- Hubb Lebowski
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Posted by: Tyrant122312
As I've said, though, I've tried both methods. I'm not saying they aren't doable, but they are extremely undesirable and frustrating.
I've found a way to get fairly close to them, though. So I'm going to practice that to see if I can master it.
Are you referring to hitting them with many short bolts or overcharging them? Like I said, I had basically no trouble with overcharging them, but I suppose it may not be as easy as I thought (I only did it a few times, so I guess I may have gotten lucky, but it did seem to be repeatable).
I forgot to mention this in my last post, but I managed to activate the button without killing the Focus Rifle Rangers on at least two separate occasions (it was before I discovered my pop-overcharge technique). After ensuring my health was maxed and my drop shield was charged, I popped out from behind the pillar on the left ledge with the Needle Rifle crate and put a couple Needle Rifle rounds into the Rangers to get them to evade while I jumped off the ledge and ran towards the ledge the Rangers (and the button) are on. Of course, I couldn't get all the way there before they recovered from their evasion, so I deployed the drop shield, moved outside of it at an angle such that I could fire at one Ranger but not the other, put a couple Needle Rifle rounds into him, started moving towards the ledge again and put a couple rounds into the other Ranger. If either Ranger recovered before I was out of their lines of sight (close enough to their ledge), I put a couple more rounds in them. I don't remember needing to shoot either one more than 3 times (I think twice was enough during one of the times I did this, but I can't remember exactly). After getting out of their lines of sight, I jumped onto the barrier attached to the bottom of the ledge's pillar from which I was able to jump and activate the button. For some reason, I was only able to activate the button by crouch-jumping from atop the barrier. I'm not sure if the crouch-jump was actually necessary, but it's how I did it both times. If I chilled underneath the ledge for too long, the Rangers dropped from the ledge and engaged me (one at a time, I think). With a Plasma Pistol overcharge and a couple Needle Rifle rounds, they were both easily taken out. They never dropped down when I was trying to jump for the button, only when I was actually underneath the ledge amongst the explosive barrels (which can be easily dispatched with a few Plasma Pistol bolts from the other side of the hangar). Like I said, I haven't done this more than a couple times, but I have a 100% success rate with it so far. =D
It sounds like Tyrant and a couple other people may adamantly disagree with me, but Long Night of Solace is probably my favorite mission. Yeah, essentially the entire first battle is skippable, but from rally point Alpha on, it's pure awesome. It seems to me that the only reason the Sabre battles could become annoying is the fact that they'res so easy compared to the corvette, which, to be honest, I didn't think was really that difficult. I think it's just a sound comms rooms strategy away from being really straightforward. Like someone else (I think it was Vince) already said, the bridge can be perfectly stealthed, and even if you mess it up, doing it the hard way isn't even that hard (as long as you survive running back into the hall, of course). Cannon control is a breeze, and both visits to the hangar are pretty simple too (especially the second, now that we have the Pelican turret). It's certainly a lot to ask of yourself all at once, though. Much more than anything else, loss of focus was the bane of existence on this mission.
[Edited on 11.09.2010 11:02 PM PST]