OK.
First off:
I've been following HLP for several years now, lurking as anonymous, but it was Blue Planet that made me create an forum account so i can express my deepest thanks to the whole HLP community: You guys are the best. The work you have done (and still do) with Freespace is divine. I am really at a loss for words at this point.
Second:
For the BP team - Thank you. Your work is without the question the best fan-created content for Freespace (Diaspora excluded, that's BSG on Freespace engine)
Now to the point:
I won't go into much details about BP, what i liked (all) and didn't (almost nothing).
Instead i's like to report some issues and ask some questions.
(possible minor spoilers follow, be warned)
Issues:
- Tenebra, in the assassination mission, the signal-strength-o-meter inherits the radar color. This has worked very badly for me, as i prefer 3d radar, and set the default radar color to black, so that i can get a clearer readout. As you might imagine, that caused some complications until i figured out what is going on (accidental turn made me face something bright and i saw it then)
- Tenebra, the last mission seems to be bugged if restarted. I have some strange issues with that mission if i don't restart FS entirely after running it once. (Most notably, i'm unable to access Shivan data nodes, but sometimes mental status is already degrading at the very start, there also is missing 2nd line of medi-readout until first status change in that line)
- Tenebra, Her Finest Hour. VERY strange performance issues. At first i ran game with my default FS SCP config and HFH was a choppy mess. Then i cleaned everything and went with stock FS. Much better but still strange stutter spikes every X seconds. Then i selected "Memory consuming features on" and enables all the goody-stuff (FXAA, post processing etc). Smooth as silk, no stutter, no spikes @ ~ 100fps. I suspect that the actual game-changer could have been disabling vsync, but i haven't tried turning it back on yet.
Ok, that would be issues. Now for questions.
There seems to be lot of fan made content that is canon in BP. For instance Sync/Transend. As much as i would love to try those out, my current work+life prevents me from having much time for myself.
Is there somewhere an synopsis of plots of all mods/campaigns that set up BP universe? I checked the Wiki, for Sync but there is very little info there (probably so not to spoil stuff)
Also, as i read the forum, people search for clues about BP story in the mission files. I have only fiddled with Fred a tiny bit, but i would love to do my own research. For that end, i would need to extract .vp, How to?
And finally:
Is the voice act call project still active?
I would love to try record something for the benefit of us all
As i understand, the parts that DO need to be recorded, DO NOT have a "CAST" next to them?
