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What is your favorite cannon campaign?

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Offline eliex

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
The Fenris/Leviathan series has and always will be a nemisis to fighters.

 

Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
The Fenris/Leviathan series has and always will be a nemisis to fighters.
What, you mean like a tank is to infantry? Well, I think the infantry has outclassed the tank by FS2 already.

 
Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
The Fenris/Leviathan series has and always will be a nemisis to fighters.

      Well, thanks to Volition the beams are turned off half the time. Yay!

      (like the one where you jump in and a Leviathan is attacking a station. The rear four turrets don't fire. Or else you and your buddies would all be swiss cheese!)

 

Offline eliex

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
The Fenris/Leviathan series has and always will be a nemisis to fighters.

      Well, thanks to Volition the beams are turned off half the time. Yay!

      (like the one where you jump in and a Leviathan is attacking a station. The rear four turrets don't fire. Or else you and your buddies would all be swiss cheese!)

Good thing that 90% of the time, Leviathans and Fenrises are on your side!  ;)

 

Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Well by the end of FS2 we have Trebuchets and Maxims to deal with cruisers.

 

Offline eliex

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Yep. Ares and Serapis fighters will find Fenris a piece of cake, but in a battle, you can't sit around shooting at a cruiser beaming at you (for a Leviathan) and anyway I should say that Fenris and Leviathans are a threat to Alpha 1 in the beginning of FS2

 

Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Heck, a wing of Taurets armed with Hornets can take down a Fenris no problem. In fact, in a mission I made they destroyed FOUR Fenrises no problem.

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
I reckon most of the newer guys are gonna go for FS2, the old hands "might just" stick with FS1, if they're true Terran patriots at least...  :nervous: :mad2:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
I reckon most of the newer guys are gonna go for FS2, the old hands "might just" stick with FS1, if they're true Terran patriots at least...  :nervous: :mad2:
I guess I count as a newer guy. But I enjoyed FS1 a lot more for FS2. But not for blowing up Vasudans. I wuv our fish wuvving friends.

 
Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
What are the main differences between FSPort and FS1? Only played FSPort, thought it was exactly like FS1, except explosions and engine wash.

The AI behave differently, The missiles are much more effective in FSPort, and FSPort is easier because of this. FreeSpace actually required more skill then FS2 because you found yourself never using missiles on fighters, because they never hit them. In FSPort, any noob can beat it because it doesn't take any skill to shoot a dragon out of the sky with a couple missiles on the FS2 engine. Insane on FS truely was, insane, nearly imposible. On FS2, Insane is all I play.

IMO, FSPort should be made to play more like the original, instead of playing like a ported campaign. Perhaps adding an "Enable Features for FSPort" in the launcher to make it behave like the original FS campaign should...
« Last Edit: August 17, 2008, 09:20:52 am by [DW]-Hunter »

 

Offline colecampbell666

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
I think you hit the nail on the head. In the BETAC Comms Station mission, Deva was almost impossible to hit with Phoenix Vs.
Gettin' back to dodgin' lasers.

 

Offline Snail

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
I think a few additions AI_Profiles.tbl would be better than a flag.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Heck, a wing of Taurets armed with Hornets can take down a Fenris no problem. In fact, in a mission I made they destroyed FOUR Fenrises no problem.

But, like anti-armor infantry squads, that's what they're designed for. Heavy assault fighters are ideal for the destruction of cruisers.

 

Offline Ransom

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Freespace 2 by a mile, for me. I actually found the first game's story to be pretty unremarkable, and probably wouldn't be here if I hadn't bought the sequel on a whim. My chief complaint is its lack of human warmth - where FS2 had Bosch, one of my favourite characters in a science fiction game to date, FS1 had exposition from the Ancients. It was a faceless narrative and I found it unmoving.

It certainly doesn't help that, aside from the ying-yang nature of the Shivans, the story is as generic as they come. Well told, but still.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
Yes. Freespace 1 was really dry.

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
From the Intro, through to the fall of Vasuda prime (said with a grin). The destruction of the Galatae (said with a sad face) the desperate break for Aincent tech only to have the Lucy Jump in what (first playthrough) i thouight was the last mission if all went to plan,. To the memorable end-speech. FS1 beat FS2 in my opinion. Freespace 2 is good. But it's still just a sequel :yes2: :P :yes:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
I think you hit the nail on the head. In the BETAC Comms Station mission, Deva was almost impossible to hit with Phoenix Vs.

My god, I hated that mission so much. I would always get tied up trying to get Deva and then Krishna(?) would warp in and destroy most of the escape pods. And if I let Deva go, they got the escape pods.

At least defending the Beta Aquilae Comm Station was pretty easy, though.

 

Offline Mars

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
As long as you hit one of the dragons with those Phoenix missiles, the AI can deal with the other one.

Honestly though, I always cheated by not destroying one of the Basilisks, and keeping it occupied until the escape pods had made it.

 

Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
I don't seem to find any use for the Phoenix. :nervous:
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Offline karajorma

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Re: What is your favorite cannon campaign?
FS2 by a mile.

FS1 is a great game I agree but the fact is that it's a plot we've seen many, many times before. Admittedly FS1 did it very well but it's still not anything new. The Shivans are just xenophobic aliens for you to kill.


Now in FS2 things change. You have the political intrigue surrounding Bosch and Etak. You have signs that the Shivans don't just want to wipe out everything they see and most mysteriously of all you have Bosch stating that for some reason humanity only has a future if it allies with the Shivans. That made me a lot more interested in the storyline than FS1's plot.
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