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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Blue Planet => Topic started by: HandOfCheese on July 01, 2013, 05:54:05 am
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No, it's not too early, I want my WiH itch to be scratched now :p!
I'm actually surprised there aren't more topics like this out already - a week doesn't go by when I don't feel like replaying a mission from any of the three Acts, or re-reading some of CASANDRA dialogues while listening to the ambient music. Not to mention the fact that Act 3 just raised the quality and ingenuity bar SO high that there is litteraly no mod for any game ever that even comes close and...
Ok, enough fanboy-isms, Act 4, gimme :D!
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It will be released when it's done, no sooner. Please understand that due to increasing real-life commitments on the part of all team members, we cannot give any release date whatsoever.
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The dreaded George Martin treatment? Nooooooo!
Just kidding :). Let the team take all the time it needs. Can't rush perfection.
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The dreaded George Martin treatment? Nooooooo!
Just kidding :). Let the team take all the time it needs. Can't rush perfection.
Yeah every time we ask they kill a character.
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Ve kan has akt phor plz? :p Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms Kill Simms
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I'm actually quite at peace. These guys are probably just not working at the mod atm for a few months now due to life concerns, etc., but if they ever decide they can't really finish this thing out, they have promised to leave us with the general plot.
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If BP goes unfinished I will mourn it for the rest of my days. :(
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I'm pretty sure it won't go unfinished... We've got some really good devs working on it! :nod:
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That's a relief. Wouldn't want this to become Blue Planet Forever :P
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Really busy devs. Busy with real life. Stuff happens. Tenebra alone took, what, two and a half years or something? Which I can understand because, seriously, it's the densest most insane FreeSpace I have ever played. I can only imagine the ridiculous FRED hax that were needed. Leave it to BP to push the boundaries of this game's engine.
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Well... the rest of WiH already has a significant amount of work done on it. I think it's fairly safe to say that the team will, eventually, release it (even if it's just a "here's what we got done" thing, in the worst case). As for BP3, I've heard murmurs that if they really can't make it happen as a campaign the writers may just write up the story and release it as a novel.
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Well... the rest of WiH already has a significant amount of work done on it. I think it's fairly safe to say that the team will, eventually, release it (even if it's just a "here's what we got done" thing, in the worst case).
Unless I've missed something (which is very possible, I'm not exactly on the up-and-up), the last official word is that Act IV is still very much in-progress and Act V is not even started. Is there anything more recent than my version of this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=83703) (featuring Batutta rage, a substantive answer to this thread's question, and JAD!)? ;)
As for BP3, I've heard murmurs that if they really can't make it happen as a campaign the writers may just write up the story and release it as a novel.
That's... ambitious? Again unless I have missed something that was more along the lines of Batutta musing "You know I once tossed around the idea of making the BP story into a legit novel but it would be a lot of work to make it not violate copyrights and stuff"
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You missed something called IRC. What is on the forum is far to be all the communication happening.
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Hence my continual caveats. Maybe I should lurk your irc too. :drevil:
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You missed something called IRC. What is on the forum is far to be all the communication happening.
Where would I find this IRC for this site/Freespace?
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Where would I find this IRC for this site/Freespace?
If you look at the bar on the top of the page, next to "HLP Network," there is a tab titled "HLP." Click on that, mouse over IRC, and you'll see the various links for Mibbit or IRCd.
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Thanks.
As for the thread topic, will the next release of WIH conclude WIH (i.e. acts 4 and 5 released together like 1 and 2) or will the final two acts be separate releases?
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I think that when they annouce it we will all learn those details. Probably not before.
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I'am more worried about the Progress of the Voice Acting...
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If it goes unfinished I'll probably just man up, make some practice campaigns (already made some headway on that part), then try to finish it myself.
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If it goes unfinished I'll probably just man up, make some practice campaigns (already made some headway on that part), then try to finish it myself.
Well that would be just nice! But really, do you think you could finish it? I mean, there's wwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much stuff to be done yet... for just one guy (if I got it right).
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We're dying to finish BP, but we've got things like jobs and kids and other FreeSpace mods to take care of. Progress comes and goes in spurts.
I mean just look at this top sekret SVN log window!
(http://lazymodders.fsmods.net/files/BP/bpprogress.png)
(Let the ridiculous speculation on the log messages begin!)
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:wtf: cockbadger? :wtf:
Also good to see that you're giving the SCP a run for their money with meaningful commit log entries :D
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Now that I think about it, I gotta ask... Is it pronounced GEF or JEF?
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I am fairly certain the reason there are so many gef factions is because they all have their own way of pronouncing it. Kostadin says jeff, Greenfly says ghef, the Mooninites say gaeff and so on.
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Now that I think about it, I gotta ask... Is it pronounced GEF or JEF?
It's pronounced like gif.
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Cockbadger.............
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By some random definition in Urban Dictionary, I am inclined to believe it's a "what if?" Laporte/Simms slashfic briefing.
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Hodor.
Anyway, I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who's got weird/wacky commit messages :P
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I wonder how much information can be reconstructed from that blurred line.
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I'am more worried about the Progress of the Voice Acting...
I'd really love to see VA finished, but it's pretty ****ed right now. :(
As for the mod as a whole...I doubt I'll ever be able to work on it full-time again, but one way or another, the story will be completed. The rest of the team is still making progress, and if the time ever comes, we can just write the remainder of the story up in a forum post or three.
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All else fails I'll record my voice for every uncast line and pitch-shift up for the female parts.
And with that threat hanging over everyone's heads I expect a flurry of activity now.
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the threat would hold more weight if you threatened to do a falsetto
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oh ahhh welcome back Battuta!
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Welcome back General
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Battuta, welcome back!
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I first played this mod near the end of 2010. I was a senior in high school. At that point only act two was released.
I am a junior in college now and now act 3 has only just been released.
Why do I get the feeling that by the time this mod is completed, Half-Life 3 will be out, I will be about two years out of college, and this mod still won't be fully voiced yet?
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I first played this mod near the end of 2010. I was a senior in high school. At that point only act two was released.
I am a junior in college now and now act 3 has only just been released.
Why do I get the feeling that by the time this mod is completed, Half-Life 3 will be out, I will be about two years out of college, and this mod still won't be fully voiced yet?
Because thats exactly whats going to happen.
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Well, why not? Blizzard is doing it with Starcraft 2, too. But they just do it to make more cash. The BP team does it because they want to show their progress. And they deliver awesome work. Blizzard delivers story crap.
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Well, why not? Blizzard is doing it with Starcraft 2, too. But they just do it to make more cash. The BP team does it because they want to show their progress. And they deliver awesome work. Blizzard delivers story crap.
^^ What this guy said. You could always contribute...voice acting is always in need.
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I first played this mod near the end of 2010. I was a senior in high school. At that point only act two was released.
I am a junior in college now and now act 3 has only just been released.
Why do I get the feeling that by the time this mod is completed, Half-Life 3 will be out, I will be about two years out of college, and this mod still won't be fully voiced yet?
Because thats exactly whats going to happen.
Because BP Team is working for BP4 to outmatch Star Citizen!!! :D
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Ask Hodor it seems he is part of the team :wtf:
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I imagine though that BP will be finished before BWO or TVWP though. ;)
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I imagine though that BP will be finished before BWO or TVWP though. ;)
I sure hope so. I seriously doubt we're EVER going to see TVWP. BWO remains to be seen. WiH R3 is probably the one with the most hope.
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I hope work will increase soon again so the last two Acts won't be too far off as BP is such a very interesting mod series.
I'm certain every effort is being made and alternatives such as other modders being asked to join or for the VA, approaching voice actor communities in various ways.
I've seen some people including interesting Let's Players on YT waiting for the VA version of WiH before playing and LPing, which definitely feels like it limits the kind of reach that can be had. It makes me curious if finding VA for other mods for FS2 will meet the same kind of difficulties, if so I think we'll need to get used to having only text..which to me personally is quite sufficient, but apparently not the case for some.
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I imagine though that BP will be finished before BWO or TVWP though. ;)
I sure hope so. I seriously doubt we're EVER going to see TVWP. BWO remains to be seen. WiH R3 is probably the one with the most hope.
I thought it was the other way around? I.e., BWO is the defacto dead one and TVWP remains a possibility?
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I hope work will increase soon again so the last two Acts won't be too far off as BP is such a very interesting mod series.
I'm certain every effort is being made and alternatives such as other modders being asked to join or for the VA, approaching voice actor communities in various ways.
I've seen some people including interesting Let's Players on YT waiting for the VA version of WiH before playing and LPing, which definitely feels like it limits the kind of reach that can be had. It makes me curious if finding VA for other mods for FS2 will meet the same kind of difficulties, if so I think we'll need to get used to having only text..which to me personally is quite sufficient, but apparently not the case for some.
The first time you run through the game the text-only can get EXTREMELY annoying because the game was designed with voices in mind. The gameplay itself requires 100% attention, and sometimes taking your eyes off of the action to read can get you killed. This might have been avoided if all of the lines were done outside of combat, but a lot of lines go off during intense dogfights when you have 5 missiles locked onto you.
Its not as big of a deal in later run throughs as you already know most of the lines and what you have to do, but for first timers it can contribute to the difficulty of the game.
Personally, now that I'm used to it I don't mind it but when I first played the mod it was very annoying. I'm more concerned about the campaign getting finished first than getting VAs. I completely understand that the modders have other, more important things to do than to finish this quickly.
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If you miss anything you only have to press F4 to read over the messages
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I imagine though that BP will be finished before BWO or TVWP though. ;)
I sure hope so. I seriously doubt we're EVER going to see TVWP. BWO remains to be seen. WiH R3 is probably the one with the most hope.
I thought it was the other way around? I.e., BWO is the defacto dead one and TVWP remains a possibility?
And what about FreeSpace: Reunited, which I'm developing right now? (FS:R will incorporate references from AOA, but will relate to things that happen in Acts 4 and 5 of WIH and the third and final chapter of the Blue Planet trilogy)
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And what about FreeSpace: Reunited, which I'm developing right now?
What about it? It has no place amongst a couple of long-running big projects. Don't get me wrong, it may be the greatest thing ever, but why should we list it amongst long-expected projects such as BWO and TWVP (and BP, for that matter), when we do not know you, your storytelling, your fredding abilities, nothing that would give us any sort of expectations towards your release?
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As for BWO and TVWP: General saga is that BWO has been finished years ago and is de facto ready for release, but they've just been waiting for HTL models to be done. So if HTLing is done, they can release instantly. TVWP is, as far as I am informed, a more or less dead project. There seem to be a few people working to get the first chapter (Unification War) updated recently. But overall, I can't see any serious efforts to produce the final chapters.
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As for BWO and TVWP: General saga is that BWO has been finished years ago and is de facto ready for release, but they've just been waiting for HTL models to be done. So if HTLing is done, they can release instantly.
I've never designed a campaign before, how long does HTLing generally take?
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Htling is not a campaign design step. It's a modelling thing, and if you do not have modelers willing and able to actually work on stuff, then it can and will take forever.
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Just finished Act 3 for the first time. So nice to see a plot that surpasses what people get paid to make. And while I'm anxious for Act 4, I'll be a good little fanboy and wait. Keep up the good work.
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Htling is not a campaign design step. It's a modelling thing, and if you do not have modelers willing and able to actually work on stuff, then it can and will take forever.
Especialy when team wants their assets to be the same or even better quality as recent MediaVPs models, which is almost impossible. They are only a few modelers/texture artists who are able to make stuff that good.
Despite that, as the BWO is fred-ready from many years, I'm sure their missions are not in standard of today. Even if they manage to finish all the models that BWO has, freding might take another monts [years? :P] of waiting.