Mr Yaourt's Space Sims Let's Play |Part one : IW2 (update 1)

[Monsieur Yaourt]

Hello dear codexians.

Today I bought a joystick, because I remembered how awesome space simulation games are. Unfortunately, when I sat in front of my computer, my joystick unpacked, the game of my choice in my hands, I realised that one of the cd was missing. I quickly found a solution. God, thank you GOG!

So gentlemen, I'm proud to present you one of my favourite game :

*fap fap fap*

(yes, French stuff. It's not bad finally for the missing cd. Less work for me from translating, less WTF? from you)

But before the playing, I would like to ask if any of you know if there are essential mods for this game. From this list I'll take all the Particle Sytems stuff. This website contains lots of mods. I need the codex wisdom here. Future trader and iFleet in Tune ups category seem interesting. If I get no answer, I'll start with whatever sounds good.

 

[L'ennui]

*foule en délire*

 

[Sgizo]

I'm very interested. Still haven't gotten around to playing this. Looking forward to it!

 

[Azira]

Never played past the tutorial part of this game. Do continue.

 

[Monsieur Yaourt]

Ok, I'm testing different mods. Don't expect something tomorrow, I'll be occupied. You can find the manual here, if you're interested.

the introduction video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8P...8E14494E5&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=3

 

[Rabidredneck]

I played the fuck out of this game when I got it, still love it. Haven't played it in a while, Just no time.

Some of the mods I used and recommend:

MP3 player
Location finder plus (filters navigation data into very organized categories. Makes selecting a destination far easier than clunking through the starcharts)
Future Trader (slightly alters how much you get from recycling and lets you dock at stations and buy and sell things. Makes getting the ship upgrades you want much easier)
and a few others for glitch fixing and general optimizations.

 

[Angthoron]

I-War 2 is awesome. Looking forward to this.

 

[DraQ]

I-War 2 is awesome.

I found it merely good. A lot of good stuff, but plagued with stunning amounts of horrid design and various forms of stupidity.

 

[Angthoron]

I-War 2 is awesome.

I found it merely good. A lot of good stuff, but plagued with stunning amounts of horrid design and various forms of stupidity.

Really? What sort? It was about the only recent space "sim" that I enjoyed, X series just force me to uninstall thanks to being completely soulless. There was some silly stuff there, that's granted, though. Like the colliding spaceships at L-points, heh.

 

[DraQ]

I-War 2 is awesome.

I found it merely good. A lot of good stuff, but plagued with stunning amounts of horrid design and various forms of stupidity.

Really? What sort?

Most of them have been summed up here:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=899307

but also:

The model was Newtonian, but the design was plagued with non-Newtonian thinking.

You had no gravity or orbital movement resulting in single absolute frame of reference, inertialess stutterdrive for in-system flight reducing this Newtonian flight to a gimmick (and in-system travel times to minutes), given that 'da police' could order you to stop in mid-system, AI utterly failed at coping with Newtonian mechanics (switch flight assist off, accelerate to several thousand m/s, laugh your ass off watching AI repeatedly failing at catching up with your now inert craft) and velocity meter that was useless (not accounting for lateral speed) and didn't work above 9999m/s.

It also had irksome things like terribad system map and random and unrelated tutti-frutti backgrounds in different systems in a single star cluster.

It wasn't a bad game, and things like it's shield mechanics (more like turreted active defence), varied missiles, trading, most of the fluff, and heat/CPU management were pretty cool, on the other hand things like terribad controls (luckily redefinable by .ini edition), bad hud, retarded stealth (even ignoring the whole 'no stealth in space' thing, stealth while well within visual range of enemy craft is just plain wrong and confusing), autorepair worse than health-regen in modern shooters and including damaged systems, plus all the shit mentioned earlier really dragged it down.

here.

It was about the only recent space "sim" that I enjoyed, X series just force me to uninstall thanks to being completely soulless. There was some silly stuff there, that's granted, though. Like the colliding spaceships at L-points, heh.

How about Frontier sub-series?

 

[Angthoron]

I-War 2 is awesome.

I found it merely good. A lot of good stuff, but plagued with stunning amounts of horrid design and various forms of stupidity.

Really? What sort?

Most of them have been summed up here:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=899307

but also:

The model was Newtonian, but the design was plagued with non-Newtonian thinking.

You had no gravity or orbital movement resulting in single absolute frame of reference, inertialess stutterdrive for in-system flight reducing this Newtonian flight to a gimmick (and in-system travel times to minutes), given that 'da police' could order you to stop in mid-system, AI utterly failed at coping with Newtonian mechanics (switch flight assist off, accelerate to several thousand m/s, laugh your ass off watching AI repeatedly failing at catching up with your now inert craft) and velocity meter that was useless (not accounting for lateral speed) and didn't work above 9999m/s.

It also had irksome things like terribad system map and random and unrelated tutti-frutti backgrounds in different systems in a single star cluster.

It wasn't a bad game, and things like it's shield mechanics (more like turreted active defence), varied missiles, trading, most of the fluff, and heat/CPU management were pretty cool, on the other hand things like terribad controls (luckily redefinable by .ini edition), bad hud, retarded stealth (even ignoring the whole 'no stealth in space' thing, stealth while well within visual range of enemy craft is just plain wrong and confusing), autorepair worse than health-regen in modern shooters and including damaged systems, plus all the shit mentioned earlier really dragged it down.

here.

It was about the only recent space "sim" that I enjoyed, X series just force me to uninstall thanks to being completely soulless. There was some silly stuff there, that's granted, though. Like the colliding spaceships at L-points, heh.

How about Frontier sub-series?

A-ha, thanks. I played it heavily modded by friend's recommendations (he actually went and burned me a CD with all the mods he thought I should have) so I think that saved me from some of the things you've mentioned. I do admit that I'm not all that experienced with space flight games though so I could easily have overlooked some of the bigger issues by not knowing they exist.

And I'll check out Frontier, was planning to for a long time - as soon as I get my hands on that, that is. Any recommendations in particular?

 

[spekkio]

A space-sim LP will be greatly appreciated. Do continue.

 

[Monsieur Yaourt]

FUCK YEAH LET'S PLAY !

Narrator: They came, just like they came to every frontier mankind has ever had. Men women and children left the safety of home, and came to the cruellest edge of space.

Narrator: They came looking for opportunity, a chance to make it be, a lucky strike. Engineers, traders and miners came in their thousands to a new place where just a little hardship would earn them a better life.

Narrator: But here, on the very rim of known space, justice is a long way way.

Hey watch it!

Sorry Cal I must be getting old.

You look pretty fast in your old age.

Ahah. Very funny.

Oh, look at that, I've lost the drill bit again, I gonna have to burn it out. Could you fix me the lance?

Hmm... ok.

We've got plenty more bits. Why don't you install another one? It'll take ages to take that one out.

I can't afford to leave it here.

Done!

Thanks. That should do the trick.

Cal, get yourself back home before it gets too busy.

But I want to stay and help out!

You've been a big help but I'm just about to finish now.

Anyway it's your birthday and all... well you never know what might be waiting for you.

Ohh so you have got me something. What is it?

Go home and you'll see. Anyhow I've got some blast to do, I need you out of the way.

Ok. Thanks dad. I'll see you later.

*sigh* I just hope you two get along.

Good day mister Johnston, it's Caleb Maas. I believe we have an unfinished business.

Caleb who?

This vessel is registered to a mister Felix Johnston.

Oh. That'd be my dad. He's down the mine base.

You're welcome...

Weird.

Waw!

Ahhh... Mister Cal Johnston I presume. What are you doing on your backside? Well boy do you speak?

... in my mind, this picture.

Of course I can speak. Who are you?

Well, let me introduce myself. My name is Jefferson Clay. I was born more than two hundred years ago. It was your father final wish —rest his soul— that...

What you mean final wish? You're talking like he's dead or something. Look. If this is some kind of joke, that is not very funny! I've just left my dad back at the mine base... he said...

Cal! Damn it.

Mister Johnston. I've thought I'd come and pay you a visit.

Hi Caleb. I'm surprised that you do this sort of work yourself.

Well in your case I'm making an exception. Our loan records say that we haven't received the payment from you for... three months. Where's my money Felix?

Maas, we've been here before. I've paid for this ship ten times over. The matter is closed. Now if you don't mind, I've got a job to do.

I am sorry to say I had anticipated this response. On this situation we have very clear instructions to... close your account.

Okay, take him down.

What I thought you'd say

Armed.

Dad! I'm in there!

Sorry son.

Please clear the area

(Felix' ship destroyed by Caleb's rockets)

*satisfied bad guy look*

Warning! Warning! Warning!

Wuuut?

Dad, can you hear me??

NOOOOOOOOO!

Narrator: My father died, and took some gangsters down with him. Hoffer's Gap had itself a new orphan.

Narrator: But that wasn't so unusual. Like any other frontier town the only guy who made a regular living was the undertaker.

Narrator: He left me Clay as a sort of a tutor. He was one hell of a lousy baby-sitter.

Another vid!

And thus the game begins.

 

[spekkio]

MOAR!

Soon you will have to face some competition in LPing simulations. Just you wait, mah boy!

 

[Cassidy]

Some of the missions are quite rage-worthy. As in being almost there, then *boom* and because you can only save in your base and later it'll become inconveniently distant, you get the idea.

Show us your experiences.

 

[Monsieur Yaourt]

because you can only save in your base

*cough*
station save
*cough*

Don't do cheats kids, I will only use this mod for the sake of the LP. Never used it before.