[Rodo]

I'm just replaying the full campaign again, well it feels odd to have nebulae in sol, particulary because we know for certain there are no largely visible nebulae from our system, maybe a little nebula here or there wouldn't hurt but what you added seems way too much.
It didn't felt like sol, also note that the sun bitmap is kinda strange in some missions, EG in the 3rd mission in the asteroid belt, the sun seems too small and it's not white-yellow how I would have expected.

Overall the campaign presents a couple of bugfixes that are noticeable and make it better, like the fact that you changed the position of the Sacred Keeper on the first mission it appears, that was a good change

[General Battuta]

There aren't any asteroid fields like that in Sol either, but nobody seems to mind. Rule of Cool, perhaps?

[-Norbert-]

Or maybe noone who played the campaign was ever inside the asteroid field to take a look at how it really is 

[Wobble73]

There aren't any asteroid fields like that in Sol either, but nobody seems to mind. Rule of Cool, perhaps?

So what's the Kuiper belt then?

[Colonol Dekker]

Is there going to be a credits cutscene mission like Derelict? That'd be nice.

[The E]

There aren't any asteroid fields like that in Sol either, but nobody seems to mind. Rule of Cool, perhaps?

So what's the Kuiper belt then?

Even emptier. The asteroid belt is much, much less dense than commonly depicted. The Kuiper belt is less dense than that. Oh, both of them are navigational hazards, but not as extreme as that.

[General Battuta]

Yeah. You'd have to fly for ages on FreeSpace scale to find more than one asteroid in an area. Of course, the Oort Cloud contains three times the mass of Earth (last I recall?) but it, too, is just as empty.

[Mongoose]

But that would make Paving the Way a horrifically boring mission, so thankfully went for a far less realistic take on things.

[Thaeris]

(a.) "Preserving the Balance"

I found that the GTL Solace's docking point causes it to actually be inside of the GTD Temeraire. The Solace thus shakes around as if it's being rammed, etc. It also is visually unappealing. This must be due to issues with the model itself; I assume someone who knows their way around PCS2 might fix the problem.

(b.) "Universal Truth"

For the most part, the mission runs well. The cutscene does not cause the HUD to disappear when you return to the fighter, which is a nice change from campaigns which rely heavily on "shift-O" (such as JAD) to counter that problem. However, the music is disabled when you return to the cockpit. This did not appear to be a problem in the Tech room after I had finished the story, but the point is defeated when you can't enjoy the full extent of the mission while the campaign is in progress. On a separate note, would it be possible to add a SEXP that would either limit the speed of the fighter in the beginning of the mission so it does not stray far from the Orestes OR add one (this would be better) that would bring the player's fighter to a stop when the dialogue between the Shivans and Vishnans commences? I didn't think to cut my throttle the first time I played the mission and ended up between the Vishnan Juggernaught's field generator when the cutscene ended... after which I had to rush back to the fleet...

-Thaeris

[General Battuta]

Merging with the existing thread devoted only to discussing and reporting bugs/suggestions in general.   

[blowfish]

Oh ... in Proving Grounds you can give the attack order to the Miranda and the Boreas.  This will cause the Lucifer's beams to target them, rather than the Orestes (just by distance), and the lucifer, hull will eventually get depleted without the Orestes being destroyed, resulting in the mission failing.

[NGTM-1R]

Oh ... in Proving Grounds you can give the attack order to the Miranda and the Boreas.  This will cause the Lucifer's beams to target them, rather than the Orestes (just by distance), and the lucifer, hull will eventually get depleted without the Orestes being destroyed, resulting in the mission failing.

I swear I reported this in the original release...

[General Battuta]

I believe it was fixed in BP 3.6.10.

My latest internal version of the mission definitely doesn't have the problem.

[-Norbert-]

I have a (very) little suggestion for the cutscene were the Lucifer blows up the Orion.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the Orion concentrated all it's firepower on the Lucifer instead of firing at (and missing) the fighters?

[Thaeris]

That's actually a very good suggestion... 

[Akalabeth Angel]

I have a (very) little suggestion for the cutscene were the Lucifer blows up the Orion.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the Orion concentrated all it's firepower on the Lucifer instead of firing at (and missing) the fighters?

The Lucifer had impenetrable shields it wouldn't have mattered either way. Visually it might look a little cooler.

[Thaeris]

Even if the gunners "knew" those shields were inpenatrable, they'd probably try and shoot the Lucy anyway. It's the natural reaction to do when you're up against the wall... you'll do anything to defend yourself despite the knowledge you inherently have that says "there's no way you can win."

[Snail]

The blobs would take quite a while to hit the Lucy...

[Colonol Dekker]

Credit mission with out-takes..

[Akalabeth Angel]

Even if the gunners "knew" those shields were inpenatrable, they'd probably try and shoot the Lucy anyway. It's the natural reaction to do when you're up against the wall... you'll do anything to defend yourself despite the knowledge you inherently have that says "there's no way you can win."

The alternative is though the gunners might think "there's no way we can take down that ship but at least I can take down some of these damn fighters with me before I die."

Even so, I think getting ships to fire at other ships with blobs has always been problematic. Unless there's some new SexP. Best thing to do would probably be to make a missile weapon that looks like a blob like the Fusion Mortar on the Leviathan so that it fires at the ship.