FredrikSvanberg

They won't be level 10 Hellions. They'll be Hellions empowered by their demonic masters to be a reasonable threat to any hero, in exchange for the sacrifice of the people trapped in the burning building.

Just like the Supa Trolls won't be level 15 anymore, they'll be mutated to the point where they pose a threat to any hero, while they are pumped up on Superadine.

There can be believable in-game explanations for why all of these creatures suddenly are more dangerous than usual, if the devs just ask me for them. (I don't trust them to come up with something on their own, we'll just get another Doctor Brainstorm disaster.)

They don't give my controller any problem at all

My elec/dark brute couldn't handle them either but then again he was /dark, so he couldn't handle pretty much anything. I deleted him at 50 because he was so squishy.

Yes, it's a win-win!

I'd be all for self-exemplaring. It saves me the time I would have to spend making another character for farming DA.

That is ingenious! Finally I can use that power.

My first change is to take my character, Pink Devil, and turn her energy blasts the same pink color as her energy punches.

Nerd.

Or long before CO even gets released, like in this case.

Without going into too much depth about what I was trying to accomplish with the dream setting I'll just say that for all intents and purposes the Conduit is coming to you in your dream, and asks you to go looking for his mentor or whatever we should call him - the Dreamlord - when you wake up. The Conduit is stuck in the dreamworld until the Dreamlord returns, and that is why he's asking for your help.

I don't quite understand this part, but I've altered all the acceptance strings now so it's probably a moot point.

"Your Worst Nightmare"'s info should say that he might not be your worst nightmare ever but he's certainly the worst of the nightmares you are currently facing, or something like that.

The Conduit doesn't have a connection to the abandoned office. The office just happens to exist "on top of" the Dreamlord's palace in the dreamworld. You might think of it as the palace being a reflection of the office in a dream, with typical palatial splendor which we can't see because we are in the real world. We can however see the enemies who are in the dream version of the place, since the Dream Sand lets us interact with dream creatures even when we are awake.

The Conduit once used the Reflection Effect but it only seemed to be working when he was flying so I removed it. He's not a dream world "creation", he's a real person's dream-self, so making him look like one of the semi-real dream fragments didn't work so well for me either. I gave him a nice purple glow instead. Oh wait... you mean the contact version of the Conduit? Hmmm, yes, I might be able to use the Reflection Effect on him. I'll try it out.

Not all dreams or dreamers are created equal so they don't all have to appear the same. The Conduit isn't the "author insert" in this arc, by the way; The Dreamlord is one of my characters on Virtue.

It would if they weren't actually Shadow Shard Reflections, but they are.

If another game company has used that name it's because they ripped it off from somewhere else. Arcadia is a particularly pastoral area in Greece, and I think it's been used as a name for various paradise-like places at least since the 17th century. Arcadia is the name of the Dreamlord's part of the dreamworld, his "country" so to speak. This is not explained but it's not that important to the story, as long as people realize that Arcadia is in the dream. I'm making a few of these things more clear in my new version of the arc.

It's a residential area that I made up for this mission to take place in, similar to how we are sometimes sent on missions to board a train and go somewhere. Morpheus is of course the god of dreams in Greek mythology.

And what better way to make you feel better than to prove your contact wrong by not falling for the Carnies' tricks? I don't know, I just like this phrase so I'm keeping it.

Noted. I've added a bunch of bosses, patrols, hostages and a street battle already in the new version of this mission, and I'll probably add more stuff as I go along.

This was the only non-standard animation in order to make it easier for the player to locate the important spawn. I know how much everyone hates to search for hostages and glowies on outdoor maps.

Conrad is the current Conduit. There have been others before him. Ego is the Dreamlord's name, but since this seemed confusing I've removed that from the new version and use Dreamlord all the time.

Ok, this and the previous mission might seem "uninteresting" but what I wanted here was really just a couple of missions where people would have a choice of either beating up a lot of Carnies for xp and tickets, or the option to bypass them quickly by stealthing or rushing. I like to consider gameplay as well as story and personally I like missions where I can choose to fight or not as it suits me.

I have however made a few alterations to the warehouse mission in order to make things more interesting, and I'm planning a few more, so your observations here were most appreciated.

*Shrug* It is his armor. I don't know what else to call it. I have always called it that when I've played him.

The Dreamlord is losing because his old Conduit has stolen his armor, which contains a lot of his power. The Conduit has also performed various rituals to drain the armor of said power in preparation for his final attack on the dreamworld. The armor still contains a little power that the Dreamlord desperately needs, most importantly it holds the magical power which allows the Dreamlord to return to the dream.

That is weird. I've never seen anything like it either but I've not played this arc at level 50 yet. Perhaps it's because of the bugs which currently seem to affect the auto-sidekicking system. I don't really know what else it could be. The AV is actually Malaise with new colors.

You gave him the armor before he went back to the dreamworld and left a portal for you to follow through. The mission send-off text mentioned it. I've tried to make it more clear in my new version.

Except that they really are from the Shadow Shard. The Hedonist has spent some time there making friends and taking control over a small army of reflections. I interpret them as dream-like creatures which The Hedonist learned how to take control of. Or perhaps it's worse than that. Maybe Rularuu allowed the Hedonist to think that he was in control when he was actually doing Rularuu's work for him, by finding a way out of the Shadow Shard through the dreamworld. Either way, they really are Shadow Shard Reflections and Soldiers of Rularuu so I see no reason to change their group names.

Thanks again for the review. I'll let you know when the arc is ready for another go.

I trust them when they say that the whips can break bones and fracture skulls. Those would be potentially lethal, I'm sure. There's just one problem with this terminology: those metal whips are more like flails than what most people (or what I'm convinced is "most people") think of when they think of "whips". Personally I think about the bullwhip.

I didn't actually say that I wanted to see a person get hit. I would be fine with a wooden practice dummy or something like that. Just to give me an idea of how the whips would actually be used in combat. Cause all that spinning sure looks pretty but I can't help but wonder what happens when a spinning whip hits something and bounces back at the user, or whips around an enemy's weapon and again, hits the user.

I would have imagined them to actually be used like rope-darts but they seem too short and heavy for that, so that's why I want a video of how they are used in combat and how they avoid the problems I mentioned above.