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Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Whitelight on January 08, 2003, 09:36:23 pm
Hurray Black Water Operations Demo is complete :D


(edit)  link http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Alikchi on January 08, 2003, 09:40:16 pm
You're quick!
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Whitelight on January 08, 2003, 09:41:08 pm
;7 :D
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Fetty on January 08, 2003, 09:45:40 pm
i think we did let do ice good work :D
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Knight Templar on January 08, 2003, 09:49:31 pm
It is???

Wow..


Makes me think I should have known before you guys


"Luck of the Irish..... BIOTCH!! "

:D
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Whitelight on January 08, 2003, 09:50:23 pm
He`s been around and keeping very busy I see :D ;)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Black Wolf on January 08, 2003, 10:09:15 pm
Holy Jeebus! He was just uploading it about an hour ago :)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Vertigo1 on January 09, 2003, 01:32:10 am
I think I speak for everyone when I say:

Its about freakin' time man! :D

Seriously, I can't wait to get a chance to play that sucker. :)  I can only play so much of The Babylon Project Demo 1.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Setekh on January 09, 2003, 05:16:10 am
Wowsers! Great! Posting news now. ;)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Sandwich on January 09, 2003, 08:33:39 am
Oh, coolio! Now I get to see if they ironed out those bugs. ;)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Fetty on January 09, 2003, 08:40:58 am
there where , are and will be no bugs in bwo
those things are all features :D
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: IceFire on January 09, 2003, 09:47:18 am
Nothings perfect but there should never be any show stopping bugs in the release of a campaign.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Whitelight on January 09, 2003, 10:16:24 pm
I`m on the first mission, wow really dig the nebulas, great work, got wasted the first time, to busy checking our the nebs, those enemy fighters (on my six).. I`ll get down to busness this weekend and kick some butt, or vise versa.... Thanks to all the BWO staff for there efforts.:yes:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Setekh on January 10, 2003, 02:33:35 am
Played through all four missions this afternoon; was a bit surprised to find myself in there. :D Cheers, guys.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Sandwich on January 10, 2003, 07:00:34 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
Played through all four missions this afternoon; was a bit surprised to find myself in there. :D Cheers, guys.


The funny thing was it was (AFAIK) done as a tribute to you and your absence... :lol:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: elorran on January 10, 2003, 10:06:39 am
Just finished playing through.  Some nice work, though it does seem odd for me to be taking orders from myself :)

Anyway, nice work guys :nod:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Bobboau on January 10, 2003, 10:17:44 am
is it just me or does alpha 2 sound a lil drunk some of the time :)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: elorran on January 10, 2003, 10:40:21 am
It's not you, must have been sneaking swag before the mission :wink:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: CP5670 on January 10, 2003, 10:45:11 am
Downloading now; I will try it later when it gets dark.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Vertigo1 on January 10, 2003, 03:27:43 pm
Well, after fighting with 3D Download's crappy server, I managed to get the core files.  Now to get the voices.....
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: IceFire on January 10, 2003, 04:34:52 pm
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Originally posted by Setekh
Played through all four missions this afternoon; was a bit surprised to find myself in there. :D Cheers, guys.

We originally wrote that into the mission when you took your leave of the community.  Its a nod to you and what you've done.

Its good to have friends :D
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Darkage on January 10, 2003, 06:01:58 pm
I played it and i love it! very sweet done BWO team!:yes:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Setekh on January 10, 2003, 10:31:33 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
The funny thing was it was (AFAIK) done as a tribute to you and your absence... :lol:


Should I leave again? :nervous:

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Originally posted by IceFire
We originally wrote that into the mission when you took your leave of the community.  Its a nod to you and what you've done.

Its good to have friends :D


No kidding. :) Thanks again for that. Actually, that gives me an idea... :cool:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: NeoHunter on January 11, 2003, 01:30:06 am
Finally!!! I have waited a very long time for this you know!
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Fury on January 11, 2003, 04:26:37 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
that gives me an idea... :cool:

Scary s**t... :nervous: :shaking:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Anaz on January 11, 2003, 12:09:15 pm
grrr...I can't finish the first mission...lol...
First time I died, second time it randomly crashed...had to reboot
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Zaxzon on January 11, 2003, 12:16:29 pm
I am having problems with the last mission. It crashes when the gas miners jump in, also there is a big pink square on the backround. I for some reason can  not post on the vwbb or I would have posted it there. Any help?:nod:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Mr. Vega on January 11, 2003, 04:00:36 pm
Yeah, I'm getting the same thing.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Bobboau on January 11, 2003, 04:30:28 pm
funny I was playing with FSO, and an unstable build at that, and it didn't crash for me,
I did die once or twice though
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: IceFire on January 11, 2003, 05:29:48 pm
Pink square on the background....what have you done?  Maybe a corrupted file?
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Knight Templar on January 11, 2003, 06:52:44 pm
Wierd.. was fine for me.

Where on the background is the square?
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Levyathan on January 11, 2003, 07:15:31 pm
Really far away.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Sandwich on January 11, 2003, 07:33:47 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Where on the background is the square?


As a wild guess...


*points*

Right there.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Mr. Vega on January 11, 2003, 07:36:46 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Wierd.. was fine for me.

Where on the background is the square?


In the direction that the Hecate points to.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Mr. Vega on January 11, 2003, 08:40:32 pm
I just replaced all the core files, but now I get a red rectangle to the right of the Hecate and it crashes before the gas miners arrive.

Edit- tried it again, now I get the square again. only now its blue.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Anaz on January 11, 2003, 09:42:05 pm
psychadelic squares!!


(side note: I am using Bob's glowmap build, the first one he released I believe...)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Zaxzon on January 11, 2003, 11:41:22 pm
I redownloaded the core files and i still have the same problem. I am using the regular Freespace2 exe. Do you want the error log?

Oh the square is below the the hect. It is like the square is replacing the stars in the backround.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Sandwich on January 12, 2003, 04:46:41 am
:shaking: Oh no!! It's the dreaded Unravel The Very Fabric Of The Universeā„¢ weapon! HEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!11123

:nervous:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: kasperl on January 12, 2003, 04:56:42 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich
:shaking: Oh no!! It's the dreaded Unravel The Very Fabric Of The Universeā„¢ weapon! HEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!11123

:nervous:



:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Whitelight on January 12, 2003, 09:14:32 am
I finally kicked the flu and played the demo kleen through..

I didn`t have but only one problem, never got the alpha depart message at the end of the second mission so I jumped out and the dedriefing didn`t warn me of leaving early.. Other than that minor glitch, the missions were flawless..

Didn`t notice any probs with the backgrounds but I was pretty busy with the enemy to see any :shaking:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Nico on January 12, 2003, 10:33:45 am
I can't d/l it for some reason :doubt:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Fury on January 12, 2003, 10:36:40 am
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Difficulty levels of some of the missions may be extreme on Medium and Hard difficulty.  Recommended difficulty level for all missions is based on the FreeSpace 2 default level which is called Easy.

I missed BWO readme completely ( :blah: ) and played the demo through on medium level... Not that it was too hard tho...
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Setekh on January 13, 2003, 04:41:49 am
Hehehe... I thought it was a bit suspicious when they asked us to disable Ahmose... and his escape pod didn't have an engine subsystem. :lol:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Nico on January 13, 2003, 06:46:37 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
Hehehe... I thought it was a bit suspicious when they asked us to disable Ahmose... and his escape pod didn't have an engine subsystem. :lol:


yeah, I finally could play it! didn't have distrupter weapons, so I tried to kill him... could have killed him a dozen times at least, with all I threw to the pof. sudenly jumped to 43 hull left just as it jumped out :doubt:
very nice otherwise, didn't have funky squares or anything, tho the cairo do have a couple polys missing/flipped. The docking station in the last mission is gorgeous btw :)
Only request is that it could have used voices for briefings/CB too :p
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Setekh on January 13, 2003, 07:04:10 am
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Originally posted by venom2506
Only request is that it could have used voices for briefings/CB too :p


I thought of that too, but that's really picky. :D

Oh, but, during a few command briefings, the text filled up the text box (and of course, we know there's no scroll). (I still run at 640*480, I prefer 640*480 AA rather than 1024*768.)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Whitelight on January 16, 2003, 10:13:50 pm
Setekh
Haven`t tried 640x480, hmmm, the fps would probably be much better than 1024x786 :)
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Zaxzon on January 17, 2003, 06:26:33 pm
Well I still can not play the final mission, even after a reinstall. :mad:  So, what happens in the last mission?
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 17, 2003, 06:36:29 pm
Grr..... would download...

*opens up fred and gets back to work on SA*

Soon, my friends.... soon... :thepimp:
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: deep_eyes on January 17, 2003, 09:50:37 pm
im impressed with this release... i was shocked as how the glows of the sun was so intense that it made the otherside of ships completly shadow... throw in bob's new lightglow features from the open_source code, and u got some neeto effects!

cant wait for more!

i was so exited i was buggin out i am even out of breath...
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Fury on January 18, 2003, 01:44:37 pm
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Originally posted by deep_eyes
i was shocked as how the glows of the sun was so intense that it made the otherside of ships completly shadow...

That was used in TBP R1 over a year ago.
Title: Black Water Operations demo complete
Post by: Vertigo1 on January 18, 2003, 02:50:23 pm
Ok, I took the time to play it a couple of days ago.  I have to say, I'm impressed with the demo.  The missions were an actual challenge for once.  Throwing swarms of fighters at me isn't a challenge, but doing it from different positions does make it a challenge because I have to race to intercept them.


btw, theres a glitch in the last mission involving the two transports.  They've got the wrong names and they don't go anywhere. :p

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play with the new beam cannons to see how useful they are. :)