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Except that (mostly) it's been liveable with up til now. Sure, inconsistencies sometimes and often clunky but this is just so dreadful it completely jars and really taints not just the mission but the writing of the Incarnates generally.

Therein lies one of the fundamental problems with the game - a serious lack of consistency. Enemies we encounter commonly seem to be built from the ground up for every encounter: Ghost Widow is perhaps the epitome of that - she has such variance in potency depending on where you encounter her. The civvies in the TPN seem to be a bit tougher than any others I can recall encountering.

Great. I'll bring a blaster then!

Sounds like there's a very interesting arc there: Release Hero Corp from Crey's grasp

This.

I think there's a hint of Kirby in the Celestial back packs. Long may it continue!

All hail Kirby!

Just tell the accountants there's a buck to be made and they'll be on the marketplace yesterday!

That was my thought. the EU section's a bit of a wasteland these days... maybe that's a sign of how successfully the two communities have integrated

The problem with Silver Gale's position is simply that it would take like 4 of those seers and a couple of agent provocateurs to wander into Atlas, convince the civvies that they need to attack the heroes and hey presto, no more Paragon City.

If a few Seers can debuff Incarnate PCs to that level, that quickly, that a rock or two fells them, then that tells me the Devs are bereft of ideas. The overwhelming power of the Seers to debuff us puts all the other incarnates we've encountered in the shade. It's a good job for Cole and Mother that they are on side... they are way over-powered.

An instant logout would allow players to exploit the game - when debt was mammoth if you could logout instantly to avoid death you could travel to 50 much faster. And remember the Dreck farms? If you could log instantly it could save the farm for you I guess

That's far less relevant now but I can see some instances where it could be still be somewhat relevant.

That's my best guess anyhow.

You can lurk, but you'd better not touch...

Welcome back

Well, clearly people are successful and are enjoying it, so it's not impossible - and the winter event is a lot of fun for many many players so there's obviously some magic that keeps peeps coming back.

There's plenty of good advice in this thread, so I'd suggest trying to take some of it and seeing if your results improve. You will have to practice, even once you've found something that works for you ut hey, that's how you get better right?

I'm certainly not asking for anything to be made "easier" - I'm asking for better quality content, not some half-arsed, poor quality, immersion breaking piece of junk!

Actually what I really am saying is that for all the good content in this game, the Incarnate story is deeply flawed and this is one of the worst examples of extremely poor writing I've encountered.

If your theory is correct then Cole just does it again and invades the Isles and then Atlas and hey, presto: He's won.

I could say that because I'm a hero I'm not gonna hurt a civillian... except that it's a Co-op mission and therefore half the time I'm on a villain who wouldn't give a flying wossname. And if I were a hero there are far better mechanics for making me avoid hurting civilians.

This is very poor writing and even worse execution of that bad story. It makes no sense.

When Stephan Richter drank from the well he said "We are become Gods."
My characters have been drinking from that very same cup - they wouldn't be on the trial if not. And Gods may we be who have battled against the odds to win through countless missions. Hell most of my toons have the "Saved the World" badge and have prevented Gigantic Roman Robots from invading our City, stopped the alien Rikti from launching their second invasion, and regularly take down either Freedom Phalanx or Lord Recluse's team - and sometimes even both. I've gone toe-to-toe with Reichsman and his unwilling allies and come out on top against Nemesis more than once.

But some numpty with a bit of concrete and no superpowers can take me down in 2 hits, because there's a Seer in the room? That's not creative, nor is it being clever or amusing. It's a hack job and writing to a budget where we as the consumer are expected to suck up crappy content simply because there's lots more content than we're traditionally used to.

Ultimately we've been served up some unimaginative drivel that makes no sense, is intensely annoying because of its poor quality and thus cheapens the game

lol ok TJ. I'm trying to reduce clicking powers as much as possible - and using the keypad and the mouse to control the game as much as possible. I use my mouse for targeting, movement and direction control and the Nostromo for activating my powers