Difficulty destroying drone in basic training

Guhndahb · Post by **Guhndahb** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:39 am

I'm not sure if this is a bug that I should report in Tech Support or if I'm doing something wrong, so I'll assume the latter.

I'm playing Evochron Mercenary for the first time, version 2.088, and I'm running through the training. I got to the point where I have to destroy a drone, but I'm unable to get through his shields unless I unload my entire battery into him and successfully hit him with both provided missiles all in a very short amount of time. I can then whittle him down. Without the missiles (of which you are given 2 so if you miss you are out of luck) I could not get one shield facing below yellow even with all energy going to weapons.

I researched the forums and found one thread mentioning a similar issue, but it was in Arvoch so I don't know if it applies here. They said to use a beam weapon. Unfortunately, the ship I was assigned for training has no beam weapon, just the FlareBeam particle cannon (though the name threw me off initially) and two echelon missiles.

Is the training actually meant to expect a perfect first attempt or am I missing something here? If the former, it's not really a problem for me since I'm a space sim veteran, but I imagine it might put off newbies. Thanks.

Post by **Vice** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:41 am

Indeed, it is being addressed in the next update:
http://www.starwraith.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10137

Guhndahb · Post by **Guhndahb** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:30 am

Indeed, that post and reply occurred exactly as I was drafting this post. I spotted it immediately after I submitted. I couldn't believe the timing.

Thanks for the reply.