Terminotaur

I have to say that these are some of the most frustrating badges I've ever tried to get. And for the final two, it seems that they really come down to chance. I was able to get Avoids the Green Stuff a couple of days ago, but it was after about 20 attempts at it. That amount of trying and failing is just not fun. And I still don't have the Loves a Challenge badge. I've already tried that one 6 times and failed. No other master badge has been this difficult to get.

The problem I see is the time freezes. The badges wouldn't be quite so tough otherwise. It seems unfair that anti-matter can continue to attack players with disintegration and obliteration and the players have literally no defense whatsoever against this while time is frozen. Yes, you can try to pull him to the terminals to minimize the time freeze and time his health to the firing of the beams, but this is exceedingly difficult to do. And the more players you have, the more difficult it is. On the other hand, doing the trial with the minimum number of players can also lead to failure if someone gets mapservered. Not due to time running out or anything, but due to an actual auto-fail condition for too few players. I had it happen last week.

I guess what I don't get about this master badge is why its thematically different from many of the other master badges. Look at Apex, for example. All of the badges there are basically for efficiency. You could even accidentally get the master badge there and not even be trying for it. Most of the BAF badges are the same. But starting with Lambda, and even more so now with Keyes, the badges seem to be more about intentionally crippling yourself and still managing to succeed.

I was on the team where this happened and I agree - this is a ridiculous auto-fail. If we had some warning that it would happen, then we could have planned for the possibility. And given the years of experience we all have with task forces, where the mechanics are apparently different, we had no reason to think that this kind of auto-fail could even happen.

Also, it happened at an odd time. It was at the third reactor, but not at the start of the phase, where it might have made some sense. It happened after we had broken open 2 bunkers and were working on the third. It really did come as a complete surprise to everyone on the team.

If the devs are going to put this kind of mechanic in the game, it should be consistent and players should be provided with notice of it. However, it would be better if it just didn't happen at all. There are existing mechanics in the trials that cause failure if the team runs out of time or fails to make the objectives. Those should be sufficient.

This kind of NPC dialogue is the exact same reason I chose some of my character names. My favorite for this is my character "Red Tape".


The best NPC message I can remember from that character is:

"I heard that time traveling nazis tried to take over the world, but they were stopped by Red Tape"

I've got one that I didn't see mentioned yet:


Momentarily

US - will begin shortly

UK - will occur for a duration of a moment


This can naturally cause some problems, particularly with travel arrangements. Imagine the phrase "The plane will be landing momentarily" with both definitions.

The mythological Chimera was said to breathe fire. So fire/ something?

First, I'd just like to say that I really appreciate the work that went into this pack. It looks very nice. I've been waiting for something like this for years - my very first character in the game (and also my global name) is supposed to be a minotaur. Now, he'll finally look like one.

However, there are a couple of things that would be nice if they could be added to the pack or put into another update later on:

- We have lots of nice customization options for the Avian, Feline, and Bovine heads, but no options for the Wolf head. Can we get a some additional options like color patterns, ear size, muzzle length? Also can you make the wolf head a little bit bigger on the Huge model? or add in a second one that is bigger? The new one looks a little bit too small even with the sliders on maximum.

- Also regarding wolves - I see that there are color patterns specific for the felines, but not for wolves. It would be nice to get one or two wolf patterns. Wild wolves often have darker backs and lighter colored bellies as seen in this documentary:

Wolves


- I noticed that there is no bear head in this pack. I'm sure its too late to add one in, since the release is so close, but could that be an option for a future update?


Thanks, and again I'm really looking forward to playing with these new options on the live servers.

Clipping issues - When using the growl emote or the beast run power on a huge model, the back and top of the head clips into the body. This has the effect of making the head look smaller - and some of the new heads already look a bit small for a huge body type to begin with.

Also, the lion mane clips into the back of shirts and armors. Sometimes this looks ok - like the hair is laying on top of the shirt. But other times, the clipping is more obvious and looks like the hair is going through the shirt/armor. Insect Armor is a good example of this.


Beast Run - Using monstrous legs and hooves with this power and viewed from behind, it looks like the feet of the character are not contacting the ground - kind of like the character is gliding along on his knees and arms. It looks better from the side, but still a bit odd. I tested this with other monstrous feet options and most of them look ok in comparison - perhaps because of the digitigrade claws.

I have had the same thing happen repeatedly to my team while running Statesman's TF. It took some testing, but we finally figured it out.

It appears that the rare incarnate enhancements are causing the crash. Every time we tried to run the STF and a member of the team had a rare incarnate enhancement slotted, the entire team would crash and any recently earned rewards would be missing when they logged back in. This would usually happen within 3 minutes of either the start of the mission or from when the person equipped the enhancement. I personally lost a rare salvage and a couple of incarnate shards to this crashing bug.

I tried this on two seperate teams and encountered the same problem. Any member with a rare incarnate enhancement slotted would crash the entire team and revert all recently earned rewards. But, as soon as that enhancement was removed, everything worked fine.

The chantimeout command is working. I used it on the Freedom Badge channel, and successfully cleared out any account that had not been active in the last year.

Maybe the moderators of other channels don't know about it or simply aren't using it, but it is an option now.

I got one. Thanks Ocho for posting these.

In a couple of my missions I've had similar problems. There was one I did earlier today that required me to interact with Maelstrom. Only problem was he was completely invisible. It took several searches over the map before I found him. And even then, it was only because my mouse happened to go over him and I saw the blue rectangle around him.

I'd like to join if you have room, Mr E.

I'd be bringing Red Tape - Earth/Force Field Controller

This is a nice surprise. Thank you David. It looks like I'll be buying the mutant pack after all, since I have a couple of wolf characters that could make use of this part.

I have to agree with most of the other replies here in that I was hoping for more animal themed costume parts. I specifically wanted the pieces that would complete existing partial sets.

For example, we don't have a wolf tail, but have wolf heads.

We don't have a Minotaur head, but have other parts like hooves. And that one is even in the game, but not available to players.

We have good insect feet, claws, and wings, but not a good insect head. All we have is a terrible looking insect skin for a human head.

We have cat ears and tails, but not hands or heads.


If we could just complete those sets, I would be happy with it. And there is justification for it in the comic book world. A few mutant characters are animal themed. The one that comes to mind most quickly is Beast, from the X-Men:

Current picture of Beast


Like others that have posted, I probably won't purchase the pack as is. But, I would likely do so if some animal themed parts are added.

I've found a pretty big bug with Austin Grossman's arc. It can't be completed.

All of the missions have linked objectives - where one must be compelted for the next to spawn. In his final mission, the third objective never spawns, even when the first two are completed. I went over the map many times looking for it, assuming that I was somehow missing it. I replayed the arc, which was fun up until that point. I even set up a special bind of "targetcustomnext notmypet" and went room to room using it, including the small cave area. I could find nothing except for 2 glowies and the first 2 destrucible objects. In total, I probably spent an hour trying to complete the final mission of the arc before finally giving up.

Arc Number 5624 - The Secret of NutriPaste

Its based on the NutriPaste history plaque in Cap Au Diable.