Snakes slightly bugged

I called Kalinda to get the Aura Mission, but found that I had not finished her arc. I dropped one mission but got the next which was to defeat all snakes in lab. Normally that would not be a problem. This time I ran into 2 level 46 Elder Vipers in a level 39 mission. http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...ega/snakes.jpg

I'm all for challenges, but that was a little over my head.

Bugged in game as well.

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

Yep, I've tried having snakes in AE missions and discovered that the only snakes from 38 -> 45 are Bosses ... the game gets confused and jumps up to the next available minion & Lts ... the 46s ... not a pleasant surprise indeed!
Sadly, it's been like that since the beta testing of issue 14.

The really annoying part is that they've got code now that's supposed to scale higher level stuff down to the mission level. Unfortunately, it only scales to mission max level, so - where you should be getting level 39 elder vipers, you still get level 46s instead.

Snakes have 2 level ranges. If you exceed the lower range by enough they will automatically spawn the higher level version that is used in the top tier game. There are no in-between snakes, as that would require significantly more work to make them that is unnecessary, as it only occurs in the cases like yours where someone somehow fails to finish their starter mini arc yet keeps it for dozens of levels further.

The snake's dialog amuses me for some reason. "No mercy for you! Come back one level."

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Snakes have 2 level ranges. If you exceed the lower range by enough they will automatically spawn the higher level version that is used in the top tier game. There are no in-between snakes, as that would require significantly more work to make them that is unnecessary, as it only occurs in the cases like yours where someone somehow fails to finish their starter mini arc yet keeps it for dozens of levels further.

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This is a recent bug. I have not finished Kalinda's arc at low levels in over three years as I leave Mercy at level 5. I have had to clear out this mission many times before, and never have I run into anything like this. The rest of the snakes in the mission were level 34 those two popped up at 46. It's not like they were even LT's, they are minions. They should have come up lvl 34 just like the rest.

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho