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Offline General Battuta

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
When I did my third and first successful attempt at this mission, Gamma took down a single reactor on their own. Beta, on the other hand, died VERY BADLY flying bombers.

nah, does not work. I don't have a problem keeping my people alive or something, it's mathematically impossible. However, I have a brilliant solution in mind for tomorrow: Switch to Easy for this mission, since that gives you a huge bonus on subsystem damage  :lol:

Honestly, this is a balancing problem. Give the Lucy more hitpoints!

It's not a balancing problem. The mission is fine - multiple testers verified this on multiple difficulties. Try using one wing to engage hostile fighters while Alpha and Beta wings go for reactors.

Are you using the 3.6.12 mod?

 
Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
I just did that mission on hard diff. It's really not that bad, only took like 3 minutes. Not to rub it in but for me it seemed too easy, I only had to destroy 2 reactors and they both went pretty fast.

 
Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Now i had every problems with "A Time of Heroes"
I never N E V E R !!!!  able to destroy 1 single **** damn beam from this **** **** sarthanas before this damn thing kill the Orestes.
This was the only one Mission where i must CHEAT "^k"

I already have problems disarming Sarthanas Beams also in the FS2 Main Campaign. I hate all Missions they say destroy S. Main Beam Cannons.

How can i beat this Mission without cheating?


 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Use your afterburners to get to the Sathanas as soon as it jumps in (boost your engine power if need be.) Fly a Boanerges. Take out the top right beam (from your perspective) first. Use 'v' to target turrets under your reticle.

It's actually pretty easy. Trust your wingmen to damage - maybe even destroy - the other beams.

 

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Calm down. Are you using Helios warheads, not the default Cyclops torpedoes? It's pretty simple with Helios, use dual fire and cycle between banks as you hit each beam to avoid the reload delay and you should do it in good time.

 

Offline ShadowGorrath

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Am I the only one who preferred the previous mainhall?

The previous mainhall was a screenshot from a Supreme Commander cinematic. We could definitely do better than that.

But, in my opinion, it fit the mood and mod better. And was just plain better than having some random nebula scene, not even remotely fitting for the mod- at least the previous mainhall appeared as the bridge of the Temeraire. Oh well...

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
The current background images were actually selected to fit the mood and the story. The Supreme Commander screenshot was a comparatively bad idea simply because it was from Supreme Commander. It'd be like using a picture of the bridge of the Enterprise: you know that it's not Blue Planet, and it's jarring.

You're free to disagree, of course.

 
Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Time of Heroes depends on which beam you take first. Prioritize the two beams at 85% hull, one of them is always the one that fires first. The objective says to prioritize the upper port beam but I always get turned around and lose track of which one that is.

 

Offline Locutus of Borg

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
I originally disliked this mod for its bugginess and lack of voice acting.

I now rescind everything I said.

I have only played through a few missions, but I am absolutely loving it so far. I love the voice work and the looming sense of suspense.

My only question is:
Is there supposed to be music in the background? I downloaded all of the .7zip files, but I'm not hearing any music. 
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Is there supposed to be music in the background?
Very much, yes.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
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23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
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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
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14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

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01:09 < achillion > yeah
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Blue Planet series is the closet thing we're ever getting to Freespace 3. That's just my opinion, but there it is.

The director's cut is amazing, you all should be extremely proud. I've played commerical games that aren't as good as this. Even old stand bys like Forced Entry managed to be even more epic than I remembered. At a few points I was so immersed in the battles I thought I was playing a movie. Diving through clouds of missiles, flack, and surrounded by friendly and enemy ships tearing each other to bits. Other than a few minor bugs like the sound restart issue, I haven't had any problems at all.

If I had to wait ten years for War in Heaven and beyond, it'd be worth it.

 

Offline Leeko

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Much praise to the BP team and the voice actors! It was a fresh experience playing it with voice acting, kind of like playing it for the first time again. Overall the cutscenes were less boring, and Forced Entry seemed less brutal. I was able to do it in two tries on medium this time :p The only one I had trouble with was the 2nd to last mission (thank goodness for the skip cutscene button!). I would always wander away from the Orestes chasing something to find it at 20% hull integrity with a full wing of seraphims stationary in one of its blind spots, blasting away at it. The only off-putting elements to the voice acting were...
Spoiler:
the transport in the flashback cutscene (ZOMG GAIZ SHUH-VAWNS... drama breaker)
and having to ignore the fact that the Bei family accents didn't quite sound like they were from Guangzhou... which was more than made up for by the performances, and I'm just nitpicking. :lol:
 :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

 
Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Yeah the Voice Acting is so great !!!
Now i can play and must not read all in the Upper Screen.

And i must say: The VA from BP is a lot better as for example: the Main Campaign FS2.

@Time of Heroes
I give it a try tomorrow..i want beat this without cheating.
Thanks a lot for the tipps.

BP iss soo great !!!!  Looking forward for  WIH

Greetings Peter

 

Offline Locutus of Borg

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Is there supposed to be music in the background?
Very much, yes.

I will re download the audio then, though I will admit the lack of music was kind of creepy.
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Yarrr the Sarthanas is down !!!
Hints worked yeah....
Thanks a lot !!!


 
Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
I've finally finished it... Holy crap, you guys are awesome!

Sound effects = improved

Little details here and there = improved

Keepers of Hell = about 5 times easier (this is a good thing)

Wilhelm Scream = hilarious

Vishnan voices =  :eek2:   Amazing! Gave them a much greater presence.

Cannot wait for War In Heaven.
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
and having to ignore the fact that the Bei family accents didn't quite sound like they were from Guangzhou... which was more than made up for by the performances, and I'm just nitpicking. :lol:
 :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:



It makes sense though doesn't it? They didn't grow up in Guangzhou, they're a couple of generations removed from the family they have there.

 

Offline The E

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Yeah, during the time where the story plays out, noone in the GTVA has been to China (much less Guangzho) in almost 50 years. Accents do tend to shift under such circumstances.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
For that matter, will you know what Guangzhou accent sounds like in 2157? :P
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
This release is great, especially the tech room. :D I can't believe Subach makes BGreens. :P

Some random observations:
Spoiler:
In the nebula when I first met Sanctuary, I was just matching speeds with Tell and Iwakura,not afterburning or anything, and I smacked into the Vishnan fighter, taking my hull down to 96%. That was no hallucination. :P

Hooray for Vishnan bombs!

The f-bomb when Eriana dies seems a little out of place.

The balance change to the Balor made me a bit sad, but I guess I'll be thanking you in WiH. :)