Freespace 2

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

NOTE: The link to a download later in the thread was approved by .Org forum staff. I'll discuss it more later, but don't post downloads of full games without a similar approval from the staff.
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I don't know how many of you have heard of this excellent space shooter/sim, but I think you should. It was released in 1999, and had limited commercial success despite it's excellent quality. Since then, the source code has released, and a dedicated community has created open-source enhancements as well as dozens of mods for this already excellent game.

Freespace 2 has incredible gameplay, and can be quite challenging. In between frantic space battles, the game tells a well-developed plot with tons of quality voice-acting, debriefing, and movies. I'd highly recommend the original game.

However, better than the original game is the Freespace 2 Source Code Project. With tons of graphics and gameplay enhancements, you'd think you were playing a very newly developed game. Well, I think. My lappy can't handle graphics over the "low" setting.

You'll need an installation of the original Freespace 2 to use the SCP - and that can be a problem. Copies on eBay are selling very high and eBay is kinda hit-or-miss. Interestingly, the FS2 EULA allowed you to give copies to your friends, as long as you didn't charge for it.



The quote from the screenie reads:

You may make copies of the Software for your personal noncommercial use home entertainment use and to give to friends and acquaintences on a no cost noncommercial basis.

As such, I have been granted explicit permission from .Org staff to post a link to a torrent that contains:

-Freespace 2 full install
-Freespace 2 Cutscenes
-SCP 3.6.7, CVS Build 1/25
-3.6.8 Media VPs
-DerelictSCP MOD (which Voices)
-FS_port MOD (which Cutscenes)
-Hi-poly Apollo for FS_port
-Awakenings (which voices) and Destiny of Peace campaigns inside fs_port mod.
-Low-end 3D Shockwaves
-Hi-Poly Ursa
-Hi-poly Hi-res Lucifer

All compresed to 1.76GB .rar file.

The post (from another forum) with the torrent can be found here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/ind...c=38283.0.html

Info on torrents can be found here and here.

It's a blast, and I recommend the DL!

[Xiahou]

Looks interesting, but Im a little fuzzy still. Is this open source or something less than open source?

Looks to me like someone just packaged all the various open source peices into one package, right?

[Divine Wind]

This game was incredible. One of the most immersive single player games ive ever played, i highly recommend it! Do you need a joystick to be able to play this still? I lost mine many years ago, and the only reason i havent taken it up again is because im joystickless!

Id love to take up my old Valkyrie fighter again, riding with the Blue Lions while protecting the mighty Colossus.

[The_Mark]

Did they already implement Newtonian physics in the project, btw? Or in some other plug-in project?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Sounds great Alex. I love space-flight sims of this type, it's a real shame it's a dead seemingly dead genre. I'd give anything for a modern update of TIE Fighter, or such like.

Is this download all we need to play the game, or is there other stuff?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Hmm, the torrent wasn't DLing at all yesterday. Is it working for anyone here?

Crazed Rabbit

[The_Mark]

I love space-flight sims of this type, it's a real shame it's a dead seemingly dead genre. I'd give anything for a modern update of TIE Fighter, or such like.

Try I've Found Her. Babylon 5. Free game. With Newtonian physics. A bit short but still good.

[Divine Wind]

Just found my old three Freespace disks in a dusty old box, so im nipping round to my mates house now to borrow a joystick and give this old girl another whirl !

Im so excited