[CT27]

Have any of you played the campaign "Homesick"?  Is it worth trying out?

[General Battuta]

Loads of people have played it, it's a classic.

[Nyctaeus]

Its pretty old... But very cool anyway. One of the "Must Plays", alrough I think it need small refresh. For example Black Wolf's hangar attachment would be great for that, cuz Deimos class corvette is our homeship in Homesick.

[Yarn]

Too bad it doesn't work properly in FSO.

If I ever finish this campaign in retail, maybe I'll start a restoration project. It's badly in need of one.

[Mongoose]

Too bad it doesn't work properly in FSO.

It doesn't?  Is that because of the red-alert bugs (which indicate a problem with FSO instead of the campaign), or something else?

[Yarn]

Too bad it doesn't work properly in FSO.

It doesn't?  Is that because of the red-alert bugs (which indicate a problem with FSO instead of the campaign), or something else?

Yeah, it's the red-alert bugs, and it's been that way for years. It appears to have something to do with a large number of ships having red-alert status.

[General Battuta]

Can't you just play from the techroom?

[Deepstar]

I played through it with the first trunk build that used the new pilot code without a problem a few weeks ago. It should work again with 3.7.

Even it was very hard sometimes, because there are three or four combat missions in a row linked with a red-alert and so you have only one hull in all these missions. I do not remember that Homesick was so hard the last time i played it (should be after the release of 3.6.9), even on Easy.

[Yarn]

I'll admit that I haven't yet tested this campaign with the new pilot code. I will give it a shot and see whether the red-alert problems appear to be gone.

[mjn.mixael]

I got all kinds of red-alert problems...

But I still finished it. Quite enjoyable. Long, and a bit repetitive... but the effect of such a long journey really paid off. I found myself actually 'homesick' by the end. I don't think I'd play this again anytime soon because of how repetitive it is, but I'm definitely glad I played it once.

[Phantom Hoover]

the ending was a bit silly though, to be fair

[rubixcube]

Agreed, I'm pretty sure not accepting a surrender is not allowed

[CT27]

Overall a fun campaign, though the ending was kind of depressing.

[Phantom Hoover]

Yeah; as Battuta pointed out, arbitrarily cruel authorities are a common thing in Russel's works.