Earth Defence Demo

Finally! Here's xmas present for you... Yes, after long moths of hard-working, betatesting we're ready for release. Earth Defence Team, the greatest Polish Modding Team Ever(TM) presents a total conversion in FreeSpace universe...

EARTH DEFENCE DEMO RELEASE

A prequel to the Earth Defence and introducing into war which will happen a few years later. Demo will help you to understand all events that happened before Earth Defence.

Windows Release: Download (280 MB)
Mirror: Mirror TerraNET (280 MB)

Remember to patch your demo installation first by setting mod folder:

Get it HERE

Enjoy various bugfixes:

• Grammar corrected table entries, mission briefs & dialogues
• Better performeance, table fixes
• Some graphical fixes

Have Fun and Enjoy!!




Demo Reamde

1 Introduction

a) Plot

Fifteen years passed since destruction of shivan superdestroyer, Lucifer. Solar System has been izolated from othe systems, galactic worlds, and with Sol all of us - immates of Earth. GTA falled really fast when earth empires proclamed their independency. We didn't have to wait very long for a war between earth forces. Now free from blame civilian population is in a center of war between three giants: European Community (EC), United Russian Republics (URR) and Empire of God(EoG). But the worst still hasn't came yet...

b) Features of the game

•Built on FreeSpace 2 Open engine (fs2_open fsscp)
•Breath taking graphic effects
•New models, older from previous FreeSpace series and new, high-res textures and normal maps
•Soundtrack from Conflict/Descent: FreeSpace
•10 campaign missions - Fly in EC intelligence, see dinamic action turns and suprises
•Pilot fighters and bombers, try multiplayer with 8 players in Team versus Team fight and twelve in dogfight (Free for All)
•See small transport vessels, destroyers and cruisers and at the end superdestroyers and carriers

c) Minimum system requiments

-DirectX 8.1 or higher. If you have problems with normal maps you should install DirectX 9c
-Windows 98SE/ME/2000 SP4/XP/Vista
-CPU class Pentium III, or comparable AMD
-64 MB GeForce 3, lor comparable ATI Highly recommended compatibility with standards: OpenGL 1.5/2.0 and T&L
-256 MB RAM
-DirectX compatible soundcard
-OpenAL (attatched to the folder where game is installed)
-750 MB free HD space

d) Recommended system requiments

-DirectX 9c
-Windows 98SE/ME/2000 SP4/XP/Vista
-Pentium 4 class processor or comparable AMD
-128/256 MB GeForce 5xxx/6xxxx series or higher or comparable ATI
-1 GB RAM
-DirectX compatible soundcard
-OpenAL (attatched into a folder where game is installed)
-750 MB free HD space

2 Bugs and solving/fixing

a) EC Turret Bug

*If fired lasers from EC vessels have mixed colors (lightblue and darkblue), you should download fs2_open official 3.6.9 release and extract it into your Earth Defence demo folder. Next you should run Launcher, click on browse and select 3.6.9 release and then confirm. It should solve the problem but you won't have normal maps avaible. You could also search for other release if you'd like to solve problem and have normal maps enabled on this forum: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,97.0.html

*If you have downloaded game after fs2_open 3.6.10 release you should use this release instead of that which was attatched into Earth Defence demo. It'll solve other problems if they were.

b) fs2_open 3.6.10 release

After release of fs2_open 3.6.10 it's highly recomended upgrading to that compilation or installing a patch. All instructions, information about patch/fs2_open 3.6.10 you can find here: http://game-warden.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=74

c) Do you have any questions? Did you find a bug?

If you have any questions about Earth Defence or you've found a bug you should just ask on our forums: http://game-warden.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=74

3 Multiplayer

If you want to play multiplayer battles you should download a configuration file whoch contain current adress of NetD server. It's here: http://www.game-warden.com/fs2open_pxo.cfg File should be copied to the data folder of your Earth Defence installation. Then you should register in NetD: http://fs2netd.game-warden.com/ and then fill in your nick and password ingame. Unfortunately, our tables aren't valided on NetD server, so your pilot stats won't be saved. We must prove that people will play ED on multiplayer. You can do it - All community and ED players by signing in this thread your will to play Earth Defence multiplayer.

You should also notice that Earth Defence mutliplayer missions still are Beta, so you can experieance some bugs.

Credits

...::: ==EARTH DEFENSE TEAM== :::...

Leaders:

Hery Sasta
Shiv

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Special thanks for former leaders:

Mekton
Qwer

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Plot and story designers:

Hery Sasta
Qwer
Mekton
Shiv

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Grammar correction:

Snail
HermeZ

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Special thanks for using their models, effects, graphics or other work go to:

Steve-O
Trashman
Krackers87
c914-2711
BTRL Team - for their awesome graphical effects, HUD parts and Scar Asteroid
nukemod Team - For sounds for our weapons
Inferno & Inferno Alliance Team - For great ship models
The Babylon Project Team - And for graphical effects

Special thanks for hosting go to:
Foxer
Matthew Pappa

and for Volition for creating FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2 - The best computer games ever =)

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Shiv thanks his parents for their patience.

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Wow looks good. Can't wait to try it.

Looks very cool! I wil download it in the afternoon today.

Updated first post with credits
Special thanks for other various mods for their awesome stuff!

Trojan reported

I just downloaded the Windows installer from TerraNET... and I get a trojan horse warning from AVG Free. Specifically, "Trojan horse SHeur.AVTG". Possibly this is a heuristic analysis flagging a trojan rather than a known virus signature.

I downloaded from Game Warden too (having "healed" (deleted) the installer by mistake) and get the same message.

ClamWin AV does not report any malware.

Probably nothing to worry about, but I've never before gotten a false positive from AVG, so this bothers me.

Installer has been scanned by Avast and BitDefender.
I don't think there's anything to worry about and it's just anti-vir bug
In a ext release we're going to change installer so message in future wouldn't show.
Nobody have reported virus infections before so I don't think that our installer could contain any viruses.
Feel free to install and enjoy demo

First off congradualtions on what you guys have done so far it looks awesome.

Secondly I have some questions about the demo.
Will this demo work with the 3.6.10 mediavps and recently released 3.6.10 RC 1 executable files? Also the launcher the came with the demo is extremely dated. Should I use the 5.5d launcher instead?


Thanks in advance for the help.


EDIT: I probably should have created a new topic for this but its too late for that now. My apologies for bumping an ancient thread.

Mobius said:

I believe the new Launcher would work, but I seriously doubt new 3.6.10 releases(both MVPs and FSO builds, with the former having more compatibility issues) would work properly.

You should use the build provided with the Demo, but be advised it's not compatible with the new MVPs.

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I'm assuming the older mediavps wouldn't work either then. While that is a let down I can tolerate playing the demo without the graphic enhancements. I already have the demo patch downloaded in case your wondering. Are you planning on updating the demo at some point or leaving it as it is?

EDIT: On the launcher that came with the demo I don't have an option for anti-aliasing.

Mobius said:

The old mediavps should work because they were supposed to be compatible with the FSO build released with the Demo.

On a side note, there will be no other edits of the Demo. The team is working on a completely new package and the Demo is considered a mere "mistake".

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Understood. Does the demo still serve as an accurate prequel to Earth Defense or should it be disregarded completely?

Play at own risk

Aurora Paradox said:

Does the demo still serve as an accurate prequel to Earth Defense or should it be disregarded completely?

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No. Disregard.

I recommend even not to play it

shiv said:

I recommend even not to play it

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Will do. I'll just wait for your next release.