Stuck (sorry) at beginning of Nova Prospect.

[PrivateerLunatic]

I hate to add to all the "stuck" threads.

But, I have just entered what I believe to be the prison through some water tunnels with my ant lions. After taking out all the ground troops, I'm now faced with two gunships at once.

I'm having a horrible time beating them -- I even tried changing the difficulty to "easy" and still couldn't do it. They redirect all my rockets into the buildings, because there's two of them and everytime I fire at one, the other lays down covering fire against the rocket. I've tried sending antlions in different directions to distract them and everything and I quicksave about once every 2 seconds but I still can't take even one of these bastards down.

Is there some secret trick I'm missing, or am I really supposed to take them down? This is *really* hard.

 

[Varsity]

Wow, I guess I'm lucky they never worked together like that when I was playing! The obvious solution is to try and seperate them, if you can. Beyond that, I don't know.

 

[paraboL]

I took them down no problems, playing on normal mode. They take about 4 rockets each on normal.
You have to aim higher than they are and then redirect the rockets so it dodges their defence =)

Easier said than done I hear you say. Well it wasnt too hard.
Keep trying!

 

[craig]

I hate to add to all the "stuck" threads.

But, I have just entered what I believe to be the prison through some water tunnels with my ant lions. After taking out all the ground troops, I'm now faced with two gunships at once.

I'm having a horrible time beating them -- I even tried changing the difficulty to "easy" and still couldn't do it. They redirect all my rockets into the buildings, because there's two of them and everytime I fire at one, the other lays down covering fire against the rocket. I've tried sending antlions in different directions to distract them and everything and I quicksave about once every 2 seconds but I still can't take even one of these bastards down.

Is there some secret trick I'm missing, or am I really supposed to take them down? This is *really* hard.

Heh. Nice to see I'm not the only one who was stumped with the rocket gun. The secret with the rocket gun is to fire the rocket out into space and then the laser attached to the RPG basically tells the rocket where to go once it's air bourne.... but dont just point it straight at the gunship or he'll shoot it straight down.. keep spinning it in figure 8's slowly moving it towards the gunship and when you're finally close move the red dot over the gunship. Repeat 3 times for each gunship and they'll die

 

[mortiz]

What I do is wait until the Gunship is fairly close and I'm hid behind cover, I then shoot a rocket past the gunship, i.e. higher or lower than the gunship, let it fly for a while and then move my laser over the gunship, the rocket will come back and hit the gunship from behind.

 

[PrivateerLunatic]

So, I feel really stupid.

I didn't realize the rocket followed the laser. I guess I just thought the rocket was really inaccurate. =p

That's much easier with that knowledge...heh...thank you.

 

[SaiTo]

Thats right, lanch one in unguided, let it travel some distance, then paint the Gunboat, its all the better if you can mark the sucker when it faces some direction different of the approach vector of your salvo.
Also it could help to wait with the laser until the Gb finishes its fireing cycle.

 

[3deviant]

Heh, u wernt the only one, took me a minute or two to realise the rocket follows the laser. I though it locked on with the laser then u fire and take cover. lol

 

[paraboL]

Didn't you guys listen to that Colonel Odessa Cubbage when he was explaining how to use the rpg?

It also showed the laser guided rocket in one of the bink demos, coast I think it was.

 

[PrivateerLunatic]

Didn't you guys listen to that Colonel Odessa Cubbage when he was explaining how to use the rpg?

It also showed the laser guided rocket in one of the bink demos, coast I think it was.

I heard him talk about it and was like, "huh?" ANd just assumed it meant that you paint the airship with the laser when you fire, then it's marked and will be followed while you duck for cover.

Man. The airship encounters in the friendly camp, the bridge sequence, and the lighthouse could have gone by much quicker if I'd realized that earlier. =p

 

[3deviant]

Didn't you guys listen to that Colonel Odessa Cubbage when he was explaining how to use the rpg?

It also showed the laser guided rocket in one of the bink demos, coast I think it was.

I avoided watching any of those videos, i wanted to see it all myself first hand. As for the Colonel Odessa explaining about the laser, i was imapatient, i was legging it outside all guns balzing before he could finish.

Only took a few shots to work it out tho. :rolling:

 

[-=Feeble=-]

the trick is not to wait until they pile up. go back to the beginning of the level and see if you can't take them out when they appear. They come in one at a time, I just think you might have waited too long.

Happy gaming!