Scenario "New Hope" level 3 - Insanely hard??

[Pr0d1gY]

Is it me or is this one insanely hard? I managed to kill the first small base no problem. But the second one is insane! I just keep getting swarmed by tons of biters, when I manage to kill them, I am very low on health so can't take advantage of it to get in and kill the spawning points.

Anyone got any suggestions?

[LittleMikey]

I found I managed to finish the level by charging through the base and grabbing the computer without stopping. Counted as a victory even though I had about eight billion biters about to eat me.

[kovarex]

Did you use the defender capsules? (The one that spawns the flying robots that help you fight)

[Pr0d1gY]

Yeah, I used the defender capsules. They were exceptionally useful and I chewed through 37 of them pretty quickly.

Might try the idea of just beasting it through and grabbing it without stopping. But open to other suggestions.

Rushing in and grabbing it worked. Although after a few tries

Cheers for the help guys.

[kovarex]

Did you use the solar panel + resources you had in the car to build more of these modules?

[Pr0d1gY]

That was a late discovery which I made by accident when I removed the car lol. If I had known about that in the beginning it would of changed a lot of things

Onto the next mission so thank you very much for your help.

[thrive]

I made it through that mission via tower rush - star craft style Never used production stuff.

[ChrisAU]

Hi, just registered because I am stuck on this level.

I can kill the initial base and the base to the south west to get the extra rockets/explosives.
I can't dent the 'main' base area though. I looked on youtube and noticed someone building solar panels and powering it up but I seem to have nothing in my inventory or car that provides initial power, and I can't build anything that provides power either.

The youtube video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrlU47eh35U#t=105 (I only watched the part where he made power and went back to double check my game). As you can see that is an older version.
An image of the available things I have is here: http://i.imgur.com/Bn2XJe0.jpg?1?2679

The only ways I can think to beat the level is to run through it like mentioned before, or maybe I can drop all my Defender Capsules at once and try and man fight it.

Or I am missing something completely obvious.

Really enjoying the game though, and loving the campaign.


EDIT: Nevermind, I completed it.
Spoiler below. Click the black bar to see how I did it.

I cleared both small camps for the extra materials and rockets, then used a leap-frog technique with turrets and walls to cover me while I rocketed everything. I came in through the small choke point between the two lakes.

[jcdietz03]

I found this mission to be difficult, but not impossible. It took me several tries.

A strategy that I thought worked:
You have 1500 of the good ammo (armor-piercing rounds) in your car. There's no way you can make use of that yourself, that's what turrets are for.

So I made like 30x combat drone and 30x grenade (these are weapons for my personal use) and all the rockets you can.
Then I make a 2x2 formation of turrets near main nest and load with ammo.
Then I pull biters, turrets kill them. Help with grenades if possible.
Then I:
-Deploy combat drones
-Make new 2x2 formation of turrets in nest and load with ammo
-Use rockets to take out hard targets (worms and spawners)
If health is low, retreat to base to let it regen.

[macee]

I am also stuck on this level.
I killed all the biters (except the big worms in the woods), and i cant find the computer. There were some shipwrecks, but nothing contained the computer. Is this a bug? If so, how can I proceed?

[ssilk]

Have you had a look into the FAQ here in this board?

[macee]

Yes I did. I didnt find anything that can help me. What do you have in mind? Maybe I overlooked something.

[ssilk]

See the FAQ:

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =18&t=3272

Q: Scenario "New Hope 3": It's too hard for me.
A: Fighting is really easy, if you know how. See above about fighting. https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =18&t=3228.
There are also other threads about that in this forum, use the search.

I made also a search for "new hope" and found the following more or less interesting stuff:

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =18&t=4338
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =18&t=3660
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=5&t=3642

[macee]

Thank you, the second one helped.

[cb23229]

I found I managed to finish the level by charging through the base and grabbing the computer without stopping. Counted as a victory even though I had about eight billion biters about to eat me.

That worked after about 3 tries, Thanks!

[nikgame]

This level can be passed by not building anything..only using the gun turrets and piercing rounds available at start . Just put 4 turrets to a small distance towards the enemy base, then further 4 turrets more closer..remove 4 placed behind n now place it even more further..just keep repeating this..the 4 turrets behind help protect you, when you put 4 turrets ahead. I cleared the mid base and south east base this way without creating anything.