YMMV / Silent Threat: Reborn

• Funny Moments: "Chasing Shadows". Shell-shocked Vasudans = Hilarity Ensues, apparently:
  Vasudan: "Big. Big guns. Poum! Poum! Poum!"
  • The mission originally included yet more lines, including references to all your base and a statement that "Stack overflow protection was engaged!" but these were cut in testing.
  • Also, in mission 4, all of the cargo containers are marked "Weapons Research", save for one labeled "Bosch Beer"
• Moment of Awesome: At least four:
  • "He Who Rides the Tiger". The whole mission.
  • The Battle of Jotunheim, especially when the Hades makes its appearance.
  • Dashing through a Karnak-class installation to prevent an enemy fighter from destroying the reactor.
  • When the PVD Hope kamikazes the Hades.
  • The campaign itself is a CMOA for the modding community in general: the project was in development for six years, and had some of the top modders in the community working on it, in addition to full voice-acting, something that not many fan-made campaigns have access to.
• Player Punch: The destruction of the GTC Orff, the first capital ship encountered in the entire franchise. Command sends the Orff, a Fenris-class cruiser, into combat against the GTD Hades, virtually guaranteeing its death unless you intervene. The Lokis alone will shred the Orff in moments, to say nothing of enemy Zeus bombers, or any Hades beams you haven't destroyed yet. The Orff received next-to-no character development for either the crew or the warship itself, but still...
• That One Level: "He Who Rides The Tiger." This is one of the few missions that requires you to handpick your targets to succeed, as the Lambda 1 transport is very fragile and won't survive unless you can focus on the fighters that attack it. This is easier said than done, as the Shivans are sending waves and waves of fighters and the battle becomes a complete furball in short order. Also, targeting bombers first (something you should do in almost every escort mission) will make you fail this mission because the bombers are targeting the Repulse, while you should be protecting Lambda 1. To top it off, this mission starts with about 5 minutes of tension-building while you watch all hell break loose in the science vessels. This is very scary the first time around, but on third or fourth time it becomes tedious and boring.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: Silent Threat Reborn ends with the (initial) Shivan fleet vanquished, the GTI Rebellion defeated, the Terran and Vasudan races at peace for the first time in over 14 years, and despite the fall of the GTA after the events of ST:R, we know it comes back as the GTVA later on. Until the NTF Rebllion almost 32 years later, there's a long, basically unbroken period of peace. There's nothing bittersweet about it, unlike the endings of Freespace 1, where Earth is saved but cut off from the rest of the galaxy, or Freespace 2 where it's clear that humanity barely survived the Shivan onslaught and even then, this was only due to the Shivans not using their 80+ nearly-unstoppable juggernauts from the get-go.

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