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	Message: : Wow! : I've finished Eternal Mk II and I really have to say that it is shaping up as : a great scenario. The story in particular is tight and intriguing, but the : gameplay and new tricks are fantastic. Eternal has a long way to go and : there are numerous bugs that will become apparent as more of us play it, : but I'm really enjoying taking part in the birth of Forrest's baby. : Before I get down to some specifics, I'd like to make some general comments, : some of which I've harped on before. Forrest, you should be much more : sparing in your use of regenerating monsters. Although they do have their : place and are necessary in some cases, they are no substitute for a map : with good monster placement to begin with. Use regeneration where it makes : sense from a plot standpoint, but lighten up on the regeneration rate. For : John to resort to using grenades on level 9 and me to drop down to Normal : should tell you something. Secondly, the Pfhor hate symmetry. Yes, I : realize that their bodies are symmetric, but a look at other Pfhor designs : tells a different story. Remind me to bring this up with Ben Potter : regarding his Fell, too. This is not something that needs to be addressed : right away and it is a very minor complaint, but if you have a chance : after all else is done, you should do everything you can to skew some of : the hallways, make them more curvatious and shift ship elements around : from side-to-side so that your levels feel more Pfhor-like. : Oh, and I solved the mystery of the level names not appearing in map mode. I : have a 17" PB that I've just been using for a couple of months. AO : was not designed for wide displays and, hence, the top of the map is off : the screen. This is not just with Eternal. I believe that Mark Levin's AO : additions include additional resolutions to acommodate the cinema : displays, but his additions haven't made it into the main AO branch yet. : I've already posted extensive comments on levels 1-13, but there is a bug I : neglected to mention before on level 9 that I assume would be an issue on : level 6 as well since they share the same core. With the left-most circuit : to be destroyed I managed to slide down between the circuit and the door : that covers it, leaving me trapped. I'm guessing this wasn't supposed to : be possible? : OK, here's my rundown of the ramaining levels. : Level 14. Forrest, I suspect that the timing element didn't work properly. I : like the overall design of the level and it is visually beautiful. The : Pfhor textures really shine. What I found, first of all, is that both : Leela's and Tycho's terminals could be read at any time throughout : gameplay, even when they were dim. I could thus skip the rest of the level : entirely if I was content to follow Tycho. Not what you intended, I : presume. In terms of which terminals were illuminated, Leela's started out : as being illuminated as was appropriate. At one point I actually saw the : terminals switch off, just as I was heading back to retrieve the first of : the chips - obviously I was too slow. By the time I returned with the : second chip, however, Leela's terminal was again bright and Tycho's was : dim. I take it that was not supposed to happen? When I repeated the level : to see if I could legitimately beat it, this did not happen (I lost yet : again), but I didn't wait to see if it switched back. Even after Leela's : term switched off, I could still leave by it, as well as the one in the : back. : Level 15. There is an elevator near the beginning - it's possible to become : trapped between the platform and the door at the bottom - this wouldn't be : so bad except that the back side of the platform isn't textured. When I : started to play this level, my first thought was - finally, a pfhor ship : that isn't symmetric, but then it turned out I was only on one side of a : completely symmetric ship. OK, I won't harp on this again. In the hive : itself, the monsters didn't become active until I got near them. Was this : as intended? I was expecting an ambush and instead could pick them off one : at a time. One caution - the first time through, I missed a couple of them : and couldn't figure out why I couldn't leave. : Level 16. Although this is just a placeholder awaiting a new level from Adam, : it's a damn pretty level! Perhaps Adam would like to use this as a : starting point for one of the two he owes you? : Level 17. Ah, the Pfhor have taken over this ship this time. In addition to : making the extravision power-ups invisible, do us all a favor and add a : pattern buffer and shield recharger in the final room on this level as : well as on level 7. : Level 18. I agree that the beginning is boring, but overall I think this : level is boring. Not that it isn't interesting and it certainly : graphically is nice, but there aren't a lot of monsters to deal with : except when you first get up the elevator. Oh, and the upstairs docking : area really needs some ambient sounds - it sounds dead right now. I like : the eye candy and I think the level has potential, but there really needs : to be more action in general. Don't change the map layout - it's great, : and assymetric ;^) . Just work on monster population and make the player : work harder to overtake that ship. And of course, fix that bug with the : terminal assignments. : Level 19. Well, the same placeholder again, so there isn't much to say. I'll : look forward to playing a finished level here. : Level 20. Nice. Some players may have trouble with the pillar-hopping, You : might want to make the O2 power-ups regenerating so that the player : doesn't run out of air trying to find their way. One other thing - when I : jumped into the hole, I somehow managed to come out on the other side, : landing on a stairway. Fortunately, I was able to climb the stairway and : jump back down into the hole, but I suspect that this wasn't supposed to : happen - at least not in the variation on this level. : Well, that concludes things for now. Great work Forest, and the entire : Eternal team!
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