The Empire Strikes Out
Finally got a chance to play a little SWG Sunday morning. In my quest to max out the space part, I've got the series of missions coming up that get you the TIE Bomber/TIE Interceptor piloting skills (pretty cool missions - you're helping the Empire rebuild the Deathstar around Endor). I thought, "No sweat, let's do this." Ole Bald Angus' evil Jedi Imperial pilot had been helping me out, but I figured I'd tackle this one solo.
I started about 10:30, and over an hour later I was _still_ getting ordered around. "Escort these guys. Ooops they were captured by Rebels, go back and get them. Now hunt that Rebel Spy down and get some information from him. Now go rescue a stranded freighter. Now go back and escort another freighter," and so on. At some point I said, "The hell with this, I'll finish it later," and bagged it, thinking it would work like some of the other chained missions and let me pick back up at Step 4 of 10 Million or whatever. Nope, you just failed the mission, loserboy, go back and try again from Step 1. Ouch. There's an hour+ wasted.
I started about 10:30, and over an hour later I was _still_ getting ordered around. "Escort these guys. Ooops they were captured by Rebels, go back and get them. Now hunt that Rebel Spy down and get some information from him. Now go rescue a stranded freighter. Now go back and escort another freighter," and so on. At some point I said, "The hell with this, I'll finish it later," and bagged it, thinking it would work like some of the other chained missions and let me pick back up at Step 4 of 10 Million or whatever. Nope, you just failed the mission, loserboy, go back and try again from Step 1. Ouch. There's an hour+ wasted.
posted by Booder at 2:04 PM
3 Comments:
Yah some of those missions are like Triathalons or something, I'm pretty tough but I busted out laughing a couple times at the sheer preposterousness of it all.
Even though I kinda liked it, I know that's 'cause I knew what I was in for, I already went through the initial shock of the Torture Test with an old character a long time ago, and he didn't even know how to use a droid so it was WAY harder for him heh.
I know what yer saying, they could make it easier, save your progress in each multi-step mission, but I think the frustration and difficulty is actually supposed to be part of the fun, even though its made me log out of the game in anger more than once.
Oh, and if yer looking for me, try /tell wanderhome.Ioden or /tell wanderhome.Altanticus, 'cause I been playing my guys on Wanderhome a lot lately (y'know, Ioden's my master shipwright guy) and I can switch over to Anticore and help.
Oops, my dudes name is ATLANTICUS, not ALTANICUS, but man, now that I think about it, I kinda like ALTANICUS better ahaha.
Well, that's a good one fer NEXT time heh.
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