sorry about the double post, but i thought i'd actually help out some lancers here. On mission 10, i know you are past it now, the trick is to fly underneath the battleship and one of its sides, there are no guns there and ships have a hard time shooting you..I recommend using mostly reapers, as they are energy efficient and stronger than the deaths hand...after you destroy one, Botzler when do a run and blow them all up...on mission 11, i know this sounds kind of stupid, biased, or maybe "easier than it is"....but bear with me...as soon as you enter the place, turn your engines onto full speed and break hard left, it took me some time to realize this, but it seems to be the best way to avoid fighters, when you have to destroy the generators, approach from the top, turrets on the ground have a hard time hitting you, the generators take quite alot of punch to destroy, i recommend going in there with 50 starkillers and 50 (what mine is it?)...split your ammo as evenly as possible between the generators (12 torps/12 mines for each one, happy birthday you piece of s**t )Alot of your wing (if not all) will be destroyed in this run, dont worry you arent doing anything wrong, guess they are just lousy pilots...lol, j/k ...anyway, i cant upload a program here that automatically makes you good at Freelancer, so i'll just stop writing

You can control the difficulty to some extent: use a light fighter if you want it easy, use a heavy one if you want it hard.

The light fighters have almost the same shield capacity, armour and powerplant as the heavy fighters of the same class - the difference is just a few percent. So it is most definitely not true that a heavy fighter can take much more punishment than a light one; it can take only marginally more. But the heavy fighters have to take much more punishment than the light fighters because they are too slow to dodge enemy fire effectively. A heavy fighter would need a shield at least two classes higher in order to get the same 'survivabililty' as one of the highly manoeuverable light fighters but they have to make do with the same shield. That is why it is harder to fly the campaign mission in a HF (or a freighter, for that matter ).

The only advantage of the heavy fighters is that they can use torpedo launchers and that they have more hardpoints which means they can use more than one missile launcher without sacrificing too much fire power from guns. Against stationary or slow-moving targets (or AI ships during initial approach) they can do twice the damage compared to a light fighter, while the ammo lasts. But on the whole the HF cannot take out enemy fighters fast enough to compensate for their bad survivability.

Not all light fighters are equal, though. The best choices for the campaign are Patriot, Cavalier and Drake. The Hawk is not bad but it cannot match the Drake.

Edited by - Sherlog on 05-07-2003 11:45:08

be invincible:
go to my documents then my games then to freelancer then prefoptions
scroll down to diffuculty scale change it from 1:00 to 0:00 and you are
INVINCIBLE!!!!!!!!!

Buying lvl.10 sheild:$1,000,000.00
Buying titan:$500,000.00
watching enemys blow up:priceless

Antilles, you are the worst loser that ever haunted these forums. If you had read this thread before spamming it then you would have known that this was mentioned already in this very thread (and many others before this). Granted, the assumption that you can read is somewhat tenuous ... FOAD anyway.

the difficulty scale is a sliding scale

1.00 = 100% damage
0.00 = Zero damage

try setting for 0.75 (75% damage).

may take a few tries to get the balance between life and challenge right...but it worked for me (but after i did the missions with reduced difficulty, i reset to full and tried again for fairness)

Just my $0.02, but it could just be the cardamine talking.
Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre
aka Shaman - gameArena Server

Set the difficulty to 100.00. Fly to a hostile area. See how many seconds you can count too before dying. (5 for me!!!)

Above is blatant Spamming

Cardamine rules!!