[Darkilein]

Anyone some Informations fopr me about this Mod.
There is some bug or something like it... and because of it its not possible to play the mod till end. Anyone nows something about it??

[TopAce]

I don't have a clue. I have never heard about this mod.
I just posted to welcome a newbie myself at last!

[EDIT] See Skippy's list! Main page - Campaign list.

[karajorma]

Never heard of the mod. Where abouts did you get it? VolitionWatch Archives?

[TopAce]

The name sounds familiar ... but the Campaign list doesn't have it. Maybe it has been renamed by now. Do you know any of the staff members?

[Carl]

where did you hear about it?

[Darkilein]

it seems that this mod is only known here in germany.

Firts time i heard of it in one of our biggest game magazines "GameStar"

At this time 11/2002 it was found in this magazine as an modifikation for "Freespace 2" with a mass on new weapons and 88 new missions....

Suddenly in the readme you only found an E-Mail from the guy who made it ([email protected]) . And this E-Mail isn´t active any more...

If somebody wanna try it i can upload it so you maybe take a look (only 2,1 MB) but its only availeble in german.

The problem wit this mod is in a special mission i can clear all mission targets (primary and secondar) and get the mission as completed but as soon as i wanna start the next mission i become the message that the mission is incompleted or failed and i have to play again....

this sucks hard till the only thing you have to do is to catch 2 cruisers of yours (shut down their engines) wich isn´t really a problem....

so i hope you now know what i mean and still can read this ( i know my english suxx)

And thx @ TopAce for the welcome

[Liberator]

Apparently, he's a subscriber to this german gaming magazine:

http://www.gamestar.de/magazin/cdrom112002.htm

Whatever it is was included on their CD-ROM this month.


Darkilein, if you could provide a little more detailed information please?  

Like, the basic plot or something like that it would be easier to figure out what wrong.

[Darkilein]

i will try but it would be a great help if someone could translate cause my english skills lacks like a punch of mike tyson ^^

also es gibt eine mission in der ich 2 geflohene Kreuzer wieder einfangen muss. Ich soll innerhalb von 4 Minuten die Antriebe lahmlegen oder nach dieser Zeit beide abschießen. Es gibt keine weiteren Feinde und beide Kreuzer sind innerhalb der Zeit problemlos lahmlegbar.

In der Abschlussbesprechung heißt es dann immer Hervorragend, Dank ihrer Hilfe ect...... und bestanden. Klicke ich dann aber auf weiter um die nächste Mission zu starten krieg ich ne Meldung rein von wegen Mission nicht beendet/nicht bestanden und muss diese neu anfangen... egal wie ich sie beende....

Someone with the time may translate this ....

i must leave for now.... go 2 work like every day

[Darkilein]

here is a maybe hint....

the story is in the first chapter about the fight against an organisation called "Hammer of Light"
Its splitted in 3 chapters with at least 88 missions (just as i said) and 2. chapter (this is where im stuck) about an giant shivan portal and a new galaxy where you and your ship (the marco polo) are taken into.

[Bobboau]

crap, that last part is exactly like a campain I wanted to do, damnit, I thought I had an origonal idea

and you do know that Hammer of light was from FS1 right?

[StratComm]

Sounds quite interesting, but I don't think anyone here has ever even heard of it, much less played it.  And as for your English skills, I didn't even notice that you were not a native speaker until you wrote in German.  You ought to consider translating this campaign and putting it up somewhere, we always are looking for new stuff and you certainly have enough English skill to do a convincing job on translation.

Ultimately I would suspect that the problem lies in poorly scripted missions.  That tends to come up when you have so many (and 88 missions is A LOT of missions for a campaign) just because the designers get rushed and don't test everything as thoroughly as they should.

It really sounds like some kind of Red Alert mission gone wrong, with something mission-critical not showing up.  If you wanted to extract the offending missions and post them up here, perhaps someone could take a look.  Some kind of failure state may be goofing up.

[Bobboau]

yeah, that's a good 2-4 times bigger than nearly any other 'big' campain

[Unknown Target]

Open up FRED, open the mission, and do an error checking yourself. Or upload it here so someone can fix it for you

[karajorma]

Fixing the campaign so you can just jump out and complete the mission would take me all of 10 seconds to fix. (i.e the I've completed the mission once I'm not playing it again! arguement). All I'd need would be the campaign file (it's the one ending with fc2) and the filename of the mission that isn't working.

Post the mission as well and I might see if I can fix the problem rather than just installing a work-around. (well if I can get the free time)

If you can post everything though. I'm sure that most of us would like to see this as sometimes good campaigns appear out of nowhere (*thinks of Homesick*).

[Darkilein]

k
first time thx for your help
@ Bobboau: Suddenly i never played the first part...
@ the rest of you...

i don´t know.. should i do this because copyrights. Im not the one who made this modification.. im only a player and even if i can´t find the original coder i still don´t know if its allright to decode and change his work...

but it now doesn´t matter... i uploaded the modification
here
and the readme with informations from the coder:
 here

I will now try to give you an overlook for this mod so anyone nows what its about.

This modification playes 11 years after the triumph over the shivans. You are a young fighter pilot in the GTVA. The new thread is now the HOL.. but as the story goes along you will face new threads and friends...
The MOD contains 88 mission splitted in 3 campaings, 17 new weapons and some modified battleships (wich are in my opinion are made very well and takes their part in the story as good as possible). The gameplay is hard but makable (in some missions it changes to, lets say like "hard as hell" ^^ ) It comes with some funny (or should i say unexpected) changes in the storyline.... i just will say this much. You will face old and new enemys, old and new friends and see more from hole space as you ever thougt to see....


If you think that there should be no problem with the copyright i maybe would try to change (with some help) the language to english so anyone here can try it.

That should it do for now, i will come back later today when im finished with finding and uploading the damnd neverending mission

[kasperl]

i am a fairly reasonable english speaker, and i can read German if i get a bit of help. if you put up a lot of text files i might be able to help, though i am not german, nor english myself. i could do it as an excersise in my German.

[Akalabeth Angel]

I'm not quite sure how copyright could come into play, do you mean the copyrights of the magazine/cdrom or the author? Freespace 2 as I understand it is Interplays property, a person cannot 'copyright' a modification of someone else's game. And on most CDs, things like demos for new games are usually free to be copied and distrubted, that's what the company wants so people play their demo.

One thing we would not want to happen is for someone to take this new campaign, and claim it as their own. But I doubt that anyone around here would do that, and if they was anyone like that, they're probably not smart enough to know german so there should be now worries.

[Darkilein]

ok i now found the damn mission load it to fred2 and made an error check... nothing found
so i now decided to upload the mission and chapter file

mission files

oh and for your question i ment the copyright from the author...
guess i should go to bed now... my babys waiting and nothing is more terrible than a woman who had to wait for her guy

[StratComm]

I just played through the mission; unless I'm missing something, everything fires as it should.  When you start, are both the Marco Polo and the Corvette (along with the two cruisers) in mission?  The only thing I can figure might be happening is that one has some sort of carry status associated with it in the previous mission and isn't showing up.  Oh, and make sure you stick around for the two transports to show up and pull the cruisers out before you leave, that might be the problem as well.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Carl
where did you hear about it?

If I knew it I would have already posted it.
Otherwise it only sounds familiar. Maybe I am mixing it with a film/game name. I don't have a clue.