*flops in again* Parry bugged me on skype, and it basically turned out that the reason I couldn't figure out how to make anything work was cause of the regulation. When i tried something like MG/blade/grenade on 1.1 (which i'd been playing on cause dunno) it was really unpleasant, i couldn't hit anything, and it just kinda didn't work even against the basic test AC. Same setup on 1.4, and suddenly it works and is fairly fun to use. So I'll be using 1.4 reg in the future since it seems to promote a bigger variety of parts. As for mission failure vs fun, it was mostly me wanting to avoid spending another 3-4 episodes without making progress (1.2 white glint), but hopefully I'll have enough parts now that I can start screwing around with different stuff and making it work. Any basic suggestions on something like a quad frame? I always kinda liked quads, just could never really figure out how to use them at all. Additionally, Parry wants to get together and do some co-op with me, so we'll see how that works out. I'll definitely record it, but there's not too many details figured out at the moment.