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dalbok wrote:

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CST104 wrote:

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Carthian wrote:

I have a question: I am on Mission 5 currently, trying to use the tractor beam to take the resources off the shuttle, but every time i try to use the tractor beam it blows up the transport. It spams me with "Increment count!" and i have no idea what i am doing wrong. I am using the Arc 170 and have the tractor beam set to main gun. I have a friend in the back seat as a rear gunner incase anything comes up. Should i use a different ship? Maybe the grevious ship? do i put it in slot 2? do i keep the resource container in the ship or do i remove it? Also the resource container is at 0%. Thanks in advance.

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Having same issue. Unable to complete mission after innumerable attempts.

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It sounds like you have a gun armed at the same time as your tractor beam. I had the same problem my first time out. Press G and arm only your tractor beam and keep shooting the ship. When enemies arrive press G again and arm your gun. Once you've eliminated the enemy press G again and unarm the gun. You should be able to empty the freighter with your tractor beam in about 3-4 cycles of doing that.

Good luck,

Dalbok

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I've been having the same issue, except I am using a B-Wing with the Tractor Beam in Slot1.
I will try disarming all other weapons and report back.
Thanks for the advice!


- Omadda Szool
Kauri

May the force be with you.

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omadnay wrote:

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dalbok wrote:

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CST104 wrote:

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Carthian wrote:

I have a question: I am on Mission 5 currently, trying to use the tractor beam to take the resources off the shuttle, but every time i try to use the tractor beam it blows up the transport. It spams me with "Increment count!" and i have no idea what i am doing wrong. I am using the Arc 170 and have the tractor beam set to main gun. I have a friend in the back seat as a rear gunner incase anything comes up. Should i use a different ship? Maybe the grevious ship? do i put it in slot 2? do i keep the resource container in the ship or do i remove it? Also the resource container is at 0%. Thanks in advance.

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Having same issue. Unable to complete mission after innumerable attempts.

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It sounds like you have a gun armed at the same time as your tractor beam. I had the same problem my first time out. Press G and arm only your tractor beam and keep shooting the ship. When enemies arrive press G again and arm your gun. Once you've eliminated the enemy press G again and unarm the gun. You should be able to empty the freighter with your tractor beam in about 3-4 cycles of doing that.

Good luck,

Dalbok

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I've been having the same issue, except I am using a B-Wing with the Tractor Beam in Slot1.
I will try disarming all other weapons and report back.
Thanks for the advice!


- Omadda Szool
Kauri

May the force be with you.

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You are 100% correct!

I shut off all of my other weapons before activating the tractor beam and the mission worked perfectly.

I don't know that I would have thought of that one... kind of odd really...
I even discovered that while the tractor beam is setup in the weapons group, it actually takes away capacitor energy while you fire (Even though Tractor Beam is toggled off and I don't see it fire while I'm shooting).

So I guess it works both ways... other weapons are fired (To some extent) while the tractor beam is operating and the tractor beam fires along with the other weapons (When firing through weapon cycle).

Thanks for the great guide and thanks for the extra help!!

May the force be with you.


- Omadda Szool
Kauri


P.S. Now if they'd only fix the 7th mission...

Message Edited by omadnay on 08-08-2005 06:46 PM

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Carthian wrote:

I have a question: I am on Mission 5 currently, trying to use the tractor beam to take the resources off the shuttle, but every time i try to use the tractor beam it blows up the transport. It spams me with "Increment count!" and i have no idea what i am doing wrong. I am using the Arc 170 and have the tractor beam set to main gun. I have a friend in the back seat as a rear gunner incase anything comes up. Should i use a different ship? Maybe the grevious ship? do i put it in slot 2? do i keep the resource container in the ship or do i remove it? Also the resource container is at 0%. Thanks in advance.

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Having same issue. Unable to complete mission after innumerable attempts.

I'll try doing that tonight after work. The one thing that I'm wondering about is that I'm flying a TIE/ln (the 2xxx Imperial ship), and the only thing installed on it weapon-wise are the Tractor Beam and my Missile Launcher.

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CST104 wrote:
I'll try doing that tonight after work. The one thing that I'm wondering about is that I'm flying a TIE/ln (the 2xxx Imperial ship), and the only thing installed on it weapon-wise are the Tractor Beam and my Missile Launcher.

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Success! Thanks folks

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CadetStorm wrote:

You said,

Have to be quick though, the bits soon fly off into the distance. Rinse and repeat till you get the mission successful message.

I have been mining for two days with no luck. How do you target the small bits?

I hit my # key and the laser fires and pieces fly all over the place, but I cannot target anything but the very large Asteroid I had to Autopilot to.

I would sure like some help with this.

Thank you,

Khaybel

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so is this mission still impossible? can no one get the y-8?

mission #7 still bugged as of

14 Aug 05

CST104 said:

08-17-2005

Still bugged.

is this fixed yet?