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nrobbiec
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This is something I've been thinking about since Victory is Life dropped where we were given a faction that was by virtue of the dialogue clearly not intended to be the one we play as in certain missions. Particularly Home. I think the Dominion wrote sass out of the Jem'Hadar DNA (and put it all into that fabulous Vorta in Khitomer Discord).
Bonus dialogue with characters like J'Ula, Akaar, Killy and Garrett definitely make bringing certain characters to missions more rewarding but then there are some gaps in character logic, or at least character development because my Cyborg deserves to avenge Schaefer.
So I do wonder if certain episodes are designed with particular faction PCs in mind but I'm personally of the opinion that multiple are present at each time with certain events only witnessed by certain characters and different dialogue options are taken by different faction reps. A little bit like how there are different character scenarios in Resident Evil games but the truth is a mesh of them.
But there are definitely characters that feel excluded, and even then dialogue doesn't always make sense for the race you're playing as either. I know they try andmake the dialogue as neutral as possible but there definitely seems to be a slant of intention if you ask me especially compared to something like Dragon Age.
Bonus dialogue with characters like J'Ula, Akaar, Killy and Garrett definitely make bringing certain characters to missions more rewarding but then there are some gaps in character logic, or at least character development because my Cyborg deserves to avenge Schaefer.
So I do wonder if certain episodes are designed with particular faction PCs in mind but I'm personally of the opinion that multiple are present at each time with certain events only witnessed by certain characters and different dialogue options are taken by different faction reps. A little bit like how there are different character scenarios in Resident Evil games but the truth is a mesh of them.
But there are definitely characters that feel excluded, and even then dialogue doesn't always make sense for the race you're playing as either. I know they try andmake the dialogue as neutral as possible but there definitely seems to be a slant of intention if you ask me especially compared to something like Dragon Age.
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They can't be inclusive of every race because they'd never get anything done if they tried. Leave it at faction.
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> They can't be inclusive of every race because they'd never get anything done if they tried. Leave it at faction.
Not every single race. But some races are much more distinct in how they communicate than others. And they've shown they can do this as Remans have unique dialogue with Obisek.
True, but in the case of Remans, that drives the narrative, so there's a need for it, and not just a case of 'ticking boxes'.
For example, J'Ula recognizes a Disco Fed, but not a normal or TOS Fed. And the same of Mirror Tilly recognizing a Disco Fed because she... er... killed the Disco Fed's counterpart apparently.
And her "recruitment" attempt varies depending on if you're Fed (nodistinction between normal, Disco, or TOS), KDF, Romulan, or Dominion.
These variations generally tend to be faction based, for example J'ula recognizes the AoD toon but doesn't recognize if you're a human, vulcan or alien, same with every other NPC as well. Remember that technically speaking FED, AoY and AoD are seperate factions that just share most content (with AoY and AoD treated as FED for the most part).
As far as I know there's no way for the game to tell what species you're for NPC interaction purposes and even then the "alien" faction would be a wild card as they could a pre-existing minor race from Star Trek or a unique creation by the player (my FED alien toon for example is a unique creation), since I'm sure players with "alien" toons would want their species recognized beyond "generic alien" but there's so many possibilities that it's pretty much endless.
It's possible, I've not done that mission as Vulcan (only as an Andorian and Alien), however as a rule of thumb your character's species is ignored and only the faction is acknowledged (if even that).
I could see a Klingon saying that, after all "to win a battle but loose an empire is no victory" and "to loose a battle to save an empire is no defeat". For a Klingon "I certain hope we can avoid that" doesn't mean "I don't want to fight" but rather "now is not the right time for battle, when the correct time comes I will fight and it will be glorious!"