RELEASE - Derelict SCP Edition

[Blaise Russel]

If you're going to play Derelict with FSO, you will need this patch. Extract the .vp file from the zip to your \freespace2\derelict\ folder. This patch fixes an issue in the mission "Rites of Passage", where the governor's shuttle cannot dock with Luxor station and instead just rams it until the shuttle is destroyed.
Also note that DerelictPatch.vp is NOT the same file as DerelictSCPPatch.vp.

As seen here.

It's done. Super shiny fully voice-acted goodness. It's been a long time coming (almost a year, I think) but it's finally done. I can now get on with my life.

So here it is. Thanks go to: Agatheron and Kellan and the rest of the original Derelict crew; Ransom Arceihn, Cobra, Spaceman Spiff, Mongoose, Redberg, Getter Robo G, Ionia23, Stunaep, Nix, Darkblade and Azrael15; and an extra special thanks to Nix for being kind enough to mirror the mammoth voicepack files.

Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6

All right, here you go: http://hosted.filefront.com/BlaiseRussel/1537576

DerelictSCP is the core campaign, while packs 1, 2, 3 and 4 are the special, briefing, command briefing and debriefing voice packs respectively.

Mirrors

Nix has generously provided a mirror. You'll need a free account at Fileshack to download anything other than the core campaign file.

FreeSpaceMods.net mirror (contains all the files in a single package)

Enjoy.

[Nuclear1]

You've done a service, sir. Nice work (especially the Cypher voice; who did that, BTW?)

[StratComm]

What SCP version is the taylored to work on?  Current CVS doesn't like it at all for me.  Lots of debug warnings on the first mission alone, and it won't get past mission load when running a release build.

[Cobra]

i want to mention before anyone downloads this, i was in a small environment, and if i spoke too loud i'd piss off the people in the other room (i could only find the time to do the voices at night), so you might hear some of my lines to be forced emotions, if you catch my drift.

hmmm... i'm getting dock errors from hell, as StratComm puts it.

[Blaise Russel]

What SCP version is the taylored to work on?  Current CVS doesn't like it at all for me.  Lots of debug warnings on the first mission alone, and it won't get past mission load when running a release build.

I've been using this build, since the CVS builds I tried didn't have any music. I've also been using the 3.6.8 Media VPs.

[StratComm]

Ah, that did it.  Thanks.  I'm not sure what the deal is, but CVS from the past couple of weeks is having coniptions over initial docking groups with the first mission, so avoid those builds unfortunately.

[Nix]

I did the voice of the Cypher, nuclear1.  I thought ransom's part was absolutely golden (alpha 2).  In the subspace corridor, the lines Cobra and Ransom did, "But my grandfather died in the Great War, remember?", had me laughing so hard.  Great job guys.  That was awesome. 

I'll also mention one word if people are apprehensive about downloading from Fileshack.  Bugmenot.  It's hit and miss, but it beats having to fill out the signup form.  That, and most updated browsers should allow you to "temporarily disable popups for...", making it a one-shot deal to allow the pop up window displaying the download queue to appear.  You shouldnt have to disable popups globally in the browser.  Filefront is a great service too, and lets you get around the signups.  Fileshack's pretty fast though regardless if you have a mercury account or not. 

I've experienced one error myself using the base 3.6.7 build, upon the second SOC mission, it drops out with an error.  I'm happy to report using the build Blaise suggested, the voice recgonition build allows for that mission to load without an error.  So far, everything's working great. 
I did have to make a new pilot for some reason when I started this campaign.  I think my old pilot was just goofy or something. But I loaded up the voice build and it works great. 

I noticed something funny though.  Sometimes, ships will have a difficult time reaching thier waypoints.  On the mission where you escort Meridian and Haulian to the jump point, meridian hit it's waypoint, but sat there and rotated for about 5 ingame minutes, like it was trying to find the correct angle to hit the waypoint.  It was quite funny actually, but I have not seen that in any other mission yet.  The bad part is that meridian had to reach that waypoint to trigger the next part of the mission, which is to jump into the subspace corridor.

At the rate it was spinning around, I think the people would be mush from the G's experienced.

[StratComm]

That's probably an instance of waypoints-completed when a distance from object SEXP should have been used.  Not uncommon for this to happen with larger ships, unfortunately.

[Nuclear1]

I did the voice of the Cypher, nuclear1.

Well, good job mate. All of the voiceacting is done very well, but I really think you did a great job at capturing how I always thought the Cypher's captain sounded.

[Azrael15]

*Cough*

I've been waiting for this...

I hope my 56k can handle it... 

[thesizzler]

Hey! no fair! SCP only?

 

 

 

[bfobar]

You mean I just played through 45 missions of derelict to see the high poly lucifer and hecate shoot things and now I have to do it again because it's better with voice acting? WAAAAAAAHHH!!

[StratComm]

Well, my first impression is, wow.  I'd almost forgotten what it was like to play a campaign with voice, but this voice is over the top in terms of quality.  My only complaint with it is that the voice is too muffled across the board, and gets drowned out by combat easily.  A quick change of my sound settings, though, and that's not a problem anymore.  The Vasudan speech is especially nice, so an extra thumbs up for that.

[Cobra]

dammit, it's not working for me.

[CP5670]

Downloading it now; I'll give it a try sometime tomorrow. It's rare that you get a campaign with voices.

[Nix]

dammit, it's not working for me.

Can you elaborate?

[Azrael15]

I believe I was the one who got... uh... conscripted... into doing the Vasudan parts. I think I did all of them and Blaise did the crazy translator bits... that must've taken forever, it took me awhile just to do a few of em!

I'm still downloading it. 56k ho!

Good job, Blaise 

[WMCoolmon]

I'd love to download it, but Filefront refuses to work for me. Every time I click the "Download Now" link, it just refreshes the page.

Edit: I don't really mind an account, but I don't trust any site that opens pop-ups at all. Isn't there any better places online to host files? I almost miss Fileplanet... 

[Cobra]

dammit, it's not working for me.

Can you elaborate?

i'm having the problem StratComm had before he switched to the other build which doesn't work for me.

[Nix]

dammit, it's not working for me.

Can you elaborate?

i'm having the problem StratComm had before he switched to the other build which doesn't work for me.

Is it crashing to desktop with a windows crash box, and no SCP-related output?  With my main pilot I've used for ages now, the exe would crash without an error message to desktop.  Making a new pilot file fixed it for me. I dont know if cloning a pilot will copy over the key bindings you may have customized on your pilot, but if it doesnt, trust me.  It's worth re-setting up all over again. 
Use the new voice-recgonition build and make a new pilot, it might fix the problems.

Also, try putting just the campaign and the four voice packs in it's own directory, get rid of the data directory if it exists, and re-select the campaign in the launcher.  Make sure on the campaign room you've selected Derelict.  I remember I had to do this, select the campaign in the campaign room when I got it to load.   If you're mixing this with the old derelict builds, this might cause problems too, so get the vp's by themselves.

I'd love to download it, but Filefront refuses to work for me. Every time I click the "Download Now" link, it just refreshes the page.

Edit: I don't really mind an account, but I don't trust any site that opens pop-ups at all. Isn't there any better places online to host files? I almost miss Fileplanet... 

When you go to download the files from my site, it simply pops up the download queue, and since it's not part of thier normal, high-traffic files, it should allow you to download immediately.  It's not advertisement based or anything.  If it is, it's nothing intrusive.  It's about the same thing as downloading it from fileplanet, didnt they use a pop up window in order to show thier download queue?  I've tested it in Firefox, 1.5 that is, and you can choose to open the popup window once without globally enabling it.  I'm sure there's something in IE that allows you to Temporarily allow popups, meaning they arent enabled globally.  You wont get bombarded with ads or anything either, and shouldn't, because these files are not in thier main download library, rather, on FTP space that I "own" that's taken care of by Fileshack.  Bla-de-bla-de-bla.  Simply put, you have nothing to fear from Fileshack.  I refuse to use services like Rapidshare, and FileH creeped me out about how... "free" everything was.  I'f you're creeped out about the account signup process, use bugmenot.