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The Cutscenes So Far (Spoilers through Romulan Rep Tier 2)

leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
Here ya go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6igVplWUVs&feature=youtu.be

There's also a letter from Hakeev and some indication that the person who hid the message for you under the rock and tipped you off about the base is someone with Tal Shiar Access codes.

I've also been reading the New Romulus lore dailies.

There is a gateway "thousands of years old" in the crypts below the ruins according to Volume 3, Chapter 3. Apparently, all it needed to activate was a power source.

Volume 5, Chapter 5 is about a Romulan going mad. His family has left. He has a pounding in his head and is being taken over by some kind of hunger.

Volume 6, Chapter 6 is about the ancient battle is Vastam. The big takeaway for me is that the Romulans were element worshipers.
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  • lordfuzunlordfuzun Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    There's also a letter from Hakeev and some indication that the person who hid the message for you under the rock and tipped you off about the base is someone with Tal Shiar Access codes.

    Hmmm. I see my guess about the third part may be only 1/2 right.

    Someone with Tal Shiar access who doesn't like Tal Shiar, or perhaps more accurately, doesn't like what the Tal Shiar had become under Hakeev. I think we are seeing another "friend" unaccounted for from Hafir...Commander Janek.
  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    How do the cutscenes happen? I've only seen the first one, and I'm well into tier 1.
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  • yuzralyuzral Member Posts: 160 Media Corps
    edited November 2012
    You'll get tipoffs as you advance through the rep levels.
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  • lordfuzunlordfuzun Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    You should get missions added automatially shortly after you upgrade to Tier 1. The Tier 1 mission is "Hidden Data Cache"
  • darkenzedddarkenzedd Member Posts: 881
    edited November 2012
    I hit T2 yesterday. I wont give away plot points, but you get another mission to retrieve a flight recorder from a shuttle in the mountains :D
  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lordfuzun wrote: »
    You should get missions added automatially shortly after you upgrade to Tier 1. The Tier 1 mission is "Hidden Data Cache"

    I'm not seeing anything, just standard go here press f missions.
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  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    There is only one at Tier 1 and then another at Tier 2, I suspect its the same for all Tiers with one message per Tier (with perhaps the exception of T5).

    Where am I supposed to be to see the cutscenes? when the timer cools down? Do the new missions come from the main Romulan leader?
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    kirksplat wrote: »
    Where am I supposed to be to see the cutscenes? when the timer cools down? Do the new missions come from the main Romulan leader?

    You get missions from a mysterious person telling you to look under a rock in the staging area and then to check shuttle logs in the mountain pass.
  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    You get missions from a mysterious person telling you to look under a rock in the staging area and then to check shuttle logs in the mountain pass.

    Is this a joke like telling me to look for the rocket boots at SFA? Where is this mysterious person, and why do I have to deal with the 156th variant of a Cryptic mission where getting the quest, finding the quest, turning in the quest, or knowing where to go to find the quest is completely random?
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  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    Tier 1 Cutscene is when you have to go near the City Gates, interact with the bushes and you see the recording of a meeting, I guess you seen that one already.

    Tier 2 Cutscene is when you go to the Mountain Pass instance (only opens at T2) and near the end you interact with a Shuttle and you see a recording of something of a meeting that happened in that landing pad.

    They dont happen automatic, they are also not tied to anything and I think you can reply then if you go there again and interact with the object again.

    Until you reach Tier 2 you will not see the next recording since, for starters, you cannot enter the Mountain Pass instance until you reach Tier 2 Reputation.

    The only one I've seen is the first one between the Reman and the Romulan leader. I'll have to look for a city gate now. All I've been doing is run here, press f (or fight). The game never told me to do anything otherwise.
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    kirksplat wrote: »
    Is this a joke like telling me to look for the rocket boots at SFA? Where is this mysterious person, and why do I have to deal with the 156th variant of a Cryptic mission where getting the quest, finding the quest, turning in the quest, or knowing where to go to find the quest is completely random?

    The whole plot here centers around the idea that we're getting mysterious tipoffs from an unknown informant. By Tier 2, your bridge officers start commenting on how irregular this person is.

    And this is an MMO. You're supposed to wander around looking for undocumented stuff. Although it is all marked on your mission map.
  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    The whole plot here centers around the idea that we're getting mysterious tipoffs from an unknown informant. By Tier 2, your bridge officers start commenting on how irregular this person is.

    And this is an MMO. You're supposed to wander around looking for undocumented stuff. Although it is all marked on your mission map.

    OK so there is a story to the grinding progression if you wander around looking for a story to complement the grinding progression. Good to know. I will check my map for anything not resembling a grinding progression to give a story to the grinding progression.
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  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    f2pdrakron wrote: »

    You should have a mission that directs you to the left side of the Stairs that lead to the city Gate to some bushes that are under the walls, its close to were a group of romulans are talking, its should be some glowing bushes near the city wall.




    How do I get that mission and how does it appear as a mission to do? I don't see anything in my logs. The only thing that I see is a daily to go here and press f that that Romulan leader gives me.

    Where do I go exactly when I beam in at the starting grounds? To the doors of the embassy?
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  • darkstarkiriandarkstarkirian Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    Tier 2 Cutscene is when you go to the Mountain Pass instance (only opens at T2) and near the end you interact with a Shuttle and you see a recording of something of a meeting that happened in that landing pad.

    I'm supposed to do this WHILE i'm in the Mountain Pass mission, not after it, like the first?
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  • darkstarkiriandarkstarkirian Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    While, its the Romulan Shuttle near the end ... I got the interact button when I was near the cockpit area.

    Guess I'll have to wait 20hours and have to do the mission again to get it.
    Seems like a not so good design.
    I mean, in the first, the cinematic was "outside", in the staging area, but this time it's hidden in a time gated mission.
    Perhaps "Access Shuttle Flight Recorder" should be apart of the regular mission requirements, and then you access the cinematic back in the Staging area, at a console near the shuttle pad would be better.
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    I know but it would not make much sense to be on Warehouse 2, problem is those are engine rendered so as you can hide were the first recording takes place in the Adventure Area since its taken place inside a building, you could not on the second one because it takes place outside.

    Personally, I'd prefer the tier missions be open and not timegated but that the missions that gives them rewards be timegated, kinda like the space patrols in the New Romulus era are.

    (You can do the space patrols all day long but only for a mission reward once a day.)
  • sparhawksparhawk Member Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Personally, I'd prefer the tier missions be open and not timegated but that the missions that gives them rewards be timegated, kinda like the space patrols in the New Romulus era are.

    (You can do the space patrols all day long but only for a mission reward once a day.)

    Nice suggestion, I like it.
  • vesterengvestereng Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    My waypoint marker showed me to the wrong tent (and I only had the 1 so..)


    Luckily some guy in the chat was willing to explain where to go.

    Frustrating fight really. Albeit I don't set my doff's up for flanking or anything, just let them roam free.
    The npc's there, even the smaller ones were all-star dps and tanks at the same time but eventually got it done.

    I don't know if it's me or but I am pretty sure the guy in the cutscene is the guy I just wasted in the last fight.
    I still don't know who anyone is or remember any names or even what the convo was about :rolleyes:
  • thestargazethestargaze Member Posts: 1,020 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I wish I could be Romulan, their cloths are stellar
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    vestereng wrote: »
    My waypoint marker showed me to the wrong tent (and I only had the 1 so..)


    Luckily some guy in the chat was willing to explain where to go.

    Frustrating fight really. Albeit I don't set my doff's up for flanking or anything, just let them roam free.
    The npc's there, even the smaller ones were all-star dps and tanks at the same time but eventually got it done.

    I don't know if it's me or but I am pretty sure the guy in the cutscene is the guy I just wasted in the last fight.
    I still don't know who anyone is or remember any names or even what the convo was about :rolleyes:

    The cutscene was a log of what happened before you got there.

    Basically, the lady wanted to kill the leader of New Romulus. The guy said, "No. He'll be a martyr then. Let's soften him up with Hirogen and he'll negotiate. We have more important things than the colony to deal with here anyway."

    The more interesting thing is what your BO points out, that whoever has been giving you these video logs has Tal Shiar access codes.
  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Maybe I need to watch the first cutscene again. I didn't understand the conversation:

    Advisor: "Sir, we need to crush the bad guys!"

    Leader: "No, I disagree with you completely."

    Advisor: "Yes, New Romulus needs a leader. You are that leader!"

    And then,

    "This proves that unification is possible, since the Klingons and the Feds have put their differences aside to work together..."

    We don't seem to be working together. I guess technically we are. I haven't interacted with a single Klingon yet that I remember. The end of our hostilities is not really explained.

    Well, maybe the mystery shrubbery with explain more. I'm off to find the story bush before I hit Tier 2, if I didn't hit it overnight.
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    kirksplat wrote: »
    Maybe I need to watch the first cutscene again. I didn't understand the conversation:

    Advisor: "Sir, we need to crush the bad guys!"

    Leader: "No, I disagree with you completely."

    Advisor: "Yes, New Romulus needs a leader. You are that leader!"

    Are you talking about the conversation between Obisek (the Reman) and D'Tan?

    Because the gist is:

    "We need to crush the bad guys."

    "No. I'm a pacifist. We should embrace our enemies."

    "Well, hey. I hate politics and taking a leadership role. Just point me where to fight if you want a hand. You lead."

    "Okay. Spock, Spock, Spock is my hero, Spock."

    But it's all character appropriate. D'Tan was a kid on TNG who admired Spock and was his student. Obisek is a Reman freedom fighter who likes fighting and is cool with anything that isn't slavery.

    Obisek is a kind of Cincinnatus/George Washington/Malcolm X hybrid figure. D'Tan is kindof a Lincoln/Plato/Neville Chaimberlain hybrid figure.

    Things probably won't go well for D'Tan personally if history is any indication although that doesn't bar some major accomplishments. Obisek will almost certainly end up with more leadership duties than he cares for if history is any indication.

    The one thing that could save D'Tan's bacon, maybe, is us and our mysterious helper.

    Basically, we've got a weak leader who is a good man and is opposed philosophically to strong leadership. And that's D'Tan. And he's in charge. And then we've got the freedom fighter who seems to continually have leadership thrust upon him and doesn't want it.

    If the historical pattern holds, D'Tan will probably wind up dead. (Note that he's not visible in any social areas.) And Obisek will wind up as Praetor of the New Romulan Republic or whatever the Unificationists call themselves, dealing with internal strife due to a Reman soldier leading a majority Romulan political body.

    But Trek can buck history sometimes. See: Picard/Riker. In real life, I tend to think a Picard would get killed, promoted, or reassigned to make room for a Riker but part of what makes Trek different is that they have a future where the Picard-type can stay over the Riker type. It's kindof a fantasy world where your Chamberlains are right and your Churchills need to learn their place as second in command. And I suppose that's true to some extent in stable societies or organizational structures where the number two in command is the attack dog and the chief is a peaceful negotiator with lofty goals and ideals.

    But add a little instability and that model of leadership tends to fall apart.
  • avantgarde01avantgarde01 Member Posts: 273 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    The more interesting thing is what your BO points out, that whoever has been giving you these video logs has Tal Shiar access codes.

    You think it's Ahkeev's subordinate from Mine Enemy?

    On a related note, does anyone have a list of the unlockable dailies? I just today found the Warehouse mission and I'll be starting Tier 4 on Sunday.
  • jlebeckjlebeck Member Posts: 83 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    If it is Cmdr Janek, that'll stuff up my own personal sub-plot, I took her on as an NCO after the events at Hfihar caused her to flee to New Romulus for asylum and take up a job tagging Epohhs!

    Could be one of those Quantum realities I suppose.
    The Continuing Voyages of Bridge Commander
    Captain Lee Drake - USS Sovereign
    Captain Draxon - IKS RanKuf
    Commander Torenn - IRW Soryak
    Captain Gregory MacCray - USS Geronimo
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