This is it. The final mission. When everyone goes all out. You'd think I should use the Shroud, right? I mean, there's an Ion cannon in play, so how can I not, right? Well...
This mission caused no end of frustration for me back in the day. I even shelled out extra money for the strategy guide and it told me to bring the Phoenix. Instead I kept getting one-shotted with Moose shouting, "the ion cannon has targeted us. Get out of its range!"
I think you had to switch to a third person view every time that warning popped up so that you'd be able to get a better view of your ship and your immediate surroundings and get out of the cannon's range ASAP until it powered back down. I had to replay this mission multiple times before I figured that out since I couldn't see the cannon most of the time in first person view. I think I had even more trouble securing Steiner's escape pod in the last part of the mission though, it seemed as though every single Black Guard fighter was targeting it and not me or any of my squadmates.
This mission was a walk in the park with the Shroud, everytime the ion cannon targeted me i just used cloak and resumed jumping into on the enemy fighters
25:00 “NO…NO!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!” Oh I really enjoyed hearing it. The *most satisfying* death in the game (you had it coming Butcher I mean Petrov).
Thanks for uploading this! This mission was a source of pain back in the day, i remember i could never get out of they way of the Ion Cannon, so i ended up flying the cloak-capable ship (whose name escapes me atm). But still, very long mission, with many phases, and many opportunities for things to go wrong.Well played!
I still remember how much it blew me away to discover you don't, infact, have to fly the Shroud for this mission. Certainly helped with DPS concerns...
While I haven't played the PC version, I can say with certainty after watching some of these videos that the DC version with thumbstick aiming is way more difficult. I didn't even know you could taunt enemies. Pretty sure that, along with a myriad of other things, is missing from the DC port.
Great playthrough, as always. Cool that you show the medals. I like the animation of the pistol in the locker. Very interesting gun design, the magazine to, and especially the rounds. Reminds me of 5.7x28mm. Awesome that you didn't use a Shroud!
You can't even imagine how many times I retried and failed this mission with a Shroud. I thought it could go just like all my previous playthroughs... But then the reality of the hard difficulty mode hit me - I absolutely cannot save enough Rippers, let alone Steiner's pod, with a ship packing so few armaments as the Shroud. A few whole HOURS of wasted effort later, and I decided enough was enough, and I was going to do something daring - pick a different ship. "But wait, what happens if the Ion Cannon locks on? I can't cloak to save myself, and this mission requires me to spend ALOT of time fighting at close proximity to it." ...Well, turns out all I have to do is make sure I stick to the blind-side of the Boridin, near its top. It worked out well enough, plus I got to have fun with the Wolverine some more. I always liked its beastly alpha damage potential. What a finale to the game that was, as it turned out I actually succeeded in saving Steiner on my very first try with the Wolverine, whereas I never managed it with the Shroud.
In general, protecting the Rippers was the one part of the game where I really went all out in trying to catch the aggro of as many enemy fighters as I could - those Rippers just go up in flames like flies, and if too many die, that's it - mission failed. Whew.
It's amazing that back when this game was first made one could play it (and a few others) as a male _or_ female character, and _nobody_ was freaking out about that online; it's also amazing that counter to the so-called 'facts' of certain people who shall remain nameless, there _were_ a lot of female characters in video games doing heroic things.
This game was the BEST game I've ever seen and played! It deserves a sequel or at least a remaster. Unfortunately, new and new games appear, with more and more tame themes, only improved in terms of image, resolution and frames/seconds, but worse and worse, with a lot of talking...John Ford said: in any film in which there is a lot of talking, that is, in which it explains itself, the result is a stupid movie!
It's better on PC, TBF (to be frank), especially when you can modify all of the ships to be different or more powerful, and to even have cloaks (with a [sadly now non-existent] fan-made modification program that was offered on the _Starlancer_ fan site The Lancer's Reactor.)
I love how you taunted each and every single one of these Saber pilots... "You are dead man! And you! And you... And you too!" and then they all aggro'd on you and missed like 95% of their shots, and then you started blasting like you did for the previous 23 missions. XD And how even the official game guides strongly recommend using a Shroud for this mission, even going so far as to consider it mandatory for the completion of this mission, but you've proven them wrong and shown that stealth is optional when you cannot be seen - let alone get hit - and melt everything that comes into your crosshairs for more than a second.
And the best part of it all? I flew a ship other than the Shroud for the same reason I spam-taunted those fighters - out of necessity. On the hard difficulty, I found myself failing this mission REPEATEDLY because I just couldn't save enough rippers for the next phase of the mission, so I kept having to restart. Over, and over, and over, and over again. No success. At a certain point I realized I was going onwhere fast with the Shroud (Oh, and btw, this is already after I started taunting the fighters to try and draw aggro away from the rippers already), so I decided I was going to risk it all, and use the Wolverine. That's right, a ship without a cloaking device on a mission with an Ion Cannon. . .. ... 1st tried the entire mission with that ship. GG.
@@CptPakundo I haven't played this game since it came out back in the day, but I remember once I got the Wolverine I didn't use any other ship. I went on the hard difficulty and didn't die once until this mission. That ion cannon would always get me. Once I did get so far as to detonate the warp core of that escaping part of the station, but the blast crippled me, badly and I can see even from your distance it blew out all your shields. Managed to fight and kill all attackers but two... which I was amazed to see could kill your ejected pilot pod. Anyways, I quit and never did beat the game so It was nice to finally see it beaten.
I hate this mission, i literally can't save enough rippers no matter what I do. Really frustrating they decided to go with that instead of another torpedo bomber attack. Still, it's nice watching it get finished.
As it turned out, I didn't need to get them ALL for the next phase to begin. Leaving that turret intact was fine because it couldn't harm the Rippers while they were planting their explosives, and I had to stay nearby to be there for the manual detonation on time.
Many dead men being looked at in this video. Truly I hit my limit at this mission, really annoying if you dont know what you doing, always rushed to the turrets when I could just clear out the figthers and kurgens first. Taunting really pays off during the ripper section (which sucks), but its kinda ridiculous! I wonder if they really tested this mission or did it on purpose, its insane and im playing in normal...
@@CptPakundo Thanks for the quick reply. I know the pre-rendered animations in the top left corner go smaller every time I increase resolution. At the highest resolution that can be set in the game - 1024x768 they're too small. So how did you get them that large? And how do you set a non-standard resolution anyway? Are you using mods or just editing cfg files?
@@CptPakundo I also have problem with my joystick, VKB Gladiator NXT. It freezes the game when I go to control devices in the ingame options menu. Any idea how to fix this?
@@JAnx01 I actually can't say I've ever seen that happen. I should probably point out that for Starlancer I never used the Throttle part of my HOTAS, the X-55 Rhino. I only ever connected and used the stick, and left matters such as throttle control and the majority of auxiliary controls to the keyboard, as I have them in muscle memory already.
This game was so badass, I drew entire collage of Starlancer ships of the Western Alliance.
Thanks for uploading this I just did a binge of your entire playthrough really good stuff. Good memories. Also Rip Trigger.
This mission caused no end of frustration for me back in the day. I even shelled out extra money for the strategy guide and it told me to bring the Phoenix. Instead I kept getting one-shotted with Moose shouting, "the ion cannon has targeted us. Get out of its range!"
I think you had to switch to a third person view every time that warning popped up so that you'd be able to get a better view of your ship and your immediate surroundings and get out of the cannon's range ASAP until it powered back down. I had to replay this mission multiple times before I figured that out since I couldn't see the cannon most of the time in first person view. I think I had even more trouble securing Steiner's escape pod in the last part of the mission though, it seemed as though every single Black Guard fighter was targeting it and not me or any of my squadmates.
I had the exact same issue on the Sega Dreamcast version, always assumed it was a bug.
This mission was a walk in the park with the Shroud, everytime the ion cannon targeted me i just used cloak and resumed jumping into on the enemy fighters
3:51
Fun fact
The symbols on sides are chinese and roughly translates as "My soul flies like a dragon"
I wish this game got a sequel when the Alliance launch an all-out offensive on the Coalition to liberate the Inner Planets, including Earth.
Freelancer is the sequel.
“Freelancer” really dropped the hammer on “Starlancer” which was unforgivable.
25:00 “NO…NO!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!” Oh I really enjoyed hearing it. The *most satisfying* death in the game (you had it coming Butcher I mean Petrov).
Thanks for uploading this! This mission was a source of pain back in the day, i remember i could never get out of they way of the Ion Cannon, so i ended up flying the cloak-capable ship (whose name escapes me atm). But still, very long mission, with many phases, and many opportunities for things to go wrong.Well played!
I still remember how much it blew me away to discover you don't, infact, have to fly the Shroud for this mission. Certainly helped with DPS concerns...
While I haven't played the PC version, I can say with certainty after watching some of these videos that the DC version with thumbstick aiming is way more difficult. I didn't even know you could taunt enemies. Pretty sure that, along with a myriad of other things, is missing from the DC port.
ahhh, such a nice memories
Great playthrough, as always. Cool that you show the medals. I like the animation of the pistol in the locker. Very interesting gun design, the magazine to, and especially the rounds. Reminds me of 5.7x28mm. Awesome that you didn't use a Shroud!
You can't even imagine how many times I retried and failed this mission with a Shroud.
I thought it could go just like all my previous playthroughs... But then the reality of the hard difficulty mode hit me - I absolutely cannot save enough Rippers, let alone Steiner's pod, with a ship packing so few armaments as the Shroud.
A few whole HOURS of wasted effort later, and I decided enough was enough, and I was going to do something daring - pick a different ship.
"But wait, what happens if the Ion Cannon locks on? I can't cloak to save myself, and this mission requires me to spend ALOT of time fighting at close proximity to it."
...Well, turns out all I have to do is make sure I stick to the blind-side of the Boridin, near its top. It worked out well enough, plus I got to have fun with the Wolverine some more. I always liked its beastly alpha damage potential. What a finale to the game that was, as it turned out I actually succeeded in saving Steiner on my very first try with the Wolverine, whereas I never managed it with the Shroud.
In general, protecting the Rippers was the one part of the game where I really went all out in trying to catch the aggro of as many enemy fighters as I could - those Rippers just go up in flames like flies, and if too many die, that's it - mission failed. Whew.
@@CptPakundo I never could save Steiner =( Thanks for sharing this, awesome
@@justsomeguy3931 Now, if I could just find the time to properly play through and record Freelancer...
@@CptPakundo Never played FL, I'd watch!
It's amazing that back when this game was first made one could play it (and a few others) as a male _or_ female character, and _nobody_ was freaking out about that online; it's also amazing that counter to the so-called 'facts' of certain people who shall remain nameless, there _were_ a lot of female characters in video games doing heroic things.
Might be because it was just there and wasnt made huge deal of, nobody was making big deal of it WITH GURLLL POWER ! shit.
Time to finish the job and give the Coalition a defeat that they won't soon recover from.
Moose says we got half the alliance fleet here and in the Assault on the Borodin only the Yamato shows and actually leaves everyone behind
Moose is known to exaggerate sometimes.
You did. Yamato struck at the base, the rest of the fleet struck at the rest of Jupiter's orbitals.
I'm looking at a... Ed man
This game was the BEST game I've ever seen and played! It deserves a sequel or at least a remaster. Unfortunately, new and new games appear, with more and more tame themes, only improved in terms of image, resolution and frames/seconds, but worse and worse, with a lot of talking...John Ford said: in any film in which there is a lot of talking, that is, in which it explains itself, the result is a stupid movie!
Dreamcast Super Power Full!!!
It's better on PC, TBF (to be frank), especially when you can modify all of the ships to be different or more powerful, and to even have cloaks (with a [sadly now non-existent] fan-made modification program that was offered on the _Starlancer_ fan site The Lancer's Reactor.)
I always failed the Mission with that death Star Station thingy
I love how you taunted each and every single one of these Saber pilots... "You are dead man! And you! And you... And you too!" and then they all aggro'd on you and missed like 95% of their shots, and then you started blasting like you did for the previous 23 missions. XD And how even the official game guides strongly recommend using a Shroud for this mission, even going so far as to consider it mandatory for the completion of this mission, but you've proven them wrong and shown that stealth is optional when you cannot be seen - let alone get hit - and melt everything that comes into your crosshairs for more than a second.
And the best part of it all?
I flew a ship other than the Shroud for the same reason I spam-taunted those fighters - out of necessity.
On the hard difficulty, I found myself failing this mission REPEATEDLY because I just couldn't save enough rippers for the next phase of the mission, so I kept having to restart. Over, and over, and over, and over again. No success.
At a certain point I realized I was going onwhere fast with the Shroud (Oh, and btw, this is already after I started taunting the fighters to try and draw aggro away from the rippers already), so I decided I was going to risk it all, and use the Wolverine. That's right, a ship without a cloaking device on a mission with an Ion Cannon.
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1st tried the entire mission with that ship. GG.
@@CptPakundo I haven't played this game since it came out back in the day, but I remember once I got the Wolverine I didn't use any other ship. I went on the hard difficulty and didn't die once until this mission. That ion cannon would always get me. Once I did get so far as to detonate the warp core of that escaping part of the station, but the blast crippled me, badly and I can see even from your distance it blew out all your shields. Managed to fight and kill all attackers but two... which I was amazed to see could kill your ejected pilot pod. Anyways, I quit and never did beat the game so It was nice to finally see it beaten.
I hate this mission, i literally can't save enough rippers no matter what I do. Really frustrating they decided to go with that instead of another torpedo bomber attack. Still, it's nice watching it get finished.
21:00-CptPakundo, you forgot to get one of the station's defense guns.
As it turned out, I didn't need to get them ALL for the next phase to begin. Leaving that turret intact was fine because it couldn't harm the Rippers while they were planting their explosives, and I had to stay nearby to be there for the manual detonation on time.
@@CptPakundo, thanks for the info and correction of me.
Many dead men being looked at in this video.
Truly I hit my limit at this mission, really annoying if you dont know what you doing, always rushed to the turrets when I could just clear out the figthers and kurgens first. Taunting really pays off during the ripper section (which sucks), but its kinda ridiculous!
I wonder if they really tested this mission or did it on purpose, its insane and im playing in normal...
"Victory or death, prepare to die Pilot" lol
Dreamcast or PC ?
I can tell you one thing - there's no way you could record this game in 4K on a Dreamcast.
How did you get so many kills?
Not as many, as he could.
我没有通过这一关。
Is this 640x480?
Nope, natively rendered at 4:3 2160p.
@@CptPakundo Thanks for the quick reply. I know the pre-rendered animations in the top left corner go smaller every time I increase resolution. At the highest resolution that can be set in the game - 1024x768 they're too small. So how did you get them that large? And how do you set a non-standard resolution anyway? Are you using mods or just editing cfg files?
@@CptPakundo I also have problem with my joystick, VKB Gladiator NXT. It freezes the game when I go to control devices in the ingame options menu. Any idea how to fix this?
@@JAnx01 starlancer.gamepedia.com/How_to_run_Starlancer_on_Windows_7_and_10
A wrapper will help you with that.
@@JAnx01 I actually can't say I've ever seen that happen. I should probably point out that for Starlancer I never used the Throttle part of my HOTAS, the X-55 Rhino. I only ever connected and used the stick, and left matters such as throttle control and the majority of auxiliary controls to the keyboard, as I have them in muscle memory already.