Bay of Pigs - NW-DAITVBJAX

bostish

Bay of Pigs by @Bostish
Short Code:NW-DAITVBJAX
Mission Type: Indoor/Outdoor Location Mission
Average Duration:15 min
Amount of Combat:average
Starts at: Auction House NPC
Mission Summary: The final battle to seal the fate of two species is finally here. Participate and possibly gain allies.

Description: At the base of all battles is nothing more important that what strikes at a man’s heart. Whether it be a life long partner, a dream yet unfulfilled or epic adventure which hasn’t been accomplished. There are battles which may never be understood but yet need to be played out. Be it between country or men, fate needs to be played out.

There is a need, which assistance is required. Are you ready to do what is necessary?


Light Questing/Hack and Slash
Difficulty: Medium

levitateme

Played this on my lvl 60 CW. Some feedback:

• Great, funny, original concept!
• First time I played I had a full inventory. Aborted map since there was no exit near the beginning and I couldn't figure out how to get back there. I had to drop the quest and restart it after clearing inventory.
• You should be able to interact with the other horses. Otherwise, this feels like filler.
• "My messenger's have informed me you will arrive soon." should be "My messengers have informed me that you would arrive soon."
• "ah yeah, I hope so. I nearly smoked my boston butt ..oh ya it should work." I'm guessing this is supposed to be funny but I totally don't get it.
• For higher level chars, pretty much require the friendly army+kiting to survive. Even so, I died 3 times.

bostish

levitateme wrote: »

Played this on my lvl 60 CW. Some feedback:

• Great, funny, original concept!
• First time I played I had a full inventory. Aborted map since there was no exit near the beginning and I couldn't figure out how to get back there. I had to drop the quest and restart it after clearing inventory.
• You should be able to interact with the other horses. Otherwise, this feels like filler.
• "My messenger's have informed me you will arrive soon." should be "My messengers have informed that you would arrive soon."
• "ah yeah, I hope so. I nearly smoked my Boston butt ..oh ya it should work." I'm guessing this is supposed to be funny but I totally don't get it.
• For higher level chars, pretty much require the friendly army+kiting to survive. Even so, I died 3 times.

Thank you for the review!

I will work on everything you pointed out.

The Boston Butt is a reference to a cut of pork. It's the piece of meat usually smoked and also used in pulled pork.
For your last point, I'm sorry, I didn't want people to die. I'll leave some of the pig squads around to help.

Update 12:29PST

* Added additional friendly units, they will appear to replace those units which died. That should help with the difficulty. The friendly units should be able to handle everything, but fun will still be there when the player engages the fight.
* I have added dialog to the other animals
* Corrected the grammar
* Added a warning about bag space, not certain how to handle returning to town to free up space yet.
* Correct the first wave not charging, this forced the player to kite them.

Update 13:45

* Removed the excessive map transitions

walbanger

Tested with a level 58 Rogue

LOL this was really cool, I like the fact its not "normal"

I think it is a bit to easy now IMO.... especially as the respawn camp is right next to the Main event..... (even though i dided once, because i had no health pots on me at all, and im half asleep as its very late)

Ya noone will get your joke about the Boston Smoked meat, UNLESS they are american, as you guys are the only people who eat "pulled pork"..... and the only reason i know about pulled pork is because its on the MAN Vs FOOD TV program all the time.... you guys go crazy over it .............. BUT YOU SHOULD STILL KEEP IT IN, just because a few of us dont get it, the americans will .

Questions:
1) I really want to know how you made the "last Wolf thing" grow in size as we fought it... it really impressed me.
2) Also i would like to know how you did the smoke effect as well (and made it grow).

bostish

Awesome and Thank you for all the kind words.

First, Man vs Food is a great show
Yes, we do like our pulled pork!

1) I used Foulspawn, Easy, Melee - Brute Berserker
2) I stacked smoke effects for each by using a progressively more smokey effect
.. Started with Fire Camp 01
.. Then FX - Fire Outdoor Medium
.. Then FX - Medium Smoke Column
.. Then FX - Xlarge Smoke Drift

The real trick was duplicate camp fires, so then the person can appear to interact with the same one each time, but in reality there was multiple fires there. So, 3 camp fires, and 3 effects stacked on each other.

I'll upload a quick video, not comfortable with talking. However, I think you will visually see what I did.
I split each of camp fires apart and you can see how clicking them triggered the respective effect. Some reason, YouTube is taking much longer these days to process video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6oiT6FksIs

If your bored, do the first part if NW-DHD39HHCC . I would love to finish it, but cause of the return to enclave bug it's annoying. I really wanted to do a quest where you could stay in the enclave, but that darn losing quest bug is annoying.

or just watch the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oip-ghds-Q