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Author Topic: Here is an easy way to defeat the Predator or Prey? mission  (Read 1583 times)

Hari Seldon

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1. Turn all of your Dominator's weapons on to autofire except your torpedoes.  Only use your Dominator's shields to block enemy torpedoes (and try to see the torpedo bomber wing coming so you have time to ensure you have spare flux to absorb their torpedoes), because with your shields off you cannot overload.  The Dominator has enough armor.
2. Order your entire fleet to focus fire on the enemy's torpedo bomber wing.  You have to kill all of the bombers on the first pass so they do not retreat and regenerate (try to get lucky shots with your Large Ballistic weapons).
3. Ignore everything and rush towards the Astral carrier, release your torpedoes and kill it.

Note: The enemy Omen is literally impossible to kill because your Dominator turns too slowly to bring its forward-firing weapons to bear and all of your other ships are too weak.

Figuring this out was really fun and satisfying (it does not feel like an exploit it feels like real tactics :)).
« Last Edit: May 07, 2015, 11:47:15 PM by Hari Seldon »
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Taizo Puckett

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Re: Here is an easy way to defeat the Predator or Prey? mission
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2015, 02:38:31 AM »

I had killed Omen a couple of times (with a lot of luck).

The "ignore everything and rush towards the Astral carrier" part is not so easy. You can get your engines disabled, even without Omen.
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Re: Here is an easy way to defeat the Predator or Prey? mission
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2015, 04:30:24 AM »

To get 100% you can try to deploy only the Dominator and shoot down the bombers with proximity charges. Still need luck to bring down the Omen, though.
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