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Offline IvKir

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Goddamit.... this is not awesome... Blue Planet: War in Heaven - it's something bigger and i don't get enough english word's to describe my... admiration. With even more impatience i await next part. You guy's ROCK!!!!!

 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Played AoA and WiH over the past couple of days. Have to say, best campaigns I've played yet.

Love the design of the new capships on both sides, the political intrigue, the cutscenes, everything.

Keep up the good work guys.

 

Offline Rhys

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
It would be interesting in Part 2 to have a mission that takes place on Earth, but I'm not sure if that's entirely possible.

 

Offline Nehemiah

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Here's how to save the UEF:

1) Execute the Ubuntu elder sissies.
2) Install and reverse engineer beam cannons on your ships taken from GTVA wreckage.
3) Surrender to the GTVA (so the ships with the reverse engineered beams from step two cn actually go to good use.)
« Last Edit: August 17, 2010, 03:36:48 pm by Nehemiah »
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  It failed...

No no!  I love the mod!  That's just what Commander Ivanova says at the beginning of B5 season 3.

 

Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
This is how to save the human race :

1) Don't do anything of the above post.
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Offline Nehemiah

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Because I play FS2 so I can watch metal explode and drool over weapon-turret laden destroyer models while driving Helios torpedos into them, I will always have to side with the GTVA.
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  It failed...

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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Mass drivers are so much cooler than beams, though.

 

Offline The E

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Yeah, watching a Solaris open up with all Arashis and all her missile turrets is a sight to behold.
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Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
What do you mean by "open up" ? Is there some kind of animation ?
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666maslo666: Releasing a finished product is not a good thing! It is a modern fad.

SpardaSon21: it seems like you exist in a permanent state of half-joking misanthropy

Axem: when you put it like that, i sound like an insane person

bigchunk1: it's not retarded it's american!
bigchunk1: ...

batwota: steele's maneuvering for the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: you mispelled grâce
Awaesaar: grace
batwota: oh right :P
Darius: ah!
Darius: yes, i like that
MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
Awaesaar: +accent I forgot how to keyboard
MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
Axem: bring me solo and a cookie

 

Offline Nehemiah

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
I disagree with the missiles and mass drivers being cooler than beams.  I'm running on a laptop with an integrated graphics card that cannot handle all the projectiles used by UE ships.  Beams are easier for my computer's graphics card to handle.  All the projectiles end up becoming little squares with static inside them...
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Offline Jellyfish

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
What do you mean by "open up" ? Is there some kind of animation ?
He means firing weapons.
"A weapon is only as powerful as its wielder. With this weapon, you'll be but an annoyance, which would greatly dishonor it. With this weapon, I can change history. With me, this weapon can shape the universe."

 

Offline The E

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Quote
Is there some kind of animation ?

Yes. The covers on the launch tubes open before firing, and there's a nice particle effect when they fire. Like so:
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Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
if time/resources were spent on improving mass driver damage rather than reverse engineering beams, they would probably end up being superior weapons.
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Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Just wished the FSO animation code could handle translation correctly. Recoil would look awesome on those mass drivers !
People are stupid, therefore anything popular is at best suspicious.

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666maslo666: Releasing a finished product is not a good thing! It is a modern fad.

SpardaSon21: it seems like you exist in a permanent state of half-joking misanthropy

Axem: when you put it like that, i sound like an insane person

bigchunk1: it's not retarded it's american!
bigchunk1: ...

batwota: steele's maneuvering for the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: you mispelled grâce
Awaesaar: grace
batwota: oh right :P
Darius: ah!
Darius: yes, i like that
MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
Awaesaar: +accent I forgot how to keyboard
MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
Axem: bring me solo and a cookie

 

Offline The E

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
if time/resources were spent on improving mass driver damage rather than reverse engineering beams, they would probably end up being superior weapons.

You know, at one point during development, those mass drivers had a better DPS than BGreens....
If I'm just aching this can't go on
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Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
or maybe the UEF could develop a gunboat kind of class that mounts an ungodly amount of mass driver turrets but not a lot else.  such a ship could have a similar role to the chimera, but require more cover.
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Offline T-LoW

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Sorry to interfere the discussion - I'll make it quick:

Finished WiH p1 an hour ago. Still pretty speechless. And I thought Vassago's Dirge were the pinnacle of innovative campaign-creation this year. Some of the big game-companies can take a leaf out of this book.
I knew, I encountered something special when I read the letters "SCP" five years ago. Thank you for that great experience, HLP-Community. Especially those who reach for the stars and manage to make some of these mods and campaigns better than many of the big budget games coming out today. You all rock! Greets from Germany.

Thanks for the attention.

Now go on  :)
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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
On the topic of Vassago's Dirge, I noticed
Spoiler:
a creepy red nebula pshyco mission here and there both. Was this intentional, coincidental, or a side effect of having Axem on the team? Also, about the short-range subspace jump: same question.

 

Offline The E

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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Axem was only hired after Vassago's Dirge was already complete; If there are story similarities, they are entirely coincidental.
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Re: BP: War in Heaven discussion
Axem was only hired after Vassago's Dirge was already complete; If there are story similarities, they are entirely coincidental.
I was speaking more of presentation than story in this case, but I suppose your answer works just as well for that.  :nervous: