[Cobra]

I'm betting that it will still take place from Sam's point of view.

[Darius]

Aim.ogg in the VP is the original. At least it's unchanged from the version which MaX made available.

I was just asking if the BP2 player is the same one, or a different one, and placed on which side.

Ah. Not telling for now. But the next chapter will take place from Earth's perspective.

[Colonol Dekker]

It's obvious from that one sentence lol.

[Hellstryker]

How far along are you, percentage wise? Note im not asking for a release date because as anyone with half a brain knows, **** happens.

[ShadowGorrath]

Oh well, thanks for clearing that up.

And what ship is the player based on?

Is it the Solaris?

[Darius]

Ask me in six months how far along I am, and I'll be able to give you a better answer than I can now At the moment I'm still finalising a lot of details story-wise and tweaking gameplay aspects of the mod. FRED-wise...about five missions, but that will speed up once the modpack is complete.

The initial ship the player will be on is a Karuna-class frigate.

Updated the wiki page with some initial details about the next part.

[ShadowGorrath]

That gives me enough info to keep thinking of BP2 for the next 4-6 months 

By the way, one thing that many campaigns seem to forget ( I forgot it too, when upgrading Sol: A History ) : you can see the Milky Way galaxy in Sol system. I mean - the side disc/line of it. So it isn't just a simple starfield ( talking about how you see Sol in Age of Auqarius ).

[Colonol Dekker]

Maybe there's a skybox already in the works

[Snail]

Blue Planet: War in Heaven

Spoiler:

A young pilot tries to find meaning in a meaningless war. A visionary prophet does all he can to prove false premonitions of events which must not come to pass. A young nation struggles to unite its people in an era of peace and prosperity, despite being beset on all sides. Meanwhile, two powerful alien races watch from afar, waiting to see if humankind will fulfill its potential as the Great Creators.

War in Heaven takes place eighteen months after the events of Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius and details the final stages of the civil war between Sol and the rest of her colonies.

"In the future, it will not be said that the Earthborn fight like Vasudans, but that Vasudans fight like the Earthborn." -- Emperor Khonsu II, 2386

Spoiler:

Oooohh... Interesting. Got a few questions:
1) "A visionary" prophet - A Vasudan, right? Is he Khonsu II, or another angry Vasudan like Ahmose?
2) The "two powerful alien races [which] watch from afar" are the Shivans and Vishnans, right? Are they allies again, or are they still at war?
3) The name "War in Heaven" implies something related to Christianity. Will it also be included in religion theme (along with Hinduism)?
4) Will "War in Heaven" be the last BP installment?

[ShadowGorrath]

Spoiler:

4) Will "War in Heaven" be the last BP installment?

I HOPE NOT ! Or else I'm becoming a long term fan of BP for nothing 

[Darius]

Spoiler:

Oooohh... Interesting. Got a few questions:
1) "A visionary" prophet - A Vasudan, right? Is he Khonsu II, or another angry Vasudan like Ahmose?
2) The "two powerful alien races [which] watch from afar" are the Shivans and Vishnans, right? Are they allies again, or are they still at war?
3) The name "War in Heaven" implies something related to Christianity. Will it also be included in religion theme (along with Hinduism)?
4) Will "War in Heaven" be the last BP installment?

1) No. Interesting idea though.
2) Yes.
3) Yes.
4) Probably not.

[Snail]

4) Probably not.

Yay!

[ShadowGorrath]

4) Probably not.

You have no idea how much it cheered me up !

[asyikarea51]

Gave this a go at Medium on a really tired day.

Difficult missions (but then again my piloting is compared to the 10-second search-and-destroy pilots on multi), eventually got fed up of dying whenever I did silly stunts with the capships so I just heck-cared my way through it. But at least the ending isn't a smack-on "Okay we're all doomed, no need to say anything else, now it's just waiting to die" compared to the likes of Sync. Though I think the notion of "limited resources" was portrayed very well, having to deal with so many threats that even four wings of fighters aren't enough.

I don't know if I should call the fade-to-white effects a neat way to tell the story, or just plain annoying when playing in total darkness with an LCD monitor with settings that can't be turned down all the way up to the point where the monitor is on, yet off. I miss classic analog CRT's.

Spoiler:

The mission where you fly the stealth fighter and sneak up on the *ahem* AF Katos *ahem* ? TBH I don't know what to suggest, but I think it can use some improvement, the first time out when I played, it didn't seem obvious enough that I wasn't supposed to destroy the fighters. Got fragged once, got a little riled up and killed them twice in a row, got "No Debriefing For Mission" (twice in a row, yes ) before I realised what I was actually supposed to do. The uberpowerful weapons and ship handling were "handy" clues though.

[Cobra]

Will previous characters make appearances?

[Jeff Vader]

Spoiler:

The mission where you fly the stealth fighter and sneak up on the *ahem* AF Katos *ahem* ? TBH I don't know what to suggest, but I think it can use some improvement, the first time out when I played, it didn't seem obvious enough that I wasn't supposed to destroy the fighters. Got fragged once, got a little riled up and killed them twice in a row, got "No Debriefing For Mission" (twice in a row, yes ) before I realised what I was actually supposed to do. The uberpowerful weapons and ship handling were "handy" clues though.

Spoiler:

You'd think that if you're told to use a stealth fighter, you'd realise that the purpose of the mission isn't necessarily to frag everything that moves.

[Zoltan]

So I just got around to installing  Blue Planet, and I have a problem. I'm not sure what I have done wrong, but I knew that I had done something wrong when there were no planets in our fine solar system...

I have Lightspeed's Nebulae, so that shouldn't be the problem. All in all, I am quite confused; any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jeff Vader]

Um... what mission are you talking about? 'Cause eventually you'll get to a more or less familiar planet and you should be able to see it.

[Zoltan]

Um... what mission are you talking about? 'Cause eventually you'll get to a more or less familiar planet and you should be able to see it.

I am refering to a mission that is supposed to have a big blue planet (which I am currently located on), but this particular celestial object is notably absent.

[Jeff Vader]

Hmm. Sounds like a broken Blue Planet. LS Nebulae won't affect it; they're nebulae, after all. Maybe a redownload? Or actually, hang on a sec, I'll cook you up a vp that should fix it.

Edit: here you go. Hope it works.