Line #10 YMMV/Starlancer


1	* CompleteMonster: Admiral Vladimir Kulov is the man behind The Coalition that has expanded into space, and is a brutal, corrupt mass murdering bastard. Kulov defies a peace treaty to invade the peaceful Alliance and overruns their territory, massacring many innocent people along the way. When the Alliance military fleet is defeated, Kulov gives an order to execute the prisoners of war without remorse. In order to keep control of the civilian populations, Kulov regularly has massacres conducted to quell any hint of dissent. Throughout the game, Kulov is seen as nothing more than a sickening bastard with a desire to dominate what he can.
2	* GoodBadBugs: You can target a member of your squadron and make another squad member to attack them, by sending the command to attack the target to your whole squadron. This way, you can kill your wingmen with impunity (save for Alpha 1 and 5, who are unkillable). Why would you do that? Because if you aim for top score or are trying to quickly gain ranks (promotions are directly linked to the number of your kills), your wingmen are your competition, and are [[KillSteal actively stealing your kills]]. By offing them right after launch sequence, you can rack more kills. Also, [[ForTheEvulz this is fun]].
3	* NightmareFuel: If you have too many friendly fire incidents, you get a first-person view of your character being executed by firing squad, blindfold and all.
4	** If you eject in enemy territory and have your ejection pod picked up by a Coalition Antonov, you will be treated to a first person cutscene of your character restrained to a gurney looking at various torture tools set aside on a nearby table as a Coalition interrogator enters the room and stares you down with a sinister chuckle before you are blinded by the interrogation room lamp.
5	* ThatOneLevel: ''Starlancer'' has one of the highest densities of Scrappy Missions in gaming history—two out of three, at least, over the course of the game. Here's a summary of the 10-minute flight serving as the Act 1 FinalBattle:
6	*** Defend Fort Baxter from the enemy carrier ''Ramases'' (unsuccessfully; PlotlineDeath); defend Fort Baxter's lifepods from [[SinkTheLifeBoats enemy attack]]. Use Q and Shift-Q to scroll through the list of friendly targets until you find the lifeboats, speed over to them, hit E for "nearest enemy", and then [[LuckBasedMission cross your fingers]].
7	*** Defeat enemy AcePilot, who will panic-button retreat [[DirtyCoward basically the instant a stray round wings him]]. Get chewed out by your CO if you don't OneHitKill him. ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation Never see him again]], even though he's one of the best Coalition pilots and you're ''the'' best Alliance pilot and at least one of you should logically be gunning for the other.)
8	*** Disable DeflectorShields on the ''Ramases''. [[GuideDangIt Get the engines too unless you want it to panic-button retreat as well]]. (This ends the fight faster, obviously, but the game counts it as a mission failure.)
9	*** [[EscortMission Defend allied torpedo bombers]] hitting the ''Ramases''. Again, the "Target Next Friendly" button is your salvation here... Assuming you can [[LuckBasedMission find them before the baddies do]].
10	*** Defeat all remaining fighters.
11	** And that's just Mission #7. Get to #24 and things get ''really'' hairy.

Context YMMV / Starlancer