Cassie_Storm

Most of the characters I make in this game wear tights and have more of the traditional superhero theme. I'm fine with any of the above options being done, provided the "tights with skin" options aren't overlooked when revamping peices; the bottom parts in particular.

Quite a few of my heroes use the leotard look. Matching up the newer stuff with the old stuff (defense set top with the tights with skin bikini bottom part as shown below) just doesn't look right together.



I've seen you say before that the defense set can cover the tights options (and I like the defense set in general), but you can't really use it with something else when you're using something other than long pants tights on the lower half of your body. I won't use it anyway since I'm pretty obsessive about things matching up and looking right.

Yes, this is how it works.

Pulling the bosses over to her and defeating them there drops her mez protection. It allows you to keep her in place and stop her from reaching the fountain.

Edited to also add: There's another Phase after the final Mother Malaise fight. After you take down Malaise, you become trapped inside Mother Mayhem's mind. You'll have two and a half minutes (I think that was the time) to take her down. The fight starts off slow because of your lower damage do your morale bar in the raid window. The more damage she takes, however, the higher your morale rises until you finally take her down.

A Storm of Swords (the 3rd one) is my favorite book of the series so far. I think it's better than any of the others. So expect more temptation once you finish A Clash of Kings.

I can't say whether they'll end up sticking to the books or not (although I hope they do) but I will say from my experience reading them and watching the show, it already feels like they're doing the bare minimum to fit the story in within an hour block. The books are massive and are filled with all sorts of character stuff.

The show hits the important parts and has done great job at showing the audience what it needs to know about each character so we can connect with them but there's a ton more they could draw from if episodes end up being light. I don't suspect they'll be running out of material anytime soon.

They're not the same, really. Maybe you just misread them or didn't understand what I was saying. The way I wrote it would let teams decide how they want to spend their first five minutes in stage three. They can either collect all the Pacification Grenades first while eating their time up, or they can go with Molecular Acid. Either way, collecting the second 10 temp powers to gain an additional badge out of it is going to be very difficult because of the time constraints. My suggestion, however, does not punish experienced teams who can collect all 20 under those conditions.

You'd gain more time back as you collected the second set, sure, but your time remaining would be so low you wouldn't have much of a buffer. Some teams might not even be able to collect all 10 of the second type; and if you didn't get them all, you could always run it again and reverse the order to get the badge you missed.

That's neither here nor there though. That was just my suggestion I don't expect them to change it to that or anything.

I don't really agree with the notion that you shouldn't be able to get a Master badge all in one attempt. That's limiting the rewards from the trial and putting unnecessary caps on well run leagues. Getting it all in one run should be more difficult than doing it multiple times, but we should still be able to do it. The goal should have been to allow the badges/rewards to be obtained by average teams individually (multiple runs), while also designing for experienced leagues that can push themselves a bit harder to get all the badges/rewards in a single run.

The devs would likely tell you "every Lambda run need not be a 'Master of' run". And while that's certainly true, I don't think it justifies the badge requirements either. I'm with everyone else on this one.

Most "Master Of" badges have some sort of requirements in them that make the badges easier if you have certain ATs on the team. The Lambda badges are too heavy handed though. We've gone from "it's good to have a well balanced team to do this" to needing very specific power sets to even come close to a successful attempt. That isn't even addressing the fact that it needs to be done three separate times.

Any challenge badges that get added to the game need to be focused on player skill and not on players gaming the system. You could have the 16 best players in the game going up against him, but if they don't have the right amount of debuff or damage type, they're not going to finish it either.

This is what I'd do to change it:

1) Lower Marauder's enraged resistance. Maybe drop him down to 80% - 85% or something but keep his unstoppable the way it is now. This way teams without a metric ton of debuffs or psi damage won't get stonewalled on him when going for the badge. It would still be difficult but not to the degree it is now and wouldn't require leagues to stack the teams in their favor. Using the grenades would still be the preferred method since it drops his resistance well below that anyway.

2) Change the badges so that they can all be gained in one run if the team is experienced enough.

• Antacid: Collect all 10 Molecular Acid grenades before collecting any Pacification Grenades OR collect all 10 Molecular Acid Grenades after collecting all 10 Pacification Grenades
• Well-Sticked: Collect all 10 Pacification Grenades before collecting any Molecular Acid Grenades OR collect all 10 Pacification Grenades after collecting all 10 Molecular Acid Grenades
• Lambda Looter: Defeat Marauder without using any Molecular Acid or Pacification Grenades

They already said that the real challenge of the first two badges was supposed to be getting them all before the time ran out without gaining extra time. That should be the challenge, not defeating the AV again without using any. The way I wrote the requirements above would allow teams to get the badges individually on separate runs, or a really experienced team to go for all three. Just like you can in the BAF trial.

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The White Walkers / Others storyline starts in the third book really. They're not the prominent enemy, of course, but it's a lot more than just the first opening chapter in the first book. While they're not always being read about directly, they are the driving force behind what is happening up North and beyond the Wall.

By the end of the third book, the wildling force that was amassing beyond the wall has been dealt with and Stanntis and his army have marched north to help the Night's Watch deal with the looming threat of the White Walkers / Others.

Unfortunately, Book 4 needed to be halved in order to make it readable. The half we ended up with didn't have anything to do with the characters in the North. I'd imagine book 5 will have mostly to do with that part of the story while bringing to conclusion some of the other storylines in the south.

That leaves two books for him to build up and write a conclusion to The Others' story for. Which is probably more than enough considering we got through an entire war (mostly anyway) between book 2 and half of book 3. How long it takes him to write the last two books, however, is another matter entirely.

Four at the moment with book five (supposedly) out this July.

I think I read that the general idea was to have one book per season of the show. Book three is really big though. It might require two seasons to get through. Books four and five most certainly will since they take place at the same time and will need to be combined.

White Walkers = The Others

I actually can't remember them being called The White Walkers in the books either. A friend suggested they changed the name for the TV series so that it wouldn't look like they were copying Lost and their mysterious evil monsters with the same name.

I think I prefer the new name over the old one anyway.

I wasn't a fan of the team window change either. However, the images being posted are a bit outdated. They're from the original look of the windows back when they first opened up the sneak peak stuff.

The overall look of the windows are the same, but the colors on the current versions are a lot brighter and are much easier to read (compared to the pics posted in this thread - I still prefer the current team window, though).

They've gone from being hardly usable (difficult to read, dark colors, overlapping text ect) and not elegant (it looks odd compared to the rest of the UI, in my opinion) to just not being elegant in their design.

The buttons on the league window have pop-up text when you hover over them, I believe.

That's the general order of things, yes. I've tried having teammates run across my screen to reproduce the issue but it doesn't happen all the time. I've noticed that it seems to happen more often after you've been playing a while. The lag and redraw seems to be more pronounced the closer they are to your camera.

I usually play with the camera right behind my character. Having someone run up next to you or jump just over your head is when it's really noticeable.

I think this has always been the case. As far back as I can remember, opening the enhancement screen, staying a while, then closing it will cause the FX to redraw itself to catch up with what was happening in-game. It's never lagged me either.

The problem with FX drawing on itself when people run into your field of view seems like a recent issue. If it keeps happening, I'll try to get some screenshots of it.

I can't describe what you're talking about either, but I can confirm that I'm having the same issue you are. It isn't specific to any one power, either. I've seen it happen on subtle FX like the circles from super/combat jump.

It's like the game forgets or loses track of FX not showing on your screen, then tries to draw it all at once when someone runs into your field of view. It seems to be a bit random. Like, say, if someone is in your field of view, runs out of it, then back in, it doesn't mess up. But if they're off your screen for a good bit and run into your view, it happens. Just what I've noticed.

The biggest issue I have with it isn't so much the look, but the lag it causes. FPS drops significantly when it happens. Some powers (like Dark Armor) make it really bad.

This only started recently, though. It wasn't like that prior to two weeks ago. I have an ATI card, so, I doubt this is card related if yours is nVidia.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I've been playing with different driver versions the last week or so (due to the dialog window crash bug - another issue entirely), and I've seen this FX bug/lag on all of them I've tried (10.9, 10.10, 10.12, and 11.1). So I doubt it's a driver specific issue either.

I been having the same problem with dialog windows causing a crash after updating my ATI drivers to the current ones. That's happened multiple times to me from different sources (Ouroboros, the MA system, contacts inside missions).

Player FX also seems to be causing some problems too; specifically if someone isn't in your field of veiw and suddenly runs into it the game lags while it tries to draw their FX. It's not a long period of lag. Maybe half a second, but it's noticeable if you're not used to playing with lag like that.

Is there any reason why that version (the 10.9 one) is advised over any of the other ones?

The first two are correct. The last one is not. Coalition team leaders do not grant people outside SG Z access to SG X's base.

Right, that's what I said

So long as you have your base set up to allow teammates access, you're fine. You need to be the team leader for that to work though, which is why it was mentioned the two other team leaders for the raid need to be from your SG. Otherwise people not in your SG won't have a way to access the raid porter.

That depends on if they're bringing they're own people or if they're recruiting people outside of the SG. Coalitions can join and access your base for a raid, yes. If they have members outside of their own SG on their team, though, those members will not be able to access your base.

It's a lot easier if you just designate yourself and two other members in your SG as "raid leaders" for the trial, and have them be the leaders on their teams. This way anyone who wants to help can join your trial and you don't need to worry about setting up coalitions.

The only requirement to start the raid itself is to be in a SG with a raid teleporter and have the mission computer. That said, you're gonna need around 20 - 24 (24 is the max allowed. 3 teams of 8) people to complete it because of how it's designed.

The team leaders in the raid need to be from your SG so people outside your group can access your base. Most of the difficulty lies in the timing required in the first stage of the raid. You have to destroy three objects within 30 seconds of each other. They're spread out too far and the enemies guarding them are far too difficult for just one team to do in the time allowed (you also can't clear the enemies at each way point, then go back and and destroy the objects at your leisure like in the sewer trial).

You can read up on it in more detail here: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Cathedral_of_Pain_Trial

Answers to your assumptions in the first post:

1) To start the raid, yes.

2) Participating members do not need to be in your SG to join your group on the raid. However, you can only access the raid from your base. Your team leaders need to be from your own SG so those not in it can access the raid teleporter.

3) The trial is designed for 24 people.

4) Any level can join, and everyone is SKed to 50 (adding a bunch of lowbies will make the raid much more difficult, however).

I thought that part was good I always figured it was done on purpose to scare the player.

It freaked me out when it happened too (more so cause I was playing on my 360). "Oh no RRoD!" I got a good laugh out of it after I saw what they were doing. Or maybe I was just reading too much into it hehe.