View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0027645 | AI War 2 | Suggestion | Nov 21, 2022 11:14 pm | Mar 11, 2023 12:38 pm | |
| Reporter | Unterbrink | Assigned To | |||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 5.526 AMU Returns | ||||
| Summary | 0027645: Immersive journal entries. | ||||
| Description | EDIT: Juicy Journal Mod fixes this issue! ---------------------------------------------------------- I miss similar journal entries as in the first AI War. They were more immersive and were important in creating the atmosphere. (I always got a Terminator-like atmosphere when reading them.) They were a small, but important part of the game, at least for me. AIW2 does a good job in the journal entries of the DLC minor factions, but the big bad AI itself is left with very little attention. An example of the first journal entry of both games: Aiw Classic: https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War:Overall_Mission Aiw2: "After an 800-year civil war between humans fighting amongst the stars, they finally birthed a force that would end all human wars forever: Artificial Intelligence. Quickly eclipsing the humans in power and taking control of most of their automated forces, the AI nearly wiped the human race from the face of the galaxy. Only scattered pockets of humans remain, hiding amidst the scattered wreckage from the civil war and AI-led extermination that followed. You are in command of the last substantial remaining human military force. It is so small that the AI is either unaware of it, or just doesn't care. Potentially coincidentally, something outside the galaxy seems to have distraced the AI far more than humans ever did. You must grow your forces, capturing and reactivating fleets from the old wars... but you must be careful not to grow so strong that the eye of the AI turns back toward you." | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
|
|
If someone would like to volunteer to write such journal entries then that would be great. It's not going to come from the development team (primary development on this game is over). |
|
|
Can't the texts from the first game be used for this with some minor modifications? The story is basically still the same as in the first game. I examined the contents of the lore_journal.xml file and at least editing the first AI lore text seems to be easy, but I didn't figure out how to write new journal texts in such a way that they are triggered by the desired events in the game? |
|
|
I started updating the journal texts in the game to a uniform format, which follows the immersive writing style of the first game and less wiki-like writing style. |
|
|
There are actually pretty significant differences between the two games in terms of story. One big example of that is just all the factions and all their associated journals that just didn't exist in Classic. A lot of the Classic journals covered Spire which has a different narrative structure in AI War 2 as well. |
|
|
@Unterbrink I'm going to try integrating your changes. If you use Discord at all can you @ or DM me there? Dismiss#2860 on https://discord.gg/arcengames |
|
|
Note these have been integrated as the mod Juicy Journals for a couple versions now. @Unterbrink are you still interested in any further feedback? |
|
|
@Dismiss Mod is working and up to date, so I would say no further feedback is necessary. |
|
|
This has been added as a mod |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2022 11:14 pm | Unterbrink | New Issue | |
| Nov 21, 2022 11:49 pm | Unterbrink | Description Updated | |
| Dec 1, 2022 1:20 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0067370 | |
| Dec 1, 2022 1:57 pm | Unterbrink | Note Added: 0067371 | |
| Dec 1, 2022 3:41 pm | Unterbrink | Note Added: 0067372 | |
| Dec 1, 2022 3:42 pm | Unterbrink | Note Edited: 0067372 | |
| Dec 2, 2022 4:01 pm | Unterbrink | File Deleted: AIW2-Texts.7z | |
| Dec 2, 2022 4:33 pm | Unterbrink | File Deleted: AIW2-Texts.7z | |
| Dec 2, 2022 4:48 pm | Strategic Sage | Note Added: 0067376 | |
| Dec 2, 2022 5:20 pm | Dismiss | Note Added: 0067377 | |
| Mar 11, 2023 10:00 am | Dismiss | Note Added: 0067493 | |
| Mar 11, 2023 10:26 am | Unterbrink | Note Added: 0067494 | |
| Mar 11, 2023 10:28 am | Unterbrink | Description Updated | |
| Mar 11, 2023 12:38 pm | BadgerBadger | Status | new => resolved |
| Mar 11, 2023 12:38 pm | BadgerBadger | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Mar 11, 2023 12:38 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0067495 |
