Rikti Invasion Incoming! ~Discussion~
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American_Valor,
Posted on: 2009-07-08 13:08 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
My new scrapper Luc'Trelix (the Riktified version of my main, Electrilux) is looking forward to getting his Rikti sword and completing his concept!
*Sword, not axe.
...I forgot what experience means.
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For those negative nellies, remember the first time YOU were part of a Ritki Invasion
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Yeah. Not that exciting. Better than the poorly done zombie attacks though.
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I really wish we could find out the backstory behind the zombie attacks, or simply have a zone where the zombies from the invasion have taken over everything and there's an arc that explains the backstory. That'd be cool 50+ coop content to go with raising the lvl caps...
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The last invasion there was an organized server-wide Drop Ship take down... If I remember correctly we on Virtue won with over 40 I believe (I may be off by a few)... either way it was the best time I'v had playing since I started playing this game. I so hope we get to do it again.
If you haven't had a chance to take down a Drop Ship with over 100 other Hero's... man you are seriously missing out!!!
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Would love to be involved with a Dropship takedown. Post a gathering time on the Virtue server board, I'm more would want a piece of those human-kidnapping bastages...
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Bah! I want a GEARS invasion. Millions and millions of the little fellas running all over the place.
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And a city official handing out the "Fly Swatter" temp power (a la "Fire Extinguisher")
while this is great and i have a few new toons that need the badges, i wonder how many people who only play during the week will miss out?
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Ummm Where the heck is the invasion? I got my gameface on, guess its scaring the Ritki...
Yep, no invasion yet.
Rikti invasion a no go?
Been waiting for 30 minutes, was planning to call work say I`m not coming, fighting an alien invasion. Guess its another lame friday at work then 
Now i don't feel so bad that i chose to take a shower first.
I do, for waiting on some announcement.
Been waiting 45 minutes. Even went to the Rikti War Zone to try to provoke them, no dice.
hmmm... devs ? serverside issues ? need a patch ?
JUUUST wondering!
It started ... FINNALY. Steel!
Just started in virtue now too
ITS HAPPENING NOW!
Freedom: Atlas
AE + Rikti Invasion = major lag then DC/Crash.
Need to lower the number of people allowed in Atlas before Atlas 2, Atlas 3.... start spawning. Lag is too much.
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Rikti Invasion again? Lame.
Oh and while we're at it... making a whole ISSUE out of finally allowing us to customize our power FX colors... lame as well, should have had that 5 years ago.
Weak ideas like this will not save this game from the mass exodus about to take place to a game that "gets it", and by "it" I mean REAL character customization and a true feeling of SUPERPOWER.
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Other jabs at ideas that people have begged for and are being implemented by a Dev team that actually seems to get it, AND yet another cry of DOOOOOOOOOOM?
You guessed it: Lame.
I enjoy the raids, as it creates a sense of accomplishing something that the game lacks otherwise. I mean, I can stand on a corner and beat the liveing snot out of thousands of Hellions or Council, and it makes no impact on them whatsoever. Even so, I think the raids could and should be reviewed.
The gist is that the Rikti should have OBJECTIVES. That is, they're invading, so what are they trying to accomplish?
I'd do it like this.
First, when the raid is first announced, three targets would spawn in each zone. They might be different from zone to zone, but the idea is that the Rikti are going to attempt to destroy these targets. I'll use Atlas Park as an example.
The sirens sound, and a military bunker spawns at City Hall. A couple of minutes later, the ships start flying in, dropping bombs. At the same time, ground troops will start entering from the gates. Both the ships and troops start moving toward the objectives. It will now be up to the heroes to stop them from destroying the objectives.
Note that this would require making the ships MUCH more assailable. No stronger than Elite Bosses, it would need to be possible (though difficult) for a solo hero to destroy one. They should move around the speed of unslotted hover. Their beam weapons should be much less powerful but the bombs should do actual DAMAGE, and lots of it.
If the heroes stop the Rikti, the raid ends. If they fail, and the three objectives are destroyed, Atlas becomes flagged as a war zone, and Rikti troops will begin beaming in as they do now.
When this happens, the Rikti will move into one of the adjacent zones (eg. Steel Canyon) and a new battle with three objectives will begin THERE. This move from zone to zone will continue until the Rikti are stopped. Zones "captured" byt he Rikti would remain in warzone mode until the Rikti are stopped.
Signature heroes in the zones should become active and participate in the fighting. For example, when Atlas Park is attacked, Ms. Liberty would help the fighting if Rikti troops come in range of her.
If the entire city is captured, I'm not sure what to do. It would be highly unlikely, but you never know.
What do you think?
Very Intrsesting , any or all of it sounds good.
I love invasions. Love the accolade as it helps out in tight situations. However, this invasion did not seem right to me. I may not be recalling this correctly, but it seems that invasions use to be a 15 to 30 minute wait between waves. This time it seems like 60+ minutes of wait time. I guess, it use to seem like you could kill a whole day doing Rikti Invasions with a little wait time between waves, but this one seems to be killing the whole day waiting for waves.
I agree ... the wait was very long and the only really big groups were in Cap near the Black market and Near Miss Liberty in Atlas, everywhere else was dead. It didn't get the players out of the AE at all. The Transport ships move too fast to even bother getting a group to attempt one. Out of the whole weekend I only saw two unexploded bombs :-(. Fun, but not as much as I was hoping. Back to the War Zone and deal with them there!
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My problem with the weekend was with one place... Atlas Park.
Every invasion I took part in at Atlas ended up with mapserver disconnections.
I did not have this problem before AE was put in that area.
Am I the only one that had that problem, guys? Or should something be done about it from the Devs?
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I enjoy the raids, as it creates a sense of accomplishing something that the game lacks otherwise. I mean, I can stand on a corner and beat the liveing snot out of thousands of Hellions or Council, and it makes no impact on them whatsoever. Even so, I think the raids could and should be reviewed.
The gist is that the Rikti should have OBJECTIVES. That is, they're invading, so what are they trying to accomplish?
I'd do it like this.
First, when the raid is first announced, three targets would spawn in each zone. They might be different from zone to zone, but the idea is that the Rikti are going to attempt to destroy these targets. I'll use Atlas Park as an example.
The sirens sound, and a military bunker spawns at City Hall. A couple of minutes later, the ships start flying in, dropping bombs. At the same time, ground troops will start entering from the gates. Both the ships and troops start moving toward the objectives. It will now be up to the heroes to stop them from destroying the objectives.
Note that this would require making the ships MUCH more assailable. No stronger than Elite Bosses, it would need to be possible (though difficult) for a solo hero to destroy one. They should move around the speed of unslotted hover. Their beam weapons should be much less powerful but the bombs should do actual DAMAGE, and lots of it.
If the heroes stop the Rikti, the raid ends. If they fail, and the three objectives are destroyed, Atlas becomes flagged as a war zone, and Rikti troops will begin beaming in as they do now.
When this happens, the Rikti will move into one of the adjacent zones (eg. Steel Canyon) and a new battle with three objectives will begin THERE. This move from zone to zone will continue until the Rikti are stopped. Zones "captured" byt he Rikti would remain in warzone mode until the Rikti are stopped.
Signature heroes in the zones should become active and participate in the fighting. For example, when Atlas Park is attacked, Ms. Liberty would help the fighting if Rikti troops come in range of her.
If the entire city is captured, I'm not sure what to do. It would be highly unlikely, but you never know.
What do you think?
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This sounds very cool, red name should read this I think. (Hint, Hint) and Yes at least one server would allow this to happen if for no other reason to see what would happen if?
I know I would be watching to see what would happen. If we lost the entire city, thinking Recluse Victory.
During the invasion Vanguard could have a zone tracking similar to the RV showing progress if any by the Rikti during invasions just to expand on the idea more.
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