NightshadeLegree

Or even before the movie comes out. I've seen an even higher than usual number of shield carrying super soldiers recently.

No xXThorXxs though. Not high profile enough or is it just that War Mace really that bad?

The mission description doesn't provide any dialogue that leads up to the mission acceptance or the debriefing text. The first time I ran the Reichsman SF I'd lost track of the story by the end of the second mission and spent the rest of the SF with basically no idea what was going on.

TFs have the worst story telling mechanics in the game (and throw in the common tendency to speed-run to twist the narrative even more out of shape) which is one reason why I'm less than enthused by the fact that, at present, the Incarnate/Praetoria story is being continued entirely via TFs and Raids.

I really like this idea. Antidote as is is decidedly meh. This sounds fun and trippy.

Poison Trap is just rubbish. An AoE sleep that the pets will wake 'em out of in seconds, and an 'infrequent' hold effect. For a tier 8 power that's pathetic and a waste of a power pick. Is there really a good reason why we can't just get /traps version, considering it's only tier 6 and is far far better?

No no no. Never. NCSoft/Paragon Studios have hit a pretty sweet spot with microtransactions with the booster packs - nice to have, but by no means essential, and they don't piss people off, which is no mean feat for any P2P.

I'd pay for a new zone, a new Redside zone, with new art, new enemy groups and 10 levels of story arc content - an expansion in other words. I'd pay for that in an instant. Try and charge extra for anything less than that and I'd cancel both my subs without a second thought, because this isn't a F2P.

How about you remember that you're a player like the rest of us and you stop trying to moderate the thread? If you've got a problem with people bringing up relevant concerns about the all-team all-the-time focus of this issue and if you think that's off-topic, then report me to the mods. See how far that gets you.

I'll repeat myself from an earlier post - this is a thread to discuss the I20 announcement, not merely to unquestioningly praise it.

Edit: the defensiveness of some people in this thread surprises me. The devs are grown ups who get paid to do a job. They don't need you guys riding to their defence every time someone dares to say they find something disapointing.

Yeah, I've seen this being brought up a few times in this thread. All I can say is I'll believe it when I see it.

I seem to recall a lot of very similar wishful thinking in the run up to I15, and what came of that.

If they're trailering a badge fix and some expanded zone to zone travel options I really don't think they're holding much back. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but I'd have been happy to be proven wrong about I15 as well.

If it's not going to be brought up in a thread discussing an issue with zero solo content, when should it be brought up?

That argument is from an earlier era of MMO design, and not the best defence for an older game with a diminished population.

I'm with Sam on this one, and I don't see what he's saying as needlessly provocative at all. This is a thread for discussing the I20 overview, not for merely blindly praising it. Fact is, there is nothing in this issue for people who dislike forced teaming, absolutely nothing. That's not an opinion or an argument, that is a fact.

Now, onto hypothetical speculation... If the devs are planning on focusing heavily on team based content going forward then I think it's a terrible mistake. The game is 7 years old, with a playerbase that is by most estimates smaller than it was even two years ago when I signed up, and if you want to draw attention to the low pop on some servers there's no better or faster way to do so than to release a lot of forced teaming content.

I was on Triumph on sunday morning, villainside. There were SEVEN players showing up on Search, throughout the entirety of redside. I'm not buying it that there were that many more on /hide.

Yeah, more TFs are probably being run at the moment, because the Weekly Task Force bribes people to do them - seriously, people aren't running Sister Psyche over and over because it's fun. The new stuff is probably being run a lot as well, because it's new and shiny...

... but what happens a year from now, or two years? How easy will it be to put together 12 or 24 players for the BAF when everyone is pushing their mains through the 9th and 10th tiers of Incarnate content, or the 3rd and 4th for that matter? Yeah, people have alts, but the number of people who'll be grinding multiple alts through the incarnate process is going to be relatively limited... and split up across 11 servers.

I can see a situation down the line where a lot of this stuff becomes like the raids in WoW Vanilla and BC... dust gatherers that most people skip because there are better, faster ways to get to the level cap, or should I say incarnate cap. So we'll be left with a bunch of Caverns of Transcendance - old, increasingly obscure content with stupid group requirements, or the Eden trial, with its antiquated and now worthless rewards.

I'm not saying that will happen, but this is an MMO, and you need to take a long view of content in an MMO, unless we do want this to turn into another "The game starts at 50" grindathon, which would be a tragic waste of potential.

That's nice. Now point out to me the part where I said everything has to be soloable.

I want the devs to remember that one of the strengths of this game is its soloability. There is absolutely nothing in this Issue that isn't group based.

Sorry about that. I'll try to do better.

I've been running several low level heroes recently and can confirm that Vahzilok still hurt a lot. It's not just the scary toxic damage, but stacking slows when you only have a two or three attack powers is just nasty. I've been keeping a tally of how often I've been defeated by each enemy group and the Vahz are currently easily in the lead.

One of these days I'll get to fight Doctor Vahzilok. One of these days...

OT: the +1 spawns, yeah I've noticed quite a lot of them. I can't recall if it was like that when I started in late 08 - don't think it was because I played awful back then (Hey, is it okay that all my enhancement numbers are red? What do insps do? What is the blue bar for?) and I suppose it could be quite harsh on new players - although after Praetoria just about anything on red or blueside is easy by comparison.

Yup, pets have always been quicker to target enemies. Setting my MM's pets on Agressive during a Rikti invasion they'll start firing while the Rikti are still porting in and untargetable by players (unless you target through the pets.)

Of course during an invasion event any self respecting MM should by too busy doing /e dance to bother targetting anything. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?