XvT-F 238: Dempsey's Quest #8: Dartmoor falls

Battle Information

Game platform: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
Missions: 1
Release date: 2010-10-09
Last updated: 2010-10-09
Average rating 0.3
Reviews: 4
Bug reports: 3
Times completed: 9

Battle Reviews

CM Vanguard88

0

2024-01-15

Due to multiple bugs and issues with the Golan model (torpedoes passing through it, ships colliding with the stations or getting stuck on them), hangar issues and the amount of effort required to try to work around these issues, flying this mission is not recommended. Avoid at all costs.


VA Locke Setzer

1

2023-08-21

So, let's get the bad out of the way: you're going to have to disable three Golan 2 platforms by yourself. There's no avoiding it. Also, you're going to have to fly the TIE Defender. There's no way you can beat this with the Missile Boat - those platforms have to get disabled, and none of the T/Ds will survive long enough to do the job if you're flying the Missile Boat.

That's, uh, not ideal! Not impossible though, and there are far worse things the player is asked to do in the dark corners of the compendium than that. But, this is also brought down by the fact that the Golan 2 is... not a great patch. Lot of flickering, lasers going through opt, and bad hitbox in general. I focused on the top of the giant tower in the center (with a big X) - that seems to be the most accurate spot.

Took me about 34 minutes no cheats, which I think is about as fast as it can be done. So, bad design combined with bad patch gives this a low one, unfortunately.


Managed to complete it with unlimited waves because you don't have enough munitions to take down those 3 Golan 2s otherwise. If you choose the MB you'll have to choose between lasering down these stations with a single laser or eject and start over using unlimited waves. The TIE Defenders may die and be unsuccessful in disabling the platforms too at which point you have to restart the mission. If you play as a TIE Defender your MBs won't succeed in dropping those shields. Then the best part was that after you capture the stations there is a final wave attack on your cap ship and if you aren't near by they will destroy it making you hate the mission even more. Of course, since Dempsey does this in all her missions, I was expecting it. Completed the mission but due to unlimited waves ended up with a negative score so I didn't get completion credit. What a waste of time and terribly designed mission. Not worth spending hours on to complete.


COL Phalk Sturm

0

2021-10-22

Sadly, this mission was a missed opportunity to create a golden classic. The idea of the 3 Golan II platforms was excellent and gave freshness and improved sensations to the otherwise regular looking platforms. The action is well balanced and Golanis are tough to approach unless you go into the tunnel. But the player's craft planning was a terrible mess. Not frustrating but insufficient, pinchpenny, plain inefficient single load of Adv. Torps will not cut the shields of ONE SINGLE Golani. Rockets seemed to expensive. And of course, no beams for the MIS. Again, there must be some imperial accountant doing a proper job. A pity, because this mission looked amazing, felt amazing to play, but it was complete frustration when you had to bring down the shields on the single laser Missile Boat that in the meantime T/Ds were wiped out one by one, and there was not a single imperial ion capable fighter to take the last Golani. 25 minutes for the A/FRGs to dock?Plain and simple, terribly planned and doubted if it had any beta testing.


Battle Bug Reports

CM Vanguard88

2023-09-30

Missile Boat group Executor will crash into the Golan stations when attacking them.

Missile Boat group Executor will not always land their torpedoes on the Golan stations due to issues with the model where some of the locations are not properly registering hits, causing lasers/projectiles to travel through the stations instead of doing damage.

Tie Defender group executor will crash into the golan stations when attacking them.

Z-95's, Y-Wings and T-Wings will sometimes crash into the stations upon exiting the hangars.


VA Locke Setzer

2023-08-21

The ISD Warrior bugged out after launching the last transport. That meant the Y-Wings that came later to destroy it ended up just hypering home - so 4 flights of Y-Wings that fly in and fly out at the tail end of the mission.


FA Pickled Yoda

2014-06-01

On medium, most of the initial waves of enemy fighters kamikaze themselves into the hangar walls of the Golans as they're trying to exit.


High Scores

Mission: 136,295 CM Vanguard88 2023-10-03

Top Ten

(of available records)

1 136,295 CM Vanguard88 2023-10-03
2 91,227 CM Vanguard88 2023-09-30
3 35,631 VA Locke Setzer 2023-08-21
4 33,959 HA Anahorn Dempsey 2010-10-14
5 30,268 FA Pickled Yoda 2014-06-01
6 23,446 MAJ Hermann 2021-02-22
7 18,123 GN Dax Corrin 2016-10-01
8 13,898 COL Phalk Sturm 2021-10-23

Battle Completion Statistics

This battle has been flown by 7 pilots a total of 9 times.

HA Anahorn Dempsey - 2010-10-14

GN Dax Corrin - 2016-10-01

MAJ Hermann - 2021-02-22

VA Locke Setzer - 2023-08-21

COL Phalk Sturm - 2 times, last on 2021-10-23

FA Pickled Yoda - 2014-06-01

CM Vanguard88 - 2 times, last on 2023-10-03

Title               : Dartmoor Falls (Dempsey's Quest: Mission #8)
Author              : TAC-PROF/HA Anahorn Dempsey/CS-6/VSD Sinister (#12519)
		      dempsey@slayersrealm.com
Platform            : X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
Number of missions  : 1
Medal               : N/A


Required patches
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* EH Ship Patch for XvT
* Golan 2
* Imperial Troop Transport
* Imperial landing Craft


Installation instructions
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1] Make sure you have the EH Ship Patch for XvT installed
2] Download the patches from the EH Patch archive (http://tc.emperorshammer.org/patcharchive.php)
3] Install the patches by double clicking them in the EHSP installer
4] Double click the .EHM file, the EH Battle Launcher will install the battle
5] Check the Misc folder in your XvT one for additional material like patches, sounds etc.
6] Press the X-wing vs TIE Fighter button on the EHBL to start the game
7] Create a new pilot and fly the Imperial training mission
8] Uninstall the patches by double clicking them in the EHSP installer


About this mission
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This is the eigth mission in a series that only has one goal: to make sure every patch in the patch
archive is used at least once. However, the missions, when put together, will tell the story of the
EH invasion of a neighbouring sector.


Introduction
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The first true test of the invasion is at hand: the heavily armed Dartmoor Space Station. Three Golan-2
class space platforms and their many starfighters stand in our way. The Star Destroyer Warrior has been
assigned the task of neutralizing the station. We will not, however, destroy them, but take them over 
and convert them to an Imperial base.



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