extremely large number of CTDS on specific mission (spoilers)

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Ok I just started the Firestorm campaign and it's on day two. My only mission is to partrol this area while the Zolan embassador travels though it. Naturally about 2 min into the mission giant alien ships start coming in and trying to kick your ass. Number one the alien cap ships have amazingly huge blast radiuses and often destroy the ship I'm supposed to be escorting when they blow up (along with me, 2-3 other cap ships, and 6 or so alien fighters). Second this mission seems to CTD almost every time I play it. No other missions caused this but its very very frustrating as the mission is fairly hard already. Anyone else having this problem?

[Kuokkanen]

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Naturally about 2 min into the mission giant alien ships start coming in

What the Hell are you smoking? There is no aliens! Or is there? And how does it affect between Alliance and Hegemony?

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eh lets just say they're not a design i've encoutered in any of the other campains and are labeled ZD1 and ZD2..I know of nothing else as i'm unable to complete the mission..apparently failing "fails" the whole campain or maybe its just from losing too many ships from the ZD's exploding

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also the radio message says "unknown alien ships approching consolate vessel" or somthing like that..that kinda tipped me off

[Headgehog]

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eh lets just say they're not a design i've encoutered in any of the other campains and are labeled ZD1 and ZD2..I know of nothing else as i'm unable to complete the mission..apparently failing "fails" the whole campain or maybe its just from losing too many ships from the ZD's exploding

You actually destroyed one?! I can't seem to ever get them lower then 96% no matter how much I throw at them. How did you get past those sheilds?

As far as I can figure, this is a mission we have to fail. But maybe I'm wrong, and this game is really, really dynamic.

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yes I got a PM saying your supposed to fail..kinda sucks but meh..it didn't seem too hard to destroy them what really sucked was their "self destruct" radius...I killed one at a handy 40km with my athenas and then the 2nd one was so close to the ship I had assigned everyoe to escort that when I destroyed it everyone died.

[Mehrunes]

You can't lose the campaign for failing any specific missions. If you're getting CTDs, especially reproducable ones, please post the errlog.txt file from the crash in the Support forum.

[John DiCamillo]

I'm reducing the splash radius on the ZD. I've killed a few of them myself, but never in that mission. Good shooting!

[Deathifier]

They have a huge blast radius when they go boom?

I took control of the carrier my 3rd run through that mission, swarmed the fighter groups with every available falcon and stormhawk and sat back whilst the cruiser/destroyer/frigates nearby engaged ZD1 (with huge swarms of missiles) and ZD2 (with a few missiles and lots of laser fire), with 8 thunderbolts helping out and random blasts from my X-Rays.

Both went boom (never saw ZD3 and ZD4) but they didn't take anything with them?
They hardly fired their main lasers either, since most of the time they were facing side-on to everything shooting at them for some reason.

I was ~40k away and I guess the other capital ships were 15-30k away.
All my fighters were nearby, as they had finally removed the last of the fighters and were proceeding to [very slowly] dock.

And yes regardless of the outcome it assumes the courier gets toasted :/

Cool mission though

- Deathifier

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Pah. My ships are always spread way too far out and never even bloody get there in time. Luck of the draw, I suppose.

[Kuokkanen]

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also the radio message says "unknown alien ships approching consolate vessel" or somthing like that..that kinda tipped me off

If those ZDs are not some advanced Hegemony ships, what they they are? [&:]

I thought game is about conflict between Terellian Alliance and Marakan Hegemony. Would been bad guys versus evil guys. And now I have a bad feeling there is more evil side of unhumans who are planning to destroy the humanity thus forcing Alliance and Hegemony to cease fire against each others and concentrate against aliens... What overused cliche!

[Deathifier]

Keep playing and you'll find out

Actually it tells you after you do that mission who owns the ships.

- Deathifier

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: Deathifier

Keep playing and you'll find out

Who? Me? I have just 3.9

I'll get 4.0 (or 4.1 or newer) later when I get new PC.