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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Between the Ashes => Topic started by: Vrets on May 29, 2015, 04:09:17 pm
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BtA is my most anticipated project on HLP. I want to see what happens after the era covered by ST:R. I hope and expect to see the GTA plausibly disintegrate into colorful, bickering Terran blocs with all the fun political intrigue that this entails. The fragmentation of the Terrans gives a ton of space to tell interesting stories; the Fs1-Fs2 interwar era has so much untapped possibility, with a multitude of independent Terran governments interacting with each other and with the Vasudans.
Please release soon so I can give you pages of dry, hate-filled debug spews because I left sgwp2.vp in my root directory.
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Oh, don't worry; you'll get just what you want out of our first release. ;)
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Yeah this looks dope.
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I'm glad you're looking forward to it. The biggest hurdle for us right now is finishing the last 4 missions which are in varrying stages of development. (Some just started, some nearly complete.) After that it's just cleaning up the details and making sure everything's ready to go!
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For whatever it's worth to the 3 people who check this board.. I'm finishing the last mission. Then we'll proceed into testing while I finish some of the cosmetics (anims and the like).
We have rescheduled the release from 'Soon (tm)' to 'Sooner (tm)'.
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As one of the people who keep an eye on this board: that's great news! :)
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Awesome!
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Yes! :D
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Yeah. ill be getting some free time soon, so ill be helping :) (I do not even want to think about all that configuration i have to do to restore my own works)
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woohoo!
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Whoop! :yes:
And I'm definitely counting more than 3 fans here... :p
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Way more :D
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Add 5000 to the fan tally. :yes:
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Great news, I'll definitely make time to play it when it comes out.
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Bumping this in anticipation for tomorrow. I dunno about everyone else but for me THE HYPE IS REEAAALLLL. Also the first project on HLP that actually has my voice in it, however small a role I may have played, so, yeah, HYYYYYYPE!
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Arrggghhhhhh.
After seven yeeeears I am back, and this is actually released. Playing it now.
My CO says that there is to be no further talk of phantom snails
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Inevitable played-everything-now-review-it post
Rating is 10/10 EMPs, roughly equivalent to 5/5 on the Admiral Po scale of clever-torpedo-related-plans, or 10/10 novel HUD gauges. The music, the gameplay, the characters, The Clever Plans - it all works together to produce a compelling experience. Thanks for making it. Make another one. :nervous:
Have shared story thoughts, nitpicks, and occasionally successful jokes on Discord #bta.
Rando spoiler-less playthrough stats and oversharing:
- Difficulty level: Medium
- Most failed: How The West Was Lost, Going Out With A Bang
- Top 3 favorite missions: How The West Was Lost, Going Out With A Bang, Bringing Down The Gavel
- Runner up: Shell Game, for capturing the essential essence of BtA in one mission
- Promotions earned across all four campaigns: 0 :_(
- Confirmed UFO Sightings: 1 (nearly 2, but lost-via-death-and-replay-and-forgetfulness)
Slightly spoiler-ish playthrough stats and oversharing:
- Favorite minigame: Torpedo decoy + lure in Going Out With A Bang
- Runner-up: physics puzzle in How The West Was Lost. It wasn't too exciting but was novel to use the flail for something like this, and arguably constitutes the first real physics puzzle in FS to my knowledge (short of moving sentry guns away, which I'm told has been done a couple time before).
- Least favorite minigame: rebooting my fighter by CLI. Gorramit
- Most Neutral-ish minigame: placing static defenses in Camp Angel. Cool idea, controls seemed frustrating, maybe like it more next time through
- Most disliked mission: rescuing Khonsu II...this mission served a story purpose but could guess the outcome immediately, and being bounced around by all those transport turrets was quite wretched