B.S Misson descriptions
Guess what?
How 'bout you /bug each of the missions that you encounter that has this issue? That might actually get things done. It is a long tedious chore to wade through hundreds of missions and check each and every objective to see if it is properly spelled out or not.
Coming to the forums and whining about it won't get anything accomplished if you can't/won't provide the specifics.
However, I do agree that it can be annoying, but it has never annoyed me enough to post about it here. Also, keep in mind that phrasing a post so that it is only really directed at a Dev is not necessarily advantageous, as I am not sure how often Devs read through this section. It is mainly other players who look and help out in this section.
Actually, there are usually hints in the long mission description about what you really need to do. But that would require, ya know, reading it. Stealth kill alls are a pain, but are usually well hinted at in the description.
Tanker Tuesday #72 Oct 5 @Champion
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Hints in mission descriptions? Reading them? Remarkably I do that everytime I do a mission.It kind of helps to tell you what your supposed to do and thats what I'm pointing out. Half the time they don't equate to what you actually have to do. Seeing as this is the Development>Technical Issues and Bugs forum I assumed that posting in away that it is to a developer kind of makes sense.If I had posted in the say,Players guides section, then posting to a developer would be kind of pointless as I would be asking the Players for help.
As for facts on what mission descriptions are wrong,I'll create a new character and try to play thru all the mission arcs again and I'll try and log everyone of the mission descriptions down. This may take awhile as I will try and hit every single contact to fairly report all the faulty descriptions and /bug them all.
edit:Just got a reply of a developer who had read the post.Strange that.
I haven't really noticed this to be a huge problem, except for the last time I played through the 30s blueside. It seemed like there were a lot of missions in that range that were "stealth kill-alls," and I'm one that always reads the mission text, even if I've done the missions before.
Haven't really noticed it being that big a problem in any other level range, or on redside.
Seeing as this is the Development>Technical Issues and Bugs forum I assumed that posting in away that it is to a developer kind of makes sense.If I had posted in the say,Players guides section, then posting to a developer would be kind of pointless as I would be asking the Players for help.
((((snip)))) edit:Just got a reply of a developer who had read the post.Strange that. |
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I apologise now if there is already a thread about this but god it's annoying. I have just run 10 missions in a row and out of them the mission descriptions have been totally wrong. If a mission description says something like "Rescue 3 hostages", I expect to rescue 3 hostages. Sometimes I guess that clearing the room their in will end the mission, that at times is what needs to be done. That normally happens when you kill a boss or get a glowie. The hostage missions should do what they say on the description,you have to rescue the hostages,nothing else. All the missions I ran in that 10 mission run, I rescued the hostages and the mission didn't end. So I thought I needed to clear the rooms they were in.Still no mission end. I then had to clear 5 floors of the map,a kill everything to finish the mission.
For gods sake if you want us to rescue the hostages and kill everything state that in the mission description. This issue has gone on forever, there is no excuse to why it hasn't been corrected when you have fixed some minor things gamewise and this is a major one as at times it takes the fun out of the game. It leaves me, and probably a lot of other people, frustrated at having to go back and clear a whole map that the mission description didn't tell us to do.
Please look at this and correct the faulty mission descriptions.