Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War

this game is a complete space sim its incredible for its age. very immersive for the time period i highly recommend this game to all people who are fans of space and space conflicts.

There are some major glitches on several missions. After days of searching, uninstalling and reinstalling, even restarting the campaign entirely from scratch...Here is the fix I found (in a GOG forum, of all places): *[b][u]Mission 6 (Paving the Way)[/u][/b]*: •Objective: escort the Galatea through an asteroid field to a jump node. •Bug: Galatea gets to the node, then stops, turns, and gets "stuck" (won't enter the node) until it is obliterated by asteroids/Shivan fighters. •Fix: Posted October 03, 2021 by user [i] Why485 [/i] "In my experimentation with this bug, I've also found another workaround, albeit an ugly one that requires you to be a bit conscious of the mission's scripting. If you enable time compression (Shift+Comma, Shift+Period by default) just before the ship hits the waypoints, it'll usually work. This works too when the ship gets stuck on a waypoint to get them unstuck, but it can still take them a few (real-time) seconds to align and then complete the waypoint. You can check how close the ship is to their waypoints by targeting them. Usually it's a friendly ship on your escort list, so you can target them quickly with E. When a friendly is targeted, it'll show a waypoint ETA on the HUD. Ideally you should enable time compression just before they hit the waypoint, e.g. 30 seconds before. You can tell a ship is stuck if their waypoint ETA is hovering around 0-1 seconds and never clears." (Source: https://www.gog.com/forum/freespace_series/freespace_1_mission_bug_in_paving_the_way) *[b][u]Mission 23 (A Failure to Communicate)[/u][/b]*: •Objective: Defend Communications Station (until the PVD Hope [Vasudan Typhon-class destroyer] reaches the Aquilae Communications [GTSC Faustus] and takes over its defense) •Bug: The Vasudan Destroyer arrives to protect Aquilae Communications ship, only for the mission to continue on interminably. •Fix: Same as above, but took me multiple attempts with the time compression trick (Shift-period) before it finally worked.