Premonitions

I just want to mention that we really, really need a neck slot.

Not having one and not having the appropriate options in a neck slot is forcing us to make some fairly arbitrary and ridiculously limiting design decisions for our characters. It's one thing to not be able to have a cape and wings or a chest symbol and chest armor. Those things actually conflict. But why oh why can't we have a collar and shoulder pads? An ascot and a chest symbol?

I remember hearing that there was a limited number of attachment points for the character model and that they where running dangerously low. Honestly? I'd be willing to give up whatever might be available that making a neck-slot would preclude.

It's just getting silly. Especially since the sorts of things (chokers, necklaces, ties) that would go in a neck slot seem to be distributed so randomly. Face detail 2, Shoulder, Chest, very little of it seems to be dictated by a central guiding principle. What makes a choker a Face Detail 2 option and a spiked collar a Shoulder option besides arbitrary choice?

The new CoT grew on me after a while, but that one photoshop by blastchamber in the 'WHARGBLENEWCOTSUXXORZBLAHBLAHCITYOFWARCRAFT' thread was so very awesome it sort of soured me on them. I don't hate them but I just wonder what could have been.

I have the same thing. I tried to use it to capture Numina during a different mission but I think I missed the timing. XD

I like that some of the masks have jawbones and some don't.

I just hope it's better than Samurai.

my personal favorite
"Click your greens, they're good for you"

Obviously Swap ammo replaces Build-Up in Dual Pistols. It would seem the gained versatility is supposed to account for the lack of a straight Dam+To-hit buff. It makes sense in theory, If you can put out a damage type the enemy has no defenses or resistances against, you hit more often and hit harder.

Ultimately, Fire is the ammo type I see most used when people even bother to use them at all. I personally find the implementation, with all the toggles, kind of awkward and inelegant. But it serves the needs of being able to instantly swap back and forth without having to wait on a recharge timer.

I kind of liked the way the original beta swap ammo worked and wondered if some kind of Scaling thing couldn't be implemented to it to make it closer to a build-up

My Idea:

Turn swap Ammo back into a single, enhanceable, click power with a recharge timer, endurance cost, et-cetera. A sort of "Build-Up lite".

Starting from Standard Ammo you Would go Standard>Toxic>Cold>Fire>Standard with each click. Each Click Auto-Recharges the power(Like Burst of Speed) until you get back to Standard.

Stopping at Any of the "Exotic" ammo types gives you six(or more or less, according to balance) Stacks of "X ammo type"

Single target attacks(and possibly Piercing Rounds) would deplete one stack, while AoE Attacks would deplete the whole thing, thus reverting you back to standard ammo.

Sort of an inverse Combo-building system.

In addition, each Click within the "auto recharge" cycle would add a minor, stacking, to-hit buff(about 1/4th normal buildup) and a "special" buff that increases the secondary effects of the ammo type you "stop" on that would last somewhere in the ballpark of the duration of hasten.

Give him lower defenses than a tank but heavy Dam or To-hit or accuracy debuffing so the enemies don't hit as hard.

Kinetics and Kinetic Melee make me soooo happy.

the blade on the chainsaw in the screenshot looks almost as tall as the character...