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I understand that's how you "feel" about it. There are parts of this game I don't like either.

I just think asking the Devs to make adjustments to things based on the narrow point of view of the play experience of one AT during one set encounter is not a very viable suggestion. Somehow you'd have to make the case that every encounter in every trial/TF/SF should be made to be "friendly" to every AT, and I simply don't think you've made that case. Again I'll point out that I might like to stand toe-to-toe in melee against AVs using my Controllers but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon either because there's no obvious justification for it.

Put your energy into figuring out how you can adapt to the new challenge the Devs have provided.
The chance the Devs are going to change this aspect of the trial to make it more "AT friendly" is just about nil.

Regardless of which "artillery" we're talking about I hardly think the trial is too hard for anyone. I ran the 3 Lambdas last night with a Controller and I only died 3 or 4 times during each run. Most of those deaths were during the phase in the building BEFORE the fight with Marauder. *shrugs*

People always come out of the woodwork and whine about the newest content in this game with every new Issue release. For the first few days, before most people adapt, there are people who claim "such-n-such" is too hard and it needs to be nerfed. Remember Apex? Give it a week or two and those voices usually die away.

Beside you're probably not even taking into account that this trial was designed with Incarnate Shifts in mind. In a few weeks when many people are +3 level shifted AND have experience with running this trial it's going to be a completely different experience.

So it's wrong for different ATs to have different strengths and weaknesses when it comes to tactical situations?
For some reason I'm incredibly sure the Devs would disagree with you.

[EDIT] Just as a case in point I ran the Lambda Trial 3 times last night and each time the league I was with managed to circle around and kill off all the artillery within 3-5 minutes. There were even a few MMs in the those leagues and I saw no one complaining. Forgive me if this really does seem like a non-issue.

Yes, but will they be as tough when many people are +3 Level Shifted and experienced with how the trials work?

Well it's not like I'd rage-quit the game if they ever did this.

But amazingly enough there are probably some players who'd actually have a problem with this because they have weird ideas about "exclusive" things in MMOs. And even beyond what any player thinks you'd still have to convince the Devs that this would be worth their effort. While they've given us new ways to get many previous event badges they have yet to do that with any anniversary badge. One would have to assume they are generally against the idea. *shrugs*

I'm sorry that the Lambda artillery is giving your MM some trouble. That being said I don't think this game should always be "friendly" to every AT type in every situation.

For every AT type there's always going to be certain tactical situations where they excel at and others they have problems with. There's really no "rule" that says every character should be able to accomplish every task equally well. That's the whole point for encouraging mixed AT type teams and the main point behind our ability to play multiple alts. I'd rather have the different AT types actually be "different" from each other than to be able to have say a Controller be able to play the game exactly the same way a Tank does.

If the artillery bothers your MM so much either find a way to adapt or simply let your teammates handle that relatively small portion of the trial. Play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. MMs aren't really meant to jump from rooftop to rooftop like Batman anyway so why be that upset when you can't do that? Most players can't easily melee AVs with a Controller but would it be reasonable to ask the Devs to make AVs wimpy enough so that Controllers could routinely do that?

I'll assume you are talking about the new I20 Incarnate trials. If you are then they already allow more than 8 people to play them via the league system. What's wrong with the obvious solution of making sure you have several tanks in the league?

I'm fairly certain the Devs would see no justification for your suggestion.

First of all I've seen both movies and I didn't even need a time machine for that.

Second of all you clearly have NOT seen Source Code because:

***Spoiler Alert***

(1) The main character is not "recruited" to do the task at hand. He's forced to do it against his will.
(2) The story itself is not even actually about "Time Travel" at all. It's about alternate dimensions.

Just about the only thing these two movies have in common is they are both sci-fi movies about a guy "traveling" to another reality and a girl he falls in love with there. I'll bet you could probably shoehorn hundreds of movies into that general premise.

And finally yes, Soruce Code was a much better film than Deja Vu.

Jezz... You do know that they are launching Issue 20 today right?
Cut them a little slack for trying to give you new content to play with.

I strongly suspect the long maintenance last Thursday was also related to getting ready for I20 (despite the problems they had). This game still has like a 99% "up-time" record - letting it be down for a few hours here or there seems reasonable enough for me.

Actually I have been using Notepad for this and still get the random 'invisible' characters. Not really sure what's causing it.

But my "workaround" I mentioned works well enough. I usually only have to re-cut-n-paste 3 or 4 times at most to get a bio to "fit" in the space. Also it's only a problem if you are within like 50 or so characters of the 1,024 limit. I imagine if your bio is much shorter than that you'd have no problem at all.

I still contend if you're looking to find "mez defense" for a Controller in any form other than proper Controller tactics you're playing it wrong. Like trying to pound a square peg into a round hole type of wrong.

From what you've said it sounds to me like you are either trying to play a Controller like a Tank/Brute/Scrapper or you've just gotten way too used to AE farming where you can stack the deck with any kind of MOB you want. You've got to get over the idea that Controllers can be "protected" from mezs the same way other ATs can. Basically it's like you're trying to play tennis with a baseball bat - you can do it, but you aren't going to be able to do it very well.

Please try some of the suggestions that have been mentioned on this thread by other posters. As soon as you stop trying to force your Controller to do something it was never meant to you'll likely have a lot more fun with it. I've run my Controllers up against mez-heavy PvE enemies for years and I almost never get mezzed and I basically never use Breakfrees for anything other than PvP. I don't have a super-secret mez defense builds either. The only mez defense you actually need is the willingness to play your Controller like a Controller.

Once again good luck to you on this.

Source Code is like Deja Vu the same way Star Wars and Star Trek are like each other because they both have people flying around in spaceships. Sure there are similarities, but there are more than enough differences to make it worthwhile. Source Code is easily the superior of the two movies BTW.

Actually if it hasn't been done already I wouldn't mind seeing the 15-20 minutes worth of Sucker Punch "dance-action" scenes re-cut and set to cool music on YouTube. That'd be one way to salvage some enjoyment from the effort Snyder put into it.

If Snyder was smart he'd do that officially as part of the DVD/Blu-Ray release so that I could watch that instead of the "movie" ever again.

This... unfortunately.

Well at least you know now.

But if you do everything OV_ohms said it's not really -that- hard to rack up new Safeguard/Mayhem missions. Avoid doing the longer paper/radio missions (like the kidnap ones). Only doing ones you can easily stealth (like "Defeat XYZ and guards" or "Click the glowie" types) you should be able to unlock a new Safeguard/Mayhem in under an hour each.

Honestly in the greater scheme of things having to "farm" for Safeguard/Mayhem badges is not really that hard compared to many other badges in the game.

Well I guess there's always a silver lining to everything. If Snyder cuts out the bad 90ish minutes of the movie and replaces it with better one I might give it another chance.

I would estimate that at best maybe 10% of the playerbase of this game plays it on Mac hardware. Is it really -that- hard to understand why any updates for Macs for this game will pretty much always be on a lower level priority? I'm not trying to dredge up the decades old "which machine is better" debate - I'm just stating an obvious fact. If 90% of the playerbase played on Macs then we be using a brand new Mac launcher today. It's just that simple. *shrugs*

If Sucker Punch had been the movie that had the qualities you just described it would've been a good movie. Unfortunately it only barely scraped the surface of getting as "deep and meaningful" as you described on its own. I respectfully suspect you allowed your mind's eye to add in many of the things you wanted to see by filling in all the gaps that were actually present there.

Except for the few minutes of cool action scenes this movie was flawed and shallow in just about every way imaginable. Both the professional reviewers and the horrible box office are proving that point fairly readily. Sometimes horrible movies somehow manage to make a ton of money regardless (i.e. the Transformer movies) but Sucker Punch isn't even managing that kind of pseudo-miracle.

Yeah I'd also give it a "aimed high but just barely missed the mark" rating as well. I know that sounds like a "bad" review but I want to stress that this movie was actually one of the better sci-fi movies I've seen in the last couple of years and was easily well worth going to see it. The only reason I'd "knock" it at all is that it was very close to being a top-notch movie without quite making it.

I've seen other reviewers calling this a "thinking man's blockbuster" and that's probably a fair way to describe it. It's just complex enough to not be totally shallow story-wise but yet solid enough to appeal to most viewers with a bit of action and mystery to it. Frankly if all sci-fi movies were at least as good as Source Code we'd be doing pretty well.