Zombie Man

Yep.

Good way to get to RWZ, too. Or upper PI. Or the Shard.

It's a shame it only works while solo.

Dunno about Gold Jacket, Grey Jacket, and Pink Hat. But the guy in the cape following them is Jack Statesman Emmert.

At 1:00 is Zeb Lord Recluse (the first) Cook.

At :25 is Sean Manticore Fish.

I do it all the time. It's my *preferred* way to get there.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out.

Wear 3D glasses and close the right eye.

Since the tree blocks it from seeing me, therefore, logic dictates I can not see it. So, no.

Paragonville.

K, let me break the rules!!

Because I'd like to see a weather system that leverages current tech!

In Imperial City, the sky changes from sunny to overcast on its own. When you get nearer Neutropolis, it changes to downright smoggy with falling ash.

So... how is that *not* an existing weather system?

Take that overcast sky, add occasional thunder to the environment script and BAM, you have at least the hint of weather.

The tunnels in which you reside have puddles of water. Use them as static NPC spawns that come and go, or, show up during a storm script.

Take those puddles of water and animate ripples as if rain drop were falling on them. Then you have the illusion of a light drizzle.

If there are snow emitters inside the chalet (yes, inside!) and there are snow fall FX from certain powers, and there are falling ash FX... then why can't they're be falling snow FX?

Take the overcast sky and add cloud-level lightning FX.

So, I really don't know how difficult these things are. But I see weather-like VFX already in place and wonder why they can't be repurposed for true weather VFX.


VFX Overload

There's just too much VFX on toons, especially when in large battles. All those aura and buff and debuff and power VFX add up to one huge white-out. Even at low levels, I zoomed in to get a good look at Clamor as our 8 member team was fighting her, and she was just a blinding white cloud.

Now, at Incarnate level, each new Incarnate power is being treated as a superstar getting really bright and noticeable and flashy VFX which is on top of the already-in-place white out. And even though the effects of the power diminish greatly over time, the VFX is still as bright and strobey as ever.

Here's an example of VFX overload at a Mother Ship Raid:




And this muddled mess:



Yeah, Hasten and SuperSpeed are the worst offenders with blinding yellow VFX flames on fist and feet. But Slide is just as bad as SuperSpeed with a very bright pink cloud.

We players asked about two years ago for all those continuing VFX coming from minor buffs from Mayhem/Safegaurd missions to not show and they went! We got some continuous buff auras from toggles to die down. We got alternate VFX light or VFX-less animations for some powers. We got some newly developed VFX from new powersets to be redesigned to be less flashy. Thank you for those things.

We need to continue that direction of peeling off the many clashing and blinding layers. Especially for minor buffs, there does not need to be neon flashing and orbiting auras to announce their presence. Even in PvP ("Oh no! That MM's pets have 5% resistance... RUN AWAY!").

Here's VFX overkill signaling that there's a minor buff at work:

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Many of us thought that, too. But, because he spawns so often, it seemed like defeating Scrapyarders spawned Scrapyard. Official word is that that is not the case.


I was thinking the OP was only referring to zone GMs. But, you're right in that the zone GM of Babbage is spawnable as a mission ambush GM, too.

When the team leader talks to Positron, you get to chose either TF. You can do either one as often as you like.

For discussion, see here: Positron part 2 not awarding bonus ?

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<point and shouts> QUISLING!!!