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Multistage Missions - How many stages are possible?
« on: February 26, 2015, 01:15:15 pm »
I was kinda issuing were to put this, so i placed it here.

I know that the game supports multi stage mission on the battlescape, at least 2 concuring Ground battles after each other, since the Cydonia Mission is one of those.

Is it possible to do a 3 or more stage Groundbattlemission with the ruleset?

Or is this behaviour hardcoded, i guess that it will be put in the ruleset sooner or later, since TFTD has several Multistage Missions.

The background is i wanna have a all out Cydonia Battle with at least 3 stages and huge Mapsizes (you need to feel outmanned and desperate).

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Re: Multistage Missions - How many stages are possible?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2015, 01:25:23 pm »
Technically y can make mission even infinite - loop it to itself as naxtStage. Seriously, there is no limitation, you can make 3-4-5 stages if you want. But I'm not sure if this "proceed next stage" logic is finished atm. It's quite complex in terms of aborting/switching back or forth again. I believe Warboy can shed some more light on this.

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Re: Multistage Missions - How many stages are possible?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2015, 02:37:42 pm »
Technically y can make mission even infinite - loop it to itself as naxtStage. Seriously, there is no limitation, you can make 3-4-5 stages if you want. But I'm not sure if this "proceed next stage" logic is finished atm. It's quite complex in terms of aborting/switching back or forth again. I believe Warboy can shed some more light on this.

Well retreating wouldn't matter in case of a Final Mission. My goal would be to have 3 Stage Cydonia Mission, first the Landing with a 100x100 map with loads of alien on them (you probaly would search for the entrance), then the Breach and a big fight inside a huge Pyramid underground and last but not the Brain dissection stage.

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Re: Multistage Missions - How many stages are possible?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2015, 06:51:33 pm »
Technically y can make mission even infinite - loop it to itself as naxtStage.

Just what I thought: a survival mod with a high-score table. ;D

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Re: Multistage Missions - How many stages are possible?
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2015, 11:00:48 pm »
Just what I thought: a survival mod with a high-score table. ;D
That would be awesome!