Agent White

I dunno about you but bio weapons have taken a turn for the scary as all hell in the last few decades.

Also the doomsday stuff has been refuted dozens of times over way before this event ;p

The kind of sets they'll go into will never change. They've flagged on every AT which powers will slot ATOs.

Which is.. yeah pretty disappointing since they don't seem to want to add in any damage modifiers to the sets :P

Well her point is that there's no future for the loyalist alignment. There is room for them to expand, but the Praetorian alignments are, ultimately, pretty pointless because even though you can do 1-35 as a Resistance or Loyalist, by the time the iTrials come around every Incarnate is working for the Resistance to take down Cole. You're railroaded however you choose because every road eventually leads to Primal Earth and the iTrials. And once the Praetorian storyline is wrapped up and the game moves on the alignments will mean even less except as just a novelty left over from it.

No, we've only run out of loyalists to fight because all of the remainder got crammed into the Magisterium trial (and even then we're still missing Infernal). Any of them could have had their own trial. One for each? Probably stretching it too far but I think any of the non-Cole AVs could have easily fit into their own trial, like Chimera trying to pull off a plan (which I think instead got turned into the Belladonna Arc) or something that developed Shadowhunter and Pendragon more (You have to admit they really feel like a last minute inclusion even with Night Ward in there). But there are a lot of elements that could have been used elsewhere. We didn't have to fight Tyrant on his own lawn. And maybe if things had gone longer Hamidon might have played a role.

I'm not arguing that we weren't running into the end of the line. But there are enough elements the devs could have put out another trial, possibly 2 before the capstone. Or even another zone/more arcs somewhere. They at least have reached a point where it makes sense to stop it, but again from comments they've made I think they had more in mind to build up to the finale but because of fan displeasure they're cutting it shorter than it would've been.

What if they made the Hamidon itself the zone?

We've got 2. The Mothership Raid and the Hami raid. But yeah a new one wouldn't hurt.

Um, no? Not all 4 end with "OMG TYRANT IS A MONSTER". In fact the Power storyline ends, assuming you choose the loyalist ending, with you alerting Tyrant to the fact that Neuron is trying to continue his project against the Emperor's wishes and you get to meet Cole personally. He even thanks you for your service to the empire. Then you can skip along merrily into First Ward as a Loyalist. Where, of course, you're shunted into anti-Cole territory and dealing with dregs even the Resistance see as disposable assets with little possibility of aiding D.U.S.T. or the like. Which really is a shame because all it would've taken is -1- loyalist contact asking you to help out in First Ward then leading you into the regular contact chain to set it up.

And the same can be said for the Resistance. By the end of the GR content it's very firmly established what horrible monsters Scott and his Crusader goons are and the lengths they'll go to. But that's pretty clearly getting whitewashed out and forgotten since it's in the name of the greater good. At least Calvin gets exposed as a true lunatic.

Who needs mystery? There were plenty of ways to take the story post Invasion plan reveal. I'm just saying that it feels like whatever plans were set in motion with the release of Going Rogue, they didn't end up following through and instead we have what we've got now. It doesn't feel consistent looking at the whole.

And I didn't mean that Cole falling would be different, the way the iTrials have been set up that has always been the intended outcome. I mean I think they've changed gears and are wrapping up Praetoria -now-. I don't think that the Magisterium trial was supposed to come out now. But fans are tired of Praetoria so they're just rushing to wrap things up instead of letting it go on another issue or two. That is, whatever overarching sketch they decided on has been cut down to better get to upcoming storylines.

of course it's all opinion, but then so is yours. We don't have the devs design bible or whatever document they've been using to sketch out the future of the game. I'm just saying that whatever that document looked like back when they set up Going Rogue, it feels like plans changed considerably to get to where we are now and have even changed again fairly recently to cut to the chase and wrap up the story.

Well, I think that's part of the problem. Praetoria would never really -end-. I mean not without the planet being raised or the like. Even beating up Hamidon there's still picking up the pieces after and I sadly just don't think the Devs are going to try to deal with it. It really feels like the direction we're going is "Cole is gone, we'd better OH NO BATTALION" And Praetoria is left to quietly collect dust.

You wanna cry about bases and pvp while you're at it too?

Venture is like the Matrix. Everyone makes a choice to disagree with him even if it's on an unconscious level. That's why they need to pay attention and 'wake up' so they can disagree with him openly.

If you're focusing on the actual value at hand, you're completely missing the point of it being an analogy.

Apparently it was asked and they'd share protoplasm and kind of merge. Which would be a Very Bad Thing.

See, I'd -like- the Devs to actually touch on the refugees as a problem but I have a feeling that, most likely, they're just going to be swept under the rug except to pull out a surviving Praetorian main when needed for the storyline and the masses will ultimately be forgotten or something like "Vanguard has set up a colony in a secure location" (That we will never ever see).

What? Something must be wrong with you then. Your snark and cynicism levels must be horrendously low. We'll get you 10ccs stat.

Really? The studio is giving us something, at no cost, and people are still complaining about it?

No, no that seems entirely apt and not hyperbole at all. Are you sure you're aware what that word means? Maybe it's analogy that's tripping you up? Because, it all fits. Like, perfectly. I cannot think of an instance this week that could fit that analogy more perfectly than this particular situation. They have given us something free and it has been nitpicked. That is completely analogous with the twenty dollar bill scenario. The actual value doesn't matter, they are giving you something at no cost to yourself and someone has found fault with it. That is the entire premise of the twenty dollar scenario. No matter what the company does, however they do it, someone in the fanbase will find fault and even if its 'fixed' someone else will find fault with the fix. It's an unpleasable fanbase. Like this is a textbook example of it.