I'm playing Pale for the first time.. great plug.. those graphics are awesome! The story's great.. I especially like the looks of the Container Ship.. But to come to the point why I created this topic:

I'm up against the Anomaly in the Anomaly system (the Gateway thing). I fly a Strike Cruiser, with neutrons, mines, extra armor.. Oughta do it, I'd say.
I tried it several times now, but I still get frustrated by the fight.. The Mods that accompany me are dead in no-time and when I finish the fighters and the cruiser nothing's left.. And I'm happily blasting the anomaly until.. more aliens appear! Well, then I've really had it, y'know. I mean, I can kill them, but the anomaly would regenerate shields and I can start all over again!

I know, I've got to be patient, but if anybody's got a short way..

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I'd say there's one in every crowd, but in this crowd there's at least twenty or so... -Frandall
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I'm not crazy or weird, just not sure whether everyone's definition of reality is the same as mine... -me

Focus on the annomly wholly. Ignore the aliens and hope they don't kill you. I also trust you have alien armour and those nukes you were issused, because they'll come in real handy when fighting it.

Whitehawk

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I beat the anomally in a somewhat cheap manner. I kept circling it, avoidng the seeker drones it kept spewing at me. When the alien ships got too close, I'd engage them and lead them away toward the system wall. I kept returning to the anomally until it stopped firing seeker drones entirely - it took a while but it eventually ran out. When that happened, I lead the alien ships all the way to the wall then afterburned it back to the anomally and pounded away at it with everything I had. Make sure you high tail it away from the anomally when it starts to blow, because when it does, it'll take anything nearby with it.

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Jon Potter
Thank you for your cooperation. Good night.

Try this:

run to the 'wall', kill the alien warships. Then cloak. Go to the anomaly, select it as your target. Select your tractor beam secondary weapon. Uncloak+tractor the anomaly. When you do this, it can't fire it's seeker drones. Slam it with your primaries. Run when shields get to 4 percent until the anomaly is at the edge of your radar screen view. Hit it with 3 or 4 nukes. Boom.

Soul

I've done this in a "stripped down" Puma destroyer but loaded with Nuke missiles. It's very
fast and can stay out of the way of alien ships and drones. Just circle the anomaly after you lead the alien ships to the edge of the system.
Hello Ben! Long time no see!!!

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