[InfernoGod]

There's a way to disable the Sath, tho. While in-game, let your wingmates do the dirty work and go on-line to www.freespace2.com Here, they will give you many weapons for download by pressing ~+0, ~+Shift+O, and ~+9. Select the Shivan Super Laser, BFRed, or BFGreen, and disable the engines!

[Goober5000]

...see, we want to do this without cheating...

[Deepblue]

Right... or table hacks. Anyway does this affect the campaign at all? Would be cool if it did...

[InfernoGod]

um... give the Vasudans more headz in exchange for lotsa warships, then ask them all to disable the Sath!

[QuantumDelta]

....Nothing in FS is impossible except Saving things that the lucifer is shooting at.

Everything else has varying differences in improbability -- effected by skill.

I should know, the amount of bugs I've found in the game by doing things [v] thought would never be done.

BD too I expect.

[Kosh]

Like saving the Nebtuu in Exodus?

[QuantumDelta]

uhhhh..... Is that the ship that gets beamed right at the beginning - exodus being a convoy mission? (Forgive me - I haven't played SP in a while and don't remember mission names as I was almost always an MP Pilot... campaigns are almost wasted on me, though I am looking forward to BWO and enjoyed one or two others...)

If so, yes, that's possible, even on insane.
And I don't remember if it bugs the mission or not o.O

[Mongoose]

Yeah, "Exodus" is the mission near the end of the campaign when you have to defend two Argos, a Triton, and a Hippocrates from Shivan bombers.  The Nebtuu fries a Moloch corvette at the start of the mission, but its hull integrity is usually below 10% at this time, and a wing of Shivan bombers warp in practially right next to it.  I didn't see any possible way to save it, even on Easy.  How did you pull it off?

[karajorma]

By being very good

If I remember correctly [V] never expected the Nebtuu to survive so when it gets to the jump node it just sits there. Pity that as it wouldn't have cost them much to make it jump out.

While we're on the topic I'd just like to curse QD and his ilk out for making my FREDding twice as hard as it would be otherwise

[Goober5000]

Great big

I just realized today why none of the video capture programs I downloaded ever worked for me before.  It turns out that I had tested all the programs on my lab computer while it was running Daemon Tools.  Must have been interfering somehow.  Once I disabled it, video capturing started working beautifully.

On the suggestion of Galemp, I tried out Game Cam (www.planetgamecam.com, and no I am not a paid advertiser), and I loved it.  It ran as if there was nothing in the background, and I was able to get 24 FPS very reliably.  With FRAPS, I was lucky if I could break 5.

What does this have to do with this thread, you ask?  Well, as soon as I got the video capture working, the first thing I thought of was a mission walkthrough, and the next thing I thought of was this thread. So for all the doubters out there, here is a movie of me completing all the goals in Bearbaiting.
[see below]

It's about 16 MB and requires XVid.  Even so, I had to shrink it to 320x240 and remove the sound in order to get it down to a manageable size.  If anyone's interested, I have a full-size version with sound, but it's over 300 MB.

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Goober5000
If anyone's interested, I have a full-size XVid version with sound, but it's over 200 MB.

Yes please , I can't see **** on this small resolution. With sound it would even be better. 10 minutes in 640x480 with sound should be possible with a filesize <100 MB, no ?

And thank god this was a , I feared QD had returned

[Goober5000]

Okay, after fiddling with the codecs a bit I present these two files:

Small version - 320x240, 16 MB, no sound, requires XVid.
Large version 1 - 640x480, 69 MB, with unsynchronized sound, requires DivX.  Same run as the above.
Large version 2 - 640x480, 84 MB, with sound, requires DivX.  Different run from the previous two.

For some reason XVid gave me a smaller size on the first file and DivX gave me a smaller size on the second file.  Go figure.

These are actually two different instances of me flying the mission. The first version is in the first two links, but unfortunately the sound got out of synchronization so I had to refly the mission.  As a consequence I was tired and a bit annoyed, so it's a bit clumsier: I didn't get all four beams with the first shot (I got one down to 13% and had to finish it off with Trebs) and I lost more wingmen.

EDIT: moved files to HLP
EDIT2: fixed links

[Col. Fishguts]

Thanks muchly. The Demon hitting a Helios with a slash beam right in your face was a classic moment

[Hippo]

Nice shots there...



*is tempted to film missions on hard and such*



*needs to make fraps detect sound card*

[Rott3]

Wow... That will be of help *is ashamed of not managing to do that even on easy*

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Col. Fishguts
Thanks muchly. The Demon hitting a Helios with a slash beam right in your face was a classic moment

Indeed. An even funnier moment is in the first one when I stopped to rearm right in the path of the departing Sathanas. Fortunately I only got nudged rather than flattened.

Yes, my perfectionist nature got the better of me and I uploaded the unsynchronized version. It's smaller than the second large version, so I recommend watching it if you have the bandwidth to spare.  I was pretty pleased with some of my flying on that go-round.

[Hippo]

Your insertion of the unsynched one between the two links confused me...




Fraps never did like my sound card... What did you use?

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Hippo
Your insertion of the unsynched one between the two links confused me...

How so?  Read the thread for my explanation.

Fraps never did like my sound card... What did you use?

Fraps is craps. Use Game Cam.

The problem is that Game Cam requires registration to enable sound.  But it's only $10, so it seems like a good deal to me.  And if you don't want to shell out $10, just use it to capture video, then dub in your own sound.

[Hippo]

Or do the same thing i did for fraps...

Uh...


I might end up dubbing it in, and having to record with an 1/8th to 1/8th balanced line running between my headphones and microphone port... I'm having trouble getting even specified programs for the task to get sound off the card...

[Goober5000]

Use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and record from Wave Mix, Stereo Mix, or What U Hear.

Dubbing is kind of unpredictable though.  That's precisely why the second video has unsynchronized sound.