[ivory_guard]

An incredible tour-de-force! I (and everbody else, no doubt!) eagerly await a sequel!

[Cobra]

Spoiler:

Also, people, no, the Eriana mentioned in the last debriefing isn't the parallel universe's Eriana.

[Darius]

Spoiler:

Also, people, no, the Eriana mentioned in the last debriefing isn't the parallel universe's Eriana.

That's up to you to decide

[Cobra]

Dammit, i got mixed up. Nevermind.

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Though I bet it's not her.

[The Spac]

Excellent Campaign just finished it tho some tough missions gave me pause, I did eventually overcome them.

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Good interesting and unique story, loved the mixing in of the Vishnu Brahman and Shiva stuff.

And I liked the command music from the dune miniseries hehehe.

[Herra Tohtori]

Spoiler:

By the way, did anyone else get some distinct Vorlon/Shadow impressions (without the ideological conflict present in B5)?

[ShadowGorrath]

I noticed one mistake . The capital of GTVA is Beta Aquilae , not Delta Serpentis .

[Herra Tohtori]

Indeed, Delta Serpentis was the capital of GTA from the collapse of Sol node in 2335, to formation of GTVA in 2358, when the role of capital was assumed by Beta Aquilae.

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Not that it matters much, because if I recall correctly, the mission(s?) in Delta Serpentis occurred in the alternate universe. I could be wrong, though, I've had my share of that already in this thread...

...anyway, if I remember right this time, the subtitle makes even less sense because GTVA never existed there in the first place, and it is also arguable that GTA never set the Delta Serpentis to be their capital either, what with being quite defeated and in hiding.

Perhaps the mention of capital could just be dropped from the subtitles...

[ShadowGorrath]

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Actually , when they got into that alternate universe , they brought the GTVA with themselves . And I think that the mention of capital should remain . It gives more interest somehow

Beta Aquilae was the capital anyway , so it should remain so . Delta Serpentis wasn't . Though I never played Silent Threat ...

[Mustang19]

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The missions and music hold the campaign together. This makes it a good play even though I never really got into the storyline. I mean I can tell you're aiming for a Transcend type of "mystic" effect, but it gets thin in places. In hindsight the whole Duke-happens-to-get-hit-with-psychic-waves-out-of-nowhere thing sounds kind of random. What's the point of the story... the Terrans convert to Bhuddism? What happens to the Vishnans... they said that the Terrans/Vasudans where "the people they were looking for", but they don't do anything about it other than restore the jump corridor to Sol, in other words putting the GTA back where it was pre-FS1 and then leaving them there. The final debrief talks about how Terrans are now "more human" and "fully embrace their humanity", but it doesn't explain exactly what happens... nothing is accomplished; the universe is back where it was pre-FS1, except with the GTVA instead of the TV War.

Don't take this as criticism; I enjoyed the campaign. The story is just odd.

[Cobra]

Spoiler:

The missions and music hold the campaign together. This makes it a good play even though I never really got into the storyline. I mean I can tell you're aiming for a Transcend type of "mystic" effect, but it gets thin in places. In hindsight the whole Duke-happens-to-get-hit-with-psychic-waves-out-of-nowhere thing sounds kind of random. What's the point of the story... the Terrans convert to Bhuddism? What happens to the Vishnans... they said that the Terrans/Vasudans where "the people they were looking for", but they don't do anything about it other than restore the jump corridor to Sol, in other words putting the GTA back where it was pre-FS1 and then leaving them there. The final debrief talks about how Terrans are now "more human" and "fully embrace their humanity", but it doesn't explain exactly what happens... nothing is accomplished; the universe is back where it was pre-FS1, except with the GTVA instead of the TV War.

Don't take this as criticism; I enjoyed the campaign. The story is just odd.

Spoiler:

I don't think it was a random thing that happened to the Duke. Sam said something about voices from his dreams, so I strongly believe that it was the Vishnans that took the Duke's crewmembers, luring the 14th to the N362 system.

[Mustang19]

Hmm... makes sense now.

Spoiler:

They had to grab Alpha 1 alone (assuming they couldn't just psycho-grab his fighter like they usually did) so the fleet had to be lured to Vishnan space.

[Darius]

Damn. That Delta Serpentis capital mistake seems serious enough to warrant a mission fix. I'll upload the new mission a bit later with adjustments.

For some reason I got somewhere that DS was the GTVA capital (but then if BETAC was made in BA it makes a bit more sense to have it as your capital...  )

BTW: Feel free to use any music from the campaign that you wish, and credit the artists as per the credits.txt file

[Herra Tohtori]

Well it might have been the capital or not; Maastricht is not the capital of European Union, even though the Maastricht treaty is formally known as Treaty on European Union. Likewise, Philadelphia wasn't the capital of US of A the last time I checked. And Kyoto is not the capital of environmentals, but that's besides the point...

I don't know why they decided to make Beta Aquilae the capital of the Alliance, it could have just been a place to sign the treaty and be done with it. Probably they needed some place to call a common capital for propaganda reasons... And, they probably couldn't have selected mostly terran-populated D Serpentis as capital for Vasudans, and likewise some Vasudan-inhabited world would likely not have been accepted by terrans...

Think Sydney-Melbourne-Canberra, but in a planetary scale.

[starbug]

Just finished it, i really liked it , hope there will be a sequel

[Goober5000]

Well done. An excellent campaign, with some very clever missions and fantastic cutscenes.

I played it last week but didn't get around to responding until now, so unfortunately the campaign isn't fresh enough in my mind to post specific comments.  However, the nitpicks people are posting are still valid. The capital of the GTVA is Beta Aquilae, as mentioned in "Into the Maelstrom".  And, incidentally, the GTVA was formed in 2345, not 2358, as mentioned in species.tbl -- although the current form of the GTVA, as organized under BETAC, did come into existence in 2358.

[Flaming_Sword]

Hi.

I decided to give this a go and discovered it was awesome. Ran into a couple of things though. Firstly, crashing on the first red alert mission. I managed to use the mission simulator and ctrl+shift+s to get to the other missions (though admittedly it did make the red alert missions a bit easier). Secondly, crashing during the weapon selection stage in bp-16.

Running 3.6.9 with mediavps installed (using a mod.ini file) with opengl at 1280x1024, 32-bit colour and trilinear filtering, and all the settings turned up (which killed my framerate in some battles, but the "ooh, pretty!" got to me ).

Tried running with the debug version to see what's going on, game complains about an error in weapons.tbl on startup (line 148, the tech description for one of the weapons (spoiler if i mention what it is?) is missing a doublequote). Fixed that, now it says (multiple times):

Code: [Select]

Warning: Bogus string in weapon flags: fire down normals

File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\Weapon\Weapons.cpp
Line: 1605
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    parse_weapon()    parse_weaponstbl()    weapon_init()    game_init()    game_main()    WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 77e814c7()
------------------------------------------------------------------

The flag seems to be on a lot of beam weapons and I didn't try to remove them in case it broke something. I hope this helps in tracking down any lingering bugs.

I found the ending a bit odd, but I'll assume the author planned it and all (or most, depending ) will be explained in a sequel.

[Darius]

"Fire down normals" was used in multiple weapons, particularly in the pulse weapons of the GTVA ships (the deck guns, since it looked strange to not have the shots line up with the barrels). Is it still a valid flag?

Try running this mission 16 and see if you can go to weapons loadout succesfully, I just changed the loadout options of the mission. It doesn't crash for me, but I think one of the bombs could be causing trouble for some people.

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[MarsNeedsWomen]

Damn. That Delta Serpentis capital mistake seems serious enough to warrant a mission fix. I'll upload the new mission a bit later with adjustments.

For some reason I got somewhere that DS was the GTVA capital (but then if BETAC was made in BA it makes a bit more sense to have it as your capital...  )

BTW: Feel free to use any music from the campaign that you wish, and credit the artists as per the credits.txt file

There's also a minor spelling mistake that's prevalent throughout the campaign. It's Terran, you seem to keep spelling it as Terrene.

[Darius]

There's also a minor spelling mistake that's prevalent throughout the campaign. It's Terran, you seem to keep spelling it as Terrene.

Terrene is correct