Techbot Alpha

I think it's talking more about player created content and the Guest Authors, the latter being the focus.

You've been spending too much time reading about your avatar

According to whom? Last official word I heard was that 'It's being worked on, and it's also quite hard to do so it works well, so it may take a while.'
Never that it was impossible. Just enough so that we don't have blue smurf zombies.

Yeah, because it doesn't actually gel that well with the rest of the set, if ya think about it. If they were all Sky Raider-esque mercs, then yeah, that'd work. As it is? An all-purpose veteran with a rocket launcher slung over his shoulder, custom-job gun that looks like it should be banned by UN treaty, and a 'Born to Kill' aura that doesn't need writing down. He just looks like trouble.

Problem is, the current one doesn't look all that cool. Assault Bot? The biggest one, cannon-arms and a freaking rocket launcher mounted on each shoulder. Lich? Big, cloaked, skeletal thingy of nastiness. Demon Prince? Big. Cold. Freaking big. Thugs? The fuly upgraded Bruiser looks perfectly in place and also pretty badass.
Oni and Commando are the two I don't like, simply looks wise. They just don't have enough umph.


Also Sam, I'd rather we got the PPD armour with arm mounted guns than yet another NPC get it to wave in our faces

They should make the Commando more like Heavy Weapons Guy from Team Fortress 2. Giant minigun, Cone fear attack of 'Cry some moar!' and a self heal; Sandvhich.

I know, I know, © and all but still. Who doesn't love giant miniguns? Called Sascha?

My Hard-capped S/L Invuln Tanker dissaproves of you 90% Res to those two all the time? I'll pay the endurance cost and like it, thanks.

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Gods-freaking-damnit, someone get Manticore in here, stat! This is causing my Cerebral Core to glitch out...

...I....wait, what?
This just makes my brain hurt.

Seriously, there are no 'Our Rikti' and 'Their Rikti'

I'll use one of my own characters as an example, because I was trying to work out wether a Praetorian version of him would actually exist. The answer was yes, because;

1) He's from the same universe/dimension as Primal Earth. He's a space traveler, not a dimension hopper. While I chose not to have a Praetorian version, due to that version never crash landing on Earth, there is still room for another one in that universe.

2) Had he come from another Dimension, say 'Tech Earth', akin to 'Rikti Earth' or 'Preatorian Earth', then there would have been no question of it. That would require there being two actual versions of him, which there aren't.

Basically, there are;
-Primal Earth (Our Earth) Dimension/Universe
-Rikti Earth
-Praetorian Earth
-5th Column Earth
-Council Earth
-Shadow Earth (where Requiem won)
-Nemesis Earth (where Nemesis won)
-Infernals Dimension
-Unlisted others, multiples of

Now, you can have multiple versions of characters, but you can only have a maximum of one from each dimension, if that. For example, Marcus Cole could exist on any Earth. We've seen that is possible;
-Primal = Statesman
-Praetoria = Tyrant
-5th = Reichsman

Heck, there could even be a Rikti Marcus Cole. It could even be;
-Rikti = Hro' Dtohz

Ergo, however, the cannot be 'their' Rikti. It would be the same Rikti. It would be Rikti Earth invading Praetorian Earth. In the same way that Rikti Earth invaded Primal Earth. Not Rikti Earth2 invading Praetoria.

We'll just let you run number balance on an entire game, shall we? Since you're obviously so good at it yourself.

OnTopic;
Fire/Fire Blaster. Sorry, Fire/Fire/Fire. Stuff just melts. And it doesn't even matter if you die when you hit 47. Because then defeat has just become an extra step in the attack chain. They either die, or die after you hit them with Rise of the Phoenix.
So much fun, and I'm only just 32.

Rikti Earth --Invasion--> Primal Earth<--Invasion--Praetorian Earth

Rikti Earth <--No Invasion-->Praetorian Earth

Rikti, Primal and Praetorian Earth are all seperate dimensions. In theory, it would be possible for the Rikti to also invade Praetoria, or vice versa. However, it hasn't happened.

Hoever;

Infernal Earth--Infernal-->Primal Earth --No Infernal--> Praetorian Earth

By all accounts of the Canon, there is only one Lilitu, one Infernal, as they are both from another dimension. The 'world where demon binding is common practice'. Ergo, there cannot be a Praetorian Infernal, and I would be very surprised if he hadn't been retconned out to make up for this conflict and contradiction. As, let's face it, old Praetoria was a shoddy 'evil twin' dimension when Jack built it.

Hey!

Alpha has a list of very good reasons why he uses Reason once in a blue moon

I want this on my Bots/Traps MM though! He has a freaking Orbital Railcannon that needs using! (Other than Warburg nukes which stand in for now)

See, I disagree with that. While people that don't take Stamina are more likely than not a minority, I'd wager that the balance of those who take and don't take Hasten would be fairly even. Same as Leadership pool, fighting pool, etc.

Stamina is a 'take it for your own sake' power. To basically stop your endurance from sucking, period. With exceptions being Regen, Willpower or Empaths. While people may take certain powers for concept, most will still take Stamina simply to avoid the PITA that is running out of endurance every other damn fight.

Spitting acid and various nasty lethal/toxic claw and pincer attacks would be neat. And maybe sacrificing a power to give them +1 attack and some in-built resistance per tier upgrade?

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That is freaking gorgeous! I think that looks arguably more badass than the Wolf spiders in game. I...it...my eyes! Too much awesome!
*asplodes*