[Urza]

Ok, here's the situation. I was playing the first scenario of Episode 2 when I decided to do a little first-person exploring on the planet's surface. So I sent myself, along with a few marines to the transporter room. I then made sure that it was working and had power. I went into TacOps and had myself and the marines beamed down to an uninhapited area of the planet. After doing so, I went into first person. However, upon looking around, I noticed that the marines were nowhere to be found. I then wanted to go back into TacOps (or PerScan) to find out where they were. I couldn't find a way to access TacOps form first-person. I then wanted to beam back aboard my BC, but I needed TacOps to do that, too. Resigned to my unescorted exile on the planet, I decided to explore a little bit. There were hills and elevation changes, but nothing too interesting. (I must have chosen the beam-in location too well) I then wanted to quit to try something else, but the realized that I couldn't even do that! I eventually ended up pushing the reset button on my computer.

Is this a known problem with the demo, or am I just being stupid?

P.S. Sorry in advance if this question had already been asked.

[Papi]

Team deployment is not aplied in the demo.
And to quit in the first person you have to press alt-q.

[Urza]

OK, that seems to explain why I didn't find any marines, but is there really a way to access TacOps from first person so I can beam back?

[Papi]

You should be able to access tacops by pressing alt-s, but I'm afraid you can't retrieve your commander back.

Demo is a demo

[Hunted]

you can trasnport marines to surface, but they have no weapons :-)

[Epsilon 5]

What do you expect, to be dropped in the middle of the planet and amazingly land in the middle of a base? No way

[Urza]

Come to think of it, I don't even know why I beamed down to the planet in the first place. I guess I just wanted to see my marines and go on a little pointless patrol. By the way, I was wondering what would happen if I tried to beam into an ocean... I'd probably drown, unless I could beam back up.

[Hector Socas Navarro]

You could swim to the coast (yeah, right). You could send a shuttle to pick you up. Or you could say "beam me up, Scotty!"

[Epsilon 5]

The game would crash! It's a demo bug... fixed in the retail ver.

[Urza]

What's the bug? Trying to beam up?