Quests and battle failure

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Hi guys, in my work with the Quest wizard I have tried many variations of objectives and choices and battles.  One thing that I can't get to work correctly is to figure out what will happen when I lose a battle in a quest.   Does anyone have a good feel for what happens for an objective that has a battle victory as a condition?   

 

The core quests used to have a failure condition when the battle was lost, but that was taken out a couple of builds ago, in theory so that the player could come back to the quest and fight the battle again.

 

So a quest that doesn't quite work how it should is the The Camp Healer2 quest I made that you can download from the quest wizard post.  In particular, this objective below will still move to the next objective even if I lose the battle (the remaining enemies will be on the strategic map).

 

Code: xml
  3. <QuestObjectiveDef>
  4. <ObjectiveID>6</ObjectiveID>
  5. <NextObjectiveID>7</NextObjectiveID>
  6. <PopupObjectiveMsg>0</PopupObjectiveMsg>
  7. <Description>Shaman Battle</Description>
  8. <QuestConditionDef>
  9. <Class>Success</Class>
  10. <Type>BattleFinished</Type>
  11. <TextData>DarklingShaman</TextData>
  12. <MoreTextData>Victory</MoreTextData>
  13. <Objective>
  14. <Icon>M_Darkling_Shaman_Card.png</Icon>
  15. <Text>Find the healer</Text>
  16. <IsOptional>0</IsOptional>
  17. </Objective>
  18. </QuestConditionDef>
  19. </QuestObjectiveDef>

Any thoughts or ideas?   What we'd really like to do is move to a new objective if you lose and a different one if you win.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Add a condition. Make it a class failure, type battlefnished and have a next objective ID move to a new objective. That objective would be -1 to end the quest and say 6 to move to a new part of the story where you failed but move on in the quest.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

So you are saying that something like this should work:

 

Code: xml
  3. <QuestObjectiveDef>
  4. <ObjectiveID>6</ObjectiveID>
  5. <NextObjectiveID>7</NextObjectiveID>
  6. <PopupObjectiveMsg>0</PopupObjectiveMsg>
  7. <Description>Shaman Battle</Description>
  8. <QuestConditionDef>
  9. <NextObjectiveID>7</NextObjectiveID>
  10. <Class>Success</Class>
  11. <Type>BattleFinished</Type>
  12. <TextData>DarklingShaman</TextData>
  13. <MoreTextData>Victory</MoreTextData>
  14. <Objective>
  15. <Icon>M_Darkling_Shaman_Card.png</Icon>
  16. <Text>Find the healer</Text>
  17. <IsOptional>0</IsOptional>
  18. </Objective>
  19. </QuestConditionDef>
  20. <QuestConditionDef>
  21. <NextObjectiveID>-1</NextObjectiveID>
  22. <Class>Failure</Class>
  23. <Type>BattleFinished</Type>
  24. <TextData>DarklingShaman</TextData>
  25. <MoreTextData>Defeat</MoreTextData>
  26. <Objective>
  27. <Icon>M_Darkling_Shaman_Card.png</Icon>
  28. <Text>Find the healer</Text>
  29. <IsOptional>0</IsOptional>
  30. </Objective>
  31. </QuestConditionDef>
  32. </QuestObjectiveDef>

 I'll have to try it out.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

-1 ends the quest. Switch it to anything else to keep it going. One thing I like to do is have a failed battle loop the objective, so you spawn a whole new goodiehut and have to try again.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

So I don't think this works.   At least it seems to completely ignore the nextObjectiveID within the conditions.   Sean (or anyone)  do you have a working quest that does this?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I'll check my files as soon as I get a chance. I am sure I have this in one of my quests, but I can't remember which one. I have alot of projects going at once. I now and afraid I coded it without testing it and it doesn't work.  8C