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Offline Alex Heartnet

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
I'm not seeing any 'massive damage' part in the missions where the Albertine takes fire.  Sure, it has that stealth system, but blowing that out doesn't adversely affect the rest of the ship.  In fact, vanilla destroyers like the Hecate or Ravana have bigger weak spots - the Albertine is not as easily disarmed.

It is entirely possible for a formidable foe to have a weak spot and still feel like a formidable foe regardless.  The retail campaigns for both Freespace games are proof of this.

 

Offline Legate Damar

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
I was saying the Albertine was an exception to that, which is one of the reasons I liked it

 

Offline TheGruntMinion

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
A rather flawless campaign Topace, you don't fail to deliever a good campaign.

Gotta love the rebels and insurgencies, for once you clear out one branch there's always another ready to take its places! The stinken rebel scum keep getting their hand on more

Nice refrenses all over the place, like Challenge accepted, and if I recall right, the wilhelm! Where's my scream? Nay, just messing with you.

 

Offline Alpha1

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
This mod is fun! I like it very much, thx!

 
Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
Brilliant campaign :nod:

 

Offline azile0

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
Though I just finished the first mission, I must say that I am impressed. And I approve of the use of Kingdom Hearts music.

EDIT:
Spoiler:
Good lord, this campaign is hard. I'm on the Prisoner break mission and I've so far died at least twice on each mission. Maybe it's because I'm rusty at this game or it wasn't designed for Medium, or I just suck, but I am reaaaaallllly having a hard time with it.

Also, my wingmates. My frigging wingmates. This is like a flashback of Deus Ex, because usually within the first 3 minutes they're all dead.

Edit 2: After turning down the option to skip the mission  mentioned in the spoilers, I have turned the difficulty down to Easy. I want to like your campaign, but I'm too bad at this game to enjoy it since my wingmates and I keep getting splashed by those Ulysses and Myrms with the crazy powerful guns.
« Last Edit: June 25, 2012, 03:36:45 am by azile0 »
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Offline TopAce

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
As mentioned in the OP, the game was tested most thoroughly on Medium, and to some extent Easy and Hard as well.

Very Easy probably won't cause issues, so I suggest you play on that difficulty setting.

Or, if you just want to beat that mission, it is safe to make your wingmen invulnerable via cheats. Or ~K down the enemy fighters and bombers.
« Last Edit: June 25, 2012, 04:47:22 am by TopAce »
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Offline azile0

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
I'm not going to cheat on this campaign, that would spoil the fun. :]

I'll crank it back up to Medium, then. But I think I figured out my problem. Ever since FS1, I've been using the number pad to fly. But for the past week or two I'm flying with a joystick. I'm just a bit out of touch with it. Once I figure out how to use the darn thing well, I'll be fine.

Edit: Took a few more tries, but I beat the mission and had no problems with the rest of the campaign. Very well done, and I love the cliffhanger at the end.

Spoiler:
I'm excited to see what will happen when the Vasudans try to secede from the GTVA..
« Last Edit: June 25, 2012, 10:11:56 pm by azile0 »
You get one chocolate chip.

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Self-proclaimed master of the Keypad.

 

Offline Medve

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.0
Excellent campaign. Really liked how there's an emphasis on using your squadron, rather than you being all the forces you'll need. Plus there were some really good mission ideas with a lot of bonus/secondary objectives, which had the feeling they're important.

The pure military thing came through really well, and I liked how it was essentially like a game of chess between admirals, wherein you're a pawn. The Duel is a fine mission to end such a story.
My only "complaint" is that the AI was completely crackshot for me. They seemingly never missed. Normally I've got no problem with that, but when you're striking a warship, and all the beam weapons hit you, even when you're afterburner-evading like a crazy midget at high range, now that's annoying. I had to hide behind other ships and such and use pop-up strikes between beam cycles, which was an interesting change in tactics.

This single thing probably just adds to the flavor, and all in all, the campaign was definitely worth the wait. Thank you, and keep up the good work!

 

Offline TopAce

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
I have uploaded the v1.1 patch. It is a full download, and the changes are minor, so if you have v1.0, downloading the patch may not be worth it.

The v1.0 download will be removed sooner or later to make sure no one will accidentally download the old version.

Swantz, could you update the FSMods download as well? Thanks.
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Offline achtung

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
Updated fsmods mirror for 1.1
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Offline FSW

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
I have been enjoying this campaign, but I have come up against a show-stopping bug that prevents me from progressing.
Spoiler alert!
On the mission 'From my Cold, Dead Hands' (or something like that) FS2 crashes to desktop immediately after I enter the Arcadia's hangar. I'll post a debug log the next time I attempt it. Meanwhile: has anyone else experienced this?

EDIT:
I ran the mission on RC6 debug and... it didn't crash!

For posterity:
I was using RC6 (non-debug). I was not using custom models other than what is in the 3.6.12 MVPs and the mod's own VPs. I had run the mission twice and it crashed both times in the same place.

Also: nice campaign, TopAce! It's a lot of fun.

EDIT 2:
I played the mission a few more times using both RC6 and RC6 debug; the crash did not recur.
« Last Edit: July 03, 2012, 08:40:38 pm by FSW »

 

Offline TopAce

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
Hmm. It has never occurred to me.

Which build are you using? (also: release or a debug build?)
How many times have you tried the mission?
Are you using the hi-poly Arcadia? (I wasn't, while testing)
« Last Edit: July 05, 2012, 03:33:10 pm by TopAce »
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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
i have trouble with sacend mission for your campaign
i using build 3.6.14 rc 6 release build
please help me
i have msi gt663r
my videocard is NVIDIA Geforce GTX 480M / 1.5 GB
my ram is DDR3 12 GB
i have the updated version from my videodrivers
I hope its enough information
« Last Edit: July 09, 2012, 05:11:03 pm by WouterSmitssm »

 

Offline TopAce

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
What kind of trouble? If it's a crash, when does it happen, and do you get an error message?
« Last Edit: July 10, 2012, 01:10:08 am by TopAce »
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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
What kind of trouble? If it's a crash, when does it happen, and do you get an error message?
lag
i cant play the sacend mission becouse its lagging
afther i press commit

 

Offline TopAce

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
With the config you have posted, it shouldn't be lagging. I have a much, much weaker comp and mission 2 runs without any lagging. All I can do is to recommend you lower your graphic settings. Set resolution to 1024x768, ariso-something filtering to zero. If that doesn't help, disabling the MediaVPs is possibly your best bet. Though as I said, your comp is very powerful and SHOULD run anything without any lag.
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
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14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
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18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []

 
Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
with the another campaigns no trouble only yours
why to set lower if another works fine
try to understand that this isnt going to fix it
« Last Edit: July 10, 2012, 10:47:28 am by WouterSmitssm »

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: RELEASE: Luyten Civil War v1.1
try to understand that this isnt going to fix it
Did you try it?
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []