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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
Yeah, get that log. I'm really curious what's going on here.

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
A straight CTD with no FSO-generated error message is one of the more annoying classes of errors; the debug log almost never has something useful, and the only real way to track it down is to reproduce the crash in a debugger.
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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
Is it possible that the "Database" could get put into FS2Blue like it is for other BP campaigns so we can see the intelligence entries while playing that campaign?


Also, when trying FSBlue, I noticed a minor issue with the ships database:  Why isn't the Amun bomber in the database?  The Osiris and 2 FS2 Vasudan bombers were there but not the Amun.
EDIT:  I tried regular FS2 and found the Amun wasn't there either.  So never mind on my second point (though I personally found the Amun to be better than the Osiris).
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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
I don't think the Amun is in FS2, is it?

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
I don't think the Amun is in FS2, is it?

I eventually found that it wasn't.



As to my other question:  would it be possible to get Intelligence Entries in FS2 Blue?

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
I just played "Endgame" in FS2 Blue.

The mission requires you to fail the secondary objective of destroying the Iceni, but I was able to accomplish the primary objective of protecting the Knossos.  In the debriefing though I got failure music.  Shouldn't the "successful" debriefing music have played?

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
The "successful" debriefing music only plays if all primary and secondary objectives have been completed.  If any of these objectives have been failed, the "average" music plays.

Of course, the mission designer can configure the "average" condition to use the "success" music track if he so chooses.

 
Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
Terribly sorry for the bump, but I am wondering if this project is still being worked on or if it is considered complete.

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
 :bump:

I was in the mood again to play the FS2 main campaign again since it's been like... ten years :nervous: or so since my last run. So I decided to give this one a run. Unfortunately, I encountered a few issues.

1. The Morning Star seemingly has zero capability of affecting an object's flight path. Has it always been so or did you do changes to it's stats?

2. The Cyclops seems to be unavailable to the player. This is "somewhat" of a problem in some missions.

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
Morningstar does not have any kinetic effect any more.

The Cyclops thing sounds like a genuine bug though. Which MVPs were you using?

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
Morningstar does not have any kinetic effect any more.
Which makes Proving Grounds even more frustrating than it already was. But overall I think I like the change.

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The Cyclops thing sounds like a genuine bug though. Which MVPs were you using?
I play via Knossos which automatically uses the most recent ones. I wondered whether this can be right as the latest release of BP dates back a while longer afair. But neither can I change it.

I thought the problem was that there is a missing allow-weapon SEXP in the mission before Rebels & Renegades.

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
I'm through with it. Most of the improvements are nice and add to the gameplay, especially in Slaying Ravana. The Yakiba, though, is a Deimos in the original. I extra checked that because I have her in my StormFront camapaign and was afraid right away that I accidentally transformed her into the wrong ship class. I take it you changed her to a Leviathan to be consistent with the briefing? :)

TAG missiles is something I never used except in the mission where you have to.

As for the campaign itself, I was surprised how... dull the mission design is compared to what most community projects produce nowadays. In some instances its even really bad, e.g. in Argonautica when the Moloch jumps right in front of the Aquitaine just to wait to be blown to smithereens. And then the Agrippa's flight path makes her collide with the Aquitaine. Well, they made the game in under a year back then iirc. Unimaginable by today's standards. :)

Yet it was kind of fun playing this classic again. As said it's been easily ten years since my last run.

 
Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
They didn't had FSO back then, and slower machines. The Sathanas vs Colly duell is pretty boring, but you probably couldn't do much more than that back then.

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
We spiced up that duel a little in FS Blue.

You should really try TAGs out. They’re not just viable but maybe overpowered.

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
We spiced up that duel a little in FS Blue.

You should really try TAGs out. They’re not just viable but maybe overpowered.
Using FSBlue TAGs on High Noon is certainly something no-one should miss out on. :nod:

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
What prompted the morningstar nerf? The kinetic effect seemed to be the USP, I just wonder what it brings to the table without knocking targets about?
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Re: FreeSpace Blue: FreeSpace 2 as it should've been.
It wasn't a nerf, it was a rework. The retail morningstar is a useless gun that is only ever used in one specific mission to knock around invulnerable stealth ships for a secondary objective. Its damage is pathetic and its energy drain is higher than the Kayser. Sure, you can knock a fighter around for a while but why do that when you can take the Prom S and just kill them outright with half the sustained energy cost?

In FSBLue the morningstar deals better damage and does it with a proximity-detonation shockwave so it's new unique selling point is that it can do good damage even with near misses. It also has the CIWS flag so those shockwaves can damage bombs too, making it great at both bomb intercept and dogfighting.
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