[Solatar]

I love the hi-poly Ancient fighters. Also, thanks for giving the Kato normal firing points.

While I would have loved to have seen some hi-poly warships, I fully support the decision to release instead of waiting for them.

I'll play through it again when I get back to Uni (and my joystick).

[ShadowGorrath]

And, uhh... Just a note, there are also 3 simple gauntlet missions in the tech room. Just in case noone noticed and wanted to check out the various strengths of the ships...

[Commander Zane]

The Phylaki's six-gun Crete mount is niiice on Shivans.

[S-99]

Do the ancients refer to themselves as the ancients in this mod? I hope they don't.

[Solatar]

According to the techroom description of themselves, they do.  It's explained as some sort of homage to their "ancient" empire and longevity.  It's got a few quirks, but overall it's a nice mod.  We all have our own imaginations.

[-Norbert-]

In the missions and briefings they don't. There they just say "the empire", "we", "battlebrothers and -sisters" and such if I remember correctly.

[Mongoose]

I've only made it through the first two missions thus far, but I wanted to pop in and state that I'm loving the hell out of it. The overall level of presentation is flat-out amazing, probably the best I've yet seen in a campaign release like this.  The fantastic intro cinematic, the interface, the music choices, the wealth of tech room info, the overall tone of the briefings...it's all top-notch stuff.  I had a bit of a problem in the first mission with trying to finagle the Kato to take down those tiny Darts, compounded by the fact that I forgot that one's wingmen tend to fail far less when they're not ordered to protect you, but I got through it soon enough, and the staging of that second mission was well worth it.  (The friendly corvette in this mission managed to get smacked by a piece of enemy debris and knocked down to 14% or so, but it managed to survive anyway.)  I can't wait to sit down again and play through some more of this. 

[S-99]

Ok , all instances in the mod where the ancients refer to themselves as the ancients is inane. And the part where the ancients call themselves the ancients because of their long lasting empire is an excuse.

Why all of the baby steps of walking around part of an integral part of the fs story line? We may never find out what the actual name of the ancients is from V (V probably didn't even think of an actual name for them). SO JUST GIVE THEM A NAME!!!

I nominate beephkake. The beephkakes has a great empire until they were wiped out by the shivans until thousands of years later the vasudan and terrans come along, don't know the name of their species and refer to them as the ancients.

Please check out my sig in the area mentioning "beephkake".

I knew this day would come eventually

[General Battuta]

You want to call one of the four species in the FreeSpace universe the Beefcakes?

[Solatar]

I nominate Varunans.

Oh damn this could go off-topic fast.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

"No shields, no flak guns, no beam cannons." With the sole exception of the Lucifer.

Actually, he was referring to the Terrans and Vasudans. Shivan ships always had shields, even in FS1.

[Commander Zane]

Call them Meepzork.

[S-99]

You want to call one of the four species in the FreeSpace universe the Beefcakes?

Whatever's better than the ancients referring to themselves as the ancients. For all i care they could be the space faring floppy dildos (no wonder the ancients are gone, the shivans just wanted more and more).

I nominate Varunans.

Oh damn this could go off-topic fast.

This is on topic as far as i see. It would really help this mod with a slight re-write of the ancients with some kind of a name. But...this could diverge pretty fast (i agree with you). I'll start up another thread for recommendations.
Varunans reminds me of vacuum cleaners, and meepzork is awesome.

[ShadowGorrath]

You want to call one of the four species in the FreeSpace universe the Beefcakes?

Whatever's better than the ancients referring to themselves as the ancients. For all i care they could be the space faring floppy dildos (no wonder the ancients are gone, the shivans just wanted more and more).

I nominate Varunans.

Oh damn this could go off-topic fast.

This is on topic as far as i see. It would really help this mod with a slight re-write of the ancients with some kind of a name. But...this could diverge pretty fast (i agree with you). I'll start up another thread for recommendations.
Varunans reminds me of vacuum cleaners, and meepzork is awesome.

Do that on the ASW forums then.

[Jeff Vader]

Support notice: the patch for non-English versions now fixes the

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<no module>! <no symbol>issue with nightly builds too.

[MatthTheGeek]

AFAIK you can safely ignore it. It does that for me for several campaigns and I never encountered any issue related to that.

[Jeff Vader]

Perchance, but with the fix, the error won't even pop up.

[Retsof]

I have a question.  About the custom intro movie, will succesive installments use the same one or will they change as the story progresses?

[Mongoose]

Still working my way though, presumably almost finished, and still loving it.  These battles are fantastic set-pieces. I can confirm the white skybox problem in the Battle of Aesdher mission, and I'd assume that it is in fact caused by crappy video cards like mine not being able to handle a texture of that size; after I installed the GIMP's DDS plug-in and resized the map down to 2048x512, it worked just fine, albeit somewhat reduced in quality.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Support notice: the patch for non-English versions now fixes the issue with nightly builds too.

Ah, thanks for that. SG has been whining a lot to get it fixed

I have a question.  About the custom intro movie, will succesive installments use the same one or will they change as the story progresses?

No, that will probably stay the same. We may adapt or update it if someone renders an extra scene, and we might re-record the last scene to show the new texture, but the overall concept is not very likely to change.

Still working my way though, presumably almost finished, and still loving it.  These battles are fantastic set-pieces. I can confirm the white skybox problem in the Battle of Aesdher mission, and I'd assume that it is in fact caused by crappy video cards like mine not being able to handle a texture of that size; after I installed the GIMP's DDS plug-in and resized the map down to 2048x512, it worked just fine, albeit somewhat reduced in quality.

Thanks, we're glad you liked it A feature in FSO that detects video cards which cannot handle 2048+ resolutions would be handy, but it's probably impossible to code...