Kill ALL minions at the end of each mission.

Blessed Winds

Blessed Winds

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

I live in Panda Land. It's wonderful.

PLU (Panda Lovers UNITED)

Me/Mo

Seriously...they've bugged up cinematics too many times. I hate it when Rurik makes a speech and he gets mauled by a flesh golem.

genofreek

genofreek

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

USA

Jenova's Apocolyptic Remains [JAR]

D/

Really? I think that's one of the funniest things in the game. It's even better when it's that one mission where Shiro kills everyone and those ghostly spiritual escort characters are trying to have this long conversation while minions growl and take potshots at them.

I won't /notsign you because it gets old (I use Olias a lot), but eh. /neutral.

Swift Thief

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

Aatxe Pirates [YaRR]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blessed Winds
Seriously...they've bugged up cinematics too many times. I hate it when Rurik makes a speech and he gets mauled by a flesh golem.
/unsigned That is a good thing dude... It is funny.

Tyla

Emo Goth Italics

Join Date: Sep 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blessed Winds
I hate it when Rurik makes a speech and he gets mauled by a flesh golem.
rurik deserves that for being such a rushin nubzer:P

Solas

Solas

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ireland

Currently LF Active HA Guild, Glad 2, Comm.3, R2

E/

/signed or at elast if there was an option if you were party leader, as in options.

as survivors or people that want ot take the story seriously miss out a bit, (some of the words are a bit iffy with the minnions attacks)

Blessed Winds

Blessed Winds

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

I live in Panda Land. It's wonderful.

PLU (Panda Lovers UNITED)

Me/Mo

It was funny at first, but it get repetitive after a while :P

Longasc

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

They had minions stop degenerating to death in cutscenes due to complaints a long time ago already.

Nuking them now in cutscenes would be contraproductive.

But I agree on the minions screwing up cutscenes.

They should make them "invisible" or somehow get rid of them as long as the sequence lasts.

After the cutscene they should appear behind the MM again. Their hp/degen status is preserved already.

And you are right, at the very end of a mission it does not matter if they are dead or alive...^^

jaeharys targaryen

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

USA

Picnic Pioneers[asian characters]

E/Mo

Quote:
where Shiro kills everyone and those ghostly spiritual escort characters are trying to have this long conversation while minions growl and take potshots at them.
funnier is when everyone has minipets
our horseman were cantering sadly around our corpes


/unsigned
this is funny, not terribly bad

Str0b0

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Carolina

N/Me

/notsigned. I think almost everyone playing the game today has seen the same cutscenes at least once. I think I would rather see any resources expended to fixing this minor problem put elsewhere where things really need fixing.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Unless they add a way to replay cinematics, they MUST do so. They get in the way.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

/signed

Minions are responsible for the Viznu Square survivor bug. Responses of "its funny" are kinda poor. I mean, its a glitch.

Furthermore, why do minions go nuts and pets not attack things? If they can program pets to go "nuetral" during cut scenes, then so can minions.

Onarik Amrak

Onarik Amrak

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2007

Astral Revenants

P/W

/signed Looks like another person got screwed over by Vizunah Square.

Luckily, I got my Ele through their last week without dying.

Vinraith

Vinraith

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2006

/signed

Some people are much, much too easily amused.

Blessed Winds

Blessed Winds

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

I live in Panda Land. It's wonderful.

PLU (Panda Lovers UNITED)

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Str0b0
/notsigned. I think almost everyone playing the game today has seen the same cutscenes at least once. I think I would rather see any resources expended to fixing this minor problem put elsewhere where things really need fixing.
Eh, if this is so minor, they can probably do it in no time and have it be combined in a big update.

Frozy

Frozy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
Unless they add a way to replay cinematics, they MUST do so. They get in the way.
I agree.
EotN got that, i am pretty sure adding it to the previous games isn't so hard...

Aera Lure

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by genofreek
Really? I think that's one of the funniest things in the game. It's even better when it's that one mission where Shiro kills everyone and those ghostly spiritual escort characters are trying to have this long conversation while minions growl and take potshots at them.
lol, I agree. I'd prefer it left as is, as it doesnt cause a mission failure, just some chuckling during an animation we've seen a million times if someone in the group doesnt skip it.

Swift Thief

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

Aatxe Pirates [YaRR]

A/

If you don't have a sense of humor, then don't take MM's on missions where the minions will attack people.

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

/not signed

---Warnung! It's teh spoilarz!---

This one time, I was doing Vizunah Square with several MMs. In the final cutscene, a female assassin was killed by the minions. When the Envoys resurrected the party, the female assassin spoke as main character in cutscene... but using the male voice.

Funny moments like that are great. And without the minions it would not have happened.

draxynnic

draxynnic

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2005

[CRFH]

That bug's actually unrelated to minions - it happens regularly in Unwaking Waters. I think what happens is that a PC apart from the party leader gets subbed in for the leader, but still uses the leader's voice.

On the general thrust of the thread: As long as it isn't taking time away from something more important, /signed, especially if it was done as a toggle. Longasc, the suggestion isn't to nuke them during ANY cutscene - just the end cutscenes where you don't need them any more because you've finished the mission.

IslandHermet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Str0b0
/notsigned. I think almost everyone playing the game today has seen the same cutscenes at least once. I think I would rather see any resources expended to fixing this minor problem put elsewhere where things really need fixing.
100% agree WHY point this out when their are BUGS that have been around for years?? fix bugs first.

Rushin Roulette

Rushin Roulette

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Right here

Ende

/not signed (with the exception of the Vizunah square bug of course)

I love the Minions in the cutscenes... Last time I did the Minister Cho's mission the little girl was babling on about her father (I think Cho was her father) being transformed into a monster in her dream (spacecookies really shouldnt be eaten by little children) while all the minions were going mad on the body in question behind Togo and the little girl... really underlined the seriousness of that scripted speech .

Vickie

Vickie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

Australia, originally from Hong Kong

World of Moon Shadow[月影]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushin Roulette
I love the Minions in the cutscenes... Last time I did the Minister Cho's mission the little girl was babling on about her father (I think Cho was her father) being transformed into a monster in her dream (spacecookies really shouldnt be eaten by little children) while all the minions were going mad on the body in question behind Togo and the little girl... really underlined the seriousness of that scripted speech .
Heh, I think the kid is a boy. (Zho, on the other hand, is a woman. I don't know why quite a few mistakes her for a man...)

Back on topic, I had an MM in that same cutscene, and the minions always attack the kid when Master Togo tells him "you are safe now". LOL Togo, it's not right to lie to a child! XD

/neutral as well. As long as people don't lose their Survivor titles.

Edit: Ooh found some screenies.

Evidence of Master Togo lying to kids:


The Hunger getting some minion love:

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

I think its minister cho in the mission (minister cho's estate). zho is the archer.

Vickie

Vickie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

Australia, originally from Hong Kong

World of Moon Shadow[月影]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by pumpkin pie
I think its minister cho in the mission (minister cho's estate). zho is the archer.
I know Cho = Minister Cho. I was just stating that people were confused about Zho. It's not related to that mission, hence it was written in brackets. :P

payne

payne

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

england (currently located on the south coast)

R/

i think it is one of the better things about cut-scenes watching rurik get pwn'd :P

nice laugh to watch the envoy people at end of viz square mis get attacked by uncontrolled minions after everyone died!

Rushin Roulette

Rushin Roulette

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Right here

Ende

Yup, got one aswell with Togo saying one thing.... and has an expression on his face like "Dont mess with me, or I will send my friends here behind me over to your place at night for a little chat "