[EatThePath]

Get it on Knossos

Warmachine brings a remix of Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius, featuring an escalation in intensity and visual flair. Inspired by sci-fi visuals both classic and modern, reimagined weapons on all sides of the conflict fill space with bolts of light and colorful arcing missile trails. And it's not just for show, Terran and Shivan weapons alike carry more punch than before, so make the most out of your new arsenal. Enjoy the landmark campaign again in a new way, and then try out instant action missions designed to put the new equipment through its paces.

WARMACHINE WORKS ON RECENT NIGHTLIES
Warmachine heavily relies on multiple-target missile features(multilock) seen previously in Wings of Dawn. This previously required custom builds, but no longer. Play on a nightly build, 20200727 or later, and enjoy the chaos.



Warmachine started as a reaction to and adjustment of Age of Aquarius, exploring alternate ideas about the GTVA's post-Capella future and building a new style. It is not made by the Blue Planet team, and any current or future ideas within it shouldn't be expected to mesh perfectly theirs. Some day there may be a full story made for Warmachine, but too many people have wanted to play with what we have for too long to wait for that day. Age of Aquarius has been our playground for working on these ships and weapons, so now we're sharing that with you.

KNOWN ISSUES
Inflight training in the first mission leads to a soft-lock. This training is optional, so avoid it.

Likely-asked questions:
Q: War in Heaven?
A: No. At least not by us, not any time soon.

Q: Why is there an Uhlan in the TEI fleet, and why is another fighter wearing the Nyx's model?
A: There are certain ship ideas we have that we want new models for, but art production is naturally a hurdle. We've used models already in BP that more or less fit the properties we want for the final ship. These are examples of that. In the future these may be swapped out for other options.

Q: These vishnan missions are really hard.
A: Yeah. We've massaged them a lot and tried to make vishnan hardware keep up with the new standard, but they are still quite dicey at times. Some features of them are gated by difficulty level, so if you're having trouble I strongly suggest trying a lower one than you normally play on.

Credits
Warmachine
Talhydras - Lead
EatThePath - Backing

Invalubale testing by
Kestrellius

Music used
Supersede by Carbon Based Lifeforms
Authority by Vondkreistan.

Sounds used from
Starcraft by Blizzard
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak by Blackbird Interactive
Mass Efect 3 by Bioware
Halo 3 by Bungie
Supreme Commander by Gas Powered Games
Tyrian by Epic Megagames

Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Stargate SG-1
Macross II
Star Trek
Star Wars
Titan AE
Yukikaze

Freesound

Models used...
Shielded Lucifer from FSPort
Edited SF Manticore from Kestrellius

Scripts used...
Axem's targetbox and turret hotkeying
Wookiejedi's capship maneuvering

Thanks to...
The Blue Planet team, for creating such an engrossing and inspiring experience we built on, and for being so excited about what we're doing with it
The SCP team, for making so many new things possible over the years, and also for putting up with our outlandish requests
Axem and DahBlount in particular for their work on multi-lock missile features
Sab0o, for patiently teaching Talhydras how to import a model file all those years ago
Icefox, for providing dev repo hosting and troubleshooting
And of course, please see the Blue Planet credits for everyone who contributed to that which we built on.

1.0.4 changes:
   A Blue Planet...(aoa-01)
      During the tutorial your missiles are switched to fire without lock, allowing you to now now actually complete the tutorial.
   Forced Entry(aoa-10)
      Removed a briefing reference to the Myrmidon.
      Added Sunflares to the mission loadout, as mentioned in the current briefing. The sunflare is a super-heavy anti-ship missile, and can only be carried on large bombers. They're probably not an ideal missile to bring on this mission, but they're available if you want to try to prove that wrong.
      Added the Ursa and Boanerges to fighter options. These are the only available ships that can carry the Sunflare. Future versions will eventually replace these with a more new bomber, but for now these will do.
   First Contact and Preserving the Balance (aoa-12,12-2, and 13)
      Copied over changes to these missions from current BPC versions that remove all but one of the suns from the background. This should reduce performance hit on some machines.
   Credits:
      Fixed an artist/title inversion in the music credits

[Nightmare]

YEEESSSS!!!!!

[woutersmits]

Assert: "(swp->secondary_bank_weapons[bank] >= 0) && (swp->secondary_bank_weapons[bank] < weapon_info_size())"
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your mod doesnt work
https://fsnebula.org/log/5ec56ebccb0d3321b2c98673

[EatThePath]

Sorry about that. Looks like in our testing we neglected to retry mission 0 again in the final passes. Both it and the final cutscene mission of AoA have that problem, but the other cutscene-type moments in AoA don't. Investigation is ongoing into why, but in the mean time I've updated the mod to start you at mission 1 instead of mission 0 of AoA. May require a new pilot or restarted campaign or whatnot, I'm not entirely certain what gets saved in the pilot file.

1.0.2 with this fix has already been uploaded.

[themaddin]

I can't find the mod in Knossos. Running the install link on the nebula page gets me the
"Mod "Warmachine" could not be found!" dialog. I'm running v0.14.0 built from source on Arch Linux.

EDIT: Now it appears, seems like Knossos had connection trouble getting the current mod list.

Also, are there multilock builds for Linux or is the source available to build them myself?

[EatThePath]

Regarding finding the mod, Knossos seems to be taking about a day to display new mods in the explore tab. I think Woutersmits got it through the install link, but I really can't troubleshoot too much on how Knossos serves the mod.

Regarding building multilock, I believe https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/tree/test/multilock is the correct place to get current code. The test build server appears to only generate windows builds.

Also, 1.0.3 has been uploaded now that should resolve the cutscene mission issues and restores the campaign to including them. Sorry if that messes things up for anyone who has already started in on it. It also resolves a few other issues, including one that was broadly breaking missile behavior. That was caused by a last second solution of mine to another minor problem just before launch that I didn't test broadly enough, apparently. Hopefully the whack-a-mole is done with this release.

[themaddin]

OK, thanks. I'll try to build it from there.

[Su-tehp]

Can't wait to play this...after I finish with all the other Freespace mods on my list. Soooooo much to do....

But yeah, I'm not finding it on Knossos yet either. Maybe in a day or two, but it's not like I'm in a rush to get it right away.

Also, the music is not "Supersede" by Carbon Based Lifeforms.

Rather, it's "Authority" by Vondkreistan.

Both are awesome songs though.

[Antares]

Man, the tracer effects on those primaries are gnarly. Pew pew pew pew.

[EatThePath]

Also, the music is not "Supersede" by Carbon Based Lifeforms.

Rather, it's "Authority" by Vondkreistan.

Supercede is used ingame as menu music(edit: though apparently I'd flipped artist and title). The trailer is indeed Authority, as credited in the video description if you go through to youtube, though below the 'read more' button.

I suppose it wouldn't be bad idea to add it to the credits here, even if it doesn't make much sense to add it to the ingame credits since it doesn't feature in the game yet.

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To be clear, since it appears I may not have been clear enough initially, this release includes ONLY: The Age of Aquarius missions from Blue Planet, and two stand-alone tech room instant action missions. One of those missions is pretty simple mindless action, the other is a lot more ambitious.

Our broader ambitions may bring you more story content in the future, but that's what we have for you at the moment.

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If you don't know how to use the multilock builds, here are some instructions for windows users.

• Download https://porphyrion.feralhosting.com/datacorder/builds/test/multilock/test_multilock-builds-Win64.zip
• Extract that into it's own folder, somewhere you can find again.
• In the home tab of knossos, mouse over the card for Warmachine. A small arrow will appear near the bottom right of the card. Click it.
• In the resulting menu pick the FSO Settings option.
• This will open a settings window including a dropdown for FSO Build. Click the browse button next to this and navigate to where you extracted the build you downloaded earlier, then select fs2_open_20_1_0_multilock_x64_SSE2.exe.
• Scroll to the bottom of the settings window and click save. Only then close the settings by clicking out of it or using the small x in the top right.

Do that and you should be able to launch the mod as you would any other from that point.

[EatThePath]

An update went up yesterday that addresses some issues people have pointed out since launch. Full details are at the bottom of the release post.

We've been at work, thinking about ways to polish up the rough spots of the mod and how we want to expand it in the future. Most close to the fore is reworking the fighter and bomber selection, as the goal is to have the 14th BG fielding only new fighters but the existing TEI lineup doesn't entirely satisfy what we want out of the aesthetics or gameplay. Also, gonna cover those suckers in external mounted missiles.



No telling when that or any of the other things we're doing will be ready for the public, of course.

[SpardaSon21]

You're doing Lord Itano's work, my friend.

[EatThePath]

At long last, you can play feature-complete Warmachine on nightly builds now. The earliest I've tested it on is 20200727, but the missiles appear to be entirely well behaved there. No more needing to download custom builds! So if you've been holding off for that reason, wait no longer. Itano Circuses for everyone!

[manwiththemachinegun]

Yaaay!

[Su-tehp]

Ok, I'll bite: what's an "Itano Circus?"

[perihelion]

[EatThePath]

The Itano Circus is the anime visual trope of a fighter or mecha dancing through a swirling dense swarm of missiles. It's named after an animator/animation director by the name of Ichiro Itano who originated it. It is probably most associated with Macross, hence it's other popular name, the Macross missile massacre, but it's been seen in a lot of anime since.

[Su-tehp]

I don't get it.

*disengaging snark mode*

The Itano Circus is the anime visual trope of a fighter or mecha dancing through a swirling dense swarm of missiles. It's named after an animator/animation director by the name of Ichiro Itano who originated it. It is probably most associated with Macross, hence it's other popular name, the Macross missile massacre, but it's been seen in a lot of anime since.

Yeah, the famed Macross Missile Massacre I knew of, mainly from TVTropes. Oddly enough, I never saw a link to the Itano Circus at TVTropes, but then again, I wasn't looking too hard, so it's more than likely I missed it.

Now I have to download Warmachine and add it to the list of the FS2 campaigns I need to play....

[neoterran]

This is broken on Knossos for me. While it's installed and all files verified, it says it can't find the executable.

[EatThePath]

I just uploaded a new version that both fully accounts for targeting nightlies instead of custom, and also uses the new MVPs version. Hopefully that'll clear up your executable problem. If it doesn't, check the mod settings and make sure it's actually selecting an executable version at all.