[General Battuta]

HAI GUYZ

There are three big campaigns on the edge of release that I'm pumped for. We should do some plot speculation and anticipation.

TopAce's Descendants of Sol looks like an original-universe story with an interesting branching plot structure. You can get the details on the Wiki or ModDB.

What I'm interested in is where the plot's going. It sounds like Earth is screwed and colonization is difficult, so the Proxima Centauri colonies are the best hope mankind has. But then we've got this problem with the plague  on the biggest colony, Yartis, and the resulting blockade.

We don't know all that much about the plague but apparently it's bad. So is the blockade, though - a bunch of naval officers have defected and formed a resistance movement. So I'm going to take a stab at plot prediction here and suggest that maybe the choice that leads to the campaign fork involves defection from the Solarian navy to the anti-blockade group?

It's an interesting moral dilemma too. If conditions on Yartis are really bad, the blockade may only be making things worse - but if the plague is virulent and horrible then the blockade may actually be necessary in spite of the humanitarian cost.

Dilemmas, dilemmas.

[headdie]

having played one of spoon's WoD betas (i presume thats what you meant by dawn) I am eagerly waiting for that one

[General Battuta]

Yep. I've played Dirge of Vassago and it's excellent too.

With four high-quality campaigns about to release, things are looking nice.

[Rodo]

I've been following the progress on "Descendants of Sol" through ModDB and from recent updates it seems the campaign is almost done YAY!

[The E]

Well, apart from those, Wings looks mighty promising.

[Rodo]

Agreed.

[Sushi]

Blast. This means I may have to actually play Freespace again instead of just modding/writing code for it.

[Spoon]

Blast. This means I may have to actually play Freespace again instead of just modding/writing code for it.

Should be fun actually seeing your coding efforts being put to use right? 

having played one of spoon's WoD betas (i presume thats what you meant by dawn) I am eagerly waiting for that one

Things changed quite a bit in those 6 months 


Vassago's Dirge is almost completed, however its Release date is a Closely guarded secret. Not even the wise council of 4 knows. Rumor has it, that Axem is waiting for something.
Look forward to it, for it is an excellent campaign indeed

So can we be anticipating WiH in here too or?

[Axem]

My interest has piqued at this description of Descendants of Sol. I heard the name get tossed around a bit, but didn't look into it. Definitely sounds worth playing.

This does look like a good summer for releases.

And real sly there Spoon...

[NGTM-1R]

I'm not really interested in any of them.

[General Battuta]

So can we be anticipating WiH in here too or?

Please do. It's sitting on the launchpad being fueled.

I'm not really interested in any of them.

You are a curmudgeonly grognard and can be excused.

[Mongoose]

I'm behind on at least a half-dozen campaigns released over the past year or two, and I didn't even know about one or two of these before this thread.  Evidently, I need to start putting my new video card through its paces.

[NGTM-1R]

You are a curmudgeonly grognard and can be excused.

Nah I'm kidding, I look forward to Dirge since I saw bits and pieces before my burnout.

Descendants makes my head hurt with the concept of being able to blockade a complete planet in a universe that's drawing its ships and weaponry, and hence presumably their capablities at least in gross, from FS.

[Spoon]

And real sly there Spoon...

 

[Ravenholme]

The four campaigns mentioned in this thread (The titular 3 and WiH) are some of the ones I'm most looking forward to - and their releases are all imminent? Oh Happy days

[TopAce]

And what a fight there will be for highlights and which one deserves to be featured in the Wiki..

[Ravenholme]

And what a fight there will be for highlights and which one deserves to be featured in the Wiki..

That's a point, by the sound of it they'd all be equally deserving...

BRB, loading photoshop to make a quartered highlight/feature banner for all four campaigns/mods


Well, I would if I had images and official title art for each to use

[AndrewofDoom]

And what a fight there will be for highlights and which one deserves to be featured in the Wiki..

There's 4 campaigns, 4 highlight slots, plenty of slots to go to each of them. The Wiki is different story...

[Axem]

Until some bastard comes along with a surprise campaign release, pushing the poor guy who decided to release first off the board. 

[AndrewofDoom]

Until some bastard comes along with a surprise campaign release, pushing the poor guy who decided to release first off the board.  

You know, they could just not highlight the surprise campaigns, but that would be so mean of them. =P