Techbot Alpha

Originally Posted by Street_Wolf

I like the update.

I do have one request though, St0n3y. Is there any way you can make Mastermind -> Traps -> Detonator show the damage it does? It technically "grants" the bomb ability to a minion, and there's no way to show the hard numbers OF the bomb ability.

Originally Posted by stever

So I offer the following bind:
/bind TAB "target_enemy_next$$target_custom_next enemy alive quantum$$target_custom_next enemy alive void$$target_custom_next enemy alive cyst"

I run this on all my alts, Kheldian or not.
The above bind lets TAB run as normal, untill you are looking at a spawn with one of those enemies in it.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

You think it could have something to do with the devs having admitted that making Epic Archetypes unlock at level 50 was a mistake, and that VEATS only had the level 50 requirement to make it fair?

No, it couldn't be that the devs are fixing what they perceive to be a mistake on their part. That never happens.

So you're pissy because you spent all that time grinding a character to 50 just to unlock Epic ATs.

Trying to care......trying to care.....Hmmm, I just completely failed to give a crap.

Originally Posted by Carnifax

Not having Vet Rewards or Cossie packs sucks

Conversely Being a Plant/Emp controller on a constantly full PuG of DP Blasters plus various others makes me feel like I did 4 years ago starting the game (except I know what I'm doing). I'm actually playing an MMO again.

Once i17 rolls around I'll basically be able to remake my Kheld or try out a Crabby easily, and be fairly sure they won't just be soloing chunks of the game.

Originally Posted by theduke24

Ok i know this has been mentioned many many MANY times before but if we keep throwin it out there maybe the devs will think about it
I know ALL of you think itd be cool to have a dark blaster, sure the dark blast powerset isnt very blastery but neither is the assault rifle. I think we can make it work hahaha.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Personally, I wouldn't mess with powers as there's really no one large-scale selection of attributes that would be appropriate for every power. You'd basically need unique alternate sounds specific to each attack, and that's far too much work for it to work.

Personally, though, I'd like to see customization of basic sounds, such as foot steps, grunts, possibly breathing, Taunt and so on. For instance, it KILLS me that all of my women sound like they're walking in high heels, even when they're wearing giant armoured boots or are walking around barefoot. Allowing me to pick my footstep sounds from even a small selection like slapping bare feet, clanging metal boots, goose-stepping jack boots or, yes, even clopping high heels would be great. I know we have a few different surfaces to have footstep sounds on, but I'm not sure there are too many. It just feels REALLY weird to see a girl running around in bare feet and sound like she's hammering a stake on each step.

Or how about NO footstep sounds because you're a silent ninja?

Grunting, taunting and shouting sounds would be very cool, as well. Generally I don't mind, but especially the female ones are deigned around the voice of a fairly shouty adult woman with a somewhat deeper voice, and so are completely inappropriate for very young girls. Not that the breasts slider will let us make them, but that's besides the point. Robotic grunts would probabl be cool, too, as would beastly growls, insect clicks and even just NOTHING.

It's the little things that pile up to make a good game great (or a bad game terrible).

Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms

No, he's not complaining that the mission set to +3 is too hard, the rest of the mission was exactly the difficulty that they wanted, challenging, without being futile debt farming.

The complaint is that the cyst was significantly harder than the rest of the mission, to the point where the team wiped several times taking down the Cyst. The problem is that the team is left with the three options I listed above; ban Kheldians from joining the team, play much lower than their preferred settings in case a Cyst spawns, or play at the preferred settings knowing that the team-wiping cyst is imminent.

Given these choices, which would you suggest?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

All the more reason for me not to put in a lot of "work" into my game. I'm looking to delete and reroll a 50 Scrapper as soon as a specific new option opens up, and even if the option for a set respec existed, I wouldn't use it. The point is to PLAY the character, not HAVE the character.

Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay

The truly beautiful part of the cycle will be when she effectively comes back to the forums and complains "They didn't help me, even after I used my best swear words!"

>.>

No, I'm not bitter at all.

Originally Posted by Eisregen_NA

There are other possible reasons. I really don't like playing my EM Brute anymore since they changed the animation for Energy Transfer to the retarded cheerleader shove (the only thing BABs has ever done wrong as far as I can tell) and there's no customization in sight for those attacks. I wouldn't care if I had to settle for a numerically weaker set, as long as I don't actually have to reroll the guy, because he's IOed out to the gills.

Sometimes, **** happens. Being able to respec a single powerset on your character once in its lifetime might not be the worst idea ever. Hell, excluse the Buff/DeBuff sets for all I care, or only allow it for people with five years of Vet Badges. There is merit to the idea.

Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms

Well, if I may play devil's advocate for a sec, you kinda did ask for the change when you sent that invite. Any team in your position has three choices:

1) Keep at the current settings, and accept that they WILL get stomped hard when the Cyst shows up.
2) Drop the difficulty and hope a Cyst shows up for that one fight that's at the difficulty the team was looking for.
3) Don't invite the Squid.

They just need to figure out which one is the least unappealing.

Originally Posted by black_barrier

pay attention to the goddamned RSF