Hello, All:
I just wanted to say that I have played FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2 many, many times and been following the SCP for several years now, but this is the first time I have downloaded and played Blue Planet. I downloaded AOA, completed that, and just completed WiH-P1. I have a few things to say about it:
1) The story line is awesome. AoA was very good - WiH-P1 is nothing short of stunning.
2) I can't wait until the voice overs get done - the story could be hard to follow when things were going on onscreen. Also, the font can be exceptionally difficult to read against certain skyboxes in-game (I really need to make the HUD Bright Pink
). It would be very nice if there was some way to review a dialogue log of some sort after the mission, to see things I may have missed while in-mission.
3) The difficulty level is. . . punishing. I normally play through the normal FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2 campaigns on "Medium" and they are easy-to-moderately challenging. I had to set the difficulty for these down to "Very Easy" and still there were a few missions on each side I had to retry >5 times to finally get. I realize this * may * be on purpose, but. . . wow (and I used to think I was good at these games
)
4) The only truly negative thing I have to say is: having to manually enter the fighter bay (EVER) sucks. There is no other way to put it. It just plain sucks. It can take a while to get there, especially if I am far out. On some ships, the fighter bay is difficult to locate, even when you have the "Fighter Bay" subsystem highlighted in the HUD. I have a nasty habit of running into the ship repeatedly while trying to get to and even actually get IN the fighter bay when I finally find it (There was 1 mission it took me over 10 minutes to find the thing - it was apparently in the top middle of the ship as opposed to the sides). It would be very nice if we could just ALT-J these and it be assumed you landed.
Great work, people! Very much anxiously looking forward to WiH-P2, though I imagine it is still quite aways off.