Sectorgame

...like I seem to every couple years. So going back to install FSO on my new computer every install guide has dead links and cant manage to find any good ones. Anyone know what the deal is or some good links?

The FSOinstaller domain is down. The SCP is working on getting it back up ASAP.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index. ... ic=74901.0

Appreciate it. HLP was a cesspool when i moved on to other stuff, didnt want to look around too much there for an awswer

If you stay out of General Discussion (and perhaps General Freespace) it's not that bad.

If you stay out of General Discussion (and perhaps General Freespace) it's not that bad.

GenFS is short of interesting material, but it's not actively bad.

I mean, if you want to what actively bad looks like, I can show you.

Any recommendations on some of the campaigns? Like I vaguely remember Derelict and Warzone were pretty awesome, Cardinal Spear and Aftermath for the port. Any new ones worth the time?


(lol @ BWO STILL not out)

Get everything the Blue Planet team has released and then bug them for more. If you don't mind Spoon having gotten silliness and anime all over your FreeSpace, also get Wings of Dawn.

Other campaigns are pretty good too, like Dawn of Sol. Ancient Shivan War was ok, but short for now. I look forward to the new Inferno R1 + R2, more BP, and End War (The main release).

As for where I visit on HLP these days. I mostly visit the FSU, SCP, Inferno, and BP sub-forums; occasionally GenFS and Missions and Campaigns, and almost never GenDisc.

There are a couple interesting topics that I know of in GenFS, including: "AT LAST, THE TRUTH: Volition's Answers to the Shivans, Bosch, and Capella" and "Total size of GTVA armada" among some others.

Yeah I got the FS2 storywriter to reveal his plans for FS3, that was pretty cool.

Dawn of Sol was fuckoff terrible, I'd avoid it.

BWO has basically been hung up on stupid organizational issues. Inferno is the only old school campaign project that shows any signs of life and only because Rampage saved it.

Other good campaigns would be Silent Threat Reborn, Storm Front, and maybe What IF: Another Great War, and perhaps Flames of War. I hear some say they feel "Transcend" and "Sync" are good. I played those, but long ago.

When it's released, play Syrk

were the Lightning Marshalls good? I remember them, but I dont remember why I remember them

Not by comparison with modern campaigns, no.

BP, ST:R and Vassago's Dirge are probably the community flagships right now, with Wings of Dawn being also amazing if you're into anime.

Eh, ST:R with its whole RETAIL COMPATIBILITY thing really doesn't hold up to BP, VD or WoD gameplay wise.

I didn't like it that much. Though that could be attributed to the fact that I've never played the original so I can't truly appreciate how much better it is. Hell, I found what people generally consider to be the "best mission" (He Who Rides the Tiger) absolute s### in terms of design (yes, let's have everything happen 15 minutes into the f#####g mission, and since RETAIL COMPATIBILITY, no checkpoints? f### YOU.)

But yeah, enough of that.

BP, VD and WoD good.
Very good.

Spoiler code doesn't seem to work.

*SPOILER BELOW* about that ST:R mission. Don't read unless you already know or want to know.