Silver Mantis SF - Screenies of the Burning Tanker
By
Gata_,
Posted on: 2008-02-18 20:25 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
nice screenies! I have a bunch from my first run on it too!
I love that SF, all the unique maps, hell on attacking some portions of the base with all those turrets, sure puts the healer(s) throu the fire to keep a bunched up group alive, but it worht it to survive it.
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Slag Heap: Why you hurt Guardian!? Guardian no hurt you!
Actually, I can't recall the last time I took a group with a "healer" on it. Dominators, however, are near mandatory. I've only ever done it without at least one Dom on the team once and the Boss Turrets made the whole thing a misery.
we had two /thermal corrs on it, luck of the draw really. only one was there because they wanted to do it and I hadn't anyway so I jumped in, the other joined as we started asking on the server global channel.
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Slag Heap: Why you hurt Guardian!? Guardian no hurt you!
I LOATHE THAT SF...
Sorry..
hates it hates it...
I'd rather do the RSF than the Silver Mantis one...ANd to be honest, the RSF is on that "I'd rather go get my teeth pulled by a dentist without freezing" priority of loathing.
*and yes I've had my teeth pulled by a dentist without freezing when I was in grade 2*
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You've got me really curious now. Why?
That's my all-time favourite SF.
Five rare maps plus a unique one. A variety of bad guys. A challenging final mission. An AV you don't get anywhere else in the game, even though he's been part of the CoH story since day one.
I love the gameplay when you finally get on top of the platform and there are turrets and skyraiders everywhere. Things go berserk and you get the sense of a small group shoulder to shoulder with the whole world coming down on top of them.
And then Duray turns up. And the action turns up a notch.
My VG does this on a semi-regular basis (every month or two), and it usually takes us just over 2 hours to do and it's usually a very popular SF.
The time I had trouble with it was when the Turrets were armed with AoE hold missles and getting it like six stacked from multiple turrets hitting us. That made my MM unhappy.
That's why it's a good idea to bring at least one Dominator and preferably two. Locks down those boss turrets really well.
Just did this SF again last night and I resolved to get some good (well, as good as my video card is going to get) screenshots of the burning oil tanker off to the side of the ship in the final mission.
I was pretty happy at how they turned out so I thought I'd share:
Back towards the fire during daylight
From above during daylight
From above at night
Fire from the side at night