Another moment of panic inducing excitement is in a mission where you, in your mech, are dropped from an airplane’s altitude. You rocket towards a gigantic base beneath you but have to aim for a small ventilation shaft no bigger than twice the size of your combat machine. Now, aiming for a small opening in the dead of night is hard enough, but then the guns start firing. Blue beams of plasma canons start lighting up the night sky whirring by you as you continue to aim for the pin-hole target. If you just sit there during the free fall you’ll be blasted, but if you boost around to avoid the canons you may miss your target. Once you thread the needle and get into the base, you are greeted with more blackness. Until the lights and sounds of enemy mechs charge and surround you, one might have actually thought themselves safe.