[TacOne]

This campaign [...] was ridiculously awesome!

Quote-mined for truth!

Spoiler:

I was laughing out of my chair for more than a fair bit of the campaign. This is up there with JAD only less silly (that's a good thing  )

No bugs that I can remember, solid fredding, good script, pretty good voice acting. This one's a keeper!

I had one criticism, but I've forgotten, so it can't have been very important.

[AndrewofDoom]

Um, could someone give me a mirror, because my college has this hatred for mediafire. Megaupload works for me if you need what.

Edit: Nevermind, I have acquired it from a different source. Namely, a certain kitchen utensil.

[Rodo]

good, something to play with!

[IronBeer]

Wow. I must say I'm impressed with the positive feedback this campaign's been getting. 

Thank you, everybody who's been downloading this nutty little project, I really appreciate it.

Now, on to supar-special author responses!

@Shivan Hunter: I used basic .tbls because I didn't know how to work .tbms when I began developing this mod. When I did figure out .tbms about halfway through the development phase, I decided to just stick with a sure thing. Simple as that.

@Quent: Erm, the custom music is actually implemented as looped sound effects. Maybe there's something with the .13 builds that don't like that. I dunno, again development was exclusively on the .12inf platform.

@Bigchunk:

Spoiler:

-M3 briefing stage 1 has been fixed; the first update was actually posted because of that issue. Good catch!

-Guardianing is clumsy, but I really couldn't come up with a more elegant solution at the time. I mean, even if the threshold is set to a more realistic value, like 23% or summat, most players would get suspicious when seeing your wingmates eat Hornet salvo after Hornet salvo. Guardianing is guardianing in my book.

-M7, durr. Hate to say it, but "avoid the beam, and you won't get hit, pilot!"  Ok, serious now. I've only really had issues with friendly-fire beams against the initial 2 corvettes. After that, the mission should pretty much be a cakewalk. Maybe try a different ship- I personally favor a Sekhmet loaded with some Helioses on this mission.

-M8, I actually favor an Ares for this mission! Yeah, the length is a low point, and I was honestly worried that might annoy a lot of people. During development, I just couldn't come up with a way to split the mission without wrecking the pacing, so I opted to make the last half or so really easy- I didn't want to ape players who made it that far with random beamings or vicious dogfights.

@FIZ, and regarding the closing cutscene in general,

Spoiler:

Yes, the tone is supposed to play.

In fact, the cutscene actually has a certain significance. Anybody willing to hazard some theories?

@Hero:

Spoiler:

The voiceacting actually was me just grabbing some of my friends while we were hanging out at my place and me saying, "Hey, you wanna voice act for a small project of mine?"

In no case (except for my own parts) did any of the recording go beyond two sessions. None of us are professionals, we just did it for the hell of it. For future projects, I can beat my underlings friends such that they can emote a bit more. That said, I'd actually be mildly inclined to agree with your comment.

@Anybody else who had something to say that I'm not categorically answering here:
Thanks for the responses, really! I've been fretting about getting this project out the door pretty much ever since completion was drawing near. It really tugs the 'ol heartstrings to see people enjoying it so much!

[General Battuta]

-M8, I actually favor an Ares for this mission! Yeah, the length is a low point, and I was honestly worried that might annoy a lot of people. During development, I just couldn't come up with a way to split the mission without wrecking the pacing, so I opted to make the last half or so really easy- I didn't want to ape players who made it that far with random beamings or vicious dogfights.

How about a checkpoint? 

[IronBeer]

A checkpoint would actually be perfect. How could I go about setting it up?

(Yes, yes. There will be a Director's Cut incorporating various upgrades at some point in the future. Just don't ask when.)

[General Battuta]

That actually depends on how complex the mission space is at the time. However, the basics are simple: you need to store player position and health, as well as the health of any mission-critical ships, to player persistent variables. Setting up the load is...slightly more complex.

It works best if there's a bottleneck in mission phase space at which point the only major ships present are capships in predictable locations, with few enemy fighters.

[swamper123]

Downloading , I cant wait for play it, 

[Aurora Paradox]

This looks interesting.  The campaign title is certainly unique.  We will see if it lives up to its name.   

[achtung]

http://freespacemods.net/download.php?view.657

It's late, I have a test tomorrow.

So I took the time to mirror it.

[Firartix]

Woaaaaaaaah!

This campaign is quite well named
If you haven't already, i'd say go play it asap 

I don't quite agree with some people around though, because honestly... i don't think the campaign was that funny. 
It was quite fun so i was smiling 3/4 of time... but i don't think i actually laughted at any point 
So i'd recommend it more as a real good campaign than as some JAD/DEM like campaign (i really liked it, i guess it'd go in my personal top5 campaign list o_o)

The story evolved a bit strangely imo, the whole atmosphere of first levels got completely vaporized around the end. (BTW, does the ending means a sequel or something? I didn't really get it :s)

Aside from that, all i can say is...
  for Mission Design
  for ANIs and cool stuff
  for the Music


  THIS!
  IS!
  THE VOICE ACTING!
I dunno whether you hired idiot monkeys to voice act for the first campaign part or it was simply uber-goodly-good voice actors, but the whole ridiculous feeling sure got through imo. The voices were kindda.... beautifully strange and, uhhh, "tasteless". (All this might sound like it was bad but it was serious good  imo in the campaign context )
And in what i consider as the second part, the voices were definitely immersive (probably because i got used to those strange voices too... i mean, i feel like they were polar opposites of the usual freespace voices but i guess that was the point)

Mewantsanupgradedversion!

[Spoon]

Quite an amusing campaign, the voice acting was a charming touch.
Gave me a few smiles and a few laughs.
FRED wise could use some polishing (a male voice but a female .ani? Fighter wings without orders, several missions play themselves etc)

But overal, good effort 

[Nuclear1]

Spoiler:

Favorite moment: 
Wingman: The Nav Buoy seems to indicate we're in the Sparta system
Me:  ...oh Jesus.

This made me laugh.  And, as advertised, I felt ridiculous while playing it.    Well done

[-Sara-]

Giving it a try, parodies aren't often my thing with FS campaigns but I'll give it a go.

[SpardaSon21]

Spoiler:

Favorite moment: 
Wingman: The Nav Buoy seems to indicate we're in the Sparta system
Me:  ...oh Jesus.

This made me laugh.  And, as advertised, I felt ridiculous while playing it.    Well done

That would be why this campaign is ridiculous.

[TrashMan]

Excellent campaign. Was very fun.

Some really good witty banter there, congrats.

[-Sara-]

Just finished it, had fun! Love the VA'ing. 

[Infamus]

i know rite?

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[Commander Zane]

This is incredibly silly!
There needs to be more campaigns like this.

[Kolgena]

I haven't had time to play this yet, but I was digging thru the VPs for kicks and discovered that the Apollo model seems to be the old version that has single thrusters in each of the side pods instead of triple thrusters. Intentional modification, or actually outdated model?

Edit: closer inspection reveals that the Apollo lacks normal maps and has a weird shine map. Again, I'm not sure if this is intentional (played for jks at some point?) or some sort of mistake.