Maelstrom Mod opening missions playthrough

[Lurok91]

Credit due to vonfrank’s recent modded playthrough videos for inspiring this  …

As an historical record for our BC community, and anyone who never tested the single-player campaign Maelstrom Mod, this is a video of the opening missions from the mod in realtime which gives an idea of how it played and looked.  The actual game runs in 4:3 (I never liked the ‘stretched’ bridge look in widescreen)  but for purposes of this vid I’ve uploaded in cropped 720p.  I guess anyone who’s played BC knows what the interface menus look like anyway 

Also, all the textures in these videos are maximum 1048.   Many of the models have higher resolutions (2048) but the difference in gameplay is marginal except in high-res screenshots.

Hope you all enjoy.  I don’t think I have the time or patience to record the entire modded game, but I’m happy to record any specific missions on request/popularity when I get a spare moment. 

Leave comments below!

[vonfrank]

Very nice! As I'm sure you've seen, I had done very little modding to the interior sets of the game for my playthrough and focused primarily on exterior visuals. It was nice to see the changes made made to the bridges and characters for your Malestrom mod. It certainly updates the dated graphics of the stock game.

Is the entire story complete and playable with the mod?

[Lurok91]

In theory, yes.  You can start the game and play through to the end, but we never cracked the 'save progress' function.  I think there may also be some random crashes which are probably fixable, or may just be partly down to some of the inherent age issues (memory leaks, etc).

In test mode you can also dive into individual mission.

[Lurok91]

So just as the counterpoint to initial Dauntless/Galaxy missions,  here is Episode 3 campaign mission when you switch to Sovereign class for rest of game.  Good demonstration of Jimmy's hardpoint rebalancing (Sovereign vs Akira and BoPs!) and bridge damage effects.

Edit: realised may as well link the other mod related vids here too!

[JimmyB76]

 

[Lurok91]

I also did a JJ-Enterprise bridge many moons ago...not very canon though so never released.

[Morgan]

I also did a JJ-Enterprise bridge many moons ago...not very canon though so never released.

Dude that looks awesome!!!!  I want 

[Blackrook32]

I also did a JJ-Enterprise bridge many moons ago...not very canon though so never released.

Still, should not keep you from sharing, lol

Considering the advanced you made, in viewscreen mesh shapes. The JJ-Enterprise set should be very doable now. I still have your viewscreen workaround for the Delta Flyer set.

[Wintersfrost]

Sorry for the necro, but do you have a list of all the ships you used and their download links? I think you're using Lints B'rel, K'vort and Vor'cha but I can't find them anywhere.

[Lurok91]

MM doesn't use any Lint ships.   List of mod ships below...

NEW SHIP CHANGES (several exclusive to SPMod)
* Wiley's Venture Refit Class Galaxy to replace stock USS Dauntless and Venture
* Wiley's new Akira to replace stock Akiras
* Wiley's CG Nebula to replace stock Nebulas
* Baz new Spacedock to replace stock FedStarbase
* Baz new Merchantman to replace Karoon
* Baz new Galor, Keldon, Hybrid and Kessok ships to replace stock
* Baz new SpaceFacility and FedOutpost to replace stock
* Baz Excelsior Refit as USS Khitomer
* Baz Bird Of Prey to replace stock
* Baz SFSY Freighter to replace stock
* DJ Curtis Orion to replace USS San Francisco
* DJ Ambassador Refit to replace USS Zhukov
* New Ferengi Marauder to replace stock
* cinqnic's Olympic Class to replace USS Nightingale
* FarShot's new Defiant to replace USS Devore
* Phoenix new Vorcha to replace stock
* Cy's new Transport to replace stock
* Cy's new CommArray/Satellite to replace stock
* Kophjaeger's Cardassian shipyard to replace Cardassian Station
* fixed stock Cardassian Freighter so now travels in right direction!

MM missions playthrough videos here
http://www.bc-central.net/forums/index.php/topic,10726.0.html