FreeSpace Releases => Mission & Campaign Releases => Topic started by: Axem on June 26, 2004, 11:00:42 pm
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on June 26, 2004, 11:00:42 pm
Woot! It's done, my very first campaign. :) Here's a brief snippet from the readme to give you the gist of it.
Mission Description: In the days after Capella the GTVA sighed a heavy relief, the Shivans and the NTF were effectively gone. Now they begin to rebuild. Your mission today with the 23rd Marlins takes you inside a debris field in the Adhara system to search for savalagable cargo and supplies. Look out for anything suspicious.
What: A 5 mission mini-campaign. Who: The 23rd Marlins, attached to the GTD Iphimedeia. When: A week after Capella went supernova. Where: Adhara, Epsilon Pegasi, and Polaris systems. Why: Cause I felt like it.
I really really hope it is all balanced and fair cause my joystick recently just crapped out on me, and the mouse and keyboard aren't working out for dogfighting... Anyhow...
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 26, 2004, 11:06:28 pm
Can't wait, playing at this very moment... :)
Spoiler:
I spy with my little eye something red...
ROTFL that's a classic!...
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: mitac on June 29, 2004, 05:01:46 am
I spy with my little eye...:D That was cool indeed.
One minor flaw in M2 - the Towson (or what it was called - and, yeah, I know it wasn't supposed to do that) was destroyed and I got no "Return to base" order.
Apart from that : nicely done. :yes: Not the most original, but not bad either.
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Windrunner on July 08, 2004, 05:31:31 pm
You are now on the main page, enjoy you 15 min of fame. Just kiddin ;).
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on July 08, 2004, 05:35:27 pm
Eek, better get that updated mission file up then... :nervous:
Boo-ya, tis up now. :)
Thx Windrunner for the main page spot. :)
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Gloriano on July 09, 2004, 04:53:54 am
I didn't notice this Downloading...:)
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Setekh on July 09, 2004, 04:58:55 am
Wow, sweetness - a whole campaign. Downloading. :):yes:
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on July 09, 2004, 06:58:44 am
Good campaign, though I'm still a little foggy on the story...
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Styxx on July 09, 2004, 09:03:35 am
By the way, Axem, and anyone else releasing campaigns - if you want, we can mirror it on Fileplanet for download, and add an item to the main HLP site for more visibility. Just let us know.
:)
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 10, 2004, 04:57:15 pm
Here's a lil' VP I cooked up for it. Partly because I'm such a neat freak. ;)
Cool campaign. I liked the "I spy" line, too... :D
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on July 10, 2004, 07:48:00 pm
Hey thanks WMCoolmon. :) I just put it on my site.
On that note, Styxx, where would I need to send it to get it mirrored?
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: kv1at3485 on July 10, 2004, 08:35:53 pm
Dang, I wish I was home so that I could play this. Old laptop can't handle FS2 to my satisfaction, and of course I didn't bring FS2 with me on my trip so I can't take advantage of any more suitable technology... :hopping:
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Black Wolf on July 11, 2004, 01:57:25 am
Tried to play this, did everything right in mission two as far as I could tell, got told to warp out, scanned all the cargo anyway... and then it still told me I was inept and I failed the mission...
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Silent Warrior on July 11, 2004, 06:09:30 am
I had that problem too. After taking a look at things in FRED2, I almost think the mission expects all wings and waves to be destroyed. Cheapish hack-thing: The RTB-event is linked to 'Baddies gone'. In that event is a reference to... wossname, Aries and Aquarius or somesuch. I took it out, and everyone was happy. Only, I chucked it into other ships' departure-cues, and I ended up on the wrong side of a Deimos when it kicked in. :o Ouch!
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on July 11, 2004, 03:42:11 pm
Actually, I think the problem was my cheap hack (it was in response to the first problem, no RTB for a failed mission) where the mission objectives were being referenced to events that they activate or some such like that (I don't really know, but I suspect it). Anyhow new and updated file is up. Hope this one works. My testing abilities are limited by a lack of a working joystick, and testing with the mouse is sucky (it's a challenge on Very Easy).
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: mitac on July 11, 2004, 04:20:37 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Axem and testing with the mouse is sucky (it's a challenge on Very Easy).
Uhm, I'm playing with mouse only, and sure not on "very easy". It's possible, I've beaten quite a few games and campaigns with it. ;)
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on July 11, 2004, 04:31:34 pm
I got too used to the joystick, it's much different I find. It is a bit easier to precisely aim, but big turns get annoying when you have to keep lifting the mouse up so it won't fall off the table. :P
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: mitac on July 11, 2004, 04:40:09 pm
That why I turn mouse sensitivity to maximum. :p
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on July 11, 2004, 04:48:51 pm
It's still not the same. :p
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: kv1at3485 on July 15, 2004, 12:22:44 pm
Not bad. I also agree that the ending came rather suddenly. And blowing that Orion in Mission 2 seems sorta easy to be a bonus objective.
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Mongoose on July 19, 2004, 12:42:18 pm
Sorry for the slight bump, but I wasn't able to get the .vp file to work. I would select the campaign within FS2, but when I clicked on the ready room, nothing happened. When I extracted the missions and tried to open them, I got an error saying, "FRED2 was unable to open the selected mission." The same was true with the campaign file. Since I don't have WinRAR, I can't download that version.
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on July 19, 2004, 01:31:33 pm
Oops, at first I rared it, but then WMCoolmon made it a zip and I kept it like that, and I never changed the link on my first post.
But as for your more pressing matter, are you using FS2_Open? It sounds like retail FS2 trying to open a FS2_Open mission.
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Mongoose on July 19, 2004, 11:32:06 pm
No, I'm using regular FS2. That probably explains it.
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Cyker on July 21, 2004, 12:32:34 pm
Woo! Nifty :) I still had problems with Mission 2 not finishing despite me eliminating all the threats to craft I was guarding (I even cranked up the 64x time acceleration until all the transports jumped out!!)
But aside from that, was fun!! :D
Any more in the works? Maybe a co-op campaign...? :D
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: Axem on July 22, 2004, 07:11:18 pm
For some reason mission 2 gave me the most grief testing it. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I'll try to find out what's going on.
As for any future stuff, I have 4 single missions in the works, a Vasudan one, a sub-space one, an SOC one, and a totally off the wall one I'm not sure if I should really release... :nervous:
Thanks for the comments so far guys. :D
Title: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: karajorma on July 24, 2004, 06:16:40 pm
Okay. Finally found some time to play this. Only got the first mission under my belt successfully (I was too busy gawping at the HTL Fenris model to shot at it properly :D ) but so far I'm enjoying it.
Title: Re: RELEASE - Shadows of Kraken
Post by: QuakeIV on October 31, 2023, 04:56:26 pm
Out of curiosity, does this still exist anywhere? Found that this was mentioned in the vassago's dirge wiki page while doing some archeology.