My loadout is a Saracen with 100% armor boost and 2x Jackhammer Missiles, 4x Dom Kavash Annihilators and, 1x Sunslayer.
Posts by Gamexotic
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first, obviously go the the gmg station and get the mission to kill 3 ancients. then go to the waypoint, when u arrive u will see approx. 11km out an ancient drone coming, do not engage but make your run
for the utopia jumphole. engage the drones near the hole and when u have three, get the hell out and mission over, if u survive the nomads waiting in utopia lol.
I appreciate it but that method didn't work for me. When I saw the first ancient drone indicator on my hud. If I went away from the ancient portal the drone would never appear, thus it wouldn't follow me to the Utopia wormhole nor to the GMG station. I had to blow up the first drone at the ancient portal which is why I was getting overwhelmed by ancient drones so many times.
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Then there's something seriously wrong here. It sounds almost like we're playing two different games. I can't use the path from the GMG base to Utopia because the mission waypoint is near the ancient portal thing. And if I fly toward GMG after killing 3 drones about 4-6 ancient drones are on top of me by the time i get to the GMG base.
The ancient drones won't spawn unless I'm near the ancient portal thing or whatever it is, so how can I fight the ancient drones inside the astroid belt? Then If I kill one and rush back toward the Utopia about 4-6 drones show up at the Utopia wormhole.
I don't think it's fair that every time someone has trouble with this mission some users on here say it's because they're a crappy player. If I can kill 3+ drones despite the fact that the repair station in the GMG base doesn't work, so we already are beginning this mission with a damaged ship, despite the fact the ancient drones barely drop nanobots or shield batteries and they're not for sale in the GMG station, despite the fact that I have thousands of hours logged in this game and have no problem blasting through plenty of Dom Kavash.
There's no way I would ever call myself a great player but I'm certainly not a crap player. I seriously don't think my skill as a player is an issue here.
-----------------------------------------------After finally finishing the mission I have some further comments:
The way I finally solved this was by killing the first ancient drone near the ancient portal thing then doubling back to the GMG base and killing the 2nd and 3rd drones there. Then I circled around the base using it as cover and initiated warp toward the Utopia wormhole. Meanwhile, four ancient drones had built up behind me, making my escape very difficult. I had to use all of my advanced countermeasure flares as they're particularly ineffective at stopping warp drive disruptors. While I passed it, I feel there was much more luck involved than skill.
I also think it's worth noting that I suspect many of the failures before were due to an abundance of bugs in the mod, including inconsistencies in when the enemies would or wouldn't spawn. I mentioned earlier that sometimes I couldn't get the first three ancient drones to spawn at all unless I was near the ancient portal. At times, I could actually see the enemy indicator in my hud but the drones would never appear.
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Personally, I think this mission is imbalanced. The problem is not killing three. The problem is that you have to kill each one within 10 seconds because they keep spawning. By the time I kill three there are four more spawned within the next 20 seconds. I can't make my way back to the Utopia worm hole because two spawn close to my path back to the wormhole and they knock out my warp engines with warp disruptors...that means there are two drones behind me and two in front of me. Those odds are impossible. I keep doing the mission over and over and the same thing happens every time I kill the first three drones. Even if I stick around and try to kill a fourth or fifth, when I kill them I get overwhelmed by 6 drones. I'm having difficulty understanding why people on this forum are insisting it's so easy.
