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darpink
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Serious question in the title.
Who honestly thinks this is a good idea. Ok I know someone is going to reply now and say that they love it, so I'm going to call that BS right now.
Never have I heard anyone say anything positive about having a cutscene right in the middle of a fight/battle w/e. And I've been online gaming since the mid 1990's.
And the worst thing about it is that we are not "immune" during the cutscene. I was at 90% or more Hull before the cut, when I finally got out of the cutscene I was nearly dead at 19% Hull! If I had been in an Escort I would have likely been dead.
And I am referring to the new Iconian war Episodes. Although I know there are also cutscenes in some PVE missions....another bad idea. JMO
Who honestly thinks this is a good idea. Ok I know someone is going to reply now and say that they love it, so I'm going to call that BS right now.
Never have I heard anyone say anything positive about having a cutscene right in the middle of a fight/battle w/e. And I've been online gaming since the mid 1990's.
And the worst thing about it is that we are not "immune" during the cutscene. I was at 90% or more Hull before the cut, when I finally got out of the cutscene I was nearly dead at 19% Hull! If I had been in an Escort I would have likely been dead.
And I am referring to the new Iconian war Episodes. Although I know there are also cutscenes in some PVE missions....another bad idea. JMO
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It's a pain in the TRIBBLE because I feel pressured at that moment to help out the people.. so I'm like "Shut up, I can see friendlies are in trouble, it's not the time for talking!"
Sure, nothing might be triggered if you actually just let the voice overs have their way, then help out.. but it just feels wrong somehow.
Cut scenes during battle is also a pain in the TRIBBLE though. It feels like it takes all control away from you.
Also, please allow ALL cutscenes (for those who played the missions 1000x already on plenty of alts) with the use of SPACE or ESC. Most are able to do so, but not all of them.. it's an odd thing.
In some cases, like disconnected. Its changing the map on you and using the cutscene to distract you from it.
In other cases. Its just down right obnoxious and painful. Especially if you were too close to the last enemy that you killed prior to its warpcore breach.
It's worse than the old days of being one shot killed by the Borg cube in Infected Conduit! :eek:
Almost.
All them rest, totally need to be able to skip.
This are good and fun with drones, mines and turrets, indeed.
But the new iconian cutscenes? When I hit tactical team+attack pattern+BFAW and all enemy ships become immune for cutscene duration? Looks it is iconian techomagic.
It's even worse when the battle moves toward you and they start shooting at you, while the whoever keeps on babbling.
And yeah, I find those cutscenes in the middle of a battle annoying too.
Or a small window above my chat box showing me the person Hailing me with the chat in my chat box where it belongs
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Long cutscenes would be best before and after a mission, like briefs and debriefs. During a mission you could still have voiceovers, still have bite size text windows pop in from the corners like when Boffs mention their very minimal dialogue. Like this you still have control of your ship, and can actively participate in a fight.
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Primarily, I think we wouldn't mind as much if our ships/characters were rendered immortal, or even just fully healed. Then we'd welcome the cutscenes - we finished one portion, and are restored for the next.
During "Delta Flight", (the space battle the cut scene) rather abruptly interrupts the game play. It did seem more like I was watching a video of someone else playing during the battle at times.
Had to quite literally fly through hoops to get through that one.. :rolleyes:
i dont recall lots of people asking for mid-battle cutscenes.
what i recall was a cryptic making cutscenes unskippable out of the blue, then expressing dismay when people openly told they they wanted to skip the 'content'.
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People surmised that cut scenes added immersion, it was something cryptic could do.
The new features cryptic adds are most likely born from the forums. Cutscenes are no different.
For STF's a freaking hate them, but Unless they can find a decent way to transition map resources seamlessly without pausing your gameplay with a cutscene I doubt anything will change. lol
Simple solution: This is the time to use your voice actors. I don't need them babbling on endlessly throughout the mission saying nothing important. Use them wisely. A simple Tom Paris "A dreadnought just warped in everyone concentrate your fire there." Is much better than a cut scene and Tom Paris saying "Good job", "More coming", "I miss the borg"... every 5 seconds.
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there is also the pop window with messages from your boffs or npc which are annoying.
most of the time, the messages are irrelevant or ridiculous.
your have in your objectives, "scan this or that"; the window appears and 1 of your boff tells you: "scan this or that"
ridiculous message:
- in a mission with tuvok (solanae sphere), the npc captain is killed and, tuvok says: i sense that we are not alone: really !!!
i spend my time to click F or esc to skip all this TRIBBLE