Act 2 Dantes Inferno

This ones really bugging me.

Attacking the Marauder Shipyard where you need to take out the cruiser before it cripples my ship and just can't do it. Read a couple of crap walk throughs and they say 'shoot out the umbilical cords'. What umbilical cords?!?!?! There's the station, with what I assume is the cruiser stuck to it, but there doesn't seem to be any cables or anything obvious to shoot. I've sat there shooting the hell out of the station with my wingmen, gun turrets and main ship etc etc but nothing happens other than mission over.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

There are some docking arms between the cruiser and the station. You have to get real close and turn your Aim Assist off, then just blast them point blank with dual Quad lights, quad rapid fires, gatlings or whatever you have. As soon as it pops loose go after it (the cruiser) and finish the job.

Some swear by cutting beams for that mission. I found them unwieldly for the other parts of the mission though. It's just a matter of personal taste/flying style



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Look for the crawling electricity along the umbilical cords. You can't auto-target them, you have to press the 'x' key and do it manually.

If memory serves, there's three of them.

I've also heard (but never tried - I use cutting beams) that a REM Deathblow missile does well too.



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Thanks for the help guys. Think I've now found the bits i need to hit (long rod type things with electricity flowing up them).

Problem now is how the hell do you hit them? is there any sort of up-down control in the game (if there is I've not found it yet). Without it, I can't see how it's possible to manually target the rods.

any more help appreciated.

Yes, I remember lateral movement up and down was helpfull in that mission. If you are flying keyboard only it's not standard in the game but you can change the keyboard_only.ini in your configs folder to obtain it.

look for the section
[icPlayerPilot.LateralY]

change it with an editor (notepad) to look like this:

[icPlayerPilot.LateralY]
Keyboard, V
Keyboard, B, inverse

Pressing V will then take you up vertically and B will take you downwards

If you are flying a joystick you press the Alt button and use you Joystick Y axis. If you prefer the (V and keys over the Joystick/Alt combination you can change it as shown above too, But then in the default.ini in the configs folder
(Don't confuse that with the defaults.ini in the main game folder)


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