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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
(This is loooooooong overdue... I did PI today, might as well do this now)

I played and completed Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius at the end of last year. I reckon it's the best campaign I played, but today PI came close (what am I doing, comparing it here!). The storyline was great, even though there was a few missions where you didn't do much, the battle missions were great. I was going to mention specific things, but really, I can't, just about all of it was awesome. Only thing was, I did cheat a bit on missions I had troube with, but that was only because I wanted to progress through the outstanding storyline (I used the Mission Simulator to finish Keepers of Hell in Medium, so I'm happy with that).

Except for one thing:

I would have "Universal Truth" (I think that is what it is called, the 2nd to last mission) as a all-time favourite, but before last month, I never finished BP - too many ships in the mission, my game freezes.

Yeah, back then my laptop struggled horrendously on that mission - that was the only thing stopping me from completing it. However, now I've got more RAM and updated video drivers, I can enjoy this mission again and again! (Also, increasing FSO's priority in Task Manager helps too.

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However, the ending became obvious when Admiral Bei said 'I cannot in all conscience carry out your orders.' As soon as I heard that, I knew that the taskforce was sent in to inflict Colossal Ownage on Earth. Ironically, when I first got to that mission, I used cheats to change my weapons to the Mjolnir beam - unlike my character, I like blowing stuff up no matter what species!

However, again, a really good campaign, and I, like many others, wait in anticipation for Blue Planet: War in Heaven.

 

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius

Boystrous 19 year old temp at work slapped me in the face with an envelope and laughed it off as playful. So I shoved him over a desk and laughed it off as playful. It's on camera so I can plead reasonable force.  Temp is now passive.

 

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Wow
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As I said before, I liked "Forced Entry", it's paced fast and gave me a real run for my money, first time around. Awesome music, too.
I'll third that.  That one gave me a lot of grief until I figured out how to get through it, but damn if it wasn't an adrenaline rush.
how DID you do it?

 

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As I said before, I liked "Forced Entry", it's paced fast and gave me a real run for my money, first time around. Awesome music, too.
I'll third that.  That one gave me a lot of grief until I figured out how to get through it, but damn if it wasn't an adrenaline rush.
how DID you do it?

I flew a Myrmidon. If you dump energy into its engines it actually becomes a good interceptor. Flail in slot 1 (2 guns) to potshot bombs, Balor in slot 2 (4 guns) to kill stuff. Everything else was Trebuchets I used to roast any and all anti-capship beams that popped up. Also, I gave Alpha Wing Herc IIs with hornets / tornados to make mincemeat out of one of the first Rakshasas, and I called in Delta Wing immediately to WTFPWN the other one. This mission really requires micromanaging of your wingmates.

 

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This mission really requires micromanaging of your wingmates.
This was the key for me.  This one is really all about being aware of exactly what's going on and acting accordingly.  I don't think I tweaked any of the loadouts at all, but like Krelus, I did call in Delta wing right off the bat to get some extra bodies in the mission.  As soon as each new allied ship jumps in, you need to immediately get one or two wings on protecting it.  Once each friendly gets within stepping distance of the Knossos, get its protectors on the next ship jumping in.  Assign yourself to cover any ships that you don't have covered by wingmen.  When the sleeper ship (whose name I can't recall) jumps in, leave its own two wings assigned to protecting it.  Near the end of the mission, start heading for the rear of the convoy, so that you're able to disable the incoming Ravana (at least, that's what I think I remember doing).  You really have to act fast on this one, but if you use your wingmen efficiently, it becomes far less difficult.

 

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
Uh, Mongoose, the Sleeper Ship's called the Sanctuary. Easiest name to remember apart from the Duke and Orestes.

I didn't know there were reinforcements in that mission either. Reminds me of the mission "Crisis in Capella".
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Pardon me for not recalling the name of a single ship in a campaign I played only once three months ago. :p

 

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Uh, Mongoose, the Sleeper Ship's called the Sanctuary. Easiest name to remember apart from the Duke and Orestes.


Lies. The Temeraire is easiest name to remember!
It's the one that is hard to spell. :P
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
Temeraire's pretty easy to remember too. I didn't add it in because I forgot how to spell it. :D
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The way I remember is thinking that the Temeraire is a terminator.  ;)

 

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
I was replaying the campaign a couple of days ago and I noticed that there's no moon on the second mission where you retrieve the damaged pod near earth. Was it destroyed on the shivan attack or something?
el hombre vicio...

 

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
Maybe it was directly behind Earth?
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
I was replaying the campaign a couple of days ago and I noticed that there's no moon on the second mission where you retrieve the damaged pod near earth. Was it destroyed on the shivan attack or something?

:wtf:  It could just be on the other side of earth...

 

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yes it could be on the other side, or it was destroyed by a gigantastastastastic beam from the lucy!
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yes it could be on the other side, or it was destroyed by a gigantastastastastic beam from the lucy!

:wtf:  Uhh ... no.  The Lucifer can't destroy celestial bodies.  In the case of Vasuda prime, it just rendered the surface uninhabitable.

 

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yes, that's right, sorry Im currently playing jad2 for the first time and im getting dizzy.
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Understandable, I suppose :P

 

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If the Hermes was attacked, it wouldn't survive. I'm guessing an engine malfunction.
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
Or they just ran out of power running away, and then everyone died when the life support expired.
But we're talking about the moon.

That, is probably just behind the ball of fire that used to be earth.
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