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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Venicius on February 14, 2011, 07:52:45 pm

Title: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 14, 2011, 07:52:45 pm
I was bored and started to think that FS1 would be alot cooler if you flew as the UEF instead of the GTA, so....

...I present 1 hour of work and the first 6 missions FS1.  War in Heaven style.

Just stick in your Mission folder and play in WiH.


http://www.mediafire.com/?h9vhh5phjqo465h
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: NGTM-1R on February 14, 2011, 07:57:20 pm
And here I was hoping somebody had saved me the trouble of pitting WiH UEF against FS2 Shivans as a sort of alternate-terror-universe where they didn't get the GTVA.

Oh well! Downloading.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Deadly in a Shadow on February 15, 2011, 04:31:24 am
So I've played some missions and must say:

1) Nice idea!
2) Mission design is really similar to the original, but there are few things to change. The funniest thing was when the vasudans kill the shivans in the third mission instead of being killed by the shivans^^
3) Missions are nice with the UEF fighters, but they are far superior than the vasudans. Would be better if you increase the difficulty (more fighters, attacking cruisers, surprises etc.). And yes, even with the missions where you fight the shivans.
4) Please change the availability of the Rapier. Imbalanced in the first (shildless) missions. And the Kentauroi should be available later.
5) It must be an entire campaign. I don't want to click through the tech room to find the missions :P
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 15, 2011, 03:33:38 pm
http://www.mediafire.com/?79unp9quc4s4i3h

Here's the same missions but they've been tweaked a bit!  It shouldn't be such a shivan slaughter now!
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: swamper123 on February 15, 2011, 04:03:15 pm
In the 3rd or 4th mission in the directives section its says to protect the Galatea, but you are escorting the Napoleon O.O
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 15, 2011, 04:21:23 pm
yeah, I need to change that and some other things still.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: swamper123 on February 15, 2011, 08:41:10 pm
But still a great idea , destroying vasudans with a superior uef fighter is @$&$ing amazing (:
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 16, 2011, 11:33:37 am
I'm working the the Doomsday mission right now...Putting a Solaris in place of the Orion really makes it interesting when the Lucifer jumps in.  Quite a nice touch, all those nukes being launched to no effect!
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: swamper123 on February 16, 2011, 11:45:56 am
Waiting to see that , I have already played the missions you post ,I like them (:
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: -Norbert- on February 16, 2011, 01:43:53 pm
In the mission were you escort the shield prototypes, Rama 1 was a wing of three Ulysses :wtf:
I suppose they stand in for the Scorpions for the moment, right?
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 16, 2011, 04:20:19 pm
yeah, I have to figure out what I want them to be still. 
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Dragon on February 16, 2011, 04:29:00 pm
Try Astaroths, like Scorpions, they're quite flimsy and lightly armed.
You'd need to add more of them though, as they're even weaker than Scorpions (unless I'm completely mistaken and there's a better FS2 approximation for Scorpion).
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 16, 2011, 08:25:42 pm
http://www.mediafire.com/?b88tz572dq56bmz

Part of a later set of missions.  Of these three my favorites are Evangelist and Doomsday.

Thanks for the idea about the astaroths, I completely overlooked using them!
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: -Norbert- on February 17, 2011, 10:32:00 am
When I try to download the last file I get an error.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: SpardaSon21 on February 17, 2011, 11:05:13 am
Same.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 17, 2011, 11:56:21 am
hmm.  I'll get an updated one up soon.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 17, 2011, 12:03:05 pm
http://www.mediafire.com/?ydjc63e2s418t07

It didn't like me uploading only 3 missions for some reason, so I packed the latest 3 with the others.  Should work now.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: swamper123 on February 17, 2011, 01:19:57 pm
You forgot to delete the .bak files :)
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: Venicius on February 17, 2011, 01:48:16 pm
ahh!  Well, here's a more final version of that segment of missions.  Much more fun and interesting!

http://www.mediafire.com/?hxua7vv19q4y94q

More Capships blasting each other, and that infamous "Playing Judas" mission...in an Ainsarii.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: SpardaSon21 on February 17, 2011, 02:42:09 pm
Two things.

1.  Make an actual campaign out of this.

2.  Add way more Dirk and Dart to the loadout screen for all your missions.  100 of each is nowhere near enough to outfit multiple wings a single wing, not when they're mounted on ships by the 40 and 80, respectively.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: -Norbert- on February 17, 2011, 03:05:42 pm
In "Darkness and Light" you should make the Scalpel available as a weapon, and give it to the wingmen as default. As far as the pilot knows, they should disable the Ramses without destroying it. And even with Vulcans the Ramses is dead long before you can disable and disarm it.

In "playing Judas" the Eva and Lucifer can't be scanned.

And the last mission was a bit frustrating. I'm sitting in a bomber, loaded up to the roof with bombs and all the enemy capitol ships blow up before I can get in range, except for one, which is invulnerable.  :sigh:
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: swamper123 on February 17, 2011, 05:25:09 pm
When I point a uef ship (not fighter or bomber) , my fps get down to 13-16 , anybody know why?
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: General Battuta on February 17, 2011, 05:26:05 pm
When I point a uef ship (not fighter or bomber) , my fps get down to 13-16 , anybody know why?

Yes. It's because the models aren't properly optimized. We're working on an optimization patch for Steve-O's models, it's close to done.
Title: Re: The Great War(in Heaven)
Post by: swamper123 on February 17, 2011, 06:11:59 pm
Glad to read that, thank Battuta, waiting the patch  (=