[Mobius]

Let's not forget that they need to be fswikified too. It's going to take a while but it's definitely worth it.

The restored websites also feature fan fictions, many of which seem pretty good. We should do something about them.

Figured I'd go over the list:

Aftermath - Is it the one tagged "CE" on Knossos? If not, no
Allied Worlds - No
Battle of Midway - No
Biowar - No
Boomerang - Yes
Dantes Ascension - No
Derelict - Definitely yes
Desperate Times - No
Enemies United - Yes
Escort Duty - Yes
Evil Heart - No
Gateway - Yes
Home Sweet Home - No
Hyper Crisis - No
Imperium - No
Independence Warriors - No
Inner Troubles - Yes, if the only released part is part 1
Into the Darkness - No
League Of Free Worlds, Part One - No
Millennium - Yes
NTF - I think yes, listed as "NTF Campaign Part 1" on Knossos
NTF Saga - Yes
Operation Odin's Spear - No
Pandora's Box - Yes
Pirates Of Delta Serpentis - Yes
Revolution - No
Search for Knowledge - Yes, at least the prologue
Second Great War Part II - Yes
Special Ops Command - May be under "The Special Operations Command."
Technological Superiority - Yes
The Aeos Affair - Yes
The Allied Forces - Don't think it's the one already on Knossos, no
The Deuterium Connection - Yes
The Enemy From The Past - Yes
The Jake War - No
The Jake War 2 - No
The LDK Campaign - Yes
The Regulus Campaign - Yes
The Titan Rebellion - Yes
Trinity - Yes
Unholy Alliance - Yes
Vortex - Yes
Warzone - Yes

Those are FS2 campaigns. There's also a list of FS1 campaigns which should, in principle, be compatible with the FSPort. Some of them are already available but many others were unheard of, at least from my perspective:

25th Year -- By: KolChak, Added: 06/27/98
Alliance Fights Back -- By: Travis, Added: 07/13/99
Awakenings -- By: Ahayweh Gate Productions, Added: 11/24/98
Battle for Altair -- By: Adam N. Rorabaugh, Added: 10/15/98
Black Horizon -- By: Jason 'Ryzbre' Wollenberg, Added: 05/09/99
Cardinal Spear -- By: Adam 'Ace' Rorabaugh, Added: 07/08/99
Cardinal Spear: Vega -- By: Adam 'Ace' Rorabaugh, Added: 08/18/99
Crucible -- By: Matthew Guenther, Added: 10/04/98
Dark Daunting -- By: James J. Smith, Added: 10/25/98
Dark Raji -- By: James J. Smith, Added: 01/20/99
Darkness Rising -- By: Adam 'Ace' Rorabaugh and James 'Omega' Smith, Added: 05/08/99
Duke Squad -- By: T.O.Doggie, Added: 07/14/01
DW -- By: Joacim Holst, Added: 08/09/99
Eagle -- By: Robert, Added: 01/19/99
First Crusade -- By: Damian Hartmann, Added: 03/17/00
Hellwolf -- By: Hsiong Chen & Lloyd Lin, Added: 06/22/98
Infinite Dimension -- By: Laser Ray, Added: 01/09/99
Internal Conflicts -- By: The Emporper, Added: 11/24/98
Main Campaign (Co-Op) -- By: Nysos C. Dedes, Added: 07/16/98
Marduk's Shroud -- By: Enkidu, Added: 11/29/98
McCarthy -- By: Matthew Anderson, Added: 06/17/98
New Beginnings -- By: David Carter, Added: 07/13/98
Nubian Conflict -- By: Marcus Harris, Added: 08/22/98
Second Vasudan War -- By: [email protected], Added: 06/18/98
Second Wave -- By: Jacob Bock aka Omega47, Added: 07/06/98
Slaser -- By: James J. Smith, Added: 10/15/98
Special Operations -- By: Haskett, Added: 07/25/98
Start of the Vasudan War -- By: Richard Chan, Added: 03/25/99
Suppression -- By: Michael Sawicki, Added: 01/17/99
Tango -- By: Julian Egelstaff, Added: 11/17/98
Terran-Vasudan Alliance -- By: Serge Lachapelle, Added: 11/14/99
The Counterstrike -- By: Derek McBurney, Added: 07/26/98
The Day After -- By: Gil, Added: 08/22/98
The Destiny of Peace -- By: Justin, Added: 07/29/98
The Road to Victory -- By: Michael Cook, Added: 03/04/99
Topgun -- By: Terminator, Added: 03/16/99
Vasudan Academy -- By: Laser Ray-IDS Productions, Added: 11/20/98

[Mongoose]

I think I downloaded all of those waaay back in the day but at some point a few of the compressed archives got corrupted. Not sure if that was on my end or the site's.

[BengalTiger]

Besides, it’s nice to have them downloadable from other location than Knossos so one could simply unpack a campaign into data/missions and experience it the classic way 

Well the wiki has working FSMods links.... (not that more redundancy would be a bad thing)

And I also do old school installs and setup.

[MatthewPapa]

Wow I guess I did not realize that these FS1 missions were not backed up or uploaded anywhere else. Thats awesome.

BTW I noticed the forum quit working, I just fixed that. Another casualty of my security hardening.

[Nightmare]

I think I've uploaded all the VW stuff here including the FS1 stuff but apparently not anything made it to Knossos

[Colonol Dekker]

This is lovely news

[Belisarius]

I guess in case these campaigns are meant to work with the MVPS, they'll require some balancing, wouldn't they?

[Colonol Dekker]

MVPs are just visual updates no?

[Belisarius]

Oh right. Was it FSU then? But didn't the MVPS also made changes to the tables changing some parts of the balancing?

[Mongoose]

Ideally speaking the MediaVPs should be able to play retail (or retail-made) missions just as they were. There may be some minor discrepancies that have crept in over the many years though.

[Colonol Dekker]

What's a quarter century 🤔  😜

[Grizzly]

Oh right. Was it FSU then? But didn't the MVPS also made changes to the tables changing some parts of the balancing?

They're not supposed to and the table files generally don't. But there are things inherent in the models that can break things (subsystem pathing issues, turrets working slightly differently) as well as the occasional bug (such as the Sathanas forward flak guns not working for a while).

It generally isn't an issue but sometimes a small change can cause bigger issues in modded campaigns. Fsport had the original model of the Orion for a long time as the mvp model was bigger, breaking some fan made campaigns that demanded precise placement.

[Belisarius]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, my impression from various comments in the past were that for example the Freespace AI behaviour underwent several changes over the years and I thought this was something that is specified in the ai.tbl. But it's likely just a misinterpretation on my end.

[Mongoose]

As I understand it, any AI tweaks added over the years are in the form of opt-in flags, for the exact reason that they won't affect missions balanced against retail behavior.

[Grizzly]

Yeah what Mongoose said. And the Freespace Upgrade Project doesn't enable any of those flags.

But there is a small chance of changes in AI behaviour due to unintentional side effects from changes in FSO's code, as well as aforementioned changes to models. It shouldn't change things, but sometimes it does.

[MatthewPapa]

Haha VWBB saw the most distinct IP addresses ever recently

Most users ever online was 124 on 03-01-2026 at 12:04 AM.

of course most of them are bots for search engines or LLM companies. at least now GPT5.4 and Claude Opus 4.7 may have much more early knowledge of Freespace and Volition

[Grey Wolf]

After a long downtime, VolitionWatch is back online. It has been restored from cold backups and made to live again over 20 years later.

https://archives.game-warden.com
https://freespacewatch.game-warden.com
https://volitionwatch.game-warden.com
https://redfactionwatch.game-warden.com

The goal of this first release is preservation and access. Core pages, historical content, and forum read access are now available again. Some legacy features are still being repaired, and a few pages may be missing images that were absent from the initial backup. Content has been pulled from archive.org where possible to backfill any missing stuff. We should be >90% of the way there!

Any major issues feel fee to report them here. I have had to nerf some login/account/poll features for the sake of security (after all this site was taken down originally because it was hacked) but much functionality should be intact. Most of the PHP code has been completely rewritten to work with newer versions of PHP/SQL and be more security conscious.

Thank you to my codex assistant for doing all of the legwork. There is no way this would have been finished anytime this decade without it.

now that’s a site I’ve not thought of for a long time. A long time.