r/Battletechgame • u/EagleandWolfPhoto • 3d ago
BTAU - career mode - Arano restoration flashpoint - mission 1 dropship fail?
I started off playing about 500hrs in BEX in campaign mode. I remember losing Mastiff but Lady Arano survived, and I went on to successfully complete the Arano restoration campaign.
Got bored with BEX and just completely deleted and reinstalled BT and added the latest BTAU.
BT v1.9.1-686R w Modtek v4.4.10 BT Advanced Core 20.1.1
I started in career mode this time, did a couple of missions and the Arano Restoration popped up as a flashpoint. Did the first mission with Mastiff and Kamea, and my commander in the default Mech.
Played it fairly carefully, kept Kamea out of danger. Got through the first two mechs, the tanks, the next three mechs, the next two tanks, and then the single mech with two turrets in front of our dropship. Got rid of all of those, got all three mechs into the evac zone and the had Victoria's ambush happen.
At which point, I'm told to get Kamea to the dropship, which I do, then my mech malfunctions, and I'm forced to eject. Mastiff faces off against Victoria's squad and gets cored out, which I remember, however, the dropship gets blown out of the sky and Kamea is pronounced dead... which I don't remember.
I can't find a straight answer on the web as to whether I did something wrong, or do I just need to wait for the next flashpoint chapter to trigger? TIA
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u/bisondisk 3d ago
If you remember vanilla those events play out the same way, just keep playing. Wait for flashpoint.
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u/WestRider3025 3d ago
Yep, that's the way it goes at that point. Keep going to find out what really happened.
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u/deeseearr 2d ago
That is the same event, with the same cinematics, as the vanilla campaign. I'm reasonably certain that BEX was exactly the same.
You've been railroaded, and there's no other way for the story to continue.
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u/virusdancer Zero Point Battalion & Redrum's Jazz Band 3d ago
You played through the scenario and accomplished the required goals to move the story forward. It would be a spoiler to say more about it. But it does raise the question of did you ever play through the Vanilla campaign? I'm not familiar with how BEX handles things.
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u/CasInbound 3d ago
Keep playing. You’ll see.