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Offline -Norbert-

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Believe it or not, but the current version of AoA is actually towned town in difficulty compared to the first release. Back in the day you'd got insta-killed when a shivan megabomb blew up within 100 meter of your fighter. And "Forced Entry" might very well have been the hardest to win mission out there, untill it's revision (at least from what I read in the forum. I just switched down difficulty - twice).
War in Heaven is a bit harder than the current AoA version. Or at least it's harder if you're hung up on fulfilling secondary and bonus objectives like me :lol:

 

Offline TrashMan

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Flames of War.

Since no one else wants to mention it.

Also, Into the Night
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Offline Rodo

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
another also:

what if.
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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Sync/Transcend

Pandora's Box

Into the Halls of Valhalla

Incursion/Return to Sol

i recommend also :)


Also the FreeSpace Port with Silent Threat Reborn, Rain on Ribos 4 Trilogy, Destiny of Peace and Awakenings :)
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Offline Solatar

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
I enjoyed the Procyon Insurgency.  Well balanced, long, with mods that made sense but didn't draw away from the gameplay.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Well, beating it on hard is already better than most people around here. Although BP : AoA and WiH don't suffer from this, the problem with most user-made campaigns is that they are often balanced only for easy and medium, and so playing in higher difficulties may be either frustrating or even break the missions. Play at your own risks !

Uh, I'm pretty sure most player campaigns are actually balanced for Medium-Hard considering how much I've found to break in many of them on easy-very easy. :P
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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
will somebody answer this question?  I know that "the great war" in freespace 1 is the campaign to start with, if you want to go in "chronological order.  I have started the "great war" loading the mod "fsport" which I know is Freespace 1 campaign with all of the graphical upgrades.  I used the launcher and loaded the 'fsport' mod (great war) and played the first mission and the graphics did not impress.  But when I load "silent threat reborn" mod and go to the campaign room, it shows "the great war" campaign, and 2 other campaigns (templar and something i forget), and Silent threat.  When I start the "great war" while I am in the silent threat reborn mod,the missions are same, but the graphics are SO MUCH BETTER!  I looked in all "mod.ini)'s and fsport has no secondary mod installed, but silent threat reborn's "mod.ini" has both 'fsport" and "mediavp_3612" as secondary mods that load.  So the question is, "Is playing the campaign "the great war" within the "silent threat reborn (STR) mod" the BEST way and utilizes the best graphical updates?  or should I go into the "fsport's" "mod.ini" and add secondary mods into the mod.ini?  Answers would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks also to all the geniuses who makes these mods and through their hardwork give me many hours of pleasure!

 

Offline The E

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
If you want to play FSPort with the graphical enhancements, you need to select the FSPort_mediavps as the active mod.

Also, the FSPort forum is this way.
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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Thanks, sorry for putting in the wrong area as i am a noob here :wtf:

 

Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
I recommend the following:

- FreeSpace Port
- Silent Threat: Reborn
- Derelict
- Warzone
- The Procyon Insurgency
- Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
- Blue Planet: War in Heaven

Since this is a serious list, I'm not listing the you-know-what. :p
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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Chronological order :

Ancient Shivan War features some dream-like fighters

Terran-Vasudan War Project is fun

Cardinal Spear is nice too

Freespace Port + Silent Threat : Reborn (you might want to play the mission where you recover the pods in medium difficulty)

Homesick is a bit old, but I just find the ending hilarious

Freespace 2, with enhanced graphics, it's really great

Vassago's Dirge is just beautiful

Blue Planet of course

Derelict and Warzone are classics, these were the first user-made campaign I played

 
Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Nobody mentions the campaign with the anime females and the tentacle ships? :P
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17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Nobody mentions the campaign with the anime females and the tentacle ships? :P

I'm not sure you should recommend that to someone looking for an FS experience. :P
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Offline The E

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Indeed not. WoD is quite a different experience from stock FS2.
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
WoD may not be in the FreeSpace universe, but it is still an awesome campaign.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

Offline The E

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Anything other to recommend set in the FSII universe?

The OP asked for campaigns in the FS2 universe.
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
--Evergrey, Where August Mourns

 

Offline BlackDove

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
I recommend you play Freespace 2, as well as these other campaigns.


 

Offline utops

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Into Halls od Valhalla
Renegade Resurgence
The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
Shrouding the Light
Fall of Epsilon Pegasi
Rain on Ribos 4
Hellgate Ikeya
The Light of Antares
Sol : A History
Pandora`s Box

I just start with that set year ago.
What if ?

 

Offline Getter Robo G

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
Nobody mentions the campaign with the anime females and the tentacle ships? :P

Because you can't handle the awesomeness of said anime females...

Like Noriko and Takaya!

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Takaya, "But today is Tuesday."

Noriko, "I meant next Tuesday!"... :)

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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Recommend campaign to newcomer?
GETTER!

WE DEMAND YOUR THOUGHTS ON SPOON'S CAMPAIGN.
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