Dante

- from Paragon Wiki

I could certainly believe that once the power of the Battalion has been witnessed (or was Galaxy City enough?) we would certainly want to join forces with anyone who successfully beat them off in the past. A trip to the Rikti Homeworld anyone? I can but hope.

I guess it depends what floats your boat. The Battalion as they were appeared as a Cthulu or Unicron type entity. It didn't matter about your alignment, beliefs, weapons, powers... you were getting consumed, end of. That's a threat: a foe who you are nothing more to than a light snack.

Bear in mind that IMHO, the Well is, as others have described, a bad plot device and something that should never have been brought to the forefront of the plot and it's hard for me to care that much about it. Using Shivans as scouts and other species as fuel is intreguing and very epic hence why I've been excited about the Coming Storm since they were first mentioned.

In short, the Battalion were already an exciting, epic threat to me from how they were built up in the first place and I hope they still will be. Adding the Well into the plot does nothing for me other than make me groan in the knowledge that we'll have to put up with yet more nonsense about the Well in the future. I guess YMMV as they say.

That's it in a nutshell for me. For me, the Battalion was more fearsome when they didn't have a Well munching fetish to them. To worry about them wanting to consume our Well means you kind of have to give two hoots about our Well which, quite frankly, I don't. I'd far rather have a foe that wants to consume everything like Rularuu rather than honing in on a meta-plot artefact that I care nothing for.

But anyway, this isn't helpful. My dislike of current Well Lore is detracting from discussion about the Battalion as it stands now rather than what it might have been. So I apologise for the derail.

Crey Lieutenant: I almost had him. He was down to 10% health, Total Focus was almost recharged and then BANG! He goes and pops Instant Healing! I swear, I'm sick of getting my butt kicked by these guys!

That would be awesome.

Lamenting the changes in story from what I remember to what we have now really. When I first read about them, the Battalion were described as a vast armarda that travelled from galaxy to galaxy, seeking out power sources and consuming them somewhat similar to a horde of locusts. They stripped planets and systems bare, consuming stars as they went and laying waste to anything that stood in their way. That which could not be consumed was destroyed, leaving darkened, dead space behind them. They never stopped, always moving, always hungry.

There was something about the way they were described that made them utterly relentless, never ceasing and I liked that, as if we were finally going to face an enemy that couldn't be bargained or reasoned with, that never stopped. It was these descriptions that got me very excited to know about the Coming Storm, there felt some real terror, a sense of foreboding. And, as I said, there was not a hint of Incarnates or Wells in it. Oh, and knowing that one of the Menders used to be one of the Battalion was quite a twist as well.

Now I know little of how things get developed behind the scenes but from the descriptions I read compared to what the Coming Storm is now being built up into, the Battalion doesn't sound anywhere near as interesting. I think the threat of being utterly consumed just sounds more thrilling than "Oh no, they're going to eat our Well!" Our Well's nuts anyway, they can have it. It's one of the reasons I think Rularuu is terribly underused as a foe: he doesn't care about us or ruling us, we're just a snack to him.

But in all honesty, I should keep my mouth shut. Whatever I remember from back then has clearly been either superceded or developed into where we are today, turning the Battalion's devouring of any energy sources into voracious Well hunters, causing our Well to seek out useless champions like Cole. Call it regret or lamentation if you like I guess I just wish the Battalion sounded like more of the immense, all consuming invasion force rather than them being after our Lucky Char... our Well.

So feel free to ignore the above but you did ask.

Not in the slightest. And quite frankly, I'm saying it to goad them.

The Unofficial Meets are always awesome and even if no-one from Paragon decides to grace us with their presence I'm sure I'll end up doing something embarrassing again. Fortunately last year it was just Spad and I turning up in identical, limited edition t-shirts that were only available to buy for 24 hours. Don't ask about what happened at Omega Sektor, I've tried to scrub it from my memories.

And yeah, we're all still there in Firebase Zulu even if my surname is spelt wrong. Again.

Exactly how I feel about it too.

The Umbra Beast will not look 'unlike anything else in the game'. Not in an issue where we've got Wolf Mastery and Uberluck Black Wolf adding to the German Shepherds in game. Of all the pets, why another damned dog?

Of all the ideas they could have used for the Tier 9, surely a Giant Spider with a murky aura on it would have been more thematic? Some shadowy arachnid crawling from the depths of our nightmares... it's not like they don't already have the rig or haven't used it for the revamp of Dark Astoria.

It's laziness like this that has really disappoints me and has taken my excitement for Dark Control from "HELL YEAH! WANT IT NOW!" to "Ah ok, when you're ready I guess".

I think that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a pretty good argument for why they should NOT bring Ghostbusters back after all this time.

You owe me a new monitor.

Even if this is remotely true (and I am enough of a cynic to believe it could be), it doesn't matter to me, I'm voting with my wallet. The 'Super'packs will never see one penny of my money whereas thanks to these adjustments, I may well now buy the Gunslinger pack.

And even so, it still doesn't detract from the fact that a Dev spent her own time to give us, the players, something that we have asked, begged and pleaded for and that it's been given to us at no extra cost. The Superpacks may be a blatant cash grab but it's efforts like this, listening to feedback and making reparations that remind me why I love this game and the development team so much. So thank you.

Same here.

Gotta say, Paragon are doing a really good job of helping me budget in these tough times. Thanks!

Gods damn it, now I want to go and watch the whole gorram series again...

Ooooh, cutting! I like it!

Ditto. I thought 9-10 feet was about right for him. Way bigger than a human but not so huge as to be preposterous.

But yes, as he's in the background, he could still be that height.

Oh, and final thought, Cap's belt: doesn't that just look like our IDF belt option?