[Hades]

You can jump out of Capella before the Sathanes trigger the nova, that must be what Droid did.

Why that is very noble of him.

[Droid803]

No. I saw both cutscenes...I did not jump out.
I saw the Sathanases trigger the nova. And immediately afterwards, the "congrats, you live' cutscene played... 

[RyuHimora]

You, mister, need to reinstall.

[Vasudan Admiral]

A friend of mine I installed FSO for actually complained to me about how the last mission was really anticlimatic - for a while I couldn't understand how it could not be considered climatic with the mad dash to the node, but eventually I worked out that event didn't happen for him - just the same as it appears to have not happened with Droid. The game just ends and the cutscenes begin in the middle of a dogfight. :\

We'll look into this for the next MVP set, but in the mean time could a couple of other people please have a play through of the last mission to see if the same thing happens?

I don't know if this is a bug with the mission file or FSO, but it really needs fixing.

[RyuHimora]

I got FS2 retail, so there were no bugs to be noticed however... I got the same anticlimatic feeling. There should have been one more journal entry of Bosch before the 'Hooray, you win!' or 'You suck, loser.' cutscene. Either that or just one more mission at the end that explained or reminisced on both games. You wouldn't have to do anything in it, maybe simply fly a patrol pattern and hold a conversation with your wing and command. Just a thought.

[Droid803]

I think it had something to do with the cutscene pack.
Originally, I didn't have any cutscenes at all (I used FSO from Turey's installer). After a certain point, the game would just boot me to the main hall. When I installed the cutscenes, at the moment when it usually boots me, it plays both cutscenes together. I though that was how it was supposed to be (though I wondered about what dash to the node the ppl were talking about)...guess it isn't.

[Goober5000]

I bet I know what it is.

There have been a number of changes to the end-campaign sexp, in order to ensure widest possible compatibility between FS1, FS2, and all the third-party campaigns.  This is complicated by the fact that the end-campaign behavior was actually changed between FS1 and FS2.  I betcha Droid803 was running a buggy version of FSO.  Instead of toggling an internal flag, the end-campaign sexp simply booted him out of the mission.

What version of FSO was this, Droid803?

[Droid803]

I think it had something to do with the cutscene pack.
Originally, I didn't have any cutscenes at all (I used FSO from Turey's installer). After a certain point, the game would just boot me to the main hall. When I installed the cutscenes, at the moment when it usually boots me, it plays both cutscenes together. I though that was how it was supposed to be (though I wondered about what dash to the node the ppl were talking about)...guess it isn't.

People don't read my posts... 
I think its 3.6.9 or something.

[Goober5000]

I guess you don't realize that one of the attractions of Turey's installer is the ability to download updates?

EDIT: Okay, 3.6.9 is a start.  Did it come with a readme, or a zip, or anything?  Is it the "official release" 3.6.9, or one of the more recent versions?

[Droid803]

It can download upgrades? 
Well, the readme in my FS2 directory is empty...
I can tell you precisely when I installed FS2, if that helps...

[Jeff Vader]

It can download upgrades? 
Well, the readme in my FS2 directory is empty...
I can tell you precisely when I installed FS2, if that helps...

Or you can run the Installer over your current installation. It should detect out-of-date **** and download more recent versions.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I got FS2 retail, so there were no bugs to be noticed however... I got the same anticlimatic feeling. There should have been one more journal entry of Bosch before the 'Hooray, you win!' or 'You suck, loser.' cutscene. Either that or just one more mission at the end that explained or reminisced on both games. You wouldn't have to do anything in it, maybe simply fly a patrol pattern and hold a conversation with your wing and command. Just a thought.

In case you don't remember: originally, everything was going to be explained in FS3...

[Droid803]

I installed it around Feb 12th-ish it can't be that out of date...right?

[Mawhrin]

I've played this mission as part of the campaign recently on both FSO 3.6.9 and FSO 3.6.10 with 3.6.8z MVPs, manually installed over FS2 retail (patched). It worked as it did in retail.

However, I tried playing the co-op MP version using 3.6.9, and it kicked us back to the main hall suddenly. I think this happened when the supernova countdown should have begun.

[S-99]

Alt-j

[ssmit132]

Do you have the Lightspeed version of the FS2 Campaign? Because the last mission in that has two suns, which stuffs up 'supernova-start'.

[Jeff Vader]

Huh? Worked fine five minutes ago, when I tested it via the Mission Simulator.

[Colonol Dekker]

I thouroughly enjoyed teaching noobs to press shift&end during squad inductions.

Good clean fun for all.