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Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

In fact, you've just pointed out that teaming doesn't make it any better.
A bad player is a bad player, wether they solo or team.

Nope, doesn't stop Reichs being a big sack of HP.
He's not even an Archvillain. He has is own damn class he's that much a sack of HP.

Rommy is a standard AV with his Nictus flavour pets that make him harder. Still a fun fight and allows for tactical mechanics.
Recluse, once you beat down the Towers in STF, goes down like anything else. That doesnt stop it being fun.
The Phalanx are all Hero class, so that makes it challenging. Doesnt make it not fun.

Reichs NEEDS temp powers to take him down, has the mother of all endless, anti-stealth homing ambushes that WILL chase you to the map entrance and spawn on top of you in the tunnels, AND he hits harder than States AND he has double if not triple the HP of any other thing in the game.

He's the bleedin' epitomy of 'The Computer is a Cheating *******'.

So, Scrappers and Brutes primarily, then? Followed by controllers and doms, defenders, corrs...

Oh, wait, pretty much every AT and set combo in this game has the potential to be nasty.
So that arguement doesn't hold up so well.

That doesn't explain;
1) Hints dropped by Devs about the matter
2) The fact that Maelstrom uses exactly the same powers and animations as Players do on a standard Male Rig.

If he had something funky like a long robe, a la CoT or something wierd like that, I'd agree. But he is using the exact same rig as PCs do, albeit with unique costume parts or a unique costume overlay.

Also, both GW and BV use the same cape-tech for their hair which, t'be frank, looks pretty bad. I can see exaclty why they didn't port it over to players, not least becuase it would break the 'two cape rule' they have. Holsters, on the other hand? No broken rules. Backpacks? Take up the back slot, no capes/wings etc. So there really isn't that much of an issue here, or at least it would seem so. And they have started dropping hints about them so...eh.

And the comparison to PPD and Resistace doesnt hold water, not when you look at how few parts actually got ported over to us. In fact, the 'PPD' armour we have isn't in fact PPD armour at all. For one, not ONE NPC has the gloves we do. They all have the big power gauntlets that look ace, and would fit great into 'robotic large' gloves options. We have something more like the TEST armour, complete with bugged male helmet.
It's...really quite annoying, actually.

...Blame Canada?

And the Devs know well enough to avoid actual Tankmages (even if they forget when making AVs at times ¬¬ )
Niether VEATs nor HEATs are anything approaching the horrible 'tankmage' level, especially not Kheldians with thier lack of mez shields outside of the clunky Dwarf form (I hate the transformation time it takes and I dont care who knows it)

Yeah, Maelstroms functioning holsters make me think he was a testbed for it to be ported to PCs.

Main problems is spines and claws are incredibly concept locked.

I'm talking about Energy Blasst(or Assault)/Invul or Dual Pistols/Super Reflexes.

Something like that would unlock so many more concept ideas for people, myself included.

Which nicely negates the 'tankmage' image.

However, it doesn't negate the fact that;
1) SoAs, for some daft reason, get next to no gun customisation
2) Are very much locked into an 'assault rifle and armour flavour'. Still no options for, say, Dual Pistols/Super Reflexes.

Queen-themed, eh..?

Who you calling crap?

Let me make this perfectly clear;

HELL NO!

K? Costume pieces should never, ever ever be origin locked. Ever. Worst. Idea. Ever.

What does that make 'A big no-no' then?

No, but I can take satisfaction over whats left of your carbonised corpse

As I pointed out, Negate already posted the vidoe you linked in this same thread

And no. Over 60 parts including new heads. Not 60 new heads AND other stuff.

Edit: Damnit, now I'm Ninja'd! Damn you Goliath!