Topic: Using all 4 ships

[drahazar]

Hi,
Me again. I now have D3 setup and working but I'm sadly limited to the Pyro. Is there a way for me to be able to use all three ship with-out plodding through the single player. Downloads or something??
TIA

[Kaiaatzl]

You should have all 3 (or 4 if you have merc) automatically for multiplayer, so it's probably a different problem.

[-<WillyP>-]

The server has the ability to disable ships, so possibly the game you joined was limited to the Pyro?

[Kaizerwolf]

The server has the ability to disable ships, so possibly the game you joined was limited to the Pyro?

This is the most likely case. If you're playing Single Player, you don't get a new ship until level 7, unless of course, you've already beaten the original single player missions. For multiplayer, you may have some trouble getting the BP to work, but everything should be available, unless the server specifies it.

[Kaiaatzl]

Lol I forgot about that because I don't play on those severs (and my brother doesn't like me to do it on our LAN servers).

[VANGUARD]

yeah, he's talking about single player, not multiplayer.
 
I think 7 is the phoenix, 6 is where you save that person in the phoenix.
and that hot sun map, 10 was it, or 9, is where you get parts for the magnum.
I think it's 9. yeah, sounding more right as I say it.

[Kaiaatzl]

I thought the phoenix pilot had already died... it doesn't say anything in the game about the pilot being alive or not alive.  In the book he was alive, but the ship was a starhawk and the "level" was on the Beagle.
And yes, it was level 9 (I have a good memory for these things... it helps that I never really stopped playing since I got D3 for the second time around 2006).

[Matthew]

I think it's assumed that the phoenix pilot is dead, since he's crashed and been dragged into the homunculus den by the aliens.

[Kaiaatzl]

Maybe Homunculus ate him .

[TechPro]

The crashed "Phoenix Intercepter" (as it's referred to in that level) was found by our hero in the same area as the Homunculus and the Homunculus does try to take big bites out of you ... though the Phoenix is secured by a force field when you get there and the Homunculus is asleep in a closed side chamber...

I always figured the pilot had perished.

[VANGUARD]

oh yeah, that ship comes in to retrieve the phoenix. that's right.

[Matthew]

It's the dravis stronghold mission where you retrieve the live pilot. I believe it's 13, directly before the PTMC Proving Grounds.

[TechPro]

Just before the PTMC Proving Grounds was the PTMC Storage Facility where Dravis supposedly had a live pilot held prisoner. (Descent Mission Chronology)

You know, the way that one turns out, I've always kind of wondered if the live pilot was 'bait' to help you get captured ... but oh well.  The fun of the Proving Grounds always made getting captured worth it.

[VANGUARD]

It's the dravis stronghold mission where you retrieve the live pilot. I believe it's 13, directly before the PTMC Proving Grounds.

Proving Grounds is 12. 11 is retrieving the pilot. it's because of the ending of that level 11, that brings you to the proving grounds

[Kaiaatzl]

I always thought Dravis used that pilot as bait, and then killed him afterward.  It would fit into his character from the books (at least the last one, which is the only one I've read), for sure.