Cape/Aura mission bugged?
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2010-07-13 24:39 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
WAI. Changed with the revamp of the cape mission.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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No , you have to run Cape first , then Aura 
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Was afraid of that. Kinda sucks that people who don't need capes still have to do the cape mission to get an aura. Sucks even more that people who have already done the cape mission have to do it again.|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
WAI. Changed with the revamp of the cape mission.
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Thanks for the reply.
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Well I agree it is annoying that when the mission was changed, everybody's progress with that contact was reset. I believe the intent was to allow lvl 50s (or people who have already done the old cape mission) to experience the new mission on their own.... but it also forces the people who were 20-30 at the time of release to do it over again. That seems kinda silly to me. |
Originally Posted by bjooks
Sucks even more that people who have already done the cape mission have to do it again.
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On a side note, I don't think the new arc is so bad, and it doesn't take long to complete. I just look at it as a few more XP/inf on the way.
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The more I think about it, I don't mind at all that they reset it so everyone could have access to the new cape mission. That's pretty cool. But chaining the two missions together seems clumsy, especially since they have nothing to do with each other storywise. I want an better control of my powers/an aura, but first I have to learn about Hero 1 and his cape? Okay....|
Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Well I agree it is annoying that when the mission was changed, everybody's progress with that contact was reset. I believe the intent was to allow lvl 50s (or people who have already done the old cape mission) to experience the new mission on their own.... but it also forces the people who were 20-30 at the time of release to do it over again. That seems kinda silly to me.
On a side note, I don't think the new arc is so bad, and it doesn't take long to complete. I just look at it as a few more XP/inf on the way. |
The new cape mission isn't hard, and at least it's more visually interesting than the old one. It's not perfect, though. The chain of cross-zone contacts you must speak to was always the worst part of that mission for me, and unfortunately that didn't change one bit. But the weirdest thing about that mission is that you have to leave City Hall and go to a building across town to enter somewhere the City Rep describes as being "in the building here right down the hall." I guess that's WAI, as well, right?
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They didn't chain them together.
The cape mission/arc is unlocked at level 20 when you can gain a cape. This mission arc is required to be completed before the City Rep will give you any other content.
The aura mission/arc is unlocked at level 30 when you can gain auras.
There is no actual connection between the two.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Now I'm confused. 
And possibly not using the word "chain" right.
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But they are connected, in that you must complete a cape mission to get an aura mission; you said so yourself. And I'd have sworn it didn't use to be this way. I seem to remember at one point having her offer one of my capeless, auraless level 30 toon a choice of either a cape or aura mission, both offered at the same time. |
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
They didn't chain them together.
The cape mission/arc is unlocked at level 20 when you can gain a cape. This mission arc is required to be completed before the City Rep will give you any other content. ... There is no actual connection between the two. |
Are you saying it's always been "must get cape before she'll talk auras," in which case I'm just badly misremembering? Or did they become sequenced/chained/whatever when the new cape mission went live? I'm not trying to argue, just trying to figure out why I seem to remember her giving me a choice at one point, but no longer.
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No. The new cape mission must be completed before the City Rep gives any other content. If they added another mission piece requiring a higher level than 20, other than the aura mission to the City Rep, she would still require you to do the cape mission. The aura mission is not "chained" to the completion of the cape mission, the cape mission is just required content. The end effect LOOKS like the two are connected together, but they are not in actuality.|
Originally Posted by bjooks
Now I'm confused.
And possibly not using the word "chain" right.But they are connected, in that you must complete a cape mission to get an aura mission; you said so yourself. And I'd have sworn it didn't use to be this way. I seem to remember at one point having her offer one of my capeless, auraless level 30 toon a choice of either a cape or aura mission, both offered at the same time. Are you saying it's always been "must get cape before she'll talk auras," in which case I'm just badly misremembering? Or did they become sequenced/chained/whatever when the new cape mission went live? I'm not trying to argue, just trying to figure out why I seem to remember her giving me a choice at one point, but no longer. d |
The old cape mission was not required content.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I knew as soon as you quoted it that I'd likely misused "chained." That's more when one mission leads directly into the next, right?|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
No. The new cape mission must be completed before the City Rep gives any other content. If they added another mission piece requiring a higher level than 20, other than the aura mission to the City Rep, she would still require you to do the cape mission. The aura mission is not "chained" to the completion of the cape mission, the cape mission is just required content. The end effect LOOKS like the two are connected together, but they are not in actuality.
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Since you seem quite knowledgable about this, do you have any insight on why the cape mission change (from "not required" to "required") was made?
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In terms of this game, yes. Or when one mission/arc unlocks something else.|
Originally Posted by bjooks
Thanks for clearing that up. I knew as soon as you quoted it that I'd likely misused "chained." That's more when one mission leads directly into the next, right?
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| Since you seem quite knowledgable about this, do you have any insight on why the cape mission change (from "not required" to "required") was made? |
I would assume that they will eventually change it back to "not required" at some point, but you know what they say about "assume". That, and things get put on the back burner for a very long time if they don't hurt the game.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Many thanks for the info.|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
In terms of this game, yes. Or when one mission/arc unlocks something else.
Likely so that people who had already done the old cape mission could do the new cape mission. I would assume that they will eventually change it back to "not required" at some point, but you know what they say about "assume". That, and things get put on the back burner for a very long time if they don't hurt the game. |
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Twice in the past week or so I've had toons that, upon reaching level 30, were required to do the new cape mission before they could get access to the aura mission. Didn't the City Representative used to offer you a choice of either mission if you reached level 30 without having done either?
I'd guess it's related to the new cape mission. My toon who reached level 30 last night definitely already had a cape (earned in an old-style cape mission, was wearing it at the time), but she still had to do the new cape mission before the City Rep would even speak to her about an aura mission.
Has anyone else experienced this, and is it WAI or not?
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