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Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 08, 2004, 09:44:33 am

Today, on the 8th of December in 2004, my second campaign called The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi (http://mods.moddb.com/3643) is released!
I would like to extend my thanks to the following HLP members, who assisted me in making this campaign:

Xelion: Native help: Checking spelling/grammar of the bulk of the texts.
ngtm1r: Testing a specific portion of the campaign, which I was unsure about if it works.

Some necessary information:

• I included an alternative campaign, which only contains the last three missions of the main campaign. Do not play this before completing the whole. It will be a spoiler.
• I experienced a crash at the end of mission 3 ONCE. If you encounter this crash, write ASAP.
• Given the fact I am only capable of running the oldest 3.6 build, I could not test the last chain of missions in the end of the campaign. With the oldest 3.6, the Red Alert Carry Status for ALL ships does not work. As far as I have heard from ngtm1r, this problem does not come up with the newest FSO build(s).
• Should you encounter any problems relating to the GTD Achilles, remove the high-poly Orion model. The author did not have way to test the high-poly Orion. If you stick to use the new Orion model, write here and I will make a version which does not use the GTD Achilles's nameplate.
• If you encoutner any technical problems (crashes, weird behavior, etc.), try it with the old 3.6. If the problem persists, write here.
• In almost all missions you can get a medal for performing extraordinarly. This is not valid for chained red-alert missions and mission 4.
• The same hotkey assignment system is implemented into this campaign than Renegade Ressurgence. The hotkeys are as follows:

F5: Friendly fighters
F6: Friendly bombers
F7: Hostile fighters
F8: Hostile bombers
F9: Large ships, ranging from cruisers to the largest ships.
F10: Misc ships: containers, sentry guns, freighters.
F11: Nav bouys

• Lastly, but most importantly: Make a backup copy of your pilot file. I do not know what causes this, but for me, every pilot got screwed up after completing the campaign.
  

I would like to say have fun for the campaign. Any kind of feedback is welcome.

Use this link until I manage to figure out how to add links to the Mod database profile:
http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/ithov/JtEP.zip (http://www.penguinbomb.com/ithov/JtEP.zip)

Use Save As, if download does not start

News, 11th July, 2006: Mirror updated
News, 2nd November, 2007: Patch v1.1, with a number of modifications/fixes. Read the Notes file included in the ZIP file for more details.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Gai Daigoji on December 08, 2004, 12:16:01 pm

Ohhhh yeah! :D Me been waiting for this since I saw a few people talking about it.

*Downloads*

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: pecenipicek on December 08, 2004, 01:51:49 pm

teh noob salutes thee
im the noob...

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Grimloq on December 08, 2004, 02:52:59 pm

interesting... *plans to play campaign after he gets finished with work*

any MODs?

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 08, 2004, 03:48:05 pm

Only one Orion nameplate. It is included in the .vp file.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Grimloq on December 08, 2004, 05:06:26 pm

aaahh, good :)

MODs are cool, but theres soemthing to be said for vanilla simplicity ;)

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Yogert on December 08, 2004, 05:37:44 pm

only got through the second mission, but i've noticed a lot of grammar problems...

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on December 08, 2004, 09:04:15 pm

only got through the second mission, but i've noticed a lot of grammar problems...

    I believe TopAce is from . . . Croatia? . . . or some place or other so, some of the grammar problems might be expected. I'd play the campaign but its FSO! Which doesn't work too good on my computer.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Yogert on December 08, 2004, 09:06:59 pm

Ah... well, that explains it. Maybe get someone more fluent to help?

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on December 08, 2004, 09:13:49 pm

I think some people were helping him out, but I'm not sure how they did. At the moment I've got an abundance of time and could also help, as I have a degree in English I'd probably be a bit more knowledgable than most.

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: mitac on December 09, 2004, 02:59:25 am

Quote

Originally posted by TopAce
Xelion: Native help: Checking spelling/grammar of the bulk of the texts.
ngtm1r: Testing a specific portion of the campaign, which I was unsure about if it works.

Quote

Location: Own private-entranced tomb in Budapest, Hungary

You know, reading this thread could help. Even with a degree in English. ;) No offense.

As for the campaign : very nice, I'll try it this weekend. :)

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 09, 2004, 08:56:07 am

I do not know how Xelion could have left any grammar mistakes in.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: c914 on December 09, 2004, 09:51:05 am

aa now i know what i'll be doing on this weekend nigts:D

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 09, 2004, 10:34:35 am

Updates in the mod database profile done. You can also download JtEP from there.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on December 09, 2004, 10:36:58 am

You know, reading this thread could help. Even with a degree in English.  No offense.

    I stopped reading his post after I saw that it was FSO, so I never got anywhere near his signature :)

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: pecenipicek on December 09, 2004, 01:11:16 pm

heh heh...

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Gloriano on December 09, 2004, 02:17:57 pm

Interesting i mighty download it in weekend

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Kie99 on December 09, 2004, 02:26:45 pm

The mission where you:

Spoiler:

Capture the Moloch

is way too hard, I tried using all the fighters and weapons configurations but I couldn't beat it. I had to use cheats to beat it. The rest of the missions are good but the last one is a bit BoE.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 09, 2004, 02:48:09 pm

BoE?
I did not find the mission you considered hard to be difficult so much. I guess you had problems with the last part of the mission when

Spoiler:

the cruisers jump in

Am I right?

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: JR2000Z on December 09, 2004, 10:58:22 pm

I just finished it. I really enjoyed it. :)

My only real complaint is that the plot is a tad linear.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Xelion on December 10, 2004, 02:17:43 am

Btw Thanks for the opportunity TopAce ;)

Quote

Originally posted by Yogert
only got through the second mission, but I've noticed a lot of grammar problems...

You can blame me on that. But just because I know English well doesn't mean I'm going to pick up on everything I see, and yes mission 2 has several grammatical errors I just picked up on now. I don't know how I missed them. I still think two grammar/spelling testers would have been better than one but finding people around here to volunteer for work like this isn't easy.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Andreas on December 10, 2004, 04:10:22 am

Does this require FSOpen?

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 10, 2004, 06:59:14 am

Yes, it needs FreeSpace Open. The newest version is the most recommended.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Kie99 on December 10, 2004, 04:24:05 pm

I'm just gonna put my whole post in spoiler tags

Spoiler:

I just thought there were so many beams on the Sath that there was no point in atttacking it really because it only ever gets its main beams working against the station. When the Phonecia jumped in there was nothing for the player to do except chase bombers and get hit by flak.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 11, 2004, 04:10:06 am

I can do nothing against it. That weakness was used out in the last mission. Namely:

Spoiler:

Attacking the Sathanas from back

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: phreak on December 11, 2004, 11:58:36 am

awesome campaign.  i really liked the backgrounds for the missions in adhara, especially with lighty enchanced BGs

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Cobra on December 15, 2004, 07:14:07 pm

Umm, TopAce? For some reason the campaign files for JTEP is really **** up.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 16, 2004, 09:22:09 am

Can you be more specific?

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Cobra on December 16, 2004, 11:15:10 am

I mean when I select the First JtEP campaign. It selects, I try to go to the ready room, it doesn't work, I go to the campaign, and I see a whole bunch of garbled letters 'n crap.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 16, 2004, 01:16:40 pm

Do you see weird letters? Has the font changed or what? Do other mods work?
If the problem can be visual, can I get a screenshot of it? As far as I understand your post, you claim that the font has gone mad.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Cobra on December 16, 2004, 01:21:58 pm

I see symbols, **** letters, and the game doesn't let me play the campaign. That's basically it. The campaign won't play.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: Annorax on December 16, 2004, 01:44:15 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Cobra
I see symbols, **** letters, and the game doesn't let me play the campaign. That's basically it. The campaign won't play.

Count yourself lucky. The campaign toasted my pilot file after I finished it.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on December 16, 2004, 02:24:29 pm

I highlighted the warning message in the first post to make a backup copy of your pilot. I do not know what causes this bug and therefore I am not able to fix it. Even if I knew the source of the problem I would not be able to fix it since it is certainly relating to coding.

Title: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: FireCrack on December 25, 2004, 04:27:58 am

O, none of the download links work. Any mirrors?

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on July 11, 2006, 01:13:21 pm

Forgot about this campaign, sorry. I am putting up a mirror.

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: neoterran on July 11, 2006, 01:46:39 pm

The files are now available from the Downloads section of this mod's entry.

Err... they are ? I can't seem to find them.

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on July 11, 2006, 01:48:09 pm

I wll probably take some time until modDB approves it.

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: neoterran on July 11, 2006, 01:50:29 pm

This is not to be confused with the Fall of Epsilon Pegasi, i assume...

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on July 11, 2006, 01:54:41 pm

No.

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: neoterran on July 11, 2006, 02:04:26 pm

Nice campaign, this actually has modern looking planets (Adhara looks great). Good job. And even nameplates for the orion (which looks an odd color, but nice.. ) I'm enjoying this one. Way to go TopAce. Let me know if you want any voiceacting for it.

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: TopAce on July 11, 2006, 02:10:34 pm

Thanks for the reply.

As for voice acting, I don't think it's necessary. I would have to hire other people, too. I have already had some bad experience with voice acting while making RR. I would rather concentrate on ITHOV now.

Title: Re: RELEASE: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Post by: neoterran on July 11, 2006, 02:39:07 pm

Well, let me know if you need any voice acting for that. Now we have a voice-acting forum... I'm Alpha 2 in Blaise's new campaign, so once it is out you can check out my voice there.

Title: UPDATE
Post by: TopAce on November 02, 2007, 02:21:17 pm

I have updated the campaign!

• Most missions have been rebalanced, new ships were added/removed. Overall, the campaign has become more difficult. If you manage to complete the campaign without failing a mission more than once, you are a real expert, or simply too lucky.
• Many dialogs were rewritten. In some places, new messages were added.
• Some problems have been fixed, and I also made a ton of minor alterations, like adding/removing ships from the Escort List.
• I fixed all the typos I could see.

More info on the update can be read in the Notes files, included in the ZIP.