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Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2
Posted By: Forrest of B.orgDate: 1/6/08 11:11 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2 (Elderman)

: Yeah, I loved 'Unwired'. Was disappointed that it turned out to be a failing
: time line. I didn't appreciate what she was trying to do, but I liked
: Hathor. I don't mind a few flaws in my cybernetic women.

Yays! I tried hard to make Hathor a sympathetic character :-)

: Core Done Blew was another great level. I like the different zones: the door
: node, the power distributor, and the sewers. I also got a good look at the
: army I'd have to defeat later in the level. Plenty of anticipation there.
: The black compilers in the central room didn't attack me, by the way. Not
: sure if that was intentional.

Hmm, you are marked as their enemy so I don't know why they wouldn't...

: So, I guess the compilers were there trying to shut Tycho down? Or co-opt
: him? So was Tycho really trying to help us defeat Hathor, or did we just
: rescue him or help him break out? He doesn't seem to go rampant until the
: next level, but I'm not entirely sure. You can never take the intentions
: of these AIs at face value.

The compilers were there doing what compilers do, hacking computer systems. They would later rebuild the ruins of Tycho's core here into the Tycho we know from late in M1 and M2/Infinity, after patching him up with copied bits from Durandal. Prior to that, Tycho is not rampant at all and is honestly a goody-two-shoes, if a little proud and arrogant. He doesn't exactly 'go rampant' in Chapter 2 either... it's a bit more complicated than that. If you're still unclear by the end of Ch2 let me know and I'll clarify further :-)

: Enjoyed Hysterical Womb. Some tricky sniping required. Am I beginning to
: detect a misogynist streak in this scenario?

How so?

: Now I'm in the Pfhor city. Leela! Drinniol! The Enforcers took down their own
: Juggernaut. The one placed behind him just kept on trying to attack me
: through his own flying tank. I was just as happy to let him do all the
: work, but if you want the player to have to kill the Juggernaut, perhaps
: you should move that enforcer.

Which level was this, A Friend In Need or Unlucky For Some?

: Some buggy things:
: - In Unwired I could read the final terminal through the
: wall without breaking the wires.

Hmm, you shouldn't be able to, cause that platform is marked "is door", so your action key should return a locked-door sound rather than a terminal. Anybody here have any ideas why this might be happening?

: - In Heart of Fusion, the switches in Tycho's core are default off. So in
: order to shut him him off, you have to turn the switches on... which is a
: bit counter-intuitive, unless this a reflection of the fact that Tycho's
: lying to us?

An unfortunate necessity given the Marathon engine; for the level to be "repair" (such that you have to hit certain switches, input chips, etc to leave), you have to designate which switches are to be "repair" switches; and then the victory conditions are met when all of those are set to "on". So, since the story-wise victory conditions here are hitting all those switches, they have to be game-wise "on" when they're in the position when you want them to be, which is story-wise "off".

: - In the 3rd door from the right in Tycho's core, I was just flipping the
: switches as fast as I could and switched the off switch before revealing
: the hardware. You could disable the second switch until the first has been
: flipped if you want to make sure people have a view of the power-down.

I'm a little confused here, can you clarify?

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Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 12/30/07 4:12 p.m.
     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Blake37 12/30/07 4:36 p.m.
           Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 12/30/07 5:02 p.m.
                 Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Blake37 12/30/07 6:17 p.m.
                       Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 12/30/07 9:06 p.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Blake37 12/31/07 5:52 a.m.
                                   Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 12/31/07 7:55 a.m.
                                         Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2patrick 12/31/07 10:16 a.m.
                                               Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 12/31/07 1:20 p.m.
                                                     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2patrick 12/31/07 2:03 p.m.
                                                           Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2patrick 12/31/07 2:36 p.m.
                                                                 err, I mean 'My Kingdom Pfhor A Horse', poly 687 *NM*patrick 12/31/07 3:04 p.m.
                                                           WinRAR unzipped it fine for me. *NM*Document 12/31/07 4:01 p.m.
                 Waiting for confirmation of upload. *NM*Document 12/30/07 6:18 p.m.
     Argh!Forrest of B.org 1/1/08 2:09 a.m.
           Can you also upload just the map file? *NM*Document 1/1/08 6:54 a.m.
                 Re: Can you also upload just the map file?Document 1/1/08 6:57 a.m.
                       Re: Can you also upload just the map file?Forrest of B.org 1/1/08 2:41 p.m.
           Re: Argh!Blake37 1/1/08 9:47 a.m.
           bungie.org appears to be having server trouble. *NM*Document 1/1/08 10:25 a.m.
     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Marathoner325 1/1/08 4:15 p.m.
     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/4/08 9:32 a.m.
           Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/4/08 11:13 a.m.
                 I intend on going through it next week. *NM*patrick 1/4/08 1:24 p.m.
                 Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Document 1/4/08 2:50 p.m.
                       Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/4/08 8:44 p.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Document 1/6/08 2:31 p.m.
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                                         Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2D-M.A. 1/6/08 3:18 p.m.
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                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Document 1/16/08 6:41 p.m.
                                   Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2kyjel 1/16/08 7:58 p.m.
                                   Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Document 1/17/08 12:22 p.m.
                                         Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Marathoner325 1/17/08 5:14 p.m.
                                               Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/17/08 6:12 p.m.
                                                     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2kyjel 1/17/08 8:13 p.m.
                                                     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Marathoner325 1/18/08 6:09 a.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Document 2/5/08 4:37 a.m.
                 Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Elderman 1/5/08 8:06 a.m.
                       Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/5/08 4:00 p.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2bluewpc 1/5/08 4:53 p.m.
                                   Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/6/08 2:47 a.m.
                                         Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2bluewpc 1/6/08 6:42 a.m.
                                               Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/6/08 10:50 a.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Elderman 1/6/08 5:14 a.m.
                                   Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/6/08 11:11 a.m.
                                         Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Elderman 1/7/08 6:04 a.m.
                                               Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Elderman 1/9/08 3:48 a.m.
                 Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/7/08 11:48 a.m.
                       Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/7/08 11:02 p.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/8/08 12:04 a.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/8/08 5:30 a.m.
                                   Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/8/08 6:09 a.m.
                                         Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/8/08 8:05 a.m.
                                               Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/8/08 8:19 a.m.
                                                     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/8/08 10:15 a.m.
                                                           Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/8/08 12:46 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/8/08 1:19 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/8/08 11:07 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/9/08 1:24 a.m.
                                                                                   Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/9/08 3:40 p.m.
                       Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Forrest of B.org 1/10/08 8:05 p.m.
                             Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2SnowCrash 1/11/08 2:08 a.m.
     Re: Eternal X Final Candidate 2Tek 1/9/08 5:24 p.m.

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