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Admittedly you lose a few valid fighting targets with the Forcefield Generators and the Seekers, and maintaining 3 Acid Mortars isn't easy, but that works as well if you're interested in trying to break the second to last map of an ITF.

Whether or not it was intended internally to look like a childish action, it really really did in my eyes.

I mean, there's conspiracy levels of spite: BABs leaving and going to work at a rival studio; Galaxy City is destroyed. That was probably in the works for a long while.

Killing off Statesman as a metaphorical singular digit based gesture? Eeeh, maybe. There's some story potential there, especially considering what it brought out in Recluse. Obviously they're going to keep him on the promotional material though, he's the only thing resembling a recognizable figure PS really has right now. The understudy being Desdemona's shorts.

Killing off Psyche? Ok, so here, you start to get into "that was sort of unnecessary" territory. On one hand, you get that whole "women in refrigerators" argument, even more so considering the reasoning behind it was fairly hamfisted and poorly explained. On the other hand, you have "petty slaying of Jack's characters because he left a bad taste in the community's mouth." Backed even more so by the fact that Psyche was replaced by a character with almost the exact same powers.

Promoting Matt "Positron" Miller to the in-game position that Jack "Statesman" Emmert had after killing his character? Yeah. Yeah, that sort of seals the deal there. The final straw, so to speak. Sure, you can argue that Positron is the most suited for the role (and I'd argue BABs right back at you), and that's a sturdy "maybe". But, I can't possibly chalk this entire thing up to writing considering Citadel, a member of the surviving 8 had around 1 line in an arc about the surviving 8. And what, 2 grand total appearances? At least Synapse showed up in a mission and had some (plural) lines. Heck, even the villain patrons that were completely ignored up until the finale got an awesome treatment. I don't think I could accept the argument that it was purely done for story purposes when areas of the story are blatantly glossed over or forced just to fit in a convenient death.

I do what I can to make my characters plausible within existing lore if they bother to utilize existing lore at all. You almost need to suspend your disbelief when working out a character that has assumed a role within an in-game organization as to precisely why they're so much more amazing than everyone else (see: every Arachnos Soldier/Widow ever), so I use that as a little leeway to make those characters "super." I try to be as plausible as possible when considering anything that brushes up against major characters, and always work around future cannon to ensure it's never an egregious offender. It's admittedly almost never necessary to work in major characters, but if it's done properly (ie, not being Recluse's stepsister who's also secretly Captain Mako's wife) it can add a little flavor.

As far as actual game mechanics go, I tend to follow the lead of whatever the established handwave technique might be. Mediporters are totally a thing that exists. Badges are apparently physically in spots (admittedly that's never come up). Inspirations are really sort of just that, your character being inspired. Enhancements I take with a grain of salt, for obvious reasons, and much like badges it's never actually come up. I don't see any real harm in actually finding salvage, or blueprints for a helpful device, etc. Everything can offer a good springboard, and I'd prefer to take as much into account as possible when convenient, but obviously not every last thing can work that way.

I remember it offhandedly being mentioned that DJ Zero was an incarnate, but I guess by Prometheus' description he's an ascended one as well. Interesting.

Isn't AM still suit-bound and literally a bunch of energy, like the Primal Keyes was before he went and asploded and got rezzed? If so, I guess that would make him pretty resistant to poison, being a bunch of energy and all.

The email-to-active part is intended, and was changed in the last patch. When you claim one, it gives you a pop-up telling you how it works, and you have to click OK before it goes into effect. Subsequent boosters might not give the warning, or there might be an option to not warn you about the immediate effect (similar to deleting enhancements and such).

As for the duration, that might be a bug. The warning does say 2 hours, but before the last patch, they were 1 hour. As Blue Fenix mentioned, sometimes the buff icon doesn't show up, but it would still be in effect.

Also as mentioned, there's no scenario in which an XP booster wouldn't work.

When I'm making a build, it's usually just in consideration to defense. I might be able to get smashing/lethal/energy softcapped on a ranged character, and get the other numbers around 33ish percent, which is within "demi-god in 1 purple" status, and that's fine by me. It's when I'm relying on multiple inspirations to cover holes in a build that I start to rethink some of the parts of it.