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In all of the unfinished maps I've made, I always strived to incorporate missions into them, ranging from simple things like delivering a pizza to big things like leading a small squad of guerillas to destroy an encampment. Missions are mainly in Open Ended style maps (which most of mine are) and can either be not plot-related and just for the lulz or rewards, or plot twists galore, AKA plot-related. I want to compile a list of ideas for missions and quests as a 'reference' list if you are making an open ended style map. A lot of the missions I think of will be for 'city maps' because I am making one myself and will possibly use them. Submit your ideas .

SIDENOTE: If there is no 'author', that means either I 'invented' the mission or the author's name is in the mission name.

The List So Far:

Prison Break: A few of your gang's key members have been put behind bars. Sneak your way into the PD and drug the guard and drag him over to the DNA identification sensor to open the door, and while you're at it steal his keys. If you don't successfully drug the guard then you will automatically get a "3-star wanted level". Once you're in the cell room, unlock the doors to the cells and get out of there because cops will be on your tail! Get to the getaway vehicle manned by one of your gang's members and shoot out the back at any pursuiting cops (With a corsair's disruption web) as the computer ally drives to the gang hideout. When you arrive at the hideout, it's mission complete.

Party Crasher: The Triads are hosting an annual party today and a key member of their gang will be present. Get some new threads to look like a Triad, and then hide in the back of a truck that will be holding wine for the party. You can't get through the gates without being in the Truck because you'll be denied access. Also, if you move in front of the truck, you will be spotted and will fail the mission and have the punishment of having to defend yourself against a few Triads. Once you're in the mansion, you can either fool around and communicate with the guests (possibly cause a few sidequests whilst in the primary mission) or cut straight to the point. Also, make sure you don't have firearms out as the guests will not take kindly to them. Once you're at the main room where the key leader is at, go to a nearby weapons rack (they need to be prepared, right?) and take a Sniper Rifle from it. Vanquish your target stealthily and while everyone is distracted, get out of there! If you accidentally pull out a gun or punch a guest during the mission (before you assassinate your target) then you fail. When you escape the mansion undetected, it's job well done.

Falkoner's Epic List of Side-Quests: Clicky

Escort The Merchant: Commander Darius has ordered you to escort this merchant and his caravan safely to Spira. Collovian forces are sure to attack you, so be on your guard. You may want to recruit additional men at the barracks. Halfway through the mission, the 3 caravans explode, and several enemy troops pop out. The merchant is the leader of the "gang", and its all just a gay boss battle. When you kill the merchant, you dig through his belongings, noting that Darius ordered you dead. Arriving in Spira, the Grand Wizard rests you up, and warps you on the Fort.
-Author: Vi3t-X

"A Mile In My Shoes": This is a unique style of a mission that takes place in the past and you control one of the main NPCs (not your main character). It begins during some cutscene and eventually your comrade has a flashback and you play as him (whilst in the flashback). Think of it as sort of like the level in Call of Duty 4 that you play as Captain Price a few years back. Well anyways, the flashback occurs and you're playing as one of the main NPCs in the storyline. The mission could range from how he destroyed some place to how he rose to power, you decide. I'm not one to judge you

Sneak Attack: "We're low on men, so we have to do a lot with the actions of a few." -Unnamed Mafia Don that will be in my map . Your mafia family is low in members (as it hasn't gained control yet) and needs to do a lot with the actions of few. A few Triads are driving around in a convoy to transport one of their key members (surprise?) from one of their territories to another, and the Galvannio Family mafia has set up ambush points all around town. Lure the Triads to one of these ambush points (you decide, there might be alternate endings!) by either ramming one of their cars or exitting yours, shooting one of theirs, and re-entering. and let your gang do the rest. Be wary, though, for the Triads will fight back. With another one of their key members gone, your mafia family is closer to power.

Predatorial Mating Season: Strange beasts who are very territorial, especially during mating season are terrorising the farmlands. Go to the farmlands on the outskirts of town and rescue the farmers trapped inside their homes.
EVIL ALTERNATIVE: Kill the farmers and loot their homes.
-Author: ZergBlender

Delivery!: Deliver a package to every shop in town; the tackle shop, the fletcher, the armourer, the trading post, and the stables. Once you're done return to the Customs Agent to complete your quest.

Paperwork: "Always something with the Robe's Clan! Deliver this paperwork to the steersman of the Robe's Clan in their temple and then return to me." You do exactly what the Customs Agent says to do, and then return to him for a reward.

Unemployment: "The mine at the edge of town is understaffed, I broke my finger there! Put up a few flyers advertising employment there so no more accidents happen." Get permission from the mine's manager to advertise it first...However, you must choose what to do; be good and kindly ask for his permission and put the flyers up, or be evil and assassinate him, risk being jailed (Maybe a 90% chance to be jailed and have to do a side-quest to get out, and not to mention you fail the quest and have to restart it after having your entire inventory except the clothes on your back stripped off of you), and if you successfully assassinate him you'll become the manager of the mine, but you will still have to put flyers up to get some more employees. Return to the Customs Agent once you are complete for a reward.

Applicants: "I need you to bring these two papers to the Granery on the north side of town so they can hire their two new employees, just don't go near any guards or else they'll kill you...these papers aren't exactly legit, you see." Take the work papers to the granery while carefully evading patrol guards. Once the papers are delivered you don't have to worry about guards trying to kill you, just go back to the Customs Office and complete your mission.

"Unnamed Chain Quest:" Arriving in Spria at last, General Deval tells you to explore the town. He hands you 200 gold and leaves you on your way.

[ ] Talk to people around town
[ ] Explore the many guilds
[ ] Talk to the officer of the local Legion
[ ] Talk to a League offical
[ ] Ask for freelance work

-- Complete Tasks --

NOTE: I only had 2 quests done on this thing, so yeah.

Legion:
Orth, commander of the Legions of Spria asks you to talk to General Darius in Fort Moonshire (lol) about the recent animal agressions around the continent.

[ ] Speak to General Darius

Once you speak to Darius, he explains that he sent a team to pacify the local Gromsh Queen. Apparantly she was diseased of some sort, and her hive is infested.

[ ] Find a way to cure the Gromsh Queen
[ ] Cure the Gromsh Queen

Curing the Queen leads you to find out who infected the Queen. Reports in Stormbard indicate that just as the search began, a man fled from the city. His trails stopped at the Caverns of the Forgotten. It would appear he went inside... [ +900 gold + 1 rep ]

Kill the Queen however, and you get no money. Story continues...

[ ] Find clues as to where the man went
[ ] Kill the man

Located deep within the Caverns, wounded. The suspect is infact female! She is badly injured, and you have several choices:

[1] Kill Her
Its not much of a fight, she just dies really. And if you don't kill her within 30 seconds, she dies anyways.
Report back to Darius [ +2000 gold +2 rep ]

[2] Talk to Her
You assist her, thinking she isn't of any harm. Turns out this girl was possessed at the time. An evil by the name of Drixar used her to poison the Gromsh Queen.
To finish quest, you have 3 options again
--[1] Kill her, these tales are lies! [ +2000 gold +2 rep ]
--[2] Kill Drixar [ +2000 gold, +500 gold (from her) +4 rep ]
--[3] Report to Darius [ +1000 gold + 1 rep ]

[3] Abandon Her
You don't wanna kill her. But you don't wanna help her either. Leave her there, who cares?

[ ] Report back to Darius
-Author: Vi3t-X

Ring Master: "I can't tell you why, but I need you to go on a sniping job and assassinate a clown at the carnival. Meet me at the carnival's entrance." You and your unknown mission supplier meet up at the carnival entrance (You need about ten dollars to enter) and he tells you more information about the job. Go get two ride tickets (One for each) to ride the ferris wheel. Once you and your mission supplier are at the top, he points out the clown that needs to be assassinated. Ready your sniper rifle, and make sure you hit the right target in 30 seconds (You have 30 seconds until the ferris wheel rotates again.) If you snipe the wrong person, you fail. If you snipe the correct clown, then you complete your mission and your mission supplier gives you your reward.

World War Z Missions: A group of civilians are held up in a house, armed, but not able to hold out the zombie hordes. You go to save them, however when you do get there, you learn they have a LOT of supplies your group needs, as they pack it up in a car, or backpacks, or something, you defend the house/office/building from zombies.

Local PD has a problem in their basement sector where all the guns and ammo is held, turns out a gigantic monster is down there (Possible boss fight), and you must rid of it.

A nearby radio station is the best possibility at communication with other parts of the world. Go in, find the transmitting beacon, and set up the uplink. However you find out something is jammed in the satelite dish, and it cannot turn until you remove it (Probably a corpse or a crowbar)

A helicopter that goes and picks up civilians, a possible nice feature you could add that does this constantly throughout the game, was forced to land in a hostile part of the city due to a mechanical failure. You need to go to one of the local tool shops, pick up some tools and parts, then head over to the helicopter. Not to mention defend it all the meanwhile. This could be a reoccurring problem if you want.

Local grease-monkey has invented something of great use! One problem... It needs a few parts and to be carried to a designated or one of many possible areas, for optimal use... What is it? Well... It's the mobile turret-nest idea LoveLess and JaFF had.

A terrorist within the city has decided to be of some help. He wants to destroy a local zombie nest and common-used quick transit into the city. It must be destroyed or you're screwed, escort the former-madbomber to the location and he will do the rest.

The hospital is having some trouble... Let's all guess what the issue is. Escort them outside, luring the infected out and clear it. Some additional guards will escort all the patients back inside and ensure the problem doesn't reoccur.
-Author(s): Dark_Marine and LoveLess

"Food Fight": The local McDonald's and Burger King are at it again! Now the feud is just getting ridiculous. Pick a side, and then try to frame the other. You can find faults or health problems in their food, etc. When you frame the other fast food restaurant, make sure a health inspector or cop sees it, and then return to the one you sided with for a reward. The one that you didn't side with will be closed down and you can no longer go into it, but you can then get a job from the restaurant you sided with (A mini-game and depending how well you perform is the money you're paid.).

Chandelier Assailant: You are a hit man designated to assassinate a wealthy entrepreneur who is a competitor of your client. The entrepreneur is hosting a large party at his mansion to celebrate his recent successful business venture. You enter into a the entrepreneur's large mansion disguised as a guest. In the mansion, guests are talking to each other and dancing to fancy music. Your target is also dancing, occasionally moving across the room to switch dance positions. Attached to the ceiling are several large immobile chandeliers (battlecruisers with 1 hp scattered around the room in different positions). You must wait for the target to move under one of the chandeliers and shoot the chandelier above him. The chandelier will fail, and crush anyone below it, making a huge mess on the ground (crashed norad II). Kill the target in this way to win the mission, however, other guests are dancing and moving around the room, and you must not crush anyone other than your target, otherwise your mission is a failure.
Author: Oyen

Trapped in a Train: "We always knew that a subway isn't the best way to run. A subway can't turn left or right and the police have blocked us in... but we won't surrender due to a silly mistake. Get ready, fellow syndicate members, to protect your lives by destroying others' lives." You just had to mess with the cops, and your only way out was through the subway... where police forces could easily block your way out, now you must fight. Along with some of your allies, you must move from cover-to-cover, wall-to-wall to escape alive by shooting up cops who have manned themselves behind walls and surrounded your location, just so you can't make a clean getaway. Once you escape the subway station you must steal a car and escape to the nearby Pay&Spray.

Hot Coffee: "Some mad bikers rushed into our favorite bar, smashed everything, and shot up some of our guys. Let's make 'em pay!" Take care of the small biker problem to get vengeance on what they did to your favorite bar! They're bikers, so you can't reason with them. You'll just have to resort to physical and weapon violence. Once the problem is taken care of you complete the mission.

Inner Rock Star: A local arcade is hosting their annual Rock Star tournament and you're a hobo with very little cash. You remember playing it as a kid and being able to beat the toughest of songs on Expert. The tournament has a cash reward for the first place winner. Sweet. You'll need to win three matches (Easy, medium, and hard AI computers) to win the tournament. You play Rock Star by hitting A for the left string (Arbiter), S for the middle string (Scout) and C for the right string (Carrier). Zealots will come down on the interface and when they hit the creep you will need to use the corresponding fret by building the certain unit. For every note you miss you'll lose one rock power, and for every note you hit you'll gain one to a maximum of 20. Rock power multiplies the score you would recieve for hitting a note, and for each note you hit in the song will trigger the .5 second .wav that would happen at that point in the song. Whoever has the most points at the end of two minutes wins the match, and goes on. If you lose a match, you fail the mission, along with losing some money you gave for entry. Winning will give you prize money along with the ability to play Rock Star at the arcade whenever you want.

Also:

Make sure to think of some missions / quests yourself, and I'll put them up on this post.

Post has been edited 23 time(s), last time on Jul 4 2009, 3:40 am by lil-Inferno.

A great deal of "quests" fall into the "retrieval" or "collection" category. I.E. Wise Old Man gives you 1000 gold for retrieving his Staff of Ages or something like that.

Then there's your Destroy Something quests, like the Joker needs you to blow up Gotham Bank to create a distraction while he kills batman or something like that.

There could be a timed event, get to n area fast enough.

Solving puzzles.

Just a few generic categories.

Haha, you can use all the old ones from my Random Quest RPG if you want, they're kinda lame, but they'd make great side-missions:

http://www.staredit.net/maplantis/index.php?topic=292

Yeah, generic missions are usually used in most maps, but out-of-the-ordinary is my cup of tea.

EDIT: OOH, another mission idea .

Added.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Nov 2 2008, 9:16 am by lil-Inferno.

Escortion missions are the best. Espcially if they're not TOTALLY useless.

I KNOW you've played some GTA, try using some of their missions, only changed a bit.

EX: You know in SA when you and (Insert CJ's brother's name here) are on a motorcycle and have to keep up with a train to kill some yellow guys? You could use a Vulture as the bike and a Wraith as the shooter, and move the Wraith on top of the Vulture every X miliseconds.

Professionally made missions are hillarious.

Some of which that I devised (on a dead unfinished map) was:

Escort the Merchant,

Commander Darius has ordered you to escort this merchant and his caravan safely to Spira. Collovian forces are sure to attack you, so be on your guard. You may want to recruit additional men at the barracks.

-- Half way along the trip --

The 3 caravans explode, and several enemy troops pop out. The merchant is the leader of the "gang", and its all just a gay boss battle.
When you kill the merchant, you dig through his belongings, noting that Darius ordered you dead.

Arriving in Spria, the Grand Wizard rests you up, and warps you on the Fort.


Yay for boring quest.

To be honest I've only played GTA III and GTA IV for like thirty minutes.


Yeah, escort missions are fun, but it's a shame there really aren't any. It would be cool if you escorted a mage and he used spells to defend himself or something.

Well, I've been playing Far Cry 2 recently, and that game has some pretty interesting quests.

One quest from one faction boss is to kill a corrupt chief of police that has been dealing with another faction. There are several ways to do it, you can attempt to snipe him in his SUV, you can shoot a rocket at his vehicle, or you can take a bunch of alternate options that your buddies offer you, like stealing his briefcase complete with records of his dealings, then planting explosives in his office for when he goes and looks for it. Or you can just hide in his office with a machete.

Anyways, I think the coolest thing you could do in a city map would be assassination jobs that actually require investigation and planning on the player's part. Triggering city guards and civilians would be hard as hell, but if you made it so that you'd use some target select and weapon mode deal you could have varying degrees of revealing yourself, and yeah, I really don't know, but smart people and guards combined with open ended killing plots would be really cool. Something like a system that lets you bribe building owners to let you on to their roof so that you have a good shot at something with a sniper rifle, but if you kill someone using their roof there'd be a chance they'd turn you in and have guards in the store waiting for you if you ever went back.

Collect all _ pieces of _ so you can build/become _ and destroy/unlock/reach/etc _. Best quest ever.

I thought of a new one:

That sounds like the sandbox style of gameplay that I'm going for in my map in progress. Besides, who needs a landowner's permission to use their roof when you're a thug .

Epic.

Predatorial mating season.

Strange beasts who are very territorial, especially during mating season are terrorising the farmlands.
-Go to the farmlands on the outskirts of town and rescue the farmers trapped inside their homes.
EVIL ALTERNATIVE: Kill the farmers and loot their homes.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Nov 6 2008, 6:58 pm by Zergblender.

The Escape:

Escape the evil facility.

Time Limit: 30 seconds.
Map Size: 256x256

Escapee (Reaver)
HP: 500
SP: 500
ATK: 25
AP: 5

Enemies (Vulture w/ speed upgrade).
HP: 50
ATK: 12
AP: 1

*Cue Music*

MOAR! I thought of a few sidequests you would do for a Customs Agent once you're free'd from prison or something. They're set in a medieval time period:

Well, that's all I can think of for side-quests right now.

[ Another Thing I pulled from my long dead RPG ]

Ring Master: "I can't tell you why, but I need you to go on a sniping job and assassinate a clown at the carnival. Meet me at the carnival's entrance." You and your unknown mission supplier meet up at the carnival entrance (You need about ten dollars to enter) and he tells you more information about the job. Go get two ride tickets (One for each) to ride the ferris wheel. Once you and your mission supplier are at the top, he points out the clown that needs to be assassinated. Ready your sniper rifle, and make sure you hit the right target in 30 seconds (You have 30 seconds until the ferris wheel rotates again.) If you snipe the wrong person, you fail. If you snipe the correct clown, then you complete your mission and your mission supplier gives you your reward.

This thread requires moar missions/quests, especially missions that a hobo could do (I'm making a map where you're a hobo ).

"Food Fight": The local McDonald's and Burger King are at it again! Now the feud is just getting ridiculous. Pick a side, and then try to frame the other. You can find faults or health problems in their food, etc. When you frame the other fast food restaurant, make sure a health inspector or cop sees it, and then return to the one you sided with for a reward. The one that you didn't side with will be closed down and you can no longer go into it, but you can then get a job from the restaurant you sided with (A mini-game and depending how well you perform is the money you're paid.).

You may be able to do missions for them, too, but what kind of missions could you do for a McDonald's or Burger King?

As much as i hate to say it, but ithought up of a good Gangster mission things that would be good with burger king and mcdonalds. I know i told u the whole gangster thing was gay for hobos but you could make so that each company is liek a gang.

A good final mission for burgerking/Mcdonald would be killing the Head boos (which should be the mascots).

"Taking the Crown(BK)/The Sad Clown(McD's)"- "You've ruined Burger King's/McDonalds reputation. They have no customers, no product, and no chance. The last ting to do is to take out The King/Ronald before he escapes to the airport and gets a one way ticket to [insert awsome place to be]." Hobo needs to Kill the Boss, idk how thats really upto you. Maybe i highspeed car chase? A gunfight? Maybe kung-fu hobo fighting while parachuting 30k feet in the air with snipers?idfc. Point is, it needs a "take out the boss" mission.

Btw any hobo map needs to take place in Hoboken,Newjersey ;]!

PS. For the hobo map, some side quests could be like having a high total amount of money pickpocketed. Almost liek achievements but you get something you meet the conditions.

Inferno: OMG I <3 HOBO MAPS.

Fuck yes. "Unnamed Hobo Map" will be the greatest map to ever be made.


I actually like that idea (Especially the name of the mission), but it sounds kind of lame in the sense that you need to kill the mascot, but the map is going to have to run on satire.