Save my Story Arc


Mind Forever Burning

 

Posted

Before recent patches I had a working story arc, with the first mission set in the Midnighter's Club Map. As originally intended (and previously working) completeing one set of clickies spawns a group of CoT to fight, and they run in from the hallway. The other clickie set is completed in the big circular room and my boss used to "magically" appear as soon as you disturbed his ritual (clickie), now I can only get him in the mission at all if he is no longer linked to any other goal ((

I THINK I finally figured out what is going wrong, what I don't understand is WHY such rigid control of spawn points is neccesary in this mission.

I was looking at the map and apparently it only allows one ambush spawn point at all now, which is in the bloody hallway of all places. The clickies used to be well distributed now they are annoyingly predictable and my nice dramatic scene is absolutely ruined.

Was there actually a problem with things spawning in this map? Is there a problem with the circular room actually containing anything interesting?

This is the only map that even comes close to looking right for this mission, and while I can still use it, talk about losing a lot of dramatic flare for absolutely no reason.

Am I wrong in my educated guess of the situation, if so how do I adjust things to work again, and why do I have no error message.

If my sad realization is correct, does anyone know of a legitimate reason why this change was actually neccesary?

A very sad,

Phase Light (Bloodstryke)


 

Posted

Issue 15 introduced the spawn placement markers in the mini-maps. When the devs did this, they also fixed some issues with maps that had front/middle/back reversal problems (i.e. spawn placements labeled "front" were actually at the back of the mission or vice versa).

So my guess is your map is the victim of an unintended change related to that cleanup. I would /bug it, particularly if the map claims to have more spawn points now than it actually does have (which is what it sounds like from your description).

Good luck with getting the bug fixed though... There have been many similar changes since i14 was released that were never corrected. You may have to redo the arc with the new limitations. It sucks, I know, but I have nothing better to offer.


And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines