! don't understand this newbie mission!

xarastier · Post by **xarastier** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 05:29

Hey guys! The mission is the noob "Battle Scars". It's the "medium" Campaign mission, and it requires that I "Enter: Assassin." That's it! That's all it says! The only other reference to "Assassin" in the game so far is the drone "Assassin ROV" that I purchased which was also a Campaign mission. Does the mission have anything to do with the Assassin Drone?!

Post by **Santi** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 06:08

Looks like it, never played that mission but sounds logical.

rguy1 · Post by **rguy1** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 07:12

The plot game is more or less a tutoral so yes you enter the Assassin drone and just fly around untill you get bored with it. It's just to show you how to use the drones.

xarastier · Post by **xarastier** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 10:45

Wow! I didn't think that a drone can be "entered". It makes sense now. Thanks for the heads up rguy1.

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 12:36

Einstein profile pic, eh?

Eriodas · Post by **Eriodas** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 13:07

Seems like he didn't read the manual (but nobody does anyway).

Ormac · Post by **Ormac** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 15:17

The manual for Rebirth is not a manual following in the standards for the
X - universe.

Although Egosoft should not rewrite the manual yet I think having seen UI changes in 1.30 if they should release a new updated PDF version. when they've patched Rebirth to a degree that Rebirth is their intended final release product.

-- Ormac

Shootist · Post by **Shootist** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 15:27

Ormac wrote:The manual for Rebirth is not a manual following in the standards for the
X - universe.

Although Egosoft should not rewrite the manual yet I think having seen UI changes in 1.30 if they should release a new updated PDF version. when they've patched Rebirth to a degree that Rebirth is their intended final release product.

-- Ormac

Gad.

rguy1 · Post by **rguy1** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 18:12

xarastier wrote:Wow! I didn't think that a drone can be "entered". It makes sense now. Thanks for the heads up rguy1.

You don't really enter a drone it's more like remote piloting them.

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 18:14

But you do enter the VR mode.

TTD · Post by **TTD** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 18:17

great thing about flying a drone is that if you're shot out of existence .then you are still in the Skunk

...

_nox_ · Post by **_nox_** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 18:25

I had one funny bug where the AI in my own drone must have bailed out, and it gave me a mission -

"Find pilot for drone"

=)

Nikola515 · Post by **Nikola515** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 19:03

TTD wrote:great thing about flying a drone is that if you're shot out of existence .then you are still in the Skunk

...

Well about that.... It is more likely that sting duck Skunk will get destroyed before drone is. So you will die anyway

I wonder if anyone is actually using drones ?

rguy1 · Post by **rguy1** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 19:03

_nox_ wrote:I had one funny bug where the AI in my own drone must have bailed out, and it gave me a mission -

"Find pilot for drone"

=)

I have the same mission right now. Whats that about?

rguy1 · Post by **rguy1** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 19:07

Nikola515 wrote:
TTD wrote:great thing about flying a drone is that if you're shot out of existence .then you are still in the Skunk

...
Well about that.... It is more likely that sting duck Skunk will get destroyed before drone is. So you will die anyway I wonder if anyone is actually using drones ?

I use hacker drone for almost ever ship I cap and use haker and traitor on xenons K and branch 9

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 19:57

Just a little offtopic... Have they added landing pads at the Ks finally?
I spied one K, and I have to say, that the Balor killing efficiency is pretty impressive.

Nikola515 · Post by **Nikola515** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 20:33

rguy1 wrote:
I use hacker drone for almost ever ship I cap and use haker and traitor on xenons K and branch 9

I usually board ship and go get crew for it. By the time boarding is done enemy eng fixes ship and it is good to go when I come back

As for haker drone i hate when i need to come 50m to scan something and you need to stop drone(there i no stop button)

Drones would be fun to use if we had smart Skunk's autopilot.

Nikola515 · Post by **Nikola515** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 20:37

Earth ultimatum IV. wrote:Just a little offtopic... Have they added landing pads at the Ks finally?
I spied one K, and I have to say, that the Balor killing efficiency is pretty impressive.

I don't think Ks are meant to be boarded or used on first place. There was bug with Fedhelm at beginning (missing docks). And CBJ i think went to check it out and hi told us about it. Ill se if i can find link.

Edit:

CBJ wrote:We're working on it. The Xenon ship may not necessarily be changed, but others should be.

CBJ wrote:Hm, I may have misread which ships were being referred to. I will have to get back to you on this.

Edit: Confirmed that Fedhelm is one of those where the docking ability will be restored.

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... c&start=15

rguy1 · Post by **rguy1** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 20:59

Nikola515 wrote:
rguy1 wrote:
I use hacker drone for almost ever ship I cap and use haker and traitor on xenons K and branch 9

I usually board ship and go get crew for it. By the time boarding is done enemy eng fixes ship and it is good to go when I come back
As for haker drone i hate when i need to come 50m to scan something and you need to stop drone(there i no stop button) Drones would be fun to use if we had smart Skunk's autopilot.

The reason I use Hacker drones is so the boarding party does not get attacked by the ship you are boarding and you can also be free to help in boarding without being shredded by turrets after the hack you have a 3-4 minute window of no guns being fired at you( other than drones and escort fighters) drones can be easly dodge and fighters can be easly shot down. My favorite trick is if drones are doing to much damage is to go into a highway for a couple seconds then go back to the fight and this is of course for ships larger than a freighter. And as far as not being able to stop after some practice you get to know where the hack points are and how to better control the drone.

Eriodas · Post by **Eriodas** » Wed, 16. Apr 14, 21:17

Well, OP problem solved. I'm no mod but i think this post should be locked to prevent spamfest..