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sampa4
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Ok, I was wondering, what kind of foundry series ending do you find to be your dream ending? For me, it is a final desperate battle with the player being a part of a massive cross-faction (npc-wise) armada fighting against a very powerful foe (stronger than most other enemies the Alpha Quadrant has fought against but no doubt weaker than the Iconians). During the fight, the player's ship goes into battle against the enemy armada's flagship and while there fight is taking place, the player's allies' armada is getting absolutely decimated (with a massive mixture of main ships being sunk or disabled)
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The only problem with big fleet battles in STO is I find they tend to be kinda easy for the player. Because the enemy mobs are only partially focused on the player, you don't take a whole lot of damage. IDK maybe people have some ideas how to make them more difficult.
If your series is not like that, I'd say you have to do something that would feel right. If you look at how the TV shows other than DS9 ended, there's a good variety. TNG had more of a "riding off into the sunset, the adventure continues" sort of ending. VOY had a "wrap up the major plot point in the craziest way possible" ending. The less said about ENT's finale the better
ENT's ending was fantastic. A threat to the formation of the Federation, after all that deep space exploring, the crew faces a major threat from home, from humans no less. A Pathfinder cameo, fantastic acting from Peter Weller, brilliant scenes between T'pol and Trip over their baby.... just a shame the series ended with such a downer. But it was a fantastic finale.
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My new gold standard for epic space battles in STO is the Elachi invasion of New Romulus at the end of "Devil's Choice", which closes out Cryptic's Elachi arc for Romulan captains. To approximate that would involve three waves of 4-5 multi-stacked enemy mobs, each progressively harder than the last, with maybe one or two friendly NPCs fighting alongside you. To make it even harder, give each mob in each wave its own kill objective and then trigger each mob in the next wave to immediately spawn as soon as you complete that kill objective, so you have no respite between waves, making it feel like one ginormous nonstop battle.
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That's basically what I did at the end of Dereliction Duty. The task force engages the pirates and there is a battle with 3 waves of enemies that come one after the other. The difficulty depends on how many of the other ships you call in for reinforcements.
To make things more seamless what I did was actually have it so that there were essentially 3 "groups" of enemies. Each group went something like this (not every group was exactly the same) Frigate -> Cruiser -> Fighters -> Battleship, but only one of them was the focus of the kill objectives, the others were just spawned by component complete (the player has no choice but to fight all of them though since they'll all be attacking).
The reason for that setup was to make it so it wouldn't be an obvious wave, but rather a sustained attack, while at the same time keeping the player from getting overwhelmed by too many ships attacking at once.
By far the most difficult aspect of the epic battle is to make it so that it is a decent challenge, without accidentally making it extremely difficult (multiple deaths). The line between those two events is actually not as wide as you'd expect, especially when you throw in friendlies.
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