Can Episode Content Be Tailored to Faction?

gooddaytodie39

I was playing through the new Borg/Undine episodes the other night and I generally liked them though there was some awkward dialog. It's quite immersion breaking when my KDF Warrior says "Make it so". lol
Little things like that, if they can be fixed, will really add to the quality of what's a pretty solid episode.

revandarklighter

Of course it can, lots of episodes already are tailored that way.

erei1

revandarklighter wrote: »

Of course it can, lots of episodes already are tailored that way.

Badly at best.
Klingon missions consider your character and crew as klingon. Denying the possibility you can be Gorn, Nausicaan, Orion, Lethean or alien.

As for the rom, I don't know if it was changed, but there were a lot of dialogues where you are referred as a fed/kdf. The first meeting with Obisek was awkward.

dragonsbrethren

The newer stuff is better about treating Romulans as Romulan, but even Step Between Stars drops the ball at one point, where you have to side with your ally instead of Commander Jarok.

revandarklighter

erei1 wrote: »

Badly at best.
Klingon missions consider your character and crew as klingon. Denying the possibility you can be Gorn, Nausicaan, Orion, Lethean or alien.

As for the rom, I don't know if it was changed, but there were a lot of dialogues where you are referred as a fed/kdf. The first meeting with Obisek was awkward.

The titke says "tailored to faction" not "tailored to race". That is, as far as I know, not possible yet (nor is dialog tailored to gender). But it has been about 3 years since I read an official statement on that.

So tailors to faction can be done and is done, poorly or not.

markhawkman

revandarklighter wrote: »

The titke says "tailored to faction" not "tailored to race". That is, as far as I know, not possible yet (nor is dialog tailored to gender). But it has been about 3 years since I read an official statement on that.

So tailors to faction can be done and is done, poorly or not.

Dialog can be tailored to race. Cold Comfort has an example. (one of the Breen) BUT, the overall story doesn't change, just the way things are phrased.

jheinig

On very rare occasions your species may influence the outcome of a mission step. Usually this is an Easter egg that is present only because it is story-appropriate. For example, play the conference at the beginning of "Surface Tension" as a Bajoran.

While we do often check character faction during dialog, usually it's just to determine whether the character is Fed-aligned, KDF-aligned, or Romulan-aligned. Sometimes we drill down to separate cases for Fed-Rom and KDF-Rom, other times not. Generally these cases are just dialog, but there are a few rare places where it can alter mission flow slightly. For instance, in the Colony Invasion queued event, Fed-aligned characters need to chase down the diplomats and beam them out, but KDF-aligned characters can shoot the diplomats to incapacitate them and then beam them out.

Obisek actually had several pieces of new dialog written for "The Vault" to accommodate meeting Romulan Republic characters, and there's even a new accolade in "Frozen" if you play as a Reman and make a choice that Obisek only offers to Remans.

jodarkrider

It would be nice to have more species-based dialogues though... Makes the players feel more involved in the story, rather than being rather insignificant part of it....

adwynyth

jheinig wrote: »

...and there's even a new accolade in "Frozen" if you play as a Reman and make a choice that Obisek only offers to Remans.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Cryptic, as if millions of Remans suddenly asked Obisek a question, and suddenly squee'd in delight. I fear something wonderful has happened."

captz1pp

There is dialogue with the Gorn ambassador near the end of Surface Tension where he speaks to my Gorn science officer like im not also Gorn.

gooddaytodie39

jheinig wrote: »

On very rare occasions your species may influence the outcome of a mission step. Usually this is an Easter egg that is present only because it is story-appropriate. For example, play the conference at the beginning of "Surface Tension" as a Bajoran.

While we do often check character faction during dialog, usually it's just to determine whether the character is Fed-aligned, KDF-aligned, or Romulan-aligned. Sometimes we drill down to separate cases for Fed-Rom and KDF-Rom, other times not. Generally these cases are just dialog, but there are a few rare places where it can alter mission flow slightly. For instance, in the Colony Invasion queued event, Fed-aligned characters need to chase down the diplomats and beam them out, but KDF-aligned characters can shoot the diplomats to incapacitate them and then beam them out.

Obisek actually had several pieces of new dialog written for "The Vault" to accommodate meeting Romulan Republic characters, and there's even a new accolade in "Frozen" if you play as a Reman and make a choice that Obisek only offers to Remans.

Thanks for the reply. Since there is other examples of that being done, maybe you guys could make a second pass on the new borg-undine remastered episode dialog that I mentioned in the OP. The phrase "Make it so" is a very Federation Captain thing to say and could be altered to have a more KDF feel for KDF players doing the episode.
My character was just a plain old Klingon here.