To quote our philosophy:
"The upgrades are not supposed to replace the old versions for several reasons. First of all, the FSCRP makes campaigns compatible with FreeSpace Open and also makes use of several FSO features, meaning that the upgraded campaigns will no longer be compatible with the Retail version of FreeSpace 2. Additionally, the Team doesn't want to effectively replace the work of the original campaign creators as an act of respect."
hi,
oh sorry, must i have overread as i read the post, sorry about that, but the orginal author edit afaik all table and say in the game thats they are upgrades variants, i believe if he had the pool of ships/models that we have acceses today he had would use some of this stuff.
the other thing is, thats a great campaine in both meanings.
the immersion is great, the story is great and the campain has a great number of missions.
i believe some new ships would give the campaine abit of polish without that this chances have a great impact of the campaine or that its would look respectless.
for exampel in the first part the are orions mk II, they are normal orins with edit table, i think its a good option to replace them with another orion model.
or the constructed jump gate to gama dragonis, is a normal knossos with a arcadia, but there are human jump gate (seen in blue planet).
then the destroyer in the second part of the campaine, its a hades, as far i me remember in the game its only say thats its a construct of the old days of the great war, but theres nothing about the source, so it would good for a replace.
then as the GTVA attack the hammer of light mainbasis, afaik was there 3 normal arcadias and some "new" ships in drydock.
or the marco polo, its a improved better version of the orignal colossus.
like i say i would say that this look respectless but the story of the game tells about new ships but the author had only the accses of the standart-ships of freespace2 and so he had to edit the tables.
so i think it would be in the end more a
optical chance as a real replace, even if they ships have another firepoints and count of weapons as the orignal ones.
but its only my meaning and i can understand if you not agree with me.
but thanks to deepstar we know now the game of the author, if we ask him and he would say yes to replacements, would you think about it?
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