Looking for Feedback

[BlueBard]

I just published a new mission and am looking for feedback.

The title is "Flashbacks" and the mission ID is 321541.

The mission is geared toward low-level characters, is intended to be solo-friendly, and is intended as an alternative for some of the existing low-level missions.

Please let me know what you think.  If you see something that needs to be changed, or if the mission seems too difficult for a low-level character, please reply here or in-game with your suggestions.

[rain]

Rain's Stream of Consciousness Review

Toon used: 46 Fire/Fire Scrapper
(please keep in mind this as he has SOs slotted and may not be an accurate judge of challenge level, but what I did do was keep my challenge level at 4 to compensate)


Mission 1

Not always a fan of "helpers" (allies) on my missions. I do however understand this is for the story's sake. Powerdrive is a cool looking character and well designed.

Powerdrive, at this level has only one attack and ends up standing in front of enemies a fair bit.

Powerdrive hits the Drug Lab with hurl boulder and makes it untargettable by melee attacks.... bugged this. It then takes 2 minutes to kill the drug lab because he gets in melee range and can't hit it again so I had to keep hitting it with Blackwand.

Bonechiller is a nice combo of power sets. Enjoyed fighting him


SECOND MISSION

Second mission starts with a patrol. The problem with patrols at this point of the game is that they easily run into areas and help draw other aggro back on you. Not a problem, and in fact alot of fun at level 30.... not so much at level 11.

Ummmmm.... no Powerdrive?.... I thought he was remembering stuff we did together, not stuff I did alone.



MISSION 3

Mission Three objective says simply "crate"

Nice with the animations of the clocks breaking the crate


MISSION 4
Easily the best mission of the arc. Feels like you are in a battle between factions. Chained objectives are logical and make sense. Had the rest of the arc given me the feel of what I got from this mission I would have given you 5 stars.


MISSION 5
No Comments other than Story issues below


STORY ISSUES

-If Powerdrive was there in mission 3 and 4 As he said he was, then where was he?
-What do the first three missions have to do with the plot? Why was the girl in the second mission Kidnapped? 



-Ebony and Shadowspider are the same person and now she wants to have me do a mission for her?... After lying to me? No way dude... what's my motivation.


Overall it was a decent arc. It played well to it's level.
That said it's got some issues with the story that keep it from being great. I mean I did three unconnected missions that were meant to be "Flashbacks" but in reality had nothing to do with anything. I saved a girl... man if I had a Numina Proc for every girl I saved in Paragon city....

[BlueBard]

Thanks for the feedback, Rain!  I appreciate it.

My basic goal was to put together a set of alternate missions for the low-level characters.  I wanted something that a beginning hero could jump in and do and I wanted some variety.  I guess if I have to explain anything though, the arc needs more design work.  Spoilers follow:

Spoiler

The arc was tested with a level 4 blaster.  I should have run a melee type through it as well, but I don't have a lot of time to work on these and cut a corner there.

There are two missions (2,4) where Powerdrive was not supposed to be there.  In Mission 2, Powerdrive is asking the player to tell him about a rescue mission he'd heard about.  In Mission 4, the player finds a clue that leads into Mission 5 (where Powerdrive IS present).

I'll have to look at the dialogue and see if I can make it more plain.  Or maybe rewrite Mission 2 altogether...

The first three missions don't have anything to do with the last two.  It's really about the hero "remembering" some of the missions he/she supposedly did in the past.  I'll have to think about connecting them.  I can rewrite missions 2 and 3 completely and tie the whole thing together (somehow!).

I'll have to look at the bit with Shadowspider and see what I can do with it.  Fitting in the necessary dialog in the limited space was a challenge, and I obviously need to work on it some more.

Again, thanks for the feedback.  I will definitely keep it in mind when I re-work the arc.

If anyone else has other feedback, I welcome it.

[BlueBard]

The mission has been revised, republished with a new ID, and hopefully improved.  Please let me know what you think.  I'll update the ID number when I get a chance.