[Admiral Nelson]

In another post, you mentioned that the issue with the Aeolus and Sobek not firing their heavy beams in "Their Finest Hour" would be fixed.  Could you tell me if this is the case?  And when is the next release of the pack?

Thanks

yes, that is already fixed in my WIP version.  The Sobek's course also need to be changed so that its capship beams bear on the Shivan vessels.
I am again out of the country on one of my interminable business trips.  I should get more out mid February.

[Darklord42]

unfortionatly the saga dl link doesnt work

[neoterran]

Now if we could only get this done for the Freespace Port missions

[Zacam]

Some of the TSM-10x.fs2 mission files do not have the ;;FSO declarations in front of the LSNebulae settings like other mission files.

I'm working on them because I noticed that they do not have the special condition of terminating the module like the first one "TSM-103c"(traning-1.fs2) when/if you fire repeatedly on the instructor.

When I am finished on correcting, would others like them to be part of main? (Naturally, I'm testing in Retail and SCP.)

[Zacam]

Just to add, I got into a bit of a kickstart on the rest of them as well, here is what I have since my last post:

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Enhanced Briefing Text with $h and $f as appropriate
Removed additional or unecessary line breaks.

SM1-01.fs2
Added Alternate Types: NTCv Deimos & NTF Hercules
Removed Prometheus R & Akheton SDG from Weaponry Pool.
Renamed all Tag occurances of "Psamtik" to "GVD Psamtik"
Replaced "Subach HL-7" on all Vasudan Serapis to "Mekhu HL-7"
Renamed all Tag occurances of "Belisarius" to "NTCv Belisarius"
Added "$Alt: NTCv Deimos" to NTCv Belisarius
Nameplate Texture renamed to NTCvBelisarius & updated
Added "$Alt: NTF Hercules" to all NTF Fighters
Added "( tech-add-ships "GVF Serapis" )"
Removed trailing ";;FSO 3.6.9;; $Bitmap List:"

SM1-02.fs2
Added to Alternate Types:
NTF Cargo
NTF Hercules
NTF Loki
NTFr Poseidon
NTFr Triton
NTSG Alastor.
Removed Prometheus R & Akheton SDG from Weaponry Pool.
Added All "$Alt:" tags under $Class as appropriate.
Corrected Message name & reference to "All Fighters detroyed"
Removed trailing ";;FSO 3.6.9;; $Bitmap List:"

SM1-03.fs2
Corrected Alternate Types:
NTF Fenris <- Removed
NTF Leviathan <-> NTC Leviathan
Removed Prometheus R and Hornet from Weaponry Pool
Renamed "Iceni" to "NTF Iceni" and updated all Tags
Corrected all mis-spellings of Iceni as "Icini"
Renamed "Glorius" to "NTC Glorius" and updated all Tags
Renamed "Impervious" to "NTC Impervious" and updated all Tags
NTC Impervious $Alt changed from NTF Leviathan to NTC Leviathan
Corrected all mis-spellings of Impervious as "Imperious"
Renamed "Psamtik" to "GVD Psamtik" and updated all Tags
For +Name: Rebels Armed, correctly set beam-free-all for NTC Glorious
Glorious Destroyed message handle changed to "Glorious Down" to match "Impervious Down"
Each multiple instance of "allow-weapon" now nested once rather than repeated.
Removed trailing ";;FSO 3.6.9;; $Bitmap List:"

So far, all of these are probably extremely trivial and don't really "fix" anything (but at least they also do not break anything!), but were more of a "I noticed them, they bugged me, I made them go away".

I'm still working on the training missions, because their behaviour is not entirely consistant. In the first one, you get yelled at if you don't match speed the first time, but any other objective you can just sit on and do nothing. Also, once it clears you to return to base, it doesn't care if you fire on the instructor, which should still be on if you have not left yet.

I am a tad leary about overly modifying these away from the original mission files, but I _am_ ensuring that any changes that I make also work under retail. (Which, let me tell you, makes me appreciate running the SCP +MediaVP's the more I test.)

[Admiral Nelson]

Now if we could only get this done for the Freespace Port missions

I have already completed the FS1 missions.  They will be released with version 3.1 of the Port.

Zacam -- I will look into your issues when I get back from my business trip.

[neoterran]

Awesome, that's really great to hear. Something about having LS Nebs everywhere now makes all older missions look so much worse.

[Zacam]

Indeed. The LS Nebs simply rock.

I also noted in the other training missions, Admiral Nelson, that TSM's 104-106 do not have the ::FSO tags for their nebulae or skybox entries.

I've corrected mine, as I'm still trying to get the "shoot the instructor, fail the mission" stuff to work in all of them.

[Grizzly]

The Link is down! can someone just give me another link to the file? I lost mine in a re-install operation.

[Grizzly]

Now if we could only get this done for the Freespace Port missions

I have already completed the FS1 missions.  They will be released with version 3.1 of the Port.

In Silent Threat: Reborn to?

[Luckz]

Nobody actually has this and/or was able to upload this somewhere within the last two weeks?

[Zacam]

I should be able to, one moment.
Done.

File as of 10/14/2006 15:57:51, 444kb
FS2LightspeedMissions.zip

MD5 = 83C3D0013B0BDF092C980912F8C909A6
SHA1 = 8976914231531435A4A4929344C429CC5F80127E

File as of 12/21/2006 23:19:26, 444kb
LightspeedFS2.zip

MD5 = 3889AD3BACFED78730A786F9D038E10C
SHA1 = 91180E4152A28962585A18FFD55B72619C5B508A

*Note: This is simply the mission files (including training missions) and does not include the Lightspeed Nebulae. If those are needed as well, I should manage to be able to host those to.

**Note: This is an original contents file, nothing has been modified in any way since it's download.

[Davin]

Newb question, where do I put these files?

Edit: Nevermind... Took a while but I found the right files (the nebula files) and got them working in the missions.

[Tahna Los]

Any update to when the new mission batch would be ready?  I'm itching to play "Their Finest Hour" the way it is supposed to be played.....

[Grizzly]

what? like ignoring command's order to not to attack the freighters and then get turned in the thing beyond ashes by a friendly beam cannon?

I think the reason why the corvette thingys don't fire beam cannons is because command used great war-era thingys.

but I like them firing their beam cannnons to.

[Mars]

Sobeks, Mentu's and Aeoli did not exist during the Great War, sorry.

[Grizzly]

then command used almost scrapped thingys

[Tahna Los]

Any update to this?

[Admiral Nelson]

After m2258734a finishes the stars seen in FS2 there will be an update.

[Grizzly]

For the problem with Their Finest Hour, Why not use the Beam Ships all by default?