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Title: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 07, 2007, 10:14:03 am
Hi, I have just been to the volition watch archives and I spotted several campaign names:

Could you please give me info on the following (were they released? If so, where can I get them?).

-blackwater OPS
-behind enemy lines
-Project armageddon
-Twilight: the babel effect
-aftermath

Thanks for your advice.

mike.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Mustang19 on December 07, 2007, 10:39:41 am
None of those were ever released. All are dead projects except Blackwater Ops. For that, you can look at their forum here.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,106.0.html
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 07, 2007, 10:42:21 am
No, wait on: aftermath has been released it seems, but the link is dead:

it's a FS1 campaign: link is here (but download fails): http://ce.hard-light.net/

could somebody give me that campaign please?
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Deepstar on December 07, 2007, 11:01:13 am
afaik The Babel Effect is a different campaign to Twilight.

Twilight was released back in 2002, short after the beginning of the SCP (read it in another thread) and was re-released a few months ago by macfie in a SCP-compatible version.

Download here (http://files.filefront.com/Twilightzip/;8041898;/fileinfo.html)

The Babel Effect was cancelled because of Blackwater Operations. In another thread i read, that BWO contains parts of the TBE Story. So you must wait for the BWO release to play TBE, too.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 07, 2007, 11:05:45 am
Thanks: much appreciated (this campaign should be hosted on hades).

I'm still waiting for the aftermath FS1 campaign though, should anyone have it, could he please send it?

thanks.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Mustang19 on December 07, 2007, 11:21:25 am
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/aftermath/
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 07, 2007, 11:25:25 am
No. went there: download's dead!
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Mustang19 on December 07, 2007, 11:38:24 am
Maybe this?

http://www.freespaceportal.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=1580.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 07, 2007, 11:40:36 am
Hey thanks: this worked!

I would avise you to host this on hades.

Great thanks to you mustang.

regards.

mike.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Macfie on December 07, 2007, 12:40:40 pm
Here is a link to Aftermath converted to use the FSPort mod.

http://files.filefront.com/Aftermathzip/;9211330;/fileinfo.html
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Mustang19 on December 07, 2007, 03:47:26 pm
Macfie, since I'm currently upload-impaired, would you mind putting both of those campaigns on HC? As far as I can see there's an FS1 Aftermath and an FS2 one.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Macfie on December 08, 2007, 08:07:41 am
You are correct, there is also an FS2 campaign titled Aftermath.  It has no connection with the FS1 Aftermath campaign.  Unfortunately Aftermath (FS1) is about 7 meg compressed and Hades Combine has a 2 meg limit for uploads.  So I have posted it on filefront.  I'll look for the FS2 campaign I think I have it somewhere.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 08, 2007, 10:45:08 am
An FS2 campaign also named aftermath? Interesting.

Be sure to give the link please. :)
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Macfie on December 08, 2007, 12:49:36 pm
Here is the other Aftermath campaign.  This is the FS2 campaign.  I posted it on Hades Combine

http://hades-combine.com/web/index.php?ind=downloads&op=download_file&ide=358&file=Aftermath.zip
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 08, 2007, 01:13:43 pm
Many many thanks guys! :yes:
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Axel Wers on December 08, 2007, 04:17:44 pm
Maybe this?

http://www.freespaceportal.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=1580.
Hello, it's my campaign :D but I have to say two things - it's an old campaign created in 2002 (in 2006 recreated) for Conflict FreeSpace and it's only in slovak language.

:)
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 10, 2007, 04:20:31 am
Oh, welcome: A new FS campaign (1 or 2) is always appreciated. However, did you ever consider a quick translation to english? This would make it quite more popular. ;)
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Mustang19 on December 10, 2007, 07:42:02 am
A flaky English translation wouldn't be any better than the Slovak. FreeSpace is a simple enough game, you can figure out what's going on without reading the briefings.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 10, 2007, 08:47:55 am
So then that's not the aftermath campaign I'm after (although yours looks just fine. Isn't the shivan base the inferno arachnas?)

Yet does anybody have the FS1 aftermath I'm looking for? If not, I'll ask in the blackwater forums as it seems the creator of this campaign is involved in this project.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Mustang19 on December 10, 2007, 09:04:48 am
Here is a link to Aftermath converted to use the FSPort mod.

http://files.filefront.com/Aftermathzip/;9211330;/fileinfo.html

Click that. FSPort is FreeSpace 1 ported to FS2. If you don't have it, do a forum search for FSPort.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 10, 2007, 11:29:12 am
Hey, I found something here that skippy might like for his list: http://www.gamekult.com/forum/lire_n157818/

contains some campaigns I have never heard of, like the babylon 5 campaign tales of shamus.

Interesting piece of info.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: karajorma on December 10, 2007, 06:38:36 pm
I think you mean Tales of EAS Janus :p

Which you won't have heard of because it never worked on anything after release 2 (unless someone has fixed it recently).
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: starlord on December 10, 2007, 07:00:21 pm
Nevertheless, it should be preserved!

Who knows, perhaps TBP team will manage to "convert" it to newer releases. And if not, this campaign does justify the fact of finding an old release to make it work (babylon campaigns are not quite that numerous).
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Vidmaster on December 11, 2007, 03:06:01 pm
Janus was a release 1 campaign, right? I think there was a patch to make it compatible to R2, but TBP is way ahead of that. Updating that campaign would be difficult.

EAS Janus starts great, but gets a little boring at the middle. I never finished it completely, I think I stopped 3 missions before the final one.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Macfie on December 11, 2007, 04:49:29 pm
Actually Tales of EAS Janus is included in the Babylon Project Campaign pack v1.0.  It will play on the current version of the Babylon project.  Here is a link to the thread.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,50337.0.html
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Vidmaster on December 13, 2007, 02:38:10 pm
I know it will play, but there are some problems concerning ships, briefings and script.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Axel Wers on December 14, 2007, 02:55:49 am
Oh, welcome: A new FS campaign (1 or 2) is always appreciated. However, did you ever consider a quick translation to english? This would make it quite more popular. ;)
It's possible that I'll translate my campaign to English in future, but now I don't have lot of time (nowadays I have lot of exams at university.)

A flaky English translation wouldn't be any better than the Slovak. FreeSpace is a simple enough game, you can figure out what's going on without reading the briefings.
Hmmm I could write for all missions short description in English. That could help. I let you know when I do it that.
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Goober5000 on December 14, 2007, 06:16:12 pm
It's a little easier to do mission translations nowadays.  All you have to do is use the Voice Acting Manager to export your mission text into a script.  Then run the script through BabelFish or some other translation program.  Paste the translated text back into the mission using Wordpad or something.  Voila, (crappy) translated missions. :)
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: karajorma on December 15, 2007, 02:56:41 am
Yeah but you should be using the proper translation system and an altered tstrings.tbl. :D


One of these days I'll have to clean up the 5 minute Java hack I used to generate the BtRL tstrings.tbl and release it so no one has any excuse. :p
Title: Re: info on several campaigns?
Post by: Axel Wers on December 15, 2007, 08:20:05 am
It's a little easier to do mission translations nowadays.  All you have to do is use the Voice Acting Manager to export your mission text into a script.  Then run the script through BabelFish or some other translation program.  Paste the translated text back into the mission using Wordpad or something.  Voila, (crappy) translated missions. :)
Looks like interesting. I'll try it :)