Review For Review (The Forgotten Tomb) Act 1: On the High Sea

cobbler · May 2013

Hey guys,

So this is my first quest which is a campaign of 5 quests. I am looking for constructive feed back along with actual lore improvements from forgotten realms. Right now i know i have a few things that need work such as Story, and combat. Please let me know how you feel about the combat and story. Is it to hard? Is it to easy? Just right? Also i am not doing anything the rest of the night so post what ever quests you have for me to review in return.

Quest: On the High Seas
Author: Rezail1989
Short Code: NW-DJO7QLOMI
Duration: 23-30 minutes
Difficulty: Medium to Hard
Story: Not based on any lore as of yet all unique story.

Also Here is a wallpaper if you like the image

http://i.imgur.com/Y9SkJhR.jpg

slapthathog · May 2013

Cobbler! Gotta fix that ending.. the bug either starts with take the boat back to Neverwinter (somthing seemed weird about that exit), or once you get back to Neverwinter the quest is already gone.. almost gave up there, but ran back to the bar to check on the girl anyway - quest failed so I read your known bugs. I had to exit the game to get the finish, logging out didn't work.

The rest was nice, everything worked, good flow, steady combat once it started!

So no beer from the serving girl..grr lol, but then you expect me not to steal a mead on the ship while handing them out, and no beer at the end as promised.. you're so cruel.

few typos that stood out:
1st meeting with Dwight: 'Alittle odd that' ^ A little
book Myth's and Legends: the title 'Myth's and Legends' ^ Myths
- 'it is a time and a story' ^ tome?
Fisherman Lois: quest says 'Help Louis'
Dwight: 'Tell dwight about the runes and the items you acquired' ^Dwight

cobbler · May 2013

Ending Is now fixed, well modified slightly. Going to be doing another patch update tomorrow.

Patch V.0.1.2
-Better placement for end of loot chest on ship
-Consume Items
-Npc fighting back (Hopfully)
-Small text corrections

dugada · May 2013

I will take a look on your quest today

Here is mine:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?256402-The-camp-and-bandits
The Cry from the past
NW-DDJJA7X98

dugada · May 2013

I played your quest and here is my notes:
-Very nice atmosphere in Dwights Flat
-I really like the ship - finally some change after all those dungeons, caves ...:D
-Very nice details in the ship
-there are lots of loading because map changing..but I dont know how to make it better
-Its quite hard in that cave - lots of encounters on one place - dwarfs are spawning lots of skeletons and its impossible to fight them and if you die, it reset (king) - i died like 5 times...I dont know what level do you have but its getting harder and harder with your level - I think you should add difficulty slider if you want to have it so hard
-too many items in your quest

5/5 I think that its really good idea and story, but still need some improvements

hflord1 · May 2013

Will review yours. Feel free to look at either of mine.

Goblin Uprising - NW-DMQRRFJYT (would love more feedback here to improve it)
Book of Secrets - NW-DPOIISONW (I just finished this one and am nervous about it).

imivo · May 2013

I played the quest with a L46 Guardian Fighter and his kitty (no healer companion). Below are my Quick Impressions.

What it is
A story-driven adventure with a focus on medium-difficult encounters and exploration that impresses with varied locations and a good mix of combat and non-combat elements.

What I liked
The quest was surprisingly atmospheric with diverse scenery. I enjoyed that it was not only about fighting, but that there were also RP parts such as nailing down planks and reading optional lore objects (books, runes on the wall). The encounter with the ghost ship was well executed and the arrival in the cove was one of the neatest transitions I have seen in a quest so far. The pacing in general felt just right and the combat, with one exception, never felt overwhelming for a solo adventurer. I also liked the story and remained interested throughout the quest. Sarcastic comments from our hero added bits of humor.

What could be improved
At the end of the quest I had no less than seven quest items in my bags! This is about five too many at any given time and they should be removed upon use. The writing is solid and interesting, but suffers from a lack of paragraphs (especially the lore items -- those are blocks of text). Spelling could benefit from some editing, e.g. "Your welcome", "here" instead of "hear", misplaced apostrophes like in "Myth's and Legends", "i" instead of "I", etc. -- mostly just sloppy mistakes that are easy to spot and fix. The encounter with the three life-leeching and zombie-summoning mobs seemed a bit over-tuned and I felt that two of those would have been sufficient. The journal text when the quest is accepted should probably mention where the player has to go instead of just relaying on the sparkles.

All in all
I had fun playing this quest and felt it was time well spent. It's a welcome break from the usual only-cave and only-dungeon quests and makes good use of the stock art assets. Looking forward to the other parts of the campaign! (I wanted to tip, but the game apparently limits how often you can tip per day.)

(On the High Seas, NW-DJO7QLOMI)

cobbler · January 2014

Hey Everyone looking to get some more play through and feedback. Willing to do a foundry trade.

garrett89 · June 2014

Can this be moved to the proper Forum. Thanks

zebular · June 2014

garrett89 wrote: »

Can this be moved to the proper Forum. Thanks

. . . Done!

. . . In the future, please feel free to post-report on any threads that need moving (or any moderation), that way the first available moderator will see the notice and/or request. It looks like a grey triangle with an exclamation inside on the bottom left of every post (

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klkcahboy90 · June 2014

cobbler wrote: »

Hey man, I am about to play it now. Do you mind rating mine?

Quest: On the High Seas
Author: Rezail1989
Short Code: NW-DJO7QLOMI
Duration: 23-30 minutes
Difficulty: Medium to Hard
Story: Not based on any lore as of yet all unique story.

cobbler · June 2014

klkcahboy90 wrote: »

I have finished reviewing your quest and here is the detailed review.

Your quest is very well done.

I liked how detailed your maps are.

That said, here are some issues that you may wanna work on.

Hey, thank you for the very in depth review. I have corrected and made changes to everything you posted. I am glad you liked it. Your maps are really great themselves!

klkcahboy90 · June 2014

cobbler wrote: »

Hey, thank you for the very in depth review. I have corrected and made changes to everything you posted. I am glad you liked it. Your maps are really great themselves!

No problem, I'm glad the review is of use to you=)

Thanks for the compliment!

capnchef · June 2014

Just finished Act 1: On The High Sea, and thought it was really well done. I liked how the quest took me from the city, to the ocean, and then the caves. The Cavern was especially well built.

Here are a few impressions I had while playing:

1.) Getting the map on the ship, and grabbing weapons caches/supplies seemed like too little to warrant map change loading screens. Maybe add more to do on each of those maps so we don't feel like we are sitting through loading screens just to turn around a minute later and sit through another. I realize that this can't be avoided sometimes, but try to alleviate it by giving us more to do.

2.) Some of the dialogues were left with the character's last response as simply, "Contine." Maybe change those so the character says something back.

3.) After talking to Null inside the bunk area, when you leave out to go talk to Dwight inside the cavern, the spawn point is high in the air, and drops you so you take damage.

4.)To the left of the door in the cavern that leads to Troggan's Throne Room, the ruin placeable is is noticeably above the cavern floor. Here is a picture to illustrate what I mean. Maybe place some more rocks to fill that space in.

5.) When you have to grab the map near the end, it is labeled as Scroll 02 when you hover your mouse cursor over it.

Aside from those, I thought the quest was really well done. I cannot stress how well done the cavern was.

If you get a chance, please review my newest quest, Home Away From Home: NW-DSBY79LGB

cobbler · June 2014

capnchef wrote: »

Just finished Act 1: On The High Sea, and thought it was really well done. I liked how the quest took me from the city, to the ocean, and then the caves. The Cavern was especially well built.

Hey Capnchef, I wanted to say thank you for the review and the comment about the cavern. When I have some time ill go ahead and make those corrections also. I will definitely check out your quest sometime this Saturday and ill update this post.

Thank you, Again
Cobbler -Aka "Rezail"

Review For Review (The Forgotten Tomb) Act 1: On the High Sea

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