Freespace 2 (vanilla, no mods)
Playing on Insane difficulty. Just finished the covert ops mission
"Love the treason...".
God damn it, yet another Freespace saga mission which I have to retry like 100 times before finally succeeding. Luck is involved in this mission, e.g. whether the NTC Mylae kills most of your wingmen with its flak guns and such (you need as many of them as possible for the final part of the mission): sometimes you lose pretty much all of your wingmen, sometimes most of them survive, even though you play pretty much identically. You just have to do your best and replay so many times that you get lucky.
Also, I am not a fan of how the game cheats in this mission, even though it benefits you. You and your Beta 1 wingman are traitors, and Beta 1 is made invulnerable in this mission. It just seems kinda silly how you see him being hit by four enemy fighters, and not dying.
Also, the game doesn't seem to care even if you start killing your wingmen (who you will betray with Beta 1) as soon as you can. There doesn't seem to be any reason to wait until they turn hostile, just start shooting and rocketing them ASAP, kill as many as you can while they are still friendly. They don't seem to care much for being destroyed by a friendly. It would have made more sense that they turn hostile as soon as you destroy one of them, or something. Oh well. This works for the first two encounters in this mission, you have plenty of time to kill all "friendlies" of the second encounter, before your traitor friends even jump in to join the fight.
Now to the "...but hate the traitor" mission, it seems odd, not sure if I am supposed to destroy that "enemy" vessel or not. I presume not as then I'd be murdering civilians.