Invasion from the Unknown (legacy version)

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Invasion from the Unknown (legacy version)

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Please state in your post the exact campaign and Wesnoth version you played. The version number is listed in the campaign menu entry’s description. If you find any technical difficulties, please take them to the appropriate main discussion thread for the campaign, listed below under Related Links.

(1) What difficulty levels and game (& campaign) versions have you played the scenario/campaign on?
If reviewing a specific scenario, please specify.

(2) How difficult did you find the scenario/campaign? (1-10)

(3) How clear did you find the scenario/campaign objectives?

(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline?

(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario/campaign?

(6) How fun do you think the campaign is? (1-10)

(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the campaign to make it more fun?

(8) Any grammatical mistakes in dialogue/story text?


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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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Feedback for the 1.5.x/1.6.x version:

*well, I am still playing 1.4.5 on my ubuntu, but still, i think, it's worth it.

(1) What difficulty levels and game (& campaign) versions have you played the scenario/campaign on?
If reviewing a specific scenario, please specify.

*medium and played the 1st part completely, started second part.

(2) How difficult did you find the scenario/campaign? (1-10)

*It's around 7 going towards 8, i think

(3) How clear did you find the scenario/campaign objectives?

*Very clear

(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline?

*the introducing suggestion to play the official campaigns is very useful (I had already, so it was not a problem). The storyline is very clear, thought through and interesting. Actually, it is the best of all campaigns I played yet (about 15 or more). In my opinion it is worth a movie, no lie!

(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario/campaign?

*Actually, i am a patient person, so i like challenging scenarios. I also liked the new units, especially as they fit in the storyline very well - it is "future" ;)

(6) How fun do you think the campaign is? (1-10)

*11 :) - It is also the best balanced campaign til now. in others i used to have 1000g within a few scenarios. this is not the case here. U always have to watch your money bag.

(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the campaign to make it more fun?

*Only thing I'd would have loved to know, now the the sorceress is dead (final scenario of part I) is that i would have given the rings of regeneration and of movement to another char, but that is bad luck, i guess :D

(8) Any grammatical mistakes in dialogue/story text?

*Yep, in the 3rd scenario when they look if the invasion is really starting (2v4), the necromancer ends a sentence with "with with your blood" - one with too much :)

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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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sorry for double posting: I played it to the very end - amazing!

But i can't load the final map - too big, if i understood correct. However, may be it works in 1.5.x, as i am still using 1.4.5 ;)

Besides that ... nearly perfect. However, in the end I found it annoiying that everytimes I entered a map, the mission was something like:
Kill the overlord and put a final end to the thing!

Sure, this is the mission, but it is the mission from the very beginning. So, may be, this should only appear in the map with the final boss, if you like even twice (entering this map and entering his room).

Looking forward to see it implemented as a official mission (hoping for you for that, hehe).

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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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(1) What difficulty levels and game (& campaign) versions have you played the scenario/campaign on?
If reviewing a specific scenario, please specify.

Played on the easiest difficulty.

(2) How difficult did you find the scenario/campaign? (1-10)

8

(3) How clear did you find the scenario/campaign objectives?

I found them very clear.

(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline?

I really enjoyed it!

(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario/campaign?

I did not have any challenges, however I was playing on easy.

(6) How fun do you think the campaign is? (1-10)

10. I think it's a great campaign, worthy of mainline.

(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the campaign to make it more fun?

The units' images disappear around the desert scenario and if you level them up, sometimes they would come back but most of the time they did not. This only happened for some characters, not all of them. For example, Andlinde, and the Elvish Trappers. One Prowler showed up but the others did not. It is very odd. It would be nicer to see them.

(8) Any grammatical mistakes in dialogue/story text?

The storyline before 'An Errand for Hope' reads: "The very thought of approaching the place were" ... I believe the last word should be "where".


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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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I noticed what I think is one more error in the story. "These northern people are actually very educated and of fine modals, very much like our own people."

This is before the meeting with the Grand Council.

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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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Oops, one more -- during the meeting with the Grand Council, when Aleazar is speaking, the word "business" is misspelled as "bussiness".

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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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(1) What difficulty levels and game (& campaign) versions have you played the scenario/campaign on?
campaign version 1.12.0 (Wesnoth 1.6.1) and i'm now playing part one at the medium difficulty (i've once already finished this campaign, but it was at the begining of 2008 i think, so i don't remember what version it was)

(2) How difficult did you find the scenario/campaign? (1-10)
6 to 9 depending on the scenario

(3) How clear did you find the scenario/campaign objectives?
Very clear and i really like it when the objective changes in the middle of a scenario

(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialogue and storyline?
I think it is the best one of the campaigns i've played so far

(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario/campaign?
Little gold in some scenarios and really challenging foes – but i mean it all in a good way :)

(6) How fun do you think the campaign is? (1-10)
10 – so far my v favourite

(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the campaign to make it more fun?
I'd make it longer ;) I've read somewhere on this forum that there might be a part 3 and I hope the author will have time to make it :) i'm really looking forward to that

(8) Any grammatical mistakes in dialogue/story text?
I'm not a native speaker so i can't help with this :(

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I really like all the new units that appear only in this campaign, they are a great part of the fun and i really think their design is very good and in no way lacking :)
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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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(1) What difficulty levels and game (& campaign) versions have you played the scenario/campaign on?
Played both parts on Easy in 1.6, and loved it -- one of my favorite scenarios played.

(2) How difficult did you find the scenario/campaign? (1-10)
6 -- I found after the big fight in "A Real Confrontation" it was all pretty simple. A Elvish Ghost Forefather and a Spectre turned out to be the workhorses of my squad, even with all the other classes available. They were especially useful underground.

(3) How clear did you find the scenario/campaign objectives?

Very clear.

(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline?
It was all clear and definitely added to the enjoyment without being too heavy.

(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario/campaign?
As I said, it was all pretty much smooth sailing for quite a while, given all the characters available. By the time I'd gotten to the "end game" after the dwarf battle, I still had a gallery of 3rd and 4th level characters that I couldn't afford to upkeep. I had to go back and save up some money in an earlier scenario. Once I got underground for the final battle, I had to save and reload a few times, but once I got the hang of using my characters right against different enemies, it went smoothly. A necromancer was very useful in the end scenarios. One note: if I had been able to bring another healer character with me to the final scenarios when there i no recall, it would have gone much easier.

Also, defeating the Shadow Master was pretty tough. I had to make sure I had enough undead cannon fodder to keep him in one spot while Elynia and Mal Keshar used their super powers.


(6) How fun do you think the campaign is? (1-10)

10! It was definitely not the most strategic campaign but was a great deal of fun using all the different factions and getting to see a strong storyline play out. By the end I was really attached to my little band, and am looking forward to the sequel.

(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the campaign to make it more fun?
I think some of the middle campaigns might have been harder, but I think I'll replay it on Normal which should be tougher.

It wasn't clear whether destroying all the, er, energy chambers in the last few scenarios would stop all the random generation. If this was made a sub goal it might make the last few scenarios a little more varied.

(8) Any grammatical mistakes in dialogue/story text?
There were some but I didn't write them down. Next time through.
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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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Ive been trying to play your campaign but whenever i start it, it says "unknown scenario, border patrol" do you know to fix this?
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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

Post by JKilligans »

I haven't finished the campaign yet but I have to say so far I really like it. I'm into about the fourth mission of the first episode. The only complaints I have is that some units don't have a defense frame set so they "disappear" when they get attacked. I could just set the unit image to be the defense frame so it's no big deal. Also there are typos but generally it's very clear what's being said. I didn't make note of all the ones I saw but they were mostly trivial anyway.
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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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you told me to be sure i played your campaign. well i already did back when it was on the 1.4 server(i have a very good memory, i can remember notes given to me by my teachers back in sixth grade even though i'm now a high school graduate). i played totally through it, and must say, it was on of the best campaigns i've ever played.it was very playable on easy and challenging on hard. I'd recommend this campaign to anyone that asked me for a good fun campaign.
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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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does it ever end!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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how did you get the chaos warlord to appear???
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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

Post by knight1707 »

This was really good, hard but good till the Valley of the Moon level.
then it just gets silly.
I start with 100 gold (is this correct or did I do something wrong)
so you get 5 units, even all at level 3 Its impossible, even with the save/reolad that I hate to use but unforunatly something you have to do on some levels.
Am I doing something wrong, its a shame not to carry on but as I said with 10-0 gold its just ridiuclous......

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Re: Invasion from the Unknown

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(1) What difficulty levels and game (& campaign) versions have you played the scenario/campaign on?

Easy, 1.6, and I think the latest version (I got it from the user-made campaigns server around 2 weeks ago).

(2) How difficult did you find the scenario/campaign? (1-10)

9. I found that the last missions were the most difficult, as they should be. However, I found myself using the save/reload trick a little too much, especially in the second part. In my opinion, the easy mode could be a little easier.

As a side note, Moon Valley was was too hard. I had to play uber-defensively to have a shot at winning and didn't until the 5th try, with only 2 turns remaining. I think that on easy difficulty there should be one less orc leader or even more time.

(3) How clear did you find the scenario/campaign objectives?

Very clear. There were a few times where I was annoyed when the scenario objectives would change but when you went back to check them they didn't reflect the changes.

(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline?

Very clear, and very interesting. The storyline is very good (better than most I have played) and is better than UtBS, IMHO.

(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario/campaign?

In the moon valley, again, it was kind of silly. Otherwise I didn't have too much trouble apart from the end of the campaign.

(6) How fun do you think the campaign is? (1-10)

10. Very fun and the most addicting. Can't wait for part 3.

(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the campaign to make it more fun?

Not sure. I would have loved to have been able to give the Ring of Regeneration to Mal, but I suppose that would make him a one-man army. Oh well.

(8) Any grammatical mistakes in dialogue/story text?

There were a few, but I don't remember where they were.


In my opinion, this one is ready for mainline. But my suggestion is, polish this one up for mainline and if there is a sequel put it under a new name. Assuming that the chaos empire is in ruins, there is no need for the next campaign to be called IftU Part 3.
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