Party_Kake

Hmm, where do I start?

Party Kake is a former stripper turned criminal mastermind, joker-style crazy with a frosting costume and robots named Frosting, Icing, Sprinkles, Kake Mix, Cupkakes, and Candles (the one with the flamethrower). She usually hangs out from afar while letting her minions do the dirty work so she can look good and avoid getting beat to all hell. But some of her most fun powers involve aoe debuffing and attacking groups of enemies.

Mass Drive is an interesting character, each costume of hers is supposed to be a completely different person. All of them are volunteers that chose to become a hero working for Drive tech, an organization that has them sign a "nondisclosure agreement" that prevents them from speaking or communicating at all. Thus the character is mute, and communicates outside help chat with only emotes. each time I change her costume, it's like the old volunteer was killed and replaced. Armed with titan weapons and electric armor, she has a very short combat cycle, jumping in and using all that endurance so fast that it just empties, and then it's either time to flee or finish it. She's a brute though, makes it hard to guess which is the right answer.

I have a couple dominators, one hasn't been played much lately though, the other's new.

I had a few stalkers that I enjoyed playing, the last one I played seriously was in the going rogue beta and I guess I got burned out on that pretty quick.

Security in general is a joke.
Clearly you haven't heard the reports of people who didn't have authenticators who got their accounts hacked THROUGH the use of an authenticator. in World of Warcraft.

Or the people who had authenticators, who still got hacked.

And then there's people like me. I had an authenticator for rift through my phone (how handy!) and then when I took my phone in for repairs, they did a factory reset, costing me my authenticator, making it difficult enough for me to get back into my account that I JUST GAVE UP. I didn't want to jump through hoop after hoop to get back into a game I might not like that much anyways.

It's a case of security versus convenience.

And when your business model is free-to-play, anything that takes away from convenience is first on the chopping block.

Wow it's almost like none of you have READ comics before.

Who is the one guy most likely to beat anyone in a fight? If you said anything other then Batman, you're wrong. Yes, Batman. sure he has his down days, but the fact that the one guy in a bat-suit who's otherwise a normie, has stood his ground for decades and fought with the best of them, and still come out on top in more than his fair share of moments...

You guys act like the Malta are supposed to be pushovers. No way! they're the vigilante extremist anti-superbeing group from hell. No way I'd ever expect to just toss them around like toys filled with catnip.

From the sounds of it, the story of this mission that's upsetting you so much is this:

Superpowered intense evil being a: "AND NOW, HERO, THAT I HAVE COMPLETELY DRAINED YOUR DEFENSES, THIS LOWLY PEASANT WITH A ROCK WILL CRUSH YOU!"

You: "Pss yeah RighTASFAUTD%&EDTFDH" *squish*

That is probably word for word already something that's happened to a superhero somewhere, and it fits superhero-dom to a t.

ESPECIALLY if you get shot at with rocket launchers right afterwards and they don't kill you.

Heck look at Huntress's belly window. she got shot in THAT SPOT of her body TWICE and then removed the body armor from it to look good (and then stopped getting shot there).

Sense? in comic-book land? I just don't understand you guys at all!

But whatever, I'm just here to serve cake.

Tommy Lee Jones makes everything better.

I want to see him in an episode of the Powerpuff girls or My Little Pony.

I don't know that I like this idea, it's already hard enough picking which travel powers I end up getting. The last thing I want is to be in a situation where I have to finally give up all my travel powers just to make my character competitive. Hell, my Empath/Dual Pistols defender is just painful to play already on account of the fact that my damage just SUCKS. Giving me all sorts of weapon pools to choose from just makes me want to abandon the primary and secondary altogether for it. You know, so that I can deal damage in addition to looking cool.

It's a cool idea but I don't see it being anywhere near as cool for other characters.

I'll be the first to admit: Titan weapons on a stalker just sounds so broken, I want to see it in action just to break it.

It's a chance, yes, but it's a really good chance.
on the beta server, opening ten packs landed me a near-complete costume. missing only the boots.
you really gonna tell me you can't make do with something like that? what am I saying, of COURSE you're going to tell me you can't.

Had it for a while on live, test, and beta. they work.

I'm torn between two Titan Weapons characters at the moment, the first being "Titan Infernal", who I designed to be a sort of humongous demonic looking fire beastie, but then decided I like the idea of "Titan Infernal" being a sort of generic name, and deciding to make all the different looks for the character to be wildly different interpretations. I'll be doing more with that later.

The other, is called Mass Drive.
(This is a much more rp-attuned character)

The Mass Driver is a technological weapon designed by Drive Tech, notorious for their loose interpretations of ethical guidelines and their strict, totalitarian demands for results. Many volunteers have come forward to test and use the Mass Drive, as field operatives that are paid modestly for their cooperation and skill.

These volunteers are very tight-lipped about the project, presumably due to the dark and very scary rumors that the operatives who openly discuss the project disappear, never to be seen again. Credibility is given to this story, by the fact that many of its former operatives have not been seen since they last used the Mass Driver.

The character: each "costume" of Mass Drive is a different person that volunteered to test the Mass Driver, and to become operative "Mass Drive." Various methods of sealing shut the operative's mouth are used to ensure that the volunteer never talks openly about the project. The operative's gloves also act as an emergency countermeasure to written or typed words. Any attempt at unauthorized communication results in detonation and remote recovery of the Mass Driver.

That being said it's quite fun to play a character roleplaying as mute. Though I still help people out in Help channel of course, out of character. That, and if I slip up, I can always just selfdestruct and go over to the character costume editor and find a "new volunteer."

So quick question, If you hit them in the artery, does it cause artillery bleeding?

Nyuk nyuk nyuk...

Oh I got another one.

When I was complaining about how hard the low level praetorian missions were as a stalker, someone mentioned that all they did was pop a few purples and reds and auto-win the fight.

my response: Wait, you can use more than one of those at once?

It had been like 2 years total playtime across 3 years of the game's history at that point and I never figured out you could stack inspirations. Suddenly I started USING them. and the game became so much easier.

With regards to the time limit, I find that most players are already under another sort of timer altogether. The amount of time they have to play, uninterrupted, is dictated by outside forces.

In order to get people to show up for something like the Mortimer Kal arc (in preparation for endgame content) I usually have to tell them it's roughly 30 minutes to run the whole thing, or they won't join at all because they don't have enough time - yet, they were still online after I got done, the first time I did it without knowing how long it might take.

Having a timer for the whole thing might work. If there's NO WAY that the task force goes on longer than an hour and a half - with the event crashing and burning at that point, that would be great. Then for sure, you'd be able to get a group together for it even after everyone else had gotten tired of it. (in the far future)