• BDNeon
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Topic: How long have you been playing First Strike/Galactic Conquest

Hey all, BDNeon, you probably haven't seen me unless you're a really old player because I've only poked my head into First Strike a few times, but I've got strong ties to this mod, because I was playing when it was called Galactic Conquest and was for Battlefield 1942, and it was a single map.

I was curious as to how long the people here have been playing this mod... franchise I guess you could call it.

I was kind of inspired to ask this when I found this little gem on youtube.
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Ah, memories. I'd love to see this music as one of the loading themes big_smile

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Re: How long have you been playing First Strike/Galactic Conquest

Heh, I shall go into this only once and leave it at that as this has been a bone of contention since way back when.

This mod has never been called Galactic Conquest, nor is it a sequel to Galactic Conquest.

This mod started out life with the name it has now, First Strike. Being a Star Wars mod for the Battlefield engine it obviously drew comparisons with Galactic Conquest a Star Wars mod for Battlefield 1942 (which incidentally I played in its earliest incarnation when it was just a sparse Hoth Map, but didn't keep with it, got into Desert Combat instead. I wish I had come to it later in its life as I have heard some fantastic stories about how good this mod got).

Anyhow to further fuel the fire of links between First Strike and Galactic Conquest fairly early in this mod's development there was a migration of several ex-members of the Galactic Conquest dev team over to this mod, so as soon as that became apparent everyone started claiming that First Strike was indeed a sequel to Galactic Conquest, and this simply isn't the case.

If you play that mod and then this one you'll find they are both fundamentally different animals with very different attitudes to gameplay design amongst many other differences. The only thing they really have in common is that they are both Star Wars mods for the Battlefield Engine.

So while I have the upmost respect for Galactic Conquest, and appreciate the fact that a lot of our players have moved on to us after playing Galactic Conquest in the past. I can categorically state that First Strike is not a sequel to Galactic Conquest.

Nuff said.



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Re: How long have you been playing First Strike/Galactic Conquest

We moved to first strike because galactic conquest had no more players and that it is another bf game, and the same mod concept. So yes you could say same franchise. We were in hope that this mod would fulfill our need for a bf starwars mod. I am a GC die hard 0.1a player and i've played the mod since it's very first release through release 5.3. However I have not fully followed first strike the entire way through. I played a first few releases and was not impressed. However the new 1.5 release encourages me to try it out.

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Re: How long have you been playing First Strike/Galactic Conquest

Then I suggest you read the news page.

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5 Reply by BDNeon (edited by BDNeon 2010-08-27 20:39:17)

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Re: How long have you been playing First Strike/Galactic Conquest

Well can we at least call it a spiritual successor? I mean it's the same theme, it's for the same game franchise, battlefield, and a lot of the same people are involved. Sorta like how Bioshock wasn't a sequel to System Shock, but it was a spiritual successor.

Regardless, that was a very tactful response Talon, and I thank you for it.

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Re: How long have you been playing First Strike/Galactic Conquest

No worries fella, like I said, I do have a great deal of respect for that mod and have no delusions about the fact that a lot of our playerbase are ex-players of Galactic Conquest.

Besides if you're going to be compared to or called the sequel to another mod there's no shame in that, as long as it's a good one.

Doesn't change the fact that we are not one though.

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Hope you have fun out there with us fella.

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Re: How long have you been playing First Strike/Galactic Conquest

I've been here since erm...6 months before the original release. I think most of that was lurking and checking updates when they came. I registered a month or two before the release and have been active since.

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