[MikeDelfino]

Hello! I've heard of this game at Caltrops (the site where there were the top 100 of the greatest indie games) for the first time and got captured by its review!

I read good part of the faqs and some wiki, but this game really feels huge... currently i'm running the open installer, but i know that after i install the game i'll need some of your help i feel so newbie that it's embarassing for me..

By the way, any advice on where to begin in this great space war?

Thanks and bye


Marco

[AlphaOne]

I recomend gooing with the Original campaigns of FS . Then moving on to the mod campaigns. If you encounter any problems tell us what the problem is and well do our best to help out.


Also could someone beamzoid him

[blowfish]

My first wecome beam!

If you want continuity, I would suggest starting with FSPort and then moving on to the main Freespace 2 Campaign.  That's what I did the first time.

[Turey]

Select fsport as your mod folder in the launcher, select the FS1 campaign from the in-game campaign room, then go to briefing.

[Nuclear1]

Honestly, if you want the best Freespace experience, I'd highly recommend these campaigns in this order:
* Freespace 1 (via FSPort, scroll down to the fully/partially released projects on the main index)
* Original Silent Threat (if you feel like it, the widespread concensus is that the original sucked. A remake of the original is in the works)
* Freespace 2 Main Campaign
* Derelict (widely regarded as the quintessential fan-made Freespace 2 campaign, my personal favorite)
* Homesick by Blaise Russel
* Sync and Transcend. Probably the best things to happen to Freespace since Derelict got voice-acted. Especially Transcend.
* All three Just Another Day campaigns
* The Procyon Insurgency

Most if not all of these are available through Turey's installer.

[blowfish]

Don't forget BluePlanet.

[AlphaOne]

yeap blue planet kick arse...its well worth the play.

[haloboy100]

Too bad it doesn't work for me.

[Jeff Vader]

As a side note, Karajorma's FreeSpace FAQ is excellent reference material when one wishes to become familiar with the functionality of FreeSpace, especially on the mod handling part.

Too bad it doesn't work for me.

Burn.

[Titan]

don't forget Sol: A history (someone made a remake of it, hear that's even better)

[Jeff Vader]

Personally, I'd skip Homesick, since the vile amount of bugs might be a deterrant for people who aren't that familiar with tweaking mission files.

[haloboy100]

Like me. Can't get homesick working either no matter what i try (yes, even the red alert fix)

[Jeff Vader]

Indeed. There were a few missions that wouldn't cooperate if you just removed the red-alert flag. You also had to (oddly) add the scramble flag so that the missions would start. Dang, I have to check out whether I have a full complement of those fixed missions somewhere. I had most, if not all of them.

[The Spac]

Welcome to HLP and I'm not a fan of Homesick but then again I think I just need to play it again, it's been a while. I think I remember something about two big blue stars but I could be thinking of another campaign.

[Clawandfang]

I think that the best freespace experience would be to play the orginal over and over again. And then move onto number two and be truly amazed at beams and flak. Heh. That's what happened to me. Took ages to re-train myself to stay away from cruisers...

And I'll second the recommendation of Transcend after the canon. Truly brilliant, although I felt that it collapsed towards the end...

[Mobius]

Benvenuto! Un altro italiano!!!

Contattami via MSN per qualsiasi cosa, ti posso dare qualche informazione utile. Per ora ti consiglio di scaricare i file principali(FS Open+mediavps).

[Titan]

Tu es estupido senor mobius, hacer en English!

[Mobius]

Italians are rare here, so...

[Clawandfang]

Italians are rare here, so...

...there's little point in speaking Italian?

[Mobius]

That was my second post in Italian. The ratio is 1:3250. I think it's acceptable.