I think i can be done with the same shot, but man I tried like 4 pairs of guards and it didn’t work,
Of course it didnt work It’s supposed to be a target+non-target oops
I’ll try again with this last target, but if I can’t I think I’m gonna have to Alt F4 this.
I hate using that crutch on this mode but I feel like I pushed myself into a no-win situation without even knowing it.
EDIT: Wait does the Close Game trick work after you’ve “failed” a Hardcore mission? Before you’ve exfiltrated, but after you’ve Failed the prestige Ob…
Alt+F4 brings you back to the last point the game saved, which was right before you selected to go on the mission.
Also, there’s no requirement that a collateral kill be a non-target, simply that it be another kill (you can kill multiple targets in one go to qualify). I strongly doubt you can get collateral kill with a shotgun in two separate blasts. You will need to kill two people, including at least one target, with a single shot. This is easier to do with a Striker or piercing sniper rifle, but it can be done with a shotgun, but you need to be careful. I recommend softening up the secondary target with a single pistol bullet to the leg or something.
Note that this same timing requirement applies to all collateral kills.
Two people die in unrelated accidents at the same moment = successful Collateral Accident Kill
One unconscious person in a puddle with a remote taser, another NPC runs up to check on them and you flip the switch = no collateral accident kill! (the unconscious person dies immediately, while the standing person must go through a “shocking death” animation before dying that is longer than the collateral kill window)
As for things like your mastery level etc, I’m assuming this isn’t affected by opting for the Prestige challenge? If so your level 100, I believe that stays as it is.
Also, I discovered that Master/Freelancer Mode sgail adds a window near the artifact room , I got to a very cursed number of Merces, and escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Thankfully I hid well-enough on that ledge for everyone to calm down, and climbed down the other side…
I was aiming at the (not the) Syndicate Leader in order to get her phone to fulfill my prestige objective. Maybe I can get lucky with the emetic grenade… Assuming they’ll go to the bathroom where I can isolate them. I can’t f’ing believe it!
Edit: It worked out. Now I’m trying to get from a safe, but Silvio’s goons are on to me. Hopefully, I make it out alive.
Does Hardcore limit the types of weapons you can find in the Vendor’s shop?
For like 4 missions now, he’s only offered me some Tools, one Legendary Pistol, and a Legendary Sniper.
I have plenty of silenced pistols I don’t own and a couple snipers too. Why am I not getting the chance to buy them?
I hadn’t thought about this until now but I know that not every gun is available through the reward crates for completing a syndicate, so makes sense they also applied the same to the suppliers I guess.
There were some guns that were only available by finding them in the locations too in the CTT, so I assume its still present as well.
Suppliers offer only one weapon of each category, if you are missing/lacking only pistols and snipers then that’s all they can offer. Do you have all the other guns?
Strange that it keeps trying to push the same Legend Sniper on me for every mission (though I’ve never had the cash for it till now) and not the Common/Rare one.
I bought it, so I guess we’ll see if it shows up next time.
I’ll wait until the 11th to finish this, just to make sure those random “Prestige Failed” bugs are ironed out I’ve seen happen (and anything else that might screw me, or acquiring the Black Bruiser).
But wow wow wow this is pretty dang cool. And on my first activation of Hardcore too! Yes, I admit I used F4 on 3 missions in this (that one with the shotgun, a 12-person Dartmoor where my silenced AR wasn’t silenced and everyone was escaping, and the previous one in Mumbai that I refused to die in a box so close to the final big hurdle.)
However, it’s been kinda fun and very stressful.
I’ve actually been getting tons of Perfect Runs because I’m playing super duper carefully and had great luck with weapon Prestiges. I’ve been getting some more SA/Timed challenges recently, but I’ve overcome them thankfully.
That’s smart. I keep cringing every time I walk up to an exit, because I keep expecting it to bug out and fail my campaign.
I don’t know if its platform specific, or specific exits, but it’s scary people have been experiencing this.
Yeah, I don’t risk that shit. I haven’t done one collateral or timed prestige objective yet. And I’ll avoid them at any opportunity I can when I work my way into Hardcore mode. I do wish IO would just drop all these damn objectives from Freelancer altogether.
Alright! Count me as a member of the ‘Campaign Failed’ although you didn’t fail -fail… well, kinda - club.
I was sure I didn’t get caught on camera. Maybe just a nano/micro smidge for a < 0 frames. And contemplated deleting video evidence where no firearms were allowed.
Not mad. But I see no point in playing FL until this gets fixed… So another 5 days. Such disrespect is intolerable.
I will say, this tested me to the absolute limited, but it feels so rewarding once you’ve done it. I’m definitely switching back to normal mode for the forseabale
, I got to a very cursed number of Merces, and escaped by the skin of my teeth.
from a safe, but Silvio’s goons are on to me. Hopefully, I make it out alive. 
