Freespace 2 Battlestar Galactica mod "Beyond the Red Line" Demo RELEASED

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Beyond the Red Line is a (free) stand-alone total conversion for the award-winning Freespace 2 released by Volition and Interplay for the PC. It is based on the popular new tv-show Battlestar Galactica. No, not the one from the 70s.
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Beyond the Red Line
http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/

http://www.game-warden.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=36

MP has Co-op, campaign, and dog fight modes.
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you don't need Freespace2 for it, it's a stand alone Total Conversion based on the open source code.
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MAKE SURE YOU RUN BtRLDemoUpdater.exe TO UPDATE YOUR GAME





http://www.savant-online.net/files/cries_of_metis.fs2

save as

Place in your Data/Missions/ folder.

It's a brief mission (under 6 minutes) but with some intense dogfighting.

A Cylon mission, just prior to the Centurion attack on Pegasus. If your wingmates seem useless it's intentional
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BTW : For those who don't know how to use this file simply go to your Data folder and create a folder called Missions. Place this file inside. Then in game go to the Tech Data -> Flight Simulator option -> Single Missions.
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1.7 MULTIPLAYER (Credit to MatthewPapa for the basis for steps 2-5)
So, you'd like to see how you measure up against the rest of the world? To get multiplayer working:
1. Make sure your installation is up-to-date. Make sure you are connected to the Internet, then run BtRLDemoUpdater.jar or BtRLDemoUpdater.exe in the root installation folder. It's got the same layout as the installer, so you should have no problems with it.
2. Register a multiplayer account here http://fs2netd.game-warden.com/. Be sure to write down/remember your multiplayer account information.
3. If you want to host multi games, you'll need to forward port 7808 to the machine you're playing on. If you don't know how to do this, you can look up your router on portforward.com.
4. Start up the BtRL Demo, and click the Multi tab on the choose pilot screen and create a new pilot. Give the pilot the same name as the account you made in step 2.
5. From the main menu, select Options, then click Multi at the top left. Make sure that the settings are:
- TCP is selected, IPX is deselected.
- You don't need to do anything with the IP box unless you're playing a Lan game.
- Make sure /MULTIDATA is turned off.
- Make sure PXO is turned on, and enter the account and password from step 2 into the appropriate fields. You can leave Squadron blank, it doesn't do anything.
- Object Update should always be on Low, unless you're hosting, in which case it should be on High. We can not stress this enough! Most of the lag problems you experience will be due to someone not having the correct Object Update settings. During testing, we played ten-player dogfights with little to no lag. When one person switched to Medium Object Updates, the game was almost unplayable. Make sure that when you stop hosting, you switch back to Low Object Updates. Having Object Updates set to Low will not make the game any less beautiful.
- Transfer Missions should be set to /MISSIONS, not /MULTIDATA.
- Flush Cache should be set to Never.
6. Hit Briefing, and you'll connect to the Multi Server and will be able to start playing.
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I've been watching this series quite a lot lately and this game is VERY close to it. Even the voice overs have been thought about and implemented quite well.

Getting 5-6 cylon raiders chasing your ass and flying stright in front of you is crazy good fun.
 
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