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Offline Unknown Target

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Showing off Freespace?
Does anyone know of any good missions that show off the absolute coolness factor of FS2? I.e. huge ships duking it out, big battles, objective based gameplay, etc etc? I'd like to show the game off to some people here, but most missions are too slow or not very exciting to do it.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
How about the FS2 demo? That really hooked me, particularly the second mission.

 

Offline jr2

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
Yes... and that is available from Turey's, too.  :)

 

Offline Polpolion

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
I forget what it's called, but it's the first encounter with the Shivans and the Knossos in FS2.

 

Offline Koth

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
Its called  ''A Lion at the Door''. I like that my mission a lot mostly for the briefing. That music track is just killer for that mission.
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Offline jr2

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
The mission needs to have a stab of fear.. ;7  A sense of awe and terror of the Shivans and horror at your (human & vasudan aka "good guys' ") predicament.  :drevil:  Make them wet their pants.  :lol:  Well, settle for raising the hair on the back of their neck, then.  ;)

 

Offline ShadowGorrath

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
In that mission , the Cain gives some fun to the destroyer . Yea , it's a good preview for someone new . But totally spoils the begining where , out of nowhere , those red fellas show up and humiliate's GTVA .

 

Offline Retsof

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
You could try the dream mission from Derelict, I was too busy looking at the silhouetted pirate ship to realise that that big pretty light meant something big just jumped in. :eek2:
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Offline Vidmaster

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
Its called  ''A Lion at the Door''. I like that my mission a lot mostly for the briefing. That music track is just killer for that mission.

awesome mission, choose it.  A second proposal would be "Rebels & Renegades".

But there is even a better option:
LET THEM WATCH THE FS2 INTRO ! (until the name is shown, not the whole one). It's freaking cool :yes:
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Re: Showing off Freespace?
No, not the Intro! If you want to bring here people, show them the power of FS Open! The Intro has graphics that are...uhm..."far from average" even for 1999 standards(Colony Wars had wonderful CG cutscenes, and two of the three chapters of that saga came out before FS2...).

I suggest:

"A Lion at the Door"

"The Great Hunt"

"Feint! Parry! Riposte!"

In fact, they're all in the Demo :P
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
How 'bout The Sixth Wonder? That has always been quite thrilling, at least in my opinion. Though there is a small spoiler with the, um... *cough*Colossus. But nonetheless, a good piece of 'defend a station from warships and bombers'.
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14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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Offline Snail

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
Sixth Wonder isn't a very good mission, especially to show off FreeSpace.

a) The Calypso is attacked by the Cato by mistake.
b) Epsilon has only 1 fighter which departs early in the mission (a bit strange).
c) There are a number of bugs (including the Manheim can depart with station bug).
d) The Colossus, when it jumps in, sometimes fails to fry the Hawkwood (this happened to me, it fired too early and its beams missed the Hawkwood, it took another minute or so to power back up again)
e) There are bugs in the briefingn (one of the wings is called "Bandit")

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
...true. But if

-the Colossus remembers/manages to shoot the Hawkwood down
-the player knows beforehand to go and disarm the Cato a bit
-you ignore the remaining bugs

it works.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

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Offline Snail

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
1) More often than not, the right thing will happen, so no probs there.
2) The Cato fires around 2 seconds into the mission, sometimes hitting the Calypso by mistake when it tries to hit the station.
3) Yeah, yeah.

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
Well... "Feint! Parry! Riposte!"? That was already suggested. I like that too. In fact, I like all Suicide Kings missions. Partially due to Cordova. Now there's an authority with some personality.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

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Offline Mobius

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
You shouldn't mind if a "show mission" spoils the plot or not. The best thing of FreeSpace is the community and all user-made campaigns/MODs. So goes for GTVA Vs. Shivans, close to Endgame and nebula missions.
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Offline Snail

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
If not for the big spoilers, I would recommend a 'fixed' version of "Their Finest Hour."

 

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
And I wouldn't recommend it. That mission may be great for us, but is surely is a "meh" for any sci-fi fan apparently interested on FS.
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Offline Snail

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
Hmm... It's got big ships killing each other... But not a good display of FS2. True.

  

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Showing off Freespace?
I think I'll agree with the spoiler part. After all, back when FS1 hit the stores, a Finnish gaming magazine spoiled at least half of the plot and events in the review. As with several other games. And that is probably necessary. Who'd buy a game if they have absolutely no idea of what's going on.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
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18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
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