The Wounded Wolf: REMASTERED!

Re: The Wounded Wolf: REMASTERED!

December 23 2011

This is a really great mission. It should be riding high in the "Top rated" list in the mission journal, and we'll be featuring it in the January issue of the Stonewall Times. I've also been plugging it on Twitter :D

You should post about it again on Starbase UGC, get some of those guys playing it.

I played this the first time around, prior to Season 4, and loved it then. It's great to play it again, and even better to see where you've added some extra awesomeness in the re-mastered version.

Well done!

Now, I always like to give constructive criticism, so there are some VERY minor points in the spoiler tags below.

General:

It would be useful to add some notes to the summary that appears in the Mission Journal, to tell potential players of the mission what to expect. For example, state the approximate playing time, the fact that it's a mix of story & puzzles with some space and ground combat etc. With my missions, I add these notes as [OOC] text after the summary paragraph.
The Trivas system is a long way from ESD, and I guarantee some people will complain about this. I know it's ridiculous, and I personally have no problem with it, but people will complain. Is it absolutely essential to set the mission there? Could you move it closer to ESD?
I noticed that often you used Title Case in your objectives – this isn't how Cryptic does it. Only the first word and any proper nouns should be capitalised.

Trivas system map:

The first objective was to head into the debris field, and when I pressed M to see where I should go, the mini-map showed a large orange circle near the top left corner called "Navigation beacon" (or similar). But this was not where I needed to go. Is this part of the map template you used, or is it something you could delete? Beautiful map otherwise, by the way – I liked it a lot.

"Digging deeper" map:

I first noticed in Commander Keetin's dialogue that you were using [OOC] highlighting where I think it should have been [MissionInfo]. For example, where she says "Three of our starbase crew were killed in that unprovoked attack, including our first officer, Commander Bastion", you've highlighted this in yellow 'Out of character' [OOC] but I think it should be green [MissionInfo]. There are examples of this throughout the mission. I say this because elsewhere you have used yellow [OOC] where the player is speaking, and you should stick to this convention: use yellow [OOC] when the player is speaking, and use green [MissionInfo] to highlight selected words when an NPC is giving important information.
Some of the tables in the mess hall are floating above the floor. Maybe need to bring them down only about 0.1 or 0.2 on the Y axis, unless you actually meant for them to be floating (it's possible... it's the 25th century!).
Not a criticism at all but a question: can you tell me what this object is? --> It has a ladder-type look to it, and I want to use ladders as set decoration in my next mission!

Satellite 3 map:

Again, just a question: which map template did you use for this? It would work nicely in my next mission, so I may have to steal it ;)

"The Descent" map:

Nice custom build, especially the stairs and corridors leading down into the subterranean base.
There is some clipping on the doors immediately behind the player after spawning, because they're overlapping. Moving one of the doors back even just 0.001 should cure that.
Similarly, there's clipping where the walls overlap in these corridors.
Another question: what object did you use for the round ceiling lights in these corridors? I'd also like to steal these for my next mission!
Finally, I noticed some more clipping on the exit doors in the control room, and on the floor just in front of the exit doors.

Again, awesome mission.

Well done!

Keep at it – I hope you have some more stories planned! The final dialogue hints at a sequel... whether you do or don't make a sequel to "Wounded Wolf", you should definitely make more Foundry missions.

Ali

The Wounded Wolf: REMASTERED!

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