{"id":114,"date":"2018-07-16T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/drenn1\/?p=114"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:04:03","slug":"gsoc-week-8-set-phasers-to-stun-then-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/drenn1\/2018\/07\/16\/gsoc-week-8-set-phasers-to-stun-then-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Week 8: Set phasers to stun. …Then kill."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week was mostly focused on finishing up the second part of the \u201cFeathered Serpent\u201d mission, in which Quetzalcoatl is put on trial by the klingons for spreading messages of peace. Kirk agrees to go through a set of trials to prove his honor or something so that Quetzalcoatl can go free.<\/p>\n

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Kirk offering a fine defense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Mission oddities<\/h2>\n

Last week, I mentioned various ways to get an infinite score in this mission. Well, there are even more, easier ways to do so in the second half, including:<\/p>\n

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  • Repeatedly scanning a door lock with Spock.<\/li>\n
  • Repeatedly scanning an energy life-form with Spock.<\/li>\n
  • Repeatedly carving out part of a room with a phaser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    All of the above are in a single room. This room also interestingly allows you to cancel a death if you react fast enough.<\/p>\n

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    In addition, this mission has two endings (three if you just give up defending Quetzalcoatl entirely). The \u201cmain\u201d win method is to discover a weird alien room, which is probably what most people did.<\/p>\n

    The secondary method is very obscure, and I suspect most people don\u2019t know about it. If you don\u2019t discover the alien room, you instead must pass a Klingon automaton blocking you.<\/p>\n

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    Since the solution is so obscure, I\u2019ll just tell you. Using the stun phaser doesn\u2019t work; after two shots, it kills the crew. Using the kill phaser doesn\u2019t work, either; it kills the crew after only one shot.<\/p>\n

    So, what\u2019s do be done? Use the stun phaser, THEN the kill phaser. That will give it just enough energy to overload before it can take out the crew. \u2026Naturally\u2026<\/p>\n

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    On my casual playthrough, I completely gave up on passing the automaton, since I already knew about the other method of completing the mission. This is an \u201cinferior\u201d way to beat the mission, anyway, but it\u2019s interesting that it\u2019s locked behind such an obscure solution.<\/p>\n

    What\u2019s next<\/h2>\n

    For now, I\u2019m taking a break from the repetitive mission logic to take a look at the pseudo-3D and ship combat stuff. I really have no idea how long this will take, but I felt I needed to look at something fresh and different. Regardless, my primary mission is to get the away missions working and I only have 3 weeks left (officially), so I\u2019ll return to that if time doesn\u2019t allow me to finish the starship stuff. Due to the belatedness of this post, there\u2019ll be another later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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