[perihelion]

Very much enjoying the campaign so far.  I like the Valhalla's approach to combat.  It's like death by a thousand paper cuts instead of being skewered by a knife.

I am having a problem in the missions towards the end when I get to fly a modified Apollo.  Whenever the Apollo is a flyable ship, I get a CTD if I try to go to the "select ship" screen.  I can still choose my weapons, just not my ship.

I didn't start the campaign with a "brand new" pilot file, so that could be causing it, but I wanted to check and see if anyone had other ideas.  I'm using the latest setup from Turey's installer.

Also curious, were any of Lightspeed's nebulae used, or any other improved backgrounds?  'Cause all the backgrounds appear to be retail (which is fine if that was intended, I'm just a little surprised.)

Again, thanks!

[TopAce]

No idea about the Apollo thing, it probably doesn't have an icon and that causes the crash. Try the graphic setting which displays the 3-D model instead of its 2-D icon in the ship and weapon selection.

As for the nebulae: ITHOV uses no special, non-retail background. Nebulae are named like retail: neb01, dneb01 etc., so both retail and Lightspeed's nebulae should work.

[perihelion]

*Tips hat*

That did the trick.  Finished the campaign too.  Very nicely done.

[TopAce]

By the way, don't be frightened to bump this thread when needed. You have my permission.

[CKid]

Here is a problem. Whenever I start the mission after Nowhere to hide, on the loading screen I get the following error:
          Error: Invalid subsystem name.
          In sexpression: ( when
              (true)
              (turret-lock
                  "PRCv Skeleton"
                  "turret25"
                  "turret26"
            )
          )
          (Error appears to be: turret25)
         File:C:\temp\fs2_open_3_6_9.t\code\Mission\MissionParse.cpp
         Line: 5754
Any help would be great, Thanks.

[Qwer]

Finished first mission so far (I hadn't got time before to play it). Looks promising. Expect me to give full review in at most one week.

[falcon2105]

Someone care to explain what in gods name happened, like who killed Adliss, in the last mission

[TopAce]

His character is unspecified. I guess it's not the character that is important, but the fact that he did what he did.

[Sarafan]

I just finished the campaign and I have to say its a good one but it could've been better. The ending was good and like you say if it lead to Blackwater Ops it would be better (I really want my explanation and sequels are always good to have).
Two things that I noticed that hurted the campaign are how the text is written, several things more so on the beginning are written, IMO, rather poorly and be could be better. The second is that the story should've been told better (some corrections in the dialogue could easily correct this), I didnt found out what Mcarthy was doing with the Shivans until Yssim talked to the Vasudan 6th Battlegroup, also the pirates werent presented in a good manner, I found myself asking ''Who is that guy?'' when the name of the pirate leader was mentioned but didnt even knew he was a pirate.

[Rhythmic]

WOW @ the ending.


All I am going to say about that.

[Qwer]

Haven't had time for playing this, so I've completed it just now. Campaign is above average, but not exellent. Idea of bad-guy-who-wants-to-control-Shivans was used before and gets boring. IMHO ITHoV was very good in beginning where you didn't know WTF is going on, but the closer it got to the end, it became more predictable and boring. Some plot stuff is unreallistic. Still I can give you overall grade 7/10.

[TrashMan]

I wonder why I had massive slowdowns on the last mission every 30 seconds or so when I faced the Lucifer and the Hatshupset. It was a similar situation of what happened in the mission "Breaking Sirius 2" in the Flames of War campaign. It is hard to believe that with my system, I sometimes have slowdowns with FSO.

My system is:

Windows XP Professional OS
AMD Athlon 3200+ 64 bit processor
1 GB of DDR RAM 2700PC
SATA 7200 RPM hard drive
Radeon Viper X1600 512MB AGP 8X video card
2ms 1280x1024 monitor with DVI connection to the video card

Edit: Now it is slowing down in a mission it never did before. I'm now assuming that it is because I'm using a November CVS build. It was really hanging badly in even the first Flames of War mission and it didn't take much.

Strangness... my machine is similar to yours (only the graphics card is GForce 6800 GS, 256MB) and I had no slowdons whatsoever in neither campaign.

[TopAce]

Haven't had time for playing this, so I've completed it just now. Campaign is above average, but not exellent. Idea of bad-guy-who-wants-to-control-Shivans was used before and gets boring. IMHO ITHoV was very good in beginning where you didn't know WTF is going on, but the closer it got to the end, it became more predictable and boring. Some plot stuff is unreallistic. Still I can give you overall grade 7/10.

It's a pity you didn't like it. To be honest, I don't know where it was used before, and it wasn't me who added this genetic-thingy to the plot.

[Dysko]

To be honest, I don't know where it was used before

IIRC, it was used in Warzone.

[Mobius]

To the creator of this campaign:

Where did you take names like Cinquencento,Ambedue,Nessuno?

[TopAce]

Those are existant Italian words. Why?

[Dysko]

Probably he found a bit strange having ships named Five Hundred, Both Of Them and Nobody.

Actually, I didn't even notice them

[Mobius]

Well I noticed them and almost suspected that the creator of the campaign was KARMA.

[neoterran]

Karma ? who's that ?

[TopAce]

KARMA is an Italian HLPer; he used to be the leader of the Star Wars Conversion project. He made the hi-poly Fenris in co-operation with Vasudan Admiral.

He's the most senior Italian HLPer.