[-Norbert-]

I wouldn't say that. Just because the people follow orders doesn't mean they don't feel bad about them. And they think they are doing it for the greater good of mankind (wether that's really true or not has been discussed in several other threads already).
For example in the first of second mission of WiH, there is a wing leader offering the civies under your care another chance to surrender, even though he wouldn't be required to do so by GTVA law and rules of engagement.

[Droid803]

When I preemptively assassinated the elder (before SOC did it!)
Felt so smart until the mission broke.

[Hades]

When I preemptively assassinated the elder (before SOC did it!)
Felt so smart until the mission broke.

So I wasn't the only one who did it! Too bad the mission broke indeed.

[Droid803]

HI FIVE HADES! \o.

[Snail]

Assassinating elders, huh. That shouldn't be permitted.

[General Battuta]

Mission doesn't break any more.

[SpardaSon21]

Why would a player choose to assassinate the Elder in that mission?

[Snail]

I dunno, maybe they're jerks.




Or, they genuinely thought the Tevs are the good guys.

[General Battuta]

The imp of the perverse!

[redalbatross]

Spoiler:

In WiH, two moments stand out - one- the "psych eval" where Laporte comes across the creepiest cargo depot in history. Something about that just freaked me the eff out. I've always liked psych horror kinds of things like that.

And of course everyone says this, but Delenda Est was one of the most emotionally moving moments I've experienced in gaming. Dodging flak and AA beams and ramming Paveways up the engine pipes of the ships so they couldn't escape and watching them crumble under artillery fire, eyes on the prize of the Carthage...and then the rug gets pulled out from under me so fast I barely have time to blink. Steele, you magnificent bastard.

[TheMonkeyMon]

One that hasn't been mentioned yet that nearly made me piss myself was when

Spoiler:

you discover what the vasudan ship transmited to Naomi. I have a horrible feeling that she'll cross the Moral Event Horizon in R2. Also, Universal Truth. All of it. Lastly, "first contact", I think it was, when you follow a few vishans that don't know you're there, and when you jump you're SMACK in the middle of enemy territory, with all your subsytems offline, and they start talking to you. That was pretty freaking scary on a blind run.

By the way, is there a specific topic for speculation on plot or should I just poston General discussion for that?

[General Battuta]

One that hasn't been mentioned yet that nearly made me piss myself was when

Spoiler:

you discover what the vasudan ship transmited to Naomi. I have a horrible feeling that she'll cross the Moral Event Horizon in R2. Also, Universal Truth. All of it. Lastly, "first contact", I think it was, when you follow a few vishans that don't know you're there, and when you jump you're SMACK in the middle of enemy territory, with all your subsytems offline, and they start talking to you. That was pretty freaking scary on a blind run.

By the way, is there a specific topic for speculation on plot or should I just poston General discussion for that?

You can use the War in Heaven discussion thread. There was a speculation thread but I'm too lazy to dig it up 

[Archaic]

AoA cliffhanger. i was like "Whhaaaa?!!"

i suppose delenda est was ok too

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Well actually, one of my first thought in AoA was "why are they bringing that many warships? ... Well, the guys on the other side are humans, maybe it's some horrible dictatorship, and that its what this mod is about, fighting for the "Blue Planet"?"
Two missions later "the Shivans destroyed Earth anyway ? I was wrong, but that's even more awesome !"
Later "On the other hand, I would feel bad if it happened canonically; if the last mission for fs1 was for nothing."
Last mission "or was I(wrong)?"

Which actually is brilliant story-telling, because players always wonder who they will fighting in the mod the campaign they're playing. In a "return to Sol" scenario, in my mind, it was either evil humies/many factions of humie at war, good reunion followed by shivans/other aliens, or shivans/other aliens already there.
By the end of the campaign, I had forgotten about my early therories (well, up until the line "do you come in peace?" popped up and wasn't instantly answered to), and then: boom! Surprise!

Its like saying "Sorry guys, Mr McAwesome couldn't come today, but I brought Cool Joe instead" and later "Hey you know what? Mc Awesome came anyway!"

[Luis Dias]

When Simms danced in the pole.







Oh wait that was a dream.

[Colonol Dekker]

The top of my head.

Spoiler:

Flashback of wife death.

Slaying dragons/waking dragons??

Spacesuit to the Vishnan mummy ship.

She comes, she comes, whoa baby how she moves, she moves. . . . uh-oh my body died XC

In system jumps. (i acknowledge axems use in VD first)

Red out ^_^

Dating Simm

here's some buntu-scum credits, choose your reinforcements.

Being on the recieving end of a pegasus strike, ....on the second playthrough,..... as i killed the elder too \0/....we should start a club.

[General Battuta]

In system jumps. (i acknowledge axems yuse in VD first)

They were done in parallel, neither came first. The VD one is (mostly) better, though.

[Colonol Dekker]

In system jumps. (i acknowledge axems yuse in VD first)

They were done in parallel, neither came first. The VD one is (mostly) better, though.

I LIKE the in-system jumps, the setup is superior in BP, jumping from orbit to, well, not in orbit is great. :applause: