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Offline General Battuta

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Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
on: January 17, 2014, 10:13:22 pm
Before we threw everything out and rebooted the campaign, there was the alpha. Pieter Laporte flew his war against the GTVA, Admiral Steele blew up during his first appearance, the Solaris was the Vexor, there was no Fury AI, the Gattler fired .pofs that rapidly capped out the engine, and Darkest Hour marked the closest the Tevs ever got to Earth.

But there were two really, really ****ing awesome trailers.

I must've watched 'Darkest Hour' a thousand thousand times.

The old Solaris struts its stuff.

I'm not sure we've ever managed to dig up a playable version of the alpha, or even an intact script - it came before the time of SVN. But enough people are curious about it I thought it'd be worth bringing these back to the public eye.
 

Offline Luis Dias

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #1 on: January 17, 2014, 10:37:49 pm
omg a 30 sec german ad.
 

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #2 on: January 17, 2014, 11:00:42 pm
I remember that Vexorlaris vs. Titan thing.
IIRC the mission was supposed to be some sort of "opposite" to Forced Entry...though I'm not sure in which sense of it. (In soviet sol, shivans de-beam you?)
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #3 on: January 17, 2014, 11:02:03 pm
It was called 'Forced Ejection' and it centered around taking back the node. Here I gotta post the usual disclaimer that information about the alpha's plot is not useful for deducing anything about BP2's unreleased plot.
 

Offline Shivan Hunter

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #4 on: January 17, 2014, 11:13:12 pm
Was BP3's plot changed much as a result of WiH's drastic changes? </not-so-subtle_attempt_to_get_info_about_BP3_plot>
 

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #5 on: January 17, 2014, 11:14:52 pm
Quote from: Shivan Hunter on January 17, 2014, 11:13:12 pm
Was BP3's plot changed much as a result of WiH's drastic changes? </not-so-subtle_attempt_to_get_info_about_BP3_plot>
Did BP3 even have a plot back then?
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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #6 on: January 18, 2014, 06:12:37 am
loving the player weapons in the second clip
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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #7 on: January 18, 2014, 06:16:33 am
Wow, the Karuna was much less powerful plot-wise to the Deimos. The old Valarie takes ~ 3 minutes to go down.
 

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #8 on: January 18, 2014, 10:57:23 am
I also notice that the player is able to literally park on top of the Deimos and just plug away at a subsystem without being mercilessly ushered to the afterlife.  Ahhhh, old FS rears its head.
 

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #9 on: January 18, 2014, 11:03:43 am
Quote from: Scotty on January 18, 2014, 10:57:23 am
I also notice that the player is able to literally park on top of the Deimos and just plug away at a subsystem without being mercilessly ushered to the afterlife.  Ahhhh, old FS rears its head.
I know right. You could fall asleep and still complete missions.

It feels quite unbelievable to realize how many years have passed since.
 

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #10 on: January 18, 2014, 01:43:59 pm
some of those old weapon effects are really boss.
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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #11 on: February 01, 2014, 01:21:28 am
Quote from: General Battuta on January 17, 2014, 10:13:22 pm
and Darkest Hour marked the closest the Tevs ever got to Earth.
But Darkest Hour still is the closest the Tevs have gotten to Earth, isn't it? Is there something you'd like to share with us?  ;)
 

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #12 on: February 01, 2014, 01:43:49 am
tev victory confirmed, break out the security council jerseys
  

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Re: Before the mythic dawn: footage from the WiH alpha!
Reply #13 on: February 01, 2014, 03:06:45 am
I believe I still have the Solaris trailer backed up on some hdd somewhere. I downloaded it back in the day and reuploaded to youtube after the original was deleted. Good stuff.
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