[Dave2040]

I just finished the campaign and i had to say... WOW! ^^ This was the best thing since the original campaign!
I would love to know what's about the Auriga and Morgan Technologies or the renegade GTVI ^^

[Snail]

I would love to know what's about the Auriga and Morgan Technologies or the renegade GTVI ^^

Those questions are answered in Blackwater Operations (not released )

[Dave2040]

Argh... BWO is the Campaign, that is done, when it's done right? 

[Game_Master64]

i believe you are

[MrXian]

I've been playing the campaign, and I must say - it's great.

There's one little problem, though. The game handles mission-critical ships being disabled really badly. I've had several missions where I had to protect something, and the Auriga jumps in. My first reaction to a capship threatening my allies is disabling the capship, and if I have time de-tooth it as well. However, here this causes the missions to go on and on and on, with nothing happening.

[Dark Hunter]

So, don't disable it. 

[Jeff Vader]

Yeah, I did that to a Typhon in Awakenings. And I learned something from that: don't disable it. Here's another Derelict tip for ye.

Spoiler:

In the Gorgon cannon mission, don't go and disarm the Ravana, whatever it was called.

[Dark Hunter]

You mean you actually have time to do that before it dies?

[Jeff Vader]

I dunno. Guess I was lucky that one time. Managed to be in the right place at the right time and get the said thing done which resulted in

Spoiler:

the nearby Sobek not getting destroyed, which in turn resulted in a malfunction in the coding of the cannon. That sucked. I almost tried to blow the Sobek up myself.

I merely brought this up since it sounds like MrXian has a bad habit of doing something the mission designers failed to anticipate, which often results in getting stuck in a mission.[/color]

[MrXian]

Yeah, but why don't the designers anticipate that?

Destroyers are really easy to take out if you manage to stay under the guns, so that's exactly what I do. I get close and stick close to the guns taking down guns and components. Enemy fighters shooting at me generally only manage to help you damage the destroyer if you know what yer doing.

[Dark Hunter]

Derelict was made a while ago... before the SCP. Such techniques may not have been in very widespread use.

I guess to be sure you'd have to ask the original designers. Not Blaise Russel, he only touched up the campaign, changed nothing about the missions themselves.

[Jeff Vader]

Yeah, but generally it is easy to find out if you're doing something wrong. Like, if you disable a hostile capital ship and notice that the mission is stuck, you can with relative ease deduce that maybe it is plotwise important to let it escape. Of course, if you just play by feeling, you shouldn't have these problems. They are sure to come up more often if your strategy for every mission is to take a bomber or anything with a high missile capacity, then go 'OMG! Enemy big ship! Must dizabl0r!', whenever a hostile capital ship arrives to the scene. Personally, I prefer to disarm them at least a bit in order to minimize damage to any possible friendly capital ships or transports etc. But, as I explained, even that strategy can urinate all over itself.

[MrXian]

Oh, I was wondering about something else.

I read somewhere that Derelict branches off to two different endings. Where does it branch off? I've seen one ending, would like to see the other.

[Dark Hunter]

Uhhh.... I don't think it branches into different endings. The campaign itself branches a couple of times, into some SOC stuff, but the ending is the same regardless of whether you participate in the SOC or not.

[BustRobot]

Hi, I'm new to the boards and recently downloaded this mod, along with recently installing the Source Code Project, and registered specifically for help with a bug I can't seem to sort out.

Specifically, it is to do with the "Rites of Passage" mission, and occurs when the Capellan Shuttle tries to dock with the modified Typhon station in it's Docking Bay - whatever it's name is - and decides to keep crashing into it, eventually commiting suicide.  I understand a few others have also had this problem.

As far as I know, it's to do with the build of SCP I'm using - 3.6.9 Full - and/or to do with the script. (Also, as far as I know I'm using the latest mediaVP's - 3.6.8 Zeta?)

If someone can point me to:
a) A working download link for the build I need to fix this bug, or
b) Providing me with the information I need on how to change the shuttles "Departure Location" from docking with the station to Hyperspace in the VP file, or other solution.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance. 

P.S. I have read through this topic, and not found much that can help me. (I'm no expert at changing code things or anything of the like. It's why I'm asking.)

[ARSPR]

Hi, I'm new to the boards and recently downloaded this mod, along with recently installing the Source Code Project, and registered specifically for help with a bug I can't seem to sort out.

Specifically, it is to do with the "Rites of Passage" mission, and occurs when the Capellan Shuttle tries to dock with the modified Typhon station in it's Docking Bay - whatever it's name is - and decides to keep crashing into it, eventually commiting suicide.  I understand a few others have also had this problem.

As far as I know, it's to do with the build of SCP I'm using - 3.6.9 Full - and/or to do with the script. (Also, as far as I know I'm using the latest mediaVP's - 3.6.8 Zeta?)

If someone can point me to:
a) A working download link for the build I need to fix this bug, or
b) Providing me with the information I need on how to change the shuttles "Departure Location" from docking with the station to Hyperspace in the VP file, or other solution.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance. 

P.S. I have read through this topic, and not found much that can help me. (I'm no expert at changing code things or anything of the like. It's why I'm asking.)

First of all



And after that I'm sorry to say that nope, you are not using mediavps in a right way because mediavps "fix" the issue.

The problem is that retail & mediavps HTL faustus is not exactly the same. With retail Faustus, Docking ring is rotated and blocks the fighter bay of the Typhon. You can find full info about it in previous (old) posts in this thread. Or if you want you have full info and a fixed mission, (which rotates the Faustus instead the docking ring) in Mantis bug 1168.

But please check how you have installed mediavps and how Derelict points to them through MOD.INI cause as already said mediavps faustus "fixes" the problem. Follow Karajorma's FAQ and make sure you've got a "clean" FS2 installation:

• Delete all freespace2/data/ contents but players folder (unless you want to lose all your existing pilots). Be careful because you can be deleting custom missions or badly installed mods (but installed nevertheless).
• Check that in your freespace2/ dir you only have the vps listed in this Wiki page

And also try to fully understand how to properly install mods without having undesired cross effects (each one in a different folder, usage of launcher mod tab and mod.ini files, etc.)

[BustRobot]

And after that I'm sorry to say that nope, you are not using mediavps in a right way because mediavps "fix" the issue.

The problem is that retail & mediavps HTL faustus is not exactly the same. With retail Faustus, Docking ring is rotated and blocks the fighter bay of the Typhon. You can find full info about it in previous (old) posts in this thread. Or if you want you have full info and a fixed mission, (which rotates the Faustus instead the docking ring) in Mantis bug 1168.

But please check how you have installed mediavps and how Derelict points to them through MOD.INI cause as already said mediavps faustus "fixes" the problem. Follow Karajorma's FAQ and make sure you've got a "clean" FS2 installation:

• Delete all freespace2/data/ contents but players folder (unless you want to lose all your existing pilots). Be careful because you can be deleting custom missions or badly installed mods (but installed nevertheless).
• Check that in your freespace2/ dir you only have the vps listed in this Wiki page

And also try to fully understand how to properly install mods without having undesired cross effects (each one in a different folder, usage of launcher mod tab and mod.ini files, etc.)

Many thanks, ARSPR, the mission is now working. It appears it was down to the fact that I hadn't cleaned up the original Freespace 2 install, so they were interefering with the "better" mediavps, and that I needed to modify one or two of the mod.ini files.

Again, thanks for the assist. I'm sitting pretty now!   

[the_dark_light]

Derelict has to be the best compaign I've played (short of the main Freespace2 and fsport campaigns)

The ingame dialogue is fantastic! (I still chuckle whenever duct tape is mentioned, confusing family and friends)
It seems to be something that makes all the difference, I've always found campaigns without voice recordings to be a little stale

[Cobra]

I'm really starting to hate my voice now in this campaign.

[the_dark_light]

I'm really starting to hate my voice now in this campaign.

Why, who do you voice?