No credit for destroying Battleships in SP?

Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:33 pm by stryx

You can't kill non-hostile ships AFAIK. If you do that a screen appears and tells you that you attacked a neutral ship and you can either reload or quit. I found out the hard way because of a bug in the game the three rheinlanders that approach you before you reach Sinclair didn't turn hostile, they just kept white-neutral. But the game expected them to turn hostile and as long as they weren't killed I couldn't dock at the planet or use any trade lanes. So I attacked the still white rheinlanders and as soon as I broke through their shields and did some serious damage... there was the exit screen. That was a serious bug but somewhat around the tenth try it suddenly worked und the three ships turned hostile. Well, that was their last mistake.

Anyway... when I completed Freelancer the first time, I got only one confimred battleship kill, in the second run I got two. I guess the lucky bloke who places the final shot gets the kill.

Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:44 am by Cmdr.Wiggin

Only 2? I got 7 confirmed battleship kills during my first run at the game. I used an old tactic from other spacesims. It's tricky and dangerous but FUN! High speed manouvers close to the battleship while dropping mines.

The mines go directly to the ship and if you fly close enough and turn the afterburner on and off all the time you should survive. In the "Experimental Battleships" mission I got 3-4 battleship kills.

Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:05 am by Swordplay

Battleship kills are calculated only if you have the last shot in, the killing shot. Learnt this from experimentation and the hard way.

Basically I use the semi-lame method of killing battleships, I would find a safe place IN the battleship to hover over where when other fighters shot at me they would be shooting the battleship. Then I would just relax and hold down my fire key, no point wasting missles or torpedoes.

Well, was experimenting, this is the battleship near the last few missions, the one that is beside the Order's battleship. Basically I shot and I definitely got the most damage on the ship, 3/4 of the damage was mine. Then I stopped when there was a sliver of a bar left and left the Order battleship to destroy the enemy battleship. Check registered kills and yeap, the kill wasn't mine.

Did the same thing again but this time kept firing all the way till it exploded (Explosion from even that close to a battleship does not damage you in any way...cool.), got 1 battleship kill.

Fri Mar 14, 2003 8:53 am by Easy Rhino

I only got credit for one, and that was early on, which I can't remember. Even though I KNOW I killed one near the end. Oh well. Not like you can loot them or anything

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