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webbaxelsen0-blog · 6 years ago
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The Key to Successful Fallout 76
The Argument About Fallout 76 The entire point of a movie's trailer is to make you wish to observe the movie. So it is not easy to discover the ideal spot to call home in Fallout 76. Naturally, you will want to download the Bethesda launcher to access it, but apart from that, all you should do is install the games. Make certain before venturing out your character is equipped with some sort of helmet, and you'll get some gear during the nearby Firebreathers quests. Beta testers found a slew of bugs. Games like rust also conduct scavenging a good deal better. Carry weight in Fallout games has ever been a small maligned mechanic, although there are a lot of community created mods created to tie weight limits to backpacks and other containers. There are not any interactive human NPCs on the planet, but there are methods for players to have quests from robots and through various different ways. There's a terminal to select what type of ammo you would love. 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envy123 · 8 years ago
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City of Balmora Postmortem
Usually, you don’t hear about quest mods having a postmortem, but considering the amount of time and effort put into this as well as the content amounting to the equivalent of a small indie game, I think City of Balmora deserves it.
How it all started:
It was a typical day for me. I was casually browsing the Bethesda Morrowind forums in March 2014, when I saw a thread of a city expansion mod called City of Balmora. What was unique about this mod, compared to all the others, was that there were plans for 3 new faction questlines. Since this was up my alley, I contacted the creator Praedator and offered to do the quest design work for him.
Praedator gave me an initial test – I had to code up a simple script, no problems there. He then gave me the full set of files, and told me that I had the freedom to make the narratives however I see fit.
Initial version:
I tackled the Young Mages Gathering group first, as I thought that a small group of mages estranged from the Mages Guild was a really good concept.
I knew from the get-go that the story would surround the irony that while the members of the group are adamant that they are free from the corruption of the Mages Guild, it turns out that corruption is in this group as well.
The execution of the storyline has always been really risky. The questline can fail if you go via the normal path and just obey orders without a second thought. Only if you question the orders and go your own way, can you succeed in completing the entire questline.
A few quests in, I transferred over some of my characters and the Redchurch Temple faction from previous projects. At first, it was just a messenger who temporarily appeared for one quest but when I realised the potential for the Young Mages Gathering to have a fight against a faction, I asked Praedator to make the Redchurch Temple headquarters.
This wasn’t the first time he had made a location specifically for a quest. He did make a very good series of caves for the first Young Mages Gathering quest.
Once the full headquarters were in my hands, I proceeded to temporarily stop with the Young Mages Gathering questline and make the Redchurch Temple questline.
The initial version of the questline wasn’t as good as I had hoped. It was very disjointed and jumped from one theme to another. How bad was it? You had to move a magical device from the Balmora sewers (with music from another successful mod Sotha Sil Expanded, just because) to an old ruin beneath Balmora, for no good reason. Then, you had to check the device and one of the characters Masha became worried for you for some reason and got herself banished, because temple members were not allowed to leave the hideout. You magically became enemies with their enemy, even when you haven’t done anything to oppose them anyway, and you couldn’t make use of the Redchurch Temple anymore. What was even the point of joining them anyway, then?
But then…
A hard-drive crash wiped out all of my work in 2015. Knowing the mistakes that I made with the Redchurch Temple questline, I decided to go forward with starting from scratch.
New beginnings:
This time, I decided to start the Young Mages Gathering questline and finish it before going onto the next one. I have implemented mostly the exact questline as before, but I cut out some parts which didn’t work thematically.
The Redchurch Temple was next. Instead of a hodge-podge of nostalgia scattered about like mud shaken off from a dog, I carefully planned each quest and treated them like gold dust.
The first three quests were an introduction to the temple, to give you an insight about their culture and way of working. The final six were about the war against their enemy – the Tribunal Temple.
The final faction The Great Hlaalu Guard was done the same way with their enemy, as I felt satisfed with the formula I had set out for the Redchurch Temple.
By that time, I felt increasingly burned out and there were days when I felt “I’m not sure if I can finish this”. To combat this, I set out what important features should be implemented and what should be cut.
The Cuts:
Just how much was cut from City of Balmora, you may ask? An awful lot, that’s for sure. Here’s just a selection:
·         The Great Hlaalu Guard faction was going to have a few more quests to round things up, but the concepts ended up feeling like filler content after the big bang that was the ending.
·         Entire swathes of quest content. If I have to hazard a guess on the initially planned size, I would’ve estimated it to have been around 10 times bigger. The obvious reason for the cut, was that it’s not feasible to do this and have a quality experience. The less obvious reason was that Praedator had not finished his side of the work before he left.
Praedator, where art thou?:
I took a much-deserved break from this mod back in 2016, but not before I told Praedator about the progress through the Bethesda forums.
Silence.
Alright, I figured, he’d probably reply eventually.
A couple of weeks have come and gone, and I asked the community about the best possible way to contact him so I can have the permission to release this.
A helpful member pointed me towards a site that Praedator is now active on. I asked Praedator for permission and he gave it to me, subject to the reasonable “give credit”.
The End Just Started:
After I felt truly burned out from the mod, and after having done the necessary tests, I put it out for release in November 2017.
Saying that the release schedule was rough, would be an understatement.
It turned out that most of the users of the mod, were actually people who just want to experience my quest work and not Praedator’s great level design. They felt that a lot of Praedator’s work needed to be cut out for performance and narrative reasons.
So, upon user request, I made a “quest locations only” version which only kept the locations that are relevant to at least one quest. Only after that release, I started getting a large amount of praise for the work.
What went well:
·         The execution of the story turned out not to be risky at all. No-one asked for help in any of the quests, nor did anyone view the “Possible FAQs on some quests” (at least at the time of writing this).
·         The pacing of the content is much better than in previous projects. I release content only 1-2 times a year, so I expect that the content should last up to and including that time. But it’s also possible for the player to binge on my content. So, I ensured that there were times when the player needed to wait a few days to a month of in-game time. And the Redchurch Temple questline does require you to have done 2 vanilla questlines, ensuring that the mod does end with a bang.
What didn’t go so well:
·         Bug testing. I simply released the project without hunting down for bugs in every quest I ever made, which meant a lot of updates in a short space of time.
·         Transparency from Praedator’s side. While I did tell Praedator exactly what I planned to do, Praedator didn’t. For most of the project, I was only aware of his work on Balmora, Suran and the new island of Mathi-Agea, as well as the levels he has done for me. But there were a lot more levels that he has made and left unfinished, causing me to be in the situation where I had to make up a story on why so many places are still under construction. If he was still around, I would have communicated with him the situation and we would work together to rectify the issue. But he wasn’t, so I made did with the resources I currently had.
What I learned:
·         To never dive head-first into a project.
·         I have to ensure that there’s transparency on both sides, through constant communication.
·         If you collaborate with someone on a work, both fans of your work and of their work will come, and when they do, you will need to cater for both right away.
It was definitely a unique experience, and I would certainly do it again. Having someone build a beautiful world and them allowing me to use their canvas to weave together a beautiful story, is completely unmatched by just going solo.
But in the meantime, I’ll be focusing on the new iteration of my indie game De Feet and the challenges that come with it. See you all next time!
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