Last time I played Crying Suns it kicked my ass. I’ll be revisiting it once it’s 1.0.
vinraith
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GameBillet has Starpoint Gemini Warlords for $7 at the moment. I bought it purely on the recommendation of this thread. Is any of the DLC important for a player starting out?
Nah, play the story first.
Hello my friends, and welcome to another super busy week of space gaming! This week, we’ll continue to plow through the Descent: Freespace: Silent Threat Reborn expansion, as weird as it is, in the hopes of finishing it before we stream the entire retail Freespace 2 campaign on 9/30.
This week also continues our month-long celebration of Freespace 2, beginning with Inferno: Nostos and Into the Halls of Valhalla, with mods such as The Last Stand, The Lightning Marshal, Mantle and more coming up throughout the week!
Moving on from pre-recorded content, here’s this week’s streaming schedule (please remember all times are Pacific):
- Monday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tachyon: The Fringe stream.
- Tuesday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Strike Commander stream. 5:00 PM - Our 300th podcast episode!
- Wednesday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Queen’s Wish: The Conqueror stream.
- Thursday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. 5:00 PM, Dying Light LAN Party broadcast.
- Friday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Hyperspace Delivery Service stream.[/list]
You can see all of our planned upcoming streams and events on our calendar, as always!
You can watch any of these streams on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer and Steam.
That should do it for this week my beloved friends. Thanks so much for being so amazing, and I hope to see you in the streams or in the comments! Have a great week!
Rock8man
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Man, I wish I had time to watch these Freespace streams, or better yet, time to replay Freespace myself.
Just curious, are you playing the original game, or playing the original campaign modded into Freespace 2’s engine?
I think maybe when I get done with Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, instead of retiring my joystick again, I’ll re-install Freespace 2 and try to play through both campaigns in that game. I haven’t done that in a long, long time.
I’m using the FSPort, which is basically Freespace 1 content in Freespace 2, along with its Silent Threat Reborn remaster of the original expansion pack.
I never played Silent Threat because I heard it wasn’t very good. Now I get why. These missions are overtly-difficult and inconsistent of quality. They’re clearly inferior to the campaigns of Freespace 1 and 2, which makes playing them less fun.
Rock8man
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Yeah, I didn’t enjoy Silent Threat. I thought some of the fan made campaigns I played at the time were better than Silent Threat when it came out. It was clearly Volition’s C-team assigned to that expansion.
I think it might be worse than that. If I recall, many of these missions were fan submissions via a contest.
Rock8man
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Well, at least it got the overall story right. I remember one of the fans that came out with his own mini-campaign post-Freespace, he still had Earth as part of the story, and the rest of us told him, no no no, didn’t you play the end of the game? Earth is closed off from the rest of humanity after we destroyed the Shivan ship in hyperspace. And then, I remember he said “Oh ok, I missed that part”. D’oh!
I wish I was retired so I could follow Brian forever!!!
Is Wing Commander Saga any good? I had it installed for years but never got around to actually playing it.
It’s very good, and hard, but the love for WC pours out of every pixel.
Bluddy
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So fun to see the EF2000 video @BrianRubin! Love that sim. I can’t believe you pulled off the air refueling maneuver! I was never able to do that.
On the sad side, I recommend you watch the youtube feed. You did have some really bad bandwidth drops.
Yeah, it’s weird, with this one OBS setting, it lowers bandwidth to compensate for network congestion. With it on, I get no dropped frames, but lower bitrates at times. With it off, I get dropped frames. Still experimenting.
Bluddy
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Well regardless, whenever you want to make more EF2000 content, I’m up for watching it :)
Oh I’m gonna, just you wait. I gotta read through the manual and strategy guide first, then do ALL the training missions, so a couple of weeks. Today is Strike Commander, though. ;)
Brian, your avatar doesn’t look very much like you do in the stream.
rei
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That requires a higher tier of patronage for all the plastic surgery needed.
