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- Written by: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov
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- X-Wing Maze made SIMPLE
-
- When I started doing the maze, I was so bad I thought I would
- never get my flight badges. I was wrong.... As of this writing,
- (3/20/93) I have made it to level 10 in all 3 starfighters. I
- have learned some tatics that should help everyone.
-
- 1.) You can make it thru all levels with your speed set to
- 70-80 KPS. Energy can be reconfigured around this "base". If you
- can go faster, that is of course better.
-
- 2.) Set your shields to 1 notch below normal charging. Use
- the ['] to shift power from lasers shields as needed. Lasers
- should be set to increased charging or full charging.
-
- 3.) Missing one of the gates is NOT a disaster. You may
- even be able to miss 2 of them and still complete the level.
-
- 4.) Crashing into a platform is much prefferable to missing
- a gate . I have crashed many times and still completed
- levels. When you crash, use that time to blast the laser
- boxes on that platform. Coming to a complete stop (crashing)
- and blasting the boxes while I was accelerating, was much better
- than missing a gate.
-
- 5.) On levels 1-7 set your shields to double front. Not much
- will shoot at you from behind on these levels.
-
- 6.) Any time saved thru one level will not be added to the time
- alloted on the next level. Finishing a level with more time remaining
- will affect your score though.
-
- 7.) For the higher levels, work on destroying the boxes on a platform
- at the greatest distance possible. As you exit one platform start
- targeting the next platforms' boxes.
-
- You should keep ALL this in mind as you fly the maze. Level
- 3 is by far the hardest. You only have 3 minutes, forcing you
- to blast more boxes than you might otherwise. (Each laser box
- blasted adds 2 seconds) When I completed level 3 for the Xwing,
- I had 15 seconds left, with 13 gates to go. I thought this
- was impossible. All of these final platforms are loaded with
- boxes. I shot enough of them to keep my time at 15 seconds; and
- I completed this level. It was a pretty bizzare feeling. I actually
- shot enough boxes so the warning beeper stopped! Once you get past
- level 3, concentrate on flying cleanly thru all the gates. Blast
- boxes if you can, as they now shoot at you more accurately. You don't
- need to blast them for time, as much as to prevent them from draining
- your shields. You will now get from 5.5 to 4.5 minutes per level.
-
- I noticed some things that were particular to the different starfighers.
-
- X-Wing: The lasers are spaced just the right distance apart. This
- allows you to fly right at a gate, and blast both boxes without
- much correcting.
-
- Y-Wing: Much more power is able to be transfered to the sheilds. This is
- due to the ION guns storing energy. ION guns were not that effective for
- shooting boxes.
-
- A-Wing: Much of each level can be completed with a speed over 100 KPS.
- This gives much less time to target and destroy boxes. Reducing your
- speed to 80-90 KPS gives you more time to destroy boxes. Aiming in the
- A-wing is more difficult than with the other starfighters. The boxes
- pretty much have to be in the middle of the targeting reticle.
-
- Completing level 8 is how you get your flight badge. These have laser
- boxes behind the gates. They shoot at you after you fly thru the
- gate. These can be destroyed by shooting thru the base of the gate
- before you fly thru. After all, the gates are holographic projections.
- Destroying these boxes are not a problem, since you are using the FORCE
- anyway!
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