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Hmmm...hadn't thought of it before, but hasn't Star Trek had both timelines and alternate dimensions as two different things?
Going back in time didn't usually create an alternate universe. Or else, they would have made an alternate universe everytime one of the captains went back in time.
Also the new Star Trek isn't a rewrite of the old Star Trek timeline, it's an alternate dimension one, much like the Mirror Mirror ones.
Prime Universe is still going, just without Spock in it, who didn't die, but rather travelled to a new dimension and never returned to his own, where'd he see his friend Kirk (or maybe not depending on if he's considered a live or not) and Picard and company.
I'd say that's why they didn't change anything in the movie. They see it as a different dimension now.
Which is probably some of the fail people have with it. When dealing with time travel storylines into the past, one has to set out the rules and stick to them...does it change the current timeline or does it not change it and instead creates an alternate timeline/dimension or can it do one or the other under certain circumstances (which ST has never elaborated on).
As for the movie itself, I was just let down with the Kobiashi Maru scenerio. I think it was done so much better in the ST novel of the same name, for how Kirk went about reprogramming it and playing out, the movie was such a let down for it.
Maybe I was expecting to much.
As for the new enemy of the next movie, I think there's a few actors who could do Khan just fine, maybe even better, but I think they should avoid it. Even if someone did it better, there'd just be those who say "There's no replacing Ricardo! No!"
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Quote:That might be the case with some suggestions, but this one is about getting Mu Mastery, which isn't a defense based toggle armor.Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I think most times it's also trying to get specific powers, ie defenders getting a def based toggle armor since they don't have that option as of yet.
Also, Blasters have a defensed based toggle armor.
Admittedly, Mace Mastery's defense based toggle armor, imo anyways, is very concept friendly, in that it's just a glow effect, and not say something like an Ice Armor Toggle. -
Quote:When has roughly 6% of the male population and 1% of the female population made something a fairly common condition? o.OOriginally Posted by ketch
As a red/green color blind individual I do find it hard to see at times; for me,the hazy outer circle simply blends with the ground or other visual affects. I can pick up on the more solid reticle as long as it isn't directly covered. Given that color blindness is a fairly common condition, it should have been a consideration. Without adjusting the hue, the devs could still afford to make the effect brighter and more solid.
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Quote:Phalanx Fighting would be a lose of defense, and Grant Cover would be a loss of defense debuff.Originally Posted by Leo_G
Don't be silly. That would just make AS aanother cheap DPS tool. All you'd have to do then is get down it's endurance costs then max out on recharge to pump it out as often as possible (i.e. button mash)
I've got an Elec/Regen and a Spines/Dark. The only stalkers I occasionally turn off bosses. I challenge you to take down even a tough boss with those sets.
Yeah, Elec and Spines are great for AoE and can manage some decent ST,. but one thing you forget about those sets: They are SLLLLOOOOOOOOOOWW. Any decent ST they manage is at a fraction of the speed of even Martial Arts.
While I could see the issue of Electric armor, I find it a downgrade to try and shoehorn RttC in WP. You have to realize Placate doesn't bring hide back up so it will cause problems with using it like other auras...except it has no effect to mitigate the enemy's attack
Also, needing to stand in the middle of a spawn to heal? Nah, Reconstruction is far superior. Same with Invulnerability, if/when that's proliferated, get rid of Invincibility and replace it with Shadow Meld clone.
Lastly, only those dmg auras were lost for Hide. RttC was replaced with Reconstruction. WP lost Quick Recovery for hide.
What set combos are these that are horrible?
Epics and the new final tier leaping pool power. But I find adjusting the spawn size down to work just as good.
Grant Cover? Phalanx Fighting?
The idea isn't to remove the thing to try and piss off as many as possible, it's replacing the easiest analog so they can be lazy. :P
I'm sure the removal of any power would be piss people off
Maybe Hide should of just be an inherent power to begin with? Take away the chance to crit outside of hide, up their damage scale to Scrapper levels, and they can have Hide and Controlled Crits with Hide status as their Inherent.
And also maybe fix it so hide isn't broken so easily...like say once you placate you have 2 seconds of staying hidden even if you get a stray hit in, so you can actually use your big hitter and not have it wasted (which is my experience with using Placate in the middle of a fight to try to use Assassin Strike on a target). -
I like that idea!
A passive Mag 2-4 Mez Protection from Hold/Immobilize/Stun.
Enough to shrug off 1 Mag 3 Hold, but not multiple or stacked from same caster protection.
It could also be useful to some Melee types, if they're that worried about being overloaded, but int he long term really not that needed (and I know enough Tsoo have overloaded my melees on Stuns, to know it's possible to do it) -
Quote:Untill they do something akin to their first superhero MMO counterpart, one can easily just IMAGINE they're made of the element versus wrapped in it. Just having them suppressed toggles without any visual clue makes it more like "I want Shield's abiltiies, but I want to be INV, so let me suppress the effects so I can be INV while using Shield's effects".Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
The OP is actually talking about Electric Control I believe.
Personally I would vote for a no-FX option for the various Elec/Dark/Ice/Fire shields though, other than the PBAoEs. I have never bought the explanation that it is critical to show the armor effects visually, and don't personally believe the explanation for any of them has to be "you are wrapped in this element" as opposed to "you are made of this element" or whatever else. Shield Defense is probably the exception case.
Now i know you said Shield Defense is probably the exception, but the example goes for all the other elemental types sets as well.
Admittably, we can do this with a few powers already. INV and WP are pretty interchangable now, and INV/WP with the use of Stone costume pices can make one have a stone armor theme without taking stone armor.
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Quote:I'd say this is something that should be in suggestions, and there's in fact a recent suggestion thread on this very topic.Originally Posted by elvnsword09
When Epic Power Pools where Diversified over to villains, I cheered, I figured finally some loves for the villains. This is good right. Well there is a dispairity here that has been driven home hard by my Electricity blaster, and I want to vent a bit. My Blaster was created because I was impressed by the sheer power and wonderful animation of the Judgement Ion powers... I wanted to make a Blaster who used those powers all the way through, A true theme character.
This character became an RP character, heroic and pure.
You can understand my distress when I realized to keep him in his theme, and get Mu as his epic pool, I would have to become a true villain. Spending at least a week of my characters time on villain side working on this project, doing horrible things for horrible people just for personal gain.
It's totally out of character for the character but the only way to attain those powers. Villains don't have to redeem themselves to get power mastery, so why do we have to come to they're side to enjoy power proliferation of the Epic power pools?
This goes for all the Epics, they all suffer from the same lose of those four pool options when the villains get the hero options for free... Either give us a hero side equivalent set of missions to unlock the powers, or set them to unlock at the same time as the Epic Power Pool powers.
Thanks,
Elvnsword
PS: I am sure, this has been mentioned before, and I may well be beating a dead horse, but I had to mention this because it's currently driving me a bit insane in game...
Next, you can do the whole thing as an OOC type deal for your hero blaster. Or do you skip everything that wouldn't be IC for your character? Like skip the mission that has the flavor text of your character slicking their hair back. Smelling something they can't smell, ect, ect.
Or you could just say they're going to the Rogue Islands to fight crime and not really taking a patron or allying with them.
So the RP side of things is clearly not in your way of getting the patron powers.
Also this is the different between Patron and Ancillary Pool powers. There doesn't need to be a hero equivalent.
Thoug if they do them, I'm all for SideKick Pool Powers. Pick a Freedom Phalanx member and become their sidekick! Let it come with a permanent gold Title of "So and So's Sidekick" too. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Jibikao
How do you hide with Electricity then? Sure, there is a "Shield" but electricity is bright and can hurt people.
I just don't know why when it comes to Shield and Stalker, they care so much about "theme" all of sudden.
I say they don't want Shield in Stalker because they are afraid that 90% of the people will pick Shield because Shield has Shield Charge and the lack of defense isn't that a big deal on Stalker who naturally doesn't attract that much aggro. Shield set looks very good on paper for Stalker gameplay and they don't want to give Stalker that.
And yet they have no problem allowing Elec/Shield or SS/Shield that maul through mobs like butter. That's where I have problem with dev's decision on how to balance Stalker. It's like they would spend that extra energy to make sure Stalker isn't "overpowering" while letting other melee ATs have ridiculous set combinations that ruin the balance. I just can't believe how high damage /Fiery Armor is now when you have fury and rage.
My only high level Brute is Dark/Energy aura and I enjoy that build but it's far from "overpowering".
PS: If they want separate Empathy VS Pain due to "theme" reason, then maybe Stalker can get another new set that is similar to Shield? Oh wait, that means it would lose money in the future because only one AT can have it. It's not worth the time or effort to just satisfy one AT, whose population is already at the bottom of the barrel.
One manipulates the electro magnetic spectrum and becomes invisible! Or some such!
Also, why have Shield on Stalkers? It's real benefit is Shield Charge, and that's likely the power to be gotten rid of for Hide.
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Quote:Are these annoyed viewers, non comic book fans? Because I can't see why they'd find it annoying. I've always wanted to see super hero movies that didn't act like the main character/team and their enemies were the only super powers in the world.Originally Posted by Ironik
According to IMDB's Avengers entry, she is.
I know I'm the only one geeking so hard about this aspect of it, but I absolutely love how they are intertwining all the movies together. To my knowledge, that's never been done before. It's something I always wanted to do ever since 8th grade when I read S.E. Hinton's novels The Outsiders and That Was Then, This Is Now where minor characters in one book are major players in the other.
I know some of the filmmakers like Favreau are chafing under the challenge and some viewers are starting to get annoyed at references to the other movies, but I'd love to be faced with the challenge of taking elements that are given to you and make them work within the constraints of a new story. When all is said and done, this will be one of the coolest series of movies ever made.
Even if it was just mentioning others without actually making a movie.
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Quote:By that level, if you've screwed up power choices, you can do a respec trialOriginally Posted by cybermitheral
I think the OP actually meant looking at the powers FUNCTION not just the FORM.
What does the power do INGAME against enemies rather than what does your toon do when you click the power.
This I think is more inline with what a lot of ppl (myself included) have asked for with the character generator. An actual zone where you can run around and attack those unkillable "dummies" to see how your powers look.
It would be nicer if we could actually fight/defeat something in this zone so you can see how powers like Levitate work and how damaging they are. Of course these mobs dont cound for XP, debt, drops, # of kills, etc.
For example when I first played this game I made a Corruptor and died so often as I didnt know the mechanics and had unrealistic expectations for that AT (a friend told me how awesome his Corr was but he didnt classify he was lvl 50 with full IO Sets).
This would obviously be more helpfull when looking at your toon at level 25+ rather than level 6. By the time you've hit level 25 as a new player (so no PLing) thats a lot of time invested and a "just re-roll" may make some want to leave the game.
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Quote:If they don't have super hearing how do they hear the other cut scenes?Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
In order to use strategy, i.e. "think," its necessary to know what is going on. On the three KI trials I have run, few people if any seem to know what's going on, or which reactor we should be at, or what level of the reactor is everyone ON, etc. One just tries to stay with everyone else and do what they're doing. This is neither enjoyable or strategically a good thing. It fosters neither cooperation or strategic thought.
Nope, I have no problem with Romulus having a heart-to-heart with the Nictus, not least because they are talking between themselves and not to us, the team. And at least its not a zone-in cutscene.
And actually I think Antimatter is further away than 100 ft.... I never said his shouting at us from however far away is a "pet peeve," its just immersion-breaking and not very credible. Last time I checked none of my characrters had super-hearing.
Ah, the "I'm smarter than you" card, always such a great way to win hearts and change minds.
I'd take that more seriously were it not for half the league saying the same thing, re how unpleasant this trial is.
Wasn't a "I'm smarter than you" card being played. I admitted to not having the Keyes Trial down 100% yet. It was more of a "if it's to hard, just dont bother" card.
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Quote:It comes down to what difficulty you want to play at.Originally Posted by Silver Sanguis
Didn't mean it like that, should have rephrased ;p
I just wanted to know whether not having fighting pool powers would cripple my character to such a point where solo'ing stuff at 50 would become impossible. I don't care much about min/maxing (at least untill a certain point), but i don't want to run into a situation where i can't finish a mission because i can't get past a single boss mob.
I guess it comes down to whether i really need to have a lot of min/maxing done if i want to get anything done when i get to 50 on km/wp.
I hope that makes sense ;p
If you're playing at 0/1, then no. 4/8 It comes in really handy. -
Quote:Of course not. Being Peter Parker is!Originally Posted by Ironik
I really don't think it was as nefarious and calculated as all that. I mean, this isn't the abomination of One More Day.
The Ultimate universe is really starting to get hardcore about the superhero business. Originally it was just a simple reboot of Spider-man, which I thought was, well, amazing. Ultimate Fantastic Four started off great, too. But once they let people like Millar and Card into the sandbox and didn't exercise firm editorial control over them, things went awry and it got out of hand. (Card's Ultimate Iron Man has already been retconned within the Ultimate universe itself as having just been the Iron Man movie of that world, not a sign of support.) Ultimatum, with its world-killing tsunami that wiped out tons of characters, was really out there in terms of a game-changer. I mean, they killed off Wolverine. That's huge for Marvel.
I think Bendis is telling the truth when he says that he was persuaded by the whole internet thing promoting Donald Glover as the next Spider-man and that a black friend of his told him the only hero his friends would let him play was Spider-man because no one could see his skin color. To me, "white" isn't an absolute criterion for being Spider-man. The most important traits of the character have nothing to do with his ethnicity.
And again, Ultimate is an alternate universe. Regular Spidey is still fine. I think they should take such chances, because that's what an alternate universe is for. Like Spider-Man 2099 is Miguel O'Hara! Come to think of it, why didn't they just use Miguel for the new Ultimate Spider-Man? It's the ultimate universe, so he could be there at a different point in time.
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Quote:Do you have that same problem with being 100ft away from someone not yelling untill the very end, but rather just having a conversation with each other on the ITF?Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
I have run this thing three times: one failure, two successes. Yet I cannot help but feel that this is the trial I hate the most. In fact, it is the only trial I actually hate. BAF is fun and easy, Lambda is less fun - not least due to the kick-off-the-server bug it seems to have built-in, destroying my chance for a good reward - but Keyes? Keyes is massive fail, on so many levels.
BAF: easy to get a sense of whats going on.
Lambda: Same.
Keyes: What are we doing? Why are we here? Antimatter delivers an insane rant from atop a reactor - and amazing how we can hear what he's saying from 100 ft away, down on the ground - and then its what do we do, where and when? People run willy-nilly as if fleeing the Martian death-machines on War of the Worlds.
I was on one today where as people were being held, disintergrated, alpha- and beta-held or whatever, and green-light-pulsed to death - ALL AT THE SAME TIME, mind you -, some maroon was going on about "this is the easiest trial ever, I love it." Drugs are bad, mmmm-kay? What is someone smoking, to be able to make a comment like that?
Also see: Cut-scene immediately upon zoning, one of the worst decisions this game has yet made, zone-in cutscenes are just horrible.
This trial is awful. If you love it good on you, but all three times I have run it, at least half the league swears to never do it again. I think this time, I'm one of them.
How about everyone is in the building just taken out weapon caches and containment cells, and can hear Maurader talking to himself?
Come on now, that little pet peeve is a bit laughable. Nevermind the one with Mother Mayhem having a talk with Seige and Nightstar totally away from you.
As for Keyes, you know, still not 100% on that iTrial, but it's not that bad imo. Maybe it's just to hard for you to grasp? If that's the case, just continue to run Lam and Baf and skip Keyes. -
Quote:If you made everyone invulnerable, how would anyone else beable to hurt someone else to lose it?Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Proabbly give everyone invlunerability and becoming free from disease/disability. And make it so they lose those benefits if they do anything that hurts someone else. Oh, and if you have lost the benefits, then you don't count for the 'hurts someone else' clause.
After that, probably set up parrallel universes based on fiction (a Marvel Universe, DC Universe etc...) and see what happens in them. -
Quote:Yes!Originally Posted by Nericus
He was viewed and treated as the 98lb weakling even in school.
But he could of gotten it on with the girl with the metal gear and the nervous tick who was really nice to him and liked him lots for his personality.
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Quote:Nothing of real value? Al mybuilds that I took powers with for just the awesome/concept reasons and didn't slot them because I needed slots elsewhere would disagree with youOriginally Posted by Roderick
I know that it happens now (fortunately, not in the channels that I hang out in). Adding this option would just give the l33t pwnzorz even more reason to wave their e-peens at each other.
And in the end, it would add nothing of real value to the game.
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Quote:Do you really need a spreadsheet to know, "More survival powers = better survival"?Originally Posted by Silver Sanguis
Performance isn't really the goal. I just want to take some more fun powers rather than the "must have this/that", which i already hated when fitness was still a seperate pool. I'd rather play a character than a spreadsheet, if you know what i mean.
I swapped it out so i could take super jump at least. In normal missions i don't really see any difference, if anything it goes a little better, maybe because i dont have tough and weave sucking up so much endurance (not level 50 yet).
That said, still looking at what powers i might or might not need from km and wp themselves. Repulsing Torrent seems to be the dead weight of km, on the other hand it can be useful as a way of escape or damage control. Resurgence and Strength of Will might be less useful, though i can't take them yet - I wonder how much i will use them and whether i get to use them more than once in a blue moon.
Just because people take/suggest taking Tough/Weave doesn't mean spreadsheet play
You say Repulsing torrent can be useful for a way of escape, couldn't one just as easily say with Tough/Weave one wouldn't have needed to eascape?
Resurgence is terrible, because you can't use it with enemies around and still stay alive long enough to come back. It's basically like using a wakie in the middle of a group of enemies. You're going to die again.
SoW, I think it's worth it, other's don't. It's on a fixed timer and you tend to want to use it either before jumping in on a group or really quickly before things go south.
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Quote:You sound sarcastic. Of course, I think you're wrong. Not that it wouldn't happen, just that it's not like that can't happen now.Originally Posted by Roderick
/send "My favorite global channel" +4 Master of (insert TF here) forming, room for 3. Must have all T4s and all powers 6-slotted!
No, nobody would ever do that...
EDIT: /unsigned, /jranger, and even /power - because his suggestions were usually better than this one.
]/send "My favorite global channel" +4 Master of (insert TF here) forming, room for 3, Must have all T4's and IOed out build! -
Quote:^ThisOriginally Posted by Necrotech_Master
/agree with this
if your toons not even lvl 6 just save the costume and reroll
You're level 6. I've lmade characters where I went, "Hmmm...nope, need to reroll." using the same powersets.
Hell, I've done it because the costume was a bit off and I thought to myself "I'm only level 6" and rerolled.
The only one this would be useful for, and kinda what I'm wondering if that's what you're going for with this suggestion, is Khledians who could then slot out Nova from level 1, without burning one of their own vet specs. -
Quote:I don't recall it saying that in the movie.Originally Posted by Ironik
I have faith Whedon will do right by him. I wonder if the Sharon Carter character in The Avengers will be related to Peggy?
His story is kind of sad, though. This poster says it all:
We know he has troubles with getting with women at that point in his life, but who knows what happened to him before that point. Like in high school.
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Quote:Well I know I do, and I know I don't care for the change. Because it's a change being made for these exact reasons.Originally Posted by Ironik
The "well duh" part is EXACTLY the point. As Stewart was pointing out, this isn't something to get one's panties in a bunch over. Dobbs and a lot of other people are using it as a jumping-off point to rail against diversity.
People who are against this are being ridiculous. One person even went so far as to complain, "Why can't there be heroes for white kids to look up to?" Uh, maybe because 95% of superheroes are already white? Including Spider-man *still*. The funniest comment I've seen so far is on the NPR site where someone remarked, "Seems like the only superhero these people want is The Grand Wizard." (If you don't get that joke, type "Grand Wizard" into Wikipedia. Second entry.)
Do you really think Dobbs reads comic books? Do you suppose he even knew Peter Parker's name before the announcement? Do you think he cared one little bit about this before someone said that this is yet another example of how those mud races are taking over this great nation?
*I* read comic books. USM is actually one of the few that I buy. So I get more of a say in it than Dobbs does. And I'm fine with it.
The reason was exactly this...
"They say we have to many white heroes. Well lets make one of color. Can't make it new though, it may never last. Well, let's kill off one of the popular ones, replace him, and give him name a hero name people will recognize, see if that changes anything."
I don't see a problem with the changes. With the change to Nick Fury in the ultimate universe, I didn't get this feeling at all. With this change, it feels like it was done for other reasons.
Just feels kinda like Batwoman being gay. It didn't seem like they did it for any real character reasons. It felt like a "lets be edgy" and "this will give it so much more hype" reasons.
Never got that feeling from Northstar in Marvel.
Could just be how the news is relaying it, and with the more recent "more diversity in comic books/comic book publishing" that happened it all seems to be going hand in hand. -
Quote:Truthfullt, I figured you were going for a feather look. I think just because she's Swan doesn't mean she needs an outfit with feathers and if it was a fur look, you were going for, she doesn't need that either.Originally Posted by Antoinette
Ok tweaked some more stuff for a very stylish option. On the lower part, the first pic is regular cut, it's traditional panty, and the second one is called Boy Cut, because it's almost like shorts.
*pics of Swan here*
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Could always IO for S/L/E/N Defense and rely on that.
I find it very useful to have myself. -
Quote:I agree. I just don't see how 200 apes can start a revolt against a population in the billions, when it starts in a country where we have tanks (those Apes arent going to tear through a tank) big guns, and the government would sooner fire bomb the city than let it happen.Originally Posted by Mandu
Reasonable except for the fact that there are barely a couple hundred of any species of ape left on the planet let alone in a single city.
I guess I just have difficulty accepting the concept because it's a simple fact. I can accept superhero, fantasy, and alien invasion films a lot more easily because there is absolutely zero knowledge of what is actually out there other than in our limited perception range. On the other hand the number of apes/gorillas/chimps/orangutans/etc is pretty well known and there aren't more than a handful of any of them in any city.
My feelings aren't the fault of the movie though. I just don't personally like that sort of playing with facts. If you liked it then for you it was a good movie and I won't try to argue you out of that. Trying to argue against somebody's personal opinion is folly and arrogance wrapped up in a great big batch of duh.