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Beat me to it. This ^

Yes, there is a problem.

And it is that people don't take the time/aren't bothered about using KB in a way that is also useful in teams.
There is also the problem of people repeatedly banging on about how 'KB got them killed' or, more likely 'It makes it slower'.

So, it's a min/max issue, really.
Why should someone have to turn off KB 'because it's slower'?
Sure it can get very annoying with powers like Hurricane, or Tornado. And if you ask the person to please turn it off (emphasis on please) then, usually, they will turn it off.

If they refuse, thats not an issue with the power, and its an issue that no ammount of patching can fix.
It's the fact that people can be problematic.
And that ain't ever gonna get fixed. Sadly.

"I care not what you are, only that you like the sheer awesomness of HITTING!"
-dives into the mob-

This was so very true on the last Union Rikti ship-raid. Somebody was trying to build specific teams, complete with a kin in each team...

Uhm, excuse me? Not on my watch. Form the teams up normally, tell them to stop trying to micro-manage, went on to bulldozer Rikti like there was no tommorow. As it should be on a ship raid, or any mission.

^ This

If it's not broken;

For the love of PETE don't mess around with it!

That is all.

So...by that logic, why the hell does it mean you HAVE to have gone to the Zig?
Villains have not all been arrested before going to the Rogue Isles. They can be if the player wants the backstory to run that way, but they don't have to have been nabbed, nor should they be forced to have it that way.

After having played a number of melee archetypes, this repeated call to 'nerf Melee KB res' will always get a resounding
HELL NO!
from me. Simply because it is so NOT fun to have to deal with never being able to lay a punch/kick/cut because you spend so much time on your backside.

Try doing Mako's arc, where you end up in the Leviathan caverns filled, and I mean FILLED with tornadoes. Right? Now try that on a Crab Spider with no -KB slotted.
I think I broke the expletive barrier for the week in that play session.

"Falcon...THRUST!"

Eeechyaaagh....pass me the Mind Bleach >_<

This is why I still own a lot of old PS1 games. They looked blocky, and by todays standards the graphics are laughable.

But the gameplay! Oh sweet gameplay, plot, quests, missions and FUN STUFF!
We live in an age of rip-off movie games, sequels and pointless, utter, drivel. I swear, the people who design movie-tied games should be lined up and shot for crimes against the industry and against fun itself. (Except for Batman: Arkham Asylum, and that wasn't really a movie tie-in. Although WB did have a credit note..hmm.)

There was an article once about games and the industry and stuff. It made a very good point. As soon as games become a 'franchise' and a 'product', you're doomed. You are doomed to damnation, hell and shoddy gameplay and lack of Fun.
A game is always tied to a story. Even sports games. Things like Gran Turismo are the story of you working your way to riches and better cars through your awesome (or not) skills. Football games are about winning the cup/cups/shiny stuff.

And games have to tell a good story, with good characters, meaty plot, development and, above all else, it has to be FUN.

I will use an example; Medievil, from Playstation. You played a dead hero, Sir Daniel Fortesque, who, allegedly, defeated the evil sorceror Zarok in a by-gone age. Except, actually, Dan was really just the Kings chum, who happened to tell good stories, and got shot through the eye during the first wave of the assault.
Zarok returns, plunging the land into darkness, awakening the dead and all kinds of creepy stuff. However, he also manages to resurect the now skeletal Dan, and thats where you come in.

The game looked good by the standards of the day. Its still not that bad now. And the controls were easy to use, the camera wasn't too nasty, there was humour and plenty to do and it was FUN.

There are games these days that make me ashamed as an animator(student) and gamer, that someone actually thought that it was ok to put something like that on the shelf. It makes me die a little inside, however sad that might seem.

...God, I do go on a bit, don't I? oh well.

^THIS^. So very much this! Revamped stuff makes it new again! You don't need to rebuild the zone, just make it have some sort of point.

Mebbe so...theres just been so many comments and so much ego that I really, really don't like him.

And if we need anything, we need more female sitting poses. Im sorry, five of them BY DIFFERENT NAMES are all the same. All of them.
At least duplicate the sitting emotes that male toons use and give them to female toons. There are some characters where resting their arms on the back of a bench/sofa WORKS.

Still...any new stuff would most likely be after GR, since this is all little QoL changes, not big, big stuff. As it should be, too.

I don't buy that.
Given the Roman armour chest detail covers front AND back.

I still think they need to give VEAT Crab/Bane spiders a neck...its looks really, really stupid without a neck...
And start beating Jay and the people who need it more to give us Back Details. ASAP.

What, you think anything else will work?

I blame Jay.
Seriously. He's pretty much the reason we get stuck so heavily with stereotype 'curves for females, mad muscles for men' and stuff.

Still think BaBs did a good job on the walks though. Considering there are actually 3.
And its the same speed as the civilian walks, too. I checked, cos I'm a bit sad like that

Something he did in his spare time besides all the work he was meant to have done?

Although I quite agree, some base love would be much...uhm..loved?
But I also understand that, right now, GR and whatever Issue coincides with it (for those who don't buy) takes major priority here. As it should do.

Wait...
You're suggesting they have rules?
HERESY! Burn him!

GAH!
I KNEW there was a gap in my web-comics favourites list!
Thanks Bitt!
-starts catching up on back-issues-

I think that sarcasm meter needs checking