[MetalDestroyer]

o__o;

There's MORE?!

I haven't finished the Prologue yet (just finished the mission where you land on the Kennedy; stupid having-to-do-homework), but I'm already worried that I'm almost done with it. ;_; It's much cooler than I thought it would be, and I thought a Total Conversion would be pretty neat to begin with.

I can't wait to try out the sims. =D

Just so I can save time, are there any cap ship fights in any of them? Like, large engagements? Or at least, an attack (or defence) of a formation?

You are lucky. I'm just in the next mission but unfortunately my computer doesn't work now >_<. So, I play WC:SAGA into my laptop and replay all the missions. However, I didn't notice that missiles are very deadly. I thought our shield could handle easily one or two missiles before the shield go down. It was an horriblemistake to be confident to our shield. >_<

[DrewToby]

Yeah, shields seem much weaker than I'm used to (which results in many, many explosions). I was testing out my Ion/Laser duo on Ninja (>_>), and was rather pleased with the amount of damage I could dish out, especially when I accidentally hit a weak shield quadrant and went straight to the hull.

Then, figuring that big ship = more shields, I fired on the Aurora a few times. My shots cut through the shields like paper.

A minute later, pirates appeared, and I was warned about Demon-class fighters with many missiles going for the Aurora.

Me: ...wait, that thing had really weak shield---oh, hell. ;_;

That was not a happy escort mission. >_<

Quick query: I can't seem to find a difference, damage wise, between the IR and the HS missiles you're given on said escort mission. Is there? I wanna get a feeling for what weapons to take when, and as yet ...I haven't been able to. >.>;

[Polpolion]

Curse South Park and Operation Flashpoint!!! (don't ask)


 If it wasn't for them, I would have an entire twelve more hours to play this!!

Wait... what happend to RC 3.6.9?

was that released too?

[Starman01]

Just so I can save time, are there any cap ship fights in any of them? Like, large engagements? Or at least, an attack (or defence) of a formation?

Yep

Quick query: I can't seem to find a difference, damage wise, between the IR and the HS missiles you're given on said escort mission.

The HS has a little more damage potential, a little less lifetime and is 50% faster as an IR to make a difference. But in original Wing Commander the HS Missile was not only stronger, but it was also only able to lock on the back of an enemy fighter (it's engine part, that's why its called "Heat Seaking" ). Unfortunately we aren't able to create that (yet) in the freespace engine. But for continuity and completement we built it in.

Wait... what happend to RC 3.6.9?

was that released too?

Not yet, but RC8 is quite close to it and we didn't wanted to delay the release any longer, so we used that build.

Sneaky bastards ! Releasing it when everbody is out getting drunk

  hehe

[Javito1986]

Yea that was no fair guys. I was on XBox Live when my friend logged on and said "The prologue was just released." And I blinked, pondered, thought 'what the hell is he talking about? Prologue???' and then it hit me and I was like "SAGA?!?!?!". I was just stunned. Four years of waiting, one begins to just expect to keep waiting :-). Anyway, I had to go to a party right afterwards and wasn't able to download it until about an hour ago.


And oh dear god, I freaking love it. I had no idea you guys were making something so fantastic. I didn't even realize you had cutscenes! And the flight physics... man, you guys really captured the essence of Wing Commander with this. And using the WC1 briefing and debriefing themes is a great touch for us old school WC fans. I only ask that you don't make me wait another four years for the full campaign. 

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Fraking A+ work guys. The quality of your release just set the bar for BtRL really, really high.

I hope you don't mind that I took the liberty of pimping this in a few places

[Starman01]

Sure, go ahead Our projects can always benefit from a healthy (and friendly) competition  

[karajorma]

No multiplayer though. Any major reason why? Too much hassle to support it?

[Tolwyn]

No multiplayer though. Any major reason why? Too much hassle to support it?

Simple. We did not have time to finish UI backgrounds for the particular section. And, of course, we need to rebalance missile weaponry. At any rate, we have plans on releasing a multiplayer patch, but it will take a couple of months to create hough.

[gevatter Lars]

Could be faster when I get more time or someone else who can create them with me. ^_^

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

A few initial comments from a fellow modder.

1)Installer was really nice, makes things so much easier for all FS_Open newbies. I assume it's not working in Linux/Mac enviroments?
2)Nice and clean main game folder, and really nice custom icons too
3)Very nice manual
4)Ambient light intensity at 100 by default? Blah!
5)Cool intro animation
6)Excellent new mainhall
7)Rest of the interface graphics are not quite as good as the mainhall, but they get the job done
8)Rendered cutscene... nice
9)Really good background graphics, the starfield look colorful and pretty
10)The ships, while a bit undetailed, still look great
11)Changes to the hud make it feel a bit more crowded, but it's still very cool
12)Voice acting is pretty good, thumbs up for that

Overall, excellent work. The effort you guys have put into this really shines through.

[Starman01]

4)Ambient light intensity at 100 by default? Blah!

   You wouldn't believe how many times Tolwyn and I argued about that I know that Freespace people like it more dark, but WingCommander people like it more bright so you can see the shipmodels. While I don't count myself to any group alone, I also prefer the stuff being more visible.

For the rest, glad you like it

[Tolwyn]

1)Installer was really nice, makes things so much easier for all FS_Open newbies. I assume it's not working in Linux/Mac enviroments?

only through an emulator. Linux/MacOS version will follow. Linux installer might be available later today.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Installer is something we'd love to have with BtRL, but as there are no (free) multi-platform installers we've decided not to use one, at least for now.

Another thing... no fred or debug build provided with the game? Dropping out the debug I can understand, but leaving fred out is almost like shooting yourself in the foot. Any particular reason for that, or was it just accidentally forgotten?

[Tolwyn]

Installshield can build multiplatform installers, but they aren't exactly pretty

FRED is another issue: once we have chosen a stable build we will offer it for download

[antagonist]

hmm I have 2 issues so far:

The movies look like a rainbow on drugs on my rig, probably a codec issue though...I have the latest CCCP build installed...what codec are you using?

Also, in the first training mission, the asteroid's closest LOD appears untextured (when activating spec alpha for env mapping, everything seems untextured, if not, only abovementioned asteroids)...

anyone know what the issue could be?)

EDIT: I'm running on a 8800GTX, so my problem with untextured asteroids MIGHT be driver related

[Tolwyn]

The movies look like a rainbow on drugs on my rig, probably a codec issue though...I have the latest CCCP build installed...what codec are you using?

Could you make a screenshot?

spec alpha for env mapping

This feature is not used by the WCS and can produce unwanted results

[antagonist]

Here you go...I took the liberty to cut it to size...

ah yeah, this is ~5s into the intro...

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[Centrixo]

the mod is crashing my pc everytime i try to run the mod. i can see where the problem is i just dont know how to get around it, shame that is i wanted to play this mod.

[Edward Bradshaw]

Here you go...I took the liberty to cut it to size...

ah yeah, this is ~5s into the intro...

What are you talking about man? Thats exactly how the cutscenes are meant to look.