[High Max]

Ok, will do. I kept the .10 exe on my hard drive incase it was needed again, just like it was needed in ASW. Best to keep it until .12 final, at least.

[Jeff Vader]

I kept the .10 exe on my hard drive incase it was needed again, just like it was needed in ASW.

If you get my superduper awesome patch from FreeSpaceMods, you can play ASW with builds newer than 3.6.10. Or at least you should be able to.

[-Norbert-]

Bugreports missions 9 and 12:

Spoiler:

I have an issue with mission 9 "Out of reach". Using a quad maxim I was able to destroy the Hedetes engines before it jumped out. After that it was shot to 1% by our ships and stopped there invulnerable.
I investigated the sensor blip (which turned out to be some 30.000ish clicks away from the node, came back towards the node and then let the game run a bit more on full timecompression.
But still nothing.
So I take it the Hedetet is supposed to escape.
I suggest you change the misson to make it impossible to disable the Hedetet.

Edit:

Spoiler:

In mission 12 "Sealing our fate" I get reprimanded because the destruction of the GVA Schooner was "very preventable loss" and I "should have been able to handle the Seraphims".... which I was.... the AWACS was crushed when the Shivan destroyer jumped right into it at the end of the mission....
Oh and a message from command telling you, you are allowed to leave would be nice in this one.

[Nemesis6]

Well, I am using 3.6.12 and I'm worried it will crash it according to what I read on the forum. Will it work or do I have to use 3.6.10?

Haven't experienced any problems running the latest .12 inferno build.

[-Norbert-]

The GVB Anhur (or somesuch) can't fire it's second primary bank. When I try to fire them, I hear the sound of them being fired, but nothing else happens. The first bank and the secondaries work fine tough.
Bugreport mission 15:

Spoiler:

Oh and since those bombers are supposed to be a surprise, I'd suggest you make sure they don't show up on the loadout screen, or someone might switch his Artemis out with one of those like I did  

In mission 15 "Demigod" I fullfilled all my goals and jumped out with the Aquitain being at 100%. In the debriefing I was told that I let the Aquitain die, but could proceed to the next mission anyway.[\spoiler]

[General Battuta]

Right, sounds like it's best to hold off on this one until it's patched, it has directives, and the missions are re-FREDded to be unbreakable (as any complete mission should be.)

Not going to play a campaign that's both long and broken, but I look forward to checking it out when it's done.   And, if it's any reassurance, fixing these issues should be relatively pain-free compared to FREDding a campaign over four years. Most of the mission breaking stuff like Norbert reported will probably just require some nicely timed guardians and whatnot.

[Deka1184]

-Norbert- PLEASE edit your posts and use SPOILER TAGS!!!!,

Those are all valid bugs. See, that is where my beta testers started to drop out.

edit:

Spoiler:

In mission 15 "Demigod" I fullfilled all my goals and jumped out with the Aquitain being at 100%. In the debriefing I was told that I let the Aquitain die, but could proceed to the next mission anyway.

false debreifing, but the campaign will always LET you proceed, but mission fails are pretty clear in the debriefing, because command verbally abuses you.

[Spoon]

I am certainly amused after playing five minutes into the first level but for all the wrong reasons 
First off, I am having a really hard time believing you actually spend 4 years on this, unless you meant with that "I started in 2006, left it alone for 3 years and then continued on it again". 

The mission pretty much plays itself, capships have attack orders, weapon loadout has Cyclops and Cyclops#short, a raksasha and some other shivan ship were actually stuck together, making it seem like it was some kind of monster ship. Really obvious arrival flags 'Objective-destroyed-delay-0'.
Its just one big BoE with everything done wrong.

There is only one pro tip I can give for this campaign: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_FRED-related_topics
    * General hints
    * Mission balance
    * Spellchecking a mission
    * Testing
    * Typical FREDding mistakes
I highly suggest you read those.

[Deka1184]

why dont you play past the first level

edit:

"a raksasha and some other shivan ship were actually stuck together, making it seem like it was some kind of monster ship"

Spoiler:

I assume you mean the ravana and the cain, and that was intentional. if you want a traditional BOE, wait until the mission called "First Strike/

[Rodo]

can we get a smaller .rar or a .7z file? or it doesn't change that much the size if it gets compressed?

[-Norbert-]

With Winrar I got it down to 37.6 (including the mod.ini and bmp file) from 81 something uncompressed, so yes a compressed download would make quite a difference and be very cutreous to those with lower bandwith.
And I went back and put some spoiler tags in my earlier posts. I guess it's better than keeping my comments intentionally vague.

[Rodo]

With Winrar I got it down to 37.6 (including the mod.ini and bmp file) from 81 something uncompressed, so yes a compressed download would make quite a difference and be very cutreous to those with lower bandwith.
And I went back and put some spoiler tags in my earlier posts. I guess it's better than keeping my comments intentionally vague.

Ok, when you got the .rar uploaded please provide the link... for me downloading a file from that site is like a Chinese torture.

[-Norbert-]

I don't have a place to upload it.... I just did that to safe space on my own disc.

[Rodo]

use any free host service ^^

maybe freespacemods.net, but I guess some will claim they won't take the file until it's completely bugfixed.

[Jeff Vader]

Edit: Link removed. Was the older version. Try downloading the newer version from the first post. If it seems that you can't download it in a reasonable time/can't download it at all, give me a shout and I'll try to upload it somewhere.

[Spoon]

why dont you play past the first level

edit:

"a raksasha and some other shivan ship were actually stuck together, making it seem like it was some kind of monster ship"

Spoiler:

I assume you mean the ravana and the cain, and that was intentional. if you want a traditional BOE, wait until the mission called "First Strike/

Why don't I? Well if the sloppiness of the first mission is any indication for the rest of the campaign 

And you assume I can't tell the difference between a cain, a ravana and a raksasha? Amusing. 

[The E]

I went through the mod to fix the various tabling issues. As a result, this mod now loads without errors; However I had to make some changes to several ships' loadouts to account for weapons that were missing from weapons.tbl. As such, mission balance may be affected.

Complete changelog:

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--Table consolidation (all ships this mod needs can now be found in one -shp.tbm, music.tbl deleted in favour of a new -mus.tbm, weapons.tbl deleted in favour of a consolidated -wep.tbm)
--Added missing textures for Shiamak
--General cleanup (Empty directories, unusable files)
--Replaced Chimera and Raynor with HTL versions

Also, here's a 7-zipped download that includes the mod.ini and Launcher bitmap created by -Norbert-.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzm0idb3yb1

[NGTM-1R]

weapons that were missing from weapons.tbl.

You know I hate to say it, but that's just unacceptable regardless.

[The E]

Indeed. It's just sloppy work; you can't just take another mods' tables and use it in your mod; there's some amount of work left to be done. Again, Debug would have told you about them, and allowed you to correct it before release.

[Deka1184]

First post edited with mediafire link and props to The E and -Norbert- Thanks guys.