Captain_Photon

I think they meant "Rest", unless it's been a bug that all of my characters have had access to Sprint in the tutorial for the last five years.

Regardless, I'm... entirely nonplussed by this. In fact, it annoys me a little to think that at least one programmer expended actual development time making something so monumentally unuseful a reality. I know a lot of people have been asking for it, and presumably it'll make them happy (for the ten or twelve seconds it takes them to realize that they aren't making any worthwhile progress and turn it off again), but honestly, walking? In a superhero action game? That's not even as helpful as being able to stand around eating a pink frosted donut.

That's the same false logic that's usually applied when someone suggests an Independence Day event, and it's false for exactly the same reason: The game is set in the United States.

Of course you are. You're on the Internet.

Depends on what state Gotham City is in. If (as various context clues in Detective Comics issues back in the '90s hinted) it's a stand-in for Boston, then no, because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has not possessed a capital punishment statute since the old one was declare unconstitutional in 1984.

... which, since it's a game that's visibly rooted in the Silver Age of superhero comics, is kind of silly. Like standing in the produce aisle of your local supermarket and loudly complaining that you can't find any meat.

Yes, yes. And if I had $115,000, I'd buy a brand new Jaguar XJL Supersport. Indigo Blue, with the optional leaping-jaguar hood ornament. But I don't and you're not, so, no Jag for me, no underwater zone for you.

I believe the effect you're groping for there is reductio ad absurdum, but all you've actually achieved is the absurdum part.

Well, be fair, Lemur, that particular bit of marketing department hogwash meant nothing at the time, much less now.

There's a weapon in one of the expansions to the original Half-Life which is basically a big alien fish. You hold it under your right arm with its head resting on your hand and reload it by feeding it little balls of... something... which it then "fires" at the enemy when you squeeze it with your arm. Every now and then, in one of the idle animations, your left hand will come across and pet it on the head.

So there's the next new skin for Assault Rifle.

Ever wonder why Energy Blast has all those bubbles?

Mm-hmm.

Resistance reduces the damage you take when you're hit. Defense reduces the chance that you'll be hit in the first place.

No, not at all. The assumption being made is that there are those sufficiently pleased with what's already known about it that whatever else is in there won't make a significant enough difference to change their overall reaction to the package. I will grant you that this presupposes the unrevealed part is not something outright ridiculous, like, "Oh, yes, and we're also completely breaking the game. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience." Quite frankly I think that's an absurd thing to be worried about at this point in history and needn't be taken into account when constructing all but the most radically ludicrous hypothetical scenarios.

... like this one. Okay, my mistake, I didn't realize you were speaking from quite that far down the pier. Why on Earth would you consider that likely? After spending five years smoothing out and speeding up the experience progression, tinkering with and fettling drop rates, etc., now the designers are suddenly going to turn around and retard the process? That's what my grandfather would call "borrowing trouble" right there. I'm half-tempted to think you just said that to be perverse.

Fine by me. I don't give one-tenth of one crap about people gaming In-Game eBay, but if heroes, villains, and those in between are going to be encouraged to team up a lot more, being able to drop candy onto people from the other side of the fence in the heat of battle is going to become that much more important.

... no, it's just too easy...

Actually, these three did happen, though it could be argued that the third one un-happened with Issue 16.

You say that, but it doesn't stop them doing it in the zones where there are drones near the trainers. I've stood and watched in amazement as the invasion hive mind has congregated around Blue Steel. And it's not like the hive mind doesn't notice the drones - it complains in Broadcast the whole time about how they're stealing its kills - but does it move away from them? It does not. The invasion hive mind is a very stupid creature.

Place your bets now as to how much time will pass from that going live to someone posting about how it and a malicious younger sibling have ruined his life.

Er, how? Inspirations, I should think, make up a fairly small part of the daily traffic at Wentworth's and Big Truck Discount.

No, I don't think so. If you're unsatisfied with what's been announced so far, there's still stuff yet to be revealed that you might like when it is, so it's premature to say the whole package isn't going to do it for you. On the other hand, if you like the look of what's been announced enough that it's already put the expansion across your satisfaction threshold - i.e., you'd be happy just to receive what's already been revealed, much less the rest of the stuff that hasn't been yet - then, well, you're already there.

Actually, weren't the drones there before Castle was? ISTR they put the drones there ages ago to stop people training monsters down to Portal Court from Monster Island, long before they finally conceded that yes, the highest-level City Zone in the game could probably stand to have its own trainer. (Before then you had to trudge back to Talos Island every time, which wasn't all that frequent if you were in the zone's level range yourself, but got a bit tiresome if you were, say, the 20ish sidekick of some hero who was doing the Portal Jockey arcs - doubly so thanks to the snipers, which make PI unsafe to traverse alone at that level even if you can fly.)

It wouldn't really matter in this context. Police Drones don't have a sufficient rate of fire to keep an area clear during an invasion event, if players congregate in that same area and draw all the invasion spawns there. Which almost invariably ends up happening around the trainers.