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Offline mjn.mixael

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Re: Between the Ashes Development Blog


Start packing, pilots. We ship out in 9 days.
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WANT.

do WANT.
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You should all be getting hyped for BtA
Between the Ashes, is an amazingly polished, fully voice acted, super campaign. The missions are incredibly varied, the enemy you fight is intelligent, there's a star system map that you can check at any point in the campaign, which gets updated as the campaign progresses. It's overall an amazing campaign that will comfortably take its place amongst the greatest mods for Freespace out there.

Ya'll should get excited for this.
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Re: You should all be getting hyped for BtA
Between the Ashes, is an amazingly polished, fully voice acted, super campaign. The missions are incredibly varied, the enemy you fight is intelligent, there's a star system map that you can check at any point in the campaign, which gets updated as the campaign progresses. It's overall an amazing campaign that will comfortably take its place amongst the greatest mods for Freespace out there.

Ya'll should get excited for this.

Thanks for making the next 8 days that little bit harder...

 

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Ya'll should get excited for this.

No ...



Nice to hear that you are so close to release. I wish you all the best for it!
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Release is still on track! If it weren't for testers, this campaign would have been completely broken on release day. Spoon deserves your gratitude! (And mine!)
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All Hail Spoon!
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Damn stop hyping me all around.
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[10/24/2016] <Patiently stands on international dateline with laptop>

Jokes aside, I'm looking forward to this!
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I started packing up the rest of the files this morning, except for Core (in case there are needed fixes to the missions tonight).

I'm glad many of your are looking forward to it! I hope you all find it enjoyable. I had to learn a lot of FREDing and FSO modding to pull this off (and had a crap-ton of help!).. so if it does suck, at least I learned a lot! :)
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Just in case: you did fix the HUD issue right? and did you add the new Apollo model?
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Buuuuh, found a last minute mission breaking bug that requires another BtA1_Root update! :(

I was really hoping to avoid unnecessary downloads... but I guess since you already have Maps, Anims, Music, etc.. it's not so bad.
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Files are going up, standby!
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There was a BtA update on Knossos. I have to download the whole mod again, even there do not seem a difference in VP size.

So any new changes or was that a simple fake download of the same version with a different version number?
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I have to download the whole mod again, even there do not seem a difference in VP size.
That should be corrected in the next version of Knossos, but yes, it was a real update.
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Re: Between the Ashes Development Blog
I have to download the whole mod again, even there do not seem a difference in VP size.
That should be corrected in the next version of Knossos, but yes, it was a real update.

And what is part of this update exactly? If there were some file changes it would be good to know, because some of them could affect my translation, so that i have to update that also :).
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It's just an update to one or two mission files. I did request some new translation features that should make so your translation can be added to BtA properly based on our PMs about it a while back.
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The modding bug bit me again...
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Putting the finishing touches on Antwerp. Still on track to release in a couple weeks, I think.
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