[florinus]

Hey there / Salut tout le monde

A very good one. I wait the next step. (Sorry for my not so good english... i'm French)
I'd like the design of the ship and the frakening music!!!! Where do they come?
And it's always a pleasure to have cutscenes !!! So keep going!!!

But... (there is always "but")

I found the weapons selection screen a bit no so good to see. May be the design  of the missile is to small or thin. The guns have quite the same stats of the classical. I first think that it would be like the others. But, hopefully, their rate of fire are more interesting. It's weapon tipically made for shooting no shielded spacecraft.
Even with this, it's not a pleasure time to shoot some dart!!!!

I don't remember the ancients have a so much felling of superiority, that they vanishe all the alien races they meet. But, why not. It's a interesing plot.
For me, they appear in FS1, as a race that trust to much on their technology, but not beleive their are superior and have the right to decide life and death for other people.

I waiting the next... and the explonation for the perphaps retro ingeniered shielding technologies.

Bon, j'espere vraiment une suite pleine de rembondissement!!!!
Vous tenez le bon bout les gars

[Jeff Vader]

I'd like the design of the ship and the frakening music!!!! Where do they come?

I was able to identify three music tracks that came from Freelancer: Ambience_Omega_Space, musicanticipation and Solemn&Grave. Don't know about the rest.

[Colonol Dekker]

Universe at war and one of them escapes me, but is soooooo familiar.

[Commander Zane]

HomePlanet.

[c914]

I've played this mod and... heh in top ten worst weapon effects mine canon of Ancient Carrier takes top 3 places. This jelly, amoeba thing totally ruined every mission where that ships appear.

[Commander Zane]

Jelly amoeba thing?

[Dragon]

That "Space Shuriken" really don't look too good.
I think that ASW should consider retconning it in the next chapter, as it's one of the worst weak points of ASW and possibly the worst  thing in entire mod, as it kills the immarsion and is a source of so called "Narm" (and I can't think of any more major disadventages).

[c914]

Four arms, blue coloured, moves very slow and rotates when fired.

[Commander Zane]

Oh the Starburst Cannon.

[Killer Whale]

I liked it

[Androgeos Exeunt]

That "Space Shuriken" really don't look too good.
I think that ASW should consider retconning it in the next chapter, as it's one of the worst weak points of ASW and possibly the worst  thing in entire mod, as it kills the immarsion and is a source of so called "Narm" (and I can't think of any more major disadventages).

I agree. It can potentially break the mood of the game. When I first saw it, I was like .

It should look more like a beamglow than that, to be honest.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

... like a beamglow? Hmm...

[MatthTheGeek]

I agree. When I saw it, I was ashamed to not be able to not think "NARUTOOOO" and that really, really breaks the mood.

Screw me...

[Jeff Vader]

With the light blue colour, it did sort of say "Naruto" and Mobius, but otherwise it reminded me more of the things that the Shadowbringer shot in the pilot episode of Lexx.

[Dr. Pwnguin]

To be honest I felt the Aedsh... whatever were a lot stronger than the Shivan fighters. That fighter profile is just so slim when you're not shooting from above or below it; makes it hard to hit with beams.

I did enjoy using the fighters with the turrets though. Whatever happened to the Shivans having beam weaponry?

[Commander Zane]

What were you doing to be attacking Aesdherian Darts with beams?

The problem with the Pharnec is its horrid range (500 / 550 meters one or the other) which I could guarentee would make attacking even an Azrael suicide.

[Dr. Pwnguin]

I was using a Fighter with Pharmec and Crete gun weaponry, they look like beams when they shoot... sort of.

[Dark Hunter]

I liked it

Yeah, me too! Giant energy shuriken... hilariously awesome weapon, that is.

Well, I just played through it. Felt bad for the Aesdherians, but we all know how this campaign will end, so there's that for the Ancients' comeuppance. I loved the writing, for the most part; it sounded just the right bit "off" to be alien but not so bad as to be silly. Ancient ships look fantastic, as do the reskinned Nightmares Aesdherian ships. I'm scratching my head over why the Shivans aren't using beams and are dropping like flies to the Ancients' weaponry, but the battles were hectic, filled with eyecandy, and quite fun. Music was strange and cool (did I hear the Starcraft Zerg music in there somewhere?). Just please don't make the galactic center so bright next time!  

What did bug me was that Capella and Gamma Draconis were still referred to as such. Yeah, I know, had to do that so that we players would know where in the galaxy we were, but when the Ancients call other star systems by radically different names it sounds strange. Ditto with them calling themselves "Ancients" and calling the Shivans "Shivans". TBQH, that broke my sense of immersion far more than the presence of giant space shuriken. Also, the voice-overs in the cutscenes were very hard to understand. I would have appreciated subtitles.

[Commander Zane]

If I recall the Ancients actually spoke of themselves with a different name, and I don't think there was Starcraft music in it...guess I'll look for the heck of it.

[Dark Hunter]

I recall hearing a bit of music that made me think "Hey! That's Starcraft!" in one of the missions... I think the one where you break the Shivan blockade.

It's not in the music files, so I can only assume that one of the music tracks had a similar set of sounds that were used in Starcraft. *shrugs*