[nuone]

Wow, that was such an incredible campaign. First time I finished it, with FS2 Open 3.6.9 and mediavps 3.6.10. Using FS2 Open 3.6.10 was sluggish. Damn that was an incredible campaign.

(PS. First time posting too)

[General Battuta]

Glad to hear you liked it! Any particular favorite missions? Did you get stuck on anything?

[Jeff Vader]

with FS2 Open 3.6.9 and mediavps 3.6.10. Using FS2 Open 3.6.10 was sluggish.

wat

That combination should be rather prone to problems. Which 3.6.10 build did you try and what are your system specs?

[eliex]

Wow, that was such an incredible campaign. First time I finished it, with FS2 Open 3.6.9 and mediavps 3.6.10. Using FS2 Open 3.6.10 was sluggish. Damn that was an incredible campaign.

(PS. First time posting too)

The music used in the campaign was really well integrated don't you think?

[Droid803]

The music was epic!

[nuone]

The Music was freaking incredible! The tone and pacing are epic. I loved every second of it. Once I figured out how to use the Orb radar to locate signals. I will tell you wat, I would PAY to play this MOD. Incredible. Super job guys.

By the way, for some reason, when I ran build "fred2_open_3_6_10r-20081210_r4989" with the mediavps 3.6.10 everything was very pretty but VERY SLOW. I have a HP Pavilion Intel CoreDuo @ 1.60 GHz with 2 Gigs of DDR2 RAM. ATI Radeon X1650 512Mb. Now that I look at the specs they are kind of dated. Still, I'm not running quake or anything.

[Galemp]

I will tell you wat, I would PAY to play this MOD. Incredible. Super job guys.

You could always make a donation to the HLP server fund. That would keep these things coming.

[Titan]

(PS. First time posting too)

[nuone]

Thanks

[Unknown Target]

I really loved the campaign, great work on it. Some lines I thought were a little cheesy or weren't realistic, but overall the entire thing was absolutely astounding, and the music was gorgeous (still trying to get all the tracks).

[Dilmah G]

I really loved the campaign, great work on it. Some lines I thought were a little cheesy or weren't realistic, but overall the entire thing was absolutely astounding, and the music was gorgeous (still trying to get all the tracks).

Yeah I know what you mean, they would sound unnatural, but it sat well with Bei's character, I mean he wasn't a redneck or your typical Hollywood style expletive spouting rookie shooting at everything that moves and even **** that doesn't

Bei came off as knowing crisp, cultured english, kind of like 'formal' english, rather than the whole heap of slang we know English to be. If he had turned around and gone "F*ck this" in the middle of a mission, it would've been the biggest WTF moment EVER, and the biggest character development F*ck-up in the history of the HLP.

[SPECTRE87]

To be honest I'm pretty disappointed with the Campaign, for several reasons; Some more sever than others...

#1 Not voiced 
A great handicap is that it's not voiced, which IMO is pretty much needed if you want to get people into your story. It's actually annoying to see so much written material not being used, and most people will miss a lot of neat/vital details during the missions as they are forced to read long conversations between all sorts of people. I know it's takes a lot of time to do this proper, but it just adds the extra detail that makes it shine.

#2 The story 
So Earth was destroyed (or was it?..) by the Shivans despite the common knowledge of the Lucifer being destroyed and Earth saved, from the Lucifer. I'm finding it very hard to accept this twist, and even more so the fact that some humans have been able to survive on a half-finished Orion destroyer, in a nebular, for fifty years? Come on, that just doesn't work!

#3 In-game scenes 
Tbh they just don't work. They are too tedious and more annoying than joyful. Especially the one where you encounter the Earth survivors for the first time. Too many cuts, it would have worked a lot better had it been done in a classic FreeSpace way...

But, I sense the joy you people have had making this, and that's a big plus. 


Edit: You could make better use of the MediaVPs... Would certainly aid the Mod a lot!

[Droid803]

Well, if you keep playing you'd know what's up with #2
#1 is being worked on right now...

[FoxtrotTango]

To be honest I'm pretty disappointed with the Campaign, for several reasons; Some more sever than others...

#1 Not voiced 
A great handicap is that it's not voiced, which IMO is pretty much needed if you want to get people into your story. It's actually annoying to see so much written material not being used, and most people will miss a lot of neat/vital details during the missions as they are forced to read long conversations between all sorts of people. I know it's takes a lot of time to do this proper, but it just adds the extra detail that makes it shine.

This is what pisses me off about people's hate lists. Those who are looking around for voice-only campaigns are missing some pretty good stuff, and you aren't even pleased by the fact that they're going to add voices in later. No, because you don't get what you want immediately, it damns the entire campaign. Top notch.

#2 The story 
So Earth was destroyed (or was it?..) by the Shivans despite the common knowledge of the Lucifer being destroyed and Earth saved, from the Lucifer. I'm finding it very hard to accept this twist, and even more so the fact that some humans have been able to survive on a half-finished Orion destroyer, in a nebular, for fifty years? Come on, that just doesn't work!

And yet it's completely unquestioned that Vasudans can live on those giant hivelike installations for pretty much all of their lives. The explanation was plausible enough, but I suppose that not everyone can understand why it would work.

#3 In-game scenes 
Tbh they just don't work. They are too tedious and more annoying than joyful. Especially the one where you encounter the Earth survivors for the first time. Too many cuts, it would have worked a lot better had it been done in a classic FreeSpace way...

Oh, building atmosphere is such a travesty. Why can't I be destroying more enemy ships? Goodness knows I don't have the attention span to watch this game if there's more than 20 seconds between explosions.

This kind of narrow-minded mentality annoys me very much. Choosing to whine about what the campaign doesn't have instead of appreciating what the campaign does have...I can't endure it. Ugh...

[Darius]

Let the man give his opinions Foxtrot. It's not narrow-minded, it's having an point of view. I welcome any sort of feedback from people, bar flaming (since flaming someone's work is unconstructive and poor taste), and Spectre's criticisms were quite honest and specific. Plus he had suggestions for improvement.

#1 Not voiced 
A great handicap is that it's not voiced, which IMO is pretty much needed if you want to get people into your story. It's actually annoying to see so much written material not being used, and most people will miss a lot of neat/vital details during the missions as they are forced to read long conversations between all sorts of people. I know it's takes a lot of time to do this proper, but it just adds the extra detail that makes it shine.

Voice acting is in progress, and may I say that the work that's been submitted has been really top-quality so far. The team's done a good job in getting everything organised.

Edit: You could make better use of the MediaVPs... Would certainly aid the Mod a lot!

I agree. I'm increasing compatibility with Mediavps in bringing the mod to 3.6.10.

[General Battuta]

To be honest I'm pretty disappointed with the Campaign, for several reasons; Some more sever than others...

#1 Not voiced 
A great handicap is that it's not voiced, which IMO is pretty much needed if you want to get people into your story. It's actually annoying to see so much written material not being used, and most people will miss a lot of neat/vital details during the missions as they are forced to read long conversations between all sorts of people. I know it's takes a lot of time to do this proper, but it just adds the extra detail that makes it shine.

#2 The story 
So Earth was destroyed (or was it?..) by the Shivans despite the common knowledge of the Lucifer being destroyed and Earth saved, from the Lucifer. I'm finding it very hard to accept this twist, and even more so the fact that some humans have been able to survive on a half-finished Orion destroyer, in a nebular, for fifty years? Come on, that just doesn't work!

#3 In-game scenes 
Tbh they just don't work. They are too tedious and more annoying than joyful. Especially the one where you encounter the Earth survivors for the first time. Too many cuts, it would have worked a lot better had it been done in a classic FreeSpace way...

But, I sense the joy you people have had making this, and that's a big plus. 


Edit: You could make better use of the MediaVPs... Would certainly aid the Mod a lot!

You didn't finish yet, did you? If you get about halfway through the campaign, complaint #2 is explained.

And just to ease you in, man, almost no campaigns are voice acted.

If you didn't like the cinematic, atmosphere-and-story-and-character-driven style of Blue Planet, I'd suggest Silent Threat: Reborn, which is another campaign on the same level of quality that's closer to the core Freespace style. It has a ton of great moments and superb polish.

Lastly, Darius did all the work on this campaign (excepting assets which he drew from modelpacks and adapted music.)

[SPECTRE87]

Dear lord...
Someone here just can't take constructive feedback 
At least I didn't say it sucked...


Edit: Thanks for being mature about the feedback, Darius 

And to answer a specific question.
No I haven't played the entire campaign, mainly because it crashed after I found and saved the GTD Sanctuary. But I'm not really up to finishing the campaign until voice has been added, as it literally is half the experience. And again I'm finding it hard to imagine how someone can survive on a ship in a nebular (Where is this nebular btw, compared to Earth) for fifty years. At least the Vasudans had other planets to live on and they had the luxury of constant supplies.

Again, I'll try to explain my problem with the cinematics...
They are too long, and too tedious (The Lucifers attack on Earth is a perfect example, so is the first encounter with Earth survivors) If done proper they'll be less of an irritation and add more to the story being told.

Furthermore the first time you visit Earth needs some tweaks.
The beacons needs to be closer (about 6000m). The first encounter with the Shivans, however, was well made!


All of this being said there is one thing I really like about BP... Those rapid firing primaries (They just rip apart anything! Overpowered?)

[Dilmah G]

I for one loved the use of cutscenes. In fact that's what inspired me to learn how to FRED them, I'm still working on sophisticated "Cutscene Missions". Blue Planet inspired me to do a lot of things, such as pursuing FRED-ing rather than "Leaving-it-to-Ransom".

Fair enough the whole element of trying to bring FS2 into the 21st Century through character-driven plot and cinematic elements was a bit of a hard one for me to grasp, I for one had a major WTF-moment when I saw the introduction cutscene to BP. But that's what sets BP apart from ST:R. They're Different. And they're done well.

Dear lord...
Someone here just can't take constructive feedback 

At least I didn't say it sucked...

You better not have.....

We can take constructive feedback, we're just giving our opinions on your feedback

[Pred the Penguin]

If you don't want to wait for the voiced edition, you can consider using 3.6.9 build and enabling computer generated speech.

But playing a fully voiced version is a valid point, especially for such a high quality campaign. I really liked Derelict for that reason. ^_^

As for the story... all will be explained in time.

The Lucifer cutscene was pretty annoying for me, too. But only cause I sped it up and the Orion didn't get destroyed. XD

[SPECTRE87]

After reading noodles "review" I have to conclude the BP is just not a mod for me...