Talk about a huge pain in the ***...
I'm like 12 or 13 missions into Blazing Angels and rarely have any problems. Suddenly I come to a mission that goes something like this:
"Protect the Allied Bombers and destroy an airport".
OK, easy enough right? Not!
You get near the airport (after enduring a cutscene with the squad jaw-jacking with the bomber wing), you see something like 40 zeroes on the ground getting ready to lift off. To help that out, there are 7 or 8 separate AA emplacements. Moving AA vehicles, bunkered AA guns, you name it.
The wings of zeroes start moving onto the runway and I get "blow up the runway now, don't let those fighters launch!".
OK, but they're like 1/2 mile away and already launching. OK, I'll just shoot 'em down. By the time I finish those off, here comes 6 more. Then 6 more. And more. I'm so busy getting shot to hell and mixing it up with fighter wings that the bombers reach the airport....and get shredded by the AA.
If I focused on the AA, the fighters would absolutely rip through the bombers. No matter what I did, I failed...twenty-three times! Twenty-three times of seeing the same cutscene, the same 30-second approach, etc. I even shelved the game for a few days out of frustration, and I rarely get "stuck" in games. Just ridiculous how difficult that mission is compared to the rest before (and after) it.
Anybody else have any problems with that mission? I finally figured out how to beat it (thanks to cracking the instruction manual and learning about squad commands that I hadn't even needed up until that point hehe), but I can't imagine that's an "easy" mission for anybody playing this game.
Or am I just a complete idiot? That's also a distinct possibility...
Maybe my reflexes are just dwindling with my old age. Somebody tell me I'm not alone on the difficulty of this mission!!!!
I'm like 12 or 13 missions into Blazing Angels and rarely have any problems. Suddenly I come to a mission that goes something like this:
"Protect the Allied Bombers and destroy an airport".
OK, easy enough right? Not!
You get near the airport (after enduring a cutscene with the squad jaw-jacking with the bomber wing), you see something like 40 zeroes on the ground getting ready to lift off. To help that out, there are 7 or 8 separate AA emplacements. Moving AA vehicles, bunkered AA guns, you name it.
The wings of zeroes start moving onto the runway and I get "blow up the runway now, don't let those fighters launch!".
OK, but they're like 1/2 mile away and already launching. OK, I'll just shoot 'em down. By the time I finish those off, here comes 6 more. Then 6 more. And more. I'm so busy getting shot to hell and mixing it up with fighter wings that the bombers reach the airport....and get shredded by the AA.
If I focused on the AA, the fighters would absolutely rip through the bombers. No matter what I did, I failed...twenty-three times! Twenty-three times of seeing the same cutscene, the same 30-second approach, etc. I even shelved the game for a few days out of frustration, and I rarely get "stuck" in games. Just ridiculous how difficult that mission is compared to the rest before (and after) it.
Anybody else have any problems with that mission? I finally figured out how to beat it (thanks to cracking the instruction manual and learning about squad commands that I hadn't even needed up until that point hehe), but I can't imagine that's an "easy" mission for anybody playing this game.
Or am I just a complete idiot? That's also a distinct possibility...
Maybe my reflexes are just dwindling with my old age. Somebody tell me I'm not alone on the difficulty of this mission!!!!
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