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This may turn people off. Defeat alls as an objective are generally frowned upon on large and/or outdoor maps. Mainly you need to ask, how does this affect the story? If you're defeating them as a show of force then a defeat all may actually make very good story sense but for the sake of tediousness a smaller map may be best. You could require individual named base commanders be taken out. You could even just have the computer as the only objective. This gives the player a choice of stealthing their way in or smashing through everything in sight. It all comes down to what works best for the story.|
Originally Posted by BigBoss Eyepatch
The first mission involves you breaking into a hero base in paragon city which has 3 levels filled with longbow, your mission objectives are to defeat all the longbow and then to hack the computer to find Kinuke's location. After hacking the computer you will then find yourself ambushed by a longbow team and you can either exit there and then or, fight and beat the ambush. I was going to make you run back to the exit to complete, but decided against that going for the exit button.
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| Firstly you talk to the contact which is Apex Penumbra in his human form using his alias name and he says to you that you're here to see how the supervillain killed the hero in a recreative simulation designed to match what really happened identically etc... and he then when you accept tells you what you have to do. |
Thanks for the reply Zamuel, some good pointers. I spent all last night in testing on the mission and trying to figure out what to do with it.
I think I may change the contact completely so that its not my villain in human guise, but somebody else entirely maybe a reporter for the Rogue Isles Protector who using clues managed to piece together how Kinuke was murdered, and has created a simulation for villains to see just how it was done in actuality. I may try that, test it, and see.
For the first mission, I agree totally, it was a defeat all, but I changed it last night, so that defeating everything is not a requirement for completion. However in the final room where the computer is, defeating all the enemies in there is compulsory, after all, if you don't, they'll know what changes you made to the computer and the hero's mediporter. 
There is also a little ambush after you've hacked the computer as well but again, if you've already killed everything in the room first, then fighting the ambush is not mandatory. So mission 1 affords flexibility, if a player wants to crush everything in sight, they can do. If not, just ghost to the last room, do the deed, and kill the witnesses.
The second mission had a revamp, obviously you've just cut off the hero's mediporter, and from the computer you got his general location as well. So now you have to draw out the hero, basically there are a number of things to do here, in this mission it has a lot of mission objectives but are easy enough to complete. The building is swarming with PPD.
The main objective is to plant 5 explosives on key structural points to devastate the building (in testing one key structural point was a couch LOL). Then you have to plant a virus in the police mainframe. You also have to fight a "token" boss at the end as you "interrogate" him for information on the hero. There is also a kidnapping that you can do as well if you wanted to, but that is 100% optional.
The Third mission sees the showdown between you and the hero (Elite Boss) in an abandoned warehouse. This is strictly a you vs them... However I was thinking to have the final battle in the open, rather than inside. When you get the hero down to 50% health he calls for some longbow reinforcements to back him up. When you've worn them down and took out the hero, that's it, mission accomplished.
When Im ready to expose it, I shall post the arc number here for you all to see. For a total novice to making arcs, I don't think this plays too bad.
Hey guys, I decided I was going to make an AE chain of mishes. Its not published yet...
Recently, I deleted one of my blueside Defenders (Kinuke = Kinetics / Rad) to make space to make an Ice / Ice blaster as I ran out of character slots, so got the idea, what if I made an AE mish, where one of my main villains (Apex Penumbra = Invul / SS / Tanker) killed off my hero? This I thought would be an epic homage to a guy who served me well through praet.
The story is told from the point of view that YOU are in the shoes of Apex Penumbra carrying out the heinous act, what he did to find and beat Kinuke. Now Ive played mishes where you take on the role of somebody else, its kind of hard to describe I think.
Firstly you talk to the contact which is Apex Penumbra in his human form using his alias name and he says to you that you're here to see how the supervillain killed the hero in a recreative simulation designed to match what really happened identically etc... and he then when you accept tells you what you have to do.
The first mission involves you breaking into a hero base in paragon city which has 3 levels filled with longbow, your mission objectives are to defeat all the longbow and then to hack the computer to find Kinuke's location. After hacking the computer you will then find yourself ambushed by a longbow team and you can either exit there and then or, fight and beat the ambush. I was going to make you run back to the exit to complete, but decided against that going for the exit button.
The second mission, you need to go into a building in Paragon city and plant some bombs, in order to cause a ruckus to draw Kinuke to the area. When you arrive at the area, you find that it seems the 5th Column had designs on that building too. Too bad! Crush any 5th Column that get in your way (optional), plant the 3 bombs and then take out the council team leader to complete the mission.
The third mission, you take on Kinuke. After the assault on the base, followed by the destruction of that building, Kinuke is now hot on your heels, or so he thinks! You have both crashed into a storage warehouse on the docks, and you fight, the only objective here is "Kill Kinuke" Once you have defeated Kinuke in the mano e mano fight that's it, complete.
So that's a very brief synopsis of how the chain goes. I just wondered how I could improve it maybe make it feel more villainous any suggestions before I publish?