Mission state guide
High Tide: how do I stop the landing and hold the Defensive Line?
High Tide changes from an offshore interception problem into a beach-defense problem. A transport reaching shore is not automatically a loss.
Quick answer
The mission supports either intercepting an approaching transport on its reported course or preparing to stop the force after it reaches the beach. If Marines disembark, switch to protecting the Defensive Line. The primary objective can complete when the landing is broken or relief arrives; do not rely on a fixed hold timer.
Match your response to the current mission state
State A — Transport still offshore
The mission explicitly supports either trying to intercept an approaching transport on its reported course or preparing to stop the force after it reaches the beach. Preparing for the projected landing is a supported strategy, not an invented failure fallback.
State B — Attempting an offshore intercept
Use the reported current position and reported movement to lead the transport rather than firing at an old position. This page does not provide a fixed lead distance, universal intercept point, or moving-target calculator.
State C — Preparing for the beach
Use the reported or projected landing area as the next defensive focus. Prepare to thin the landing force before it can overwhelm the Defensive Line rather than treating the beach-defense option as an automatic failure.
State D — Transport has landed
A landing is not automatic mission failure. The structured mission data includes Marines disembarking and subsequent Defensive Line combat. Shift the question from hitting the ship to stopping enough of the landing force from reaching the friendly defenders.
State E — Defensive Line under pressure
The key failure condition is allowing the landing force to overwhelm the Defensive Line before relief. Prioritize the ground threat to that objective without inventing a hidden line-health value or required Marine kill count.
State F — Landing broken or relief arrives
Structured completion messages support primary completion when the landing is broken or relief columns secure the beachhead. Scattered enemies may remain in range and continued fire can be optional, so High Tide does not necessarily require clearing every remaining enemy for its primary objective.
Still stuck?
I can't hit the ships while they are moving
Offshore interception is only one supported route. Use the projected beach landing as the next focus and prepare to attack the landing force instead; reaching that state does not mean the mission is already lost.
The transport landed — did I already lose?
No. Structured mission data includes Marines disembarking and subsequent Defensive Line combat. The failure condition is the Defensive Line collapsing before relief, not merely a transport reaching shore.
What should I shoot after they land?
Prioritize the landing force threatening the Defensive Line. The current evidence supports that objective-level priority, not a fixed target order or exact kill count.
How long do I have to hold?
The current structured extract contains inconsistent timing representations, so this guide does not publish an exact hold timer. Follow the current in-game relief timer and mission messages as the operational source.
Do I have to kill everything?
No for High Tide's primary objective. Structured completion messages can declare the objective complete while scattered elements remain and continued fire is optional. This answer is scoped to High Tide.
Current-version note: the structured extract contains inconsistent timing representations, so this guide does not publish an exact hold timer. Follow the current in-game relief timer and mission messages instead; exact live-build behavior and moving-target lead remain unverified.
Avoid these phase mistakes
- Treating destruction of every offshore transport as the only supported strategy.
- Assuming that a transport reaching shore is immediate mission failure.
- Publishing one exact hold duration despite conflicting timing representations in the structured extract.
- Continuing to focus only on a landed transport while the ground force threatens the Defensive Line.
- Assuming the primary objective requires clearing every scattered enemy after the landing is broken or relief arrives.
Why landing is not automatic failure
The current independent structured High Tide mission-data snapshot documents an offshore-intercept-or-beach-defense choice, transport landing and Marines disembarking, failure when the Defensive Line collapses before relief, and completion when the landing is broken or relief secures the beachhead. It also contains timing representations that do not cleanly agree. This page therefore presents a phase/state diagnostic while withholding raw timers, generated positions, fixed movement values, and moving-target formulas.
Landing-state workflow documentedCurrent-build limitsChecked Aug 14, 2026
The structured mission data directly supports the offshore-intercept-or-beach-defense choice, Marine landing state, Defensive Line failure condition, and completion via a broken landing or relief. Exact timing is intentionally omitted because the extracted communications contain inconsistent timer representations.
Version context: Current structured High Tide mission-data snapshot reviewed Aug 14; exact live-build behavior and conflicting timer representations not independently human-tested
Still uncertain
- Exact live-build revision represented by the structured extract
- Exact relief or hold timing
- Exact moving-target lead behavior
- Generated transport and landing positions
- Whether all current player landing-mission failure reports share the same cause
Evidence and verification context
- Current structured High Tide mission data: The independent fan-run structured snapshot records the intercept-or-prepare choice, Marines disembarking, Defensive Line failure, and completion when the landing is broken or relief arrives. Its timing discrepancy is intentionally not resolved here.
- Current Steam landing-mission question inventory: Establishes current user demand only. The player question is not used as evidence for the mission-state facts or exact timing.