xiriod wrote:Also, I am not sure if it is possible to have the fighting sounds and such enabled but it does add to atmosphere if it can be done.
That is so going on my To Do list!
xiriod wrote:And, if I undock while attacking the station it never ends. I wanted to do that to SETA, as it takes quite a while to go through 5 levels....
I have not tried to capture station while flying the TP myself. I preferred to fly an M3 or M4 to distract local patrols from TP as usualy I hunt in hostile territories
. So, I will have to try piloting a transporter myself with un-docking on SETA.
xiriod wrote:I've assaulted 3 different stations now, 4-5 time each with reloads and I always get 'its a new encryption algorithm' at the hacking stage and then I am released from the station.
My marines are 5 star in hacking and mechanical, and 4 star in engineering. It can't get much better than that, for hacking at least. How is this calculated really?
The Hacking difficulty threshold at the moment is at 85 + half of "Lucky Hack" bonus. Your marines have a chance of "Lucky Hack" which will temporarily add anywhere from 0 to 10 points to their Hacking skill rating. Thus, a fresh 5 Hacking stars marine (85 hacking rating) will have a 50% chance of success. If you train your marine further in Hacking to rating of 90, which will still show as 5 stars on the chart, then he will have a 100% success rating.
This all granted if your hacker survives combat phase. Because, once team reaches computer core, the hackers get re-queried out of remaining troops. And now, the top 2
survivor hackers will attempt to crack the core. If you are using multi-national troopers (mix of all 5 races) you will hear voices change to the race of who is actually performing the hack.
xiriod wrote:And the stations doesn't take any damage from boarding, unless it is added after. But I can't board any with my 5 star marines so I do not know
The station hull does not take damage as it is not possible to repair the station hull without additional scripts. Instead, throw a bunch of uneducated (Engineering-wise) marines at the station and watch it's stock gradually being destroyed during combat phase, not after. It is calculated and applied as it happens.