Techbot Alpha

Yeah, theres a little bit of 'jitter' in a way, in the parts where it switches from one part to another. I think, given that parts of any loop animation are randomised, thats simply an occupational hazard. But the actual parts, like the bouncing basketball and football keepy-ups, considering thats a whole other entity spawned in the animation, are quite impressive.

I just think it may be a precursor to shinier stuff in future. Although I will agree and advise that the new shiny gets made part of the regular updates. Because they have become quite sparse in stuff like emotes and costumes for a while now.

I'd rather not have to traipse all over the place and go to the wiki just to find some damn badge that someone decided to stick in an obscure corner. Don't get me wrong, I think the badges are cool, but I am also sick to death of weapons requiring unlocking on every character (Do not talk to me about the Nemesis Rifle redisde!! *twitch*)

Just let those who have GR have access to them. Make a fresh start, or sort out the tech hurdle that would allow 'account unlocks', not just 'per char'.

Ha! QFT.

That said, I think the 'MMs only' schtick is complete b*llocks. I mean, come on, their schtick is having a small army at their backs, all the time, with all the attack power in it. I should know, my main is one! Controllers have a few pets tops, and even then not all the time, except for maybe a permahasten Ill/ But that's not going to be the norm.

I mean 'controller'? It's in the name, even! Dumb pets are dumb, and that's with MM controls. Giving Controllers an ability to actually reign in runaways seems like a fine idea to me.

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God-damnit I hate my mind sometimes.
*wander off mumbling 'ohgodtherats!'*

Except that doesn't make any sense. The Acid Mortar deploys by the character landing, deploying it, and then going straight back to hover animation. Without the clunky need to un-toggle, click, re-toggle.

Why not just change 'ground only attacks' to follow the same rules as Acid Mortar (Unless, as I said, it may be a technical limitation), and simply drop the player on the ground, play the standard animation, then return them to hover animation.

Makes as much sense as anything.

Except that you can lay an acid mortar without turning off Hover while at ground level. But you can't use, say, stone spears or footstomp/solar flare.

So...you are within stomp range. Very easily. Why it doesnt work is, I guess, code related? Either way, it's a bit of a pain when stuff should make sense and work, yet doesnt.

Hours Later:

Ok WHAT THE HELL?!
This is a ******* joke now. The damn thing is STILL giving me a bloody 'General Error' message! And, to top it off, some absolute genius decided that you need a Support Account AS WELL as a bloody game account! So I can't even get in touch with support!

What an absolutely, ****** up, useless, wasteful, obsolete and badly build piece of lethargic, atrophied, crippled gob-shite from the rear end of the iternets own satanic cesspit!

Fine. Don't take my money!


Edit: Ha. Sods law. It just finally did it this time.
I will not retract the rant, however, because it still holds true. Whoever built that system should be shot.
'General Error'...Ha! If I was an organic I would spit >_>

Gawd, I totally forgot about that badge...

Well, in actual canon backstory it says specifically that each Island has a Governer and a Marshall, so badge be damned, frankly.
Arbiters, on the other hand, seem to be fairly common, as seen in Grandeville and, heck, every zone. Recluse's own personal eyes, ears and in some cases fists. And we also know they do go out and fight, a la Arbiter Sands.

So Arbiter is at least half way believable, although most people still seem to use it as a power and ego trip rather than an actual RP challenge.
Marshall? Nah.

That was the first episode I saw in a long time, and the first one with non-game engine animation in it.
I was literally bouncing in my seat it was so cool

That, or what I saw someone else do;

Wolf Spider: Petals? ...Why's it raining petals insi-
Stalker: *stab*

Not to mention Krimzon, who was just an uber-tanked Crab Spider
Who has minions, crowd control, and airstri- teleporting bombs

So...A Crab Spider?

I dunno, I've had that problem recently too, when it never used to happen. I guess they'll fix it at some point...

And, on this topic, what sets would a Commander have then? Because, by all accounts, we can get all the Arachnos powers, bar the Tarantula ones and a few shotgun blasts.

Yup. However, as far as we know 'Commander' is simply just; regimental commander. Recluse has his own private army; there are arguably hundreds of said commanders, each with their own regiment, battalion, whatever.

Now, had they both been Marshall's, that would have been a whole different kettle of fail, as we know that there are only a finite number of Marshall's, one per zone/island iirc. Brass is the one for Cap Au Diable, Blitz is the Rogue Marshall in Warburg, etc.

Also, Arachnos spend so much time beating the snot out of each other, let alone anyone else, that they actually lend themselves pretty well to player organisations. What about if you end up fighting the Patrons? Simple; Recluse decided to see if you were worth killing off or keeping. You don't actually fight the big bad himself ((SPOILERS!!)) not in this dimension anyway, so, again, it all evens out.

Claiming to be a Marshall would be a huge no no. Arbiters? Well, they seem to have a lot of them in places like GV and whatnot. I personally avoid Arbiters now as I said, but if anyone can play 'em well, so let 'em.

Y'know, dude, other people can speak up for themselves. They don't need you hurling yourself at other peoples opinions.
Esepcially when it's really not needed. You seem to be making some whole 'Big Bad EU, omg evil peoples!' thing out of this and other threads...