[IronBeer]

Short, but I presume that's the point. The silliness didn't really kick in until mission 3, but wow...

Spoiler:

The first "null MoI" ship, the Qeb, just shattered the quiet scanning mission and any semblance of sanity. It's like... "serious, serious, BAM! Craziness!" Then the madness never lets up (at least until the last mission, but you're just landing there, so eh). 
Took me a bit to figure out how to beat the question mark. The Deus ex Machina you pull there is probably the most absurd thing I've ever seen. Granted, I knew about the sandwich, but I never would have guessed that somebody would have used it.
I could tell you were parodying Transcend and Sync pretty much from the start. Actually, in the first mission, I was half-expecting something to jump out of the node at me or summat, and I was surprised to find that the campaign took a few missions to warm up, actually....

Brilliant work, overall. I shall keep my eyes open for DEM2.

[Goober5000]

Awesome, thanks.

Spoiler:

The first mission, by the way, is a lampshading of many missions in Sync, Transcend, and similar campaigns that are literally nothing more than jump in, hear some dialogue, maybe fight a wing of fighters, and jump out.  So that's what I was going for there.  And in the second mission, you need Beta 2 to set the tone, and the Transcendant to (literally) play the tone, while still keeping things a bit mysterious.

Glad you liked the sandwich.  I am in pecenipicek's (and Sandwich's) debt for that.

Also, the madness continues in the final mission.  Aside from the cutscene, stick around for a little while during the debriefing.

Oh, and FYI to everyone: RC2 is now out!  Go download it and play DEM with it.

[Droid803]

RC2 is out? EXCELLENT! I was just waiting for that cause I was afraid of a shady exe

[Spoon]

RC2 is out? EXCELLENT! I was just waiting for that cause I was afraid of a shady exe

That was exactly my thoughts.
So now that I played it, my review:

Spoiler:

I got rickrolled  

Spoiler:

okay, now for a serious one
I admit that I only very recently played DEM1 and that made me laugh quite a bit. While I certainly got what you were aiming for with the parody, it wasn't really outright funny. But you did capture the boring part of it right , DEM1 had a better ' overal funniness ratio'
Same for those damned cargo containers, I lost count on how many times I yawned. But then I laughed like some crazy dude on drugs when Promise started playing. I should have seen it coming, considering the ship is named Kohmi   And then it happened again! I almost got killed because I couldn't keep my hands on the control because of the laughter    (For those that don't get the joke: Here and here and here crazy japanese meme)

The subspace madness was kinda long. I actually just shot down the Kelpie because it was talk too much. Then I got killed by the supernova. Read the spoilers here and gave it an other try, now armed with the info that the communication menu was the key to victory. Had to time compress like 8 minutes though. Not sure if I think its clever or just a bastard move of a mission

Love the nameplate  

[NGTM-1R]

That photo saved for posterity.

[Ariel]

when i'm mounting the the campaign on the 3.6.12 rc2  build the model of the ships are just like retaild freespac2.
  why it happens?

[Jeff Vader]

the model of the ships are just like retaild freespac2.
  why it happens?

The mod.ini doesn't set the MediaVPs as a secondary mod.

[Goober5000]

Another thing I can fix in the patched version.  The campaign is supposed to be playable without the MVPs, but there's no reason you can't use them.

[Ariel]

how do i mount the mediavps with the campaign on the 3.6.12?

[Jeff Vader]

when i'm mounting the the campaign on the 3.6.12 rc2  build

how do i mount the mediavps with the campaign on the 3.6.12?

Uh, I wouldn't call either of those "mounting". But anyways. You use the MediaVPs with DEM like this:
- There is a file called mod.ini in your \dem1_5\ folder. Open it with a text editor.
- Edit it so that it looks like this:

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[launcher]
modname      = Deus Ex Machina: Interlude;
image255x112 = 47th.bmp;
infotext     = You're out of a limit...;
website      = http://www.sectorgame.com/goober/dem1_5.html;
forum        = http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=32;

[multimod]
primarylist   = ;
secondarylist = mediavps;- Save the changes.

Note that the word "mediavps" must be the same as the name of the folder where you have your MediaVPs.

[Ariel]

i have an eror message on the 2nd mission and there are strrange happenings like there is a the nebula of the supernova if capella and the colossus enetering subspace  , a wing of perseus and then there is an odd narrantion and the supernove image flickering the screen.

[Goober5000]

What error message?

[Nuclear1]

Well whatever it is, Goob most make update to fix it

[Goober5000]

I'm half-wondering if he thinks the EBS messages were errors.   Strange happenings are part-and-parcel of this campaign.

[achtung]

Here's a mirror:

http://freespacemods.net/download.php?view.619

[Goober5000]

Thanks!

[Commander Zane]

I will say this, the mission 4 battle music was in fact, A-1 SUPAR.

[Goober5000]

Yay.   Glad you liked it.

[Goober5000]

The downloads (both SG and FSMods) have been updated to fix a minor bug as well as add the missing mediavps line to mod.ini.

[Mongoose]

Before I forget, I wanted to pop in and say that this was fantastic stuff. You had me chuckling as soon as I realized what that long flight to the node was poking fun at, and it just got better from there.  I'm very grateful I'd seen that meme beforehand, because as soon as it popped up in the third mission, I just about laughed my head off. I died at least twice during the fourth mission, once because I suck as a pilot and once because I had no freaking clue what to do at the end, but a little bit of forum-cheating solved that, and the payoff was spectacular. Part of me feels like I should have picked up on far more of those ship references than I did, but oh well.  You've done it again, and I hope we will get to see DEM2 somewhere down the line.