Techbot Alpha

This is true. And also something I (try) to be quite careful of.
As an example; Alpha is by far and away my most powerful character. He's still not indestructible and certainly not unbeatable, and I've never pretended he is. He IS incredibly powerful, however, and that's using the games own scale/mechanics to prove it. He can solo x8 without breaking a sweat, especially with his Rare slot. He can curbstomp EBs and I'd wager he could probably handle AV/GMs if I were to fine-tune him a little more. He's had yars of building all his own tech from scratch, using the best components he can lay hands on and researching and scanning everything he's ever needed to go up against. He has the resources and he has the means.

He's also a little arrogant. He's primarily a villain because he doesn't consider the rules apply to him, and if anyone argues they get blasted. He's got enough devious cunning and tactical savvy to get out of some tight spots...Providing he has his team with him. Seperated from the others, Alpha is tougher than a baseline human...and that's it.


I think my point is that...well, actually I dont really know >_> Alpha I've found the balance with. Leon and Nightwalker maybe not so much. Leon has his own weaknesses (wine, women and song...) T'be honest, you can kill him with just a bit of effort...getting him to stay dead is harder.
Nightwalker I'm still rounding out and working on. He's also awkward to balance power wise on a mechanics-RP point of view...if I could trade certain things out for other things in game I happily would. But the game doesn't let me, so I have to improvise a little.

Exactly. I always try and be in range of the final fortress in the ITF, because the cutscene is simply a hundred times better when actually set to the music. Why the music is tied to location at all and not the cutscene trigger is a mystery to me in the first place.

There's been two instances recently, one on the ITF and one on the LGTF, where I've taken to bootin up Ride of the Valkyries and listening to that, simply because the team is a literal embodiment of the Apocalypse

Please, Devs, re-hire the guys who did the GR music and add it to more of the game!

Edit: Should try playing something like this next LRSF in the final battle. Something to symbolise the crushing of hope and freedom beneath our armoured boots
Much like Lucas crushes all those with common sense and who loved the original trilogy...money-monger >_>

Blaster with Armour being godmode?
Kheldians and Soldiers of Arachnos look at you with mild amusement and slight confusion.

Because his art is shoddy, inferior, anatomically crap and an insult to pretty much every talented artist out there to the tune of 'Too much money, all of it mine!'
Look at the art threads in the Creative section here. There are artists on these very boards (hell, our own Lead Art Dev David Nakayama for one) who outclass Liefeld by a hundred miles. Him getting paid the ammount he does just adds insult to injury. That's like saying that because he makes lots of money, Michael Bay must make deep, meaningful and restrained films that cater to all audiences.

And, yes, I will try and do better. When I get to the top, I will buy a megaphone and shout back a hello, k?

No, it doesn't invalidate your opinion that new content should come first (personally that would BE new content, even if it was QoL), but that doesn't make the reasons you gave good ones.

Just to use the Patron example. Alpha has the Scorpion shield power from Scorp's arc. Not because Scorpion gave it to him, but because 1)Alpha stole blueprints and schematics from him and 2) proceedewd to kick the ever-loving crap out of him to field tests and diagnostics, all while under the perfectly 'lega' vurisdiction of an Arbiter.

QFT

None of those arguements hold water. I've said it before. If you really want, I'll say it again, too.

QFT.
Want.
NOW!

Run stuff at x8 +4 then. Hell, we can usually steamroller a +2 ITF on Union, so cranking it up to +4 would likely be fun.
+5 option, maybe?

And, really, this is all totally subjective. You call it dumbing down; I, on the other hand, slotted my Rare last night and then went to clear out Levantera's arc on x8 settings on Alpha. And I was having a blast. It made me feel like an arctual Archvillain.