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FreeSpace Releases => Mission & Campaign Releases => Topic started by: mjn.mixael on October 01, 2021, 11:16:41 am
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Horrible name for a project, but I'm a little hungover so whatever. :lol:
HLP has a massive history of campaigns spanning all levels of quality and length, but they are all a distinct part of what this community is. My goal is to take that history and make it readily available on Knossos.
In making my list, my only rule was that the campaign had to be greater than 1 mission.
This is not FSCRP. The todo list for each campaign's Knossos conversion is pretty short. The goal here is to make as few creative decisions as possible, but make each campaign playable without major errors.
- Convert the files to a Knossos mod structure
- Fix obvious bugs with the modpack (not necessarily the missions, but that may be included on some level depending on mod rot) and get it launchable on a modern FSO build
- Research HLP to find the appropriate release thread and author details to link in the Knossos metadata
- Provide an appropriate Knossos style mod image and banner
When I started gathering old campaigns not on Knossos, I did not expect to find as many as I did. So.. that said, if anyone wants to lend a hand then I'd appreciate it very much. I have all the files (except for 4 noted below). My plan is to setup an SVN repository for easy tracking of versions and changes; especially since many of these campaigns have gotten multiple versions over the years and it's not always clear which one is the most recent.
Here's a complete list of what I have. If any of these are already on Knossos and I missed it, then let me know. Also, if you are the author of one of these campaigns, speak up. Let me know if you have updated files and/or don't want it re-released and/or would prefer to re-release it yourself or whatever.
Freespace 1 Campaigns that need actual mission file conversions to the FSO engine.
A Chance for Vengeance - DONE!- Black Horizon
- Black Horizon Episode 2
- Crusade
- Dark Daunting
- Deepspace
- GTFS Demo
- GTFS Splintered Arrow Demo (may be the same as above)
- New Hope
- Rising Star
- Second Vasudan War (may already have a conversion)
- Start of the Vasudan War (may already have a conversion)
- Supression
- The Day We Were Even
The End of War - Removed for being only a single mission- The Great War Second Wave
- The Offensive
- Underground Episode 1
- Wintermute
FSPort Campaigns
- 25th Year
- All Hands to War
Alliance Fights Back (Duplicate of Alliance Returns with new name)- Alliance Returns
- Battle for Altair
- Crucible
- Dark Raji
- Duke Squad
- DW
Hellgate Ikeya - Removed at author's request.- Hellwolf
- Infinite Dimension
- Internal Conflict Episode 1
Light of Antares - Removed at author's request.- Marduk's Shroud
- Nubian Conflict
- Points of View
Rain on Ribos 4 - Removed at author's request.- Ryleh
- Second Vasudan War (Possibly listed above already)
- Special Ops
- Start of the Terran-Vasudan War (possibly listed above already)
- The Counterstrike
- The McCarthy Campaign
- The Road to Victory
- Twist of Fate
- Vasudan Academy
- War
- Wolfpack Legacy
Workings of the Warp - Removed at author's request.
Freespace 2/Open Campaigns
- Alcibiades Gamble Demo
Allied Forces - DONE!Allied Worlds - DONE!All is Fair in Love and War - DONE!Andromedae - Removed at author's request.- Artifice
- Ascension of Beyond
- Beyond the Cause
- Biowar
- Casualties of War
- Casualties of War 2
- Civil War
- Dante Rising
- Deep Blood
- Descendants of Sol
- Desperate Times
- Dissident Theory
- Empire
- Enemies united
Faces of Treason - Removed at author's request.- Flames of War Chapter 1
- Flames of War Coming of the Storm
- Gateway
- Ghosts of Valor
- Independence Warriors Saga
- LDK
- Lost
- Meditations on the Abyss
- Merkar
- Neo-Terra Reality
- Nukemod Children of Shiva
- Odin's Spear
- Omicron Incident
- Operation Savior
- Regulus Campaign
- Relentless
- Revenge
- Rise of the Corporate
- Rogue Intentions
- Second Front
- Secret of the Ancients
- Shadows of Kraken
- Solar Wars
- Special Ops Command
- Spoon's Top-Down Shooter
- Stand Against the Night
- Storm Front Prophecy
- Storm Front Cthulhu
- Storm Front Storm Chasers
- Teeth of the Tiger
- The Deuterium Connection
- The Enemies Return
- The Enemy From The Past
- The Exodus
- The Jake War
- The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
- Tides of Darkness
- Time of Change
- Trinity
- Trouble At Home
- Unholy Alliance
- Unification Prequel Campaign
- Utopia
- Valentine
- Valley of Death
- Vortex
- Walk RC
- What if Another Great War
Campaigns I could not find the files for
- Cerberus Emergence (Has a forum on Sectorgame (http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=68) that I cannot access because I don't have an account. It's possible it never made a release. I found a file called Cerberus Emergence Music Pack 2, though. EDIT: See below. Looks like it had a demo release at one point back in 2009. Maybe someone happens to still have the files.)
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Eh, the name is right to the point so not all bad. I would love to have some new campaigns to play anyway
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That’s a good initiative.
Actually, wasn’t there a first act to the old 158th squadron that was released? The very old mod featuring atmospheric combat in a unification setting? That might possibly benefit…
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Workings of the Warp was only released as Demo, The Knights of Alrukabi (Demo-only), Syrk (Demo) are missing too
Actually, wasn’t there a first act to the old 158th squadron that was released? The very old mod featuring atmospheric combat in a unification setting? That might possibly benefit…
https://fsnebula.org/mod/158th_Exposition
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Sorry. My mistake.
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Workings of the Warp was only released as Demo, The Knights of Alrukabi (Demo-only), Syrk (Demo) are missing too
Actually, wasn’t there a first act to the old 158th squadron that was released? The very old mod featuring atmospheric combat in a unification setting? That might possibly benefit…
https://fsnebula.org/mod/158th_Exposition
Demos are generally included in my list. I still cannot find Workings of the Warp files.
The Knights of Alrukabi is a single mission and thus not included.
The Syrk download links are dead.
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Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar :) :nod:
I was hoping someone would do something like this, some of the campaigns sound familiar from the wXlauncher days. It would be great to resurrect them, especially for anyone who discovered/rediscovered FS post-Knossos and so probably hasn't ever experienced them.
There is a Homeworld in Freespace TC mod https://www.moddb.com/mods/homeworld-pilot-academy. Is there any chance of getting this working too?
Lastly, the single missions. Perhaps we could have a 'single missions dump' entry or similar, or add them to the existing single missions in FS2, FSPort etc at some later point?
Anyway, this is fantastic work, thank you. The only problem will be players keeping track of which campaigns they have played already. I'm already having to use a spreadsheet :lol: :lol: :lol:
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/nt457z8j86fvyid/Workings_of_the_Warp-D.7z/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6d72bedy9h6p5sr/_Ghosts_of_Valor.rar/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/130ckbubgh52geg/Syrk-D.7z/file
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Thanks for suggesting the homeworld TC too.
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Twist of Fate Demo- https://sectorgame.com/fsfiles/download/dXBsb2Fkcy9Qcm9qZWN0cyUyMC0lMjBDYW1wYWlnbnMlMjAtJTIwVENzL0RlbW9zL1R3aXN0JTIwb2YlMjBGYXRlJTIwRGVtbyUyMC0lMjBJbmNsdWRpbmclMjBIeXBlcmlvbiUyMFBhdGNoJTIwJTI4RlNQJTI5LnppcA==/h/debf4c6a171f47e9c42f86fac2b3396a
According to this thread ( https://sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3747&hilit=Cerberus+Emergence ) Cerberus was released on SG, but for unknown reasons only that single file has survived so far.
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Thanks for these, I have updated the list accordingly.
In regards to Homeworld, I'm not going to do non-FS stuff for now. The list is long enough as it is and that's a pretty obvious place to draw a line.
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Faces of Treason
I prefer for this return to the oblivion it was dragged out of.
I released a prologue chapter (aka a demo), and it spawned The Lost Generation but nothing was released and I prefer it to stay that way. Actually, I prefer that the demo stays burried as well.
(Yes, I got mostly positive feedback on it but it still was juvenile at its core)
I will get back to The Lost Generation after finising up Vega Must Burn, Drums of War and getting some real-life stuff storted.
Hellgate Ikeya (part of Memories of the Great War?)
Light of Antares (part of Memories of the Great War?)
Rain on Ribos 4 (part of Memories of the Great War?)
Yes, they are/will be compiled under the Memories of the Great War-banner, joined by Vega Must Burn.
ps. It might be easier to get a hold of me and my files via the SerRes Discord
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List updated
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These are ancient memories talking but I feel like there were a few other retail campaigns I grabbed from the old VWatch Archive that aren't in the list. If I can track down my old backup CDs I'll take a look.
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There is also a campaign/mod (VeniceMirror) that is rather recent but still predates Knossos popularity. At some point it was uploaded by Novachen but taken down since. I do believe I have the latest available version installed on my old computer, so I might dig that out if it's needed, although the download links in the forum topic (https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=89680.0) seem functional.
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VeniceMirror is on Knossos, but it is part of a storyline that will never be completed
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I may still have the Enemies United files laying around on an older computer. I'll have to get back to you on that, though.
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I may still have the Enemies United files laying around on an older computer. I'll have to get back to you on that, though.
I have all the files for the campaigns listed above unless otherwise stated. Thanks, though.
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Here's a bunch more. Only demos, and I played only Ascension of them (old HLP project).
These are ancient memories talking but I feel like there were a few other retail campaigns I grabbed from the old VWatch Archive that aren't in the list. If I can track down my old backup CDs I'll take a look.
There's a large number of single missions from VW archives, might be worth to upload them as a bundle as most of them only use retail and require no mods.
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Time of Change Demo
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Wow, I didn't realize Ascension of Beyond actually had a release.
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@Nightmare, I've got those files. Thanks! I've added them to the list.
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There is also a campaign/mod (VeniceMirror) that is rather recent but still predates Knossos popularity. At some point it was uploaded by Novachen but taken down since.
I never took it down.
But well, you never should mention my name here. I got way too much hate for any bugfixing campaign release by me that kills much of my will of participation in this community.
I never really felt really welcome here in the first place. I am a evil female.
I am sure that these releases here will be much more appreciated because they come from a more popular user.
And because of this, i will take down VeniceMirror after it got another rerelease in course of this project here. It is the least what is left. :)
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Wow, I didn't realize Ascension of Beyond actually had a release.
I was probably the only person to still have the files ever since I got them in 2009 :lol:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jx91v2tqz12l2v0/VolitionWatch_Missions.7z/file
Folder structure:
_FS1_Campaigns - Most are raw (FS1 missions)/dublicates of the already FS2ed campaigns, but not all.
_Missions_FS1 - Uncoverted single FS1 missions
_Missions_FS2 - Single FS2 missions; including the VA for Crossing the Line. Other folders are Multiplayer missions, and "Random" contains what appears to be tech demos from the retail era.
Main folder is FS2 retail campaigns, ~half of them is already uploaded but it might be interesting to check for version numbers.
Note: Filename might be misleading, not all of them are from VW
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/mali8qlwrm44l3r/Independence_Warriors.7z/file
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Hope to see more of these campaigns on Knossos soon and that most of them are complete stories
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on your list is already aveble some of them like storm front revenge is also buzy by nova
got all converted already
i have pakeges of all fsmission converted
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I have added to Knossos 158th Banshee Squadron (https://fsnebula.org/mod/158th_Banshee_Squadron) and Ghosts of Valor (https://fsnebula.org/mod/Ghosts_of_Valor). I have fixed any debug errors, and made them work with modern build but have not otherwise restored these campaigns.
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What if another great war already on it
Boomerang
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Stormfront too did you check correctly
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Casualties of War (https://fsnebula.org/mod/Casualties_Of_War) and Casualties of War 2 (https://fsnebula.org/mod/Casualties_Of_war_2) are now available. As before, I have fixed any debug errors, and made them work with modern builds but have not otherwise restored these campaigns.
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Alcibades' Gamble (https://fsnebula.org/mod/Alcibades_Gamble) is now available on Knossos. I have fixed any debug errors, corrected an issue with the cutscene subtitles and added Orion nameplates that work with the current MVPs.
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New campaigns
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Tides of Darkness (https://fsnebula.org/mod/Tides_of_darkness) is now available on Knossos. I have made it work with FSO23.0 and the current MVPS and fixed any debug errors.
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Ooooh!! Thanks a million, Admiral! I was just remembering this campaign a couple weeks ago and lamenting that I couldn’t play it anymore!
Excited to give this a try!