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Noob asks a question...

I am a new fan, and am just about to finish the first campaign but in "Clash of the Titans" I seem to be getting an error. I'm in a Valkyrie, the rest of Alpha & Beta in Ursa's. Tantalus jumps in, I target her engines and order her disabled. I fly down all of the bombers. After Tantalus' engines are gone, I order her destruction. When the Tantalus is debris, I order everyone to engage the enemy and we mop up the last Shivans. The error: the Bastion is drifting, her hull is at 40% to 55%, a scan shows her engines 100%, most subs at or near 100%, but the mission *never* ends! The Bastion never heads for the node. If I depart, the debriefing tells me the Bastion has been destroyed...

WTF, over? Anyone else run into this? Did you fix it? It took me a looong time to work out good (read "no dying") tactics for this, but I seem to be stuck in limbo. Literally.

Any help, much obliged.

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Welcome to the VWBB!

Are you playing FS1 or the FS2 port?

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Goober5000,

I am playing FS1, 1.06 EAX US, a clean install from the original CDs plus all current update patches. Thought I'd exhaust the original game before I ventured into the world of MODs and fan campaigns. Very anal retentive of me, but hey, it's my best feature!

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That's odd. At any point during the mission did you order all ships to ignore something? It might have changed the Bastion's orders somehow.

Does the Bastion reach the node and refuse to jump out, or does it simply stop?

If all else fails, you could open the mission in FRED and hack it.

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When the mission starts, I order all fighters to form on me. When the Tantalus jumps in I tartget her engines and order all fighters to disable her. I then order all fighters to destroy her. After that, I order all fighters to engage the enemy. I do call in a support ship.

The Bastion is "drifting", doing a slow motion tumble in space, but no movement towards the jump node.

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Hm... this has happened to me before... I don't remember how i fixed it... You might try a second install, and copy your pilot, and try it on that, leaving it unpatched...

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