WC Saga Demo? Not Quite (August 28, 2004)

[Cpl Hades]

Tolwyn of WC Saga fame brought to our attention their April Fools joke from this year. We tend not to report on these jokes unless they're our own or we've been fooled ourselves, but this one is different. At the time, the Saga team released what they claimed to be the demo for the mod. It was of course not the demo, but it was something of an early preview for the mod.

The "demo" contains the first mission you fly off the Lexington in WC4, recreated in the Freespace engine. The second mission is an original design, and contains some very strange dialogue between some Kilrathi pilots. Sadly we ran out of time to play so there may well be more surprises in store, but we'll leave those for you to find. You can download the WC Saga April Fools joke demo (104MB!) here. The download is so big because it contains the original Freespace 2 demo which is required to run the mod, and also a WC Saga trailer. Don't forget to read the readme.txt file contained within for installation instructions.

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Original update published on August 28, 2004

 

[zzzarkt]

Am I the only one who can't get this to work? Followed all instructions in the Readme file, but everytime I try to commit to or skip the training mission, the game goes back to the desktop. Any ideas? Very nice movie by the way.

 

[Farzone]

zzzarkt. you are not alone. I can´t get it to work either.
However, no crash to desktop.
Worse though, no movie on the trailer!