[TopAce]

Explain.

[Herra Tohtori]

Well, for example it wasn't incredibly smart from admiral Harkov to give you a space fighter before trying to kill you.

Had I been Harkov, I would just have had the player thrown into brig - or possibly arranged some kind of an accident, but honestly - it's like letting a crocodile get into water and then jump there yourself to try and kill him.


Besides, if the conspirators would be smart, what chance would the GTVA Command ever have of managing to beat the conspirators - even with the help of indestructible, unbeatable pilot?

[Tyrian]

I felt the missions were quite well done.  Many of them had a much smaller scale, tactical feel to them which has been lacking in a lot of compaigns lately.  I experienced no technical problems whatsoever.  What was the Valhalla's main gun though?  It definitely wasn't a bean cannon...

There were a few little things though...The dialog was awkward in some places and the ending was slightly anti-climactic.  Nothing major though.  The idea about having McCarthy come back was really original. 

Although I leave you with a parting thought:

Aldiss says something about a secret.  Then I shot him with a pair of Trebuchets.  Then "Campaign Finished."

Campaign Finished?  Campaign Finished?!?  What was the secret??? 

Or were you saving that for the sequel?

[Mad Bomber]

The Valhalla's main gun looked like a Lucifer Flux Cannon derivative of some sort.

I liked the end of the campaign, personally... Very mysterious. "For the sake of your own safety..." 

[TopAce]

Admiral Harkov belonged to McCrae's forces and he lied to General Lindres about your new assignment. It was Lindres who provided you with a fighter.

The Valhalla's main gun was taken from FreeSpace 1 where it was the main guns of the Lucifer. I know I could have done a better weapon, I only used that old thing for the sake of nostalgy. I could change it any time if people complain much about it.

Honestly, I don't have a clue what the ending was supposed to mean, really. I did everyhing as was written in the mission descriptions. The original version said that he says something that leads toward Blackwater Operations and two Banshees arrive and blow him up.

As for a sequel, I don't know if I plan to make one. Whatever time I spend doing FreeSpace stuff will be spent with MindGames and Machina Terra.

[Herra Tohtori]

Admiral Harkov belonged to McCrae's forces and he lied to General Lindres about your new assignment. It was Lindres who provided you with a fighter.

Different time (long time ago), different galaxy (far, far away to be exact) and different game.

The Harkov example was just my response in TrashMan's comment of all conspiracy campaigns suffering from stupidity of conspirators, and someone demanding an explanation thereof...


Admiral Harkov from legendary game, Tie Fighter, is excellent example of this. Instead of just slitting the players throat, he plotted an ingenious scheme which consisted of giving the player a space fighter and putting him into an asteroid field to clear it out... then he expected his line pilots to be able to finish a pilot who had supposedly hundreds of kills, was the elite of the elite, belonged to "Emperor's Inner Circle", etc. etc.


I actually don't think Harkov made a cameo in this campaign...

[ARSPR]

Hi, I've just installed this mod and I've found a small design flaw. In the first mission you are said you cannot change ship/weapons but you actually can. Also you start in Ares by default but in Briefing your squad is shown as Perseus.

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Another issue. In "Prison Run" you end the mission by Alt-J instead of returning to base as in other missions.

[TopAce]

Different time (long time ago), different galaxy (far, far away to be exact) and different game.

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I actually don't think Harkov made a cameo in this campaign...

Of course he didn't, I was just checking you were paying attention.

Hi, I've just installed this mod and I've found a small design flaw. In the first mission you are said you cannot change ship/weapons but you actually can. Also you start in Ares by default but in Briefing your squad is shown as Perseus.

As far as I remember, I could not change my loadouts. But I'm not sure. As for the briefing flaw: well, this happens. It happened all the time during [V]'s campaign as well, so consider that I preserved a tradition. Actually, no, my mistake,

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Another issue. In "Prison Run" you end the mission by Alt-J instead of returning to base as in other missions.

It's because GNG Base and Tania Australis Outpost are two different installations. In Prison Run, your mission is near the GNG Base and have to jump back to Tania Australis Outpost when the mission is complete.

[ARSPR]

Hi, I've just installed this mod and I've found a small design flaw. In the first mission you are said you cannot change ship/weapons but you actually can.

As far as I remember, I could not change my loadouts. But I'm not sure.

I've just checked with FRED and that mission hasn't got the "Scramble Mission" Tick enabled...



Another thing, maybe an SCP bug, but I want to be sure before mantising. In the seventh mission (1-07NowhereSafeToHide.fs2) the GTD Bangladesh does not finnish it flying path. When it is near the Ganimede ring and it starts turning, (4:15 minutes left more or less), it colides with something "invisible" which stops the destroyer. (In the target window, you can see how the hull strength of the ship blinks as in a collision or under fire).

I'm using 3.6.9. RC7.8 due to RC7.9 AI bugs. Can anyone confirm this strange behaviour?

[TopAce]

Are you using an Orion model that is different from the canonical [V] model?

[ARSPR]

Are you using an Orion model that is different from the canonical [V] model?

I'm using MediaVPs (3.6.8. zetas + Taylor's Alpha patches)

[TopAce]

I cannot say if those VPs have the HTL Orion model. Does it look different than the retail one?

[ARSPR]

I cannot say if those VPs have the HTL Orion model. Does it look different than the retail one?

Yes they have a HTL Orion (capital01.pof) but it should be "nearly" retail by now as most people use mediavps additions.

[TopAce]

You must be using a super-hyper-hi-poly model for the Lucifer.

[Gloriano]

Just finished this and have to say good job

[VagandPraetor]

Yep, I can't run the campaign.

Error: Invalid ship type "GVF Taurus" found in $Ship Choices: of campaign file
File:D:\C++\Freespace\fs2_open\code\Parse\PARSELO.CPP
Line: 2490
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
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Apologies if this is in the wrong area.

[TopAce]

The only thing I can think of is that you somehow removed the GVF Taurus from the game. Is this the debug or the normal build you are running?

[VagandPraetor]

<slaps his head>

Yep, problem solved!

[Thor]

i hate to bump threads that haven't been posted to in awhile....but i figured i should say something....

Unfortunately that something will have to wait till i actually play ITHOV... somebody <cough cough> didn't let me know it was done    I shall endeavor to play it as soon as i can and give my thoughts as the originator.  But my hat's off to TopAce, he really ran with it and I'm glad that he made my story came to fruition, cause i know if it was left in my hands, R.L. would have killed it and it wouldn't have been played by anyone.  So Congrats !!!  thank you so much, and i look forward to seeing the final version 

[sefi]

I don't get it.

Winzip compresses per file as far as I know. tar doesn't compress at all because it is a simple archive format. Just bzip2 your tarfile or whatever but Winzip isn't even worth considering.