AzureSkyCiel

First off, it's Paragon Studios, not NCsoft, they're just the publisher.

Secondly, it's Paragon Studios, not Valve.

You're doing it wrong!

Between him and Percy Winkley it seems the Midnight Squad has trouble keeping track of it's own members too.

funny enough, I pointed that out some time ago. It's all rather horrifying to think about and would probably be a perfect way to taunt either Battle Maiden or Valkyrie.

"Seriously, what are you without the nanites in your blood? Nothing. No combat prowess, no powers, not even the strength of body or will to hold your own damn weapons much less fight with them. So in the end, do you really want this? Do you really enjoy this? Or are you just a soulless construct of technology that's alien to even it's own native world?"

Yeah, funny enough, I think a lore post said that Tyrant himself refers to Primal Earth simply as "Statesman's world."

Sweet. I was aware of the duration increase and the mag increase, but didn't think they were quite so much, nor did I know at all about the chance being increased.

Though it still feels like my thugs MM will definitely benefit greatly from it by, well, turning entire mobs into mobs of pets.

Also, going by the Mercedes Sheldon arcs, Darrin Wade arc, Vincent Ross arc, and Mortimar Kal SF, the second part of the SSA arc, the Midnight squad is A LOT worse about losing things, and when they lose things, they are IMPORTANT things. Like Mortimar Kal's daughter, a soul cage, the Devil's Timepiece, the Crown of Glory, countless other unknown artifacts, and WORSE most of the time they don't even KNOW what's missing.

This actually resulted in a character concept who's purpose is explained as: "The truth behind the midnight squad being 'secret' is more because it's easier to hide the mistakes they make, keep making, and will continue to make. Also to make recovery and correction of those mistakes a discreet process hidden from the public eye."

Someone has clearly never watched the Original Clone Wars cartoon.
The one where Yoda pulls LARGE SPACE SHIPS OUT OF THE SKY AND SMASHES THEM TOGETHER, or Mace Windu using FORCE HEAD CRUSH JUDGEMENT ON AN ARMY OF DROIDS THEN SWEEPING THEM ASIDE.

Admittedly, some people critique that Cartoon as being way too over-the-top for Star Wars and being the Exalted to Star Wars' DnD 3.5.

Jesus Christ that was messed up. The villain I ran through on it wanted to help out longbow in the end because Harris was such a whackjob.

I will comment that while I'm not surprised they didn't add any options before sending it to live, I AM amazed that they apparently didn't even touch any of the bugs filed and reported during beta testing.

That in of itself is a big concern right there.
And i'll stop before I go into Yahtzee mode and start making derogatory remarks about the Developers.

I'm not so sure Maelstrom can even wear normal clothes though. He looks kind... stuck in that suit. Like for the rest of his life.

...
Let's just cure Hero 1 and merge the phalanx and dawn patrol, okay?

So... Imperious to replace Statesman?
You want to replace Statesman with an ancient Roman version of himself who will torture every one of his 'arrests' to a horrific death?

Seriously, if you read up on what Romans do to prisoners, I think even Golden Girl would prefer to kill the traitors because it's much more merciful than what will happen to them if they're taken alive!

And Gwen Stacy.
OH SNAP!

Anyway though: it actually might not be such a bold move to kill of Statesman.

For the first three years of playing the game I thought he was just a character slapped on and used for purely for marketing purposes given that his appearance is pretty much the EPITOME of the Super Heroic look. I took one look at that guy on the cover and thought: "He's a superhero alright, and apparently the kind that punches down walls, helps ladies cross streets, and all that getup, therefore this is CLEARLY a super hero game." So it might be possible to kill him off and let people assume he's just a mascot used until they get in game, I mean there's at least a hundred other characters on the original boxart and adverts that don't appear in game.

But I only speak for myself in the end there.

Some of the real challenges about killing off Statesman will include things like the power vacuum. With Statesman gone and Warburg reclaimed by the Rogue Isles, Recluse will probably decide now's a good time to declare war on the U.S. while it's still fighting a two front battle.* Not to mention there will be the need to shuffle around the Phalanx's roster a little, possibly BaB becoming a fulltime member. (And hopefully rerolled into Street Justice and Willpower) And of course there's updating about 50% of content that makes reference to him, assuming the Devs don't do the lazy thing and just say: "He's only dead in any content released post the first SSA!" Because we were promised something big and world changing I believe.

*The Rikti seem to be concentrated on America, Praetoria's attacking, Warburg is/was actively at war with us, the Rogue Isles launched an invasion on American soil, this assumes America is not fighting in the Middle East in this timeline (rather generously), and I suppose we could lump the big, army villain groups together if you want and say it's another front America's fighting.

Admittedly, yes. Besides, I already pointed out that the real problem with Desdemona isn't her fashion sense, it's that her only experience with leadership can be inferred that she uses demons as highly expendable soldiers with little concern for their well-being, wellfare, or personal motivations so long as they soak up hits for her.
(Do you really imagine her bandaging up her Demon Prince after a fight and cooing him softly and promising him the hurting will stop soon while slipping him some kind of abyssal morphine? Yeah, me neither.)

This actually brings in another player into the field, with Mother mayhem soon to be dead and the BAF having already been smashed, this does potentially mean Wu Yin will be free, and as mentioned, he was a pretty decent leader for his own group when they weren't back stabbing eachother.

Okay, so now we have three leaders on the CoL/Resistances side that are not horrible/are actually competent, and two of them are used to working with unruly and idiot members. Possibly four if Belladonna Vetrano is not as insane as Calvin Scott.
Though this also assumes Wu Yin would be sane after his stay in the BAF/not dead and assumes he was captured to begin with.

Thread necromancy!

But hell, personally I would just want Circle of Thorns pets period.

maybe some PPD lore pets

And to top it off, Tsoo lore pets.