OUTDATED: Ancient-Shivan War, Act 1, version 3.6.12

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Well, you probably all remember the Act 1 v3.6.10 release, to which we have received many good reactions. Well, this pack is more polished, less buggy, and fully compatible with the latest versions of the FSO engine and the MediaVPs. Several ships have undergone a make-over, a new AI was written, and many more twiddles and tweaks have been implemented. All in all, this pack is a major improvement over the old one.

Apart from the ASW team, kudos go to Aldo, Nighteyes, Flaming_Sword, Hunter, GenericCorvette, a guy called "Ryan Main", and the Inferno and Blue Planet teams.


REQUIRED - The bare bones minimum you'll need to play ASW.

Base pack - 151MB

Alternatively, an all-in-one pack is available here - 226MB. It contains everything but the radar patch and the shuriken.

Note: you'll also need the MediaVPs, the 3.6.12 ones are recommended.


OPTIONAL - Make your choice from the downloads below, they should work in any configuration.

Normal maps - 7.00MB

Interface - 31.0MB

Intro cutscene - 19.5MB

Animated glowmaps - 2.56MB

High-res maps and effects - 15.1MB

Radar icons compatibility - 1.0kB
- Only for use with GalEmp's 2D radar icons pack.

"Space Shuriken" Super Cannon - 147kB
- For those who like it :-)

Enjoy!
Last edited by FSF on Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:41 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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#2
Technical info:

Mod was tested on both the FSO 3.6.12 official and the Antipodes 6 builds. There exists an issue with cutscene subtitles in Antipodes 6c, hence we recommend to use the 6b build instead. Although we only tested with the 3.6.12 MVPs, this pack should in theory be compatible with the 3.6.10 MVPs as well - if you're having bad performance issues, consider switching back to those. They do, however, cause a warning when used in the Antipodes 6b build.

File checksums:

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Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW1_3612.vp' with a checksum of 0xd5e22b30 Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_adv.vp' with a checksum of 0x5c319768 Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Animaps.vp' with a checksum of 0x146d0682 Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Interface.vp' with a checksum of 0xb7955e09 Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Intro.vp' with a checksum of 0xadda0cc1 Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Normals.vp' with a checksum of 0x1581b3b4 Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_Radar.vp' with a checksum of 0x2487a08c Found root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\Shuriken.vp' with a checksum of 0xbe796c71

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Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW1_3612.vp' ... 1226 files Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_adv.vp' ... 143 files Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Animaps.vp' ... 272 files Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Interface.vp' ... 1020 files Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Intro.vp' ... 1 files Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_3612_Normals.vp' ... 28 files Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\ASW_Radar.vp' ... 1 files Searching root pack 'D:\FreeSpace2\ASW1\Shuriken.vp' ... 10 files
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#4
Did somebody remix/remaster the intro cutscene?
What exactly do you mean? A lot has changed in one way or another, including the intro. I suggest you see for yourself though :p

#7
Well, I attempted to redo the intro sound, but it turned out that it would need a rerecording to actually make a difference.
So, eh, I just added subtitles. Which look skewed because of OGG compression -.-
I think a rerecording from a semipro voice actor would make a big difference.
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