[Woomeister]

You know, if Inferno isn't released before the end of the year I wouldn't be surprised.

It would more surprise me if it WAS done before the end of the year
I think I'd have a heart attack if that happened

[Snail]

I meant Alliance.

[Woomeister]

That'll be released this year. Hell I could release it now without testing.

[Snail]

I'd rather have it with testing, I don't want to wait for the download, and then open it up and run it and then getting a million errors saying FreeSpÅce has encountered an error and must be shut down.

[Dark Hunter]

Now I have a worry. I think that, we've been waiting for so long now, that whatevers released will be a disappointment. I don't doubt your campaign-making prowess Woo, just the fact that the suspense has continuously been at a high level...

[Woomeister]

Well that will be up to each individual person.
But if people are just waiting for an uber eyecandy campaign, they're wasting their time here.
However if you want something a bit different than FS2, and lots of new ships your in the right place.

[Snail]

Ehh, uber eyecandy campaign is probably BWO, they've got this really freakishly beautiful background with the moon and the Earth and... wow...

But Inferno is, in the feel and atmosphere, IMO, FreeSpace  ---  Three. My only worry is that Inferno SCP may have a different atmosphere than R1.

(please do not smite me for this too)

Screenshots never capture the actual 'atmosphere' of a mission, there was a trailer a while back where there was a Kabechet, Hedetet and Apothess against a Shiamak and a Yama. The feel was really good, as in, it was like a 'problem' rather than a battle at the beginning. A screenshot would probably have given the impression of "Ehh, big battle with Shivans, whatever," But the trailer gave you the feel. I hope that mission is still in Inferno (probably isn't, pity).

Alliance will most likely capture the feel of FreeSpace 1, which is much different from the feel of FS2.

Anyway, I don't think Alliance or SCP will be crap because, well... it's Inferno. 8)

[Mobius]

Inferno is definitely FS3 and Alliance is a good way to imagine what oculd happen in Sol.

BWO,is...puah! "The Elite of the Elite when comes to campaigns" suggets that "every other FREDder is awful..."
I simply don't like it.

[Snail]

Intensify forward batteries! I don't want anyone getting through!
TOO LATE!!!
BOOM

Lieutenant General Mobius, I don't think you should've said that.

[Mobius]

I don't really pay attention on this, Snail. It's an opinion,and I think that they will look what I wrote.

[asyikarea51]

TBH I'm looking forward to R2 more than Alliance. But since the mods can be installed on top of each other, having more ships to play with is nice... <--- not evil grin

Putting the daydreams on paper, so to speak. Only this time, the paper comes in the form of tables and FRED. Pity my FRED still sucks - I still haven't learned how to use variables - mostly past experiences in simple missions with FRED1.

[Mobius]

My abilities with FRED are well above average...

[asyikarea51]

Well, I have one more question if no one minds (actually two, but I'm not too sure as to how I should phrase the second).

1) Do the Alliance fighters come with cockpits?

2) What's the size of all the new fighters in relation to the stock FS2/FS2MVP fighters in general? Are they around the same size, or bigger? i.e. is an INF R2 interceptor bigger than a stock FS2/mediavps FS2, or is it roughly the same size?

Right now I'm stumped by the ships in the OTT pack - one example would be the Benkei, which is bigger and longer than the Media VPs Erinyes depite having the appearance of a "lesser" ship.

When you know nothing about modelling or texturing, it's hard to make a mod with fighters that are consistent in size with the defaults... IMO the OTT ships (I know they were originally made for retail FS2) are in real need of cockpits, resizing, as well as those shiny maps that one sees in the Techroom...

[Woomeister]

1) Yes all of them do if you install the HTL pack.

2) About the same as FS2 ones.

Though INFA runs on top of INFSCP the mod replaces the entire INF tables as I needed them to act seperate due to balance changes on the EA weapons for INFA, as well as the new armour coding for INFA.

[Snail]

2) What's the size of all the new fighters in relation to the stock FS2/FS2MVP fighters in general? Are they around the same size, or bigger? i.e. is an INF R2 interceptor bigger than a stock FS2/mediavps FS2, or is it roughly the same size?

Right now I'm stumped by the ships in the OTT pack - one example would be the Benkei, which is bigger and longer than the Media VPs Erinyes depite having the appearance of a "lesser" ship.

The R1 Serpent, I believe, was really big (about the size of the Uriel), and I think it was resized before it was put into Alliance.... Wait... Has it?

[Woomeister]

Nope the Serpent is still huge.

[Snail]

Is there a reason for it being the size of a heavy bomber or can you just not be bothered to do anything about it?

[Woomeister]

I'm just not bothered, it's extra stuff added for you lot to play with.

[Snail]

Does the Serpent have hi-resolution maps this time round, then? The last time it had really low quality textures. It was clearly based on the Basilisk's maps (the only difference being its gun pods), but for some reason it lost all its quality when it was saved.

[Woomeister]

Same res, but I did try to improve them a tiny bit, but I'm not an texture maker.