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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: ShadowGorrath on May 16, 2008, 09:19:30 am
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Hey,
So some time ago someone released 'The Omicron Incident' teaser pack. It was kinda good when I tried, but never got to finish it and I lost it. When I tried to relocate the teaser pack ( it has a demo campaign btw ), I found it here on HLP, but the site where it was on download is gone ( Farpoint station - http://www.sector114.com/ (http://www.sector114.com/) ). So if anyone has it, can they upload it somewhere? Thanks in advance.
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I posted it on freespacemods.net. Shortcut below.
http://www.freespacemods.net/request.php?213
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Thank you
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i remember that, i almost got hosting there before everyone lost intrest in it and it died.
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Hey, but I liked that site. Why did everyone loose interest in it... If the interest wouldn't have been lost, the site would still be on.
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ah well... it's a strange campaign, it's very good with all the cutscenes, but the missions are ****. i dies in the fourth one after the majestic started vibrating and whacking every which-way...
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The only things that I disliked about the missions, was the music and lack of backgrounds. Other than that, I liked it.
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I seem to recall it was released at an inopportune time, too, like PI came out within a couple of days of it, because I remember switching my mod flag to a different campaign before I finished.
It wasn't bad, but if ever something illustrated "to damn with faint praise"...
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It was a beta release not a final release so it's unfinished.
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Lack of interest was a primary reason for the cancellation of the campaign itself. But it wasn't the only reason... a new job with a weird schedule stopped me from spending as much time on it as I would have liked.
I honestly would love to begin work on a campaign again, but the storyline I picked for Omicron wasn't as catchy as I hoped it would be. I was actually considering taking requests for a storyline... I know a lot of people here have great imaginations but don't use FRED all that much.
The Sector 114 site is still technically online, it's just currently inaccessible. With the opening of freespacemods.net, dedicating an entire site to one campaign seemed like overkill. Plus, there wasn't much activity on the site itself... and I don't blame anyone there, this community here is so alive and well that there's no need for a second site.
If anyone has a request for a campaign they've been wanting to see, I'd sure consider it... as they say, two heads are better than one, so a collaboration on a unique storyline wouldn't be out of the question. The only drawback to creating a campaign myself is that I have no experience in modelling, other than changing textures - so I wouldn't be able to add any new ships or stations without help from the more experienced modellers. I do have a lot of ships that were featured on Hades Combine, though, so there is variety.
Anyways, I've rambled on long enough... I didn't figure anyone was even talking about my old campaign nowadays, so this thread came as quite a surprise lol.
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You could upgrade the teaser pack like this:
Add music,
Add more nebula backgrounds,
Add a starfield.pof into your missions,
Replace the small planet background with something else.
And that would make it look great.