Pilot Archive
Thread: Imperial Tier 3 missions..
GuidoDerezo
Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:59 pm
#27
I am 3333 Imperial pilot. Have not grouped once on my advancement missions and im somewhat surprised by how easy it is. This is intended to keep me busy till combat revamp? Good thing i still have my last fs box to do and then the trials.
Kazag Toolz
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Kalaf
Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:48 am
#28
From the talk I think the Tier3 2nd mission from Talus is thetoughest of the Imperial set. That thing takes 90 minutes to do even with 3 or 4 people. You have to take out 4 escorts and capture a ship. Then escort that ship and get hit by 5 or 6 sets of attacks. Then it jumps and you go to the next wp and send a signal while getting hit by 4-6 waves of fighters. Then the ship you captured comes back and you escot it again under waves of attacks. Then FINALLY you have to cover a set of Hutt fighters attacking Nym. You have to kill Nym fighters but NOT Hutt ones and they all showup as bad guys. If you do it one the rest shot at you and your friends also.
Kalaf
LamiaAcerbus
Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:50 pm
#29
I have to say I agree...I have been finding the missions pretty good up until now, they have been easy to do but a challenge all the same...until I can up against storm squadrens tier 3 escort the engineers in the endor system and i have to say it is bloody hard and i like to think I am a vetran of so many flight sims through the ages from strike eagle 2 (for those that remember)to x-wing alliance and its still I am struggling. I can get through the first part but the distress call does it for me.
I am guessing if I had a few wingmen it would be simple to do, but I dont seem to really find groups and it doe snot help all your friends and your guilds and city is all rebel (or 95% of them anyway) so its hard to find a group. One thing that does really annoy me about this misison, is that I have had 200000 exp for so long now and I am not getting anymore and I should have double that by now, so if and when I finally do completle this mission I am going to end up having to get all that exp again when I have already got it for the next boxes and also if I have not completed the mission then it should not say I have completed it in my mission logs.
Radisma
Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:44 pm
#30
I'm on black epsilon tier 3 mission 2. The first hour and 40 minutes or so of the mission I can solo. Then the next (hopefully last) bit is 8 tier 4 nyms guys, attacking 4 tier 4 hutt guys, and you have to kill the 8 tier four nyms without killing the hutts.
I can't ask anyone to help on this mission because there is no way I would ask someone to just follow me around blowing yard trash up for an hour and a bit so they can help me with a couple of things. Some of the missions need to be split. If a mission needs a group there should be content for a group for the whole of the mission.
Same boat as you lol....ive done this mission so many time its scary lol.....and ive done it in groups....i took 4 friends with me all tie interceptor friends ( they where all 3/2/2/2 as well as me ) and we get stomped alot lol....im gonna set up a party for me and about ohhhh....my entire guild and mayby one more guild to go crush them......those darn pirates will regret ever blowing me up 500000 times lol
branchero
Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:32 pm
#31
Disgusted with these missions I made a privateer on my alt.
ALL (read that again) *********AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL******** of Tier 3 took 2 hours, solo.
Get it together, devs. Make the missions consistent in difficulty. Quit screwing Imperial pilots.
ALL (read that again) *********AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL******** of Tier 3 took 2 hours, solo.
Get it together, devs. Make the missions consistent in difficulty. Quit screwing Imperial pilots.
RoyalGuardian
Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:48 pm
#32
branchero wrote:
Disgusted with these missions I made a privateer on my alt.
ALL (read that again) *********AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL******** of Tier 3 took 2 hours, solo.
Get it together, devs. Make the missions consistent in difficulty. Quit screwing Imperial pilots.
I'm seriously thinking of doing the same thing.
Tired of the entire GCW anyway...it's really getting dry.
Wish there was a 3rd faction such as Black Sun...or actually working under Jabba...
Of course that would be a series of quests...but it's not totally illogical.
GuidoDerezo
Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:32 pm
#33
The secret may be doing the imp missions starting from kaadara, you will need to have done the emp's retreat eventually but it doesnt seem all that difficult to me. I may have gotten really lucky with loot drops but they dont seem all that far out of wack with the loots others have gotten. Tier 3 is given by quests only, did not use a single xp point. I did die a couple times during the whole process but nothing that i would consider out of wack with ground game progression.
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RoyalGuardian
Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:41 pm
#34
GuidoDerezo wrote:
The secret may be doing the imp missions starting from kaadara, you will need to have done the emp's retreat eventually but it doesnt seem all that difficult to me. I may have gotten really lucky with loot drops but they dont seem all that far out of wack with the loots others have gotten. Tier 3 is given by quests only, did not use a single xp point. I did die a couple times during the whole process but nothing that i would consider out of wack with ground game progression.
Kazag Toolz
Glad someone is enjoying it. I went to Privateer lol. Royal Security Force. 
Isanne Galak
TXAG2006
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:39 pm
#36
sirsri wrote:
I'm on black epsilon tier 3 mission 2. The first hour and 40 minutes or so of the mission I can solo. Then the next (hopefully last) bit is 8 tier 4 nyms guys, attacking 4 tier 4 hutt guys, and you have to kill the 8 tier four nyms without killing the hutts.
I can't ask anyone to help on this mission because there is no way I would ask someone to just follow me around blowing yard trash up for an hour and a bit so they can help me with a couple of things. Some of the missions need to be split. If a mission needs a group there should be content for a group for the whole of the mission.
I just finished trying this mission for the 4th time today..it's driving me nutty. I too can get through the first parts easy and after that last escort i was like surely that's all but no there's one more. I figure ok this is the last one...fly for 3 minutes..and see the boxes jump out of hyperspace..."HOLY S*** how the hell am I supposed to do that?!"
Well it was down to 6 but I needed repairs bad so I jump close to Yavin station and repaired. I then flew back and began to take out some more thinking I might have a system going here. So I get back and take out 3 more so i'm down to 3 ships. I disable 1 more but again I need repairs. So jump back and get repaired then one of thier ships left the system (Not sure why that's a bad thing considering I was supposed to help the hutts win...I'd say a retreating enemy is a freaking win =-P) and i fail the mission again.
I just don't understand...hard missions are fine but not when there's no save point for you to go back to. They are rewarding to complete but after a day of trying to complete one mission with full sucess up til the end.
As far as grouping is concerned it's not a bad thing, but for a mission that is so long trying to find a group that will stay that long and then trying to help them causes problems for those of us with scatted schedules due to collegeand other RL things. This expansion is fun and i'll still play but there needs to be a save progress option...I'd even pay in-game credits for it...make it like cloning and just let it restart you from a space station where you last saved at.
TXAG2006
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:42 pm
#37
yeah found that out =-) that poses a real problem because they love to follow a Nym fighter and cross right in front of your ship...with the great ball cockpits of the TIE's there is no way to see this until it's too late
Kalaf wrote:
From the talk I think the Tier3 2nd mission from Talus is thetoughest of the Imperial set. That thing takes 90 minutes to do even with 3 or 4 people. You have to take out 4 escorts and capture a ship. Then escort that ship and get hit by 5 or 6 sets of attacks. Then it jumps and you go to the next wp and send a signal while getting hit by 4-6 waves of fighters. Then the ship you captured comes back and you escot it again under waves of attacks. Then FINALLY you have to cover a set of Hutt fighters attacking Nym. You have to kill Nym fighters but NOT Hutt ones and they all showup as bad guys. If you do it one the rest shot at you and your friends also.
Kalaf
Tsimhnori
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:45 pm
#38
Inquisition
Soloed the First 2 Teir 3 missions, had a little help with the third one, only needed a meat shield for the Nova Courrier disable and inspect part.
Mission 4, Attemmpted Once, Can get all the way to part where I have to destroy the Gunship Solo, but when I go after the gun ship, ass gets handed to me on a silver platter, get a few guildies to assist...
Soloed the First 2 Teir 3 missions, had a little help with the third one, only needed a meat shield for the Nova Courrier disable and inspect part.
Mission 4, Attemmpted Once, Can get all the way to part where I have to destroy the Gunship Solo, but when I go after the gun ship, ass gets handed to me on a silver platter, get a few guildies to assist...
TXAG2006
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:47 pm
#39
RoyalGuardian wrote:
GuidoDerezo wrote:
I am 3333 Imperial pilot. Have not grouped once on my advancement missions and im somewhat surprised by how easy it is. This is intended to keep me busy till combat revamp? Good thing i still have my last fs box to do and then the trials.
Kazag Toolz
Intrepid
Hmm...what's the secret...curious.
I'd like to know as well ...all these people come out and say well I'm 3-3-3-3 and above, which is fine I'd be damn proud to have done it too. However coming into a thread like this and gloating over thier apparent accomplishments and then not giving any advice to help the rest of us is really annoying.
I'm glad you finished but if you're not going to be constructive then shut your trap. Kazag isn't the subject of this he was just the last guy I saw to do this and Ifeltlike saying something about it.