Armada I refuses to not be a bitch

posted on February 7th, 2011, 7:14 pm

Amazing... First time I hear about this... Will this campaign port be feartured with all unique Fleet ops features or will it remain to the original meaning same ships and stuff?

Will you really include all things from the videos and ingame cutscenes to the gameplay style itself or will you also redo some things arcording to your own wishes to shape a perfect universe? 

Anyway I wish you guys very very much luck in succeeding that would be a dream to get this. Now due to the fact that it is singleplayer you should consider releasing different language packs. If you request I'll volunteer to upload the german sound files for you. Keep in mind that there are many people world wide which don't understand english or when it comes to storylines want to play it in their corresponding  languages.

Are there any more informations yet about your port or is it still classified - compartmentalised. 

posted on February 7th, 2011, 7:21 pm

FO features, as the Guide page mentions the Iconians, Noxter & Ciaden. It would also be very troublesome to use the original stuff in FO.

Campaign

posted on February 7th, 2011, 8:54 pm

Ah, I believe Tyler has misunderstood

The A1 campaign thingy is being partially supported by the FO devs (they will be adding a 'Hero Enterprise' among other things for that purpose), but it is based on Megadroid and The Undying Nephalim's work in creating the maps and missions to get it to run. I'm fairly certain that an effort will be made to recreate the necessary cutscenes, as well as put in the videos from the original campaign .

I'm sure any help would be appreciated, and I'm sure there would be room for alternate language files 

posted on February 7th, 2011, 9:52 pm

Hehe, if you wait a few months, the A1 campaign will be a mod to Fleet Ops (hopefully) using Megadroid's Mission Mod

OK, that's just really damn awesome!

Also, as Blazing kindly showed me, some determined people here: http://starmada.freeforums.org/index.php have been working on possible fixes for Armada 1 on modern machines. If anyone thinks they can help, or is just willing to test out some tweaks with Nvidia cards for them, I'm sure they'd appreciate it. 

As for me, I've reached the end of my expertise. Apparently the version 260.99 driver for the 8 series Nvida cards is as close as you can get to working. Still some mouse lag and the campaign crashes, but a step in the right direction.

posted on February 7th, 2011, 10:02 pm

some chipsets have an integrated graphics chip. its possible that your computers may have these, but they are switched off as much more powerful dedicated graphics cards are fitted. if you could switch the graphics to the integrated chip, there is a possibility it will work. there is also a possibility it wont too lol. and computers built with a dedicated graphics card may not have a chip.

its worth a try, armada1 wont challenge a budget computer, so a graphics chip will run it.