Party can't cutscenes?

#1 - Oct. 1, 2012, 6:25 a.m.
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I tried helping my friend with his personal story the other day, and when he had a dialogue screen I didn’t see it. Is it just certain ones don’t work with a party at the moment, or is that really how doing the story with a friend works where they simply can’t see anything going on?

#2 - Oct. 1, 2012, 4:58 p.m.
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I’m not sure what you mean by “dialogue screen”. Conversations typically only show up for the player who initiated them, though there are some conversations that have been flagged as “mapwide” so all players will see what’s picked. Cutscenes are also generally shared, though if it’s a step that’s in the explorable world (as opposed to a unique story map) it won’t share the cutscene.

#5 - Oct. 2, 2012, 10:11 a.m.
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The problem is that in a contained story map we know that only one cutscene is going to play at a time, but in the explorable world any number could be triggered at the same time. (The extreme example being 5 players on 5 different steps in a group that trigger 5 cutscenes at similar times.)