DarkGob

I feel like we're not gonna get anything more than a 24 hour's notice, and even then it will only be implicit via the standard announcement of patch downtime.

As I recall, using an Ouro crystal through your base to run a Flashback will grant the Ouroboros Portal, but not the Entrusted With the Secret badge.

Inherent Stamina was not new content nor was it even actually a revamp (it was a QoL change that likely consumed the most trivial amount of development resources). I reject your rejection.

Like I said, they have already done revamps, and depending on how it's done it can be essentially indistinguishable from new content (see: the Hollows in Issue 12 vs. the Incarnate-level Dark Astoria revamp). But an entire Issue full of tiny little things like tweaking textures and only fixing a bunch of bugs instead of adding actual new stuff? There are definitely some bugs in this game that could use greater attention, but you can't do it all in one go, it needs to be done over time as much as can be managed while still fitting in real new content. Otherwise you end up with something like Issue 15.

And again, even if you do devote all your resources to just maintenance, you can still only fix what you figure out how to fix. The devs could work 24/7 on trying to figure out why Mastermind pets are complete morons and still not figure it out. It's not like working in a factory where you just hammer nails into a widget for X amount of time and when you're done you have Y widgets, so if you spend X+n time you end up with Y+m widgets.

Really this thread just blows me the hell away because I literally cannot wrap my head around the concept of more choices = fewer choices. The game is not without its flaws post-Freedom (lord knows it's not), but I don't think I've seen any criticism that has made any actual coherent sense.

They actually do all of the things you mentioned (have you already forgotten about the Atlas Park and Dark Astoria revamps?), they just haven't and won't devote an entire Issue release to them because that would be moronic and the outcry from the community over a full release containing no actual new content would likely be quite larger than you seem to think it would be.

Also, it's really easy to say "just fix the bugs", but a prerequisite to that is actually knowing how to fix them, which is not near as easy as people seem to think it is, especially in the spaghetti mess of code that the game has become over 8 years. Sometimes trying to fix something that's pretty horribly broken only makes it even worse, so it's definitely not trivial to get that done while continuing to put out new content so the playerbase doesn't get bored and move on to a game that's actually making new content.

I only see one page of Featured Items and it's right there (admittedly, at the bottom of the list).

Really, nothing?

He could just use the Reed Richards defense and make a wooden suit of "power armor", then claim that the armor has an aura that disables Magneto's powers. Magneto finds himself unable to manipulate Luthor's "metal" armor and believes that his powers are truly gone. Then Luthor shoots him in the head.

(Yes, this actually happened in an old Fantastic Four cartoon.)

But that's the thing, you're not level 53, you're level 50+3. The level slider works fine in DA, it's just not working the way you expect it to.

...Just saying.

Minor point of order: the arc is actually Pilgrim's, the Ouro intro contact, but the mission is "given" by Mender Tessaract.

Sutter's TF actually uses the marks on the ground during the final battle with the Durays.

Anyway, yeah I'd like to see them return, personally I liked both of them, especially Breakout just for thematic reasons (breaking out of prison is much more exciting than just taking some dude's powers). Yeah, Outbreak was kind of dull, but it has nostalgia value, and honestly the new tutorial is just crummy all-around. I'd rather rescue Flower Knight from Contaminated than plink away at a Giant Shivan all by myself, it was certainly faster.

I did say "completely". Nothing to suggest they hadn't started to lose their minds years ago.

We certainly did though. There is literally a recurring thread called "FArt Battle".

Unknown, but at last year's Player Summit it was specifically stated by the devs.

Oh, so the devs have completely lost their minds now. Gotcha.

The other reason bases just in general don't receive much dev love is that the code that comprises the base system is a horrible undocumented spaghetti code mess. Aside from very minor QoL changes (like the Hacked Teleporter, and I doubt that name is a coincidence since I'm sure there was some sort of hackery involved in making it work), I doubt we'll see any changes to the base system as it exists now. If they're going to do anything drastic, it'll have to be with a new system designed from the ground up, likely leaving a legacy base system intact so the base building community doesn't lose the ridiculous amount of work they put into their bases.