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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
SPAAAAAARRRTAAAAAAAAAAA
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I really need lifе to touch me
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
<3

 

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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
Are you agreeing with Snail or is that a broken link General :confused:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
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-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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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
Are you agreeing with Snail or is that a broken link General :confused:

Read the two posts after it, my friend.

 

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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
What's a Diomedes?
The GTCv Sparta from StratComm's Terran fleet pack.

GTMf Sparta.
Originally it was a Marine Transport (Marine..Ferry? I don't recall what the f stands for.)
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
Ahhh sorry. Still have two mile walk over undulating terrain and it's getting light in two hours lol.
 
I'm appropriately tired and am having trouble reading the page numbers.  
 
 
 
Edit- Mf = missile frigate?
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....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President of the Scooby Doo Model Appreciation Society
The only good Zod is a dead Zod
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GT Mother F'ing Sparta  :drevil:
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
GT Mother F'ing Sparta  :drevil:

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking.  ;7

 

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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
I predict neither side will have a straight-up victory. It will end in a draw of some sort... or interrupted by SHIVANS. D:
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
SHIVANS?
Or maybe VISHNANS?
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
:wtf: to the mass-spam above.


Are you taking distance from the fantasy stuff seen in AoA? In poor words, how different from AoA is it going to be?
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
:wtf: to the mass-spam above.
Lighten up. :)

Are you taking distance from the fantasy stuff seen in AoA? In poor words, how different from AoA is it going to be?
IMO one of the kewl things about WiH is that while it's a very different experience to AoA, it still manages to combine the numerous positive elements from the more memorable campaigns. It combines (in your terms) the 'military experience' and 'character-driven campaign' types, proving that they need not be mutually exclusive. It not only focuses on the big picture, but also how the individual characters develop and are affected by the huge events going on around them.

There's also some semi-mystical stuff going on in the background as a sort of underlying theme, just enough to draw in those who loved AoA's fantasy elements, but not enough to obscure the extremely gritty, immersive war scenario going on in the foreground.

 

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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
There's also some semi-mystical stuff going on in the background as a sort of underlying theme, just enough to draw in those who loved AoA's fantasy elements, but not enough to obscure the extremely gritty, immersive war scenario going on in the foreground.

I'm afraid of the semi-mystical stuff. :nervous:
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
There is no more mystical stuff in War in Heaven than there is in FreeSpace 1. Anyone who's read the techroom intelligence entries should understand everything on a non-mystical level by now. (And, in fact, there was no mysticism in AoA either by these standards).

We've intentionally provided enough information to make a fool of anyone who cries 'mysticism'.

Mobius, you should read the Director's Cut techroom (after finishing the campaign).

 

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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
That's why I said semi-mystical. It evokes allusions to myth and legend and stuff but it's still explained (to some extent) via more "scientific" means. That said, I do like the Vasudan approach of viewing everything as simply existing and scientific, rather than labeling things we don't understand as OMG WTF MAGIC!!

 

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Given the way it's handled in WiH Mobius will probably be literally afraid of it.  ;7

 

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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
By afraid I mean that I don't want it to ruin your work because things are fun when they're based on realistic stuff, regardless of how weird they sound. I think FS is not the right game for the kind of RPG (or jRPG) experience we have seen in AoA.
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
There is no more mystical stuff in War in Heaven than there is in FreeSpace 1.

War in Heaven is probably the most military campaign I've ever seen. Its themes are about the psychology of war and the ambiguity of morality.

That said, you're not obliged to like it. There's plenty of room in FreeSpace for all kinds of stories. What ruins the experience for you may be someone else's favorite point.

Honestly, if you want to worry about anything, it should be the amount of dialogue. Even with skip triggers for all the big dialogue sequences, I still stress out about it.
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Re: War in Heaven speculation thread.
I do not put my likings on a superior level compared to other people's. I think, however, that unconventional campaigns, despite the positive feedback they can get, are more vulnerable to criticism due to their own nature.
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