Zombie Man

The Devs have said, in the past year:

Issue 16
Mission Architect

• Experience rewards for custom mobs in Mission Architect have been changed.
  1. Enemies created using the Standard setting will reward 75% of normal experience.
  2. Enemies created using the Hard and Extreme setting will reward 100% of normal experience.
  3. The total amount of experience an enemy is worth is split evenly between their two power set choices. Their primary set adds an amount to the experience, and then the secondary set adds an amount.
  4. The specifics numbers for individual sets are as followed:
     1. Standard: 37.5%
     2. Hard/Extreme: 50%
     3. If a mob is created that has a standard primary and a hard secondary, it will be worth 87.5% of the normal experience (37.5% + 50%)
     4. A mob created with a hard primary and a hard secondary will be worth 100% experience (50% + 50%)
• Custom villain groups will suffer an experience penalty if they do not have at least one minion, lieutenant, and boss within them.
  1. If one rank is missing, there will be a 50% experience penalty applied to all enemies in the group.
  2. If two ranks are missing, there will be a 75% experience penalty applied to all enemies in the group.
  3. Players will still receive full experience for an enemy in their own unique groups if they are spawned in the "Fight a Boss" objective. This only applies to the specific enemy spawned in this manner and not the group spawned along with them.
• Players can now select any powers for custom mobs to have. However, if the minimal amounts of powers required for them to be considered standard difficulty are removed on either power set, the mob will be worth 0 experience.
  1. As an example, a standard minion with Broadsword has Slash and Throwing Knives. If either of those two powers are removed, that minion will be worth 0 experience, even if a secondary power set has all powers selected.
  2. This will not cause any custom mobs currently on live to be worth zero experience.
• New Enemy Groups
  1. Rogue Isles Villain (1-54) - Players can now use the villains you fight at the end of Safeguard missions in Mission Architect.
  2. Paragon Hero (1-54) - The heroes that are fought at the end of Mayhem missions are now usable in Mission Architect.
  3. Anti-Matter's Robots (40-54) - Anti-Matter and his minions are now available to use within Mission Architect.
• Arcs containing Bosses have a warning flag again.
• Custom Critters – As with player characters, Claws and Stone Armor are now mutually exclusive at critter creation due to animation issues
• Custom Critters - Kinetics - Transference should now correctly drain endurance from players.
• Defender: Oil Slick Arrow no longer cons friendly and can again be targeted by player in a MA mission.
• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when editing a published mission.
• Fixed the waypoints for players to exit the map in the Carnival - Commercial map in Mission Architect and also to allow for escorts to be completed on it.
• Freakshow Sonic Bombs, and Hamidon's Mitochondria Electrolytes and Antibodies have been pulled from the Mission Architect due to exploits with these mobs.
• Removed the option to select location for ambushes - it wasn’t doing anything.
• Removed a number of enemies from multiple enemy groups within Mission Architect that only had the Quantum Gun as a viable attack power.

Issue 17

Mission Architect Improvements

• Experience: Previously, if the player made any changes to make the enemies they face in Mission Architect easier, they would receive zero experience for those enemies. Adjustments have been made to allow players to handpick the powers for custom enemies and still receive experience for them, but not be able to exploit weaker enemies for unfair experience gain. Now, every power for custom critters has been weighted individually.
• New Maps: Twenty-five new unique maps:

• Atlas Park - Fashion Show - Atlas Park, Outdoor Maps
• Batzul Hell - Caves, Unique
• Bleak Future – Tech
• Boomtown - Construction - Outdoor Maps
• Carnival Warehouse – Warehouse
• Cesspool – Warehouse
• Cimerora - Battle Map – Cimerora
• Cimerora - Sybil Temple – Cimerora
• Cimerora - Phoebas Point – Cimerora
• Frostfire – Office
• Grandville - Conference Room – Grandville
• Grandville - Main Lobby – Grandville
• Grandville - Main Square – Grandville
• Grandville - The Fab – Grandville
• Little Round Top - Generic - Outdoor Maps, Rikti War Zone
• Mercy Island - Clocktower - Outdoor Maps, Mercy Island
• Point du Hoc - Generic - Outdoor Maps, Rikti War Zone
• Port Oakes - Cargo Ship Yard - Outdoor Maps
• Steel Canyon - SERAPH Lab - Outdoor Maps
• Striga Isle - Bridge - Outdoor Maps
• Superadine Lab – Warehouse
• The Abyss - Outdoor Maps
• The Bulge - Generic - Outdoor Maps, Rikti War Zone
• Tsoo Tattoo Parlor – Warehouse
• Vanguard Base (Interior) - Rikti War zone

• Giant Monsters: Players can now add giant monsters to some outdoor maps:

• Arachnos Flyer
• Deathsurge
• Caleb
• Babbage
• Clockwork Paladin
• Stropharia
• Thorn
• Eochai
• Kraken
• Kronos Titan
• Jack in Irons
• Ghost of Scrapyard

• Exit Mission on Complete: Players can now specify that players have to leave the mission manually on completion
• Escort Missions: "Lead to place" technology allows players more control over escort objectives
• More Work Space: File sizes for missions have been doubled.

Issue 18

Custom Critters XP Costs

• fixed several small errors in the amount of XP weight certain powers were awarding in the custom XP calculations.

Doppelgangers Added

• Doppelgangers can be added to mission with a variety of preset costume changes (or random power selection) including...
  • Shadow / Inverse / BlackAndWhite
  • Demon / Angel
  • Reverse
  • RandomPower

New Designated Helper

See main article: Mission Architect Designated Helper New rules for how buffing NPC allies operate in Mission Architect were put in place.

Everyone now has a free slot for one of the Health Proc120s. Once they taste sweet passive +Regen/+End, they'll throw in two more slots to have all three.

You fail to see how lame it is that an adult uses the word 'lame' in the way you do.

A post explaining the great discrepancies in amount of work needed in the different paths to the same reward is laudable and should be taken seriously.

Calling it a 'code red lame alert' is just juvenile.

GHARRRGHAAHAHHHGHGH!


Any way I can convince you Devs to make it a priority?

I know. Every time I see someone buy a book, I burn one. Got to keep the balance!

BTW, when everyone was slammin' the party pack, you posted how much you loved it... to balance things out... right?



You could have simply stated your opinion and why you hold that opinion and left it at that.

But, you feel compelled to 'balance things out.' So... do you have an honest opinion, or are you being contrary for the sake of being contrary? Which happens to be the definition of Trolling and not allowed.



Two contradictory statements: You note how poorly the mutant and party packs were received; but then you say there are large numbers of people who will praise everything.

The fact is that the fans of the game are also vocal critics. Just because we don't threaten to quit or play mind games like "I'm just saying the opposite because I'm a True Neutral Alignment" or make our comments all about *me* and how the devs don't listen to me, and people who disagree with me must have ulterior motives... boo freakin' hoo -- doesn't mean we're not being critical.


BTW, have I mentioned this isn't about you and you can stop repeating yourself now?

Nope. Is it marked private and you can't read it?

It's Providence-ish.

In the RWZ briefing room, one of the slides of the Mothership has global coordinates on it, which puts the RWZ about 30 miles from shore in an uninhabited area of R.I.

The Demon Powered one or the Time Paradox one which sends the hurricane to some other random time to deal with it, such as, two minutes from now?

And try to block this one (from here):

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Edit: fixed link

Also, the leaks are Live, too.

Look at the channels, there is a system Looking for Group channel.

Use the command to list windows (/windownames). See 'LFG'. Issue this command:

/toggle lfg

• Boomtown is not pictured there.
• Flight animations work differently than animations tied to power activations.
• There's real hard evidence that new teaming mechanics are on the way
• Now you just reaching.

Maybe it's a Poppycoctyl.

I knew what was going to be in it. I did not know what was not going to be in it.

Mechanics leaks are fun. It's how I knew what the next Booster Pack would be and what would be in it.