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Reviews and Feedback thread Episode 1 & 2
Nightmare:
Ahhh, such a beautiful thing, thank you for uploading this! :) I wanted to watch it on my own PC but with 32 bit builts... I had to swap ship classes only to be able to skip it without crash...
Droid803:
Right. I forgot to post after finishing my playthrough. I ended up using default FreeSpace controls because my fossilized brain couldn't remember the throttle controls for the new setup so I ended up not being able to use slide much, but still managed to do fine. Made the Vulture a bit more tricky to fly, the one time I tried it but it still worked. Amusingly I ended up just using the bogstandard FreeSpace 1/2 meta of a rapid-fire primary and loading nothing but the light dumbfires for secondaries. Basically, Droid803 the caveman-brained moron deliberately played WoD like it was FS2, made it work through sheer stubborness, purposefully ignoring all of the new and cool stuff, then wondered why WoD played almost exactly like FS2 except with abusable shielded capships. Yes. I am not an intelligent robot.
I also found the CRF Templar to be a decent craft. The characters complain that it's bad for a Gen 4, but you never get to compare it with it's supposed contemporaries so it's actually not awful to actually fly, fat target profile aside.
I especially liked what you did with the Contravention. Will what it does be shown in other instances with the other UGC ships? :P
Also, I'm slightly miffed I didn't get to keep my new friend at the end. Why did everyone have to shoot it? I was going to tame it and ride it gloriously into battle...
Overall, it's gr8. I r8 8/8! It's the first time I've been hooked playing FreeSpace and being excited to fire up the next mission and see how the story is going to progress and whatnot in ages. It also happens to be my first time actually playing FreeSpace in a non-development capacity in ages, go figure.
You've heard all my gripes already, and there's nothing new so I'll leave em off here. *cough* SOC loop the simulators please *cough*
Spoon:
--- Quote from: Droid803 on March 15, 2019, 11:49:18 pm ---Also, I'm slightly miffed I didn't get to keep my new friend at the end. Why did everyone have to shoot it? I was going to tame it and ride it gloriously into battle...
--- End quote ---
You need to be at least 8 feet tall to ride!
Inglonias:
I just learned this had been released last weekend, and didn’t get around to finishing it until just now. Damn, that was some enjoyable Freespace.
Gameplay was different enough from Freespace that I had fun. I liked the differences in how enemy fighters tended to fight, but I had some issues with the game’s difficulty curve. Easy mode was too easy, and Normal was too hard. My play style boils down to “crash into enemies while spamming the fire button until they are dead” and that didn’t work so well in Normal. Still, I got through the game just fine on Easy, and boosting my shields one notch was enough to save my hide in most cases.
Weapon-wise, I had no complaints. Secondaries could have been more useful early on, but once I got the HLP, they did pretty much what I wanted them to. There really wasn’t a good reason for me to take anything but the HLP and dumbfire rockets (either variety) in any given mission once I got those. I found that the kinetic weapons lacked any real use for my play style, given I get so close to my targets. Energy weapons did eventually beat through shields, and half the enemies didn’t even have them.
Next, the story.
Spoiler:I had no real complaints about the story. I’m not the biggest anime person (the amount of anime I have watched is basically none), but I enjoyed this one. Some of the people on the Angel were a little one-note, but I didn’t dislike any of them, and I feel like if there was more time, they would have been more fleshed out.
The twist that Dawn essentially read the last version of the mod’s script and then ret-conned it herself was cute. Feels like one of those clever writer’s moments.
Yeah, I had no complaints, and the campaign was fun while it lasted! Bravo to everyone involved!
Spoon:
Thanks for the post, glad to hear you liked it and had fun! :yes:
--- Quote ---Some of the people on the Angel were a little one-note, but I didn’t dislike any of them, and I feel like if there was more time, they would have been more fleshed out.
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Yeah, there's only so much character development that can be done in a single episode, without turning the VN parts into hours long reading.
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