In this FAQ I will try to give you some basic tips on how to play the game as
well as anoverview of how to do each mission.
Be warned that reading ahead of your current mission may spoil the plot and
story.
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| Game basics [II] |
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During any mission don’t be afraid to chop and change your genes as no one
setup or gene type will work for every situation.
Try to keep your ships as simple as possible giving them only 1 or 2 types
of genes larger ships can accommodate more but still try to stick to as few
as possible to maximize power and efficiency.
During missions make sure to click the diplomacy button and buy any new genes
you can from allies and sell then any old ones. This will ensure you always
have the best possible genes and a good cash flow. Buying alliances is not
always a good idea as it will cost a lot and they aren’t always very good at
fighting.And remember if you need an alliance you click on the green fist,
usually genes or a ship will need to be given to them for an alliance.
In any conversations I mainly used the blue icon unless they were an enemy
or assailantfor which I used a little red. If a mission changes a lot with
certain responses I willsay in the missions brief. I am currently unaware
of any majior changesin the game due toearly conversation variations.
And finally something which sounds basic but if forgotten leads to trouble.
Whenever you finish a mission YOU have to move to the next place which is
simply done by pressing the jump gate button and selecting the next
destination.Simple right? But the amount of people I’ve seen on forums
stuck on a mission even if they win just because they forget this is
startling.
Start off be approaching the alters you will find a ship abandoned, use the
invasion genein a light fighter to take it over during which a group of
pirates will show up claiming they saw it first and attack you they aren’t
very strong and should be easily over poweredsoon after they are beaten
another group will join the fight. You can send a resource collector to the
carcasses in the distance so it can heal you when it comes back,when the
2nd wave turns up you should still be able to fight them off with ease and if
you are feeling cheeky use the ship that captured the alien ship to capture a
pirate 1 too. When they are beaten you should hang around and gather some
resources before moving on.
After taking your ship to the convoy tell it to shoot one of the transports,
when they open communications be aggressive at first but then go for blue
thereafter once finished regroup your fleet around your resource collectors
so they can heal you duringthe coming fight. Stay where you are and wait
for the defiance ships to come to you.Once defeated stay a while and collect
some more resources before using the jump gate button.
Fist approach the deserted transport and harvest it for genes and money.
Soon a video will show a station in the distance approach it and send a
light fighter toinvade it, as soon as you do this however2 cy-breed ships
will emerge and attack youdestroy them with the rest of your fleet leaving
your ship free to capture the station.Don’t worry about the nebula's damage
to much with 3 invasion genes your ship will survive more than long enough
to capture the station, which will trigger a conversation.Use the blue
responses and they will neutralize the nebula and give you explosive for a
trapput 3 speed genes on a light fighter and hide all other ships in the
nebula, when the ship is ready send it to the transport to set the trap then
hide it in the nebula too.When the defiance show up they will go over to the
transport and trigger the trap damaging them but not that much. Use your
fleet to finish them off.
This mission looks hard and is if you do it the way they tell you to. After
sending in your defiance type ship to hear the conference bring it back and
get ready. They will tellyou to make a distraction by attacking another
station by either splitting your fleetor using it all but when they come over
you can find most or all of your ships just explodefrom the weapon. Its far
easier to make an alliance with the nearby cy-breed and sendthem after the
ship and its guards as the weapon doesn’t affect their ships because they're
notorganids. Once they destroy it or retreat send in your fleet without the
Omnicruiser (just in case) to either finish it off or harvest the gene.
This mission can be a little tricky but be patient and try again if you fail.
you will be asked to "acquire" 3 talkheads. to do this you need to bring fax
and the omnicruiser to each station to receive an offer. The first can be
obtained 2 ways you can either buy it or take it by force, but its pricey
and you should try to keeparound 4-5000 blood after buying any new genes as
this will help with the next mission.but if you cant afford this the extra
fight might cause problems later. When you approach the next station they
will offer the talkhead in return for killing some pirates, take both ships
to the fight even though fax is unarmed he is a useful distraction for them
and any damage to fax will help you later as long as he lives. The next
station will tell you they don’t have 1 at first but they will ask for help
against the pirates attacking them.now if you fought for the first talk head
you might need to buy an alliance with a stationand get them to help in the
fight. If you hp is about half or so you should manage by yourself, just
shoot the ones that shot you first the others will continue to fire at the
station. Once they are defeated the station will give you their talkhead.
Put a speed gene in your ship as fax is about to do a runner and use beam
weapons for theirhigh accuracy once you damage him enough he will surrender
and tell you what you want to know.
This mission looks and sounds really hard and it is if you do it wrong, but can
be quite easy if done right. Upgrade your mother ship as your told and make a
medium fighter or 2 (depending on money and unit cap) soon a video showing the
defiance starting to attack the alters will show. Do not panic sit tight and
build your fleetAnd when they are all made and refilled send them to the
attacking force and tell them ALL to shoot the medula even if it starts to
retreat follow it and kill it because as soon as it dies they surrender,
mission done. If during your attack the yellow station attacks yours retreat
your resource units and lab to the rebelled defiance station for safety.
Move your fleet towards the friendly station which may involve fighting a group
of piratesbut they a quite weak and should be no trouble. As you get near the
station more pirates will jump gate in and attack it fight them of and the
mission is done, they will be more interested in shooting the station than you
and will probably not shoot you at all.Before you go through the portal provided
it may be wise to explore the map, you will notice several carcasses strewn
around containing useful genes the ones you don’t have you should get although
this will mean destroying the cold white defenders which canbe tricky if they
use there freeze weapon.
At the start of this mission you may want to give 1 or 2 of your ships the
Purify geneas the lapis can and will petrify your ships making them useless
until it wears offbut first gather you fleet and rebuild any lost units before
approaching the lapis.When your ready head for the nearest group and start the
fight, don’t worry its not a hard1 as their weapons are still low. Once the
first wave is defeated you will get a video showing the construction of
another alter piece (which can last a while if you killed them fast)It will
start moving towards you with a timer so send you fleet past it and destroy the
rest of the lapis fleet and the day is yours.
Right time for your first true fight. To start stay at your station and defend
as each of the 3 closest stations will send a wave of ships. The cy-breed here
aren’t very strong and an alliance is wasted money, but remember to buy any new
genes from them. Now its time to fight back, you probably wont win in a straight
fight so some dirty tactics are in order. :P Notice the new Swap gene on your
station? Doesn’t sound like much but put 5 on a medium fighter and tell it to
use it on the nearest enemies construction ship and have they rest of your
fleet next to it when it teleports and destroy their only construction ship,
this will probably mean the destruction of your ship but its worth it. Now
repeat this for the other 2 close stations which may mean moving towards them
slightlybut once done they are helpless. Send in you fleet to destroy their
remaining ships and capture the stations, now all that remains is the forth
station in the distance (the one with a medula). You can use the same tactic
on their medula but it will probably run back to the station before you can
kill it, so do it twice :) now that they are crippledmove in and finish them
and capture the last station.
After arriving you will be told that the ambassador is on another station
performing experiments which then goes wrong... Agree to help and after the
video move your fleet to the troubled station. When you arrive they will have
the situation under control, when he leaves in his ship stick close to him as
some pirates will turn up and attack him. When he arrives back at the main
station the mission is done move on to il.
Now this is a truly horrible mission that may take a while to do and more than
likely a few attempts. After the conversation set you resource collectors
harvesting and select a medium fighter and send it to the marked asteroid, when
you get close 2 defiance ships will pop up and attack you but as soon as 1 of
them dies the other will surrender and tellyou the location of the art ship.
Heal your ship with the nearby carcasses and strip its genes and give it 3x
Stealth lvl3, 1x speed lvl2 and 1x swap lvl 1. Send it to the art ship,
with the stealth the patrols will not spot you, yay, use the swap gene on the
art ship to gain control and run both of your ships towards the ices station
on the right (as your looking back at the asteroids you came from). For this
1st barrier you can be fancy anduse your organid to warp the art ship over or
the faster method of going round the other side. This will mean damage from
the ice fog but it wont take long to go round the station.Head for the 1st
regeneration point and heal up get your organid some weapons and armour now.
Now things get tricky... When ready move towards the next station on the right
but not to close to avoid the patrols which can pass the barriers unharmed.
When the patrol or 2 medium fighters turns to go back to the left go around
the station and head straight for the 2nd regeneration spot, unfortunately
you will probably be spotted soon so have your organidstay as a distraction
while you run the art ship past the next satiation which has too
many patrols to dodge so run like heck towards the asteroids until they stop
chasing you.Congrats, all that remains is to get to the starting station.
Infinity will agree to come if you collect some defiance genes from the remnant
fleet.To start rebuild any losses and insert any upgraded genes. Head for the
southernmost group in the large asteroid belt and destroy them, harvest all of
the ships as you will get some useful new genes. Heal up you fleet on the
carcasses and move on to the next group. Once the 3 groups in this belt are
defeated you will find you only have 2 of the 3 requested genes. Not to fear
the last group is hiding in another asteroid patch and can be seen if you zoom
out the mini map. Defeat them and claim the last gene and infinity will
go to the mass.
During this mission try to upgrade your ships weapons while fighting, not easy
but it will help.
After the cut scene asteroids will start to fly at the cathedral the 1st of
which is to close to stop in time, but there's more than just one. Split your
fleet into 2 groups and send them after the asteroids don’t worry if 1 or 2
get past the cathedral can take it. Soon some lapis will turn up so consolidate
your fleet and destroy them before splitting your fleet again for some more
rocky fun, but send 1 group after and builders that slipped into the nearby
asteroid patch. After a while of shooting more asteroids you will jump to
another location.
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| The stand |
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After fleeing you will arrive here and be told to protect infinity. Give one of
your resource collectors as many harvesting genes as you can and fill it up but
send it to infinity’s station with your fleet (so it can heal you an her) get
your ships ready for a fight and give them purify as the lapis's petrify is
stronger now and last a while. Have a couple of your ships set aside as team 2
and the rest as team 1. Team 1 will stay at her station and protect it and her
while you use team 2 to destroy any builders the lapis send to the nearby
asteroid field. Refill your healing resource unit if it gets low. After juno
closes the portal he will order all remaining lapis destroyed which should
take seconds if you remembered to use team 2.
After discovering your betrayal its time to go head hunting.
On arrival a count down will begin until the lapis show up due to the art ship,
don’t worry they will not attack you but will attack everything else near the
art ship which can be great for protecting your resource operations. The mission
itself is quite easy just send your fleet straight for the medula and target
it until it surrenders. Iconah will board it and collect head number 1.
Pretty much the same as the 1st head, leave the art ship near your resources
and send your fleet straight for il's ship she will soon surrender and again
iconah will board to collect head number 2. Return to juno and he will send
you to the cerebrals.
The conversation with the cerebrals is important and there are 2 ways to go
about it if, your fleet is weak use blue but if your relatively ok use red.
If you used red responses they will not attack straight away giving you time
to make an repairs or changes to your fleet. Then attack them but be warned
this is no fair fight! Their ships can self resurrect so the only way to
"win" is to shoot each ship in turn until they are all on low hp before
finishing them all off which will make them cooperate and tell you the
coordinates. If you were weak and used blue responses they will ask for tasks
to be done in exchange for the coordinates but the 3 tasks are damage intensive
for you and will endlessly loop until you die game over... but instead of doing
the tasks sit tight and rebuild your fleet and when you are at full strength
again issue an attack command on them and follow the same strategy as above.
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| Rock city |
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Look who it is, surprised? Well any way he's still a friend so do as he asks
and move your fleet towards the alter piece it will start to move and stops
every time a wave of lapis come from the asteroids, but stick close to it and
fight off the attackers use resource collectors to heal your fleet or dock them
with the omnicruiser. When the stone reaches the alter a countdown will begin
for a portal to open sit tight and defend the stone again. Retreat any heavily
damaged ships to your station to heal as you will need as many as possible at
the end of the mission and rebuild/replace any losses. When the portal opens
you will automatically go through it.
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| Past times |
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You will find yourself in the past and things should look very familiar, but
get ready for a VERY hard fight. As before move to the birthday present and
upon arrival harvest all the genes you can give the omnicruiser a defence gene
and some good weapons, give the father weapons of any kind to boost his hp and
use the carcasses to heal up. Soon 4 unknown ships will appear and attack you
use the dad as a buffer of sorts and use both ships to destroy the ones that
shoot the omnicruiser 1st as it MUST survive but if the fathers ship dies you
can use the reconstruct ability of the omnicruiser to bring him back. Once the
1st 4 are defeated heal up as much as you can from their carcasses to get new
genes before the next wave comes. Put the womb gene in the fathers ship and us
the same tactics again ensuring the omnicruiser’s survival, when they are
beaten harvest any new genes but don’t worry about healing, follow the
attackers to their portal to finish.
This mission is as odd as it sounds. Approach your fleet and when you get close
they will communicate with you, be careful here answer EVERY question with a
blue response or they will think you're an impostor and attack you, and I doubt
you could destroy your own fleet and if you did you'd be stuck. Once they agree
you are the captain heal everyone quickly. When the portal appears 3 guardians
will be with it who you must destroy first. They don’t have huge amounts of hp
but their weapons are strong and can destroy your ships quickly so be careful
with the omnicruiser, once defeated go to the portal.
Note: if your fleet was weak to begin with run away from the guardians and wait
for the next portal.
Juno appears and gives you an ultimatum join him or die (I've only gone down
the paths which reject the offer and whether you can accept in not sure)
Any way after iconah refuses you are given time to get back to your station
and prepare. Time to fight dirty again you should have the lvl 3 swap gene by
now which means if used in the same way as before you can take their only
production vessel right into your base and destroy it if he manages to run back
simply do it again also get his gene lab the same way. However things aren’t as
simple as time his stations can still make heavy fighters all be it only a few
now that you’ve destroyed his income and gene making abilities :)
ignore the lapis for now only destroying what they send against you.
Take your fleet and takeover the closest station (using the invasion gene),
then build up and take the next. Once the stations are in your control the
lapis will stop attacking you and speak with you. Before you leave collect
all the resources from the stations and sell or use the genes on them this
should leave you with around 50-80,000 blood, nice!
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| Attack of the stones |
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Oh dear, the map looks bad and suspicious and the mention of a gigafortress
yipes, but it gets worse... Start off making your fighting fleet group 1 and
resources and lab group 2 (it might be good to give your lab womb and
stabilizer genes). Move along the path from carcass to carcass healing from
any attacks and saying well ahead of the storm that appears to chase you. When
you get so far down iconah will mention 2 safe spots to hide from the storm in,
go to one and FAST as the storm will speed up so ignore attackers and just run.
Once the storm passes a new danger appears, the gigafortress. This is not a fair
or easy fight, when it appears fire everything at it, it will soon make itself
invulnerable and send a wave of ships at you which you must destroy before you
can hurt it again it will do this 4 times before it dies 2 waves of light
fighters then 1 of medium and the last 1 I a wave of heavy fighters. Don’t panic
replace any lost ships ASAP and if the omnicruiser gets low on hp retreat it to
a safe distance, with a bit of luck and skill the day will be yours and iconak's
father's ship will appear from the debris and talk to you. Heal up your fleet
and replace some ships but not all leaving room for heavy fighters when you
get a station.
This is an odd mission and don’t worry no fighting in it just an obstacle coarse
and a very strange conversation. to start off strip all genes from the
omnicruiser and give it 4 lvl 4/5 speed genes and a lvl 2/3 defence gene. Start
to move towards the planet dodging the asteroids hurtling around
(they really hurt) each ring of asteroids has a gap which you should aim for to
run through if you do get hit to much you will be transported back to the start
completely healed courtesy of mellagio to try again. The odd conversation
will begin when you reach the planet.
