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Offline Mehrpack

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hi,
a question, is this normal that i can targeting anything? i have played the first 3 mission and its wired without targeting to play.

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Offline Cyker

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Also having troubles! :(

Downloading all zipfiles again JIC. Error is:

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Error!
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Error: Invalid subsystem name.

In sexpression: ( when
   ( <
      ( distance-ship-subsystem
         "Alpha 2"
         "LRSS Columbia"
         "fighterbay"
      )
      50
   )
   ( end-mission )
)
(Error appears to be: fighterbay)
File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.rc7dot9x\code\Mission\MissionParse.cpp
Line: 5792
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------

[ This info is in the clipboard so you can paste it somewhere now ]


Use Ok to break into Debugger, Cancel exits.

---------------------------
OK   Cancel   
---------------------------

Found errant ships.tbl in main FS2/data folder and removed, but same error occurs.

Am using Launcher v5.5, have tried fs2_open_3_6_9-7dot9x.exe and fs2_open_3_6_9.exe with same results.

CLI is "-mod TVWP -spec -glow -env -jpgtga -mipmap -2d_poof -missile_lighting -dualscanlines -targetinfo -rearm_timer -3dwarp -warp_flash -snd_preload -alpha_env "

Will test again once downlads are complete (DL'ing at 50KB/s so will take a several mins...)


 

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Are you sure I have to delete/move textures, icons and other files from my root FS2 folder?

They shouldn't be in your root FS2 folder anyway! They should be in mod folders!!

They're just innocent maps and icons. Anyway, removing everything from my root FS2 folder didn't help. I get the same error! :mad:
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Offline Cyker

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Disregard my problem - I R st00pid.

The root vp wasn't decompressed...

 
Just finished the campaign.  It was great!  I can't wait until the next chapter.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Disregard my problem as well - it fixed itself.

 

Offline IceyJones

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great work so far i´ve played....great ideas and great work in realizing these :)
liked the normal projectile weapons! thats fun but also very hard......also that you do not have scanners.......
i feel like the guys in WW1 in their flying shoe boxes ;)


 

Offline Darius

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I got the missing model error box as well, but it didn't kill the game, so I just kept pressing OK until I reached the briefing stages.

It might have something to do with the briefing icons.

I had a great time playing this, btw. It really made me feel like I was flying around in the dark ages of space travel.

 
Found it a little dissapointing, no shields, and no afterburners to try and evade attacks, if I had 2 on my it'd always get really hard because I had no tools to evade. Feels like a shell of a game with very little going for it, gameplay wise.

 

Offline Harbinger of DOOM

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hi,
a question, is this normal that i can targeting anything? i have played the first 3 mission and its wired without targeting to play.

Mehrpack
Yes, it's perfectly normal.

BTW Spac, if you can't evade, you should practice more often.


Or your could head for your wingmen and let them handle it.
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Indeed, The Spac. As far as I can tell, by taking place before and during the Terran-Vasudan War, this is supposed to give you the feeling that you're just a vulnerable pilot, a tiny part of a bigger game. Of course you must achieve certain things but you are not required to change the destiny of the human race. This being completely different from FS and FS2, where you're always a mother****ing superhero who can and must singlehandedly take out two Ravanas with one eye closed.
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23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

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no shields
Shield technology was stolen from the Shivans during the Great War. Since the Unification War plays about 20 years BEFORE the first shivan incursion, what do you expect?
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and no afterburners
Again, the spacecraft isnt as developed as it is in the Great War Era. And even then, not every fighter had afterburners (ok, the Anubis was at that time an outdated desing).
Besides, at least the Shrike and the Mustang Alpha have afterburners.

 

Offline BlackDove

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Actually, I find the limited afterburners that run out after a few seconds of use a cock-up.

I get it, you pulled it off in the engine, congrats, but you've created a massive loophole in where you'll need to introduce (or just generate the obvious disparity) the new magical engines that run on TIME and not fuel (as are the engines of Freespace). That kind of crap suspends disbelief.

No shields and no targeting, I'm all for that though. Rock on.

Spoiler:
I really liked the FS1's no shields > few mission > shields to the no targeting > few missions >  targeting in this one.

 

Offline Lt.Cannonfodder

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I completely deny that I had anything whatsoever to do with that outro cutscene  :P

 
I am all for the no shields and no targeting, the having to sit behind my slow ass ai players while I wait for them to engage just so I don't get blown apart just annoying from a gameplay perspective.

The ships with afterburners didn't seem to work for me then, when I used them it would still sit at 75.

As for evading without afterburners what do you want me to do just fire at 1 ai so it goes into defensive for a sec and then turn and fire tat the other one and turn back so the one on my tail doesn't shoot again and fire a few pot shots. To me this just seems frustrating. Although I still understand what your trying to do I just found it frustrating.

Also I hate how the firepoints are so spread out.
« Last Edit: December 28, 2007, 09:26:46 am by The Spac »

 
Indeed, The Spac. As far as I can tell, by taking place before and during the Terran-Vasudan War, this is supposed to give you the feeling that you're just a vulnerable pilot, a tiny part of a bigger game. Of course you must achieve certain things but you are not required to change the destiny of the human race. This being completely different from FS and FS2, where you're always a mother****ing superhero who can and must singlehandedly take out two Ravanas with one eye closed.

I'm sure most of us can do it with both eyes closed these days. :-P

 
I was working on a campaign called "The other guys" which was a Vasudan story that went from pre freespace 1 (slightly) to the end of vasuda prime and in my pre freespace 1 missions I had the player originally starting in an anubis and after play testing it a bit I found it just didn't end up being fun so I changed it.

I will be trying to continue your campaign in the coming days, cause I like to complete a whole campaign before giving the final verdicts. :)

Might get back to work on that fs1port campaign too we'll see.

 

Offline Admiral Nelson

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Only the Falcon has no afterburner.  The Shrike and Falcon projectile streams converge at 300m in front of the firing ship, mitigating the wide spaced gunpoint issue.


Actually, I find the limited afterburners that run out after a few seconds of use a cock-up.

I get it, you pulled it off in the engine, congrats, but you've created a massive loophole in where you'll need to introduce (or just generate the obvious disparity) the new magical engines that run on TIME and not fuel (as are the engines of Freespace). That kind of crap suspends disbelief.


I had thought of a cunning plan for the "how come afterburners use fuel now but not later" thing.  A major advance of the Angel was to be the removal of the restricted afterburners.

I completely deny that I had anything whatsoever to do with that outro cutscene  :P

How about a nice fresh one, then?? :) :) :)

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Offline Jeff Vader

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I'm sure most of us can do it with both eyes closed these days. :-P
If you can do it one eye closed, you'll complete the mission. If you can do it with both eyes closed, you'll get a medal.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []

 

Offline General Battuta

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I see what The Spac is getting at, but I really enjoyed the primitive ships and being forced to work with few capabilities. For once having a hostile on my six really felt like a threat. I agree it would've gotten frustrating if it had lasted longer, but targeting (and that oh-so-useful lead indicator) came along at just the right moment.