Scarlet Shocker

in one sense I agree with the title to this thread but not the content

To me, Endurance has been one of the few things that actually needed to be managed - and one had to make careful choices about powers and slots based on how you planned to get to 20 - but a freespec was never far away (since I joined the game in I6) and we could always juggle once we'd got to 20 and had Stamina.

Fighting Clockwork and other end drainers is a challenge, and it is a balancing act. I've often thought the burden could be lightened - the pace of the game means as teams blitz the NPCs foes and suck end along the way and so you end up breathless which I think was the whole concept of endurance and to my mind that worked.

I know I'm mostly a lone voice in decrying the dumbing down of a great game - and commercial imperatives will have their way - but where does it end? Carry on like this and Ms Bianco will be popping round your house to spoon feed you custard every time you log on and Mr Miller will be giving you a nice foot rub after your show. Lord knows what the Ocho will do!

The Fitness pool didn't need to be inherent. It could have simply been tweaked: a lighter end cost of critical powers, or Stamina at 14 instead of health or any other. There's an even simpler altenrative: Give every player 500 End points in a full bar. But this way... just makes it seem a bit... blah. It strikes me as the easiest solution, rather than the best.

I've not watched the review.

I've only read the first 70 or so posts in this thread.

I'm not going to watch the review because there has been, thus far, an overwhelming sense that many people who claim to have watched it are biased.

But even if they are wrong, the petulant reactions by the OP to negative criticism (and there is plenty of negative criticism) tell me that this review isn't going to be fair, biased or even that interesting.

blimey! That's scary!!!!

14 50s and none have a viable 2nd build

I'd be well up for this but I only have one tank and she's in Praetoria, so I'd have to think about making a new one.

I'm on Defiant

I've had responses to my petitions but they are adding a caveat that response time may be increased due to additional workload.

Travel powers are now entirely optional and need only be chosen for thematic reasons - especially if you have Ninja Run and the Jump Pack booster from the GVE edition - the cooldown is not long n it and those powers combined put Super Jump to shame.

Also with a little bit of inf you can get yourself a jet pack (assuming you dind't win one saving/robbing Atlas Park Bank) from the vendors for those harder to reach places.

Erk!

WB

I cannot endorse this suggestion enough.

But rather than replace the Origin with Faction - I'd rather see Faction added in to the list. I doubt it's difficult.

Welcome back!

I think you might both have nailed it. I'm definitely saving to file and applying Shadowe but _Klaw_ you have spotted it, so far as I can tell

cheers chaps

This seems like a bug to me, but I keep logging in to find the Pop Help is running. I keep turning it off and saving the option to file like that but I keep finding the bloody thing turn on - and frankly I hate it. It's annoying.

I know when my enhancements run out or my end runs out. I don't need to be told (but in fairness my hate is partly cuz I know this already for a newbie I gladly concede that it's a good chance of being of assistance.)

So why is it not turning off and staying off?

One thing that's definitely surprised me from this thread is the depth of emotion it's stirred within the players.

That's a serious achivement from the Devs and should be applauded

I may have been vaguely aware of help channel but I've never used it. I had no knowledge of the others.

So I'm working my way through the arcs in Praetoria and I'm finding that every contact I've encountered is self-centred, two-faced, vicous, mean-spirited and generally not someone I'd want to share a pint with - and I love it!

I must also add the caveat that I've not completed every arc available nor visited every contact not read every line of every mission on those I have done, but that is my overwhelming impression - and it's interesting because the moral choices (or perhaps the lack of morality) in Praetoria leave me thinking that I should walk my own path, and cherry pick whatever it is I feel is right for that character.

Initially, as someone who is naturally fairly anti-authoritarian, I'd imagined leaning heavily towards the resistance but I find them to be mostly murdering terrorists who'll stop at nothing to get their own way - so no different to Cole or the Loyalist factions in many ways. The only difference is Cole has the power they want.

But most of my characters in Praetoria have naturally gravitated towards a Loyalist position simply because it seems slightly less wrong (or perhaps more right) than the Resistance and history teaches us that those who overthrow governments for their own ends often come to sticky ends and have to compromise their ideals to maintain power.

But there's perhaps an unintended consequence here: I am trying to create characters that have to walk a twisted and narrow path between right and wrong, trying to do what's right and still getting in the stink to do it and that makes it a far more interesting game than the "You're a hero, go do this cuz it's right" or vice versa for villains. It becomes a pendulum... can you walk the path without veering too far in any direction and maintain your morality?

There may "only" be twenty levels to explore to date but there's a good few hours of RP and exploration to be had and I'm loving every minute of it.

Shadows look awful on all but the highest settings now. Previously on my 9800GT they were fine mid-setting and now that setting looks like I'm made of lego or something.

cuz they taste like sushi