Author Topic: BtA: Mefistofele [Release] (Read 9870 times)

mjn.mixael · « **on:** June 24, 2012, 06:01:56 pm »

BtA: Mefistofele Release!

The BtA Team is proud to release this small 2 mission demo. Consider it more like a prequel to BtA: Slaves of Chaos. In Mefistofele, you'll fly with local criminals and smugglers as they seek to make a simple profit, but they might have gotten in over their heads this time.

You might also want to read these and/or our pages on the Wiki.

Feel free to join #bta on IRC for discussion/support.

Team & Testers
Team
MjnMixael - Project Lead
MatthTheGeek - Modpack Extraordinaire
RgaNoris - Voice
Snail - Critical Critique
Slasher - Speed FRED
SDM - Testing, Grammar, & General Shenanigans

Testers
Admiral MS - Testing & Checkpoint Script <- SUPER THANKS
Bigchunk1 - Testing
Oddgrim - Testing

To Install:

Download these required files and unzip them to 'game/freespace2'. You should end up with 3 VPs in 'games/freespace2/BtA Demo'. The MediaVPs 3.6.12 are required to play, you can get them here.

BTA_DEMO_Root (V1.1): MediaFire | MjnServ
7z: f97e91526552fe6b867cc592e4e17702
VP: 706eebd0c2711d850af414b115013249

BTA_DEMO_Assets1: MediaFire | MjnServ
7z: 213ca83731d959d79fe36880cbf70ae6
VP: 52cfa540167d280df846daea0e273d86

BTA_DEMO_Assets2: MediaFire | MjnServ
7z: 5850ec117082a562e60563a04b6de283
VP: fba32f83b6ca18e26c332a9bf8b247f8

All files also mirrored on freespacemods.net as a single download.

Optional:

If you have a slower machine, or you experience lagging with the mainhall menu, download this pack and unzip it to your 'games/freespace2' folder. It will place a fourth VP in you 'games/freespace2/BtA Demo' folder.

BTA_DEMO_00LowEnd: MediaFire | MjnServ
7z: 192a045e90479e7570bdd647eae6f183
VP: e500623ed6ee6e4b6f5d943bf4023e18

To Play:

Select the mod 'BtA Demo' with your launcher (I personally love to use wxLauncher!) and make sure you are running 3.6.14 RC6 or greater.

Known Issues:

Some HUD gauges don't change color properly. This is caused by a bug that has been fixed post 3.6.14 RC6.
It's possible that checkpoints won't work on operating systems other than Windows. This is because our checkpoint system saves data to a file in the mod folder instead of FRED variables. We have not had any Mac or Linux testers. We would love to hear feedback on this.

Debug Info:

Checksums

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Found root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_00LowEnd.vp' with a checksum of 0x71ad0d7c
Found root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_Assets1.vp' with a checksum of 0x29a49c25
Found root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_Assets2.vp' with a checksum of 0xfa97a65e
Found root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_Root.vp' with a checksum of 0x569d815a

File Counts

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Searching root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_00LowEnd.vp' ... 3 files
Searching root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_Assets1.vp' ... 455 files
Searching root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_Assets2.vp' ... 2346 files
Searching root pack 'E:\FreeSpace2\BtA Demo\BTA_DEMO_Root.vp' ... 201 files

CommanderDJ · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2012, 07:42:56 pm »

* CommanderDJ sets up camp.

CKid · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2012, 06:00:42 am »

I brought marshmallows.

headdie · « **Reply #3 on:** June 25, 2012, 06:57:26 am »

I got the bug nets

0rph3u5 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2012, 07:38:39 am »

I'd keep an eye here but the stupid thing is attached somewhere in my head... so old fashioned topic watching...

Also I brought a lighter...

Oddgrim · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2012, 10:36:34 am »

I'll go get wood!

Rodo · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2012, 10:58:49 am »

I'm watching SIR, YES SIR.

mjn.mixael · « **Reply #7 on:** June 29, 2012, 02:43:38 pm »

The Demo has been released! See first post.

Rodo · « **Reply #8 on:** June 29, 2012, 03:28:55 pm »

Seems like I'll be playing FS tonight

Shivan Hunter · « **Reply #9 on:** June 29, 2012, 03:39:47 pm »

woooot, someone else is using my ships

*happy dance*

DL'ing now!

Commander Zane · « **Reply #10 on:** June 29, 2012, 05:17:27 pm »

Awesome missions, backgrounds, assets, and even more awesome music.
The only thing I don't like is how short it is.

In all seriousness this is a great teaser.

Though having that taste of BtA tells me Slaves of Chaos is going to be way up on the list of must-play campaigns.

MrTealTwo · « **Reply #11 on:** June 29, 2012, 05:20:35 pm »

DL'd, played, t'was good

Somewhat unlike anything else, if only a demo. Very cool was the inclusion of the Mustangs and the Shrikes (if the latter only in Tech Room). A nice nod to the TVWP. Much luck with the Slaves of Chaos release

Black Wolf · « **Reply #12 on:** June 29, 2012, 05:50:42 pm »

Congrats fellas. Will DL and play when I get back from work in a few days.

CKid · « **Reply #13 on:** June 29, 2012, 07:09:16 pm »

This demo was great. The second mission had me on the edge of my seat and music selection was prefect. Want more!

Spoon · « **Reply #14 on:** June 29, 2012, 08:49:39 pm »

This has exceeded any expectations I've had for BtA.
This demo has me mighty impressed, its really really cool. I'll go indepth some more later.

mjn.mixael · « **Reply #15 on:** June 29, 2012, 11:22:37 pm »

Thanks for the positive feedback! Give it up for Slasher though, because he did all of the mission design here based on (couldn't have been more than..) a 4 sentence story synopsis I gave him.

achtung · « **Reply #16 on:** June 29, 2012, 11:59:59 pm »

mirurrrrer

http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.845

Satellight · « **Reply #17 on:** June 30, 2012, 08:24:23 am »

A little review...

Spoiler:

-General feeling of the demo was pretty awesome, especially with the music who fit perfectly with the mod's mood, as CKid wrote.

-In fact, the SIZE of the uncompressed demo already impressed me (911 Mb ?!? A distress call for low-bandwith users

)
-There is a little problem if you use the checkpoint system in mission 2 (F***ing Death Squadron

) : The hotkeys (i.e. F6 for the Mako) won't work anymore...
-Apart from this point, nothing to say. Oh yes, one little thing : Pretty impatient to play the full version !

Non Spoiler:

Awesome.

mjn.mixael · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2012, 09:15:15 am »

Quote from: Satellight on June 30, 2012, 08:24:23 am

A little review...

Spoiler:
-General feeling of the demo was pretty awesome, especially with the music who fit perfectly with the mod's mood, as CKid wrote.
-In fact, the SIZE of the uncompressed demo already impressed me (911 Mb ?!? A distress call for low-bandwith users )
-There is a little problem if you use the checkpoint system in mission 2 (F***ing Death Squadron ) : The hotkeys (i.e. F6 for the Mako) won't work anymore...
-Apart from this point, nothing to say. Oh yes, one little thing : Pretty impatient to play the full version !

Non Spoiler:

Awesome.

Thanks! The music mostly comes from newgrounds.com. It's all in the credits.tbl. And yes, the mod is huge for only two missions.. we just had a lot of assets that needed to be included since we aren't using almost any of the FS2 ships.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure hotkeys being reset on mission-replay is an SCP code issue. If you completely restart FSO, then hotkeys should return to normal. I think it's been reported on Mantis.

Eratharon · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2012, 09:38:40 am »

Downloaded it, played it and it reeeeeally got me hooked. Waiting for the full release to play the **** out of it.