Freespace - Fall of Vasuda Prime - Extended Version

[@AlabamaSoldier]

Most gamers have a picture of Master Chief beside their beds. Master Chief has a picture of Alpha One beside his.

[@Amp661]

Damn right! Alpha 1 the true hero.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

In what ship though?

[@_Muzolf]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 All of them! But if he had to pick, it would be a Hercules heavy fighter.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

@@_Muzolf mark 1 or 2?

[@_Muzolf]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 Mark 1, what better fighter to use as the one that supposedly won the great war.

[@brianu2229]

Anyone notice the music playing when the Lucifer opens fire? It's the same music Babylon 5 used when the Centauri bomb Narn.

[@weldonwin]

That's the Shadows theme, kinda fits

[@chopper2429]

Christopher Franke is a genius!

[@nickmitsialis]

@@chopper2429 REALLY?! Is the score 'original' or did they add it to the video?

[@Marzelmusik]

@@nickmitsialis In the original Freespace 1 game (because of budget reasons) this cutscene was not included. It is fanmade (read the description)

[@filthydisgustingape5354]

@@Marzelmusik ok. I do remember playing it 20 years ago but only vaguely

[@SRosenberg203]

I wonder if those three Vasudan transports that escape at the end are the ones that crash on Altair and discover the Ancients, whom you then have to rescue in a later mission.

[@rageagaintstheNWO]

And to think that Lucifer was only a part of a scouting party...

[@MikMoen]

Even after the two games and seeing that large fleet of Sathanas' we probably still have no clue just how powerful the Shivans really are.

[@outlawstar15a2]

Yeah but that sword cuts both ways they obviously don't know how powerful we are otherwise there is no strategic reasons for the Sathanas fleet to bug out like it did and leave.

[@thathandsomedevil0828]

@@outlawstar15a2 I read someone's arguments that the shivans destroyed the capella star as a means to protect themselves from how powerful a threat we were becoming, seeing that we wrecked a sathanas and the other smaller capital ship. They went over board as a result.

[@UnlimitedFlyers]

@@thathandsomedevil0828 Actually, no. According to one of devs on a Hard-Light forum post, the Shivans are some sort of autonomous worker bots and they add new systems to their network by collapsing stars (rhymes a bit with the whole "demons, fire and brimstone" theme they have); and the GTVA was relieved as hell that the 80+ Sathanas fleet was contained at Capella ("Chapel"; "demons locked inside a church", got the metaphor?) because they'd have curbstomped them otherwise.

[@SRosenberg203]

@@UnlimitedFlyers Exactly. That's what I always thought it was too, they were just extending the nebula to include Capella.

[@RivanG436-12]

Freespace 1 and 2 were such staples of my Childhood. And to this day no other Alien species elicits the sense of fear that I feel when I encounter the Shivans. Volition did such a great job creating them. They are an enemy that gives you the sense of no matter what you do you cant kill them all, you cant stop all of them. And worse even when you feel like finally you got a leg up on them, it all went away as they introduce something much worse. They just dont make games like they used to.

[@SimpMcSimpy]

I remember playing Freespace 1 back in 1998 and encountering Shivans for the first time, I almost shit my pants. Not to mention assignment where you have to scan Shivan containers without shields or any effective weapons against their fighters. Atmosphere and that awesome music were so immersive. I really appreciate how much passion and effort Volition put into development.

[@LgndryThndr]

If you've played the new Hi-res update then you'd know thats how they infact fly. Alot of ships mainly freighters that I thought were right side up turned out they werent.

[@outlawstar15a2]

It's actually much higher then that. A group of players a few years ago took all the battles, affected worlds and systems and estimated the total cost of both Shivan Wars in terms of organic lives. They assumed Vasudans and Terrans have similar individual resource needs as real life people and accounted for the resources of the GTVA, likely population distribution, etc. And came back with a figure approaching 50 billion.

[@nickmitsialis]

Much less that the Terran Kilrathi War--I think the casualties on both sides went into the trillions. OF course, THAT was lasted 3 decades or so?

[@MetroidSuperFan]

Yes. The GTA was aiding the Vasudan evacuation... they frankly needed all the help they could get (just think about the logistical nightmare evacuating an entire planet would be... especially a homeworld).

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

Goes out the window when the end of the world happens. Its pretty much just get anything that has a engine and get the hell out or stay and meet death..

[@takebackgotham]

Man, this game makes each battle feel real, like you're in the war yourself and you could die but you want to win regardless. Call of Duty, Halo, nothing!

[@mir3877]

A dark day in the history of vesudans

[@ertymexx]

I kinda like how you put in the music from B5, the bombing of Narn-scene, in the end. ;) Which, just by the by, is one of the most powerful scenes in the B5-series. *shivvers*

[@Gurmax]

Oh... this would have been perfect in Freespace. I loved the cutscene.

[@ZemplinTemplar]

Great work ! Especially considering that its a recreation of a cutscene that only existed on paper.

[@Aristocles22]

Bits of it exist in the command briefing when Vasuda Prime falls.

[@seph1r0th400]

Hi guys its me, the TE. Under a different name. Sweet to see this finally up here. The music you are talking about is form "The Long Twilight Struggle" Suite by Christopher Franke.

[@sheven18]

After more then 10 years of playing freespace 1 and 2 it is nice to see a new cutscene

[@IceyJones]

i made it, yes and no...the lucifer-beam was also blue in the mission breefing animation in the game

[@259]

@marcovaaa The Lucifer doesn't weigh anything since it's always out in space. What you're probably thinking of is mass.

[@IceyJones]

the second music is from babylon 5 where they bomb narn....lok into the thread on HLP. there a user posted the name..... in total it took 3 weeks approximately....

[@c2thew]

holy shit this was an Awesome cutscene! there should have been a few more shots showing the fighters mopping up the escaping vessels rather then just having 3 vessels making it out. fyi, that was a beautiful warp in. sharp and vivid.

[@flapjacklouie]

God Vasuda got bombed like Narn!!! 😩😩😩😢

[@gman9908]

Its possible that there are even more Lucifer class destroyers. They said it in the game. Perhaps another encounter with the Shivans will occur in FS3

[@DessertMonkey]

The opening scene in this video somehow reminds me of Halo 2.

[@MrBlack1968]

In game it's a lot smaller than that but there's an animation in FreeSpace that shows the Lucifer wasting an entire city with one beam, so it's fair enough.

[@Flyinghotpocket]

everything is flying upside down except the shivan stuff

[@SRosenberg203]

There is no upside down in space.

[@cr90captain89]

@@SRosenberg203 its all about perspective

[@AkenValle]

RIP Vasuda Prime. But 32 years leater, we hold the line.

[@Triikor]

The Lucifer in this cutscene was 10 times cooler than the one actually in-game :/

[@MetroidSuperFan]

I figured the beam fanned out when it entered the atmosphere. Besides, it looks freaking awesome, so I'm not questioning it too hard.

[@IceyJones]

in the silent thread-pirate mission they fly exactly this way ;)

[@Rhomega]

That's because in space, there's no up or down, so yuo can fly with any orientation, and it won't be considered "wrong" unless you're plotting it on a 2D plane. This was on a planet though, and I'm sure the crew would be upside-down too.

[@r3un1on]

woo very nice video. i hop freespace 3 coming soon ;)

[@RIFF0RAFF]

every ray gets diffused with distance, even laser. For example shoting from Earth a centimeter wide laser beam, gives circle wide about 3 kms on moon's surface.

[@LordmorrisII]

What makes the Lucifer so unique is. That she is the only Shivan capital ship to have shields that can only be penetrated by ion beam cannons. Therefore, in the Great, all weapons were useless against the Lucifer. No other Shivan battleship, otherwise owns shields. Only one mystery was never revealed. Where the Shivans come from or, to put it better, where they build their ships and such. It is clear that the Shivans have no homeworld. Because thanks to Blue Planet you learn a lot about them in the last mission and that they are half as old as the Galaxy itself. What does that mean they have to have a mobile city like high charity in Halo. Would make the most sense to me!

[@Aardwolf001]

So I just noticed that as the Lucifer enters it's got the greenish coloration, but then that turns red once it's in-system... interesting...

[@Xingmey]

i like the babylon music put into this as the lucifer opens fire ^^ well done

[@therealbluedragon]

I don't remember this cutscene being in the game. Was this fan-made? If so it's very good!

[@Servellion]

It was in the game.

[@EternalModerate]

It is fan made

[@TrveIrrlicht]

It doesn't exist at all, it's all in your imagination

[@KrautGoesWild]

@Eglab And what about guys like me? Those who loved FS AND spent countless hours on Freelancer, too? But I really have to admit, that the feeling of flight in FS is the best, but the story of Freelancer is better. No hard feelings - Cheers!

[@ajsknight]

@NecrossKnight Oh yes, her name is her Legacy. You hit it spot on buddy :).

[@Indignations]

you can either: download it or buy it, but it is a rare game so only ebay or amazon would have it.

[@Riptide572]

Kind of a narrow-minded way of looking at it. A nuclear device can be held in a suitcase and still devastate a city. I figure the beam is so huge for 1 or all of 3 reasons. #1- Atmospheric lensing, #2- If it's laser based, lasers do "fan out" over time, and #3 The sheer energy behind it; for instance, a paint chip from a previous shuttle mission could take out the Space Shuttle if it was traveling in the opposite direction in orbit just due to the amount of velocity difference.

[@weldonwin]

The music at the end, when the bombardment begins, that Za'Ha'Dum from Babylon 5

[@whocares435-z9v]

Beautiful. The music fits perfectly.

[@bigchunk1]

0:55 Oh my god! It's the lucifer!

[@Indignations]

@r3un1on probably not 4 a while, they decided not 2 make it coz FS2 didn't sell well

[@marcovaaa]

The huge beam that ransacked the city is impossible. If that beam isn't even as wide as a 2 kilometre destroyer, how can it blast apart a 10 kilometer city?!

[@IceyJones]

not true ;-) it IS the game model of the actual SCP-version ;-) the only extra-effect i used was the change of the colour during activation of the shields....

[@IceyJones]

in the cutscenes there was ALWAYS a different music than the original intro or ingame soundtrack. but i thought this music fits fretty well into the freespace universe and specially in this cutscene.... :-)

[@Valiran9]

Where did you find it? The description on another upload (kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3uuZIR9a8Rkl5I ) calls it “Gates to Addis”, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.

[@IceyJones]

@@Valiran9 it was on a DMCA free website with free music, but this is down by now and someone bought the rights on this track and did a copyright strike on my video.

[@Valiran9]

@@IceyJones Damn, that sucks! ☹

[@rageagaintstheNWO]

00:50 always gives me goosbumps

[@mcz1945]

A shame that Lucifer didn't actually have any shields, it was only set on invulnerability. It is funny to see that a single shot from any weapon makes the Lucifer went atmosphere :D

[@marcovaaa]

Wow, a ship 2.7 kilometres long could barrage an entire planet to dust in 13 hours...

[@auroraenergy]

And to think the Lucifer was scary before we played FS2 and to think the Sathanis was scary before we saw the Shivans gather around Capella, and to think we thought the Shivans gathering was scary before we played Inferno.

[@tlfearofthedarkhun387]

Right on spot. Inferno is probably the best candidate for FreeSpace 3. The Gigas will be just....

[@captainjeep-eep6180]

I want to add this to my install of the Freespace 1 conversion.

[@TrveIrrlicht]

RIP that one city that Vasudans had

[@demonicfork]

I've played both games quite extensively, and no I don't think so. The Vsaari got their asses kicked by some dark enemy that no one has identified. That's in their back story. the shivans are the ones DOING the ass kicking. Not really a parallel

[@IrideaeSnowbloom]

Where did you get this oO did you make that yourself oO And shouldn't the beam be red-colored, due to shivan technology?

[@dancpfc]

Must have been odd for the crew of the GTFr Chronos to fly effectively upside down, especially when loading the refugees. Same they only used some of the cutscene for briefings.

[@dragonstormx]

Why wasn't there any more these things in the sequel, it would have been to see the Colossus take it out.

[@carmatic]

i never understood, what was that weapon on the lucifer which shot the blue beam? it looked like it simply shot out the side of the ship...

[@HeroSwe]

Problem is FS3 will never happen and perhaps that's a good thing. Then the players themselves can forge a continuation of the story. IMO FS3(if someone wants to make it) will never live up to the old games unless they keep everything the same and ramp up the things that need improving(What the SCP project is doing currently!)

[@dragonstormx]

@Nonamearisto Or those four people lost their homes in this orbital bombardment.

[@squeezybox]

Volition is fine - it was bought over and is now owned by THQ. Interplay mostly only exists as a licence-seller, and it's unlikely THQ would see the Freespace license as good value. Ergo Volition are nowadays making console games like Red Faction Guerilla and Saints Row.

[@Ruosteinenknight]

Freespace lisence has switch hands now twice. When THQ went to bankcruptcy, af all the companies out there, Interplay bought Freespace back with 7,500 dollars. Really. And as predicted, Interplay did nothing with it for about three years. Now it's up to grabs again it seems. About year ago, Interplay announced that it is going to sell all of it's IP's, over 70 games in total and close up shop for good. I've not been following where IP of freespace went.

[@sliidiot]

and he's keeping it for himself, because we've never seen it!

[@jonathanvergara9741]

How powerful is Lucifer launched an attack from Orbit... it's not bad at all!

[@TheVargr]

Gawd i want to play this game so badly and have bought it but cannot get the game to start after the launch menu. It just goes black and i have to restart my computer :(

[@loxegwen]

Alpha 1 is gaming jesus, he died for your sins

[@guerra_dos_bichos]

ok i love the game but its been a while since i played, relativ to the ship doesnt that beam seems to be a little HUGE? i don't really found the specs on the lucifer, so any fan pls tellme

[@EternalModerate]

Guerra dos Bichos it's 2777m long

[@ShadowSonic2]

Is it? I haven't seen B5 in a while so I'll listen again to see if memories stir.

[@IceyJones]

plane, im januar mal weiter zu machen....hatte die letzten monate einfach keine zeit und viel stress....3d liegt daher völlig auf eis....:-(

[@MobiusDragon89]

Ha-hem, the SD Lucifer has shields, at least in FS1.

[@outlawstar15a2]

What I want to know is how did those transports escape orbit...

[@CaptPatrick01]

Ah, that's why MediaVPs gave it horns.

[@RevengeOfTheKaizer]

Are they going to put this in the FSPort campaign in a future version?

[@Aristocles22]

4 people like Freelancer. 104 people have taste.

[@MGMan37]

How come the Terran transport in the beginning is upside-down?

[@afirdaus068]

Waiittt a secc... I remembered Lucifer destroyer beams acme from its 2 "arms"..

[@ColonolDekker]

Oy Icey. Good stuff.

[@TheVargr]

Hi I have the SCP and am playing this campaign. Can't get any of the cutscenes to appear however. Any way to get them put in (as the fs1 campaign just doesnt feel the same without them) ?

[@SilverandButters]

so does anyone know where to get FS2 now a days? because i cant find it anywhere

[@ragnartheone2387]

I have no idea if you are reading this... I am modding Freespace. Sill modding, modding it again, depends on perspective. I remembered this cutscene from the old days... And I would be very interested to obtain a non-youtube compressed version of at least some of your shots from this cutscene, or even a re-render. So, in case you are in any way, shape or form still interested in Freespace, contact me or answer here and we can figure out how to communicate. To be clear, this is not about doing anything new or something 😆. It is just about the existing work.

[@IceyJones]

hey ragnar. i will have to dig deep into my old PC that stands in my cellar to get the original files. if you have a discord account, we could keep in touch there. im IceyJones#8976

[@ragnartheone2387]

@@IceyJones Contacted you there -- Vid

[@skdKitsune]

@@IceyJones Hey, were you able to find the video file? I'm also new to modding FSO and would like to take a look and possibly use this cutscene in my mod. I would of course give credit to you. Would appreciate a reply very much :) Cheers

[@kswindl]

ha! nice. never seen this version. damn copyright laws! i needs me some freespace 3 =/

[@GeneralBattuta]

They have artificial gravity. They make their own up and down.

[@outlawstar15a2]

Alpha 1 absolved us of our sins and gave us hope for the future. :XD

[@IrideaeSnowbloom]

Wait a second... are you Icey Jones from the german Freespaceforum? oO

[@HeroSwe]

This has been tried on the HLP forums before, many times infact and really, it doesn't work. For starters every campaign maker has their own ideas about the continuation on a story and has history has proven over and over again. A compromise NEVER EVER works, if the community want to make a FS3(I don't care about Derek Stupid) Then they all should agree on one storyline. Maybe have a vote for the best one?

[@rtrpeter]

@IntegraFilms Did you look in Hardlightproduction for it yet?

[@lordkoth6735]

What's the song called I don't remember if from the games?

[@Xingmey]

well, by that time vasudan and terran forces are allies. so it could be but it also could just be a different vasudan design

[@whocares435-z9v]

Thanks for the answer.

[@TheVargr]

No all my other games work fine. Just when i start this game the screen goes black and it is in the game but well nothing happens it just stays black and does nothing. HAve tried it on 2 computers. (both xp but with it set to 95 compatible setting)

[@lukaErCaiman]

this is a LOT better than Freelancer Fuck microsoft telling Digital Anvil to make the game "less ambicious"

[@Hydralysk445]

At the end there is that the music from Babylon 5's bombing of Narn scene?

[@FenrirWolf42]

Have you tried downloading the open source version? It runs just fine on all platforms.

[@IntegraFilms]

where do i get the high def OGG versoin for fs2open

[@k1productions87]

... didn't sell well? ... that's impossible. FS and FS2 is quite possibley the best space flight sim of ALL TIME .... what is wrong with gamers these days? Well, maybe a group of us fans and modders can get together and make a FS3 with the FS2 source code. Just need Volition for the completed story. It needs an ending

[@theeclownbro]

Doesnt it exceed 6 bill, considering the shivans destroy their star?

[@Shadowbummer]

Nice video, Babylon 5 music rocks! :)

[@cloreal]

this is not a new cutscene, it's even not original, since it uses music from babylon 5 and volition would never had done this.

[@SerPinkKnight]

It was at this point Lucifer began to piss me off : /

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

i remember seeing this must have been with the scp project.

[@IceyJones]

yep.....long ago i did that for the project

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

@@IceyJones yeah i must have played FSO with the SCP project

[@beojack4592]

Long live the Emperor.

[@DIVOTMOVIES]

i hear b5 music at the ending, but good clip.