Lady_Sadako

While we've got you...

How much Prestige is winning the zone supposed to award? Do you have to be in SG mode to get it?

I only ask because I can't recall EVER being told that I'd been awarded any Prestige.

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While it is new content in that a new instance has been created with mission type content and rewards, it has forced PvP content installed along with it.

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That's not how it works at all. There are no mission type rewards - you don't get XP for the mobs, and you only get some at the end.

Also, the whole point of the trial is to enable base raid PvP. That is what it is for. The PvP aspect isn't tacked on or 'forced', it's the trial's raison d'etre.

Cheesiest Easter Egg Ever: 'Get the Tome of Tormvodel.'

Tormvodel being an anagram of you-know-who from a certain popular series of children's books.

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Matt also acknowledged that Faultline and the Rikti Crash site will be revamped.

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Ooh, here's a thought. Striga and the Hollows are the models, right? Striga has a chain of contacts leading to a TF. The Hollows has a chain of contacts leading to a trial.

So maybe Faultline will end in the Faultline Trial, and the crash site in the Rikti Ship Trial? It would explain why those two zones were being redone and Boomtown wasn't.

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Wings are costume options and will not be specific to any certain AT.

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This is the first time I've seen this spelled out so definitely. Thankyou!

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Updates to Boomtown, Faultline, and the Rikti Crash Site are currently being worked on and expected for Issue 8. We will be able to enter the ship. The zones are being redesigned with new art, contacts, etc using Striga and Croatoa as models.

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Perfect. Just what we've been asking for... revamped old zones instead of too many new ones!

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Skills - Not coming. Ever. They tried 9 different systems and couldn't find a fun one.

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9?!?

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5th Column - They are going to be coming back. The gladiator badge is not all we will see of them.

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even MORE confirmation, whee!

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Also, you can only get the badge by doing the missions yourself. joining someone else for them will not award it.

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Ai. That's harsh. I foresee cries of anguish as connections drop, servers go down for maintenance, and other grievous things happen.

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All the signature heroes left their respective pedestals and appeared in Atlas Park to honor the recently deceased Christopher Reeve. They all lined up and briefly saluted the real life Hero.

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Did this actually happen?

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No, it didn't.

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The Strangest part is, the clues still exist in my queue. There was no souvenir. (not even one to tell me I failed). And Black Scorpion now just tells me to come back at 45. That entire second arc was never even available to some people.

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That's exactly the same thing that happened to me, in every detail.

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We can see it's 5% Resistance from Rugged, let's see that it's 5% Smashing Resistance from this station.

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Good grief, is that all it is? And 2.5% run speed? No wonder I noticed no difference at all.

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Yeah, but think PvP. Stalkers are already crying over FA; making +Per buffs in your base too cheap would make em throw even bigger fits...

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Precisely. As soon as this goes live, anyone with enough Salvage will be able to see Stalkers in Siren's Call without even needing IR goggles to do it.

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They do triple damage in PvP. Thats right Triple.

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Only against other players, not against mobs such as turrets.

Seems to me the same sort of mechanic (and the same justification!) could be used to give us triple damage in PvP when we have Domination up. I could live with that...

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That's up from a melee modifier of 70% if you hadn't worked it out

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Six point seven per cent?
Six point seven per cent?

I shall not rant
Rant is the mind killer
Rant is the hissy fit
that brings total forum humiliation
I shall go to Test and test this instead
At least, as soon as the training room is back up.

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Nor do they change the rating of the game by allowing players to kill helpless civilians.

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The civilians ain't kilt! They's de-feat-ed!

My feeling is that they've got it pretty much right with this version. Any SG large enough to be able to get a raid ready base together should also have a good chance of beating the trial.

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Have you *tried* it yet?

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I have. It's next to useless.

No amount of help to boost the rate at which we build Domination will make up for our sheer naked vulnerability while we are trying to build it. We are defenceless in PvP, and also in PvE.

PvE example: I was trying to solo Black Scorpion earlier today. (Eventually succeeded, after a LOT of work.) All the mobs in the mission were dead, and there was only the Elite Boss left. I had nothing that I could build Domination with except the one target that I needed Domination to defeat! And, of course, while I was trying to build it, I was getting slammed about.

The only other AT to have comparable defencelessness to us is the blaster, and blasters have their huge damage to compensate. They've also got that Defiance thing that so many of them hate so much, but which at least lets them do more damage when they get hurt. What have we got to compare? Nothing. If blasters are a glass cannon, then we're tissue paper handcuffs; and at least you can fire a glass cannon.

If the Devs are determined to make us totally dependent on teams for survival, then they should maybe give us a new team-based inherent. Give us a bonus to our control powers for every teammate we have.

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So, most of the attack-spamming that will be used to build Domination with the new timer must come from the secondary attack powers.

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It's only the secondary attack powers that award the extra 8 points on the Domination bar, and that only when they hit. The primaries are still only 2 points.

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Lady Sadako- do you remember which pill box this was?

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Wow, Archon Voss! Not seen you since I3 and the joy of the Hess TF!

I think it was the one ahead and to the left of the villain base. That was the easiest one for me to get to. I can't be absolutely sure, though.

The missions are superb - a minimum of repetitive stuff and defeat alls, plenty of flavour. The new map features are excellent (especially the Arachnoid tunnels, creepy as hell) and some old maps seem updated, e.g. the prison rooms and hangars in the Arachnos rooms.

And the Rescue Night Widows (Regent Korol) mission is sweet, sweet revenge. Shredded Carnies everywhere. Kudos to whoever wrote that one.

Not seeing a thread for the new colour tinting, so I'll mention here that the mid walls on tech 2 seem bugged - they're only using one of the two colours.

SG logos: for a medium-sized character, the podium is too high to see over! (Assuming you're meant to face over the curved wall.)

Also: how about adding some existing badge art to the glass pedestals in place of the SG logo to make Base Trophies, awarded when you get the badge? For example, the Devilfish tentacly circle could be stuck on a smoky glass pedestal that you could then put in your base as a memento of your heroic deeds.

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Mayhem missions need to be optional, not required to open contacts.

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You get the contact whether you succeed at the mission or not.

Question for the heroes: when you get Defeat Villains for Extra Prestige popping up, what sort of prestige reward are you getting, and is it for player villains only, or players and villain mobs?

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Cant be arsed out to read whole thread so whats up with bieng able to make lvl 10 hami's....

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Can't be arsed to tell you.







It's a field test for the Enhancement crafting system. :P

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Also devs should redo Doms' PPP, end of story.

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Add Mez protection to the shields, and Doms would be a LOT happier.

OK, got a PM back from the magnificent _Castle_.

In response to 'Do we get +8 Dom per target with an AoE?'

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Not having made the change, my guess is each attack power from the Assault Set that hits any number of targets will get 8 * the number of targets hit. Looking in the sheet, I see that that is definitely how Whirling Hands was set up. I'm not positive that's intended, though.

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As for how PBAoEs from the Assault secondaries worked:

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It's attack powers only -- so the benefit only comes from enemies that are hit.

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So, no building Domination from Drain Psyche, not that I really expected it...

It seems, then, that the fast track to Domination in PvP is to pop a whole bunch of yellows and AoE like crazy. Psychic Scream and Psychic Shockwave FTW, perhaps.

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Got a PM from castle. You will only generate 8 points of domination if you hit the player target in pvp.

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Wait. We build Domination in PvP by scoring a HIT, not just by attacking?

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: does this mean that if we fire off an AoE, we get 8 points per hit, or just eight points if we hit at least one target? In fact, since PBAoEs don't even HAVE selected targets, player OR mob, how does THAT work?

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Who's going to bother doing normal storyline missions when they could just as easily do mayhems?

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They couldn't just as easily do mayhems. Storyline missions follow one after the other. Mayhems require 5 of the horrible grindy awful Newspaper missions between each one.