[phatosealpha]

Cause everyonce in a while, I just want to jump in to a giant space battle with lots of things blowing up left and right.  Unfortunately, none of the FS2 retail missions really fit the bill.

So, anybody care to recommend a decent one?  Destroyers and bombers and corvettes and everything blowing each other up?

[Nuclear1]

Those are rather hard to come by, since hardly anyone has the computer to run such a gargantuan battle, and that Freespace 2 could never support such a large battle.

Looks like you're out of luck, mate.

[Solatar]

They aren't hard to make, just uhh..line up two fleets, beam-free-all, and launch a ****load of fighters.

[MatthewPapa]

And meanwhile watch your preocessor and graphics card cry.


I made one once just for the hell of it and even my comp (2.8 AMD 3200+) couldnt handle it for very long. It was kinda like a slideshow for a while until most of the capital ships were destroyed. Was still pretty cool though I have to admit...

[Goober5000]

The last few missions of Derelict fit the bill, I would say.  As does the last mission of Technological Superiority.

[phreak]

Did anyone get the 2nd Great War Part II off the VW Archives before they died?

[phatosealpha]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check those out.

Probably should've been more clear - it doesn't need to have dozens of capital ships facing off or a death star or anything.  Something like a pair of destroyers facing off, maybe supported by a corvette each or something, with a fair quantity of fighters of bombers flying around to keep things interesting.

Something vaguely akin to Clash of the Titans from FS1, well, if the galatea had stuck around instead of running off like that - and if they were FS2 capships because FS1 capship battles are awfully dull.

[Nuclear1]

Oh, well if that's what you wanted, try "One Step Too Far" on the original FS2 missions.

[phatosealpha]

Is that a multiplayer mission?

[aldo_14]

CoW has a few biggies.

 Apparently some people have problems in running CoW with HTL (FSO versions >5.3 IIRC), but it works fine in retail.

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by phatosealpha
Is that a multiplayer mission?

Nope. If you had GOTY edition, it should be in the "Single Missions" in the Tech Room.

[phatosealpha]

that explains that.  I don't have the GotY edition, and the vanilla edition came with zero single player standalones.  Is that one downloadable anywhere, or is it goty only?

[Kie99]

Well I'm sure one of those nice people with GOTY would put it up for download...

Please?

[Goober5000]

It's up for download somewhere around here...

[Cabbie]

"Caught in the middle" is a good single shot mission with a big tons of fighters duking it out

[Nuclear1]

Also didn't Aeos Affair have a significant amount of missions like this? I remember there being one with roughly 5 destroyers and 4 smaller ships all going at it at one point.

[übermetroid]

Originally posted by Goober5000
It's up for download somewhere around here...

Yea... I had it.  It was up on swoosh.  But, now that swoosh is gone....  

If any body wants them PM me.

[Knight Templar]

Oxymoron.

[MetalDestroyer]

Eheheh, i think if i had much time to finish to modelize some SW ship so, i think i will made a mission as the battle of endor.

But,, i'm just beginning my first model (X wing).

[Gai Daigoji]

Solar Wars will have a few BOE type missions in, but you will have objectives rather then watching capitol ships duke it out. But Solar Wars is still being worked on