[Snail]

Actually, if you just keep going you self-destruct...

And all the messages came in less than two seconds for me:

DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. RETURN TO THE BATTLE!
DESERTION OF THE GROUNDS IS MEANS FOR A COURT MARTIAL, PILOT. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!

Boom.

I never had time to turn back around. Command just killed their last hope.

[fsi.scsi]

I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment of Ransom's campaigns.

That, and INFA2, BWO, Machina Terra, &c &c.

[Mustang19]

The self-destruct you mentioned is to "save" the player if some crazy bug is forcing him outside the game area. For example, in FS1 if you went into FRED and ordered a Centaur to dock with you, you would be sent flying at 100,000 m/s and wouldn't be able to undock. You'd be plastered against the edge of the game area, caught in the Centaur's grip of death, and Command wouldn't be able to force your jump drives to engage.

[Dark Hunter]

you would be sent flying at 100,000 m/s...

Sounds like fun! 

[Vretsu]

For some reason, bugs like that have always incited a death, primal sense of horror from me.

 

Um, right. Anyways, I've been playing Fs2 for eons and it still has my interest. It only took me a few months to get tired of Fs1, but Fs2 just has so many more possibilities.

[Game_Master64]

didn't even know you could fly to the saths, i thought it was a skybox. ya learn something new every day

[Mad Bomber]

For some reason, bugs like that have always incited a death, primal sense of horror from me.

Oh, thank god, I'm not the only one...

Shards of Death in particular just cause me to get involuntary shudders... 

[jr2]

I"ve had a few of those... tryin' to kill the Lucy and the timer's gettin' low... The first time you see a Sathanas (it jumped in on top of me; I had to do the mission again because I was crushed).

EDIT: don't forget the first time you see endpart1...

[Snail]

For some reason, bugs like that have always incited a death, primal sense of horror from me.

Oh, thank god, I'm not the only one...

Shards of Death in particular just cause me to get involuntary shudders... 

Shards of Death? Wazzat?

[Mustang19]

Shivan Comm Nodes, you mean?

[Game_Master64]

the comn nodes are so annoying, not only do they take so long to kill with primaries, it's almost impossible to avoide the blast in a slow ship. and everyone sees endpart1, why? because interplay were bastards, they designed the mission so you would fly at the fighters, kill them, and then not be able to make it back because of the friggn nova.

EDIT: woops, wrong cutscene

[Mustang19]

You kill the crystal first. Then the node looses hull strength, giving you time to run away. I guess knew everyone would be thinking, "hey, there's a crystal thingy, let's blow it up first!"

[Snail]

It also makes sense as lots of Sci-Fi devices draw their power from crystals/central structural thinguys.

[Mobius]

Correct.


When you open FRED, you notice that the area of space you can fly in is enormous. Command sends messages when you get far, ok, but you will never risk to crash on something if you keep escaping.

In Colony Wars, you self descructed if you got too far

[Snail]

You self destruct in FS if you go too far too...

[Mobius]

In fact I was meaning that also in CW you self destruct. Well, it's the contrary since CW came out before FS.

[Snail]

Apparently FS has borrowed/stolen many things from Colony Wars.

[Mobius]

It has been obviously inspired by CW. Do you know other games that talk about a Sol system cut off from the others?

Even Inferno has been inspired by CW...reopen the tunnel and another war starts.


Back on topic, I'm with the ones that do not have enough time to play a campaign the shortly after you DL it.

[Polpolion]

Even if I haven't posted since I-don't-know-when, I'm still around and keep noticing that while some years ago, campaign release threads were flooded with responses, there are hardly any campaigns that attracted a whole lot of attention. At least not many post feedback here.

Why is that? Are you guys getting bored of FS, too?

I haven't played Freespace in months.

[Vretsu]

I'm an eager young acolyte o' FS, so boredom is not on the immediate agenda.

More campaigns! More!  >:D