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I was wondering whether or not progress on BWO was affected negatively by the numerous forum shutdowns of the past month?  Has there been a major delay, or is work still progressing slowly?  I always get worried by forum shutdowns, because projects can come to a halt for quite some time because of them.

So, is BWO still in the green?
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Offline IceFire

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I was wondering whether or not progress on BWO was affected negatively by the numerous forum shutdowns of the past month?  Has there been a major delay, or is work still progressing slowly?  I always get worried by forum shutdowns, because projects can come to a halt for quite some time because of them.

So, is BWO still in the green?
Mmm...only affected during the actual downtimes.  We're still beta testing.  We go one mission at time and go through it and discuss it.  Ace and BlackDove are primarily the people doing this...along with some of our other testers as well.  Any time away from the forums hasn't really negatively affected anything as playtesting continued.

Its a big campaign...its taken some time to get a good team together but I think we'll be able to put this one to the public sometime this coming year.  We're honestly getting there.
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Offline FireCrack

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How many missions is it anyways?
actualy, mabye not.
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IIRC, there's something like 60 missions in total, with each branch ending at about 40 missions.
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Offline IceFire

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I haven't counted in a while...something like that.  When we're completely finalized on everything and just working through the final details we will have a bit of a PR drive. When we're reasonably certain on a timetable for release then the'll be some big updates to the website, big updates on the forums, and some serious sets of screen shots and information released in anticipation of that release.

But we're holding off on most of that till we really get close to being done.
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I don't have a working computer currently so things slowed down. When I get it repaired, they should pick up again. When this "Beta" testing (which we should really be calling Alpha) ends, a second pass needs to be done, which will be quicker since that will be true QA beta, but it'll still take some time. There are things that need to be done parellel anyway, so that'll be another hold up depending on how long it takes. The release doesn't really depend on the testing solely.

Anyway, when we reach milestones, we'll make sure to report them to the public.

 

Offline Kosh

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Its a big campaign...its taken some time to get a good team together


Like 6 or 7 years? :p
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...pretty much.

 

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I'm a bizarre kind of guy.  I like the suspense of waiting for this campaign which is likely to be better than advertised.  I'm actually looking forward more to participating in the voiceover recording than playing the campaign, and I'm looking forward, VERY MUCH to playing the campaign. 

The very concept of having to make a decision of which side you're on is something you don't get the opportunity to play out.  If you turn on the side you've been on, you blow up a lot of your comrades, but then when the mission ends, you're discharged/executed/something.  Maybe I'll turn coat, maybe I won't. 

I hope I get a chance to reprise Admiral Ahmose and perhaps Commander Syme from the demo (are we going to be able to use mp3s instead of wav files?).
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I have the instructions around somewhere on the site - not in hard copy anymore, it burned. They are all ready and we have it defined, it's just that we aren't ready to start doing it yet.

I think it'll be mp3 this time around, WAV = inferior these days.

 

Offline Trivial Psychic

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You mean "OGG", not "mp3", right?
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...probably right - we'll only probably request samples in mp3.

 

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.oggs and .mp3s are compressed file formats.

For requested samples, uncompressed .wavs are preferred. The final release will use the best compression to quality format that the SCP allows, which will likely be .ogg.
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Offline Genoism

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im just happy that in the end they decided that they would have voice overs :p
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im just happy that in the end they decided that they would have voice overs :p
ALOT and I mean ALOT of people have asked for it.  The trouble is that they will take ALOT of work and time and will add to the download size considerably.  The mission files themselves are nothing but the artwork and model/texture resources are fairly significant.  The audio makes the rest of those guys pale in comparison.  But MP3/OGG compression support makes life easier now than years ago when the project started.

But the resources and talents are there and I believe the interest is still present so we'll do what we can and try and voice everything thats important.  My feel is to do just everything thats in missions...briefings you can read yourself but misisons are critical. But I think we'll probably team vote on that a final time before going ahead with whatever plan is going to take place.
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I would even think of not voicing messages in missions that almost never occure, like destruction-messages of ships that only get destroyed in 0.00001 % of cases.

 

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Cutting corners like that isn't an idea we're fond of.

You'll get the "Oh the humanity, the GTC Orff has been destroyed!" type messages and all... ;)
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Offline Thor

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couldn't we just get a voice less version first so we could play the darn thing without waiting till century for the voice acting to get done?   :D
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Why would you want that, mister Thor? If the team has made the choice -- in my opinion the correct one -- of having the campaign voice acted, then the campaign should only be released with voice acting.

(Off the record, I completely agree with Hellraiser on the topic of voice acting. Unless a campaign is VA'd, I won't play it. I cannot sadly play BWO anyways, since SCP doesn't execute on my system. That said, kudos to the BWO crew.)

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