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Offline fightermedic

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[Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
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Phantoms: In 2335, the GTD Amadeus moves to block the PVD Temperance from entering Antares, unaware of the imminent arrival of 'Phantom ships'
Echo-Gate: Shortly after the destruction of the Lucifer, the GTD Minnow is dispatched to Beta Cygni to clear up a lingering Shivan presence


While playing through Blaise Russel's campaigns Phantoms & Echo-Gate I realized that for some reason, the last mission in Phantoms isn't voice acted. I have added the few missing lines and added skyboxes to all the missions.
Go and play those 2 classic campaigns, undeservedly, they are among the forgotten and seldom played ones, despite being of very high quality!

for those campaings, the freespace port is required
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zdwxb5mc3cgz93x
« Last Edit: January 21, 2013, 06:24:40 pm by fightermedic »
>>Fully functional cockpits for Freespace<<
>>Ships created by me<<
Campaigns revised/voice-acted by me:
Lightning Marshal 1-4, The Regulus Campaign, Operation: Savior, Operation: Crucible, Titan Rebellion, Fall of Epsilon Pegasi 1.1Aftermath 2.1,
Pandora's Box 2.2, Deep Blood

Other Campaigns I have participated in:
The Antagonist, Warzone, Phantoms & Echo-Gate

All the stuff I release is free to use or change in any way for everybody who likes to do so; take whatever you need

 

Offline Macfie

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
You need to clean these up a little before you release them.  Remove the mission backup files from the missions folder and the settings file from the mod folder.  Also you have models for 3 nebula boxes but only have maps to support one model.
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The difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers is:
Mechanical Engineers build weapons.  Civil Engineers build targets
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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
Oh goodie, a Blaise Russell campaign updated. Congratulations on the release!

 

Offline Solatar

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
Nice job, I always enjoy playing these two and the Shrouding the Light campaigns.  I noticed that starfield in the upgraded Pandora's Box.  Is that starfield POF slated for the new mediavps, or is it just becoming the FSCRP standard?

 

Offline Nemesis6

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
Minor gripe -- The mod.ini links Fsport-mediavps. It should be Fsport_mediavps.

 

Offline fightermedic

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
@Nemesis: could it be that you are using an outdated fsport? i'm pretty sure the latest release uses "-" instand of "_" by default, but i might be wrong

@Solatar: I was planning to use that starfield as a standard for my campaign revamps, but as i'm not completely happy with it i will probably use a better and less characteristic one in the future
but i felt it is good enough to spice up the rather empty backrounds in those two campaigns a bit

@Macfie: Guess i really should have removed the unused models, and ooops for the settings file, that one was an oversight
>>Fully functional cockpits for Freespace<<
>>Ships created by me<<
Campaigns revised/voice-acted by me:
Lightning Marshal 1-4, The Regulus Campaign, Operation: Savior, Operation: Crucible, Titan Rebellion, Fall of Epsilon Pegasi 1.1Aftermath 2.1,
Pandora's Box 2.2, Deep Blood

Other Campaigns I have participated in:
The Antagonist, Warzone, Phantoms & Echo-Gate

All the stuff I release is free to use or change in any way for everybody who likes to do so; take whatever you need

 

Offline SypheDMar

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
I remember playing both of these campaigns. Great classics!

Just wondering, how do we know which campaigns FSCRP is updating currently? I feel like if I had known that some campaigns were going to be released, I'd give voice acting a try as long as it didn't delay the release.

 

Offline fightermedic

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
pandoras box has been lying around in a near finished state for ages, and the two campaings in here i did spontanously and took no longer than 2 days to restore
currently i am doing final balancing on lightning marshal - i don't think there are plans in the project to work on any further campaigns right now - if some get started any help with voice acting would of course be great  :nod:
>>Fully functional cockpits for Freespace<<
>>Ships created by me<<
Campaigns revised/voice-acted by me:
Lightning Marshal 1-4, The Regulus Campaign, Operation: Savior, Operation: Crucible, Titan Rebellion, Fall of Epsilon Pegasi 1.1Aftermath 2.1,
Pandora's Box 2.2, Deep Blood

Other Campaigns I have participated in:
The Antagonist, Warzone, Phantoms & Echo-Gate

All the stuff I release is free to use or change in any way for everybody who likes to do so; take whatever you need

 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
Minor gripe -- The mod.ini links Fsport-mediavps. It should be Fsport_mediavps.
This is incorrect.  The correct name is fsport-mediavps, as it has always been.  Unfortunately, this is one typo that has propagated far more widely, and lasted much longer, than it should have.

 

Offline Droid803

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
There's a good reason for why the typo has propagated as widely and as long as it did.
At a certain point in time the launcher would choke on hyphens in mod paths as it would believe they were command line flags, and using fsport_mediavps would actually fix the problem.
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Offline Goober5000

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
That's true, I remember that now.  I rushed out a Launcher fix as soon as I heard about the problem, but that would explain why the wrong instructions stuck around as long as they did.

  

Offline Goober5000

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Re: [Release] Phantoms & Echo-Gate
The backgrounds and supplementary voice files from this version have been added to the version currently on Knossos and the FSO Installer.

Original release thread:
https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=45043.0