Campaigns/Missions & Other SPOILER Questions.

[BleDrajor]

Yeah, I'm happy that is was so easy. I love this Ventura and drive it since the first minute in the career mode.
I have a look for so many little details, has its good and bad sides.


Another question:
Before Nick meets Dakota and John at the Truck Stop he talks with Dakota (via CB or mobile phone). Nick speaks of John like he saw him some time before and knows him well.
But I don't know who John is. Is there something that I missed? How did Nick got to know John?

I think he means the road at the end of the story, where you have to drive through with the special truck.

@ MariusK
I you mean this hidden road:
Drive into the direction of the red point on your map, so like if you want do drive to Mi-Wuk Village. Behind the hairpin bends look for a transit between some trees. You will find it, it's easy...

[BleDrajor]

Matt? I guess you mean Nick?
But okay, I just wondered because Nick told Dakota something like "I talked to John and we have a plan" but he never talked to him.

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by BleDrajor

Matt? I guess you mean Nick?
But okay, I just wondered because Nick told Dakota something like "I talked to John and we have a plan" but he never talked to him.

Yes, I mean Nick. It was a busy here last night. Nick did talk to John at the parking lot where Nick got the weird looking truck, if I recall correctly. I'll look into it again though.

[GAZ Vodnik]

Hello.

I have a question about the storyline... because I think, that there´s a technical problem (Bug?):

Are there missing cutscenes?

First the mission, where you must drive the second time to the police station...

The Journal says, that Dakota saved Nick from arresting. But there wasn´t a cutscene, where you can see/hear Dakota, you even don´t read his name in the dialogues (Except from the dialogue with Crane). There was just the one policeman, who asked for the Sergeant and then Nick suddenly got out?!?


Currently I got a call from Dakota, because of the fortress in the mountains. Nick said, that he called John before. Well, Nick never called John. Another missing cutscene?


Is this normal or a bug? If there are more information in the Journal than in the cutscenes, then there must be something missing.

By the way, who is John? I could swear, that I never met him before.


I have the original version of the game. There were no Installation-Problems.


Thanks for help.

[BleDrajor]

Well, I mentioned that with John some posts before. I'm confused about this, too. Especially because Nick said, that he talked to John before, what he didn't do, as you said.
John seems to be an old friend of Nick and a mechanic who built his ramp truck and this special truck you have to use for solving the mission.
(USA Trucker will look at this, maybe he finds out something...)

To the police:
Nick's wheel spider obviously had his finger prints on it. Jack Murdoc (Nick won a race for information against him.) was killed with this wheel spider. But Nick lent this thing to Crane.
(Later outside the police station Crance says, that he lent it to Matthew.)
Now Nick is the suspect because of his finger prints. Dakota was an unknown man until this moment. He is introduced later to Nick by calling and then meeting him in Oxnard. Dakota works for the state. That's why he acted concealed in the beginning until Nick meets him. He seems to be an undercover agent or something like that. Because Nick is an important person for Dakota and his case he contacts Nick and takes him out of the police station, no matter how he achieved that.

[GAZ Vodnik]

If I don´t have the Journal, I would ask till today "Why Nick is free? What happened?"... because of that missing cutscene. A scene like "Mr Armstrong, a man named Dakota called and *Blablabla*, you can go." would answer this question.


I think anyway, that SoftLab didn´t think so much about cutscenes. The scene, where Matthew got shot by the rocket was too fast. How about "MATTHEW! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"? (Hey, it´s a criminal-story!)

And: Nick, John and Dakota doesn´t know, how the fortress looks like. So, how could they make a plan to rescue Crane and Dorothy? (MISSING CUTSCENE!!! )


I really like the story (For a simulation) and I don´t want to bash RnR. But there are several logical problems in the story, just because of the cutscenes.

Of course you can say now "Cutscenes, cutscenes, cutscenes, just play the game and don´t get on our nerves with your cutscenes!!!", but good cutscenes are very important for me. If there are some information, that were important for the story and you don´t get them because of missing/bad cutscenes...

[lamanorbu]

i have a big problem! i went for the second time to the police station for mordoc death, now my secretary should call me for meet mr. cunning, but after 4-5 days of in-game time nothing happened. I carried some hitchhickers, i got some calls for jobs (oakland seaport...) but i refused all this calls. In game time is 25 march. What should i do?