The ever-so-annoying thing about Agent is that the fun stuff doesn't really start for a while. That's not to say the early-Tier quests won't be fun and/or interesting. It's just that the storyline doesn't kick in until Tier 5 and the majority of the major characters aren't really introduced until Tier 8 with one waiting until Tier 10 to show up. So when I sit down to work on Agent my mind inevitably wanders to the later Tiers.

But that's not what I made this post for. I made this post to note that I've decided to temporarily remove the short story-related scene from Tier 1, which will allow me to proceed without voice acting. I won't be able to do that for long, though. In fact, there are multiple hurdles that will need to be overcome. Let's take a look...

Tier 3 requires Voice Acting

The huge story mission that shows up in Tier 3 can't be cut out without screwing up a whole bunch of stuff. This is something I need to worry about myself, but the rest...

Tier 15 requires a modeler and animator

Will need an armor modeler for this Tier (actually will probably need them earlier, but this is the first appearance that I know of at this time) as well as someone to model and animate the "boss" for this Tier.

Tier 20 will require a really good animator or a motion capture system

I'm planning on a pre-rendered cutscene here and vanilla animations aren't gonna cut it.

But that's all way in the future. For now, I will start throwing together a very-beta version of the first Tier complete with temporary placeholder dialogue.