2007-01-03 07:50   Posted by weasel75

Mhmm .. for me the mission was kind of hard.
The friendly AI moved too slow (officer escaped every time) and killed just 1 or 2 bad guys, while I killed 2 dozens of the enemies.
Once I adopted the "I am on my own here"-style I became relaxter and did well
However, my UH-60 extraction-heli nearly ran out of fuel due to some damage .... its quite funny how the enemy fires at the heli - it makes a good locator to find them slowely one by one
The idea of alternative excape-route comes handy I guess....

Nice mission and nice setup of fire, tank, bunker, etc.

Maybe the mission can be played Stealth-Style mode, but I guess with all the guys on the roofs its hard to get into town to place some satchel?!
But maybe I will try that later
Or play it in Coop with some friends.....

Thx for the mission - w75 over&out


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If you plan to play it for yourself, dont read one.

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Best success I had on middle-left flank, behind a smoked car. From there I could kill the officer when he left the bunker to get to the helicopter. Before that, I eliminated the roof-sniper, the roof-machinegunner and 3 or 4 specnaz/soldiers on the far left flank. The guys in town I left to my AI, but the friendly AI stops if dont walk with them (or just dies)
After the officer was down, it can be played slow and tactical, just find yourself some roof and carefully kill the bad guys

  2007-06-10 18:48   Posted by xxbbcc

Frankly, I think a single star is too much for this mission. I could try to find something positive about it (being a free mission, that one doesn't have to play and all), however, since I tried solving it for quite some time, I'll try to spare others the waste of time.

The setup is extremely unrealistic and the player is at a severe disadvantge, with no chance of success. Less than 3 minutes into the mission, the officer was already on the helicopter, escaping. In that much time it is impossible to fight all the enemy units (friendly AI is not just useless, it actually gets in the way), especially that they're all in hiding, perfectly placed against the incoming west attack. It's kind of suprising, since they supposedly don't know about it. Then the helicopter itself is a "nice" touch - it arrives in about 1 minute into the mission and it conveniently brings another enemy squad and drops them (and them immediately picks up the target officer.)

I tried finishing this one several times and then I got tired of this waste of time. Two thumbs down.

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