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captainrevo1
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The final part of my story, started all the way back almost 2 years ago in 'The Worst of all Worlds' is here. It is called 'This Far No Further' (May still be in the review stage by the time you read this)
I really hope everyone enjoys it, and don't forget that part 4 was only released about a week ago so if you have not yet played, please check it out. here is the order;
Part 1 - The Worst of all Worlds
Part 2 - Nine of Space Deep
Part 3 - The Temple of the Pah-wraiths
Part 4 - The Emissary of the Pah-wraiths
Part 5 - This Far No further
All Feedback is welcome, any spelling mistakes, bugs, problems, please let me know.
Have fun.
I really hope everyone enjoys it, and don't forget that part 4 was only released about a week ago so if you have not yet played, please check it out. here is the order;
Part 1 - The Worst of all Worlds
Part 2 - Nine of Space Deep
Part 3 - The Temple of the Pah-wraiths
Part 4 - The Emissary of the Pah-wraiths
Part 5 - This Far No further
All Feedback is welcome, any spelling mistakes, bugs, problems, please let me know.
Have fun.
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1) In the final dialog text after you wake up and talk to the federation commander and you ask questions about what happened with various "things" (trying to be vague so I don't spoil anything for those who haven't played it yet), on the option about the Terran fleet, one of the options is "I got more questions" duplicated twice, the first one should be saying whatever you intended it to say implying you made the choice not to warn the fleet.
2) A potential problem, which you cant do much about is the defiant bridge room with the final boss battle being a pre-made area and all.. the back of the room has some holes apparently. I knocked one of the enemies through the wall with lunge III and it would have fallen out of the "world" had the game not reset that enemy back to the bridge (obvious when it re-appeared on the other side of the bridge). That'll be OK, but where there's texture holes there's a chance a player would get stuck or fall through too. I could suggest you possibly could stick some forcefields or invisible walls behind the back wall so if a player does get knocked through that same hole they wont fall through the environment.
It is difficult to fall through the back wall though, has to happen just right so if you don't want to go through the trouble of taping it up with forcefields it'll be fine probably 99% of the time.
"We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile."
Sincerely,
The Cube Assimilating Your Ship Right Now
i dont want to starting repairing something i cant recreate myself unless totally necessary but I'll keep an eye on it.
Thanks for playing.
Federation Mission - This Far No Further
Author: Captain_Revo
Allegiance: Federation
Project ID: ST-HEWKB36M7
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Summary: This is a great mission and a worthy sequel in the series. The map design is great, the battles are tough but fun, and the story dialogue is riveting. This mission is a roller coaster ride from start to finish. I would highly recommend this mission to all players.
Below are some things I noted while playing the mission that I wanted to let you know about. Everything in this write up should be seen as suggestions on ways I felt you could improve certain elements of the mission. They are yours to do with as you see fit.
Mission Description: This is a good description. Consider placing the actual mission description at the top. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this description.
Grant Mission Dialogue: The grant and follow on dialogue are well written. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue.
Mission Task: This is a good initial task with a clear start location for the first custom map. I noted no spelling errors with this task.
Mission Entry Prompt: This is a good use of the prompt. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this prompt.
MAPS:
Culver System: This is a good map design with tough but fun battles and excellent story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
Bajor System: This is a good map design with fun battles and well written story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
Hathon: This is a good map design with tough but fun battles and excellent story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue. I noted one item to consider changing:
-Consider changing the optional dialogue to triggered optional dialogue. This will allow the dialogue to go away once the player interacts with it. It can also be set to go away once a particular task is completed.
Bajor: This is a good map design with excellent story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
Sol System: This is a great map design with challenging but fun battles and excellent story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
The Red Wormhole: This is a fantastic map design with fun battles and well written story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
U.S.S. Minotaur: This is a good map design with tough but fun battles and well written story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
Pah-wraith Vision: This is a good map design with several tough, but fun battles, and very well written story dialogue. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
Minotaur Bridge: This is a great map design with a challenging but fun battle. The story dialogue is excellent. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue or any issues with the map.
Earth Space Dock: This is a great map design with well written story dialogue and is an excellent wrap up map to the mission. I noted no spelling or grammatical errors with this dialogue. I noted one item to consider changing:
-Consider changing the optional dialogue to triggered optional dialogue. This will allow the dialogue to go away once the player interacts with it. It can also be set to go away once a particular task is completed.
End Report
Thanks again for authoring and for giving me the chance to review your work. You have done a great job with this mission and the entire series. As always I look forward to playing/reviewing more of your work in the future.
Brian
This critique report also filed 10/04/2012 on forum posting for: In depth mission reports upon request.
I never expected The Worst of Both Worlds to turn into a series - it was always one of my favorite missions - and it's predecessors didn't disappoint. Thank you for your time making the mission for us.
No problem. I had great fun making them, and i am delighted that so many people have played and enjoyed the whole series.
Thanks for playing.
Kinda difficult to kill the cube in orbit of Bajor if it's not there.
Same with the first group of drones on Hawthon.
And then the non-spawing command staff.
Totally unplayable at the minute.
Yeah, but to be fair to the author, it seems this is a blanket problem with S7 - if you're too far from an NPC, they despawn (breaks all fetch quests) and they might not spawn in the first place. I've previously (pre-S7) completed "Another Man's Hell", which is by a different author, and it's now suffering the missing NPC issue as well.
I'm leaving Foundry content until this has been addressed by the devs, since I'm reluctant to try mission after mission in the hopes I'll get a successful runthrough and count towards Officer Reports. I've managed 2 finished missions out of six attempted (rest dropped after multiple tries but no NPC contact).
The foundry has some bugs as you mention that is affecting a lot of mission. authors dont have control of the editor yet so we cant do a single thing about it.
Ship: U.S.S Andromida Valiant Tactical Escort
I overall loved the writing and extremely good use of ground and space combat. Not too much of one or the other. Your creative use of the Foundry assets just shows what it's capable of doing and puts some of the best FE's from Cryptic to shame. It has inspired me to continue and finish my own Foundry mission series that I've been needing to get back to.
5/5 for the series. Well done!
One Feedback note: You may need to gloss over at least parts 3-5 again, I noticed some misspellings and incorrect word usage. Sorry, didn't write them down so I don't have specifics but there are about 5 or so that I noticed between the 3 parts.
[Unrepentant] Lapo@overlapo: the problem with space STF
is that you can't properly teabag your defeated opponent
Unrepentant: Home of the Rainbow Warrior and the Rainbow Brigade.
first of all thanks for the great series.
But when I beam down to Bajor I get stuck because there is no way to heal those injured civilians.
Has this mission been bugged by LoR or am I just stupid?
I guess I should see a button popping up like "Heal civilians" or something. But there is nothing even when standing in their faces.
I also encountered that many of the marks on the map in the whole are far from where they should be, some even off the map. This makes cover the whole area to find the spot where the mission goes on.
But most of all, how do I heal those civilians? I want to know how the story ends
Thanks for your help
if i remember correctly, there should be a line of dialogue when you walk over them, and then the healing is done by a small object underneath the ground that you interact with. i cant get into the editor to test so there is nothing i can do at this moment.
maybe the patch today will fix it? will have to see later.
So I guess that's the problem. There is a known issue that since the latest updates you cannot interact through solid objects, this for example gets you stuck in "In the Shadow of MIDAS" when you must interact through a forcefield in the lab.
When it is underneath the ground it seems like the same little trap getting us cought here.
But I have still no clue what moves those marks off the maps, maybe it will vanish after some update, lets hope the best.
Just wanted to add that I totally agree with that description