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Title: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: Gef on March 22, 2008, 07:48:03 pm

I realize y'all've been playin' this game for a decade but I just discovered it. Very cool! I reckon I'm even more interested in the Babylon Project, but I cain't get it to install...the download links don't work. Am I lookin' in the wrong place?

Thanks for the help. -GEF

Title: Re: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 22, 2008, 07:58:55 pm

You're a Mass Effect fan right?
:welcome:
Someone will be along shortly to provide the right link :)

Title: Re: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on March 22, 2008, 08:13:43 pm

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,51780.0.html

That's the latest version and there isn't a mirror yet.  Download all 8 parts, extract the installer, and run it.  It will look like it freezes at 1% but it doesn't just give it time.

Title: Re: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: Gef on March 22, 2008, 09:53:01 pm

Thanks for the welcome and the instructions. -GEF

Title: Re: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 23, 2008, 03:47:38 am

Quote from: Gef on March 22, 2008, 07:48:03 pm

the download links don't work. Am I lookin' in the wrong place?

If you were searching the TBP site, then yes. It has died a while ago and there doesn't seem to be a person here, who would have the power to tamper with it. Which is a shame. Ignore the site and scour through the forums here and you'll be alright.

Title: Re: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: Gef on March 25, 2008, 12:42:43 pm

How do you do the spinny thing?

I played the three training lessons in freespace2, then figured I'd rather play the B5 version, so my first actual mission was the start of raider wars. I scored a whopping 2 assists (and zero kills)...and I spent most of the mission pulling back on the stick chasing ONE raider who appeared to be flying circles around me. I never got 'im.

Now in the B5 show and the intro movie a starfury can spin to face the opposite direction from its movement vector and it can do this in about a second. I could've nailed the raider with that move. How do I get my starfury to do it?

Thanks,

GEF

Title: Re: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on March 25, 2008, 12:44:42 pm

It's called glide and you can turn it on by hitting alt-g.  It only works with certain ships though. 

Title: Re: Howdy from newbie - can't install
Post by: Vidmaster on March 25, 2008, 04:51:08 pm

change the difficulty to VERY EASY until you get the hang of the controls  :)