Hammerfest Base Bug??

Shadowblade · Civilian **Joined**: 02 Oct 2003

I cannot compete the Hammerfest base mission in Tiberian Sun - it is impossible.

I start with three hovercraft, four engineers and an amphibious APC and still have them all. I have the latest patches AFAIK. I found the radar base and the cliff you can shoot out and I destroyed a NOD Advanced Power Plant, but the route through is blocked by artillery and an Obilisk of Light. The Obilisk takes out the hovers with one shot and the artillery takes them out with two. The APC is a bit stronger (three artillery shots, I think). I cannot destroy another power plant to disable the obilisk. I can sneak around in front of the Obilisk, but if I go any further I get zapped.

Parts of the map have been revealed, so I can see three NOD bases and the GDI base I am supposed to rescue. But I can't finish the damn thing. I tried keeping the Obilisk busy with the hovers while I rush the APC through, searching for reinforcements, but I get blown up at the other end, by the artillery, as soon as I'm out of range of the Obilisk.

How do I solve this? Is there another patch or crack or hack? What about an invulnerable cheat mode?

Having an impossible mission is absolutely NO FUN AT ALL.

What a crock.

Mad

Thank You.

PS, I'll try again and not take the radar out - perhaps destroying one APP will make a difference if the radar base is still there.

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TerroR · General **Joined**: 25 Aug 2002 **Location**: UK

Sadly i havn't played the mission. but i'm sure there like a destroyable cliff somewhere?

Mike · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 7:37 pm Post subject:

yes there is a destroyable cliff somewhere BEFORE THE OBLI

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the_kid · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:14 am Post subject:

oy, I had a lot of trouble with that map, then my comp crashed, and I haven't played GDI missions since, I'll pick them up again when I have some free time.

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Banshee · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject:

you have to destroy Nod power before passing through the obelisks...

The DvD · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:26 pm Post subject:

yes, then, try to find a waterway to the north... more we will not tell you.

Mike · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:51 pm Post subject:

i always used a destroyable cliff

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The DvD · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:30 am Post subject:

Yes, you'll need to destroy two cliffs: one to disable the powerplant powering the obelisk, and one at the waterway to the north, it'll give entrance to the hammerfest base.

Shadowblade · Civilian **Joined**: 02 Oct 2003

But the point of my message is that I get killed by artillery when I use that destroyable cliff!

Anyway, I solved it. The problem was that I took out the radar base with an engineer. This revealed enough of the map to see the artillery, which also saw me!

So whatever I did, the mission was impossible to finish as you can't take out long range artillery AND an Obilisk with three hovers. I couldn't take out the ower plants because of the artillery.

So I re-started and left the radar base alone, and went up the destroyable cliff and took out all the power plants, snuck past the Obilisk and got really close to the somehow sleeping artillery and took it out.

The mission was surprisingly easy if you play it right.

I'm doing the "mutants find the stealthed base" mission now.

Cheers!

(more than that we will not tell you, my foot!)

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