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YOU ARE MY DAMNED HERO <3

I'm merc/traps, so I can't say. I use Tactics, though.

With Tactics, one acc in my commando, and two accs in my specops/soldiers, they pretty much never miss with their attacks.

iakona had a post on mastermind pet base acc a while back. I'll go see if I can find it.

Yeah. AFAIK, most masterminds I know use one acc on the top-tier and two on the other two-tier pets. Maybe three on the bottom tier, if you really have spare slots.

My Commando does excellently with just one acc three dmg.

You definitely don't need more than one acc on the Assault Bot.

One acc effectively caps its accuracy against +3s.

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Does this mean Stalker Hidden snipes will now outdamage Blaster Aim + Build Up snipes?

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If I remember correctly, the snipes suppress hide and don't critical.

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Suppress Hide? For, like, nearly eight seconds?


That's just....lame.




The rest of the changes - especially the elec armor/melee ones - are just awesome, though.

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This sounds like, "my mansion's too big to walk all the way to answer the front door!"

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Well, yeah! I want the damn door to come to me!

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I feel your pain, UberGuy. Running 1920X1200 on a 24" wide means that I have to actually turn my head to see from one corner to the other.

Hmm.. perhaps I shouldn't sit so closely.
With all the menus still at 100%.
Looks like
this. Don't let browser resize image.

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Dude, you use the exact same resolution I do.

Granted, my monitor is about six inches smaller, but yeah.


It's not THAT bad.

Oh. D'oh.

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Conclusion: In this isolated instance, it appears that both EPP and PPP suffer from two drawbacks: 1) 25% higher END cost, 2) 50% longer Recharge. However, in the case of the PPP, there is one offsetting advantage: 1) a 5% damage boost.

So yes, the PPP powers, at least in this case, appear to be slightly (5% actually) more powerful than the EPP powers.

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This sounds entirely more reasonable. In that light, I think it's safe to say we should ignore the in-game plaque info thing and wait for additional play testing to confirm numbers. Thanks Cryptic for confusing info. Thanks Scarlet for something much more digestible.

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Ugh.

Having +25% end cost and -50% recharge just for a piddly 5% damage boost is NOTHING close to reasonable.

I have enough damned proof to beat the crap out of anyone in a known villain outfit who decides it's fun to unload an automatic weapon/fire a load of energy straight into my face when I'm just passing by and not feel anything about it. Hell, some of the villain groups damn well deserve it.

That Council guy giving a speech? He yelled 'Now let's see what we're made of!' to his friends, and they all proceeded to pull out rifles and flamers and open fire.

That Hellion and his gang? Setting fire to a building.

Oh, and for examples of higher-up groups? Where I assault people based on 'hearsay and innuendo'?

Let's take the Malta. I am so not holding back for any of them.

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You found this report on a computer in a Malta Group data center. It's a primer of sorts, for new agents who are assigned to handle meta-human assets. In other words, to help people who are in charge of super-humans under the Malta Group's ruthless control. It encourages handlers to use any tactic necessary, from bribes and threats, to brainwashing, mind control, and kidnapping loved ones. The techniques described are brutal and inhuman, but the rationale is even more chilling. Since these people are citizens of their governments, so the thinking goes, it is their duty to use their extraordinary abilities to defend those governments. Therefore, since it is their duty anyway, those powers rightfuly belong to those governments, and should be used to the best interest of those governments. And it falls to the Malta Group to come in and take control of those abilities when a government fails to do so. All in the interests of freedom, of course. The implications of this twisted logic are chilling.

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This disc contains partial records of Malta Group activities. There are many names of meta-humans who have been persuaded or forced to work for Malta. The listed methods of persuasion range from bribery to blackmail to all-out mind control. The list of names from around the world numbers in the hundreds, and you know that it is only a partial list.

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This disk contains partial records of Malta Group activities for the past year. not enough detail is given to make absolute connections, but the sheer volume of files is inimaginable. From all around the world, the records list atrocity after atrocity commited in the interests of unethical governments and corporations, or for the Malta Group's own ends. There are records of assassinations of protestors in developing nations, of small governments toppled and larger governments intimidated, of hundreds of people illegally detained. Real democracies destroyed by blackmail and murderm no-cooperative businesses destroyed for competing with the Malta Group's corporate sponsors, and record after record of young meta-humans taken by threat, blackmail, or mind control and forced to work in Malta Group. All of this, this nightmarish tangle of illegal spying, blackmail, and assassinations, all of it carried out in the name of 'freedom' by people who've forgotten what that word means.

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All found in a Malta hideout, entered with a search warrant and heavily guarded by their goons. So don't you dare tell me any of that is just because 'they're unpopular with the government' or similar.






And for a further point, as other people've stated, you're looking too much into this. This is a comic-book environment city, not a real-world environment city. They follow different rules of narrative causality.

It'd be pure evil if someone decided to grief by tpfoeing the Contaminated halfway across the map and just leaving him there. You wouldn't even know who did it, you'd just think he despawned.

Ow.

Oh well, if I ever come on some cash I can spend on other things besides what I've currenlty pigeonholed down as 'necessary expenditures', I'll be sure to get some art from a bunch of you.

Damnit.

I wish I had some spare cash.

Screw that, I'm going to get twenty other people to simultaneously use knockback powers on the thing and see if we can desync the server.

This is a silly idea.



Of COURSE I want one!

+1.

Aw, damn. I didn't get in.

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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).

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What this really means: Posi and Manti are running down the hall outside his office, shooting at each other with Nerf darts, knocking over the water coolers, breaking down doors, tipping over desks and yelling:
"i shots u!!"
"no wai i doged i hav teleprot!!! i shots u first!"
"my armor blos up u r ded!!!!"

But that's just a guess.

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They need to release the securitycam footage of Cryptic's offices and call the video 'Dev Decision Making'.

It'd be a smash hit.

BUFF REVIVE SO IT USES THE "GETTING UP AND ORGASMING IN MID-AIR" ANIMATION THAT OTHER REZZES USE INSTEAD OF THE "HRRG I AM A ZOMBIE" ONE THAT ROOTS YOU AND MAKES YOU DIE AGAIN


Oops, I'm speaking my mind again. Ignore that.

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Just a quick Question why is it that for MM's to get Ghost Widow's final power you have to take 2 otheres?
Just like power pools. But for the other Patron Powers you only need to have taken one other power from the pool in order to get the final one?

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naw they're treated just like normal power pools, you have to have 2 to get the final power. It shouldn't be any different between all the patron pools.

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I think he means the final non-pet power, e.g the hold.


But yeah, these numbers look seriously off the scale.

Of course not. Dev ambiguity builds mystique.

Same reason why so many of them love to leave cryptic one-sentence comments and spontaneously vanish in a puff of smoke.

That would suck if it was an auto.


You can't recover end at ALL unless you're running Stamina! Whee!

But why? It's so awesome its end cost will entirely nullify your recovery rate!

How'bout stalkers? Inquiring minds want to know.

So, uh, you want to stop being a lapdog to Arachnos in exchange for being a lapdog to even more faceless people?

I'd rather stick with Arachnos, thanks. At least I get the better gear.

Hurricane costs you end per tic, I think.

Jeez, give the man a rest.