Played through AoA. HOT SWARM is enough to give me nightmares. BANSHEE also, um, grabs ones attention, let's say. I'm not exactly clear on what they bright red asterisk on the one of the ships manifesting those behaviors was supposed to represent. "Kill me, and the extra aggressive behavior cues go away?" Somehow, I don't think so because that did not seem to happen. Although maybe I was just so close by that point that even without modified behavior I was still missile-fodder.
Now playing through WiH. Noticed a distinct change in the pilot log behavior from AoA. AoA seemed to be giving a permanent record of each log entry after it was made. Not so in WiH. I only have the first and most recent log entries. Everything in between is gone. Was that intentional? I'm also well into Act 2 and no additional dossier entries appeared for, say, Simms or Ng'Mie. It may be this is deliberate, but it kind of surprised me given the level of detail that went into Brie and Kassim's respective dossiers.
The voice acting in WiH is superb. WAY better than in AoA, though that may just be the fact that I enjoy the script of WiH so much better. Did the VA for Simms also do work for the original BtRL demo? I'm too lazy to look it up right now. Regardless, outstanding quality of work there.
