Captain_Photon

They do rather let the side down by calling him "Tyrant", though. I mean, a man who adopts that as a stage name is either indulging in more irony than an emo-goth Partridge Family cover band or quite comfortably in touch with his inner evil.

True, though, recalling that mission, I rather doubt it could be expected to hold up to the kind of prolonged contact actually pretending you'd joined the gang would involve. (Indeed, if that's the way they equipped their man, it apparently, uh, didn't.)

Again, not very well, apparently, since you had to go rescue him. Still, it could've been worse. They could've sent someone to infiltrate the Clockwork.

In other words, Tyrant is lawful evil and Lord Recluse is neutral evil.

There's a story arc circa level 20 that involves an undercover cop tasked with infiltrating the Freakshow. What idiot volunteered for that assignment?

Yep.

Effective, but not exactly in the spirit of a T rating, I wouldn't think.

The difference is simply one of degree, not principle. In both cases I've had to expend a piece of my finite lifespan doing something other than what I intended do to because of something that happened while I was minding my own business. That's always been why I've hated these damned "invasion" things, and brandishing the "zero debt" card as if that was all I cared about is just as fatuous and irrelevant, to use your own adjectives, as claiming a car accident you caused was OK because nobody got hurt and it didn't cost me any money would be. In neither case is it OK. In the case of the car accident it is a lot more not OK, but taking the huffy stance that X isn't nearly as bad as Y so Y must not be bad at all is just stupid.

If I may say, I'm also glad we don't have any of those sarcastic, superior twit types who think they're so much better than everyone else.

Ha! My l33t filter automatically parsed that "1" as an "i" and gave me the image of Ray Park in absurd makeup and a big pair of flowery Jams, fighting Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson with a surfboard.

And then someone will complain that the scythe animations are too flashy, his hopes for creating a character who fights crime as if he were mowing the lawn have been cruelly dashed, and he is /ragequitting.

Right, because a serious, reserved soldier wouldn't use two handguns instead of a rifle. A serious, reserved soldier presupposes sufficient realism to ensure that taking two pistols to a rifle fight is the most efficient way to be ineffective and dead in that order. Even in a shared world that contains enough unrealism for a man with an assault rifle to be balanced (more or less, let's not go down that garden path) with a man who can shoot pure energy from his hands, the character who takes verisimilitude so seriously that he wouldn't go for a flashy gunkata-style pistol set wouldn't be wielding two pistols in the first place. It'd be like the Pope carrying a flame thrower. Just showing up with two pistols instead of a proper weapon already shows you care more about style than realistic substance.

Yep, as noted, happens all the time with radio and newspaper missions. My favorite common by-product of that little design flaw is the missions where Sky Raider Jump Bot bosses talk like low-level Mafia soldiers. Perhaps they have more sophisticated AI than their normal-mission dialogue would lead you to believe.

Heh, I remember when someone pointed that out on the boards for the first time, in a sort of dawning-horror "oh my God, I just realized" way...

... and Manticore posted saying, "I hadn't even thought of that. Aaaaagh. Eeeeewww. I just freaked myself out."*

Mind you, I don't remember him saying he was redacting it, but that wasn't his original intent in throwing that little tidbit into Dominatrix's bio.

*not a direct quote

Hardcore RPer declaring that that's how his character does search laptops because psychic control of computers is one of his "undocumented" powers and that if they change this CoH is dead to him in three... two... one.

Everybody's a critic.

Heh, I've had my pistol blaster name reserved for years. He's a Thugs Mastermind right now, but that'll change. Oh yes. That'll change.



Meet Gunbutler. He's a butler. Who has guns. And some psychic skills he learned as a young man in the mysterious East. That's really all there is to it.

"I don't want pizza. I want oatmeal. And I want all the other kids to have oatmeal, 'cause they can imagine it's pizza and I can't imagine that pizza is oatmeal."

That's pretty much exactly it. The only thing we know about Blue Steel in all of the game's official lore is that he's prone to murdering arrestees in fits of blackout rage, but apparently able to get away with it. That makes him pretty much a cipher except for the "kills suspects with his bare hands" thing, which is an appropriate hook for the fanbase to hang the whole Chuck Norris mythology on.

... but all the other kids are doin' it, so why not?

Here's something to keep in mind, though: You don't know those are the only animations that power set will come with. (q.v. Super Strength, Martial Arts.) They may well have more than one on the boil, and picked the flashier one to put into their HEY WOW LOOKIT THAT trailer. And even if they don't, the customization system presumably means they'll have the capacity to add them later on if people beef about it often enough.

"And? I crashed into your car. And? You weren't hurt and my insurance company paid for the repairs, so who cares?"

Wait, so, Praetorian Blue Steel isn't a good cop?

Okay.

But heroes and villains would never cooperate to exploit the system! (pillboxes)

He looks like he's in the standard Fly pose.

Well, I dunno, I mean, the law of averages suggests that in a group that large there'll have to be at least one boat anchor.