Schismatrix

This or something similar has a certain appeal. It would resolve the issue fairly nicely IMO.

Actually, i can see DR being implemented for the newer Incarnate content, if not to the game in general. The last official Dev word on DR that i recall reading stated that it would not be added to older PvE content, but might be used in new content. IIRC the Incarnate abilities that were tested in the GR beta allowed characters to partially bypass ED for specific attributes.

i could see a less severe version of DR being used in PvE as beneficial from a balancing standpoint. As crazy theories go it has a certain appeal.

Though it would lead to some cognitive dissonance as you hop around in the rubble and everyone else sees you bouncing through the walls of an intact building. Or standing on top of a burning (for you) building and have the fire chew through your health next to someone standing there unharmed. That could be sort of fun.

Same here. Awesome looking power*, but it sucked to do so little damage for the time it took. Although i would love to have the kicking animation as an alternate animation for Shadow Maul.



*Based on vague, years-old memories. YMMV

This i agree with.

So the only way to know how succulent baby meat burgers would actually sell is to sell them? Yes, i know a lot of market research is bunkum, but this position seems absurdly to the opposite extreme from having blind faith in marketing surveys.

It's really not the narrow focus most people have a problem with in regards to the pack. It's the price point that's the issue to most people. If you count the cc animations as emotes, and from a development standpoint i would think they'd require as much or more work done by the same team, then the magic pack had as many or even more emotes with a power and dozens of costumes pieces included for $2 more.

To me the most surprising thing is that i and many others have posted that they would've purchased this pack at half its price point. Seriously, creating costume pieces and new powers (with unique animations) must require less than 5% of the development budget that porting/recreating NPC animations as emotes for PCs does for the party pack's price point to make sense.

Neither for me. Just a slight sense of disappointment that i'll never get to see the gems that the Devs will receive. If they're anything like what i've come to expect they should be gems of semi-incoherent flawed logic and baseless assertions.

*heh* Good try, but not quite there.

And yet after all this time i'm still rooting for you to one day make a worthwhile post. You can do it!

These are both excellent points. Actually, all the vet attacks are unaffected by damage buffs and debuffs, so my SD/SS Tanker always switches to the vet attacks and Taunt during Rage crashes.

No, i didn't. Especially not the fire hose. A firehose is a continuous stream, but if you are directing it at an open window or a solid wall, barring being right up against it, the same amount of pressure still pushes back. Try it with a garden hose if you don't have a higher pressure hose handy. The stream from a hose pushes back with the same force regardless of whether you aim it at a wall, an open window, or a curtain. To get additional force from a stream hitting a surface you need to be close enough that the stream material itself is bouncing back to hit you.

You picked some really bad thinking to justify your assumptions.

Cyclops' blasts also ricochet, so you're saying they're some kind of rigid, yet also bouncing, energy rod that acts like a solid object except when it doesn't.

Edit: In any event, Cyclops and his eye beams don't follow the normal rules regarding action and reaction in that he doesn't crush his eyes into jelly or snap his neck whenever he blasts... well... almost anything more durable than cardboard box. Say he blasts a car and either sends it flying or causes it to blow apart... That's tens of thousands of pounds of force being exerted upon his eyes and/or head and neck if there's any real recoil. Comic book physics is very situational and is bound more by the rule of cool than anything else.

Logical. For example, if you fire a machine gun at an object that's too hard for the rounds to penetrate it sends the machine gun flying backwards. Same thing that happens if you accidentally direct a fire hose at a wall instead of the window: the whole truck gets pushed away. One of Cyclops' signature tricks is to ricochet the blast off multiple surfaces. It should rock his head back for every bounce. Totally reasonable.

Would it be worth mentioning that many action anime and tokusatsu shows from the early Seventies on have featured combatants shouting their signature moves every time they use them? The super robot shows seemed especially susceptible to this. i guess it was to emulate all those 1970s collectible card games.

Anyway, i appreciate the use of both big cowboys and simple explosions in the game depending on my mood.

Actually i've seen several posts that say very much the same thing if not quite as concisely.

i still fail to see what harm there is in people posting that while they won't buy a pack of 8 emotes for 75% of the cost of a booster pack that came with 4 emotes, dozens of costume pieces, and minor power, they would buy it if it was priced at 50% of what the prior packs cost.

And yet some posters insist that everyone should STFU unless they're either going to post constructive comments/criticism regarding the pack or report bugs with it. Since posting "I would consider buying the pack if it was about 50% instead of 75% of the price of the other packs for roughly 10% of the content of previous packs" isn't constructive criticism then apparently the only valid 'criticism' is to post "OMG I love pack, sell me more like it, but raise the price first!"

Anything else is simply unacceptable, and those telling everyone who doesn't love the pack to shut up probably can't figure out why no one is obeying them and are probably also wondering why all the posts saying the price seems a bit high for what you get aren't being immediately deleted by the mods. Life is just unfair sometimes.

Keep in mind that NCsoft and Paragon Studios are not directly analogous to a massive retail chain store that buys bulk lots of goods from factories and sells them at a markup. The Walmart analogy is a craptastic analogy since Walmart doesn't make the products they're packaging and selling.

Ah well, carry on.

So Samuraiko is now like Troy Hickman, but she actually has a sound effect instead of suddenly realizing she's peering over your shoulder?

Uh oh, i said his name didn't i?

...

Moving on... it's worth noting that the most common versions of 1337 used "7" as a "T". (Thus it traditionally being written as "1337".) So the one team member's name would usually be read as "Teat Heaters". Just sayin'...

Yes.
And yes, yes it is.

*shrug* Yeah, pretty much the same here. i can't say that i'm especially upset by the pack being offered. There's a couple emotes in it i wouldn't mind having, but i don't want them badly enough to spend $7.99 on them. Still, if other people think the price is worth it then more power to them.

Oh, and nice Cwen's Quest banner. Is that a new one? i don't recall seeing it before.

No.
Getting Fitness as inherent means the pool can no longer be selected.
As long as you don't respec, your current builds with Fitness as one of your pools will remain, but there's no sane reason to leave them that way unless you just don't want to be able to pick another pool and/or three to four more powers for some reason.

But it's not the same %'s. At all.
Bonuses to two positions in 3 slots is not even close to the same % as a bonus to one in 4 Slots. It's twice the % in one less slot. Add in the highly desirable KB protection as one of the slots and it's even less of a comparison. Your math, not good.

*changes global to @Meastro Mavius*
*mistypes own name and sends 5 LotG procs to @Maestro Mavius*

The PEATs will be a new AT: Buffing/Orbital Guardian.
They'll be able to choose one of several buff/debuff sets as their primary, but the secondary be an orbital cannon themed attack set. The majority of attacks are AoE with mez/debuff secondary effects. PEAT BOGs will in some ways have aspects of the VEATs, and in other ways use HEAT mechanics.

What? The blue laser nipples didn't do it for you?

Hmmm, changing my vote to Mr. Blue Laser Nipples.
Sorry, ELK STANKER.

He sort of resembles your avatar.

ELK STANKER for mayor. It's not like the mayor is more than a figurehead.


...or a hand puppet.

Are his powers based on 1960's psychedelic rock with a Blue Meany edge?

Well, the proc affects the power's target. In the case of Stamina that's you... But as i recall it doesn't work with Stamina anyway. Best use i can think of is in powers like Power Sink, Transference, Lightning Storm and (i wish, because it's funny) Speed Boost.

If at first you don't succeed...
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