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The game could use a CGI web-mercial for each issue release to build enthusiasm, but that costs money and with a product this old with it's quarterly numbers that's not likely.

Yes.

Deliriously. Inaccurate. Hyperbole.

As usual I don't agree with some specific points quoted but don't have any problem with you expressing your ideas, it's even good for the game in the long haul.

The thing is a majority who come to the boards are beyond experts with this game, a step away from the devs even in knowing every important facet, having leveled, experimented, mixed matched every enhancement set on all the archetypes and with few exceptions every power option, while running every mission trial task force or street sweep in all the pixelated nooks and crannies of CoX.

So saying something like "Tankers have been the butt monkey of the melee ATs" just doesn't add up to a large number of us.
Could it use some more attention since Castle's last pass, I think it could, the higher damage tank sets like the fire primary of which I made one back in 04 and play regularly are still holding up in any mixed group, never lagging behind even when paired with brutes, but like everyone else here that has something to do with the player, experience, tempo, slotting and so on.

The less offensive tanker sets have lagged the AT in general since the Brute crossed over for one, and also the homogenization of power choices has led to some discontent because you no longer have to play a Tanker if you want Super Strength etc.
Anymore there's little that's unique per classes and that's been needing to be addressed a lot more thoroughly then it has been for years now, and not only for melee archetypes.

But in general the lower dps Tank sets need to be improved while the Brute versions should be left as is, however a simple damage over damage band aid nudging up to Brutes cap would be lazy and uncreative.

Some have the perception that Tanks have lost some of their own flavor, so I think all tanker sets should have something they don't share with Brutes, like new powerful impact animations unique to tankers only, and one pbaoe that knocks down everything within a 10ft radius including AVs, the specifics aren't important to this wishlist but stone melee's powerful smashing effects have always felt like how a Brick should hit, powerful with debris flying everywhere.

Bruising should also stack to a % cap (think I sugjested 40% cap once), we couldn't get Castle to do it before he left but even thematically it makes sense, as the tank is smashing the foe it's quickly softening it's resistance and making it almost as easy to defeat by debuffs as the Brute would with max Fury, and in the process making easier defeats for teammates.

A lot of longtime players I know have always played the Tank as a shock trooper, and that's what a tank is to me too, diving in first to try and corral the next group as much as possible to set up the rest of the team and occasionally jumping around to aid group mates getting battered.

What it's not is a Taunt bot, with teammates standing in a hallway waiting while the Tank rounds up rooms and drags NPCs around, that playstyle is not what should guide whatever Synapse and co do, or don't do with my favorite AT.

I would argue that you never experienced the full potential of an pre-nerf -fire tank in particular- slotted with 50% HOs, it was fierce, ridiculously fun and, obviously broken. =\

You probably recall Castle wanted to go much further with his plans to adjust Brutes but he wasn't allowed to. Tanks and Scrappers, Brutes and to an extent Stalkers each worked okay when they were in their own powers-ecosystems, which then ended with proliferation and to date not enough has been, or probably will be done to balance all the various species in this new shared environment.
It's an issue that extends beyond the most resilient melee classes, why play a Blaster or Defender when there are Corruptors, or Stalkers when there are Scrappers, Trollers when there are Doms....

One thing Floyd used to talk about to address inequity was reducing a particular set that's both perceived and statistically overachieving to equal out the performance of the spectrum of an ATs power choices, whether you agree with that approach depends on what AT and power set is affected, your personal preference being the least favorite to get touched, but even so since he's been gone I don't know that this issue commands anyone's top priorities like it did with him, and BaB (who helped with all the melee animation rooting and cast time performance enhancements in 07-on).

Thank you, two posts of Linda Hunt movies before getting to Silverado.. Unacceptable.

Classic. "Let off some steam, Bennett."

Al Pacino: Jack and Jill.

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I don't know, I was ok with my i4 one man armageddon burn tank.
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Point me towards these others, can't be the two I was in from alpha on if they did power sets and animations better I'd be there, and maybe their servers wouldn't be relative ghost towns.

Tanks are the most beloved archetype in this games history despite what a few Debbie Downers may opine, or steer us to any other AT with it's own event that's approaching 100 consecutive months. Yee haw.

Can't say I'm real excited either though I'm of course going to see it.

Not to nitpick but in that scene with Widow Thor in affect saved her from a Hulk that wasn't going to hold his back swing. Banners mid-transformation stare at Widow conveyed fear, probably for her.

/nerdoff

Adding Jackmans Wolverine to the mix could potentially be stupidly successful, but I think Fox owns the x-men rights so whether they and Disney want to share the pot of gold is questionable.
Disney also has evidence that Wolverine and Spiderman are not needed to make a hugely successful avengers movie, so it would seem an unlikely happening. For now.

Witty is among four or five people who've been a part of TT's from the very start and still play, almost eight years. It certainly feels less like an official TT on the rare occasion he's not able to attend.
Hope he enjoys his festivities.

And there it is.

The devs do this for the same reason they terb off badgers with pvp zones.

Agreed of course, and the various studio execs who own the divided parts of the DC franchise have had five nights of wet dreams over a Justice League movie, even if it's a distant long shot. Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash - $$$$$

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My wife saw that trailer today in the theater and leaned over to ask why I didn't seem very excited, and while I'm sure it's going to be good, the updated costume is eh with all the dark fake muscle airbrushing and the first two Raimi films were very good and that wasn't all that long ago.
So my answer to my wife was I hope it's good of course.

Yes, our theater went crazy when it turned around and smiled.. and the final scene after all the credits roll is a perfect scene for this film.

->"Disney says the domestic total is on pace for a record-setting $175M through Sunday from 4,349 U.S. and Canadian locations, including 3,364 plays in 3D. This would make it the all-time biggest domestic weekend opening ever."

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Don't see who.

My father in law is a little senile too, so sad.