[Droid803]

Doesn't the Karuna use railguns as its main armament?

[General Battuta]

It definitely fires some awesome corkscrewy missiles.

[Darius]

Are these the large torpedoes that the frigate fires, or the small anti-fighter ones that fire in groups of two? If the former, then the Karuna still has those (you can see it use them in the vid I posted a while back), if the latter, then they've been replaced by a Piranha-type missile.

[General Battuta]

As long as you're sure they work, I'm fine with it. I think they're really awesome, very Honorverse-esque.

[WMCoolmon]

I finally got around to playing this.

I really, really liked it. Easily one of the best campaigns for Freespace 2 I've played.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I finally got around to playing this.

I really, really liked it. Easily one of the best campaigns for Freespace 2 I've played.

I got it last week.

I have fallen in love with the music!

[Snail]

The music was good individually but it was sort of a mish-mash together. That's not particularly bad, but still worth noting.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Actually, I think it's really good. I've heard Razorback 153 times over the past few days already.

[Rian]

If anyone’s interested in doing voice acting for Blue Planet, General Battuta and I are trying to organize that. Thread here.

[Narwhal]

Just finished the campaign (in difficult) : I am not fan of alternative universe stuff, psychic control, and I do believe that adding a counterweigh to the Shivans about as powerful and making them talk (both the new aliens and the Shivans) really lessen the epic"ruthless war for survival between Us and Them in space" atmospher, so I can't say it's my favorite campaign ; I have to admit, though, that it is the most well done I have seen so far.

The musics rocks and is really adapted, the new design are really impressive, and are actually the best "new design" I have seen so far (for absolutely all races/ earthling sides - including the final earth cruiser), the "scaveged" Alternate-Humans fighters are absolutely great (when you look at them in the nebula, you really see that they have been built and rebuilt again and again, and they're all different), it is the first time I see new visages on the Intercom (but since unfortunatly it's not voice-acted, you don't have the time to recognize them - too fast) and they are great too. Did I mention that (some) level designs are awesome, especially that one level in which you must escort half the fleet in the newly opened node - action is frantic.

I must admit that 12 dragons in the second level is REALLY hard-core in difficult mode. I could only prevail by fleeing away while my unkillable wingmates and the reinforcement did the job. That's why everytime after that they said "really, we are happing to have you by our side", I was really laughting
I difficult mode, the level in which you escort the Augurer (or whatever its name is) against 5 shivans site  is even more hardcore in high difficulty, everything depends on giving the good orders at the right moment and on a lot of luck (your wingmen IA betting the shivan IA).

I couldn't change ship (crashed the game) when I was "working" for the aliens, which is - I believe - a bug.

And no pirates, woohoo ...

So I am eager to see the rest of the story, which I will probably like since it's a good old "us vs they" war. Well, I hope For some reason I believe we'll see some Shivans and that-new-race again.

Last note : I also like the "huis-clos" impression. The fleet got that number of ships, and nothing else, so it's always the same ship and by the end of it I grew attached to some of them.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I also like the "huis-clos" impression. The fleet got that number of ships, and nothing else, so it's always the same ship and by the end of it I grew attached to some of them.

I know. Despite spending more time with the Temeraire, I found myself getting attached to the GTD Orestes, and I felt really sad...

Spoiler:

...for Admiral Bei when he left his Raynor with a bunch of loyalists. Despite my first impression of him being an unkind father, I felt that change as the story went on. I ended up sympathizing with him...and with Commander Bei.

The Beis do not deserve the tragic life that they lived.

Oh wait, a little present for Narwhal...

[Jeff Vader]

* Lobo disapproves of Androgeos Exeunt's double-posting, while simultaneously wondering why the popularity of the "me" tag has skyrocketed

[Droid803]

Androgeos Exeunt has always used the /me tag. 

EDIT:
On Topic:

If anyone’s interested in doing voice acting for Blue Planet, General Battuta and I are trying to organize that. Thread here.

I'm kind of torn between helping and going "I don't want to ruin it with my voice".

[Jeff Vader]

But that would be the point. His me tag usage resembles AlphaOne's usage of exclamation marks in the good old days. It's like what one of my old teachers said about cursing: there are occasions when it is okay and even recommended to use curse words, but continuous usage eats away the "power" and meaning of the words.

I'm kind of torn between helping and going "I don't want to ruin it with my voice".

I'm not. I'm certain the latter is the correct option for me.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

* Lobo disapproves of Androgeos Exeunt's double-posting, while simultaneously wondering why the popularity of the "me" tag has skyrocketed

Are you happy now?

[colecampbell666]

What?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I edited my posts so that I don't double-post, so my previous post was a response to Lobo's post mentioning his disapproval over my double-posting and the (over) usage of the /me tag.

Back to the topic, I felt that Forced Entry was probably the most difficult mission I've ever flown. Even on the lowest difficulty level, I had to watch...

Spoiler:

...the Temeraire die three times because I couldn't disable the Abel's main guns fast enough.

[General Battuta]

...harder than Keepers of Hell...?

[NGTM-1R]

I strangely had no trouble at all with either of those...

[General Battuta]

Spoiler:

You mean you were able to disable the Ravana beams, disable the two Lilith beams, take out the Moloch in one way or another, and fend off the bombers? On your first few tries? Egads!

Also, hmm. It just occured to me -- I hope that a few of the minor ships from the task force defected to Earth with the personnel who went. I would miss having some of those cruisers or logistics ships around. Any chance we got the Temeraire or the Orestes?

Just checked out the War in Heaven trailer on the Blue Planet site. The Karuna-type and her railguns are beautiful. Looked like something out of Battlestar Galactica. I particularly like the flare of blue light that accompanies the shockwave of bomb detonations (a MediaVP effect, I know, but still atmospheric.)