[Fury]

Is there any chance of HLP hosting this? We're supposed to have unlimited downloads now right?

We don't have monthly bandwidth allowance or sorts, but bandwidth is still not unlimited. We don't want to risk downloads saturating our bandwidth. There is still the BT Tracker and we're also looking for 3rd party download site we could use. Popular downloads can easily saturate even a gigabit connection.

[madaboutgames]

The first 3 days of the demo going online, the bandwidth reached over 60gb.  Thats just in 3 days     SO I dont think it would be a good idea to host files like these, unfortunatley I will still have to use file front.

Kara may be able to do something with a the corrupt vp in the original download so a working patch could be a possibilty.

[Madmajo]

Try setting up your controls again, and make sure your joystick is selected on your launcher.

With a new install of tbp, you need to set everything up again

Worth it though!

did a new install, works fine now!

i like the escort missions.
boring like hell,
but who said being a starfury pilot is all action and glory

good work!

[karajorma]

Kara may be able to do something with a the corrupt vp in the original download so a working patch could be a possibilty.

I need to get it to download first though! Gonna give it another try. *Fingers crossed*

To be honest though I suspect I can't salvage it as the new VP is different from the old one rather than simply being an uncorrupted version. If you had added files to the VP using VPMage or something like it then maybe.

[Rhythmic]

I got it to work and was playing it this morning.

...... I hope its only the begaining that is this boring and it gets better later. Because some of these missions are downright stupid though I'll probably never know cause I wont be playing it agian :/
First there was the escort the presidents ship. Now its a flyby of b5. Kept messing up and failing trying to compress time, Having the fighter I was following for some reason fly off somewhere else.
Then I figured screw it. I'll do it the real way. Sitting down for the 10-15 minutes it took to go around the station once.
Only to have to do it a second time? Ok so I follow him a second time all the way around...
Instead of finishing then... He then starts on his way of doing it a 3rd time?

Boy is that stupid. I know this is a 28 level demo of your main game you are gonna release next year. My advice is to take out or shorten those missions or at least don't have it fail me if I fly too far from everybody so people can use the  speed up command without any worries,

[_Valorum_]

Well evertything works fine is just the control are not working i tried to configured it in the game and i added in the josystick at the start but still dont work. Please if anyone knows how can i fix it i will apreciated.


Thank You.

[Fury]

madaboutgames, to fix a corrupted vp-file, you can try this tool: http://www.tibed.net/vpatch/

[madaboutgames]

Rhythmic, The mission when you do the flyby at B5 when you get posted there, there should only be one pass of the station, then the other star fury you are staying in formation with will dock with b5 and so do you.  After this this is where season 1 kicks in and the action starts.

Valorum, not sure what could be causing this problem, again it could be a conflict with another version of Freespace 2, what joystick are you using?

[0rph3u5]

I think this turn around the station before getting station there is a good mean to introduce you to it... (allowing B5-newbies to dive into the story perhaps)
but you could put it in an autopilot sequence via the sexpt "player-use-ai"* when the player presses a special button which you have to name of course

We did more or less the same at Awakening Of The Beast where you will start out in more or less senseless action sequence which has no relation to the campaign's  story at all... It's just that you learn what the battlegroup** is capable of...

* possible sexpt for this (a deactivation sexpt should be similar):
"Autopilot On - 1stpom"
when
- and
-- is key pressed
---<key of your choise>
--not
---<an agrument allowing you to control if this will tiggered or not>
- player-use-ai
- add-goal
-- Alpha 1
-- ai-wapoints-once
---<waypoint path>
---89

** a prototyp Warlock and two cruisers

[madaboutgames]

I know about the auto pilot, Ive used it on one of the missions in season 3, I suppose i could impliment this in 2 missions - ceremonies of prominence & New arrivals. 

Please be aware that this is based on realism and on the B5 series.  Both realistically and in the series a star fury pilot is not just 100% action, there are also "menial" duties to be performed as in any military career.  As I stated there is only a couple of missions like these so please be patient.  If you are looking for 100% action then check out the survivor campiagn,

[Megadoomer]

madaboutgames - have you had a chance to try the VPrepair tool listed above?

[madaboutgames]

Downloaded it and patched the old file against the new one.  Not sure how it works though, i assume you just put the patch file in the same file as the vp what needs patching.

Download the patch here

http://files.filefront.com/PatchHEUpat/;4504755;;/fileinfo.html

Let me know if it works

[Megadoomer]

I'll try it when I get home this evening (5:30GMT). I'll get back to "work" now.

Thanks.

*edit* I've sent you a PM.

[Megadoomer]

Having downloaded it, but it didn't work. I downloaded VPatch and I've worked out what was needed to be done.

First:

Create the .pat file (as you did)

Second:

Run VAPPEND PatchHEU.pat vpatch.exe vpatch.bin

This should generate an .exe file that can be run to apply the patch to the original file.

Third

Run the .exe. At this stage is says no suitable patch was found.

Is there any chance you could try stage 2 and 3 on your machine madaboutgames? The let me know if it works or not.

Has anyone had success using VPatch on vp files before?

[_Valorum_]

Fury or Mad can you explain since i am not a computer guy how to fix that corrupted vip file so i know how to fix it. i DL that file but i dont know how to use it.

Thank You.

[karajorma]

Has anyone had success using VPatch on vp files before?

I'm assuming that TBP use them to update their VP files when they release a patch seeing as how Mr Fury is the one usually responsible for those.

[_Valorum_]

  Any Help with that vip file will be apreciated. Remeber i am not a computer wiz if someone can explained step by step i will apreciated.


Merry Xmas to all

[Dipper]

  Thats a new one   

It looks like it may not have been installed properly, try removing it with control panel/add remove programs, then reinstall it.  Don`t forget you need to install openAL.

What version of windows are you using?

I've got openAL, windows XP and nothing seems to help. I'll take a another crack at it after the holidays.

[Nils]

why is the download sooooo slow?

edit:
ok, i changed the server, now its pretty fast...

[popes2]

Hey there mad, it seems I am having a similar problem as Herra Tohtori, for some reason every mission I am starting, I start with 30% hull integrity, which is alright for now but i'm sure will be a pain to ork with later on in the campaign lol. Only other problem is that when I hit the first mission after the training (the one involving escorting) i'm stuck in one place where I started as if i'm just some kinda spectator. Thought i'd try bypassing it by waiting the full 25 minutes, but unfortunately even though I somehow beat the level sitting in one place, I couldn't jump out, so can't progress. Anything I can do to get this fixed? Thanks in advance