Renegade Resurgence - Revision history

TopAce: /* Development */ tense

2021-04-13T23:40:51Z

‎Development: tense

TopAce: update

2021-04-13T19:00:09Z

update

TopAce: /* General Info */ minor edits

2021-04-05T13:08:22Z

‎General Info: minor edits

TopAce: /* Development */ more info

2021-03-15T13:15:35Z

‎Development: more info

TopAce: /* Older mirrors */ formatting + removing dead links

2021-03-15T13:13:34Z

‎Older mirrors: formatting + removing dead links

TopAce: /* Up-to-date */ formatting

2021-03-15T13:12:15Z

‎Up-to-date: formatting

TopAce: /* Development */ minor edits

2021-03-15T13:07:48Z

‎Development: minor edits

TopAce: /* Development */ MediaVPs 4.4x and some elaboration

2021-03-15T09:26:04Z

‎Development: MediaVPs 4.4x and some elaboration

TopAce: /* Development */ more info

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‎Development: more info

TopAce: /* Background */ formatting and word confusion

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 The campaign has since been updated twice. Once by the author (version 1.1) to make it compatible with the contemporary FreeSpace Open engine and MediaVPs, and once more updated by Novachen on Knossos for MediaVPs 4.0x in 2018.
-TopAce optimized the campaign for MediaVPs 4.4x and the current FreeSpace Open 21.2.0 Release Candidate 2, and release it on April 13, 2021. Updates include the obvious bugfixes that rendered the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of other improvements were made, including rewriting some mission dialogs, the prettification of the nebula backdrops, and quality-of-life changes that make the gameplay more enjoyable. Select missions will received major updates as well, including rebuilding the mission "Twilight."
+TopAce optimized the campaign for MediaVPs 4.4x and the current FreeSpace Open 21.2.0 Release Candidate 2, and released it on April 13, 2021. Updates include the obvious bugfixes that rendered the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of other improvements were made, including rewriting some mission dialogs, the prettification of the nebula backdrops, and quality-of-life changes that make the gameplay more enjoyable. Select missions received major updates as well, including the complete rebuilding of the mission "Twilight."
 ===Regarding ''ressurgence''===

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 [[image:RR_logo.gif]]
 ==General info==
-<b>Released</b> on: <u>6th July 2004</u> (v1.0) <u>9th July 2008</u> (v1.1) <br>
+<b>Released</b> on: <u>6th July 2004</u> (v1.0) <u>9th July 2008</u> (v1.1), 13th April, 2021 (v1.44) <br>
-<b>Post feedback here</b> [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,55043.0.html The official feedback thread] (also contains download links) <br>
+<b>Post feedback here</b> [https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=97517.0 The official feedback thread] for the v1.44 release (also contains download links) <br>
-<b>Number of missions:</b> 29 campaign missions, including 2 [[Special Operations Command|SOC]] missions + 2 standalone missions<br>
+<b>Number of missions:</b> 31 campaign missions, including 2 [[Special Operations Command|SOC]] missions<br>
 <b>Mods used:</b>
 *GTF ''Valkyrie''
-*GTGs ''Antwerpen''
+*GTF ''Rapier'' ([[TF Kvasir]])
 *GVC ''Somtus''
 *GTI ''Samson''
 <i>All included in release</i> <br>
 <b>Website and download:</b> http://www.moddb.com/mods/renegade-ressurgence <br>
-<b>FreeSpace version required:</b> SCP, optimized for release 3.6.9. (Vanilla FreeSpace will not work for RR v1.1.)<br>
+<b>FreeSpace version required:</b> SCP, optimized for release 21.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (Vanilla FreeSpace will not work for RR v1.1 or later.)<br>
 <b>Description:</b> <br>
 After the incident at Capella, the GTVA begins a large construction project at the Altair sector to learn more about the [[Ancients|Ancient]] civilization in the hopes those new discoveries may aid them in the war with the [[Shivans]]. But the project was not proceeding as planned: pirate activites are halting the constructions. It is time to send armed forces to stop the pirate strikes. Turns out, the [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance|GTVA]] is facing an even larger enemy than they had expected...
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 The campaign has since been updated twice. Once by the author (version 1.1) to make it compatible with the contemporary FreeSpace Open engine and MediaVPs, and once more updated by Novachen on Knossos for MediaVPs 4.0x in 2018.
-TopAce started optimizing the campaign for MediaVPs 4.4x and current FreeSpace Open nightly builds in March, 2021. Updates will include the obvious bugfixes that render the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of other improvements are being made, including rewriting some mission dialogs, the prettification of the nebula backdrops, and quality-of-life changes to make the gameplay more enjoyable. Select missions will receive major updates as well.
+TopAce optimized the campaign for MediaVPs 4.4x and the current FreeSpace Open 21.2.0 Release Candidate 2, and release it on April 13, 2021. Updates include the obvious bugfixes that rendered the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of other improvements were made, including rewriting some mission dialogs, the prettification of the nebula backdrops, and quality-of-life changes that make the gameplay more enjoyable. Select missions will received major updates as well, including rebuilding the mission "Twilight."
 ===Regarding ''ressurgence''===
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 ==Related links==
 ===Up-to-date===
-*[https://www.mediafire.com/file/zinzutrhnun/RR_v11.rar/file MediaFire] &ndash; v1.1
+*[https://www.mediafire.com/file/ov1yetc7t25t8b4/RR_v144.7z/file MediaFire] &ndash; v1.44
-*[http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,55043.0.html Feedback thread] at [[Hard Light Productions]]
+*[https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=97517.0 Feedback thread] at [[Hard Light Productions]]
 ===Older mirrors===

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 [[image:RR_logo.gif]]
-==General Info==
+==General info==
 <b>Released</b> on: <u>6th July 2004</u> (v1.0) <u>9th July 2008</u> (v1.1) <br>
 <b>Post feedback here</b> [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,55043.0.html The official feedback thread] (also contains download links) <br>
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 <b>FreeSpace version required:</b> SCP, optimized for release 3.6.9. (Vanilla FreeSpace will not work for RR v1.1.)<br>
 <b>Description:</b> <br>
-After the incident at Capella, the GTVA begins a large construction project at the Altair sector to learn more about the [[Ancients|Ancient]] civilization in the hopes those new discoveries may aid them in the war with the [[Shivans]]. But the project was not proceeding as planned Pirate activites are halting the constructions. It is time to send armed forces to stop the pirate strikes. The [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance|GTVA]] is facing an even larger enemy than they had expected...
+After the incident at Capella, the GTVA begins a large construction project at the Altair sector to learn more about the [[Ancients|Ancient]] civilization in the hopes those new discoveries may aid them in the war with the [[Shivans]]. But the project was not proceeding as planned: pirate activites are halting the constructions. It is time to send armed forces to stop the pirate strikes. Turns out, the [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance|GTVA]] is facing an even larger enemy than they had expected...
 ==Background==

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 In August, when I nearly completed all missions, I hired voice actors. Until December, only one mission was partially voice acted and a few messages of another mission were voice acted. Any calculations I made made it clear that with voice acting, the campaign will never be released. So I abandoned voice acting.
-The campaign has since been updated twice. Once by the author (version 1.1) to make it compatible with the contemporary FreeSpace Open engine and MediaVPs, and once more updated by Novachen on Knossos.
+The campaign has since been updated twice. Once by the author (version 1.1) to make it compatible with the contemporary FreeSpace Open engine and MediaVPs, and once more updated by Novachen on Knossos for MediaVPs 4.0x in 2018.
 TopAce started optimizing the campaign for MediaVPs 4.4x and current FreeSpace Open nightly builds in March, 2021. Updates will include the obvious bugfixes that render the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of other improvements are being made, including rewriting some mission dialogs, the prettification of the nebula backdrops, and quality-of-life changes to make the gameplay more enjoyable. Select missions will receive major updates as well.

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 ===Older mirrors===
 (''Use in emergency if other mirrors don't work.'')
-[http://mods.moddb.com/2704 Mod Database profile] <br>
+*[http://mods.moddb.com/2704 Mod Database profile]
-[http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.39 Freespacemods.net Mirror]<br>
+*[http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.39 Freespacemods.net Mirror]
 [[Category:User-made_Campaigns]]

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 The campaign has since been updated twice. Once by the author (version 1.1) to make it compatible with the contemporary FreeSpace Open engine and MediaVPs, and once more updated by Novachen on Knossos.
-TopAce started optimizing the campaign for MediaVPs 4.0x and current FreeSpace Open nightly builds in March, 2021. Updates will include the obvious bugfixes that render the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of minor improvements are being made, including the prettification of the nebula backdrops of the old campaign.
+TopAce started optimizing the campaign for MediaVPs 4.4x and current FreeSpace Open nightly builds in March, 2021. Updates will include the obvious bugfixes that render the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of other improvements are being made, including rewriting some mission dialogs, the prettification of the nebula backdrops, and quality of life changes to make the missions less confusing. Select missions will receive major updates as well.
 ===Regarding ''ressurgence''===

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	In August, when I nearly completed all missions, I hired voice actors. Until December, only one mission was partially voice acted and a few messages of another mission were voice acted. Any calculations I made made it clear that with voice acting, the campaign will never be released. So I abandoned voice acting.		In August, when I nearly completed all missions, I hired voice actors. Until December, only one mission was partially voice acted and a few messages of another mission were voice acted. Any calculations I made made it clear that with voice acting, the campaign will never be released. So I abandoned voice acting.
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		+	The campaign has since been updated twice. Once by the author (version 1.1) to make it compatible with the contemporary FreeSpace Open engine and MediaVPs, and once more updated by Novachen on Knossos.
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		+	TopAce started optimizing the campaign for MediaVPs 4.0x and current FreeSpace Open nightly builds in March, 2021. Updates will include the obvious bugfixes that render the current FSO + MediaVP releases incompatible with the campaign, but a lot of minor improvements are being made, including the prettification of the nebula backdrops of the old campaign.

	===Regarding ''ressurgence''===		===Regarding ''ressurgence''===

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 [[Capella]] happened. Though the Shivans are sealed off in Capella and the [[Neo-Terran Front]] is crushed, optimism soon fades when both Terrans and Vasudans start realizing what they actually lost during the war. It is not enough that they lost billions of innocent civilians, the [[GTVA Colossus|GTVA ''Colossus'']] with many hi-ranking officers on board, and the bulk of their fleet, there is no guarantee that the Shivans won't find another route into GTVA space in the future.
-High Command and numerous galaxywide civilian corporations are willing to put more effort and money into research and development, both civilian and military, to press the severely weakened Terran-Vasudan alliance into a new age. Countless reconstruction plans had been suggested in three months, the most promising and thorough devised an ambitious and potentionally gainful project: a giant scientific endeavor to learn more about the Ancients' civilization. They all know that, even though the Ancients were defeated by the Shivans millennia ago, it is them who supplied the Terrans and Vasudans with knowledge that allowed these two species to survive the attack of the SD ''Lucifer'''s task force. Discovering multiple [[Knossos]] [[subspace]] portals has convinced all leading figures that Ancient Empire indeed stretched much further than anyone could have imagined.
+High Command and numerous galaxywide civilian corporations are willing to put more effort and money into research and development, both civilian and military, to press the severely weakened Terran-Vasudan alliance into a new age. Countless reconstruction plans had been suggested in three months, the most promising and thorough devised an ambitious and potentionally gainful project: a giant scientific endeavor to learn more about the [[Ancients]]' civilization. They all know that, even though the Ancients were defeated by the Shivans millennia ago, it is them who supplied the Terrans and Vasudans with knowledge that allowed these two species to survive the attack of the SD ''Lucifer'''s task force. Discovering multiple [[Knossos]] [[subspace]] portals has convinced all leading figures that Ancient Empire indeed stretched much further than anyone could have imagined.
-Civilian corporations saw the ambition and the possibility for profit in the project, and subjected themselves to study the unknown. Though the GTVA, a military alliance, was justifiably low on funds after a devastating conflict of such a scale, it was a matter of time until civilian corporations, who suffered lightly during the war, started supplying the initial preparations with seemingly unlimited funds. Within a year, the Altair system, which is believed to have played a major part in the Ancient Empire's history, was teeming with practitioners of all walks of science, including archeology, xenolinguistics, astrology, and physics.
+Civilian corporations saw the ambition and the possibility for profit in the project, and subjected themselves to study the unknown. Though the GTVA, a military alliance, was justifiably low on funds after a devastating conflict of such a scale, it was a matter of time until civilian corporations, who suffered lightly during the war, started supplying the initial preparations with seemingly unlimited funds. Within a year, the Altair system, which is believed to have played a major part in the Ancient Empire's history, was teeming with practitioners of all walks of science, including archeology, xenolinguistics, astronomy, and physics.
 However, the rest of the GTVA was more bothersome. The Terrans and Vasudans diverged from each other, minding their own businesses. The Vasudans were concerned with their own traditions and respect to their deities. The Terrans were preoccupied by the welfare of their society and steadiness of their economy. Despite all this, the alliance remained officially intact. The General Assembly assembled, the Security Council communed, and the Vasudan Imperium did not hesitate to assist the other two branches when requested. The two governments withdrew to their respective homeworlds: the Terrans to Vega, where they intend to rebuild [[Earth]] in their own way, and the Vasudans to their desolate yet beloved [[Vasuda Prime]].
-Very soon, disturbances take place at Altair. Unknown Terran fighters and cruisers keep harassing supply depots and unguarded science vessels. As more military vessels are deployed, the pirate strikes intensify. Their intents are not as clear as those of most pirate organizations. Pirates typically don't destroy science vessels just for the sake of it, but take hostages and demand a ransom. These Terrans are different. Not only different, but more powerful. As the project's existence is gradually jeopardized by the escalating number of thefts, the Security Council hastily orders the deployment of the GTD [i]Phobos[/i] and its fighter wings, along with a number of other corvette and cruiser-sized vessels. Because of the intermittent and unpredictable nature of pirate strikes, it is impossible to keep the entire task force in one place. The ships of the scattered task force gradually disappear. None of them ever sent a distress signal. On a dark day, the [i]Phobos[/i] also vanishes.
+Very soon, disturbances take place at Altair. Unknown Terran fighters and cruisers keep harassing supply depots and unguarded science vessels. As more military vessels are deployed, the pirate strikes intensify. Their intents are not as clear as those of most pirate organizations. Pirates typically don't destroy science vessels just for the sake of it, but take hostages and demand a ransom. These Terrans are different. Not only different, but more powerful. As the project's existence is gradually jeopardized by the escalating number of thefts, the Security Council hastily orders the deployment of the GTD ''Phobos'' and its fighter wings, along with a number of other corvette and cruiser-sized vessels. Because of the intermittent and unpredictable nature of pirate strikes, it is impossible to keep the entire task force in one place. The ships of the scattered task force gradually disappear. None of them ever sent a distress signal. On a dark day, the ''Phobos'' also vanishes.
 ==Designer's notes==