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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Mobius on April 28, 2009, 12:21:14 pm
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About three years ago I used to add more than one AWOL debriefing to my missions for pure variety purposes, and I've recently realized that IMO it's not a bad idea, afterall. Each AWOL debriefing is to be used should the player escape from the battlefield at a given moment of the mission.
AWOL 1:
- Immediate jump as soon as the mission starts;
- More in general, jump before important event X of the mission (which is significant);
AWOL 2:
- Escape after the first important event, but before the "definitive" RTB directiveM
AWOL 3:
- For a possible third situation.
Imagine, for example, that the player's destroyer is taken out during the mission (important event 1) and the player is supposed to jump to/land on another destroyer (important event 2). AWOL debriefings may be different, with a decreasing level of gravitas. As I stated above, there could even be a third situation (important event 3), like the decimation of the new destroyer's group and/or the destruction of the new destroyer itself. This is, of course, an example.
I was wondering if other FREDders do anything like that. Also, I'd like to know if the whole idea sounds good.
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Do I really need to say that I do? :lol:
Take a look at this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35375.msg732451.html#msg732451) from a while back
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I'd have to say from experience that the extra-effort is a bit off-putting, driving home the laziness aspect on my part. I suppose if you do it just before release it'd be a bit easier because you weren't just sitting there for hours toying with FRED, but yeah it's a good idea. I suppose depending on the complexity of the mission you may find instances in which to use 5+ alternate debriefings, which is a real pain in the ass if FRED-ing for extended periods puts you in a real lazy/tired/sh*t mood. For any projects hiring n00b FRED-ers openly it's a good thing to "wean" them onto to give them some experience with the whole debriefing mechanic. But ultimately I'd say the real one preventing all FRED-ers from actively doing this already is laziness.
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All you need to set up multiple AWOL debriefings is "and" and 2-3 events linked to it.
Adding those debriefing stages is not any harder than adding a normal debriefing stage. Having more than 5 debriefing stages isn't a problem, either - I can use more than twice that number without any issues. :D
The only real issue comes with Voice Acting, when you'd have a various number of alternate debriefings in dire need of acting. In that case, the situation is not as favorable as it would be with a standard AWOL voice file (used in all the campaign).
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:P Yeah, I'll put it into practice sometime or another.