[KappaWing]

^^^ WARNING: SPOILER ABOVE ^^^

For the love of God, use the tags! Use the tags!

Anyhoo,

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My favorite mission was the one where I got to kill the Lucifer. What can I say, I'm a sucker for planetary BOEs.

Did anyone else find this campaign extremely difficult, even on very easy? I had to cheat my way thru more than a couple missions.

[Jeff Vader]

Did anyone else find this campaign extremely difficult, even on very easy? I had to cheat my way thru more than a couple missions.

Nah. Pretty much the same level as FS2. Some missions seemed murderous until you figured out the proper strategy. After that, enjoyably challenging.

[Retsof]

There was one that I had to fail five times, but other than that...

[Hellstryker]

Who says you can't have an ultra f*cked campaign?   

[Dark Hunter]

Did anyone else find this campaign extremely difficult, even on very easy? I had to cheat my way thru more than a couple missions.

The only mission I found overly difficult was "Keepers of Hell". I found a strategy for it though, and can beat it fairly routinely now.

[jediben20]

By the way , which mission did everyone like the most from Blue Planet ( if you had to choose 1 only ) ?

I can't decide. If i could rate the missions I liked it would be as follows:

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(forgive my lack of knowing the mission names)

1-mission where you go through the knossos the first time and have to protect everyone (excellent music, lots of coordination and strategy and involvement required. had to replay this one a couple million times by virtue of the fact that my weapons and sensor subsystems kept getting destroyed, or temperire would get killed or i would die in the shockwave of one of its torpedoes)
2-mission where you have to break through a shivan blockade and defend the vishan sacred keeper after its main beam cannon gets decimated. a real toughy requiring lots of strategy and tactics, getting blowed up often from mara's and saving keeper by one or two percentage points in end. i love those kind of missions. every second counts. I appreciated being in a vishian fighter/whatever. it was neat and their missiles and lasers were awesome. shields and hull integrity was similarly nice.
3-missions where you are foreseeing the destruction of the orestes by the lucifer and have to defend her in a myrmidon
4-second last mission, where fleet goes back through delta-sol jumpnode

Did anyone else find this campaign extremely difficult, even on very easy? I had to cheat my way thru more than a couple missions.

Nope. It was challenging, required some experimentation and thinking, but it was also manageable, even if only barely at times, at least on medium.  I did hate how I didn't have support in most of the missions. That made some missions atrocious, especially when a critical subsystem gets completely destroyed like weapons or sensors. But, ya that just made strategy even more important.  Shockwaves from bombs and torpedoes was ****ing annoying though.

[jediben20]

Just a quick question for ya Darius.

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What are the beam stats for the beam cannons used on the Orestes and Temperaire and what are the stats for the supernova torpedo it uses?

[Darius]

Stats as in damage, range etc?

You can find the values in the weapons.tbl, if that's what you're looking for.

[mr.WHO]

Very good, looking forward to BP2.

Although I enjoyed BP theme, could I ask for "less religious" theme in BP2 ?? Maybe a "political theme"

Spoiler:

I'm looking forward to Sol vs evil GTVA,
there is no good campaign about such conflict yet - BWO delayed, Inferno delayed

Ideas & questions for BP2:

-does UEF is a goverment of whole Sol or only Earth?
It would be fun to have other planets as separated states, and militaries. 
It would be fun to see that rag-tag coaliton of Sol States battle evil GTVA and it's superior forces, with initially inferior ships and military (argue about chain of command within coalition), and then after some time , with help of GTVA defectors, they will transform their military into real war machine and kick GTVA out of Sol (GTVA initially could set up few fortified footholds in Sol, from where they would launch their attack).

-later, Sol could fight into GTVA territory and overthrown evil GTVA goverment (or military that is in control of it, since Capella) and then bring unity and peace to galaxy - true age of Aquarius to show Vinnashans that we're worthy to exist, coz if evil GTVA succed, Shivans would enter the scene and rape all of us).

[ShadowGorrath]

Nothing against your ideas ( and I don't want to sound rude ) , mr.Who , but I say that Darius should think of everything by himself . As harsh as it may sound , he should do it alone , as not to possibly ruin the next terrific campaign . I mean - he has done a perfect job on BP1 , so I believe it'll be awesome in BP2 as well .

[KappaWing]

I personally love the religious themes, it adds a far greater depth to the campaign. The themes were a tad enigmatic in this first chapter, which is understandable. Its hard to pull off a really engaging religious theme. I hope this will be further explored in the upcoming chapter.

[Darius]

Although I enjoyed BP theme, could I ask for "less religious" theme in BP2 ?? Maybe a "political theme"

BP2 expands upon the religious/philosophical themes introduced during BP1, just a bit of a warning now, since you'll be seeing things from Earth's point of view. I like your ideas though, the themes are pretty similar to what I've got, even if the plot differs

Besides, there's already some excellent campaigns out there with a predominantly political focus

[Hellstryker]

*cough*PI*cough* 

[Ferret]

Freespace itself is already littered with various religious themes and references. It only makes sense for some of the campaigns to carry this on.

[mr.WHO]

Spoiler:

By my ideas, I meant more "Sol vs GTVA" (even with religious twists) plot,   than "political" plot.   Coz 99% of campaigns use - "We GTVA are together with Earth, horray!"  or "Earth has been cut of from galaxy, amen".

So far I'm happy that there will be a fresh new interesting campaign.


P.S About BP ending:
Does it was intended, to make player think about that, if they wouldn't be kicked out to another universe, whey would carry on invasion orders without any second thoughts ?? Coz so far, only 2 or 3 people noticed it.

[Darius]

Spoiler:

P.S About BP ending:
Does it was intended, to make player think about that, if they wouldn't be kicked out to another universe, whey would carry on invasion orders without any second thoughts ?? Coz so far, only 2 or 3 people noticed it.

[Snail]

Spoiler:

By my ideas, I meant more "Sol vs GTVA" (even with religious twists) plot,   than "political" plot.   Coz 99% of campaigns use - "We GTVA are together with Earth, horray!"  or "Earth has been cut of from galaxy, amen".

Spoiler:

Actually two of the biggest campaigns follow the Sol vs. GTVA theme. I'd say it's not too rare, but I'm very confident that Blue Planet will put a new spin on the theme.

Spoiler:

P.S About BP ending:
Does it was intended, to make player think about that, if they wouldn't be kicked out to another universe, whey would carry on invasion orders without any second thoughts ?? Coz so far, only 2 or 3 people noticed it.

Spoiler:

I think everybody noticed it but we didn't want to state the obvious.

[Mura]

WOW!  i've been away from playing new campaigns because i thought my old system wouldn't run all the pretty stuff you put in them, and now i see i was so wrong after playing blueplanet.

this campaign was awesome, all the music was just perfect and even my system would hang quite bit when the big ships are around it was still playable, i can't wait for the next part, in the meanwhile i'll have to try all the other campaigns i've been missing  

Congratulations on a work well done!!!! it was a pleasure playing this campaign.

PS-Edit:  Just one thing.... when jumped into Sol system there were almost no stars same for another system(can't remember, but had a red nebula) ... is this normal or was it me? because with no stars it looked really quite lonely there

[MetalDestroyer]

Oh my god, it was a great campaign. However, some missions lacks music. Anyway, I'm really surprised. When I began the campaign I didn't expect much. It was so boring at first that I began to finish Earth Defence Demo and Terran Vasudan War Project. Now, I can't wait to see the next episode. I hope you'll have enought new ships for the second episode.

[Retsof]

Boring.... you just called BLUE PLANET BORNIG ... How dare you... you will now die by the hands of the all powerfull gaming gods.