{"id":102,"date":"2018-06-14T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/drenn1\/?p=102"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:52:32","slug":"gsoc-week-4-dammit-jim-im-a-doctor-not-a-qa-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/drenn1\/2018\/06\/14\/gsoc-week-4-dammit-jim-im-a-doctor-not-a-qa-tester\/","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Week 4: Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a QA tester!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Trek\u2019s second mission, \u201cHijacked\u201d, is finished. It\u2019s very short, only consisting of 4 rooms. Despite this, the devs didn\u2019t fail to insert a number of bugs into the mission, most of them in the final room.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start simple: if you talk to McCoy at a specific time, he has no text.<\/p>\n

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However, there\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0an audio file which fits perfectly for this situation. So, I whipped up some corresponding text to go along with it, and inserted it appropriately. Honestly, how could I let DeForest Kelley\u2019s wonderfully snarky voice acting go to waste?<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not the only voice clip that\u2019s unused, either. There are a surprising number of cases where they clearly intended for some dialogue to be said, but there\u2019s problems in the implementation causing it to not occur; for example, when you try to shoot the Masada crewman, he\u2019s supposed to say something, but due to a bug(?), he didn\u2019t in the original.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also an oversight with the mission scoring system. You\u2019re supposed to combine some inventory items together to progress through the mission, but you\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0get points for this if you do it in a specific room! This is the consequence of each room having entirely separate codebases; the code needed to be copied for each room, and clearly, they must have forgotten that the code was duplicated when they made some changes to it.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the final room is pretty buggy. Don\u2019t read any further if you want to avoid spoilers.<\/p>\n

So, there are three ways to end the mission; either you shoot the Elasi, they surrender, or they attempt to deorbit the ship. But\u2026 these aren\u2019t mutually exclusive. In fact, all three can happen, and the devs clearly didn\u2019t think this through properly.<\/p>\n

Consider scenario #1: You shoot the Elasi. This aggros them, and they immediately kill your redshirt, followed by Kirk. However, you can still talk to the Elasi if you\u2019re fast enough. If you convince them to surrender\u2026 they don\u2019t actually surrender, despite saying so, they just keep killing you. If they deorbit the ship, you can call Sulu, stabilize the orbit, and beam out, WHILE THEY\u2019RE STILL SHOOTING YOU.<\/p>\n

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