Single Player troubles

[agressiv]

Hi -

I fired up freelancer after a few years and decided to go through the Single Player Campaign Storyline with Discovery.

Its definitely much harder (enemies actually use nanobots and shield batteries, fights last much longer) but in general I've been able to deal with it - its a welcome challenge.

All until we're in TAU-29 with Quintaine and Kress joins the fight in the mission titled "Engage the Rheinland Fleet"

Wow, its insane. I don't see how anyone would be able to clear this legitimately. With the normal single player, its tough, but do-able, but with Discovery, I'd say its safe to say impossible. You just aren't eligible for a powerful enough ship to deal with this.

The Gunboats, Cruisers, and Battleship can take you out in about 6 hits even against a fully loaded heavy fighter with their upgraded damage output, and boy, can the Gunboats take the hits. One missile from a gunboat gets your shields in one shot.

I had to enable the godmode cheat on this mission, and it seemed the Cruisers died about 3x faster than the Gunboats. Even the battleship fell faster than a gunship with 5 people firing on it. Doesn't seem right.

Anyways, I'll turn the godmode off after I can save, but perhaps something could be tweaked? :)

agressiv