Well, missions from now on are just not going to be the same without Vargas, but the Helios squadron doesn't have much time to mourn her untimely demise. War is hell, ya know. Mission 4 starts with the usual chit chat amongst the Helios squadron and Admiral Durant. You get the pattern by now...Durant being an A-Hole, Copperhead his usual persnickety
self...
Copperhead questions why we are pursuing this frivolous side mission. Admiral Durant quickly puts Copperhead in his place and orders Helios to investigate.
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| Durant - impressive, getting your hands dirty |
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| Copperhead being his normal sassy self after being told to investigate the canyon |
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| Yeah yeah, we get it - pushing latrine orders for the next 20 years... etc, etc |
Phase 1 Dogfight some Paladins:
You start with an engagement against 3 Paladin fighters that are led by a rather
disturbing looking trash talking individual by the name of “Winged Serpent”. Knocking out the Serpents 3 Paladin minions requires similar skills
as mission 2 – pretty straightforward
dogfighting.
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| You made it thru - now lets hit these 3 islands |
Phase 3 Island Hopping: Once you
finish escorting your battleships thru the canyon, you break out into the open
and now see 3 islands with rotating radio dishes. Your mission here is to provide cover for the
battleships to allow them to lay the hurt on the radio dishes. To do this, your focus should be to take out
the ground cannons & ground missile units and also to be ready for aerial
attacks from additional Paladins that show up.
The main tip here is to not spend time shooting at the radio towers –
let the ships take care of them. Your
job is to protect the ships. Usually
there are 2 waves of Paladins that attack – they want to ignore you and go for
your ships, so your job is to divert and engage them and keep them from their
missile runs.
Mission 4 is one of the easiest missions in my opinion, in order to get the Lancer missiles bonus the only thing you have to do is not get hit by a missile from an enemy plane, you CAN get hit from missiles from the surrounding SAM sites on the three islands. The way I do this mission (in the Hawken with stocks)... Obviously after gaining passage through the canyon is to fly left until your targeting reticule locks on the furthest left island SAM site, also as soon as you get a lock turn on full brakes, do this for each island. As soon as your reticule tells you that you have a targeting solution fire six missiles at the SAM site as fast as you can, then skip the radar tower and do the same thing for the other two SAM sites. Do this on each island and only stop when enemy planes have appeared, each enemy plane takes 6 missiles as well, once you have killed the planes return to attack the radar towers until the second wave of planes come,remember you CANNOT get hit by an enemy planes missile, attack the planes as soon as you can get a lock. Finish off the planes and finish off the radar sites. Voila you're done with all three bonuses.
ReplyDeleteIan H Pedersen aka ThumperTwice
To not get hit by those paladins missiles, u have to first hit each one of them with one missile or two to make them roll so they will break the lock on you. Then fire away like hell on every one of them.
DeleteFirst You Need The Hawken to get the Lancer missiles .
DeleteWhen one of them has the red square shoot at them non stop.
Do the same to all of them.
After that, you probably will beat the mission and get the Lancer missiles.
It's very easy until you get to the last part of the mission.
My favorite part is at the beggining.
Part two of my comment back in Sept. You want to climb up and go to the right of the paladins and shoot only the lead and the one on the right in your perspective one missile only. You need to have the EAGLE X for its great lockrange. Then blow all the paladins to kingdom come with some dogfighting :)
DeleteSooo mr blogger can I ask u for your game center username (3rd time)?
ReplyDeleteStar caller, sorry, I am not giving out my user name in the blog. I have a small list of friends that I know personally only. You would probably whoop my butt anyway! :-).
DeleteI under stand but... Could I least know some off your stats?
DeleteMine: skill 9000
Current plane: Red Widow/dragon
1000 wins
1300+ games
Highest survival level reached: 28
I had to get a new game center over Christmas because my stuff didn't transfer right on to my new iPod 4 do that's about a month and a half
Ok StarCaller, Ok. I'm at about 7500 I think. I've been spending all my time writing this blog instead of scoring kills - I'm going to have to work hard to catch up with you! ;-)
DeleteCool I spend all my time in metal storm it's sick and when I take a break it's usually to check metal storms face book wall or read this blog:) I might need help lol
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DeleteI play MetalStorm about 90 minutes a day.
DeleteI don't play versus that much so mine skill is only 1100.
I spend about 30 minutes on this website every day because your website is amazing.
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ReplyDeletegetting the lancers missiles in this campaign is the easiest task , all you have to do is dodge the two missiles that are fired by the 3 paladin's in the first 30 seconds , usually it goes like this , with a hawken and stock missiles :
ReplyDeleteyou head full throthle toward the 3 Paladins
you get a lock on the first one ---> 2 missiles
Missile Reload ---> Fire 2 more , 1st Paladin Down
at that exact time you must pay attention , because either one of the paladin Fire his missile , or sometimes both of them ---> easy to dodge .
wheteher you get damage or not afterward is of no importance ,as long as you finish the campaign .
the 2 waves of Paladins that attack the ships when they're hittin RAdios never shoot at the plane .....
the first 30 seconds , it's the secret for getting the lancers.
BTW , totally agree with starcaller , this blog is great ......
do you have to take out the wave of paladins at phase 3?
DeleteSousoucell you're correct that it is indeed easy but IT DOES matter whether you get damage before or later, it only matters that you do not get hit by enemy plane missiles, any other damage doesn't matter, also if you are using Side Winders(Stocks)it takes 6 hits with Side Winders to kill a Paladin not two even with a fully upgraded Hawken.
ReplyDeleteFolks you cannot get hit by ANY plane missiles throughout the ENTIRE mission, before or after the canyon. ANY other damage you sustain AS LONG AS it's not from a plane doesn't matter.
If you're having problems just follow my previous commentary on advancing through the mission.
ThumperTwice
Thanks ThumperTwice, Sousoucell and Ian, great tip!
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome bro, keep up the great work.
DeleteBTW I am now [WarWolf] ThumperTwice :D
for those of you who don't know the daily mission refreshes every 8 hours so you can potentially squeeze 30 - 45 lancers out of Z2 daily by playing this mission. I play the 4th and 5th missions daily to get those rewards.
ReplyDelete[SV Cadet sangongchuangnu]
When you go through the canyon straight without turning back you will get an achievement.
ReplyDeletethe easiest way to dodge the missiles at the start is just to fly low, full throttle past the paladins, then loop back and take them out
ReplyDeleteHow do you dodge missiles from the three islands? I always run out of energy.
ReplyDeleteHawken
It is quite simple:
Delete1) When you get out from the canyon, go full speed untill you are above the more advanced battleship and once there, break.
2) Now you should lock on the SAMs, fire 5/6 missiles for each one of them in the first island (when you have to fire the last one/s, begin locking on the next SAM).
3) Once defeated the first island go full speed at over 1000 alt and once you are above the second island begin firing as I mentioned above.
4) Now do the same with the third island( I usually fly high only for the second island but you can do it for all of them).
6) Now just take out the two waves of paladins.
Hope I helped.
Have you upgraded your Hawken? There is a +70% energy upgrade near the bottom of the upgrade tree.
ReplyDeleteHave you upgraded your Hawken? There is a +70% upgrade near the botom of the tree.
ReplyDeleteYeah, 80% upgrsded but still didn't work so i just hid in the canyon taking sneak shots at the Paladins and waited for my battleships or destroyers to destroy them or I just use my Dragon. I forgot to put my name so i'm Anonymous.
Deletethe guy in the paladin has a weird voice
ReplyDeletethis mission shouldnt take you more than a week to complete it.
ReplyDeletei cant beat prase 3.
ReplyDeleteDid you notice that on the other side of the canyon (at its end), where there are the last 3 turrets, there is another one already destroyed?
ReplyDeleteI have complete this mission but is still in green colour not blue as the others ..how can i fix it?
ReplyDeleteAnd why all mission wants rewards?what is this?
I have over 1000 Apollo cannon ammo from playing this mission, and something like 150 Lancer missiles. I don't like the lancers much though, they're too unfair. Meteors from mission 5 are a bit better, but I usually prefer RAAMs.
ReplyDeletegot bug....1500 free apollows
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, this mission is easier than mission 3...
ReplyDeleteafterburners at paladins when they fire missels at you spin they should miss
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