Aentertainment Tonight

Wow. Thanks for the great review guys. You were more vague than I expected, but that's fine. I am super glad you liked it so much

Thanks much for reviewing Papers and Paychecks! Glad you all liked it.

The reason the Manticore TF is having difficulty defeating Hopkins is, of course, because it's a pickup task force.

Glad you caught the "like a well-oiled machine" remark.

I thought it was interesting that all 3 of you chose the "mean" ending; sounds like the timer really spurred you all into action though!

Anyway, thanks again! You guys are too nice, I'm totally going to spam the AEntertainment mailbox with more story arcs.

Wow, and when I typed it in, the first thing I thought it sounded like was a sneeze.

Just a reminder, there is no episode tonight due to recording schedule conflict. Tune in next week for an unprecedented eight reviews!

I would really love to have that many reviews on a weekly basis. However, in order for that to happen, I'd really need to have a second team of reviewers, to prevent burn out. However for that to happen, I really need to have a reason to recruit more folks.

After picking out this weeks arcs, we are once again down to two in the queue. We need more submissions if we are going to expand the show. I want to take the time now to thank those that have submitted arcs, without tyou we wouldn't have gotten as far as we have.

Tonight at seven Eastern tune in for reviews of:

The Coldest of Wars
City of the Apes
Darkening the Light: The Westin Phipps Strike Force
Heroine Hit List: The Shadow Spider Strike Force

Also, we will have feature reviews of the four Guest Author arcs, as well as our first Guest Reviewer!

Thanks for the reviews!

Just a few minor notes:
- The arc level range was 40-50 when I submitted it, but with the coming of I16 super-sidekicking, I figured I could do 40-45 which means 45+ players get the same rewards and have access to the same powers, but don't have to fight the annoying all-tank 45+ crey spawns. I thought I could get away with a kill-all on mission4 since it's small, but I'll probably lift that after all the feedback I got on it (most people don't like kill-alls on any map).
- Timed missions were a bit of a conundrum for this one; originally only the 3rd/4th missions were timed, but I had a reviewer suggest to add a timer to the 2nd one as well. The timer on the 2nd one is almost 'unfailable' unless on purpose, the timer on the 3rd is pretty lax, but the timer on the 4th is supposed to go both ways. The sense of urgency is very integral to 60's spy thrillers imo, but I'll look into lifting the timer from mission2 (and possibly 3).
- I'm surprised and kinda miffed to hear about the bugged mission. Gah, what's with outdoor maps and destroy object spawns? Originally I used the outdoor Steel Canyon map for the mission, but that one's even bigger and much easier to 'lose' the targets in. Sadly you can't place normal glowies on those maps, only destroy-objects, and AP was the smallest map I could find where it still works. Look on the bright side -- at least you got to read the failure text! *hides*
- (most importantly) Hey, there was vodka! ... okay, only one bottle, but still.


Thanks again!

-- Z.

Thanks for the positive reviews of "City of the Apes".
Yes there is a semi-Easter Egg in the address clue "7337 Dodge Ave." from the first mission.

The second mission in the abandoned lab, is located in Crey's Folley. Crey's Folley neighborhood was known as Venice before the invasion. The Dodge was the leader of historical Venice Italy. So when thinking of a street name, I just thought of something that would relate to Venice, Italy.

The NPCs are also Easter eggs. Dr. Simian's assistant is Kym Hunter. The actress who played Zira in the Planet of the Apes movies was Kim Hunter.
Also Rod MacDowall is a variation of Roddy McDowall who played Cornelius in the films. That was just kind of thrown in for fans of the movies.

Very nice show. I am currently running "Coldest of Wars" on my midlevel tank.

So, I've got a question for you all. Over on the KJSR homepage there's a poll on the right hand column. "Would you be interested in an audio CD of the first season of AEntertaiment Tonight?" If the response is positive enough, then it will be made available through the KJSR store, when it comes back up.

Oh wow, this is the first time I've looked at this thread.

Hello, I'm Rasta, the "nice" reviewer on the show as I've been told.

Tonight at seven Eastern we review:

Good Intentions
Assault on Aru Prime
Talos Vice
(New Dev's Choice arc) Astoria in D Minor

Thanks much for trying Talos Vice! I'm really glad you all liked it and your commentary was very fun. I liked how excited y'all were about getting in the Ferrari and "my god! I'm in an episode of Miami Vice!"

Thanks for the review guys.

BTW the repetitive names were a catch 22 as I had to reduce the number of objectives for file space. I will be able to diversify them again soon >.<

Now that my fail dialogue is no longer necessary I can probably do that again.

This is one case where that 200kb will help immensely.

Due to technical difficulties, there will be no show on Nov 19. The reviews originally scheduled for that day will be reviewed on the 26th instead. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Well it looks like the worse of the technical difficulties has dried up, but so has the submissions list. We're down to two in the queue, so send those arcs in!

I'll send in my very first arc, from when MA was still in beta. See how it stacks up these days lol. I expect a 4 at most, but we'll see

You've already got one of mine in the pipeline for whenever the next show ends up being....