{"id":104,"date":"2018-06-21T10:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/drenn1\/?p=104"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:55:15","slug":"gsoc-week-5-star-trek-teaches-chemistry-how-to-make-laughing-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/drenn1\/2018\/06\/21\/gsoc-week-5-star-trek-teaches-chemistry-how-to-make-laughing-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Week 5: Star Trek Teaches Chemistry: How to Make Laughing Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mission 3: Love\u2019s Labor Jeopardized. It\u2019s about 90% finished.<\/p>\n

The mission starts with a rather ear-grating computer voice. Thank god they got Majel Barrett for the sequel.<\/p>\n\n

That said, this is a neat mission. You\u2019re given information about various chemical compounds that may be useful in the mission, then you need to figure out which ones are important and mix up some ingredients to cure a virus that\u2019s running loose through the station.<\/p>\n

Or you can just, you know, inhale some laughing gas instead.<\/p>\n

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Mission bugs<\/h2>\n

Last week, I promised there would be bugs in this mission. There\u2019s nothing mission-breaking that I\u2019ve found, though, mostly text stuff.<\/p>\n

The most eggregious is a weird textbox I encountered in my casual playthrough. As far as I know, you\u2019ll always encounter this if you take long enough during the mission.<\/p>\n

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I also encountered this following bug while writing this blog post. This is part of the 10% of the mission I haven\u2019t rewritten yet, though, so I can\u2019t explain what it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n

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Aside from that, there are a couple of cases where voice acting doesn\u2019t play when it should. And, if you look at Dr. Marcus when she\u2019s tied up, it plays the wrong file entirely; only narrating the first half of the textbox. There was an unused audio file that narrated the entire textbox, so I replaced it with that.<\/p>\n

The one thing that might be considered a bug in the mission mechanics, is the way you can give water to the Romulans. Apparently you can get a point in your mission score for doing that. But, sometimes, if they\u2019re unconscious, nothing happens. You lose the water, you don\u2019t get any points, and not even a textbox is shown. It\u2019s honestly kind of odd. I\u2019m still debating what to do about that; for now I\u2019ve made it so you can\u2019t give water to them while they\u2019re unconscious.<\/p>\n

Other oddities<\/h2>\n

There are a number of cases where a single line is read multiple times by the actors, simply because the same textbox is shown in multiple different rooms. For example, if you scan the air with the medical tricorder, McCoy says the exact same line, but with a different voice clip depending on the room. I can just imagine the cast complaining about why they have to record the same voice clip three times.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this mission should be completable in ScummVM within the next day or two. Next week will feature the return of Harry Mudd in one of this game\u2019s weirder missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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