Oh okay I see what you mean. Yeah. Damn, that sucks...Ah well. I'm a scrub at modding so bare with me lol. I gotta say though, what I did get working sounds pretty good ingame ! I'ma go polish up the tec beam cannons.

I have no idea if it's possible to be honest. The files are there and already made. I just don't know exactly how to replace the warp animation but you can bet I'd love to figure out how to do that. But for now I'm just going to take care of these sounds.

Okay this is strange. I have one sound effect which is just the beam cannon and then I have another one which is the beam cannon firing + powering down. The thing is though, whenever it finishes, it plays a clip from the beginning of the sound effect for some reason. I don't know why. I'll upload the two files and let you guys see what I mean...

If you download these sounds, do not listen to them with your volume up. They are very loud and sound great ingame.
Beam Cannons

Temporary file upload site. The one labeled 'ffff' is the one with the powerdown and the other one is just a none-stop beam sound effect. Backup your original sounds before replacing them. Play as Advent and purchase a radiant or radiance w/e it's called.

Just looking around on youtube and found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrchciHCI8A&feature=related

I remember playing that mission :< I got so scared I was wearing headphones too.

Btw if you need models there are both Homeworld 2 and Star Trek Armada 2 mods.

Don't feel bad, this is totally bumpworthy.

To be honest... I'd suggest instead of working on a FS2 Mod for this game (which admittedly, would rock - hell, maybe the Vasari are running from the Shivans   ), everyone should focus their efforts on lobbying the producer of the FreeSpace series to sell their rights to the franchise... Because, although Wing Commander as a series, has a special place in my heart for being the first truely awesome games of the genre (especially Privateer - that is number 2 right after FS2)... FreeSpace 2, is - in my opinion, the finest game of that type ever created (FreeSpace 1 was not quite as good - Wing Commander 2 deffinately takes position 3 though).

That said, who currently does own the rights to the FreeSpace franchise? I don't have the manual handy to check, and I sadly havent played the game in a few years. I'll send the first email if someone let's me know who to aim for   !

Freespace 2....I still have that game and it's CD's. I also have the original Freespace game and its CD's. I think I might just go install and play that again later this week.

Would it be neat to see a Freespace mod? Yes. However, someone else will have to do it. I have my own plans for a mod I'm quietly starting to develop alone.

Space Shooter? You mean Space-Flight-Sim? There are PLENTY of people who would buy those games. If you notice - no good ones have been made in a while, just a number of cheap crappy knockoffs (really bad Star Wars games come to mind) - no one has captured the feel right since then (Freelancer did ok, but it was slightly lacking).

FreeSpace has some weight to it, you have a large fanbase that has wanted a sequel for a long time now. It's also of known quality, people would be likely to buy it on reputation... Nah man, space-flight-sims just need to be reinvigorated. Boys aged 10 to 50 still wanna be starfighter pilots on some level... Develope a good game, and they will come. FS2 was friggin' epic, now imagine it with modern technology.

I bet you a lot that it would be so much better if Volition made it instead of anyone else. (Like the people who made Freespace 2, which would make it even better).

This is the upgrade to retail. This is the legal download links.

I have an Idea for FS style subspace jumps in SoaSE.

-All star sysstems linked via phase lanes (no direct star to star jumps) or even better a wormholes that ale linked in pairs so you can jump between only two, not all of them.

-In systems all sectors (planters, asteroids) are linked to 70-80% of other sectors in that system (for example you should not be able to jump through star - coz it would look stupid - so sector directly opposite would not be avaliable to jump)


-In system all sectors have very little or no gravity well - this means that ships can jump away from any point of sector just like FS ships.

-sector that allow to jump to other system will have a gravity well to simulate jump node - in FS all ship jump in some distance to jump node.
If wormhole linking would be possible - then it would be greate as wormhole - that would be remodeled to jump node- would be in center of a sector - this would be perfect position for blockade as all ships would have to get away from grav well to get in or out.

Absolutely
If someone creates a Freespace 2 mod for SoaSe they are legends this game is legend and demands to become a sins mod i can see it now the colossus under my command destroying anything in its path with its sweet beam cannons *drools* seriously some one please make a mod for Freespace 2 IT WILL BE A HIT!!! since we are on the topic anyone got the Freespace 2 SCP mod? doesn't seem to work for me ill try dling it again if anyone knows anything about send me a message thx
P.S Freespace 3 NEEDS to come out get ironclad to do it!!! lol

Has anyone mentioned it over at Hard Light? If Ironclad's import tools work, it should be pretty easy to just use the FS2 models.

It's amusing to hear people talk about how the space shooter genre isn't dead. After all, some crappy Euro games = genre is alive.