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Just installed on Windows 7 64 Home Premium. Installed to C:\Program Files(x86)\GOG.com\Freespace 2 Ran FS2 Open. Downloaded/etc. and it says it installed fine. Ran Launcher.exe and got an error "Must be in same directory as binary" and there is no binary in the folder. Any tips? (I installed OpenAL)
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May 22, 2011 22:43
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LLJKSiLk posted:Just installed on Windows 7 64 Home Premium. I think the installer downloads an old version of the launcher, look for Launcher 5.5g on Hard Light EDIT: Alternatively, installing to Program Files might be causing permissions problems. Try running as administrator or installing to another directory
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May 22, 2011 22:45
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TShields posted:Edit: This game makes me want to rage.. I'm on the mission where you're testing the TAG system, and the Lucidity keeps getting bombed to bits before I can get in to help! The bombers come in on the opposite side of the loving galaxy while I'm getting picked apart by missiles, and I have to jet all the way across the loving battlefield just to GET to them, not to mention attempt to shoot their bombs out of the sky, which is next to loving IMPOSSIBLE, and try to TAG them with these stupid rockets that they keep ducking out of the way of. Even when I do manage to TAG them, it wears off before the stupid ship can burn them to a crisp. ARGH! When they spawn the first waves of fighters 7000 meters away from the Deimos corvette, it's a test of your patience to see if you can wait for them to come to you. You failed. In that mission you are effectively tied to the capital ship not just because of the TAG missiles, but because of the final waves that spawn on the opposite side of the ship from where you're likely to be. The key to not tearing your hair out on that mission is to be close to the ship so at least you can zip out and smack any bombers who get too close before your reinforcements show up. The good news is it sounds like you're past what is unquestionably the worst mission in the game. 
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May 22, 2011 22:59
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General Battuta posted:Hey guys, I'm one of the lead writers and mission designers on Blue Planet (but I only joined up for the second one Do you know what the timeline is for the voice patch for War in Heaven? I really appreciated the voice work in AoA, enough that playing the sequel without voice would ruin it for me, so I've been holding off. But it's going to be quite a while?
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May 23, 2011 01:19
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TheDemon posted:Do you know what the timeline is for the voice patch for War in Heaven? I really appreciated the voice work in AoA, enough that playing the sequel without voice would ruin it for me, so I've been holding off. But it's going to be quite a while? It's really hard to know. Anywhere from six months to two years. One the one hand, the script is enormous compared to the first one; on the other hand, progress has been a lot faster. I would suggest just giving it a shot without voice. It'll honestly be pretty crappy in some parts, but most of the important text should be readable during lulls in the combat. drink slurm posted:Do you get to fly capital class ships in this? There's one mission in Blue Planet War in Heaven (actually a bonus campaign, selectable in the campaign room) where you can fly a frigate. I thought it was pretty cool but that's because I designed it  And yeah A Game of TAG sucks, I am sorry. General Battuta fucked around with this message at 01:59 on May 23, 2011 |
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May 23, 2011 01:56
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Got it running guys. Thanks!
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May 23, 2011 05:02
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This game is so loving amazing it blows my mind every time. My only complaint is how lovely the mission where you have to disable the Sathana's beam cannons is. This mission has always been my kryptonite in Freespace 2.
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May 24, 2011 07:44
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So when I check out the ships in the tech room, it crashes. When I click the Ulysses it loads up as does the Hercules but the image looks a bit distorted. When I click any of the other ships below those two, it crashes. The music also feels a little distorted like it's skipping somewhat. In the training mission, every now and then a certain area in space gets all green and polygonal. Anyone else experience any of this? The whole thing feels a bit unstable to me.
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May 24, 2011 14:19
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Free Chicken posted:So when I check out the ships in the tech room, it crashes. When I click the Ulysses it loads up as does the Hercules but the image looks a bit distorted. When I click any of the other ships below those two, it crashes. The music also feels a little distorted like it's skipping somewhat. In the training mission, every now and then a certain area in space gets all green and polygonal. This is definitely not supposed to happen and therefore almost certainly fixable. If you're willing to invest about ~5 minutes I think we can sort it out. Can you run a debug build (it should have a D or the word Debug in the file name and be located in your FreeSpace 2 folder, assuming you installed FSOpen), then go to FreeSpace2/data/, open the file called fs2_open.log, and post the contents? Since it is huge you should probably use pastebin or code:
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May 24, 2011 14:46
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I got the debug build on hand but I gotta go work very shortly. I'll get the log and post it later tonight.
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May 24, 2011 23:34
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TAG missiles are in theory cool but they never work in any mission after the one where you first use them.
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May 25, 2011 01:31
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General Battuta posted:It's really hard to know. Anywhere from six months to two years. One the one hand, the script is enormous compared to the first one; on the other hand, progress has been a lot faster. Hah yeah, I just finished War In Heaven and it got frantic enough that I couldn't follow the text quite often like in Delenda Est, I totally missed the dialogue where they were overloading the beams. Had no idea what the countdown was about, but by the time it triggered I'm right on top of the Carthage and its escorts and in a full on corvette-disarming-flak-dodging-oh-god-don't-let-a-beam-hit frenzy anyway. Also UEF missiles are stupidly good, spamming Darts absolutely eats a formation, the Paveway is so easy to use combined with reverse thrust, and then there's the Slammer... Plus there are a lot more close-packed formations it seems. I managed to eat Sagittarius in Deals in Shadows by strafing the whole wing with Hellfire splash damage. Great campaign, and I'm definitely looking forward to replaying it once the voice patch hits. And for those of you reading who are just installing FSO, I highly recommend playing the two Blue Planet campaigns. Even if you don't like the storytelling style or the story, the combat missions are challenging and frantic, and I especially appreciate the thought put into the military tactics used. It's cool to see a chain of command that recognizes disabling beam cannons as the single most important thing a fighter does. TheDemon fucked around with this message at 03:48 on May 25, 2011 |
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May 25, 2011 03:41
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I got the debug log from the crash up. http://pastebin.com/Rq1HbCvi
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May 25, 2011 11:20
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On the first TAG missile mission, on Normal difficulty if you TAG a ship the beam cannons usually don't even kill the ship by itself. They should have made it so that using the non-seeking TAG is a death sentence to whatever you TAG, whereas beams sometimes miss with the aspect-seeking TAG because the electronics had to be less sophisticated due to the seeking system, or something. Also the Sathanas mission where you disable the beam cannons is awful because the hit collision on the beams is really wonky, and the wingmen 9/10 times can't fulfill the secondary mission to kill the flak battery. I replayed that mission about 6 times on my last run-through and you're basically at the mercy of the support ship to determine whether you can nail all objectives or not. Also, does anyone use those explosive projectile warhead torpedoes that unlock late in the game? They're supposedly an anti-bomber weapon, but they're slow and non-seeking so unless you are luckily flying right at the bomber wing you'll just outright miss a lot of times. Did anyone come up with a creative use for those? bobfather fucked around with this message at 12:16 on May 25, 2011 |
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May 25, 2011 12:13
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Free Chicken posted:I got the debug log from the crash up. Okay, try moving MV_Advanced out of your mediavps_3612 folder, and put it somewhere outside your FreeSpace 2 directory (or just delete it if you don't mind redownloading it later). Your video card is on the low end of the support spectrum. If that doesn't work, try running without the MediaVPs. ed: You could also try adding -novbo and -no_set_gamma to your command line. General Battuta fucked around with this message at 16:55 on May 25, 2011 |
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May 25, 2011 16:35
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bobfather posted:On the first TAG missile mission, on Normal difficulty if you TAG a ship the beam cannons usually don't even kill the ship by itself. They should have made it so that using the non-seeking TAG is a death sentence to whatever you TAG, whereas beams sometimes miss with the aspect-seeking TAG because the electronics had to be less sophisticated due to the seeking system, or something. behind them and take down the entire wing.
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May 25, 2011 16:57
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General Battuta posted:Okay, try moving MV_Advanced out of your mediavps_3612 folder, and put it somewhere outside your FreeSpace 2 directory (or just delete it if you don't mind redownloading it later). Your video card is on the low end of the support spectrum. I got rid of MV_Advanced but it was still crashing bad so I just disabled the MediaVPs and the tech room worked perfectly and there were no crashes when loading a mission. However, the weird polygonal nebula looking things were still appearing. Also, when I target a ship, a big pink polygonal object resembling it would pop up to the right of my cross hair. I don't remember getting these when I first played FS2. Do you have any idea what this could be? Thanks for all the help so far btw. edit: played some more with it. I found out for sure it's the MediaVPs. I have to click no mod on the launcher rather than just set all the options off for it to work at all. Not sure why they're so volatile. Also, the polygonal things from targeting a ship go away when you turn off the show target ship option (something like that) in the detail section in the in game video options. The polygonal nebula things go away when I turn off the show planets/nebulae option in the same detail section above. Any way to fix these problems without just turning them off? Free Chicken fucked around with this message at 14:24 on May 27, 2011 |
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May 27, 2011 02:49
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Free Chicken posted:edit: played some more with it. I found out for sure it's the MediaVPs. I have to click no mod on the launcher rather than just set all the options off for it to work at all. Not sure why they're so volatile. Also, the polygonal things from targeting a ship go away when you turn off the show target ship option (something like that) in the detail section in the in game video options. The polygonal nebula things go away when I turn off the show planets/nebulae option in the same detail section above. Any way to fix these problems without just turning them off? I'm not sure, I'll check it out. This is probably some kind of weird issue with your video hardware or drivers, the series of card you're running has some known problems with FSO. The game is usually rock-stable even with MediaVPs.
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May 27, 2011 20:58
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is it possible to have animated models at all in this? I've always wanted to try modding, but I've never been too keen on things being totally static.
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May 28, 2011 03:25
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Colon Semicolon posted:is it possible to have animated models at all in this? I've always wanted to try modding, but I've never been too keen on things being totally static. Well the Faustus has a giant spinning solar panel of doom.
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May 28, 2011 03:52
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Colon Semicolon posted:is it possible to have animated models at all in this? I've always wanted to try modding, but I've never been too keen on things being totally static. Rotational animation is possible (guns flipping out when armed, panels opening when you hit afterburners, gravity decks spinning, stuff like that). You can also use ugly hacks with invisible pivot points to fake translational animation.
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May 28, 2011 04:50
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Wow, yeah. Looking at the wiki, it'd be really fun and easy to do most anything I'd want with just simple rotation points. Probably wouldn't be difficult to have an arm pop out to hold some sort of weapon on a ship, then. Thanks for the help!
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May 28, 2011 10:38
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Just thought I'd pop in to say that I finally fixed my graphical issues and the crashes. I installed the Omega drivers for my card instead and it got rid of all the crashes especially ones associated with the mediaVPs and fixed the nebula problems. Forgot how awesome this game was.
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Jun 9, 2011 12:43
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Is this game mission based or a total sandbox?
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Jul 25, 2011 01:39
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SERPUS posted:Is this game mission based or a total sandbox? Mission based.
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Jul 25, 2011 01:45
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SERPUS posted:Is this game mission based or a total sandbox? X3 is the sandbox space sim. Yes, as of 2011 we're down to just the two.
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Jul 29, 2011 22:58
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Okay if anyone else is retarded as I am, after you have used the Freespace 2 Open Installer to download FS2 Open and the updated graphics pack you have to then get the updated launcher After you've installed all that run the Launcher.exe thats now in your FS2 folder. You have to actually select and load the updated graphics mod.  This is the mod folder you have to select for basic Freespace 2 with shiny graphics. ( MediaVPs_3612 )   I thought my graphics didn't look as nice as the screenshots.  I wish I had figured this out earlier.
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Aug 17, 2011 08:37
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Okay I just finished my first playthrough of Freespace 2 12 years late, that ending Holy gently caress. I've also heard "DIVE DIVE DIVE, HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!" quoted a thousand times but it still caught me by surprise when it happened. I've immediately started Blue Planet but I've gotten stuck on like the first mission, i'm being told to go investigate some anomalous readings but I have nothing on the HUD telling me where I should be going.
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Aug 19, 2011 11:22
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So is Blue Planet still being worked on, then? Since the wiki says it's meant to be the first of a trilogy.
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Aug 19, 2011 12:32
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Yes, I don't recall if there are one or two more installments, but there's a guy who posts here on the team so maybe he'll pop up and let us know. There'll also be a voice patch for War in Heaven, eventually.Sir Liquid Jerk posted:I've immediately started Blue Planet but I've gotten stuck on like the first mission, i'm being told to go investigate some anomalous readings but I have nothing on the HUD telling me where I should be going. If I remember correctly, there'll be fuzzy readings on the radar, which you just fly towards.
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Aug 19, 2011 13:23
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Sir Liquid Jerk posted:Okay I just finished my first playthrough of Freespace 2 12 years late, that ending Holy gently caress. I've also heard "DIVE DIVE DIVE, HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!" quoted a thousand times but it still caught me by surprise when it happened. Make sure your radar range is set to infinite (there should be a key in the keybindings menu that lets you toggle through it.) You should see a wavering, fuzzy dot. If that doesn't work try disabling the 3D radar in the launcher and go back to the old school 2D. This is a stupid little usability problem that popped up even in retail FS2. We should really patch in a way to force radar range in the mission script. Fangz posted:So is Blue Planet still being worked on, then? Since the wiki says it's meant to be the first of a trilogy. The first half of the second chapter is out, it's called War in Heaven. Also there are a ton of other great campaigns. I recommend Vassago's Dirge and Wings of Dawn (the latter has some heavy anime stylings but whether or not you like those the gameplay is great). General Battuta fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Aug 19, 2011 |
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Aug 19, 2011 15:18
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General Battuta posted:
I finished Age of Aquarius in one sitting, you guys are awesome, great mod. I think I can wait until War in Heaven gets a voice acting patch though, I can't imagine wading through all the dialogue and mission briefs without it even if the story so far has been pretty compelling.
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Aug 19, 2011 18:24
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You're probably going to be waiting a long, long time. I would suggest just taking a stab at it. The bad news is that there is way more text in War in Heaven and you will constantly be pausing to figure out what's being said. The competing bad news is that...you'll have to wait for a long time for it to be otherwise. Derelict has voice acting and is pretty good, though.
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Aug 19, 2011 20:10
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I finished War in Heaven I actually enjoyed the missions more then Age of Aquarius. The only knock against it for me is no voice acting, im fine with reading the in-between mission briefs but in game its a distraction and makes the battles seem a bit more sterile then they really are. Delenda Est was best mission I've played yet, It sure started off feeling pretty  .I think i'll try Vassago's Dirge next and then try to get around to Freespace 1/ST and Derelict.
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Aug 21, 2011 16:10
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Glad you liked it! Delenda Est was hell and a half to design, I'm glad it paid off. Vassago's Dirge is an excellent call, I also really recommend Silent Threat Reborn (fully VA'd).
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Aug 21, 2011 17:12
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Chiming in to say that Derelict is really good. It's got voice acting, and they actually managed to make your wingmen likeable and interesting. Macky is a great video game character, mod or no. It's a bit too long, but otherwise, it's a great Freespace experience.
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Aug 21, 2011 20:08
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I just beat blue planet again, and god drat that's a pretty good mod
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Aug 23, 2011 06:04
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OK, I've run the installer several times but I keep getting the same errors. It says it was unable to update The 1024x768 graphic pack, the Shivans section, and the Twilight section. Looking through the error log it seems that it can't download these sections as "All download mirrors have failed". Also, do I put the launcher it into the root Freespace 2 foldeer or what? When I try to run the launcher I get the following error message "The launcher must be in the same directory as the binary you are trying to use." Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Aug 28, 2011 |
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Aug 28, 2011 18:40
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I need to reinstall this. Last time I did it was back when I used XP and after playing it with FS2O some system32 file got corrupted. I doubt it was the game's fault though. There was a Robotech mod made for it that I was interested in but apparently it doesn't work with FS2O and besides that it's pretty much dead. And transforming the mechs damages you too. e: Never mind, I forgot to install OpenAL. Zeether fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Aug 28, 2011 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:OK, I've run the installer several times but I keep getting the same errors. You can ignore all those installer errors, they're dumb and a result of the fact that the community consistently fails to fix its poo poo. None of them will be fatal, they're just a result of those (nonessential) items no longer being available for download. The launcher should go in the root FreeSpace 2 folder, yeah. If you're getting that error, try using WXLauncher (googling WXLauncher should bring you there).
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