[Admiral Nelson]

You have two missions uploaded there?

EDIT: I tested the first one.  The debriefing problem is fixed, but the issue I mentioned is still true.  Every time I have played the mission, <LGM> Nicolas Depart is triggered before it actually arrives.  The problem really is that the arrival of the Nicolas and Remehaz is triggered by the destruction of Taurus wing.  This event assumes that Taurus wing will be destroyed before the convoy departs.  There is no reason why this should be so -- I have had the whole convoy depart before even the first wing of Taurus has been destroyed.  The bulletproofing required is to change the arrival of the Nicolas to be triggered by proximity of the Measia to the jump node.  The Remehaz should then to be set to arrive after the Nicolas.  In this way all of the dialogue will make sense and cannot be broken by other random events.

[MP-Ryan]

Part of the debrief is not fixed - I'm still getting told I'm AWOL when I fail the mission and am ordered to jump out.

[Mobius]

I think I fixed all the problems, plus something else...

Please test.

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[Admiral Nelson]

Remehas arrival is still set to Taurus' destruction, when it should shouw up just after the Nicolas' arrival.  Nicolas' behavior itself now makes sense.

[Mobius]

Ah, I thought the Rehemas arrival is relative to the arrival of the Nicolas. My mistake <_<

It should be easy to fix, however

[MP-Ryan]

I fixed the Remehas arrival cue, and corrected a spelling mistake in E1M4 as well as adding an AWOL to it.  I think many others are missing AWOLs as well.

Attached is the entire Warzone missions package.  We're ready for a round of testing.

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[MP-Ryan]

A quick question - are you going to add whatever additional planets m conjures up at the end of this, Nelson?

[Admiral Nelson]

Yup.  The nebulae are pretty final but the planets are just placeholders now.

[Mobius]

Should we change that last mission a bit before testing the campaign?

[jr2]

m doesn't know how to make planets yet, trust me, I know... he's pretty good with a pen / pencil and paper, but he hasn't branched out into computer graphics yet.    m2258734a, however, does an excellent job with planets. 

[Mobius]

We don't need the new planets for the upcoming testing, we can wait.

[MP-Ryan]

Should we change that last mission a bit before testing the campaign?

If we thought E2M1 was a fair bit of work, I think E3M7 is going to be worse.  Plus, I'm sure there are other minor issues we've missed in the rest of the campaign that we can sort out.

[Mobius]

Most E2M1 issues were related to the Nicolas, so we shouldn't be worried.

E3M7 isn't buggy, we should simply make it better, right?

Do the other missions have AWOL debriefings? If not, we must add them. We'll keep the same text since the campaign will be voice acted.

[Admiral Nelson]

I made two edits to these missions:
E3M2
Added the Jaluun to the escort list.
E3M5
Made protecting the GTCV Liberty a mission objective.  If this ship was destroyed, the player was left with no means to destroy the Shivan corvette.  This is because the corvette cannot be brought below 1% with fighter weapons, and there are no bombers in the mission.  It is pretty easy to protect this ship in any case, and the mission will get screwed up if it dies and the Shivan corvette is still around.

We should just look through the missions one more time for anything strange and then proceed to fixing the last mission.

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[jr2]

You can't use fighter secondaries to destroy a cap ship?

[Mobius]

No, corvette classes and above are invulnerable. Only if you equip a Myrmidon with Helios torpedoes.


You have already fixed that thing in E3M5, Nelson? Fine. I almost hated that mission...

[MP-Ryan]

Most E2M1 issues were related to the Nicolas, so we shouldn't be worried.

E3M7 isn't buggy, we should simply make it better, right?

Do the other missions have AWOL debriefings? If not, we must add them. We'll keep the same text since the campaign will be voice acted.

Go read my previous two lists on E3M7 =)

As for the AWOL debrief, check out the one I wrote for E1M4 and let me know what you guys think.  We could include that or something similar in most of them.

I'll deovte what time I can to testing but I'm back in exam/paper insanity for the newt week and a half, and then the girlfriend and I are moving to a new apartment, so I'll be only sporadically available

[Mobius]

Since we're revamping the campaign having specific AWOL debriefs would be better("you left the field of engagement and the X has been destroyed" or "Because of your negligence, the Shivans continued their strike on...etc etc"). What do you think?

[MP-Ryan]

Since we're revamping the campaign having specific AWOL debriefs would be better("you left the field of engagement and the X has been destroyed" or "Because of your negligence, the Shivans continued their strike on...etc etc"). What do you think?

I don't disagree, it just means more work if you want to get the briefings/debriefings voice-acted.

[Admiral Nelson]

Well,you should still get the other failure messages, "X was destroyed, blah blah" after the AWOL message anyway.  I think just by making the AWOL debriefing come first,  we can use the same text with additional context coming from the other messages.