Johnny_Butane

I doubt there would be an Ouroboros organization in Praetoria since they all came from the distant future and depending how this stuff with Praetorian Hamidon plays out, Praetoria may not have much of a future if you don't have chloroplasts.


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I heard snipes will be changed so that they'll actually do DPS in the positive numbers. That'd be great because I'm sick of healing my enemies.



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It would have had to have branched off long before that, otherwise they would have had a Nemesis just like Primal Earth since he predates 1914.

My pet theory is that the point of deviation between Primal and Praetorian Earth started on a little island named Cimerora. You may have heard of it?

On Primal Earth a bunch of supers and 5th Column, went back in time and changed a bunch of stuff, causing a stable time loop that also resulted many changes reverberating forward.

On Praetorian Earth; no 5th Column, no time loop. History played out as it "should" have.


Some things that may only have occurred on Primal Earth because of the time travel shenanigans:

-Romulus staged a failed coup. I presume he wouldn't have tried hadn't the 5th backed him.
-Sister Airlia was able to get in tight with Imperious. Without villain help, she may not have been able to.
-Imperious and Romulus were killed in a ritual by Sister Airlia. Wade says as much in SSA1, so I expect an upcoming villain arc where you help this occur.
-Mot ended up in the New World.
-Cimerora was brought to the attention of Talons of Vengeance. This may still have occurred in Praetoria but was delayed/hastened by us on Primal Earth.
-Marcus Valerius leaves Cimerora and dies in the new world.

And probably more things to come.



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I would hope so, considering Primal Hamidon had a thing for Tanya Tyler, and she was still a fairly young woman in the "present". It'd be creepy to have her in a relationship with a man 50-60 years her senior. I can't decide if that's more or less creepy than her being in a relationship with a giant abomination of biology.




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No, what doesn't make any sense is an aggro management specialist AT that does only that at the cost of all else.

Especially in a game where there are already three other ATs that are intended in part to share aggro management(and do), where often you don't need ANY aggro management to begin with and where even two of said specialist AT is already largely redundant on teams.

Taking that AT and making it MORE about aggro management is insane and stupid. You don't try to sell refrigerators to Eskimos by telling them the new models can get even colder and you don't make Tankers any more appealing to the general player population by playing up a role that the vast majority of players just aren't interested in, especially when it also cripples your damage capabilities. Which is why they aren't as popular in the first place.



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Yeah, but metrics don't work unless you care about them.

The developers knew how people feel about Hybrid. They simply were not willing/able to give them what they wanted.


The VIP betas are an over-glorified stress test. They don't bring us in at an early enough stage where it's viable to drastically rework something if it turns out we don't like it and do it right. If they don't get it right in the one pass, tough for us. I could almost hear the grumbling from the guys setting the schedule when they decided to attempt the initial changes to Hybrid because people weren't digging Assault, wanted more front loading in Melee and Control wasn't very controlling. After that, I could see why they said "aw **** it, we going live with this whether they like it or not."


To reiterate: The problem is not in our ability to give good feedback, nor is it in their ability to receive it. Nor is it in the data and metrics we provide, and it's probably not in how they interpret that.



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It wouldn't kill them but it would kill Super Strength.



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One could argue that 10 re-textured editions of the same map aren't really "new" at all and thus don't have the same value as even one truly new map.

The Zig and the Eternal Prison just make me shake my head sadly.

The KoA temple in Tibet...I look at it and it doesn't even make sense. Random ledges and structures that serve no purpose. "What is this even supposed to be?"

The same can be said for the regular office maps. Walkways that lead nowhere. Doors to impossible rooms. Useless alcoves and hallway layouts designed to be as inefficient as possible. Stairs that go up and down for no reason (and woe to any office worker who's in a wheelchair). Huge three level ballroom sized areas with NOTHING in them; no equipment, no place for anyone to work, not that they could even find their way to their cubicle to work on their GIANT SIZED COMPUTER AND DESK. That's when there are cubicles. And not ONE SINGLE WINDOW.

These aren't office buildings. These are what the six year old lovechild of Tim Burton and M. C. Escher imagines the insides of office buildings to be having never seen one.



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True enough, but the fact that Hybrid is now Live does not completely preclude it from getting fixed. If anything, a wider audience panning it only helps the cause.

I would also encourage breaking out the angry PMs to everyone, even marketing.



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Allow me to present some reasons for a SS revamp:

-Go look at Street Justice. Really, that simply is all that needs to be said.
SS's animations and effects are old. It's slow and many people have complained over the years that it lacks impact and 'oomph!' For a power set so iconic and what should be the flagship of melee sets in a super hero game, it's kinda sad.

-I have to point out that SS is a failure as a power set because it simply doesn't do a good job of portraying the fact you have super strength. It doesn't let you lift heavy things. Toss cars. Punch people though walls. It doesn't let you do anything a non-SS can't do: Shake the earth by stomping your foot? Punch stuff hard? Swing around objects? Any Kheld, Martial Artist/Street Justice or Titan Weapon user can do those things.

-SS is both over and underpowered. It's more or less a forgettable set literally propped up by two good attacks, KO Blow and Foot Stomp. It also has arguably one of the worst powers in the game; Hand Clap.

And of course, there's Rage. Yeah, we all know about the stacking.
But, consider this: take Rage out of the picture. Without Rage, SS doesn't measure up that well compared to how other sets do without Build Up. SS's attacks are balanced around Rage. Consider a situation where, say, a Super Strength Tanker and a Stone Melee Tanker are being buffed to the damage cap with a Kin buddy and Hybrid Assault Core. Despite not having Rage the Stone may be putting out considerably more damage than the SS because his attacks are better to begin with.

See, Rage may get SS closer to it's "top speed" quicker, to a point, but SS's top speed as a set may not stack up that good when other sets hit theirs. As it is, Hybrid Assault Core makes it a lot easier for other sets to hit their cap often, and already makes double stacking Rage largely redundant on a SS. Rage and double stacking it is only going to become less attractive as as time goes on and more +dam buffs are made available, which is probably why they've not been in a hurry to remove/prevent stacking.



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Especially since Cimeroran or Warworks Lore pets probably put out more damage than the Tanker themselves.


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Yes, in fact I'd say it's quite common and ordinary now with Incarnates.

Just find an AV that isn't strong to your damage type and don't be a Tanker.



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Yes.
On top of the Westerman building.
Probably not any time soon.
Probably not any time soon.
You got answers.


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Batman: "I'm not sure what you are or where you come from. But my instincts tell me you're to be trusted. Make no mistake, I have a $70,000 sliver of a radioactive meteor to stop the one from Metropolis. All I need for you is a penny for a book of matches."



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I'm betting Pendragon could use it, now that Desdemona has separated him from his Nega-self.

Or at least, I would be interesting to see him and Honoree duke it out for the sword.



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