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I don't recall any mention of Recluse anywhere in the game before CoV came out. If there is then that changes things.

That's not entirely true je saist.

The lead developer(Zeb Cook IIRC) for CoV actually used Recluse as his red name. Hmm Lead Dev on CoV, CoV being about Recluse...seems Mary Sueish to me.

After he left some Producer took up the name.

You need to be careful with something like that though.
I had bought my friend the complete Hokoto No Ken series one year for a Birthday/Christmas present. Unfortunately it was translated from Japanese to Chinese to English. so simple lines like "Smash him flat!!" became "Take a hammer to hit his body!!"

Many lols were had and it's an in joke we have now, but still.

I suspect it would be the kind of big system competitors might be interested in hence the higher security.

I can't see Power Pool Customization requiring such tight security since ordinary Power Colorization and Weapon Customization didn't require such tight security.

Now then moving on to speculation


We know Posi has been working on End Game Content. Specifically Incarnates. Which we know Alpha Slot is coming in I19 and we also know more is being a dded into the system. A safe bet would be that the Devs want to keep several aspects of the Incarnate system underwraps until they are ready to announce a more defined version.

Also with Posi we know at one point he had drafted an Archenemy system. We were informed that his draft never met the approval of higher ups. Since then many things have changed. We also know that an upcoming competitor is supposed to have an Archenemy system. This would be the kind of thing to keep secret until it has amore finalized form so as to prevent a competitor from getting the upperhand with this kind of system.
A perfect example would be when we actaully did get Power Customization, which really came as a surprise to the community and the version we got was IMO superior to the competition of the time.

Also it could be something more extreme such as an engine overhaul. Several times we've been told there were things we couldn't have because of engine limitations. An engine change would solve those problems and be a huge update. I don't know of any games that have had an engine change after launch but it is theoretically possible.And is also the kind of thing that would be kept secret.


Udnerwater Zone? Possible but I don't think it would require tighter security.

now moving on to less happy specualtion. ED was implemented under an NDA. If another sweeping change on that scale were to occur, such as the DIminishing Returns mentioned, I'd understand the desire for an NDA. However I fully suspect if any such changes were occuring it would undergo several iterations before being complete as the Invention system did when it was in testing.

THis is all just specualtion on my part considering some facts that we know about what happened in the past and what might be necessary with competition approaching.

Don't forget that said other game uses a different engine.

While i'm not personally interested by this I wish you well in your pursuit of more costumes.

Group Fly and Team Teleport

both powers available at level 20, both let you bring your pets with you wherever you go.

EDIT: Also pets will always say yes to a Recall Friend when prompted by their owner.

I think there might be a technical limitation on that.

However a good work around is to save your costumes(With the lovely feature they added for that.)

This way you can keep more than the 5 costumes we have now, you'd just have to change them at the tailor every so often.

You seem to have missed the part about the Stalker in question being level 50 and the boss being level 40.

For a 10 level difference you'd think AS would insta win, especially considering anything 5 levels or higher is considered a no contest because of the Purple Patch and how much your level vs theirs effects everything.

This just makes me angrier that the Onza doesn't have a release date yet.

Comic Story?

I'll join even though I'm not sure what you mean.

Bartender NINJITSU kept showing off it's skills.

PSI ASSAULT stole the spotlight on the dance floor.

1)Engineers Guide to Cats
2)Human Cat Perch
3)The Mean Kitty Song
4) 4Chan
5)Water Bottle Jet Pack
6)Flash Bang
7)Scorpion Man
8)Slaughter Your World

This is also where I cry. Never made it to top 16 before and the Scorpion based Spiderman parody probably isn't going to win.

the +Damage and the +To-Hit would be the enemies weaknesses.

technically Vengeance is the "Oh Carp" power but I see your point. And YEs your right I did forget about the objectives on the map.

To be clear, I'm not against the idea I just thought Leadership would be a good simulation for what you wanted to represent. I see that I was wrong about that.

For any Villain AT that switched to Hero side and upset the status quo of hero teams

Everything You Know is Wrong-Weird Al

BaB's protest is more about being active while underwater, I don't think it would apply to something along the lines of Rapture where the city is underwater,but the people are in structures.

I think Leadership actually simulates the effects you want, and then in RP it's from being investigative. Besides if you are a detective and your helping others out why wouldn't you share your intel with those who are risking their lives with you?

Wait someone had the AOE immob in the lower levels?

I never take the Aoe Immob on lower levels because I've never found it useful.

Although In Prea there were several moments where I thought "you know that Aoe Immob would've been handy here."

FAIL!

1)Rainbow Conspiracy
2)Worst Robbery
3)Flashbang
4) Parking Fail

Animation

5)Scorpion Man
6)Ultimate Showdown
7)Meet the Spy
8)Slaughter Your World

Fitness being made inherent is certainly interesting.

Although I'm not looking forward to the respec I'll need to make on my Stalker. At the same time this will be really nice for Stalkers as it will help to open up Stalker Builds.

The big thing with the PPP's from a mechanics view is the Shields.

I'm not sure what the APP shields are like but I know the PPP ones have equivalent values to armor sets. e.g. Scorpion Shield is 20% Defense to Smash/Lethal

Also Waterspout. I can't see myself swapping it out for anything in the APP's my Stalker would get.