The Blue Sun Mod

[Kyle]

where did u find Marauder - Man of Prey, with english translation?

It's been quite a while since I even thought about this title. I thought that when the 7.62 production went defunct, that Man of Prey was never finished. Looks like I was wrong.

From the Google keyword search that I did, it looks like someone used Google Translate to translate the Russian text into English, although he warns that in spite of his best efforts, a good deal of it doesn't make any sense. The translations were done well enough that one can successfully interface with the game and play it, although the translator of the English Pack warns that the title is extremely hard, even on the Easy setting.

No, I did NOT download the game, just the pack (it was only 2MB in size so I knew I wasn't getting the title).

From the very recent and non-legitimate means of acquiring the game in English, I'm going to make a haphazard guess that the "English" version of the game are majorly-good translations, or...?

R@S, the HLA team, did they port over their new bodies over from Man of Prey, or...?

The U.S. troops in MoP look...weird...with the red lenses. The look of the full-head helmet doesn't bother me a bit, as the game is set in a fictional universe and they probably went with the whole "Land Warrior" concept the Pentagon was pimping for a while. If that red lens was made clear or honey-colored, with a couple of light-blue colored HUD projections on it, that would then fit me perfectly fine.


I've done several keyword searches for the game to legitimately buy it, but have had no luck. Does anyone know any differently? I wouldn't hesitate to buy it if I could, especially since it looks like the developers of the game made the StarForce protection optional in the patches. I hate StarForce, and there's no way I'd purchase it if it couldn't be fully disabled/removed altogether.


I'm a big supporter of DRM-free titles. This Christmas I purchased all of the classic isometric Dungeons & Dragons RPGs through GOG.com at an extra cost of $5 more than buying all of them collected together on a special 2 disc DVD collection available at the mall. I'd rather see GOG.com get my money.


But back on target...


The world of Man of Prey looks a lot more fleshed out than 7.62. There's a great deal more furniture to contend with, and it looks like one can actually move through piles of junk and debris, and, better yet, use it for concealment and cover. In 7.62, it frustrates me to no end to see the hurricane ravaged portions of the region, and one can't even walk over the debris, let alone actually use it tactically. The same goes for the wrecked buildings too, and that holds true for even the buildings that are lightly damaged.

In any case, it would be great to get those maps into BSM, although I'd strongly consider clustering them together into their own region, either far north or far south where the climate could be more plausibly explained as being temperate in nature. Who knows, maybe a large slavic community settled there in a fashion far more benign than how Nazis were smuggled out of Germany by the U.S. and the Vatican to Argentina, Brazil, and the like. Maybe all of those immigrant Central/Eastern Europeans think that their vodkas taste supremely better with the larva from the hypopta agavis moth floating in them? A slavic-form of "tequila?" Seeing all of that European architecture lit by the tropical sun might be a bit surreal on the eyes too - hey, I want to see it!


Has anyone here played Man of Prey? Is the tactical gameplay as solid as 7.62's, and is its storyline more engrossing? The GUI looks really stripped down, but that doesn't automatically mean that it's tactically inferior than 7.62. Any opinions...?


Oh, and R@S, how does one get the 12-man GUI installed in BSM? Do I have to start my game allover again, or can I keep using my Saves, or...?