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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The Death Star attack is supremely rage inducing in X-Wing. The issue is that there's no real sense of progress with the first game since you're always in well shielded, mobile ships. Tie Fighter starts you in lovely Tie Fighters and Tie Bombers, and you don't get a shield until the Assault Gunboat. It's a brutal game, but a lot more exhilarating. The rage comes back when you're fending off a million T/As and T/Ds who shoot advanced missiles at you, but that's towards the very end of the expansions.
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gently caress it I skipped to TIE Fighter. So nobody's played the Freespace SW mod then? Never a good sign.
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Jul 18, 2016 19:19
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If it's the one I'm thinking about, it's very much unfinished. Just a few random levels with nothing tying it together, though I haven't actually tried it.
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Jul 18, 2016 19:41
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The big high-quality mod is Fate of the Galaxy and it's apparently pretty close to a possible release in terms of work-left-to-do. No idea how long it will be in real time.
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Jul 18, 2016 19:52
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TIE Fighter's engine is a lot more advanced in terms of AI and mission scripting. You're not missing out by skipping the rest of X-Wing.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:01
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X-Wing was absolutely amazing in 1993, but out of date as hell in 1994 TIE Fighter is cruel that way, being so drat good it retroactively makes the first game bad.  Okay seriously - I liked X-Wing and I played the entire campaign several times but it has nothing on TIE - here we are in 2016, just skip to the best. It's not like you'll be lacking playtime with the thirteen tours of duty in TIE Fighter, you know?
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Jul 18, 2016 21:11
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So, Interplay is selling their IP. Including Freespace.
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Sep 8, 2016 14:56
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Milky Moor posted:So, Interplay is selling their IP. Paging Derek Smart to the thread.  Derek Smart. Derek Smart. Derek Smart.
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Siets posted:Paging Derek Smart to the thread. To tell him to stay the gently caress away from it, right?
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Sep 8, 2016 16:24
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An intelligent development studio/publisher should pick it up. Someone like Paradox Interactive (the parent company of Paradox Development Studio or whatever, the guys who make all of the awesome Grand Strategy games).
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Sep 9, 2016 01:01
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Say it finds its back to Volition. How many of the original FS team are still with them?
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Autonomous Monster posted:Say it finds its back to Volition. How many of the original FS team are still with them? The writer.
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Sep 9, 2016 04:14
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Stardock proudly presents: Freespaec
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Sep 9, 2016 13:48
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I will say I've always thought Freespace was a wonderful setting for a strategy/tactics game. Maybe something like Hearts of Iron in space with an added tactical layer.
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Sep 9, 2016 13:58
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Maybe as a spinoff. Gimme more niche space combat! Even rebooting Freespace is okay with me, but I want to know what FS3 was supposed to have in store, story/lore-wise too.
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Sep 9, 2016 19:33
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General Battuta posted:The writer.
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The guys who made Descent and Freespace are working on Overload now iirc.
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Sep 10, 2016 05:55
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New motherboard, new videocard, reinstall of everything. Everything is running like butter -- except for FS2O. Some mods have gone nuts: I'm invisible, the enemies are invisible, except there's a glitched out model hanging in space at mission start. Any logs I can check or things I can try to diagnose? Blue Planet (spoilers censored)  JAD 
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Sep 12, 2016 22:58
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Can you post a debug log?
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Sep 13, 2016 03:19
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General Battuta posted:Can you post a debug log? I got some loggage, then it crashed. Log and crash message (at end) http://pastebin.com/zQxUgi92
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Sep 13, 2016 04:42
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Hm. That crash is probably unrelated. What the heck is 'brief lighting'? Oh; I bet it's something to do with the ship previews in briefing screens...probably not causing the issues. Try two diagnostic steps: run with the 'no glsl' flag, and turn the res way down.
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General Battuta posted:Hm. That crash is probably unrelated. No glsl "fixed" it. Do I need to upgrade something or change out a data file or somesuch? EDIT: The other thing that fixed it: rolling back .exe to 3.7.2. Breaks on 3.7.4. EDIT EDIT: Based on this thread, disabled batched model rendering, working in 3.7.4 AVX. Thanks! sfwarlock fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Sep 13, 2016 21:03
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Anyone play The Aftermath Reboot? At 54 missions, it's absolutely gigantic, but the question is whether it's also any good.
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So i'm trying the open freespace game out and I was wondering if there is anything extra i should do to make it extra pretty? i gave it a test run at 1920x1080 with all the sliders turned up and on high settings and it seems to work but just wondered if I was missing anything before i properly jump into the first game?
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by.a.teammate posted:So i'm trying the open freespace game out and I was wondering if there is anything extra i should do to make it extra pretty? i gave it a test run at 1920x1080 with all the sliders turned up and on high settings and it seems to work but just wondered if I was missing anything before i properly jump into the first game? By Open Freespace, I'm assuming you have one of the launchers that allows you to enable all the options? If so, and assuming you've got the SCP models/effects etc, I think that's all you need.
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Milky Moor posted:By Open Freespace, I'm assuming you have one of the launchers that allows you to enable all the options? If so, and assuming you've got the SCP models/effects etc, I think that's all you need. Yeah i ran the launcher that used my gog installer, it had two errors but i think that was just for some mods then i'm running the FS2 open launcher 5.5g which is in turn running this exe fs2_open_3_7_5_x64_SSE2_JAD.exe which seemed to be the latest one, then put the resolution and all the other sliders to full. edit oh wait now the launcher wont show a resolution and says failed to set graphic mode 
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by.a.teammate posted:Yeah i ran the launcher that used my gog installer, it had two errors but i think that was just for some mods then i'm running the FS2 open launcher 5.5g which is in turn running this exe That JAD build looks like it's specifically for the Just Another Day modpack but I haven't been in the game for a while. You might be better served by some of the nightly builds on the forum: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?board=173.0 Do you know if you have a debug executable? If you do, try and follow these instructions, grab the debug log and let us know what's up http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=56279.msg1180359#msg1180359
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Mordja posted:Anyone play The Aftermath Reboot? At 54 missions, it's absolutely gigantic, but the question is whether it's also any good. It's loving amazing in a hilarious way. You join the police and help prevent a prison break, then get reassigned to the 666th Dark Angels, and find out that the Shivans actually just don't understand freedom so we have to explain it to them. By killing the Shivan queen. quote:This is no longer the GTVA Police. Here you will have heavy stuff and sorties that will push you to the limits of sanity. Being a Dark Angel is not an easy walk in the park. Your life here will be miserable. Follow my orders to the letter. You get careless, you die. If you don't heed my instructions, I will kill you myself. If you want to quit now, there's the door. It is absolutely worth a play. Did I mention you get to fly in a no loving joke actual Romulan Warbird and shoot beams at Shivan destroyers to kill them in one shot? Aesculus fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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GTVA Police? "Sir, I'm Constable Milky with the GTVA Police. Do you know why I've stopped you today? Were you aware of just how quickly you came out of the Epsilon Pegasi jump node? Sir, I'm going to need you to cut your ignition and step out of the Myrmidon."
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RangerKarl posted:That JAD build looks like it's specifically for the Just Another Day modpack but I haven't been in the game for a while. You might be better served by some of the nightly builds on the forum: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?board=173.0 Ah okay i've tried a nightly build but it says "Failed EnumAdapterModes in UpdateAntialiasList" i ran it though and here is the debug log Debug log
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Aesculus posted:It's loving amazing in a hilarious way. You join the police and help prevent a prison break, then get reassigned to the 666th Dark Angels, and find out that the Shivans actually just don't understand freedom so we have to explain it to them. By killing the Shivan queen. That mod sounds hilarious and I'm downloading it right now holy poo poo.
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by.a.teammate posted:Ah okay i've tried a nightly build but it says Hmm, not too familiar with that error message. At a guess I'd think it's because you're selecting the wrong graphics adapter. Not using the default 5.5g launcher since it's had trouble with Windows 10. I'd post more details to the HLP support forums, they're dedicated folk and will always be happy to help out. EDIT: oh, assuming that 3.7.5 is an SDL build it may be that the launcher simply doesn't support it. Try getting wxLauncher, your mod downloader should have that (or YAL). RangerKarl fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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Aesculus posted:It's loving amazing in a hilarious way. You join the police and help prevent a prison break, then get reassigned to the 666th Dark Angels, and find out that the Shivans actually just don't understand freedom so we have to explain it to them. By killing the Shivan queen. Mother of god, that's amazingly dumb. How's the mission design?
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Hold on hold on. Teammate, have you fried just using the latest stable build, 3.7.4? Also to get all the pretties select the MediaVPs as a mod.
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General Battuta posted:Hold on hold on. Teammate, have you fried just using the latest stable build, 3.7.4? Will try that! thanks for all the help, i tried wxLauncher but it crashed when i hit play will try some more things tonight.
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Let's just say I recommend https://www.freespace2.com-ing through all the missions in Aftermath.
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In one mission, you go on vacation, but the Shivans attack with two Lucifer destroyers. Command responds by executing order 66, which orders civilian gas tankers to ram into the Lucifers, destroying them. The debriefing laments that the price of fuel is already high. Play this mod. Play Aftermath.
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I'm about 12 missions in. He desperately needs two editors (one for grammar, one for tone) and someone to give some mission design lessons.
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Aesculus posted:In one mission, you go on vacation, but the Shivans attack with two Lucifer destroyers. Command responds by executing order 66, which orders civilian gas tankers to ram into the Lucifers, destroying them. The debriefing laments that the price of fuel is already high. This is incredible. I've just finished the download.
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Finished Aftermath....Aesculus posted:Let's just say I recommend https://www.freespace2.com-ing through all the missions in Aftermath. This. And be aware of cheats such as Shift-~-I. There's some utter bullshit escort / Battle of Endor missions. Aesculus posted:It is absolutely worth a play. Did I mention you get to fly in a no loving joke actual Romulan Warbird and shoot beams at Shivan destroyers to kill them in one shot? Except it handles like a brick and the side weapons are a mess to control. (Including cheerfully committing friendly fire, if you happen to target an ally.) Also... Aesculus posted:Command responds by executing order 66 If you like references, he's got references.
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