[The E]

This is interesting:

Interplay apparently reserved a Steam ID for FS2.

Wonder if that's gonna come to anything.

[Deathsnake]

Hmm..

Steam Version HD maybe for the Steambox with a release in 2014 with a new engine?

BUY IT!

[haloboy100]

Probably just a contingency action.

...but it would be awesome to finally have Steam UI compatibility for FS2!

[headdie]

could you imagine them integrating achievements into it lol

[Lorric]

could you imagine them integrating achievements into it lol

 

I don't normally pay attention to achievements, but it could be a fun sub-topic imagining Freespace Achievements.

Stuff like:

Declaw The Beast

Destroy all 4 beams on the Sathanas Juggernaut

[Phantom Hoover]

There needs to be a nonlethal achievement imo

[Lorric]

There needs to be a nonlethal achievement imo

What do you mean? Winning levels by not killing things? How would it work?

[General Battuta]

There needs to be a nonlethal achievement imo

Even if you Akheton fighters they'll self-destruct 

[Lorric]

I just thought of a great idea. It's all pie in the sky, but has anyone played Star Wars Rogue Squadron on N64? The medal system? That kept me coming back for more to the levels over and over and over and over again. That would be great in Freespace.

There needs to be a nonlethal achievement imo

Even if you Akheton fighters they'll self-destruct 

And even if you clean all the turrets off a capship, the game will still want it's destruction.

[Phantom Hoover]

There needs to be a nonlethal achievement imo

Even if you Akheton fighters they'll self-destruct 

Well that's their problem!

[Killer Whale]

You've been targetted by a AAA beam. Mash E to jam.

No wait... that's something else.

[pecenipicek]

Achievements would be trivial(-ish) to set up through lua. You need various icons, a text file containing the various achiev's, another file containing the data for the achievs and voila.

[haloboy100]

Not sure how the legality of the source code works - but let me take a whack at finding out.

Since they own the IP and licensing rights, would that mean they could simply take the work HLP has done and release that as an HD package for sale?

[An4ximandros]

 QTE: Shivan on a fighter > Press "afterburn" to not die.

[haloboy100]

Hey, that doesn't quite count. Nobody told you to hit the afterburner.

[Lorric]

Hey, that doesn't quite count. Nobody told you to hit the afterburner.

Indeed. "Hey, what's goi..." Death was the result of that the first time... 

I figured it out the second time though 

That would be one for an achievement.

"No Hitch Hikers"

[SpardaSon21]

FSO has already had a QTE modded in complete with on-screen cues and timed button presses.  Spoon did one for Wings of Dawn, the rat bastard.

[Deathsnake]

Not only Freespace 2

http://steamdb.info/app/41620/
http://steamdb.info/app/41610/

[Dragon]

Achievements would be trivial(-ish) to set up through lua. You need various icons, a text file containing the various achiev's, another file containing the data for the achievs and voila.

All this talk about the achievement, it seems like none of you have earned a single campaign medal... FS already does have an achievement system in place, you can get badges for kills, completing mission objectives... Pretty much achievements, only better integrated into the setting. Steam could track of those (like it does with Tropico 4, for example) in it's own achievement system, but that's it.

[yuezhi]

But almost all are campaign specific.