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Its the mission where you have to destroy asteroids from the way of the cruiser that is heading to jump node in the middle of the asteroid field. And after few minutes also some shivan bombers tag along and try to destroy your cruiser.
When the mission starts, it says cruiser has 6 minutes or so to the jump point, but after it reaches the jump point, it just sits there until it is bombarded with asteroids and blows up.
Shouldnt the cruiser jump when reached way point (jump point) ? I mean when it reaches the jump point I can keep it alive about 10 minutes after it is destroyed, but since it wont jump
I CANNOT COMPLETE THE MISSION
so please, is it just me, because if it is tell me what I have missed:) or if it indeed is a bug, could you please fix it?
PS: after googling I found this video from youtube "Descent: FreeSpace - Paving the Way Part 2/2"
In it someone plays this mission through, it clearly shows that cruiser should jump almost instantly when reached the waypoint.
Post edited November 23, 2008 by qeurul
This question / problem has been solved by DukeNicoimage
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Why485: In my experimentation with this bug, I've also found another workaround, albeit an ugly one that requires you to be a bit conscious of the mission's scripting.

If you enable time compression (Shift+Comma, Shift+Period by default) just before the ship hits the waypoints, it'll usually work. This works too when the ship gets stuck on a waypoint to get them unstuck, but it can still take them a few (real-time) seconds to align and then complete the waypoint.

You can check how close the ship is to their waypoints by targeting them. Usually it's a friendly ship on your escort list, so you can target them quickly with E. When a friendly is targeted, it'll show a waypoint ETA on the HUD. Ideally you should enable time compression just before they hit the waypoint, e.g. 30 seconds before. You can tell a ship is stuck if their waypoint ETA is hovering around 0-1 seconds and never clears.
Even with modified mission files I have problem in "Clash of the Titans". This time for me helped time compression. Thanks one more time.