[madaboutgames]

I am happy to post a new campaign for the Babylon Project 3.2



http://www.b5heatemup.co.uk/57280.html

Read readme file for install information


Reflections contains the following missions


Ranger Training Task 1 - Survival of the fittest

Ranger Training Task 2 - Scenario (Smugglers Run)

Ranger Training Task 3 - Cat and mouse

Ranger Training Task 4 - Running the gauntlet

Ranger Training Task 5 - Scenario (Historic battle 1) Retake of Balus - Dilgar Invasion.

Ranger Training Task 6 - Scenario (Historic battle 2) Gorash 7 - Centari Supply Centre Attack.



Ranger Mission 1 - Planning Ahead

Ranger Mission 2 - A place to call home

Ranger Mission 3 - Act of Defense

Ranger Mission 4 - All alone in the dark

Ranger Mission 5 - Hornets Nest

Ranger Mission 6 - The coming avalanche

These are the first 12 missions to feature halfway through the B5 Heat Em Up Campaign (released summer 2006). During the Heat Em Up Campaign you will have the choice to go for Ranger Trianing given certain actions in prior missions.   This may appear quite a hard campaign but remember its halfway through the Heat em up campaign, you should have completed 20 missions or so before you can start ranger training.

Hope You Enjoy It

www.b5heatemup.co.uk

[Manji]

wooohooo the screens look really really nice
i can´t wait until i can play it:D

[Manji]

öhöm
sorry for double post but i have a problem with the missions
i can not fly around or do something else...
do i have to wait for the first enemy or what?
plz help

[madaboutgames]

you should be free to move around at will.
Works fine on mine. Try re-installing, let me know if you cant get it sorted

[IPAndrews]

I'm going to give these a try ASAP. Thanks for your continued work making new missions for us all MAB.

[Sigma957]

Awesome Mad

[Azrael15]

Very cool. Just a few things I noticed.

The Dilgar mission. The EA did not have Midwinter class Cruisers. They came into being around the same time the Omega did, IIRC. Try replacing them with Novas, they were fairly commonplace in that time period.

And, also, with the Gorash mission, have you thought about adding a single battlecrab with a SlicerAAA? It'll allow it to fire at fighters, something which they are seen to do on the show. And, with the stealth enabled, the player won't be able to tell which one it is. As it was, I had no trouble with the Gorash mission...

Just my two cents.

[madaboutgames]

Was thinking of putting novas in but wasn`t sure if they wher in that time period.  They will be in the final Heat em up camp.  Thanks for info.



Cheers Azrael, wondered why the crabs rarley attack fighters, and never new the AAAslicer would do that.  Make some of my later missions a lot eaiser to do.

[Vash]

i have the same thing as manji, i cant fly or anything, also, when the first fighter jumps in, it's just going to do nothing. and some sounds work, when i hit the key for full thrust, i hear the engine the sound. but when i play in the mission simulator, i can fly around.

[aipz]

Really nice missions, especially the training ones...innovative and original!

Now some questions...
1)Why are the ships in 6 training and first ranger mission untargetable?

Technical isues:
1)In the second training mission the disable directives are visible from the beginning and scan directive is shown as complete sice the beginning of mission...
2)in mission 1 I always fly the aurora although I didn't alter the mission in any way - it's like the 2 survivor mission...
No idea what's causing that...  
I've extracted everything as told to do...
I have also your earlier missions and campaign installed...
3)Please use starfield skybox it will make your great mission even more awesome

Hope that will help a bit:)

[madaboutgames]

Hi Apiz, the ships are untargetable to give fhe feel of a highly advanced race.  In the Earth Minbari War, the Minbari ships where so advanced compared to earth it was very hard to aqquire target.  I decided to opt for this in the campaign, as you go through the ranger missions they will be targetable as the Rangers learn how to combat their stealth ability.  

On a couple of missions the directives don`t appear when they should (when an event is triggered).  They start at the beginning, after spending some considerable time on it I decided to leave it as it was.  "Like everything else, it the thought that counts"
In training mission 1 you should fly the Nial, not a clue what could be causing this.
Skyboxes, never used them yet, what are they and how do you use them??  Been fredding for years, but I don`t know everything (yet) One more question thats been buggin me, how do effectivley use a loading screen, tried making numerous folders to put them in, but still never works.  Anyone know what the folder i need to name is inside the data/ folder??

Cheers

[madaboutgames]

I have updated the campaign missions - please download here

www.b5heatemup.co.uk/refupdt.rar     to install : just overwrite missions & campaign with new ones.

Changes

Added starfield to all missions yes:
Changed Midwinter class ships to Nova class ships in Training task 5.
Updated a few mission events where events failed to run.

Starfields are great   100% better

Cheers

www.b5heatemup.co.uk

[aipz]

he ships are untargetable to give fhe feel of a highly advanced race. In the Earth Minbari War, the Minbari ships where so advanced compared to earth it was very hard to aqquire target. I decided to opt for this in the campaign, as you go through the ranger missions they will be targetable as the Rangers learn how to combat their stealth ability.

I agree this can be true for Narns fightning shadows as Narns are only as advanced as humans in most aspects of their technology...

But the Rangers as such have always used Mimbari equipment which is at least 1000 years more advanced than human one...( to be honest I torture you with issue only because in hyperspace you are limited to 200m visual range and there is a high propability to not notice the main target, not to mention this hiders you from issuing ordres to wingmen and that centauri transport is even less advanced than your fighter - in many cases the Rangers would have the surprise effect)
Maybe it would be better just to limit the detection range to 1km or just set those ships to appear near the player?

Please tell what do you think about that issue?

On a couple of missions the directives don`t appear when they should (when an event is triggered). They start at the beginning, after spending some considerable time on it I decided to leave it as it was. "Like everything else, it  is the thought that counts"

I agree "Like everything else, it is the thought that counts", the issue with that is just that it makes the mission more easy...example in ranger training 2 you know from the beginning which ships are to be disabled

[CaptJosh]

I keep seeing this over and aver again, and it's driving me slightly nuts. They are Minbari. Only one M in the name.
http://www.oinc.net/B5/Enc/display.php?minbari

[brother theo]

Just downloaded the missions, but had a question.  What is a rar format?  Can I use my WINZIP program to unzip the files?  If not, where can I get a program (hopefully free) to open the files so I can add them to my computer?

Thanks,

brother theo

[Primus]

You need WinRAR http://www.rarlab.com/

EDIT
I think PowerArchiver can handle RAR files too.

[aipz]

There are many archivers which use various formats like Powerarchiver, currently I use IZArc and I'm happy with it.

[aipz]

All missions are very nicely done, the ranger 5 & 6 really gives the feeling of Shadow power

Can't wait for the whole campaign to be released!:ha:

Only in ranger mission 4 I wasn't able to locate the source of enemy transmissions (no targebable point) so I ended the mission without destroying the shadow fighters:confused:

[Prophet]

Pretty much every arciver is capable of handling the most common formats...
Though sometimes you may encounter a file that requires that newest version of WinRAR, for example.

[madaboutgames]

Well done Apiz.  Ranger mission 4 - I made the shadow fighters and the nuke invisible to radar. This makes it harder as this is your main task in this mission.  The shadow fighters and the nuke have to be taken out before the nuke gets too close to the outpost.  If not then the outpost suffers considerable damage.  If this occurs in mission 7 (NOT IN REFLECTIONS) you are to defend the station from a major attack with a damaged outpost making it even harder.  Not long after the Minbari cruisers arrive at the outpost you respond to a distress signal and jump via the jumpgate.