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Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Gai Daigoji on July 03, 2005, 04:18:50 pm

Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign (Including two loop-missions). Built using FS2 retail.

 Two years have passed since the destruction of the Capella star, two years since both Terran and Vasudan peoples almost lost their homes, their worlds, their empires.
For two hard years the Capella civilians struggled to find a place to call home, GTVA command decided to explore the Jump Node that led from Altair - a Node they had never been through before. Luckly they found seven worlds that they gave to the Capella civilians, the new system was designated as Orion.

Orion, a place of hope, a place of peace...and soon a place of vast death.

As always comments, reviews and feedback welcome. :)

Download link:

Download Deep Blood (http://www.game-warden.com/gti/Deep_Blood_Fixed.rar)

EDIT: Fixed Rar file, now contains updated campaign file. I used an old one by mistake when I first uploaded >.<

NOTE: File hosted on Freewebs, you will need to right click and save target as.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Ghost on July 03, 2005, 04:26:21 pm

Sounds interesting. Next time I'm on the computer that FS2 is installed to, I'll give it a try.

One suggestion, though: there's already 2 Orions. There's the constellation and then there's the destroyer class. I would advise renaming that; perhaps to some other Greek name.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 03, 2005, 05:10:18 pm

Oo! New campaign! New campaign!

*goes to play*

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Taristin on July 03, 2005, 05:34:47 pm

I was going to submit this for a highlight, but the HLP front page has never recognized me as a member. :sigh:

Someone else can.
Here's a quick graphic to use:

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 03, 2005, 07:25:34 pm

I honestly think we could just use the standard "Campaign Release" image. ;)

I just played through the campaign, and I'll give it a quick little review:

Spoiler:

It was a nice little playthrough with a good story behind it, and with good characters. The only real problem I would say that I have with it would be along the lines of the missions being too... linear and straightforward. Most of the missions are purely "destroy all targets and jump out", and I would have honestly appreciated some variety.

What I can most tell by the campaign is that you got a lot of inspiration and/or ideas from Derelict, from the wise-cracking wingman to the prototype superweapon that goes down when it kills a big Shivan ship. While I found it a little obvious, it doesn't mean that it was in anyway horrible, plagiristic, or evil; it simply means that anyone else would look at it and say "Derelict! OMG!"

There was also one major show-stopping bug: at the beginning, I found that no ships or weapons were available, and so I had to manually go in and check in the GTVA ships from after the main FS2 campaign.

Aside from that, there were some annoying little spelling/grammar issues and some short debriefings, but it was a nice little play. :)

I've been spending the last couple of hours going through and correcting the grammar mistakes, and if you want, I can have it re-uploaded with all of the corrections by either late night or early tomorrow morning. :)

Good work on it, BTW. Definitely highlight-worthy. :)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Taristin on July 03, 2005, 08:09:30 pm

Quote

Originally posted by nuclear1
I honestly think we could just use the standard "Campaign Release" image. ;)
 

If I could have logged onto the main page, I'd have known about such a thing, yes? But I cannot.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 03, 2005, 08:31:03 pm

Sweet, a RETAIL campaign! Maybe I'll play this before I do up a mission for the contest, to re-kindle my interest in FS2.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 04, 2005, 12:58:02 am

Alright, and here (http://www.game-warden.com/gti/Deep_Blood_Fixed.rar) is the campaign with many of the grammar/spelling issues fixed. :)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Unknown_Enemy on July 04, 2005, 05:04:03 am

Hum, can it be played with FSO ?
I am reluctant to go back to retail. I would miss all the shiny stuff that ws brought by FSO

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Gai Daigoji on July 04, 2005, 05:04:56 am

Nuclear, thanks for the grammer fixes. Thats a big help :)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: karajorma on July 04, 2005, 05:29:13 am

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Originally posted by Unknown_Enemy
Hum, can it be played with FSO ?
I am reluctant to go back to retail. I would miss all the shiny stuff that ws brought by FSO

Pretty much every campaign can be played with FSO. If there is a problem report it because backwards compatability is very important to the SCP.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 04, 2005, 02:00:23 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Gai Daigoji
Nuclear, thanks for the grammer fixes. Thats a big help :)

No problem. ;)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 04, 2005, 05:14:51 pm

That happened with me, too. I'll take a deeper look at it a little later (like AFTER the 4th of July parties ;) ); I'm afeared I may have screwed up the campaign file getting those loop missions to work.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Gai Daigoji on July 04, 2005, 05:21:38 pm

Quote

Originally posted by High Max
Nuclear, I went to start a mission in Deep Blood and I received an error that I have never seen before. It says:

Error: Argument count is illegal

In sexpression: [ cond ]
[Error appears to be: cond]
File: D:\src\fs2_open.testing\code\Mission\MissionParse.cpp
Line: 4600
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
----------------------------------------
----------------------------------------

What's wrong? It does this on both the 3.6.5 build and the T-20050622 build.

EDIT: I just remembed, thats the same bug one of the testers noted (I placed it in the REadme file). All you have to do is press "Ok" and then alt-tab back to FS2 and the mission still loads.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 04, 2005, 05:50:17 pm

I get that same error with the start of every mission.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 04, 2005, 06:56:34 pm

Alright, let's try this again. Clicky! (http://www.game-warden.com/gti/Deep_Blood_Fixed.rar) Now with the (hopefully) bugfree campaign file and grammar corrections. :) If you'll include this link in your first post, Gai, then I'll go through and correct these...

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 04, 2005, 09:40:35 pm

Are you sure? Because I'm positive that the campaign file in my download works. :doubt:

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Taristin on July 04, 2005, 09:50:33 pm

Sounds like someone needs to create a new pilot...

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 04, 2005, 10:46:26 pm

It might be something with the uh, freespace program/directory rather than the mission file itself. I've got Freespace installed four or five times, with varying mods and so forth, and I threw the campaign into one of the directories and had this problem. Then, when I was starting my mission for the FRED contest, I had more or less the same error for a largely incomplete mission (couple of ships, briefings, and a time-based objective).

Then I threw my mission into a differen't directory, and it worked fine. I suspect moving the Deep blood campaign will have similar results.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: RED DIAMOND on July 04, 2005, 10:51:16 pm

Gai you have an interesting sense of humor mate:p

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 04, 2005, 11:10:48 pm

Indeed. :lol:

Spoiler:

What do you think GTVA pilots do when they get bored? They play I Spy!

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Axem on July 04, 2005, 11:18:43 pm

That game must be the national past time of the GTVA.

It's everywhere! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/ispy.jpg)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Cobra on July 05, 2005, 12:18:05 am

sounds interesting. i'll check it out after i get my vid set up tomorrow. :)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Gai Daigoji on July 05, 2005, 05:03:54 am

What can I say? They got so bored they had to play I Spy ;7

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: karajorma on July 05, 2005, 02:45:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Gai Daigoji
EDIT: I just remembed, thats the same bug one of the testers noted (I placed it in the REadme file). All you have to do is press "Ok" and then alt-tab back to FS2 and the mission still loads.

You can do that with a lot of bugs. That doesn't mean you can ignore it. Something is wrong with the mission to cause that. Tell me which mission and if I'm in a good mood I might hunt it down :)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Gai Daigoji on July 05, 2005, 03:31:32 pm

Quote

Originally posted by karajorma


You can do that with a lot of bugs. That doesn't mean you can ignore it. Something is wrong with the mission to cause that. Tell me which mission and if I'm in a good mood I might hunt it down :)

Thanks for the offer, but I think its already been sorted. :)

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: DarthWang on July 06, 2005, 12:54:15 am

That's a good campaign, but in the mission where you have to evacuate the destroyer, you didn't order the transport to undock with it first, so it warps out and takes the destroyer with it!

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Deepstar on July 06, 2005, 07:36:46 pm

It's a good Campaign, but i think i found a few bugs

Mission with "Destroy the Ravana"
It sounds curios, but no friendly Ship have a Bomb.. only normal Missles.. i can complete this mission only with the old "SHIFT+K" Cheat.

The another bug is that, that the Transporter warp-out with the Destroyer


And a small question... why i don't have the two SOC Missions? Do i have any wrong?

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 07, 2005, 11:48:03 pm

Yeah, that one with the Ravana, my Medusa's packin Rockeyes, not Cyclops / Helios.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 08, 2005, 12:01:13 am

The likely problem btw, is that in your campaign file you only enabled the Cyclops, not the cylcops#short

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 08, 2005, 01:11:34 am

Crap, he did that AGAIN...? He got my Boanerges in Relentless too...

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Goober5000 on July 09, 2005, 01:00:05 am

Quote

Originally posted by Deepstar
And a small question... why i don't have the two SOC Missions? Do i have any wrong?

It's another bug in the campaign file.

In fact, the whole campaign tree looks just thrown together.  You can proceed to each next mission regardless of your success in the previous mission.

This campaign needed a bit more beta-testing.  In the last mission, for example, it's all but impossible to destroy the two cruisers and the two wings of fighters at the beginning.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Gai Daigoji on July 09, 2005, 04:57:53 am

Quote

Originally posted by Goober5000
It's another bug in the campaign file.

In fact, the whole campaign tree looks just thrown together.  You can proceed to each next mission regardless of your success in the previous mission.

This campaign needed a bit more beta-testing.  In the last mission, for example, it's all but impossible to destroy the two cruisers and the two wings of fighters at the beginning.

The campaign file was edited by Nuclear to sort some thing out, regardless I trust in what he's done.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 09, 2005, 11:05:22 am

Quote

Originally posted by Gai Daigoji


The campaign file was edited by Nuclear to sort some thing out, regardless I trust in what he's done.

Keep in mind that my version of the campaign file is probably what was causing the error for some of the people here.

I'll go over the missions a couple of times and tune it up here and there, mostly in terms of balancing and design.

Title: Release: Deep Blood, an 11 mission FS2 campaign
Post by: Kosh on July 09, 2005, 02:50:31 pm

Have multiple people beta test it, not just one person.