How to capture the Xenon M2 aka K .

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 10:06

Check the screenshots they tell you what ships I fly.

apricotslice · Post by **apricotslice** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 10:08

I havent flown any of them. I'm a Centaur man.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 10:20

Oh . I dont think you will get close enough to do damage.

apricotslice · Post by **apricotslice** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 10:22

geoffrey wrote:oh . i dont think you will get close enough to do damage that i seemed to need. when you find some time i like you to do a k cap guide if you would be so kind. comic book style picture / explaination.

If you provide the basics, I can reword it to read well.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 10:30

Thanks, reply this evening before the footie.

hobi · Post by **hobi** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 10:32

Hi geoffry,
awesome pictures

. I am very far away to cap them myself (restarted in 1.4) but out of interest: Which ship do you use to cap Ks? I´ve seen an Oddy and there is a theory that you cap better with a more powerful ship. Would be interesting if you can do it with a M6 or M3.

Cheers,
Hobi

EDIT: PS: The discussion in the german forum is mostly stating what is written in this thread. They started a discussion a long time ago whether it is possible to cap ships in ass. missions or not. Your discovery has given them new input

. There is no new critics or a new opinion about your posts.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 17:53

Kind of you to tell me .

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Wed, 5. Apr 06, 20:53

apricotslice. if you honestly think you can take 46 l's and 4k's destroying all but 2k's in a perseus.

apricotslice · Post by **apricotslice** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 03:12

Its a one time load for me, same as I did for being able to see the end of plot cut scenes when someone kindly sent me a save from the begining of the last mission. After it, I reloaded my own game and over wrote it not long after.

Install save, load your game, play/cap/notcap, reload my game, continue.

You wont be giving me anything, just loaning it to me

Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 04:28

Made it!

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Guess I can check out geoffrey's claims for myself now!

apricotslice · Post by **apricotslice** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 04:40

Bishop149 wrote:Made it!

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Guess I can check out geoffrey's claims for myself now!

Can I use that pic in the handbook ?

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 09:50

Well done bishop149.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 09:59

I don't care what you do afterwards but I do not wish it to become an easy way for some novice to jump to this level.

apricotslice · Post by **apricotslice** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 10:07

Just before the last cap

Let me see if the script is needed first.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 10:16

o.k. sort it tonight. will email it to you.

Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 12:28

apricotslice wrote:
Can I use that pic in the handbook ?

If you want, its not so remarkable though is it?!

I', the 2nd highest rank with all races too, wanna a bigger pic showing all the ranks?

Geoffrey, they only mod I'm using is one that creates a ring of lasertowers (forget who wrote it, sorry), but I've only used it a few times, don't actually find it that useful.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 20:33

apricotslice it in should be in your inbox by now.
good capping.

Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Thu, 6. Apr 06, 23:35

Well this is very demoralising, I have a save which has 5 of these K's from a Xenon texi mission bearing down on me.

I have reloaded many many times (lost count!) and pasted them all every time, not even the slightest hint of anything going blue.

I guess it could just be VERY unlikely but my hopes have not been raised. I will keep trying till the end of this evening at which point I may declare it (if not impossible) just not worth the sheer effort involved!!. . . . . . thers no knackered smiley!

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Fri, 7. Apr 06, 00:23

I only posted this because people kept saying you could not.

Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Fri, 7. Apr 06, 03:25

Ok its was in Ceo's doubt, quiet enough sector, no sector patrol to hinder me.

I was using a Dragon armed only with 4xAPPC on the front and an AIRE on the rear missile defence.

Killed all the L's first.
All of the K's spawned with no shields, is that normal?
In this state 4xAPPC will do fairly steady rapid damage but not too fast as I don't wanna kill my cap.
I figure If I just went in with my Python with 8xGPPC's on the front any cap would be toast soon afterwards!!

The first three where quite close togeather hit them pretty hard and they tended to hit each other quite a bit, they died fairly quick but I wasn't too bothered, was just trying to prove the principle that they can be capped here!

The last two where more spaced out so I could take my time.

I treat them like any other cap, best tactic is to hit pretty hard and fast initially and then tickle them until they die, exactly what I did.

I gave up for this evening and did some complex setting up.

Next time I was planning on using a Nemesis with a BPSG / AHEPT mixture.

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How to capture the Xenon M2 aka K .