I am new to Crossfire. The increased speed makes it impossible to finish the race, especially towards the end. Is there any way to reduce the cruise speed?
Single Player Hovis Race
- gpcady
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Is there any way to reduce the cruise speed?
Yes, but not without cheating
It is possible to beat Hovis, many have done it. You have to learn the race track, where to put your ship to enter next time.
Also your ship is important (some are slow) - which do you use ? -
There is a hint given just after the start of the race by one of the betters on the Hood. He says "keep your eye on the next gate". This is the key. Once you are set up
for the gate you are about to pass through shift your focus to the next gate and keep it there until you are set up for it, then shift again to the following gate and so on. Once you get that down, you will notice
you will be in a flow that will let you over take Hovis when he over shoots about mid way and you can pass him. You will know this has happened when he tells his guys to give you something to think about.
don't think about it, ignore the missiles and stay focused on the gates. Do not look for Hovis' overshoot, that will take your focus off the gates, you will see it in your poriferal vision but don't shift focus to
it, you lose if you do. As for ships, I have run and won the race in the Black Eagle, the Bastard, a freighter ( Bullpup MK III), and a couple of new ships that are new in 2.0 mod that shouldn't stand a chance but did anyway.
Mostly depends on the pilot skills and like all things human, can be improved upon. When starting the race make sure you are in free flight and do not use f2 for the cruise engines, use shift+W instead. HTH, feel free to
drop me a line if you still have questions. Have fun! -
I did it in Black Eagle.
First time i failed,second time i won.
Use strafe left and right a lot,you can't win without that.
And yes,keep your eyes always on the next way point.
Don't give up,real fun starts after vanilla missions.
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Nice choice of ship and very agile too.
Just upgrade your pilot skills (practice)
You will need those skills later in the game anyway
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You can play Vanilla all the way untill last mission. Crossfire missions begins at the end of last Vanilla mission automatic. Perhaps only play Vanilla until after the Race, that's up to you.
Yes, Crossfire requires better skills which comes with experience. Nothing elitist about it, i can assure you - then I would never have made it -
There are in the launcher more different cross-hairs, they can be all tried easily (use settings menu in the launcher). For have correct aim is also important to use only a guns with the same projectiles speed. And for the race, there was earlier advised use strafe: in crossfire is possible strafe not only to the left and right, but also up and down. Besides use these strafe to avoid guns-fire (use right,down,left,up in circle ... bottom and up is need to assign to keys, they are not assigned by default) and make so called "box", they can be a serious help in this race, when if used they allow to stay inside race gates also with faster cruise speed ... start of race is not hard, the "worst" is race end, but it can be memorised. Crossfire mod is a challenge in more ways as only when fighting NPCs, but each single learned new skill during a play will come useful later.
... you may also upload your race mission save, here is more ppl which can pass this race for you and return to you next mission save. Still I'm sure you can pass this race by yourself if you will give it a try with our advice to use "strafes".
p.s.: for play Crossfire added missions is technically necessary to replay only whole mission 13.
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Race done. I had a lot of fun
