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Author Topic: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light  (Read 10522 times)

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Offline Galemp

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #20 on: October 10, 2010, 07:52:26 pm
But harder to search for online.
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #21 on: October 10, 2010, 08:40:41 pm
Quote from: Galemp on October 10, 2010, 05:38:02 pm
It's "Lightning Marshal."
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #22 on: October 10, 2010, 10:57:20 pm
I'm glad to see Shrouding the Light get some publicity again; it's Blaise Russell (come back to us!) at his FREDding best, and it covers a rich area of the FS storyline that hasn't seen much community expansion.  It also happens to be the first campaign that I did any VA work for...and I want to apologize in advance to anyone playing it now for my amateurish reading and godawful microphone pop.  Makes me wish I could go back in time to slap myself upside the head and get it right. :p

This is a cool idea for a thread.  If I can motivate myself, maybe I can whip something up for The Destiny of Peace.

 

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #23 on: October 11, 2010, 12:50:32 am
I think I'll go update the campaigns thread with this.
 

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #24 on: October 11, 2010, 10:38:35 am
STL could probably use a facelift to use the new FSPort 3.2 weapons and interface art.
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #25 on: October 11, 2010, 12:27:03 pm
Oh neat thread.  I'm downloading Crossing the Styx now.
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #26 on: October 12, 2010, 09:39:47 am
When was Crossing the Styx made? I don't remember it at all..... :nervous:


It's too bad BR isn't around anymore. It was really something when he came out with several campaigns within a few months of eachother......
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #27 on: October 12, 2010, 10:40:25 am
Quote from: Kosh on October 12, 2010, 09:39:47 am
When was Crossing the Styx made? I don't remember it at all..... :nervous:
It was quite recent, actually. Just over a year ago.
 

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #28 on: October 12, 2010, 11:50:58 am
Here's another one that was long long forgotten:

"Ancients Demo"

It's so old I could only find a couple of references to it here and here.

Since it was only 2 missions it doesn't really count as a campaign but still, it was pretty neat all those years ago.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #29 on: October 12, 2010, 12:07:02 pm
Do you have any mirrors and can you provide a short description about its style, merits, shortcomings?
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #30 on: October 12, 2010, 12:10:07 pm
Quote from: TopAce on October 12, 2010, 12:07:02 pm
Do you have any mirrors and can you provide a short description about its style, merits, shortcomings?

Exactly, I'd love to have a little content on each one.

I wonder if instead of having only one spotlight at a time we should have a library...but maybe the best way to do it would be to have each spotlight as its own post, and then have the first post link to each of them. If we run out of room in post #1, I'll use Mobius' post if he's cool with it.
 

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #31 on: October 12, 2010, 12:24:22 pm
Quote from: TopAce on October 12, 2010, 12:07:02 pm
Do you have any mirrors and can you provide a short description about its style, merits, shortcomings?


From what I remember the second mission was set in the Inferno universe where the Ancients come back and are hostile to the GTVA. It's biggest shortcoming is that it is 100% incompatible with any current iteration of FSO, so unless you have some way old builds you'll have to use the retail exe. Originally the Ancients coming back thing was going to be featured in Inferno eventually, but after R1 the team dropped it. Too bad since I was kind of looking forward to it, but I understand the need to focus the mod a bit more.

After doing some more digging I've found that sectorgame is hosting it. The two missions appear stand alone, no campaign file.
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"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #32 on: October 12, 2010, 02:26:34 pm
Judging from the description, it seems related to Gateways (the Inferno campaign based on the Ancients). Woomeister recently told me that he found half the campaign, and we'd like to make it playable... but we'll need to work with the ASW Team on that.

Kosh, the latest link you provided is marked as illegal... do you mind finding another way to share the missions with us?
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #33 on: October 12, 2010, 02:35:23 pm
Quote from: Mobius on October 12, 2010, 02:26:34 pm
Kosh, the latest link you provided is marked as illegal... do you mind finding another way to share the missions with us?

It's a simple typo in the URL. I'll fix it.
 

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #34 on: October 12, 2010, 02:38:13 pm
Thanks, downloading now. :)
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #35 on: October 14, 2010, 03:05:19 am
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Judging from the description, it seems related to Gateways (the Inferno campaign based on the Ancients). Woomeister recently told me that he found half the campaign, and we'd like to make it playable... but we'll need to work with the ASW Team on that.


I look forward to it.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #36 on: October 17, 2010, 09:24:17 am
Woomeister says that is not a demo of Gateways.
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #37 on: October 17, 2010, 10:05:32 am
Whatever it was, Gateways sounds like a lot of fun.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #38 on: October 31, 2010, 05:20:51 am
Yeah, of course. :)
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Re: Old Campaign Spotlight: Shrouding the Light
Reply #39 on: October 31, 2010, 11:27:44 am
Mobius do you want to do a writeup of Crossing the Styx to take the top spot?
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