how to get the steltek fighter & drone without hacks
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:46 pm
As far as i know i am the first one to accomplish this. im new to membership here but ive been playing the game pretty intensely for a week. i loved the original and this game is far beyond awesome.
From what ive read on the forums, the only way to currently get a steltek fighter is to hack the files. i found a totally legitimate way to get the fighter, and not only that, the drone too.
This isnt gonna be easy for noobs to the game, because you cant get it until a little way into the game, and you need a lot of money. I'll take you through step by step. First, I beat all the missions before oxford, making sure to make about 2 million from missions on the way. When i beat the oxford missions i immediately bought the drayman when it became available. At first my plan was to make 10 million from high paying cargo missions, but i ran into the mission payment glitch someone mentioned in an earlier post. no matter what i did I still wouldnt get payed for anything i delivered. so instead, I just went and tracttored a few 2.5 mill gothris and made money that way. it didnt hurt that i was on good terms with the kilrathis so i could just hunt them without issue. when i had enough money I went back to my centurion and finished the rest of the missions up to the final one. heres where it gets tricky.
you have to use the drayman on the final mission.
youre probably thinking that this is impossible, since the drayman is horrible for anything but slow ...SLOW... cargo runs. the trick is, you have to make it to the nitir jump without getting assaulted, which will happen eventually if you keep restarting the mission. also, you need at least 2 fighters in your fleet. besides being wingmen you need them for something later on. eventually when you jump out into nitir, you will be all alone with the steltek fighter while it talks to you. you only have about 20 or 30 seconds to tractor him in before you auto jump to blockade point. if youre lucky like me you can tractor it while in the process of jumping. so now you have the fighter in the cargo hold.
You will automatically jump to the ambush spot with the drone. when it comes straight for you, make sure your shields are all the way full, cause its steltek guns will ALMOST kill you before you can tractor it in. if you manage to tractor it, it counts as a kill and completes the mission. dont even need the boosted steltek gun after all.
Now heres the trick. when you get back to safe waters, you have to stop the drayman and do some rearranging. remember the 2 fighters i said to have in your fleet already? you need those now. eject the steltek fighter and use '[' to take control of it. then you have to dock it with your drayman. this takes you to the internal ship base, where you have to switch the fighter for one of the other ships in your fleet, paying 50000 to ship it there. this will place the steltek in your 'my fleet' list. do the same thing for the drone. you just traded the 2 ships you had before for the steltek ships. it doesnt matter what you do with the other ships you had, because due to some glitch the cargo on my drayman emptied when i went back to perry. i wasnt happy to do this all a second time to figure out what happened.
since I saved up something like 11 million credits, when i got back to perry i also bought the paradigm and a milspec stilletto. talk about a 1 2 3 4 combo!
now be amazed at the stelteks vast technology. the fighter is so ridiculous. not amazingly fast, 800 with afterburners, but the shileds are insanely strong and recharge instantly, the armor is stronger than the draymans, and the reactor pumps like 26 million mj/s. the best thing is 3 count em 3 boosted steltek guns. 57 mj damage each. thats almost 3 proton torps with every shot. amazing. the drone is awesome too, it is TOO maneuverable. you can hardly steer it its so touchy. it is fast, with 5 'drone steltek' guns, that do 10 mj each. one strange thing about it is that i have yet to find a limit to the number of cargo enhancers i can buy. mine already has 525 cargo space and i still can keep going. definitely a good ship to run drugs in.
i hope you are all impressed with my first post, and im glad to give the non hacking purists a real chance to use these awesome ships.
From what ive read on the forums, the only way to currently get a steltek fighter is to hack the files. i found a totally legitimate way to get the fighter, and not only that, the drone too.
This isnt gonna be easy for noobs to the game, because you cant get it until a little way into the game, and you need a lot of money. I'll take you through step by step. First, I beat all the missions before oxford, making sure to make about 2 million from missions on the way. When i beat the oxford missions i immediately bought the drayman when it became available. At first my plan was to make 10 million from high paying cargo missions, but i ran into the mission payment glitch someone mentioned in an earlier post. no matter what i did I still wouldnt get payed for anything i delivered. so instead, I just went and tracttored a few 2.5 mill gothris and made money that way. it didnt hurt that i was on good terms with the kilrathis so i could just hunt them without issue. when i had enough money I went back to my centurion and finished the rest of the missions up to the final one. heres where it gets tricky.
you have to use the drayman on the final mission.
youre probably thinking that this is impossible, since the drayman is horrible for anything but slow ...SLOW... cargo runs. the trick is, you have to make it to the nitir jump without getting assaulted, which will happen eventually if you keep restarting the mission. also, you need at least 2 fighters in your fleet. besides being wingmen you need them for something later on. eventually when you jump out into nitir, you will be all alone with the steltek fighter while it talks to you. you only have about 20 or 30 seconds to tractor him in before you auto jump to blockade point. if youre lucky like me you can tractor it while in the process of jumping. so now you have the fighter in the cargo hold.
You will automatically jump to the ambush spot with the drone. when it comes straight for you, make sure your shields are all the way full, cause its steltek guns will ALMOST kill you before you can tractor it in. if you manage to tractor it, it counts as a kill and completes the mission. dont even need the boosted steltek gun after all.
Now heres the trick. when you get back to safe waters, you have to stop the drayman and do some rearranging. remember the 2 fighters i said to have in your fleet already? you need those now. eject the steltek fighter and use '[' to take control of it. then you have to dock it with your drayman. this takes you to the internal ship base, where you have to switch the fighter for one of the other ships in your fleet, paying 50000 to ship it there. this will place the steltek in your 'my fleet' list. do the same thing for the drone. you just traded the 2 ships you had before for the steltek ships. it doesnt matter what you do with the other ships you had, because due to some glitch the cargo on my drayman emptied when i went back to perry. i wasnt happy to do this all a second time to figure out what happened.
since I saved up something like 11 million credits, when i got back to perry i also bought the paradigm and a milspec stilletto. talk about a 1 2 3 4 combo!
now be amazed at the stelteks vast technology. the fighter is so ridiculous. not amazingly fast, 800 with afterburners, but the shileds are insanely strong and recharge instantly, the armor is stronger than the draymans, and the reactor pumps like 26 million mj/s. the best thing is 3 count em 3 boosted steltek guns. 57 mj damage each. thats almost 3 proton torps with every shot. amazing. the drone is awesome too, it is TOO maneuverable. you can hardly steer it its so touchy. it is fast, with 5 'drone steltek' guns, that do 10 mj each. one strange thing about it is that i have yet to find a limit to the number of cargo enhancers i can buy. mine already has 525 cargo space and i still can keep going. definitely a good ship to run drugs in.
i hope you are all impressed with my first post, and im glad to give the non hacking purists a real chance to use these awesome ships.