[Colonol Dekker]

Seriously? You're worse off than our Australian staffers.

 
In what way?
I just started early. .

[Dragon]

There's even a skip button for the big one on Universal Truth!

Now that is quite a surprise, and a good one at that. I will certainly want to hear the argument at least once, but with my luck I'm going to fly into a beam or bomb shockwave and have to restart the mission. And then I'll be very happy and thankfull for that skip button  

You won't have to worry about flying into anything during cutscene, because you will be invurnable during it. (at least I think you will be, I'm going to play VAed AoA when it's finished).

[The E]

Yeah, the player is always invulnerable during cutscenes.

[-Norbert-]

You won't have to worry about flying into anything during cutscene, because you will be invurnable during it. (at least I think you will be, I'm going to play VAed AoA when it's finished).

I know. I meant that those things I described almost always happen to me later in a mission that starts with a long cutscene. Or in missions that starts with flying through a number of navpoints that are very far from each other....
The rule of thumb is, the more tedious it is to restart a mission, the more likely it is, that I have to restart it....

Besides in Blue Planet AoA there are only cutscenes before the battle starts, in between fights or after the fighting stops, with the exception of the cutscene in which the Temarair and company blow up the Demon that threatened the runaway cruiser (Duke or Bretonia, not sure which one) if I remember correctly.

[Dragon]

Spoiler:

Duke

[Mongoose]

You won't have to worry about flying into anything during cutscene, because you will be invurnable during it. (at least I think you will be, I'm going to play VAed AoA when it's finished).

I know. I meant that those things I described almost always happen to me later in a mission that starts with a long cutscene. Or in missions that starts with flying through a number of navpoints that are very far from each other....
The rule of thumb is, the more tedious it is to restart a mission, the more likely it is, that I have to restart it....

Murphy's Law is a *****, ain't it?

[ChronoReverse]

I'm glad to hear about a skip button for long cutscenes.  Along with missions that get to the meat after minutes of nothing/talk, unskippable long cutscenes top my list of peeves against missions.

[-Norbert-]

I found something else that bothered me a little bit.
In at least one mission there is a shivan fighterwing called Vishnu.
Usually that wouldn't be a problem, but considering that there are vishnans in BP, who are enemies of the shivans it is rather odd.
Unfortunately I can't remember which mission it was in, but I think it was one were I was flying a vishnan fighter, which made it even more odd.

[Pred the Penguin]

Second last I think... terran mission.

[blowfish]

If it's before the Vishnans are discovered, then it's probably okay.  After all, wing names are just designations that humans assign.

[-Norbert-]

Just had a little look through the missions and there seem to be quite a lot of Vishnu wings - in every mission with shivan fighters in it.
As blowfish said it doesn't matter in the missions before the first contact with the Vishnans and the memory of Eriannas death (with first contact I mean command seeing them too, not just the player).
And while someone might argue that command is unwilling to change their naming scheme, it is really, really odd to fly under vishnan command, as a vishnan fighter against a shivan wing called vishnu.

[The E]

We're not going to change it. Just roll with it.

We're working on the assumption that the Vishnans use the Wing designation system they have taken from Sam for his convenience. It's not like they actually care what us humans call them, after all.

[-Norbert-]

I didn't think of that. That does make sense...