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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Here's an odd one for you. The loading screen for the intro cutscene (as are all others) appears to be in a different fov for the actual mission. At first I thought it was my screen resolution but i've been through the acceptable standards ie 1024x768 etc.
 
What's the default as H don't recall ever changing it.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
What did you guys think of the wingmen personas - Corey, Taylor, and the 'secret' one?

Well, we do know that he's the son of Mackie from Derelict, or vice-versa... ;)


Goober5000 was pretty instrumental in getting many of our voice actors in place, simply because he helped point us towards the right places to look. I think he deserves special thanks.

ST:R was delayed because Goober had to learn how to pull the strings. Since he's already done it for ST:R, he would know how to do this one better. :)

Now, about some things I forgot to mention in my post on page one...

I really, really love the in-game cutscenes. The hell with them being long ... you cannot get more moving cutscenes than the ones in Blue Planet. The Lucifer cutscene takes the cake, really. When I heard the music and saw it zooming and panning out to the firefight, I was so close to tearing and screaming, "OH GOD NO".

The Vishnan voices are excellent. It sounds very Vasudan in several places (even though it's all normal English with audio effects).

The only jarring bit is that I can more or less discern trained voice actors from HLP voices. The Beis, for instance, sound very professional (which is probably fine since they're Commander and Admiral), but when you add the Colonol's more down-to-earth voice into the mix, it's a bit ... off. You would think that the people operating one of the finest ships in the GTVA would sound pretty similar to the ones ordering it about.

Whoever did the voice for Iwakura sounded like she did the female voice for the Ancient monologues in FS1 too. That's a compliment, mind you.

Here's an odd one for you. The loading screen for the intro cutscene (as are all others) appears to be in a different fov for the actual mission. At first I thought it was my screen resolution but i've been through the acceptable standards ie 1024x768 etc.
 
What's the default as H don't recall ever changing it.

I believe it's 0.55, but I use 0.39 and it looks just fine.
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Regarding opening loading screen mismatch, the fov of the opening cutscene got changed as one of the very last commits before release. Somehow it managed to escape the attention of the dev staff so that we could get a replacement image, but it was deemed to be a minor issue and easily fixable.

 

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Yep it really only reset the counter and overwrote my old screenshot and I just didn't notice, because I only looked at the last two....

Anyway taking the screenshots with Fraps worked too.
The clipping seems to work correctly for most of the ship. Behind the position seen in the shots it certainly does, but further to the front of the Keeper I could even go so deep into the keeper that nothing of my spacesuit showed anymore.

And to think I only noticed this was because I got a bit mischiefious and (succesfully ;) ) tried to make the missionaries that escroted me, crash into the keeper.

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
I was wondering from a technical FREDing point of view: Why did you guys go with 'camera ships' for cutscenes? Cause you know, there are always people like me that will test the impossible and do Shift+o in cutscenes for example :P  
"Oooh a Erinyes camera host, I wish I could take it with me"  :lol:

Edit: I also noticed that some ships have incorrect data in the ship selection screen. Like the perseus only has '2 gun mounts'?
« Last Edit: February 22, 2010, 09:03:10 am by Spoon »
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Edit: I also noticed that some ships have incorrect data in the ship selection screen. Like the perseus only has '2 gun mounts'?
Eh? Perseus has TWO gun mounts. Gun mounts and gun points are two different things. Besides, BP doesn't change loadout descriptions.
« Last Edit: February 22, 2010, 09:10:41 am by Fury »

 

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Mouhahahaha

Very last mission, the Planet Killer theme from HW2. :yes: Gotcha. You can't hide any Homeworld feature from me.

By the way I loved the Vishnan voices.

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
I caught that too. :yes:
 
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So it appears I can keep nehru alive beyond his first appearance mission?
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Edit: I also noticed that some ships have incorrect data in the ship selection screen. Like the perseus only has '2 gun mounts'?
Eh? Perseus has TWO gun mounts. Gun mounts and gun points are two different things. Besides, BP doesn't change loadout descriptions.
The Perseus has two gun BANKS and 4 gun MOUNTS. The description is wrong.
Check out the description of the herc 2, it has 4 gun mounts in the data (which is correct). The myrm has 6 gun mounts, 2 gun banks,  the aurora has 6 gun mounts (4, 2 aka, 2 banks)

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
This thread is for discussion of the voice-acted version of Age of Aquarius.

Before the discussion gets going though, I'd like to thank everyone who was involved in this project: the dev staff, voice actors and those who submitted their auditions, and the beta testers. You've all helped turn a one-person fan campaign into a pretty damn cool mod, and it's been a pleasure.

Special thanks must go to General Battuta, Rian and The E for their tireless work in co-coordinating the voice acting.

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I was just wonderig the voice for taylor or corey (not sure which one)...didn't that person do the voice acting for the Babylon 5 Achen training missions ?!?!?!
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
The Perseus has two gun BANKS and 4 gun MOUNTS. The description is wrong.
Check out the description of the herc 2, it has 4 gun mounts in the data (which is correct). The myrm has 6 gun mounts, 2 gun banks,  the aurora has 6 gun mounts (4, 2 aka, 2 banks)
Then go complain to FSU.

 

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
The Perseus has two gun BANKS and 4 gun MOUNTS. The description is wrong.
Check out the description of the herc 2, it has 4 gun mounts in the data (which is correct). The myrm has 6 gun mounts, 2 gun banks,  the aurora has 6 gun mounts (4, 2 aka, 2 banks)
Then go complain to FSU.
Remember last time someone proposed changes to be made for little things like this? Small fixes? Yeah, that was some really nice ****storm  :lol:
But I don't see why BP wouldn't adjust minor things like this?
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
The cost/benefit analysis for going through all the retail ship entries and adding corrective entries to the BP .tbms was not favorable.

 
Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Hehe. The Neruh's scream in mission 2 makes Blue Planet "filmly"  ;) . Great VA.
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Here's a suggestion. How about making a custom mission featuring the UEFg Karuna? The ship forms backbone of the UEF fleet, isn't anyone curious what the ship is actually capable of? ;)

(Though Karuna's point defense turret is not what it should be because fs2_open 3.6.10 does not support $Burst. This is corrected in the 3.6.12 Feature Pack.)
« Last Edit: February 22, 2010, 11:46:30 am by Fury »

 

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It certainly is capable of knocking a good 40% hullintegrity out of the Orestes with it's debris  :p at least it did on my playthrough.

 

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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Here's a suggestion. How about making a custom mission featuring the UEFg Karuna? The ship forms backbone of the UEF fleet, isn't anyone curious what the ship is actually capable of? ;)

(Though Karuna's point defense turret is not what it should be because fs2_open 3.6.10 does not support $Burst. This is corrected in the 3.6.12 Feature Pack.)

 
It won't sound the same without Darius driving it.
 
 
But I might have a go. Nice extra mainhall by the way :yes:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Extra mainhall? :eek:
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
god dammit! those AI changes made the shivans fierce fighters, I can barely finish the missions on medium.

and I love to get pwned by shivans, great work :yes:
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Re: BP: Age of Aquarius - The Director's Cut discussion
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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