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Unfortunately that extra range NPCs have was added into the game (along with a lot of ranged attacks themselves) specifically to prevent hover blasters from fighting in complete and utter safety.

Sorry, I tend to divorce finding a film fun from any sort of 'rating' I try to give it, I'm odd. The AvP movies really left me flat in terms of enjoyment, sure they did provide the Aliens fighting Predators thing but for the most part I was very lukewarm on them. Prometheus on the other hand I had a lot of fun with in spite of its generic plot and plotholes.

Oddly I significantly disliked the recent Star Trek movie in spite of its being very well-done. It just seemed a mass of action beats thinly strung together with small bits of plot ... in other words very much a modern action flick. Unfortunately for me that's not what I generally go to a Star Trek film.

Personally I kind of ignore most everything from the AvP movies. If they'd been good I probably would have cared about anything they added, but really ... they weren't.

Prometheus on the other hand was ... ok. I'd give it a 6.5/10 or so. Nothing special exactly but it did have some very well done performances and it was stunningly shot.

Yea, on second reading I get that more, though I still get a, "Well some ATs/Powersets will always be better," message from that comment I quoted.

I'm not a huge fan of all of the suggestions myself either, but at this point I'm more willing to take any improvement to the AT so long as its primary goal in the game is to blast things.

So you suggest that if there's a significant gap in performance between the average and the minimum performing ATs that nothing should be done to help the one lagging behind so long as they meet some minimum requirement?

I don't play a ton of controllers, but wouldn't their general ability to lock down groups of enemies make things easier? Possibly slower, but less dangerous.

Also dominators have both decent damage output (1.050 melee damage mod and 0.95 ranged damage mod) and mez protection through domination(as well as though one of their APPs for what that's worth). My dominators play on higher difficulties than my blasters do with less difficulties/accidental deaths.

Yea, you used to have to at least halfway through that little friendship meter (or whatever it is) with a contact before they'd give out their cell-phone number.

I've never taken concealment's stealth power so I'm not sure how it functions exactly, but a portion of CD's stealth does suppress. It looses 20 feet of its 35 foot stealth radius while in combat (and half of its defense bonus).

It's always kind of bothers me that CD could pretty easily be replaced with a pool power.

Ok so maybe I don't have all the pertinent info and the like(it happens), but doesn't the whole Super Hero/Villain thing come out of comic books? I know comic books are influenced by other things as well, but what we see in the game we play is based off of the comic book super-hero.

Edit: We are in agreement on the pose though.

It's also a comic book game. I don't think realistically dressed and armored characters is something that should be expected.

Also I didn't really think Penny's costume showed all that much skin. Granted she's showing some of it in somewhat important areas to be protected in a real fight, but as I said ... comic book.

Edit: Now as far as the pose she's in. I've always thought that pose looked kind of silly/stupid in comic books and it's no different here.

It always seemed to be more an alternate dimension where the Battalion just got to Earth much sooner to me. Especially since, to the best of my knowledge, the Portal Corp. tech is strictly cross-dimensional travel.

He's been pretty obviously putting off 'evil' vibes since scene one. If he's not Amon he's most likely at least connected to the guy somehow.

The first time I saw anything about The Battalion was back in a PC Gamer article where they were talking about how ED would let them add in crafting. I think it was a CoV preview article to be honest. They've been kicking around in the background of the game for quite a while.

For some reason I knew a lot of people who both loved that film and watched it multiple times. Not really worth that if you ask me, but eh ... different tastes and all that.

You'd still run into issues where you'd need to offer alternate solutions to the special case sets of Dual Pistols, Ice Blast and Sonic Attack.

There's a very nice variety in the makeup of both blaster primaries and secondaries. Unfortunately I think that might also be part of the problem since there can be a large disparity between the capabilities of the 'good' builds and the not so good ones.

That was a global change however. The Issue 2 thing reduced defender and tanker end costs down to that of blasters (I believe). The original idea was I believe something like blasters getting an end discount on attacks because that what their focus ... doing damage I mean. Still, I could be misremembering, it was a long time ago.

Also I would certainly hope blaster attacks would do more damage than defender or corrupter ones (buffs and debuffs aside). If they didn't something would be horribly wrong. Still, I can see the idea behind an end discount on attacks for blasters even though I don't think it's strictly needed either.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this (or something like this) used to be the case? I seem to recall that blaster attacks had a lower end cost than similar powers for other ATs but then at some point everyone else's end costs got reduced while blaster's stayed the same.

Edit: Hmm, I think I might have been recalling the end reduction of tanker and defender attacks from back in Issue 2.

I knew I should have thrown a caveat on this when I posted it. Mostly it just gets to me how generally when I see people discussing improvements to blasters someone comes along and yells "tankmage" when you already have powerset combinations in the game that can easily do content that would destroy the 'average' blaster readily.

I don't exactly want to fight huge groups of +4/x8 with ease, and actually I think that would be pretty dull, but it'd be nice to be more on the level with the other damage ATs as far as everything goes. A good solid balance pass of the secondaries could do a lot to that end, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

My understanding has always been that he was pulling fairly liberally from old Germanic and Norse versions of elves (and many other creatures) for his works. In Norse myth at least elves (light elves anyway) were depicted as beautiful humans.

I don't think they really became akin to fairies until later on in English folk-tales.

From what I've been able to tell if you can do it from melee range that's fine, but if it's from range then all of a sudden ... tankmage.

Oh bother I missed it. I was up for the aborted launch the other night too.

Yea, I just can't remember all the enemies that would out range my attacks that were effectively six-slotted for range. I can't imagine they ever got a range-nerf.