AzureSkyCiel

Did you know if you do all the Freedom Phalanx TFs, you can get a special shoulder piece called Epaulets?

If you didn't, it wouldn't exactly shock me too much, this one shoulder piece seems to be the most heavily barred costume piece in the game, unlocking only per-character, only narrowly avoiding being a hero exclusive (alongside the witch's hat), and requiring the completion of six TFs to unlock. With these costume pieces, I believe actually being seven years old, it would seem to me something probably should be done about them.

Well, in this thread maybe we can discuss just that. Should it be left alone as the ultimate achievement? Should we change it in some way? And how can we make it possible for pure villains to get it? Would it be possible to get the devs to agree with any change we would want? Well, let's just find out.

To open the floor and start the bid low, I would like to propose maybe either opening this up as costume pieces you can buy for empyrean and/or astral merits, making the unlock account wide, and/or putting them up in the paragon market in some way. And yes, I do see the barring of these pieces to be a problem.

Edit: 6 years ago, it was added six, pardon me.

Quick question: any idea about what it means in the description about having a sense of "dramatics"?

To be honest, it's not entirely an unreasonable complaint. The problem is just that the Devs basically shot themselves in the foot, or Jack Emmert deliberately shot them in the foot, by tying Patron Pools heavily to an RP story concept, even though Jack was surprised to learn people role played in the game to begin with.

This means that while it might be a good idea to automatically open up patrons pools for heroes and villains alike, it's not an easily accepted idea by even the present Devs.

Patron pools also are not exactly more powerful, but they do function on a radically different design set than APPs do, which tend to be much more specifically geared to the AT it's going to, even when APPs were proliferated, adjustments were STILL made. (and in my opinion, it resulted in doms getting infinitely better APPs than controllers)
Meanwhile, from what I've seen, the Patron pools were straight ports with no variation, ultimately ignoring how well or poorly it might fit the designated heroside AT equivalent.

In summary, I agree with you, but I don't think anyone else will, most of all, not the people who it would matter to, and even I might like some explanation to this. But maybe that's why there's so many hints at Scirocco potentially going rogue in the future.

anyone else notice the banner ad for the amplifiers seems to be a vague parody of The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac?

Randomly, as I was playing through the Vincent Ross arc with a friend, I couldn't help but think that the Midnight Squad really needs non-living armor bosses. Maybe they could use staff melee combined with something else like the Dream Doctor.

I really sometimes wonder why Venture continues to play when I don't think I've ever seen him say something positive about the game in his forum posts? I mean, caustic as even folks like Sam and I are, we STILL find and praise good aspects of the game.

Maybe his forum criticisms are meant to be a ruse so we never suspect 'his' real identity to be Golden Girl. Or maybe Golden Girl's a front for Venture?

My favorite speculation is that it's somewhere in Florida, mostly due to the river island formation and large stretches of flat swampland.
Also, the same person put it: "We already have massive cities built on artificial islands with sprawling underground networks, where everyone is supposed to be happy and the place is meant to be an ideal place, we call them Theme Parks."

It led to me imagining Marcus Mouse (Or Mickey Cole), Dominnietrix (or Minnie Duncan), Anti-Duck, and Goofy as Neuron. (Just imagine the Tin Mage TF with Neuron rushing in... and slipping and giving the Goofy yell as he crashes past the player party)

The Dagger's abilities are apparently meant to function almost like the dimensional grounding ray in the Reichsman TF, only apparently on a much more grand, permanent, and thorough scale.
Against Rularuu it was supposed to basically rip out everything he ever ate and pretty much kill him, though I guess Silos' tampering made it only shatter him into multiple pieces.
Without Mot's support, Diabolique would just disappear in a puff of ectoplasm and Mot would lose the last of his outside world connection, leaving him powerless.

Based on these, I conclude that the Dream Doctor is the Co-Verse version of the Nasu-Verse's Zelretch, only a lot less fun, and that the Dagger of Jocas was actually based off of Medea's Rule Breaker. (which destroys contracts and connections.)

And to think, he could have just had Shirou trace another one if he wanted to kill Rularuu. Unfortunately, we'll only be getting psionic melee and not full on psionic weapons. So we'll never truly be able to TRACE ON! much less Pray UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS.

A Dark Ring Mistress or a Succubus, I mean you have to explain that you don't disapprove of them because they're girls, but because they're LITERAL soul eating... Something adjective that encompasses both.

Edit: bonus points if you then make a followup arc where you play the girl's latest boy/girlfriend and must defeat all of her evil Exes. Possibly with the father as the final boss.

So, having played through the game, in your opinions, what enemies do you think could stand to be added to some existing enemy groups?

For me, I think for one, the Freakshow needs a Pyro-Tank. As the name implies, the guy belts out fire, his cybernetics are half-melted, and instead of a chance to resurrect himself, he instead has a chance to EXPLODE in a HUGE conflagration that hurts everyone around him.

Another thing: Malta needs a sniper. I mean they're an elite black ops group, and they don't have any sort of stealthy, long ranged assassins? I mean I get a lot of heroes are tougher than just being killed by a bullet to the head, but just as many are not so immune. But again. it's ultimately just the concept of how strange it is for a special black ops group to not make use of such a thing.

Okay, I get why reskinning, but why office maps specifically, though this has been sort of answered, second opinions or even Dev explanation might be nice.
Also, why can are the Knives of Artemis apparently opposed to stairs? I mean if you go through their temple, anywhere stairs would be in an office map, they instead have platforms that look like over sized, Japanese dinner tables.
Also, I agree with Leo that we need more reskins of more than just office maps.

So, in some of the newer unique maps, I can't help but notice they're just office reskins, and... painfully obvious ones at that. For example, there's the Zig high security ward in the DA Arcs, there's the KoA temple in Tibet (which also suggest KoA cannot into stairs) , and then there's the Eternal Prison in the Night Ward arcs. Which feels a bit like the most egregious example since they deliberately did not use some of the more outstanding office rooms, but still ended up using ones with little side rooms where break areas or offices would be put.

So what's up with just reskinning office maps with random textures?

Hey, I just realized something: Won't the Quills of Jocas work pretty well against the Battalion? I mean, they're pretty much completely dependent on the Wells they've collected.

Also, as a random note: I'm now theorizing The Battalion... Is actually just one person. But they have an army at their command or can summon all the races linked to the Wells they consumed. They are called "The Battalion" by the Rikti because their command could not possibly believe ONE person could be so strong.

I once saw someone do something similar except with a trio of master minds. Might have been a quartet, but I think they were all robotics/FF, and their costume themes were all robots. So you had a total of about 21 to 28 robots running around, stacking forcefields and firing their lasers.

That's certainly one way to have a robot army.

This might be a bit tricky to pull off. I mean lolcats might seem obvious, but it's heavily text based.
About the only one I can imagine that wouldn't require some real work is Epic Fail Guy, and even then.