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FreeSpace Blue: No promotion to higher Ranks and no final cutscene
Hello guys.

First of all: you did an awesome job. I recently read an news article about FreeSpace 2 Blue Planet and decided to give this mod a try. After a few hours I was convinced of your work.^^

Before playing the new campaigns I decided to play the original main campaign, just to get some feeling for the game again, for I haven't played it for years, but after maybe three quarters of the campaign I started to wonder, why there was no promotion so far, but because it is nothing of significance, I ignored it.
After playing the rest of the campaign, I found that I had still received no promotion, although I should have been promoted two times according to my points (which were 20149 at that time), and that the last cutscene where the sun of Capella goes supernova was missing, too.

Now I'm a bit curious: Has anyone else had those problems, or am I the only one? If I am not, is there any solution?
Maybe it could be due to me using an installation of the game in German language, this could be part of the problem, but I don't know, I have no experience in modding anyway.^^

Last but not least, I want to apologize for any misspellings or bad grammar for my English is not as good as it once was.^^


Best regards

Asmodheus

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: No promotion to higher Ranks and no final cutscene
We've disabled promotions for FreeSpace Blue. The GTVA and UEF use different rank systems, we'd need voice acting, promotions can pop up at awkward times in the story. It gets weird.

As for the missing cutscene, I think you may have a file in the wrong place — does anyone remember what you have to move around?

 
Re: FreeSpace Blue: No promotion to higher Ranks and no final cutscene
So I do have at least an explanation for the missing promotions. Thank you for that.^^

Is there any way to get the promotions back for the main campaign?

 

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Re: FreeSpace Blue: No promotion to higher Ranks and no final cutscene
Play it without FreeSpace Blue. :P
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