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Title: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: hip63 on August 12, 2007, 09:51:50 am
I'm pretty deep into the retail FS2 campaign and I'm enjoying it very much but wondering which of the 84 campaigns I've collected would be good to play next. So I figured I'd tap the community here for their favorites.

Now if you don't have 10 favorites, it's OK to list less, just list what you like.

So give my your favorite Top Ten! (or whatever)

hip63 :p
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Mobius on August 12, 2007, 10:18:16 am
Keep in mind that they're randomly sorted:

1)   Transcend;
2)   Warzone;
3)   Derelict;
4)   Inferno R1;
5)   The Procyon Insurgency;
6)   Inferno: Alliance;
7)   Fall of Epsilon Pegasi;
8)   Sol: A History;
9)   Cardinal Spear;
10) :blah:;
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 12, 2007, 10:26:11 am
1) Procyon Insurgency
2) Inferno R1
3) Derelict
5) Sync
5) Transcend
6) Phantoms
7) Flames of War Chapter 1
8) Echo Gate
9) Inferno - Sol: A History
10) DEM, JAD, JAD2: EB, JAD: SoaP :P
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Polpolion on August 12, 2007, 10:50:14 am
Keep in mind that they're randomly sorted:

1)   Transcend;
2)   Warzone;
3)   Derelict;
4)   Inferno R1;
5)   The Procyon Insurgency;
6)   Inferno: Alliance;
7)   Fall of Epsilon Pegasi;
8)   Sol: A History;
9)   Cardinal Spear;
10) Desperation;


There we go. Perfect!
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 12, 2007, 10:50:57 am
You liked INFR1 more than PI? :wtf:
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Hades on August 12, 2007, 10:57:09 am
You liked INFR1 more than PI? :wtf:

INFR1 sucked.....

1) Homesick
2)PI
3)Derelict
4)INFA
5-10)Uhh i have no idea.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Jeff Vader on August 12, 2007, 11:04:14 am
In roughly alphabetical order (note that I don't consider the to be a word if it is in the beginning of the name):

Awakenings
Cardinal Spear
Derelict
Destiny of Peace
The FreeSpace Port
Into the Halls of Valhalla
The Just Another Day series
Phantoms/Echo Gate
Procyon Insurgency
Transcend
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Polpolion on August 12, 2007, 11:16:00 am
Keep in mind that they're randomly sorted:

1)   Transcend;
2)   Warzone;
3)   Derelict;
4)   Inferno R1;
5)   The Procyon Insurgency;
6)   Inferno: Alliance;
7)   Fall of Epsilon Pegasi;
8)   Sol: A History;
9)   Cardinal Spear;
10) Desperation;


There we go. Perfect!
You liked INFR1 more than PI? :wtf:
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Tinman on August 12, 2007, 11:20:43 am
1. Inferno:Alliance
2. Derelict
3. Awakenings
4. The Freespace Port
5. Warzone
6. Shrouding the Light
7. PI
8. Cardinal Spear
9. Destiny of Peace
10. Inferno R1
 

Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Deepstar on August 12, 2007, 11:22:30 am
Random Order:

1.) Aeos Affair
2.) Derelict
3.) Into the Halls of Valhalla
4.) Homesick
5.) Sync
6.) Transcend
7.) Into the Dephts of Hell
8.) Renegade Ressurgence
9.) Pandora's Box
10.) The Procyon Insurgency
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Vidmaster on August 12, 2007, 12:06:15 pm
Number 1) of all time: Freespace 2 Main  (but you are currently playing that)
->1b) The Freespace Port

2) i am pretty sure this will be the SilentThread Remake, but thats not out yet
-> 2b)

3) Derelict

4) Raider Wars from the TBP TC

5) Inferno (hey, s there a voice-acted version ?  I use Shivans 1.9c Pack, where it is included, but without voice acting)

6) The WingCommander Prolog (also a TC, but great campaign WITH rendered cutscenes)

7) Inferno Alliance

8) Transcend (also: is there a voice-acted version ?  I use Shivans 1.9c Pack, where it is included, but without voice acting)

9) Destiny of Peace
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: nubbles526 on August 12, 2007, 12:11:32 pm
1. Just Another Day Triology (Axem)
2. Homesick (BR; Blaise Russels)
3. Inferno Alliance (The Inferno Team)
4. Transcendent (Same guy that made sync)
5. Derelict
6. Journey to Epsilon Pegasi (Note that this is a completely different campaign to Fall of Epsilon Pegasi)
7. Sync
8. Fall of Epsilon Pegasi
9. Deux Ex Machina (Axem Inspirer)
10. Ross 128 (Goober5000)
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: akenbosch on August 12, 2007, 02:39:11 pm
1) Procyon Insurgency
2) Inferno R1
3) Derelict
5) Sync
5) Transcend
6) DEM
7) Silent Threat: reborn
8) fs3 main campaing
9) Drums of war 1 & 2
10)  JAD, JAD2: EB, JAD: SoaP
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Frosty on August 12, 2007, 02:50:45 pm
In said order

Derelict
Inferno
Transcend
TBP
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Polpolion on August 12, 2007, 02:54:56 pm
TBP?
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: IceFire on August 12, 2007, 03:10:56 pm
TBP?
The Babylon Project...more of a total conversion with lots of campaigns.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 12, 2007, 04:35:59 pm
You liked INFR1 more than PI? :wtf:

INF R1 is the most faithful campaign/TC to the spirit, the feel, of FS2 out there. Things like PI and the BWO demo are closer in spirit to FS1 than FS2.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: akenbosch on August 12, 2007, 04:37:33 pm
has anyone even seen that there are unreleased/never will be released campaings in my favorites?
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 12, 2007, 04:43:07 pm
has anyone even seen that there are unreleased/never will be released campaings in my favorites?

Yes.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Axem on August 12, 2007, 04:53:00 pm
9. Deux Ex Machina (Axem Inspirer)
10. Ross 128 (Goober5000)

You know that Goober wrote both, right? :p
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 12, 2007, 04:56:52 pm
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

Homesick
PI
Faces of Treason
Rain on Ribos 4
The Black Hand (for B5)
Sync
JAD (1, 2, 3)
Into the Depths of Hell

***   will have to decide on hte last two...hmmmmmm
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 12, 2007, 04:59:11 pm
Faces of Treason was actually very enjoyable, partly due to the ability to choose the ending.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on August 12, 2007, 05:01:46 pm
1) Procyon Insurgency
2) Transcendent
3) Flames of War 1
4) Derelict
5) Shrouding the Light
6) Earth-Minbari War Demo (for TBP)
7) Sync

PI and Transcendent are sharing the ranks 1&2 though

EDIT: I've taken my campaigns out of my list
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 12, 2007, 05:04:17 pm
'cause they are mine they are taking the lower places on the list
8) Rain On Ribos 4
9) HellGate Ikeya (un-released)
10) Faces of Treason

That's unfair! I didn't put Inferno Standalone or Machina Terra on mine! Darn biased referees.

Anyway, out of those I liked FoT best... PI is the best campaign I've played (I haven't played a lot though, surprisingly given how much free time I got).
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 12, 2007, 05:08:07 pm
We can put our own campaigns?  :eek:

Cool....that leaves 1 campaign to decide tehn..
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 12, 2007, 05:10:36 pm
We can put our own campaigns?  :eek:

Well I suppose so since this is for that guy to decide what to play next. But I'd rather keep it off or else we'll get very biased posts.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on August 12, 2007, 05:11:35 pm
'cause they are mine they are taking the lower places on the list
8) Rain On Ribos 4
9) HellGate Ikeya (un-released)
10) Faces of Treason

That's unfair! I didn't put Inferno Standalone or Machina Terra on mine! Darn biased referees.

Anyway, out of those I liked FoT best... PI is the best campaign I've played (I haven't played a lot though, surprisingly given how much free time I got).

kk
took my own campaigns out of the list
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 12, 2007, 05:14:25 pm
You didn't have to...they ROCK! :nod:
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 12, 2007, 05:15:16 pm
kk
took my own campaigns out of the list

INFASA, when it comes out, will be damn high on my list (maybe not as high as PI, but near to the top).

You didn't have to...they ROCK! :nod:

And yes... They do. ;)
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 12, 2007, 05:18:05 pm
TWO votes for my ccampaign....not bad considering some mighty competition...but  I expected better to be honest :blah:
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on August 12, 2007, 05:36:41 pm
*panics after reading through the entire thread*
There is a FS (2+1)-ref in this thread!!!!
(althoug I belive that was a typo)
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Polpolion on August 12, 2007, 06:16:10 pm
TBP?
The Babylon Project...more of a total conversion with lots of campaigns.

Oh. I thought it was a different TBP because TBP is a total conversion, not an add-on.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: colecampbell666 on August 12, 2007, 07:21:32 pm
1) FS1 ( :v: )
2) Procyon Insurgency (CP5670)
3) Derelict (Blaise Russel)
4) Just Another Day Trilogy (Axem)
5) Deus Ex Machina (Goober5000)
6) Sync (Ransom Arceihn)
7) Transcend (Ransom Arceihn)
8) INFA (The Inferno Team
9) Homesick (Blaise Russel)
10) Cardinal Spear/ Cardinal Spear Vega (The FSport Team - Original author unknown)
11) Rain on Ribos IV (0rph3u5)
12) INFR1 (The Inferno Team)

I have more than 10 because they all deserve mention.

The BEST EVAH!!!: Silent Threat. :nervous:
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Polpolion on August 12, 2007, 09:15:36 pm
FS1 isn't an add-on campaign.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Goober5000 on August 12, 2007, 10:47:03 pm
10) Cardinal Spear/ Cardinal Spear Vega (The FSport Team - Original author unknown)
The original author is Ace, just like it says in the readme and the release thread.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: akenbosch on August 12, 2007, 10:47:45 pm
FS1 isn't an add-on campaign.

it is if you play  it on the fs2 engine.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Polpolion on August 12, 2007, 10:49:01 pm
Then it's the FSPort,  not Freespace 1.

EDIT: Woah, almost had a sentence fragment there. Good thing I caught it before someone else did. :nervous:

EDIT2: Woop! I almost forgot to capitalize "woah" in that sentence.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: akenbosch on August 12, 2007, 10:51:00 pm
fs1=main fs1 campaing
fs2=main fs2 campaing
fs3=nonexistan fs3 campaing
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Polpolion on August 12, 2007, 10:52:47 pm
Oh, I'm sorry. You see, I thought fs1 stood for Freespace 1, not main fs1 campaing.

And there is no such word as campaing. It's campaign.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Horus on August 13, 2007, 07:28:08 am
1: Into the depths of hell 1-4
2: Just another day
3: Desperation
3: Derelict
4: PI
5: Homesick
6: Flames of war
7: Cardinal Spear
8: Rain on Ribos 4
9: Sync
10: Transcend(dont like herc 2s)
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Snail on August 13, 2007, 11:43:06 am
FOW1 only had 1 vote? That campaign was great...
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 13, 2007, 12:26:02 pm
It got 2 votes.. (3 if you count my own...which I havn't posted for fairness sake)

I'm a bit surprised that Cardinal Spear got that high..it was good campaign with plenty of action, but it has so many plot holes and conficted canon on several levels...
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: diceman111 on August 13, 2007, 05:16:35 pm
1. Derelict
2. Revenge
3. ITDoH
4. Flames Of War Ch. 1 (ThrashMan said he would kill me if I didnt vote for it ;-))
5. Raider Wars (For The Babylon Project)
6. Inferno R1
7. INFA
8. Sol A History
9. Just Another Day
10. PI

Ok just want to say that these are just campaigns for FS:SCP (except raider wars) but if we also count TC then Wing Commander Saga , Beyond the red line and The Babylon project would be at the top of the list I think
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 13, 2007, 05:18:01 pm
That is a LIE!!! :hopping:   I said I would....erm....HEAL you...yeah, that's it :nervous:

that makes 4 votes :D
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Horus on August 13, 2007, 05:50:11 pm
you are gonna pay me for voteing for it aye? (woops should i have said that outloud)
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 13, 2007, 06:35:33 pm
PESANT! :hopping: One doesn't pay you to vote for perfection! You got your due reward when the campaign was released! :p
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Horus on August 13, 2007, 07:50:48 pm
Whens next reward coming then? :p
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Ace on August 14, 2007, 12:12:40 am
It got 2 votes.. (3 if you count my own...which I havn't posted for fairness sake)

I'm a bit surprised that Cardinal Spear got that high..it was good campaign with plenty of action, but it has so many plot holes and conficted canon on several levels...

It did come out before FreeSpace 2, and there wasn't a lot of (and still isn't) canon on the period.

But yes, I'm a bit surprised it's still enjoyed considering how hokey it is in hindsight at times.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 14, 2007, 01:13:22 am
I enjoy it mainly for the final mission in the "Vega" campaign. The one with Deathclaw. Whoever made that mission was a genious...
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 14, 2007, 05:28:26 am
Whens next reward coming then? :p

soon... I'd reckon I got 6 more missions to go before Part 1 can be released.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: TrashMan on August 14, 2007, 05:31:50 am
It did come out before FreeSpace 2, and there wasn't a lot of (and still isn't) canon on the period.

True...some of the things that do spring to mind is the number of only 2 Typhons destroyed. Just in the campaign you destroy 3 and capture 1.

And the weapons...while cool, they make no sense since they are better than the weapons the GTVA uses afterwards.

It was stil la nice campaign...what bugged was the vasudan Athena..
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: colecampbell666 on August 14, 2007, 07:07:53 am
The Athena looked cool, though.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Wobble73 on August 14, 2007, 07:09:10 am
Why does nearly everyone on this thread keep calling Transcend, Transcendant!!!! :hopping: :mad:
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: colecampbell666 on August 14, 2007, 07:10:58 am
Dunno. Probably because it centered around the transcendant, and since that was similar to the campaign name, people got it confused.
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: jr2 on August 14, 2007, 07:50:09 am
Umm, no one mentioned BtRL demo???  The best demo out?

OK: (Slightly out of order, but approximately) :

1. FSPort + ST
2. INFR1 & Solar Wars
3. Derelict
4. BtRL
5. TBP
6. WCS
7. DEM
8. JAD 1, 2, & 3
9. Homesick
10. Sync + Transcend  (Yeah, I hate Herc IIs also :ick: )
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: hip63 on August 14, 2007, 08:17:18 am
WOW! what responses! :eek:

a little FYI for everyone, I have played TBP's EMW & RW and I have downloaded the WCS demo and BtRL demo.

The TBP stuff is great, the WCS show great promise and the BtRL rocks but there's not much to play with yet. I know that there are some mission out there for BtRL but still with limited numbers fo models in the demo, there's not enough for anyone to put together a "real campaign to sink your teeth into" unless there something I missed.

But let's keep the thread going, I wanna see more Top Tens!

hip63 :p
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: nubbles526 on August 16, 2007, 11:41:54 am
Just updated the ranking!


First place is STILL...DERELICT!!! Who got 15 votes!
Second place is:Procyon Insurgency With 12 votes!
Third place is tied with: Transcendent Inferno Release 1, Just Another Day Who got 8 votes!

4th place: Sync (7 votes)
5th place: Homesick, The Babylon Project, (6 votes)
6th place: Into the depths of hell, Cardinal spear, FSPort,Deux Ex Machina (5 votes)
7th place: Flames of War 1, Inferno: Alliance (4 votes)
8th place: Destiny of peace, Sol: A history  (3 votes)
9th place: Rain on Ribos 4, Fall of Epsilon Pegasi, Into the halls of Valhalla, Awakenings, Warzone, Phantoms, Echo Gate(2 votes)
10th place: Desperation, Faces of Treason, The black Hand, Revenge, Journey to Epsilon Pegasi, Ross128, Wing Command Saga, Aeous Affairs, Renegade Reassurgence, Pandora's Box, Shrouding the Light, Solar Wars (1 vote)

This time there were some votes that were not counted (Didn't know some of the initials from jr2... :ick:)
Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: jr2 on August 16, 2007, 01:19:05 pm
Umm, no one mentioned BtRL demo???  The best demo out?

OK: (Slightly out of order, but approximately) :

1. FSPort + ST = FreeSpace Port (FS1) + Silent Threat
2. INFR1 = Inferno Rel 1 & Solar Wars
3. Derelict
4. BtRL = BSG Beyond the Red Line
5. TBP = The Babylon Project
6. WCS = Wing Commander Saga
7. DEM = Deus Ex Machina
8. JAD 1, 2, & 3 = Just Another Day
9. Homesick
10. Sync + Transcend  (Yeah, I hate Herc IIs also :ick: )

Title: Re: Top Ten Add-On Campaigns? What's Your Picks?
Post by: Game_Master64 on August 16, 2007, 01:55:19 pm
In no particular order

Inferno R1
Into the Depths of Hell (any chapter)
PI
Homesick
Derelict
Desperation (both chapters)
Sync
Transcend (play with headphones and the lights off :P)
Revenge: Final Confilct (long as hell, but fun to play. Needs some tweaking to make it work right though....)
Main FS2

NOTICE: I didn't include JAD 1-3 or DEM, although they were funny as hell and i did enjoy them, simply because they focus around the jokes and not the actual game play or campaign story.