Game:

FreeSpace 2 (1999)

Duration: 6:39

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Actual mission, I think the framerate was pretty good this time in the mission, but overall this mission is a short one.

To explain a few things in greater detail:

- The Bomb Trick
It's more of a trick abusing the way your secondary weapons are laid out. Each weapon bank has their own "cooldown timer" which has to run out before you can fire again. As mentioned, with the Harpoon you a cooldown timer of 3 seconds, and with the Cyclops, you have a cooldown timer of 20 seconds.

However, this is the case only for the specific weapon bank, which is what I abuse. If you fire Cyclops off of one bank, the cooldown timer will only be initiated from that weapon bank only - the other two weapon banks(in the case of the Ursa) will still be available to fire with.

Thus, the strategy here to deal with the Ravana quickly and easily is to switch your weapon banks after firing Cyclops(make sure to dual fire) so you don't need to wait for the cooldown timer in order to fire again, leaving yourself just needing to gain acquisition.


- Epsilon Wing
I mentioned Epsilon Wing flying Serapis fighters(but stopped to let the chatter go on and focus on the mission itself), and I'm sure I'll talk more about this later, but for the rare few that read this and are interested, here's the explanation of why:

The Serapis fighter is small, maneuverable and fast - sounds almost like the Shivan Dragon fighter! The big problem is that the Serapis can't take a hit. Not only are its shields paper thin, but so is its hull. I'm actually surprised that Epsilon Wing wasn't wiped out within 2 minutes of this mission.

Wingmen in Serapis fighters often don't survive the sortie.

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