Should/could we?

[Guest Scathane]

I would like to bet a lot of you guys are in possesion of ResHacker or some other tool for the same purpose. I would also like to bet that a lot of you guys have found, heared about or sought out many of the game's hidden resources (such as the Millennium Falcon model and Leia screaming Hey, watch where you point that thing!). What I would lastly like to bet is that not many of you have found the following in ENCYTEXT.DLL; If you go to RCData 7176, and select the resource listed there, you'll find the following piece of text:

 

This mission is obsolete and if you are reading this, you should report it as a bug!

Apart from thinking it's nice, to have yet again found one of the game's hidden things, I've got two questions:

 

1. Should we indeed report this as a bug?
2. Could we do anything with this obsolete mission (such as fill it with a new one)?

[the_mask]

Yes the strange obsolete mission. I never could do more than speculate about what it was. Maybe using the legendary bounty hunters, or it could have to do with the sabattical, hermitage, dagobah or rebel prison tags that also don't seem to be used.

But I don't think LA would really react to us reporting it as a bug, well not enough to release the source code, if that's along the line of your thoughts

 

I'm sure we could do something with it, if we had the source. In my theory, the game checks for conditions, like a char being at a certain location and if these match you could launch that type of mission. At least that's the most logical way, I can think of programming that.

 

Btw, did you get and read my mail about that beta test ?

[Guest Scathane]

What on Earth are the sabbatical, hermitage, dagobah and rebel prison tags?

 

P.S. - Yes, I got your email; I'll start testing it in the coming week.

[masterjojobinks]

Hey people of Grand Rank,

What is the status of the TC?

Thanks

[the_mask]

Great rank ? Umm, ok

 

Well, the dll crew is currently creating event pics, movies and replacements for the the advisor animations (3PO, R2, IMP, ...).

 

Scath: good, I was beginning to wonder, since TK didn't see it in the first place, Igor and E. haven't replied at all and Trej was the only one so far to report a sucessful test. relief

[masterjojobinks]

When I say Grand Rank I am refering to your rank (Grand Admiral) and Scathane's (Grand Vizier) . Thanks for the update though. Is there an estimated completion date?

[the_mask]

Umm, I can't speak for the others of course. But seeing even all the professional companies always adjusting their release dates until before the actual release, I think not speculating about the final date would be the wisest course of action.

 

Scath, I think these are possible leftovers, since nobody reported triggering the events to show them yet. You can find the entries in the textstra.dll.

[TK421]

Yes, you are right Mask. Betatesting, that is that obscure program etc that you sent me? I didn't get it at work in that first few minutes, I'll have to have a closer look.

 

And what about this Pucho wacko? Where is he going!

[vakundok]

Well, there are leftovers from earlier missions. It seems that originally there were different research missions that have been replaced by a single one. Also, those special missions (like palace, if I remember well) have special stats and I have no idea what they are, whether they are automatic (like the bounty hunter) or simply obsolete missions.

 

You should only report that if you face with it during gameplay.

[Trejiuvanat]

Abandoned missions? Interesting stuff you uncovered, Vad.

 

 

Dagobah does appear when Luke goes to Dagobah and you look for him using the Personnel Finder.

Hermitage, I suppose is linked to another string that says that Luke has been so deeply affected by the encounter with Vader that he has decided to contemplate and meditate. Don't know about the Sabbatical stuff, nor the Rebel Prison.

 

I do think that we should report it, at least only to get a reaction from LEC.

[Jahled]

I wonder how none of really touched upon this before!

 

If Lucas Arts don't won't to devulge the game's source code, they might be more forthcomming with questions concerning some of the stuff Resource Hacker has unveiled...such as these missions and their original vision and placing in the game... who knows, if someone gets some hit of reaction from the guys at Lucas Arts the TC might infact be able to include some of the unused strings... that would be a real touch to present to the Star Wars Gaming community on behalf of this site's member's efforts; nothing would give me at least more pride as one of the members here!

[Guest JediIgor]

What about getting in touch with one of Rebellion's original developers?

[Trejiuvanat]

Hi Igor, haven't seen you for a while...

 

Scath had been in touch with one of the guys that worked for Coolhand. Parts of the email exchange can be found in the IF you could ask the game developers... or somethign like that -thread in General Discussions..

 

I agree with Jahled, though. LEC could easily reply to out ResHack questions without giving away anything of the Source Code. [/i]