Babylon 5 - Star Fury Pilot Unofficial Patch 2.0 news

Babylon 5 - Star Fury Pilot Unofficial Patch 2.0 17.12.2017
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Patch copyright by Werner Spahl, "Wesp5" (spahl@cup.uni-muenchen.de)
The Babylon Project home and forum at Babylon.hard-light.net
Thanks to Shaun Williams, "madaboutgames" = "MAG", for the missions!

This is an unofficial patch for the The Babylon Project mission pack
Babylon 5 Star Fury Pilot 2.0 by Shaun Williams. Install it into The
Babylon Project data folder! Thanks to Jordan Russel for Inno Setup.

The patch fixes many minor errors in all missions like typos, names,
hotkey numbers, message subtitles and makes them compatible with the
Zathras mod! It also features mission specific changes listed below.

The Star Fury Pilot pack 2.0, FSO and FRED2 3.7.0, wxlauncher 0.10.1
and OpenAL are included. All else needed is The Babylon Project 3.4b
and Zathras 2.8 (www.moddb.com/games/the-babylon-project/downloads).

Besides optional effects the patch also includes optional changes by
me to the great First Ones mini campaigns Dark Children by Vidmaster
and Guardian of Light by Darkmaster which are both included as well.

Thanks to Heiko Herrman for the inluded viewers and FUBAR-BDHR, both
helped making weapon effects look closer to the show. To restore the
TBP effects remove the effects folder and wesp5-wep.tbm from tables!


A Distant Star
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- Fixed condition for leaving squadron range.
- Restored briefing and debriefing with voices.

And Now For A Word
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- Increased chance of the Narn cruiser winning.
- One voice file is missing and couldn't be fixed.

A View From The Gallery
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- Replaced Shadow chaser model with Drakh fighter.
- Fixed not attacking breaching pods and Whitestar.
- Improved mission ending by removing fighter waves.
- Restored voice file and fixed jumppoint directions.

A Voice In The Wilderness
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- Fixed mission breaking when leaving patrol range.

Fall Of Night
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- Fixed wrong end mission condition for Narn cruiser.
- Removed left over life pod and surplus fighter waves.

In The Beginning
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- Restored briefing and debriefing.
- Reduced some waiting time before action.
- Fixed retreat directive triggering too late.
- Corrected asteroid directive finishing too soon.

Points Of Departure
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- Made Dogato fire only one beam like in the show.
- Fixed bad condition to avoid accidental screw up.
- Replaced two missing voice files with similar ones.
- Removed a surplus directive and fixed one not ending.

Severed Dreams
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- Fixed broken breaching pods hotkey.
- Corrected wrong beam turret attacks.

Shadow Dancing
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- Fixed score and escort table bugs.
- Corrected spitfire AI chasing battlecrabs.
- Made briefing appear similar to other missions.
- Improved friendly AI attacking Shadow battlecrabs.
- Swapped stray Eurora and destroyer with Shadow ships.
- Replaced Brakiri frigates with cruisers like in the show.

Signs And Portents
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- Fixed warp effect at the beginning.

The Battle Of The Line
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- Fixed crash on president's speech, thanks to E.
- Renamed Olympus corvette and removed surplus scouts.

The Long Twilight Struggle
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- Swapped a mission voice and several animations.
- Unlocked inconsistently sensor blocked spitfires.
- Removed show inconsistent surplus waves and ships.
- Made Shadow battlecrabs use power beams more often.
- Set mission ending dependent of Narn cruiser status.
- Added Narn jump-explosion effect, thanks to Vidmaster.

Dark Children
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- Added hotkeys to all missions.
- Decreased explorer fighters to six.
- Restored Vorlon beams and one message.
- Reduced Minbari patrol fighters to two.
- Enabled Vorlon cruiser goals and turrets.
- Made Vorlons attack out of the same jumppoint.
- Added battlecrab and Vorlon transport as in show.
- Removed MP starting wings and fixed last objective.

Guardian Of Light
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- Fixed null vector errors.
- Decreased EA fighter numbers.
- Added hotkeys to all missions.
- Decreased Dilgar fighter numbers.
- Removed EA missiles from Pentacan.
- Fixed two broken goals against Dilgar.
- Removed custom music and colored sun effect.
- Restored Vorlon beams and fs2 3.6.9 compatibility.

Modified Weapon Effects:
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- Made Dilgar projectiles pink.
- Restored Vorlon glows and beams.
- Turned Spitfire bolt slightly violet.
- Made Drakh scatter gun projectiles blue.
- Gave Centauri, Brakiri and Dazi yellow beams.
- Made Minbari beams greener and EA and Narn redder.


Patch Permission:
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Email to Shaun Williams 29.9.2010: ... I noticed some typos and
bugs though and being aware that the pack is very old I want to
ask for the permission to fix them for the next TBP DVD release.
Email from Shaun Williams 05.10.2010: It will be fine to update
the star fury pilot mission pack and the earth brakiri war if
you can spare the time. I am really busy and will be for the next
year so I am afraid I can not do any further work on this.