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Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
Well, it'll be nice to fight the GTVA for once. I wonder how interesting it'll be.
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
If the mission design lives up to AoA -- i.e. it creates strong attachment to wingmen and capital ships, and makes you feel like a real hero (thanks to Samuel's somewhat pompous command style), then I think it'll be very interesting. Plus, there'll be the moral complication of killing your own servicemen.

So maybe you won't feel like a real hero. It'll be interesting to go from "The Abel has been destroyed!" to "The Aquitaine has been destroyed...dear God, what have we done?"

I thought the Vishnans and the Shivans are supposed to be the bystanders in WiH... :confused:

That doesn't mean the UEF wasn't expecting the Shivans to pop in at any moment.
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
Still, they knew that somehow they had to be prepared. I would spend a bit of my time trying to escape Sol.


Anyway, they had at least 2 GTA fleets. And i'm thinking that the SAH storyline fits in with this.
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
And i'm thinking that the SAH storyline fits in with this.

Not really... :doubt:

 
Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
i mean how people freaked out and started rebelling... sorry for not being as clear.
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But only 1/2 of the Sol Strike Force would be going like that.
On one of the captions below a picture in the BP website, I gather that the Sol-born pilots are nearly like Vasudans in their high level of respect, and having massive conscience issues with raiding GTVA supply convoys.

 
Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
Well, unless Earth had inside info on the way Shivans operate, they could have been building in anticipation for a Shivan second attempt.
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
If the GTVA has quantity, and the UEF has a small defensive force, then the Federation must make up in terms of quality.
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
I must say: Blue Planet is real awesome.  In the first Missions i am scared about the fate of Earth.
 Really cool in-game cutscenes an' nice missions an' very interestin' story.  

But in two missions i must cheating: Forced Entry and Preserving the Balance.  I am playing on very Easy but the two missions are very hard.  I Played the missions after and after and always loose,  Then i make my Cap.  ships invulnerable.
 
I really like this Campain my Favorite for now.

Also i like the new Capital ships.  There are very impressive.  
But for the next Release do you want make the Fighterbay better suitable - like Wing commander Saga ??  I crashed often in the ship during attempt to  reach the fighterbay.  

I am looking foreward for BPII ;)

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
whatta hell is going with this board??? there comes sentences i never have witten in my last posting??
Missing last letters and more....

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
National Talk Like a Pirate Day (seriously).

On this auspicious day, all your text is translated to be pirate-y! :arrr:
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
whatta hell is goin' with this 'ere board???  And hoist the mainsail! there comes sentences i ne'er have witten in me last postin'??
Missin' last letters an' more....

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
The funny thing is, I was just going to go make a post about this.  Something to the effect of "well, I know I probably shouldn't remind you guys, but..."
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
If'n th' preview fer War in Heaven is any in-di-kay-shun, I reckon th' vessels o' th' UEF wot be able t' put up 'un helluva fight against th' GTVA.  I'm very curious t' see th' fighters the UEF sends inta battle.
 
Aarrr, avast...all this 'ere talkin' like a pirate is makin' me wish there were bein' a pirate campaign fer FSO wot I could play...

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
I'm actually hoping that UEF capital ships will be slightly outmatched by GTVA ships (and significantly outmatched by the modern GTVA vessels like the Hyperion, Titan, and Raynor-class.)

 

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
Am I the only one who thinks that the new GTC Raynor class is a hunk of pure, shiny sex?

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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
Am I the only one who thinks that the new GTC Raynor class is a hunk of pure, shiny sex?
The Raynor's alright, but the Titan is triple-distilled sexy.
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14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
Am I th' only one who thinks wot th' new GTC Raynor class is a hunk o' pure, shiny sex, with a chest full of booty?
 

GTD Raynor.  Get yer ship classifications starboard, and a bucket o' chum!
 But aye, it is awesome.

EDIT: Starboard? I MEANT CORRECT!
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age o' Aquarius
I am FINALLY getting around to playing this thing, and from what I can tell from the first half, it's been well worth the wait. :)  Your sense of storytelling and direction is superb, Darius; even though it should have been something I thought of in retrospect, I didn't see the big
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alternate universe

coming at all.  The cutscenes are just brilliant, the models look gorgeous, the new music is pumping...just spectacular.  I'm having a ton of fun with this.  I do have to say, though, that the current mission I'm on,
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the fleet's run to the Knossos portal
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is utterly kicking my ass right now.  I can hardly keep track of what's going on, that damn Lilith's beam is ripping ships to shreds, and I keep getting destroyed by something as mundane as bomb shockwaves.  If the combination of the music and the action weren't so adrenaline-spiking, I might have to get angry. :p

(The only tiny gripes I have would be things like no text appearing on the mission goals screen in certain missions, or a few recommendations that had nothing but garbled text in them.  Plus, I'd like these recent nightly builds to get over their propensities to crash/garble certain textures, but that has nothing to do with this campaign...)
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Re: RELEASE - Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
There are a few important things in that mission. Speed matters. Obviously, you shouldn't fly an Ursa. Firepower, particularly the anti-subsystem kind, matters. The Lilith's beam cannon isn't that tough, and once it goes down the ship doesn't matter much any more. Lastly, wingmen. Don't let them waste their firepower destroying a disarmed warship. Use them as best as possible--the disarm and destroy subsystem orders are your friends.