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They may all be facsimiles, after all, they all ended up pretty smashed up.

You don't think the décor is meant to look like a drab military base where someone is duplicating Stark's inventions?

Edit: being dim, missed the end of the picture.

They appear to be Mk I to VII, going from left to right.

But that doesn't look like Tony's usual workshop. He usually has nicer décor.

Not what I remember. Whist genuine insanity is certainly core to the Green Goblin's persona, Doc Ock is just a straight forward mad scientist, without the completely irrational and self destructive i've-been-taken-over-by-my-tentacle-AI nonsense.
It's not just the insanity that's a direct repeat of the first film, it the going-insane-as-part-of-gaining-superpowers which was a direct repeat.
I mean three Spiderman movies and not one absurdly complex plot for world domination to foil!?

Visually, Doc Ock worked very well. It's just the story was a repeat of the first film rather than moving on.

Radial doesn't do anything with actual power damage. Consider Gloom for example. This power does damage based on the developers' internal damage formulae. It just happens to be DoT. Radial does damage based on the formula above, which is somewhat similar to the internal formulae. However, Radial is always applied in a single chunk.

Don't forget ET. This does far more damage than it should based on the standard internal formula. Core scales off this damage, wheras Radial will give pretty much exactly the same bonus damage for ET and TF.

I can see where the studio where coming from with that, actually. Sandman is a fairly obscure, slightly silly and unappealing character (I certainly didn't like the movie version).

Venom is a better known, more popular, and potentially more interesting character (with spin-off potential). I can see why the studio wanted a Venom movie. The trouble is Rami, instead of quitting in favour of someone who actually wanted to do a Venom movie, just sulked and did it badly.

That's the other thing, I don't really think the "explanations" really do anything to improve on the existing mythos.

(apart from contradicting lore from the AvP movies, which is probably a good thing)

Well, something that isn't:

1) Aliens started life on Earth

2) The aliens now want to end it because humans are a) a failed experiment b) too aggressive c) to harvest for spare parts or d) reasons too alien for humans to understand (i.e. the film maker couldn't think of anything).


If you want to make a forgettable popcorn flick, sure recycle a hackneyed old plot, but if you want to make out your movie is more meaningful, then you need to have something new to say.

I agree with both. They would be bad films anyway, but villain cramming is one of their many faults. But the problem with SM3 isn't really too many villains, three really isn't many. It's failing to choose one as the main antagonist.

I'm quite happy to comment on SM2. I hated it, because it recycled the "I'm-evil-because-I'm-a-loony" cliche. Which would have been bad even if they hadn't done the exact same thing in SM1. Why couldn't we have an entirely sane, highly intelligent, irredeemably evil Doc Oc?

Ah, but this isn't something that has been done badly before - it's been done well, most obviously 2001 A Space Odyssey. But even Star Trek and Dr Who have done it (several times each). Nothing I've read suggests this film brings anything new to the table.

Given the power is called "Hybrid", I don't think people's expectations where unreasonable.

However apologetic you want to get for the developers, this power DOES NOT do what it says on the tin.

I would think that is right. Certainly FE only benefits from Core, but I also expect that Energy Transfer, because it's damage is a lot higher than it should be based on it's cooldown, is better with core.

But since Tanker-single target radial is currently bugged anyway, it's no contest - go core.

I expect that's deliberate, to not offend the Chinese. I think they get a bit tired of being portrayed as evil. So make the Mandarin someone of indeterminate race but with a china-fetish. But you do know Ben Kingsley is most famous for playing an asian - Ghandi.

Chinese money and locations for IM3 have been confirmed.

Sorry, mis-read the OP for some reason.

The Hybrid Resistance should benefit from Alpha, but it was very very undertested during beta.

Hybrid is bug-ridden.

You would expect that to be most commonly reported. Part absorbed would be statistically the least common output, even if there is a combat log message for it.

It's just a matter of adding a -target absorb to the damage calculation code. Nothing difficult about that bit. The fiddly bit is keeping track of the Absorb number.

Absorb going to negative values would be the potential bug I would anticipate, but it shouldn't be hard to catch.

It doesn't have to "split the damage into two". It just has to do a subtraction.

As far as I know it's already working, since Shadowhunter has it.

All the absorb powers I've seen state a duration.

It's the only trial that unlocks Hybid at the moment. The next trials added will also unlock Hybrid.

That's the way it works. You do the first lot of trials to unlock the first lot of slots, the second lot to unlock the second lot of slots, and so on. Not bad design at all. It has already been demonstrated that if you give players a free choice they will simply grind the easiest trial and never do anything else.

As for Hybrid, since it sucks anyway, you can always put it off and go do something else.

That's why I said it was difficult, not impossible.

I'm pretty sure the developers will just use Absorb as a way of adding new powersets (which people then pay for) not tinkering with old ones. The biggest flaw of FF isn't it's power anyway, it's simply BORING.

Looks like def=yes, res=no, at the moment.

I'm sure it's capped. I think it has a duration and wears off too, but I'm not sure about that.

There are +absorb-over-time powers.