This is the All-in-One Installer for the FreeSpace Port Complementary Package. It contains Nova Upgrade: The Destiny of Peace in version 1.2.1 and Nova Upgrade: Awakenings in version 1.0.1 aswell their german translation with preconfigured wxlauncher profiles.
What does this Installer offer?
- Nova Upgrade: The Destiny of Peace Version 1.2.1
- Nova Upgrade: The Destiny of Peace Speech
- Preconfigured Nova Upgrade: The Destiny of Peace profile for wxLauncher
- FreiRaum: Das Schicksal des Friedens Version 1.2.1
- Preconfigured FreiRaum: Das Schicksal des Friedens profile for wxLauncher
- Nova Upgrade: Awakenings Version 1.0.1
- Nova Upgrade: Awakenings Speech
- Nova Upgrade: Awakenings High Resolution Animations
- Preconfigured Nova Upgrade: Awakenings profile for wxLauncher
- FreiRaum: Erweckungen Version 1.0.1
- Preconfigured FreiRaum: Erweckungen profile for wxLauncher
What is needed for this?
The Contents and Requirements for the Nova Upgrade: FreeSpace Port All-in-One Installer.
How do i use it?
The 7z-Archive have to be extracted into a temporary folder where you should run the FreiRaum_fsport-complementary.exe. After that, you should read the instructions that explain every possible installation option and then you can simply install the desired features.
After the installation you only have to run your wxLauncher and you can choose between the "Nova Upgrade: The Destiny of Peace" or "Nova Upgrade: Awakenings" profile for that you only have to confirm your FreeSpace 2 directory to play the desired modification with the button of the same name. If you do not use the profile, you only have to select one of the two modifications in the "Mod" tab before you start playing.
What are these campaigns about?
The Destiny of Peace
Seven months after the destruction of the Lucifer, the player finds itself as a patrol officer on the GTI Flagstaff, as the GTA does not require any more military pilots due to the peace period and the stable Terran-Vasudan Alliance. So it is the primary task of the player to perform traffic checks and also to enforce the speed limit near the outpost. As during a normal patrol all colleagues' fighter self-destruct and a cruiser is hijacked and kidnapped right in front of the outpost and even the surviving player is attacked by GTA ships with enemy IFF it is clear, that this is the beginning of major events that not only cause that the player got attention by the military, but also it come on a track of a conspiracy that apparently seems to have its connection with the colonisation plans of the planet called Mandala Prime.
Awakenings
Three years have passed since the destruction of the Lucifer. However the war against the Hammer of Light and the Shivans is far from over, though the alliance between GTA and PVN is able to keep both threats under control. With the completion of a shipyard in the orbit of Vasuda V, new warships can be built finally, which should make it possible to finally defeat both the Hammer of Light aswell the Shivans. As a veteran of the Great War, the player is squadron leader on the GTI Galatea in the Vasuda system. This Arcadia installation not only serves as a guard post for the new shipyard, but was also named after the GTD Galatea, which sacrificed itself in 2335 for the defense of Vasuda Prime. After the GTD Bastion was able to destroy the HLD Prophecy, one of the Hammer of Light flagships, the silence in the Vasuda system is over, as the surviving forces decide to retreat via the Vasuda system. After two destroyers of the GTD Orion class, which vanished ten years ago, emerge from subspace during a mission, the chaos seems to be perfect.
Contents:
The Destiny of Peace
- The The Destiny of Peace campaign with seven missions.
Awakenings
- The Awakenings campaign with 14 missions.
- The Awakenings timeline in two parts in the technical database.
- Four new ships.
What is different to the original modifications?
The Destiny of Peace
- Dates were added to every command briefing. This campaign now takes place from 28th Octoboer to 3rd November 2335.
- Nameplates were created for every ship that support them and did not had one before.
- Various continuity errors were corrected.
- Reactivated the cruisers and the bonus goal in "Shadow Dancer".
- Revised IFF for ships.
- Bugfixes in several missions.
Awakenings
- The timeline with important events from 2335 to 2338 that was released on the original campaign website is now readable through the technical database.
- Silent Threat technologies were embedded into this timeline and so are available in the campaign aswell.
- Command Briefings chapters that are stretched over several pages are now united in only one page.
- The date information in the command briefings were corrected.
- Reworked IFF identifications.
- Communication messages that were not played due to mission editing errors are working now.
- A correct Vasuda background is used in every mission that take place there.
- Several bugfixes, continuity error fixes and enhancements in the missions.
- Some missions were changed.