[Jeff Vader]

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.

Agree with Retsof. Never, ever, call Blue Planet boring in public. Ever. Then, to business. Do you mean that you can't hear any music on some missions? That does sound bad. Obviously you've messed something up.

[Dark Hunter]

To be fair, the first few missions in BP are rather lacking in large amounts of action (which the latter half of the campaign more than makes up for), so I can understand why he'd call them boring.

Note that I do not say that having story-intensive missions is a bad thing. Those missions, when done well, as BP's were, separate the great campaigns from the good.

[MetalDestroyer]

Well in fact, the first-fourth mission were just boring to the fact there were no action, no in-game music and no voice didn't help at all. But when I cam to progress more into the campaign, it's become better and better. And finally I love BP.

[Snail]

IMO the burned Earth bg was ugly. It could have been replaced by the negative of my avatar on MSN.

[Darius]

Heheh. There's a bit of a story about that burned planet.

I had just uploaded the vp to my webspace when I decided to play through the missions one last time to check that everything was ok. I had got to the second playable mission only to find that the planet was missing (I had originally planned to have a dead planet pic with some red nebula layered on top to simulate molten activity). When I was doing a folder cleanup prior to uploading, I was going to delete an experimental planet that I whipped up in Photoshop. Instead I had accidently deleted the only copy of the planet I was using in the campaign (only copy on my computer at least) and didn't notice until it was too late. Once I did notice, I had to fix the mission file to use the only dead planet I had left (the five-minute job I did before) and reupload the VP file, which explains the 404 everyone was getting at the start.


FYI: The original "dead earth"

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[Mura]

AWWW, MAN! such a shame! that earth looks great!
Damn Murphy laws doing their bad deeds all so well :/

I still think it was awesome, even with the 5-minutes-work dead earth! but it would be even better to replay it with that other earth, it would fit better with the overall quality of this campaign.

[ShadowGorrath]

The picture of the planet doesn't matter . What matters is the shock when I saw it like that . 

Oh , and where exactly was Europe on that planet ? 

[Snail]

Coudln't the screenshot could be doctored to make it usable as a BG?

[Darius]

Oh, no doubt it could.



If I get round to it. 

[Jeff Vader]

Here's a five-minute version. Though I don't suppose you happened to have a higher resolution reference picture somewhere? Resizing the planet to a bigger size just doesn't do any good to the quality.

[Darius]

The original p_dead is from TBP...not sure if it's still included in current releases though.

[Jeff Vader]

Dang. Guess I'll wait 'til they get 3.4b ready. And hope that it's still there.

[Damocles]

I just started the campaign and as far as i came by now, i really like it. (Top place so far)

Especially the mission(s) without any "action" are a fine thing. Not just the normal shooting one got used to.

That it didnts start with the commom: "we have an important convoy with <enter random cargo> from <x> to <y> that came under attack and its escort wing <enter random name> got hit very badly ... uhm... guard it" was smth i really enjoyed.

Im really looking forward to continue playing it. (about 03.00 so ah good night, and a happy new year) ;-)

[Snail]

What's the progress on the next one?

[Damocles]

The creators arent by any chance  B5 fans, are they?

[Jeff Vader]

That's singular. Creator. Darius. No more, no less. He created Blue Planet. Of course he used ships and such created by other people but still.

[Darius]

Damn. Where are my manners?

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

Sol should still use the starfield.pof skybox and the rest use Lightspeed's Nebula pack. There's a couple missions which use a different starfield skybox as well. Do you have a copy of either Lightspeed's nebulae or MV_Effects?

Well in fact, the first-fourth mission were just boring to the fact there were no action, no in-game music and no voice didn't help at all.

Off the top of my head, the only mission I remember being totally silent is the short story-mission after Demons of the Past (the one set in Capella 18 years ago) where

Spoiler:

Samuel Bei "dies" and is reborn.

Onto the rest:

What's the progress on the next one?

Not finished yet. Sorry!

The creators arent by any chance  B5 fans, are they?

Is it that obvious? 

[ShadowGorrath]

Well , Darius , if it's not a secret , are you gonna update your site soon with some screenshots of BP2 ?

And what's everyone's favourite music from the campaign ?

[Jeff Vader]

Machine. Or Joshua 2.

[Dark Hunter]

Rb (that's the name in the VP) and machine for sheer awesomeness as battle music.

Aim as well...

Hell, I like all the music! But Rb and Machine best probably.