Zombie Man

I keep ;ghoulflex on a macro so that as soon as ;tantrum is done, I launch into that.


As mentioned above, there is currently a bug where pet damage isn't being counted for your participation. If you're a MM, do it without pets and use all your temp powers and non-pet powers. You need to reach a certain critical point of participation to get the upper tier rewards.

Leaving a co-op zone on a mixed faction team no longer gets you booted from the team.

A Hero and Villain can team up in RWZ and the Hero go to Atlas Park and they'll still be teamed. Then the Villain can go to Cap, and they'll still be teamed.

The only restriction is they must both be in a co-op zone or the same side to initiate teaming.

We can 'see' the invisible bomber when affected by AoE debuffs -- the graphiscs float around them. Also, we see our pets attack 'empty space.'

And the invisible bomber does indeed wander far from Director 11.

If the invisible bomber is really bombs placed by Director 11 then IT IS HORRIBLY BUGGED. Precisely because there are several bombers who roam the room and place bombs where Director 11 has never been, or even out of the line of sight of Director 11.

Having the invisible bomber be affected by AoE damage was, IMO, a fair balance to this horrible, horrible kludgy mechanic. Taking that away in this patch is a big Frell You to those looking for the Masters badge who found a clever way to protect themselves from the Toe Bombing.

This smacks of those Dungeon Masters who, when they find their players discovered a clever way to get past the dragon, make up on the spot a new dragon to force the encounter to go they way they planned.

Now, if the Invisible Bomber simple hovered next to Director 11, untouchable to player effects, and dropped the bombs in his path, I could get on board with that being the bombs that Director 11 drops. But the current mechanic of multiple bombers wandering all over the place is just ugly. Very, very ugly.

I remember that at the time the ITF was going live there were those screaming... and I mean *screaming* that it was "too hard."

It was leaving Test as a TF that took over 2 hours and was failed by a good number of groups.

And yet I predicted that within a week of Live we'd see 45 minute speed ITFs. And it came to pass.

Why? Because once 'the trick' is figured out, it will be taught. And people will learn to use 'the trick'. And once that happens, the mechanical challenge is trivialized.

By the time folks bring their third alt through Rami's arc, they'll know the tricks for defeating Trapdoor and Holtz/Honoree. Whether they learn to pull or use inspirations or temp powers or team mates, they'll learn and they'll do it without dying in a timely manner.

The same for Director 11 and Battle Maiden.

Once groups in Test/Beta figure out how to do it without team wipes, the Devs should know by then it's ready for live because the winning tactics will be taught and spread throughout the player base.

Those who don't like to use 'the trick' and just want to zerge it will determine how much overpowering defense and DPS they need, and will show up with that amount of defense and DPS.

That is why I said what I said about datamining. The only way the Devs will ever make missions easier if a significant portion of the playerbase keeps failing it. And by significant, I mean most, not a few vocal people who can't adjust. They didn't get the ITF nerfed. Their pleas here will also go unheeded. And a month from now this will be a non-issue.

I think there were two named Fortunatas that spawned by the base of the tower (where you have the Recluse fight in the STF).

The Wiki does not have the date of when the 2010 Winter Event will start... so, what exactly did you find?


Going by the start date of the last few years, I guess it will start on Tuesday, Dec 14.

During Beta for UM, the Devs specifically wanted it to be /bugged wherever we saw above ground shadows happening indoors or underground so they can fix that.



There is no limitation. There are scripts that dictate the movement of the sun and moon, the type of sky, and the apparent source of the sunlight/moonlight. They can be set to any timer within reason. It would take an environmental scripter some time to script it and set it up so that the sun/moon and their apparent light sources somewhat synch up... there are various kludges that the outdoor zones use now so that we don't see shadows of skyscrapers sprinting past us near dawn and dusk as they did when UM was first introduced.

That's not WAI. The Devs specifically said that buffs are supposed to be tracked and count.



I've arrived after an event started and got the large table reward. It wasn't too far into the even, tho.

As long as they're hot... OK.

That seems to me very much not WAI. Oh, well.

In Beta, the helper missions were buggy and unclear, even after Aeon spoke up.

It's new tech and it still needs better QA on it.

Those are your questions when there is a device made by the Kryptonians that lets you switch places with your double from another dimension by a twist of a crystal?

Yeah, how does *that* work? Why does that work? Who would have invented such a thing in the first place and for what purpose? And why is it on earth?

It would have been more reasonable if a wizard did it.


I see this episode as basically setting up Lionel as the evil archnemesis Luthor since they can't get the actor who played Lex back (though they set up the storyline so that they could if he relented). They couldn't bring back the original Lionel since he was always half-repenting.

I have an updated version in the Open Beta forum: See here.

The latter.

Any AT that's used to standing still and hitting buttons has to adapt.

It's like a final boss battle on a console game. Everyone needs to play like a skittish Blaster that constantly moves between attacks.

Team TP works perfectly for Tankerminds except when teammates complain it disorients them when they get caught up with it instead of thanking you for getting them out of an impending BRoD (Blue Rain of Death).

I'm on Comcast in NJ. I have the same unbearable slowness-to-load.

And this is indeed a separate issue from being logged out at whim.