NightshadeLegree

Siding with Cleo means turning on and killing Washington, a police officer you have fought alongside and who tried to warn you about the ambush you were sent into by Cleo, who is at best a terrorist sympathiser and spy, and at worst is herself a terrorist.

I don't see how that can possibly be considered the 'right' thing to do.

Ms. Liberty. I like her attitude. Statesman is all about being the Big Noble Hero. Ms. Liberty is all about letting her private army run around with flamethrowers.

The only way to come out that mission without blood on your hands is to stand back and let Washington kill Cleo on his own. I haven't tried that myself, but I think he would win without your assistance anyway.

I really like that arc, because it shows you that in Praetoria even heroes are going to have to do 'bad' things, and the hospital bombing plotline really kills off any preconceived notions that this is going to be a clear case of Loyalist = Villain, Resistance = Hero.

it feels like a statement of intent by the writers, telling us that things aren't going to be that black and white in Praetoria, and I feel it works very well.

That's a fair point, Geko. I'll concede that they have built in a reason to repeat the mission, and I'm sure that in due time it will be missions plural.

That said, they'll never be able to add enough morality missions to avoid a sense of deja vu, especially for those who are farming this system on their 50s. Presumably that'll become less of an issue when I19 provides new things for 50s to do.

Already in certain Arachnos, Council and Circle of Thorns maps you go to a cell when defeated. It's cool, but occassionally annoyingly time consuming when the CoT energy barriers take forever to be break down.

I'd be against the mechanic being more widely used because often after a defeat I just want to get back to my in-progress mission as quickly as possible, especially if I got taken out by an unexpected lucky shot and am itching for revenge.

I think there are a few factors that make Redside a bit harder.

Bank Missions: Mayhems are harder than Safeguards, no question about it. A team running a Safeguard can rush the bank, beat the boss and be out with their shiny new raptor packs in less than 5 minutes. Mayhems are far more likely to be thrown into chaos with the constant threat of ambushes.

Choice: Heroes have more zones and can to a greater extent pick and choose what they will fight. Vazhilok, far more common on blueside, are IMO, the nastiest pre-20 group in the game, but it's relatively easy to avoid facing them unless you want to. Unless a redsider sticks to papers they will run up against a lot of Arachnos and Longbow, who get tough quite early on. Arachnos in particular stop being pushovers from the mid teens when the Mu and Fortunatas start showing up, and from there they only get tougher.

EBs: This not so much as blueside gets more newer content - the Hollows, Faultline and Striga all have them, but the fact that most redside arcs from the mid-20s on seems to include at least one definitely adds to the perception of redside being harder. The shorter redside arcs also mean you'll face one every 3 or 4 missions, as opposed to every 10 in the blueside stuff (up to 40 at least)

The Higher Levels: Blueside gets more Malta and Carnival I think, but Redside gets tons of Arachnos (aka just about every damage type in the game in a single spawn in the late game) and Longbow, as well as PPD and Arachnids.

Except for the peacebringer and the scrapper I have one of each of those AT/powerset combos on my roster, mostly in the teen levels. If I had to pick just one of them for the weekend I'd probably go with the plant/storm controller or the VEAT.

Deciding factors for me would include... I dislike the 30s blueside except for Croatoa, which is okay, and the RWZ... Bots/anything is very solid but puts me to sleep... and I've just taken a DP/Mind blaster through 1-20 of Praetoria so a change of pace is always a good thing.

I have 2 Praetorians at present. A Responsibility loyalist who has completed her trip to Paragon City, and a Power loyalist who's halfway there. I also have 2 characters lined up for the 2 resistance paths.

After that, Praetorian concepts will start in Praetoria, as will out and out villain concepts using hero ATs and vice versa. Other than that I'll alternate between red, blue and gold sides. If you make a lot of alts, as I do, it's nice to have a wider choice.

Q: How many Syndicate does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Only one, but another 24 will show up in ambushes.

My guess would be Boomtown being revamped into the first level 50 Incarnate zone. Start your post-50 career by battling the giant Mek Men that were spotted on Test a while back.

Which would, needless to say, be awesome.

Sorry, but I'm still not feeling this is something that needs to be 'fixed'. Rephrase your arguments any way you like but they still come down to this...

"I set my missions for TWO characters and now they are too hard for ONE character."

And...?

If you talk to a Fateweaver (or whatever the blueside equivalent is called.) It says "I think I'm as good as or better than 2 standard villains/heroes." It does not say "I want to fight more enemies, but only even-con please."

As far as I'm concerned once you switch up from the default +0/x0 difficulty settings you forfeit the right to complain about it being too hard for one player, because you've chosen to run a mission that isn't set for one player.

Two that immediatly come to mind...

Stage Fright - a top hat wearing hero seen on Justice. No idea what his AT or powersets were but he was the first player hero I ever saw in this game when I zoned into Outbreak one afternoon two years ago.

Watership Doom - bots MM on Freedom. Bunny Girl costume, of course.