Samuel_Tow

Not TFs, but this still exists. Every Morality Mission in the game is solo only, including the Galaxy City tutorial. There's also a mission which resets when you leave it, the arena fight from Mender *****... I mean Mender Tesseract.

I must be going crazy, but I'm almost positive I saw a screenshot of just that, but I can't find it now. I checked the Best Costume Designs thread, I checked the two Halloween threads... Nothing. But I already saw someone doing a "next gen water cooler" design somewhere. It's not a bad idea, though.

Also, "Lighteater" fell through. I can't work with the empty bowl. AT ALL. I gave up and swapped to a different head, then killed about 30 minutes of the Vulpish One's time, but that character is ready and not a jarhead, in the contextual sense of the word.

What's also gone is my desire to make an empty-bowl ANYTHING. Until we get an opaque bowl, leaving it empty just makes it disappear more often than not, and it bugs me too much to use. That leaves the other possibility, the brain in a jar... The jarbrain, if you will.

For a jarbrain concept, I found there's something in particular I want to use - the jar and the Vampire Collar Cape. These two seem to have been made together, and they look AWESOME. If I can wrap those around having one person's brain attached to another person's dead body and somehow not be like half the people who posted in the Best Costume Designs thread, that would be a great end to a great day

This I can fully appreciate. It's in-character and it's actually a good approach in the style of an ACTUAL tutorial.

I personally feel that these should be part of a proper tutorial that players are asked to go through, but that they can opt to skip. If tutorials need to be "continuing" because actually knowing how to play a complex game before you start it is seen as boring, then so be it. Have those tutorials pop up for players every time they become available and just ask players if they want to partake in the tutorial. Or, even simpler, let us disable tutorial contacts like we can disable Pop Tips.

The only reason players are missing on crucial gameplay information is because the fine people at Paragon Studios decided to make them missable. We can't have it both ways. Either the tutorial shows up for everyone in its entirety or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, people WILL miss it.

Speaking of you, I always get a small chuckle when I replay MDK2

And, yeah, thanks for your help with Rick the other day, NT. I just don't think he worked out very well and I couldn't figure out what to do with him. That and he made me feel uncomfortable. That'll teach me to make new characters without running them by you first

Speaking of which, I do have one...

Could I please disagree with the whole concept of "holiday events," then? Because I honestly see no reason to restrict specific pieces of game content to specific real-world events.

I don't think it's physically possible to clutter up the store any more than it already is.

I knew I was forgetting something, but a search back through the thread revealed what that was - this gem right there.

Thank you for this! I really like that idea. Having someone's brain in someone else's body, while not entirely uncommon, is a twist just clever enough to spin something out of. I'm still not sure if I want to go with a violent theft of body of a benevolent self-sacrifice, and I'm still not sure what, precisely, could end up causing this, but when I do get around to making my "brain in a jar" character, that's definitely the angle I want to go with.

I can't believe I glossed over this idea before!

This reminds me of a few particularly inept L4D2 campaigns where completely bizarre things would spawn several waves of zombie hordes. See, the original had Zombie Horde events which Valve's developers set to trigger when the players had to make a lot of noise, such as opening an alarmed door, activating a car alarm or detonating loud explosives. However, many player-made campaigns made no such sense, and you'd "alert the horde" by silently pressing a button, breaking a small crate or opening a very regular door.

That's what ambushes in a lot of Praetorian content feel like. "Oh, no, I spoke with with a woman! This must have alerted the ghouls!"

I really liked how things tried hard NOT to spawn in your face in CoX until a while ago.

That's about half-way between shoddy design and a genuine bug. Something at some point happened to cause NPC triggers to fire far too early. The result was that you'd often enter a mission and hear all dialogue from all critters that were tagged to have that. Normally, this is supposed to play when you approach said critter, but this would cause them all to play simultaneously.

In much the same way, the mission to save Ghost Widow from Sister Airlia (aside from being bugged to always spawn a 40+ Ballista in a 35+ arc) would spawn about four Longbow ambushes at the same time, all on top of you. Most of the time, I could burn through my inspiration tray and survive, but Ghost Widow cannot. Because when NPCs fight us, they're awesome. When they have to help us, they suck. I'm sure there's a trope about it, but I can't recall what it's called offhand.

It isn't. The Greek stuff available only on Valentine's Day is just as bad.

I tried making it White/White and it still looks almost completely transparent in Pocket D's VIP lounge, I assume because it's a dark environment. See, normal transparent gear in these environments just goes flat, but because this relies on reflection for its opacity, it goes invisible altogether...

That's essentially what Insane Rick was, but there just isn't enough depth or weirdness to such a design that's inherent in the jarhead. I mean, the idea itself isn't bad, but it benefits little from the actual Think Tank and isn't something I couldn't have done before with a more regular head.

I'm still interested in the "living ectoplasm" idea from Hellboy, but I'd need a better way to work an empty bowl without making it transparent.

Not yet. I have one concept for an empty bowl (that's coming along well, by the way), but I still need one for a brain in a jar

I'll provide pics when I can.