Hey, Freelancer Players, how do you beat Battleship Hood Mission?

[LordRaiden]

I'm up to the point where I have to race Hovis to find Quintain. How the heck do I beat that level? I've tried racing him but he kicks my *** every time!

What do I need to do to beat him? I can't back out of the race and I can't decline the race as it gets me nowhere.

 

[LordRaiden]

I take it nobody has reached this point or beaten it yet?

 

[JaiKnight]

Just switch on your cruise engines immediately when the race starts. He'll stay ahead of you for most of the race, until the last few rings when he'll make a bad turn, that's when you have to take your lead. Make sure that as you go through the rings you're turning towards the next ring, instead of turning AFTER you get through the ring, it's like being in a slalom. Good luck!

 

[LordRaiden]

Ok, I beat it...finally. Thank you. Anything ELSE I should be aware of that's harder than **** like this?

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Ok, I beat it...finally. Thank you. Anything ELSE I should be aware of that's harder than **** like this?

Yeah, but I'll let you find out for yourself

 

[JaiKnight]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Ok, I beat it...finally. Thank you. Anything ELSE I should be aware of that's harder than **** like this?

No prob, fun stuff, actually, depends, some people found that the hardest thing to beat, others found it was the easiest, so like Rent said, I'll let you find out yourself
LMK what you think about the game when you're done! Plenty of people working on mods for it already too

 

[LordRaiden]

Yes, that would be awesome! The game rules!

If they come out with some really good mods, you bet your bottom dollar I'll grab some. hehe.

My only complaint with the game is the fact that your gun energy goes down too darned quick and is too slow to come back up when you're working with the more powerful gun combinations.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: JaiKnight

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Ok, I beat it...finally. Thank you. Anything ELSE I should be aware of that's harder than **** like this?

No prob, fun stuff, actually, depends, some people found that the hardest thing to beat, others found it was the easiest, so like Rent said, I'll let you find out yourself
LMK what you think about the game when you're done! Plenty of people working on mods for it already too

Well, the last mission is annoying. As for the rest of the game, ugh. You will find that there is only one type of mission available at the bars (go here and kill this). The universe itself is not that 'alive'. All of the radio chatter is so trite and obviously fake. You can't talk back to people, either . Part of the fun is exploring the universe and finding new systems and stuff, but even that gets old after a time.

I had much higher expectations for this game. Because it took so long and there was a good deal of hype I expected something much more immersive. The ships you can buy and pilot are good, but, for instance, I think it would've been cool if you were able to buy three or four ships and get pilots for them. I dunno, the game was fun to play, but became old fast. I hope the mods can use the incredible graphics and do something more with the interactivity, missions, and universe.

 

[LordRaiden]

I do agree with that. Although here's something I did learn about the game after some tinkering. You can buy a freighter and run cargo, that gets you some interesting results.

You can also become a bounty hunter, liberty police, you can become a pirate, etc. Kinda neat. It all depends on what ship you have and what you're willing to do and who you talk to.

Explore some more and you'll see what I'm talking about. You can also become part of the Reinland military, or any of the other militaries. Plus there's hidden stuff all over heck. I've been playing two different ways so far. Story play and free play. I've found a lot of stuff I didn't even know about by doing free play. AKA, you go out, find trouble, explore, look for hidden things, and get stuff. There are a lot of hidden bases in the game too. Plus you find those and dock with them, there's lots of nice surprises in them.

 

[JaiKnight]

No doubt, there's a lot of stuff that can be done, but at the same time, it IS missing quite a bit of depth. Seems like the team wanted to do a lot, but pulled it out at the last second. For example, don't know if you noticed, but all the ships are the same speed, this doesn't really make much sense when you have light fighters running around at the same speed as a massive battleship or freighter.
Like BlinderBomber mentioned, the missions could benefit from a bit more creativity, hopefully to be solved in a patch or expansion at the very least.
The universe isn't very dynamic, especially in multiplayer, there are EASY ways to max out your level and ship in a few hours. Mods are being made to fix this, thankfully, so that the multiplayer game doesn't involve everybody flying around in the best ships fully loaded out.
People are even making mods to attempt to bring the game back to more of a Privateer type game (which personally I was hoping for). If you haven't seen it already, visit the Lancer's Reactor: http://www.lancersreactor.com
Don't want to spoil anything else for you, even with the above comments, the universe is still MANY times larger than older games of the same type.