Is Yetedrday's War Intrusive?

masterproteus

Playing my Romulan Alt and I'm not really playing them for anything past their own story arc, so I want to skip straight to New Romulus after Freedom. However, the game absolutely insists that I play Vorgon Conclusion and will not let me skip it. Why?

I consider Yesterday's War to be intrusive and "in the way". Just let us do the missions we want to do.

kodachikuno

I find them to be a nice break from the old and tired progression of missions but I dont see any reason why they shouldnt be skippable

postagepaid

I played through them before starting a 23c alt, which got promptly stopped as the horrendous grain filter made me sick.

As a storyline goes without the new intro they just feel like you've walked into something half way through and stuff simply doesnt make much sense. Scotty refers to a thing he found as though you should know exactly what it was while maintaining cryptics butchery of the scots accent.

Even the 23c things make little sense such as why does chekov even beam over to the enterprise if he can't leave the broom closet you start in. Perhaps to avoid another "kurland here" incident with a well known voice from trek.

Overall the arc is too spread out across a characters levelling career to maintain any real cohesion. In theory it might work but you'd need some stellar writing to make each one memorable enough for that to happen.

jaguarskx

Wait a year or two.

Cryptic might change it so that you can skip the missions in that story arc. Similar to how I believe in 2016 Cryptic finally updated the Delta Quadrant missions that were released in 2014 to be skip-able.

legendarylycan

and then added a whole shitload of mostly unskippable missions to that same arc less than a year later​​

kodachikuno

Id rather lose the TRIBBLE film grain than make em skippable if I had to choose

kaithan1975

Actually, what makes Vorgon Conclusions more annoying is it's a level 43 mission, but my level 36 Rom gets the back end of the Daniels conversation asking if I have any questions every time I log in.

salazarraze

azrael605 wrote: »

I say make all missions unskippable.

I second this.

xyquarze

I'd say: make all missions compulsive on the first run through (so people play it at least once to know what they're talking about), then skippable for any following character you play.

leemwatson

salazarraze wrote: »

azrael605 wrote: »

I say make all missions unskippable.

I second this.

As do I! But I also think your rank title should be awarded via missions alone. You can still level your character normally. I see people asking for the Factions to be dropped, but as you're fighting an opposing faction for half the episodes, this should would never be possible. All Cryptic need to do is allow cross-faction teaming for missions beyond where the factions start co-operating on the condition that the character has actually completed the preceeding missions.

postagepaid wrote: »

I played through them before starting a 23c alt, which got promptly stopped as the horrendous grain filter made me sick.

As a storyline goes without the new intro they just feel like you've walked into something half way through and stuff simply doesnt make much sense. Scotty refers to a thing he found as though you should know exactly what it was while maintaining cryptics butchery of the scots accent.

Even the 23c things make little sense such as why does chekov even beam over to the enterprise if he can't leave the broom closet you start in. Perhaps to avoid another "kurland here" incident with a well known voice from trek.

Overall the arc is too spread out across a characters levelling career to maintain any real cohesion. In theory it might work but you'd need some stellar writing to make each one memorable enough for that to happen.

Cryptic's butchery of the Scots accent!? You do realise that it was James Doohan's SON who voiced Scotty!!!

leemwatson

azrael605 wrote: »

@leemwatson

According to actual Scots Doohan's "accent" was indecipherable.

Lol. I'm English, and Doohan's accent was decent, and you'd think it was from the Southern Border region.

crypticarmsman

kodachikuno wrote: »

Id rather lose the **** film grain than make em skippable if I had to choose

+1

ltminns

You can't have it both ways. The idea is to have a representative accent that implies and may not be a truly authentic one, where most Americans would not be able to make it out. I've watched many a British show and sometimes an accent is indecipherable.

Sometimes for UK News shows, interviews with some 'common folk' may require translation captions. We have that here in the US as well, especially with people from the deep South, Appalachia, and the Bayous, etc. Maybe not all, but if you are not used to a particular accent you will sometimes be lost.

Say 'Rise Up Lights' over and over fast. For an Australian accent, you've just said 'Razor Blades'.

theanothername

Scotty is the best, always there when the most critical machinery fails

IMO Mr. Doohans son did an awesome job with voicing Scotty. Those lovely moments makes this time travel BS quite bearable. I just hope they don't touch any new time travel story arcs for a long time now.

And +1 for making all missions skipable. At least if they where already played once on the account.

warpangel

xyquarze wrote: »

I'd say: make all missions compulsive on the first run through (so people play it at least once to know what they're talking about), then skippable for any following character you play.

Why would people be talking about missions they didn't play?

I'd say make all missions unlocked automatically as soon as you're the appropriate level. Having to press a bazillion skip buttons to get to the content you actually want to play is a completely unnecessary hassle.