will arggo you until you lose arggo from one of the other mobs already arggo'd on you. So what this means is that the SBD's will not attack you at all if you take the time to not kill any of the spawns on the first and second floors.....you will have max arggo on you by the time you get to the harder mobs.....90% of the time they won't bother you at all because of this. So you can actually either just run through the whole vet if you know exactly where to go and what to do or you can take your time once you have reached full arggo....
I have no Idea what the max number is for arggo on you......I just get everything that's not a SBD to arggo me before I even think about going near them......
NOTE: there is one mission where you can't complete it if your are arggo'd since you have to talk to an npc on the ship....I think it's the rescue mission....however, I've never run anything but the destroy missions myself....seen no need to do the others.......anyway, for this one mission you need to lose arggo and/or using stealth (walking past the npc's when their back is turned works well like 75% of the time...except for SBD's and the npc's in the important rooms).
Knowing all of this, I've completed the corvette in 15 minutes....so with the arggo limitation, some buffs, food and great armor....you can run like a bat out of hell through the whole ship and barely get scratched enough for you to worry about dying.
Onle fix I can see for this is if the devs make mobs lose arggo after a breif time after losing line of sight with the target.....but then again, that could still make the vette easy too.
It's sad that we have to resort to such tactics though....but it's impossible to enjoy content like this when the spawns on the ship are superior to your group of 10 masters and you only have a 1 hour time limit to finish but it takes 10, 15 or 20 minutes to kill 1 SBD and then there's 200 SBD's on the ship.....so devs leave us no choice but to cheese our way through it....
its not worked on me........ one time i remamber all ship was aggro..... and they werent even fight eachother....
Dannylau
Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:19 pm
#10
Once you've learned the route, it's not really that hard, I could do it as a master swordsman with practicly no ranged defence whatsoever.
Plenty of food to boost your ham and some spices and do it in 12 mins is a good way to go
Message Edited by Dannylau on 11-01-2004 08:07 AM
HardwiredXMan
Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:23 pm
#11
fareone wrote:
its not worked on me........ one time i remamber all ship was aggro..... and they werent even fight eachother....
What do you mean! nothing on the ship should be fighting each other if you do it right....basically the SBD's will stand there like statues and not even flinch.
Basically just run throughout the whole first floor (even in the rooms) and catch arggo....do the same on the second floor....from there it should be smooth sailing....
Night4554
Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:26 pm
#12
For the record, I don't like the "max mob aggro" you thing, I kill what I can kill, I get myself aggroed the entire way through, and still do it.
Malicoris
Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:05 am
#13
Dannylau wrote:
On the plus side your friend did get a "has participated in alive event" badge, not many people have on of those
Wrong thread dude
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