Nethergoat

ugh, thanks for making me feel OLD! =P

Saw pretty much everything on that list, many of them at the drive in (!)

That's the summer one of my pals got his license, we spent every weekend at the drive in no matter what was showing. Saw a lot of great stuff and a lot of total garbage.

The best experience by far was Road Warrior- it was a beautiful night and most of the crowd were out in lawn chairs picnicking. When the gal gets ventilated by the arrow cannon, the WHOLE crowd was howling NOOOOOOO! People were honking their horns, flashing their headlights...it was fantastic.

also, a marketeering note:

I haven't been doing anything organized, just messing with this & that. I can report from running Paraleghell through a pretty limited chunk of high end content that simply checking your IO recipe drops & crafting the 'good' ones is still a terrific earner for lazy/disinterested players. Rough earning estimate off the first DA arc is 100 million or so, with 60m coming from a LotG Defense.

Interesting change of habit, I've been storing my rares away in the event I need them. I'd never have done this in the old days, but the /vault command makes it SO easy.

I also have two characters parked in Ft Trident converting merits to Hero merits, gradually transforming the fat pile I collected while burning through Super Packs- I'll figure out what to do with them once I've got a fair pile.

So anyway.....still dirt simple to make huge piles of inf with no particular effort. =P

yah I like this change- it was a pain claiming it then having to dig around the powers window to find it and set it off.

welcome back!

sorry to hear about your tribulations, good to see you around these parts again.

=D

I'll keep the solo story thing in mind- hopefully they won't mapserve me Cole-style.

One I23 change I'm not liking is the TUNNEL system.
Well, I like it from a function standpoint, but conceptually it bugs me for the same reason the mission entrances in the First Ward & Night Ward bug me- a floating portal undermines my sense of place.
It could be anywhere.
They're all identical, so why is there more than one?
It erodes the mask of the game world as an actual city, where I'm running around having adventures, exposing a bit of the numerical armature beneath.

In design terms those mission doors are just the same as, say, a warehouse door in King's Row. They are where they are to impose some sort of temporal spacing in your gameplay. But whereas my brain goes "oh yeah, sure, this gang of Skulls is in this warehouse but the boss is over in *that* warehouse" and thinks jogging to a different location to clean out basically the same warehouse makes perfect sense.

Not the sense I get from exiting a portal, calling a contact then heading halfway across the zone to another, identical portal.

For TUNNEL specifically, it just seems like something done on the cheap.
"Oh, we'll just slap a swirly energy thing next to the train station- done!"
Really? A dimensional warp is just hanging out on the sidewalk & there are a couple of dudes watching it and that's it? At least the DA entrance has its own planter box and circle of chanting acolytes.
Firebase Zulu access at Portal Corps was a big sandbagged security checkpoint, now I can get there from downtown Talos?

Hurmm.

Portal Corps doesn't bug me at all- those portals are very explicitly and massively anchored in the landscape of the game world. They have a physical reality these newfangled portals lack.

I'm usually pretty laissez faire about this stuff, generally happy to suspend my disbelief in whatever way the game requires to speed my path to the bashing enemies over the head segment of my session, but for some reason these things bug me.

I don't much care what sort of love blasters get, as long as they get it.


I'm enjoying playing my IO'ed to the teeth fire/ice through the DA content, but often catch myself thinking how much *easier* everything would be on pretty much any of my other 'main' characters.

great idea, we're seeing the first steps along those lines with the faction-blind LFG chat channel.

the thematic benefits of opening up zones to all factions are obvious, hopefully it's an idea that's on the dev radar.

here's one vote for stone based almost entirely on it's super fun animations.

I like it fine for damage, and as noted it has some great mitigation, but I really love the attack animations. And the lava skin the hammers and fists got a while back are great!

Okay, got through a couple of missions & finished the first arc without any more connection issues, but was promptly mapserved outside the mish as I paused to Inferno a particularly juicy spawn of orange cons.


Really loved the final mission- terrific, creepy remix of a standard sewer map, great final encounter that actually made me lean back in surprise and say Woah! Keanu-style.

So being a hero I opted to try and save both Sigil & Kadabra.
I had a bunch of big defenses in my tray to keep me alive and figured if a fire blaster can't generate enough DPS to get the job done who could?

Alas, I had an unfortunate mishap mid-fight- hit Inferno before noticing I didn't have any big blues in my tray. By the time I fumbled around and managed to combine one, I was dead. Popped Return to Battle and picked up where I left off, but ran out of timer. Was genuinely shocked when Sig & Kadab dropped dead.

Great mission.

They went out of their way to underline the dangers of not being able to take out the Knives in time, and even so I was surprised.


Exited, nuked that juicy spawn and got mapserved.

Looking forward to continuing the DA storyline, so far it's top drawer stuff.
I haven't enjoyed playing a 50 this much in, well, ever.