I don't know if anyone else has been following this one (or if there is already a thread) but Beyond the red line was released over the weekend. I have had a short play this evening and so far and it looks very nice. Very polished and lots of fun. Anyway should keep you busy post season 3 for a wee while
Very nice for an indie effort. I need to play around with the controls though as the double-button combos for various functions were tricky in the heat of battle (Alt+M to auto-match speeds?!) and I was constantly wishing my joystick's throttle lever would work rather than having to use [, ] or \. The ship models are very good, though and nice effects on the Viper cannon shots. Liked the nod to TOS by putting in the old-style Cylon Raiders as the drone ships in the training mission! My only other niggle is that it isn't at all clear what's actually going on. The whole scripted fight bit in the first real mission apparently involves you disobeying orders, yet I didn't actually DO anything but patrol the asteroid until the Cylons showed up. I thought my wingmen were going whacko and just ignored it. Then in the next mission it isn't clear that you need to be shooting the asteroids out of the mining vessel's path (some sort of indicator of which asteroids are on a collision course with her would be useful here).
It has a very long install which seemed to almost completly tie up my machine. If that happened to you too just let it run through.
The install seemed to hang up at the beginning. I let it go, and it eventually ramped up and installed pretty quick from there. AWESOME FRAKKIN' DEMO!!!! I'm up to the third mission (including training) where you have to shoot the asteroids off the mining ship, then vape some raiders and then go find green three and vape that fourth raider. The fourth raider didn't get me- I made the classic noob mistake of flipping end for end and was shooting the shit out of the raider when I ran ass-first into a gorram asteroid!! I shouldv'e made a high speed run for deep space and let him get on my six, then flipped over and vaped his ass. Ah well. You screw up, you die! Kat and Starbuck are tearing up my shitty performance right now... Took me a while to get all the controls configured to my satisfaction, but I'm tearin' the shit up now. I want a MK II, though, not a frakkin' VII...
Finally whipped that third mission, with a bit of skullduggery and doin' some o' that pilot shit. I think the fourth raider is supposed to be Scar. And, in honor of whipping his ass in the demo, I went back and watched that ep of nuBSG. Frak yeah!
Yeah this is pretty cool stuff. Wrapped up the demo last night. Havn't tryed multiplayer yet though. I found in the last mission I really had t be sure on my shot before squeezing the trigger. I wasted so much ammo. That little frakker could dance.
I had trouble in the first mission. Not sure if my controls were set wrong, i got to the part where i had to target viper 2 and match speed. It had 'press and hold 'a'' as an instruction. I seemed to do that, and match speed, but i couldnt seem to trigger the next part. Maybe i need to map throttle to my joystick.....
Check out the forums over at http://www.game-warden.com/bsg They have some troubleshooting threads for people having trouble getting the mod running. And I mean you really need it to run. I haven't had this much fun with a space sim since my last homemade X-wing Alliance mod, and people are already starting to churn out custom missions you can plug into the demo.
Damn it, I still have eleven episodes to watch before I play this game, otherwise the episodes would be spoiled. Oh well, I look forward to playing it...
^Well, I just got done watching 4 more episodes (up to "Final Cut" S2E08) so I'll be ready to play by the end of the week.
