[JamieKirby]

Dude, i can't tell ya, its like them with BWO.

But for some reason the site url is offline.

http://www.infinite-empire.org/index.html

Gonna email the head dude to see whats up.

[Colonol Dekker]

Dude, i can't tell ya,

Dude.........You.........Can't.........Tell............Me.

[IceFire]

Well, you could do a Open Beta Test, so we can at least play it in our lifetime.

But i am sure everyone has their own RL to deal with and stuff like that and nagging girlfriends/wives looking for attention, i am sure everyone is looking forward to this campaign.

There may be some sort of open beta...thats not a bad idea.  But were not ready for that yet either.  We want to make sure that all of the mission content is done.  If we gave you the beta right now the last few missions would be triggerless, message less, objectiveless events that would break the rest of the campaign.  Most of that is fixed now but not quite.  And by fixed I mean its been gone over with a fine tooth comb for everything from breaking the event triggers to better grammar and story.

Once thats all finished there's some stuff to do with fixing up the models and then finally some finishing touches like command briefing graphics and stuff like that.  Then...voices and done.  There could be possibility of release before some of that happens or a limited release...we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

[JamieKirby]

Cool, when the time comes and you do a open beta or even invite only beta....i offer my services.

[BlackDove]

I very much doubt there'll be any kind of an open beta. Maybe when we finish the thing by our standards, and release it, we'll call that "open beta", but hardly anywhere before that.

At any rate, if we ever do hold any kind of a beta, we'll make sure to post a notification on this board.

[IceFire]

Cool, when the time comes and you do a open beta or even invite only beta....i offer my services.

I said maybe...so IF is more correct

It'll depend on a bunch of factors once we get to that point.

[Kosh]

If we gave you the beta right now the last few missions would be triggerless, message less, objectiveless events that would break the rest of the campaign.

Can I infer that most of the missions are done?

[BlackDove]

No.

They're close to being done though.

[Kosh]

How close is "close"?

[Blue Haired Maniac]

How close is "close"?

Close.

[BlackDove]

How close is "close"?

They need final playthroughs, and I actually think we broke some of them in the middle while trying to make something near the end work. Also as Ice said, last one ain't made, and I don't actually think the last four or five are really exisiting whatsoever.

[Vasudan Commander]

Personally, i expect GREAT things from BWO. Its been under development for several years now, and though the staff havent exactly been working 'around the clock' on it (hey, we all have a life dont we?) , it -WILL- come out eventually. They havent worked this hard and come this far just to one day turn around and say 'yknow what ? stuff it. we couldnt be f**ked finishing it.'

So fellas, keep up the great work i say. 

[neoterran]

you sure about that ? that's a very real possibility IMO.

[BlackDove]

Not a possibility at all.

By now, it's only a matter of when.

[AnD]

If you guys need voice acting or proof reading of story or script, I'd be happy to help.

[IceFire]

If you guys need voice acting or proof reading of story or script, I'd be happy to help.

There will be a call out at some point near the end of the project to get things like voice and whatnot nailed down so keep an eye out.  We'll definitely need a large group of people willing to lend their voices to help.  I would but mine is crap

[Bobboau]

I don't want to jinks things, but we are in one of our more productive periods in a few years now.

[Raven2001]

Aye true... so you get an idea... theres aq certain Uni job I shouldve done by now, but instead im using my time to chalk up more stuff to BWO...

Now one of you fanatics is gonna have to finish the Uni work for me

[AnD]

It's awesome to come back and see that Freespace 2 is still actively followed. I know at LEAST a hundred or so people at my university who stopped playing because they thought it was dead. But if BWO is on the rise and the team's actively working on it, it could be the catalyst for a rise in the fanbase again.

Puff up your chests boys 'cause with the help of FSO and your campaign, you fellas and HardLight could very well start a new following.  8)

Edit:
A) Bobboau - it's only a jinx if you make it one
B) P.S. - It might be a dumb question, but what Uni job? Are you talking like a solo campaign?
C) Who needs 'em anyway?

[Raven2001]

B) No, an Uni job I was doing at the time, non related to FS mind you

And yeah call your hundred colegues back, tell them that BWO will be done when... When its done