[mosshadow]

No. A number of missions were rebuilt to be less obnoxious or more epic (Slaying Ravana, High Noon, As Lightning Fall, Their Finest Hour), weapons and ships were rebalanced (with the Prom R, Circe, Morning Star, and Piranha all getting buffs, as did a number of Vasudan fighters), and TAGs now work spectacularly.

Do you have any suggestions for further changes?

Tutorial skip has been in since retail.

Sounds nice, I'll definitely try out the Tags and new guns. I always used the morning star even though it was terrible because knocking people around was so fun!

I never knew tutorial skip existed. It might have just always malfunctioned on my computer because Its never worked for me.

[Aesaar]

Well, it doesn't knock people around anymore.  Whack guns don't make for good gameplay.

[Cobra]

If anyone's having FPS issues in WiH 1 and 2, turn off shadows.

Good God, the First Fleet flyby in the WiH2 credits hit 7.2 FPS. I was playing some missions with 15.

Either the newest builds are inefficient with the shadows, my graphics card just isn't up to snuff anymore, or BP is so massively detailed it just bogs everything anyway.

[AdmiralRalwood]

If anyone's having FPS issues in WiH 1 and 2, turn off shadows.

Good God, the First Fleet flyby in the WiH2 credits hit 7.2 FPS. I was playing some missions with 15.

Either the newest builds are inefficient with the shadows, my graphics card just isn't up to snuff anymore, or BP is so massively detailed it just bogs everything anyway.

Probably "a little of column A, a little of column B" going on; regardless, recent Nightlies now default to shadows off.

[Cobra]

Hmm, they were defaulted on in the build BP linked. Not really an issue. The biggest offender is the Erebus-class. Everything's fine until you see the Erebus, then the framerate drops considerably.

Shadows make you feel spoiled when turned on.

[-Norbert-]

I just ran into a little weirdness in "Preserving the Balance".

When the second wave of Shivans warped in, the Temeraire almost immediately began to blast away at them, taking out the first Ravana (at some 12+ km distance) while the Vishnans were still warping in.

It's a bit strange to have everyone go "Oh god, we'll all die!" and then have the Temeraire just casually dispatch one third of the attacking force with contemptual ease.

[CKid]

Just finished Universal Truth and noticed maybe a few bugs. When Ken tells you to run to the light, I see nothing but black, not even the Great darkness. Also when you are running from the Vishnans and listening to Bosch, instead of flying through a red nebula I appear to be inside the great darkness. Is this intentional?

[Makhpella]

Don't know about the light, but the 'nebula' is intentional.

[GhylTarvoke]

A couple of minor FreeSpace Blue issues.

"Endgame": My comms subsystem was destroyed, and for some reason, the support ship didn't repair it.
"Speaking in Tongues": Command ordered everyone to ignore the Iceni, but everyone attacked anyway.
"High Noon": There was no RTB directive.

[Cobra]

Just finished Universal Truth and noticed maybe a few bugs. When Ken tells you to run to the light, I see nothing but black, not even the Great darkness. Also when you are running from the Vishnans and listening to Bosch, instead of flying through a red nebula I appear to be inside the great darkness. Is this intentional?

I thought that at first but after staring at the texture all I thought was "shattered subspace."

[GhylTarvoke]

Okay, a more serious issue. While loading Into the Lion's Den, the game crashed and gave this message:

loop2-2.fs2(line 39):
Error: Required token = [#Command Briefing] or [#Briefing], found [$AI Profile: BP].

ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_3_SSE_20151103_0ea25e7.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_3_SSE_20151103_0ea25e7.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_3_SSE_20151103_0ea25e7.exe! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>

[General Battuta]

Okay, a more serious issue. While loading Into the Lion's Den, the game crashed and gave this message:

loop2-2.fs2(line 39):
Error: Required token = [#Command Briefing] or [#Briefing], found [$AI Profile: BP].

ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_3_SSE_20151103_0ea25e7.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_3_SSE_20151103_0ea25e7.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_3_SSE_20151103_0ea25e7.exe! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>

We actually managed to catch and patch this yesterday! Update your core VP.

[GhylTarvoke]

Works great now!

New problem: at the start of "A Blue Planet...", I seem to be flying through the Orestes' textures, which also have weird glitches.

[General Battuta]

I can't repro that locally.

[Valikdu]

I've just updated the mod. Her Finest Hour crashed three times in a row, without a log; it happens just as I'm about to win (I've called in all the reinforcements, the Carthage is disabled).

[General Battuta]

Turn all those graphics waaaaaay down.

[Valikdu]

Um... it just happened again.

I've noticed that it tends to happen when I'm trying to select the last remaining Deimos (the one that isn't Iolanthe? I think).

[GhylTarvoke]

I can't repro that locally.

Screenshot attached. The textures flicker as well, even while the game is paused.

The installer says I'm up to date on everything. Here are my flags:

C:\FreeSpace2\fs2_open_3_7_3_SSE_20151103_0ea25e7.exe -mod bpcomplete,mediavps_2014 -nomotiondebris -3dshockwave -post_process -soft_particles -no_deferred -disable_shadows -3dwarp -mipmap

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[The E]

What sort of GPU are you using?

[GhylTarvoke]

An NVIDIA GeForce GT 440. I'm playing at 1024x768 (windowed for the screenshot), with high graphics settings and no AA. I haven't had any other texture problems.

BTW, by "paused", I meant that I hadn't decided whether to skip the training evaluation yet.

EDIT: More info: my OS is Vista, and I'm not using the enhanced graphics package.