New Epic AT

Before my sub runs out, thought I'd put this up (wasn't my idea, blame my brain nagging at me).

Hero Epic AT: Riot Officer, slightly higher health than a Blaster
With a unique costume slot similar to the Soldiers of Arachnos, Riot Officers will have access to different variations of PPD and SWAT costume pieces. At level 28 they will gain access to 3 Power Pools but only 1 can be chosen.

Inherit power, Riot Training: You have a constant +5% defence to all damage types and will buff any allies within melee with a +10% defence buff(all)

Primary Powerset: Riot Control

L1, Baton Smash: You quickly hit the enemy with a riot baton for minor damage, very fast recharge

L1, Baton Trip: You hit the enemy in the leg with your riot baton, tripping them over and causing moderate damage, fast recharge

L2, Containment Net: You fire a net from your Riot gun, holding the target enemy. Once they break free from the hold they will be immobilised for a short time, long recharge

L6, Ram: You ram your riot shield into the enemy, stunning them and causing moderate damage, medium recharge.

L8, Tazer: Same as Devices

L12, Flashbang Grenade: You throw a flashbang at the enemy, causing a loud bang and a bright flash, stunning them for a short while and lowering their tohit, very long recharge

L18, Crowd Control: Same as Warmace

L22, Rubber Slug: You shoot your target with a rubber slug from your Riot gun for moderate damage and a 50% chance to stun, short recharge

L26, Pepper Spray: You spray your enemy's face with pepper, blinding them while doing moderate toxic DoT, long recharge

L32, Tear Gas Grenade: You shoot a Tear Gas Grenade from your Riot gun, the grenade releases a gas in the immediate area which causes confusion then induces vomiting, temporary stunning and -defence, very long recharge


Secondary Powerset, Riot Guard

L1, Riot Shield(toggle): You hold up your Riot Shield to protect yourself from Melee and Ranged attacks(16% unenhanced), self -runspeed

L2, Riot Armour(auto): Your Riot armour protects you from Smashing and Lethal damage (10% unenhanced) as well as protection from being Stunned.

L4, Mind Over Body: Same as Willpower

L10, Hold Ground(click 120sec): You put all your effort into keeping back the enemy, giving you protection from being knocked back, repelled, held and defence against melee attacks (6% unenhanced), self -runspeed, very long recharge.

L16, Taunt: Same as the Tanker taunt

L20, Lockdown(toggle): Using techniques learnt during training, you stop enemies from passing you and instead force them to face your shield by immobilising all those in melee and causing a short duration Taunt, high end cost. If you take this, you cannot take Call Reinforcements

L20, Call Reinforcements: You call for the reinforcements of a SWAT team, summoning two SWAT Officers and a SWAT Equalizer, they will aid you in battle until you zone or are defeated, very long recharge, if you take this you cannot take Lockdown

L26, Smoke Grenade: Same as Devices

L35, Force of Justice(click 120sec): For a short while you become inspired to rise above your enemies as a force of justice, increasing your resistance to damage greatly (50% unenhanced) aswell as causing weaker enemies to cower in fear from your presence, when it wares off you will be worn out(-100 endurance, -100% recovery, 10 seconds) and left vulnerable to attack(-30% resistance to all, -50% defence to all, 30 seconds), very long recharge, if you take this you cannot take Inspirational Stance.

L38, Inspirational Stance(click 120 seconds): You stand ready to take on whatever is ahead, showing a flash of inspiration to those around you, increasing the recharge, run speed, damage and damage resistance(all 30%) of allies nearby, very long recharge, if you take this power you cannot take Force of Justice


Power Pools:

Riot Devices, this pool focuses on controlling the enemy using grenades and devices.

L28, Pepper Grenade: You fire a grenade from your Riot gun filled with a special pepper mixture which will cover the surrounding area, causing mass confusion and holding all those in place for a short while and also causing high Toxic DoT, very long recharge

L28, Sonic Grenade: You fire a sonic grenade from your Riot gun, stunning the weaker enemies for a short while and lowering the resistance of all those within a wide area by 30%, long recharge

L32, Tazer Beam: You add an attachment to your Riot gun and fire a beam of electricity at an enemy, holding them in place and debuffing all those around them with -tohit and -perception, long recharge

L41, Acid Grenade: You fire an acid grenade from your Riot gun, lowering the resistance and defence of all hit within a wide area and causing minor toxic DoT, short recharge


Ballistics, this pool is about the use of rubber bullets and non-lethal firearms.

L28, Pepper Slug: You fire a large pepper slug from your Riot gun, causing high damage and holding them for a short while, slow recharge.

L28, Rubber Burst: You shoot a quick burst of rubber bullets from an attachment on the Riot gun, causing moderate damage with a chance to stun, fast recharge

L32, Gas Slug: You shoot a gas slug from your Riot gun, causing moderate damage and confusing the enemy, slow recharge

L41, Kinetic Round: You fire a special electronic bullet from your Riot gun which releases an explosion of kinetic energy when it hits, throwing the enemy through the air and stunning them with high Smashing/Energy damage, moderate recharge.


Riot Assault, this pool relies on using your baton and shield to damage and subdue enemies while protecting you and allies.

L28, Reinforce Shield(auto): When you have your Riot Shield toggle active, you also receive protection against Hold, Stun, Sleep, Knockback and Immobilise aswell as higher defence vs Ranged, Melee and AoE(6% unenhanced), you are however debuffed with -runspeed

L28, Baton Strike: You strike your enemy with the baton for superior damage and a chance for stun, slow recharge

L32, Brace for Attack(click 15sec): You brace for the next attack, temporarily increasing your damage resistance(all 20%) and increasing your hitpoints (30%), short recharge

L41, Shield Swing: You swing your Riot shield in a 180 degree arc infront of you, knocking back enemies and healing yourself(10% unenhanced) and causing moderate damage, minor chance to stun, long recharge.


Will post the next Epic idea late, Villains EAT Anarchist.

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I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
Union EU player! Pip pip, tally ho, top hats and tea etc etc

I WANT!

/signed

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Villains Epic AT, Anarchist, about as much health as a Stalker.

The Anarchist hasn't got a unique costume slot but does have alot of customisable weapons and a minor combo system.

Inherit power, Anarchy: For every enemy defeated the Anarchist gains 1/100 points towards getting to 100, the amount of points you have will go down very slowly at 1 point every 30 seconds. Once you have 100 point you will automatically get buffed with the power Anarchy, increasing your recharge by 300% and run speed by 50%, making your endurance and enemies available the only thing to slow you down, the effect wares off after 120 seconds.

Primary Powerset, Anarchic Destruction

L1, Bat Smash: You smash your enemy with your bat for minor damage, very fast recharge

L1, Bat Crush: You crush your enemy with an overhead swing of your bat for moderate damage, fast recharge

L2, Bat Swing: You swing your bat into your enemy's chin, sending them through the air for high damage, slow recharge

L6, Fire Bomb: You throw a small fire bomb at an enemy, setting them on fire for moderate DoT, fast recharge

L8, Wild Kick: You do a quick kick towards the enemy for moderate damage, low accuracy, fast recharge

L12, Wild Swing: You swing your arm out infront of you in hopes to hit someone for minor damage, very fast recharge, if you use a weapon attack beforehand you will do double damage with a chance for knockdown, low accuracy

L18, Insult: Single target taunt

L26, Headbutt: You slam your head into your enemy causing high damage and a chance to stun, you will also cause minor damage to yourself and have a chance to stun, slow recharge

L28, Club Swing: You hit your enemy with a club for high damage, slow recharge

L32, Petrol Bomb: You throw a petrol bomb at the enemy, igniting them and everything around them for high fire DoT, slow recharge

L32, Spray Paint: You aim a spray can enemy's face and spray, blinding them temporarily and decreasing their tohit and taunting them at the same time, moderate recharge, if you use a fire-based attack beforehand this attack will do moderate fire damage


Secondary Powerset: Free Spirit

L1, Blind Luck(toggle): You are lucky from years of finding your own way, giving you +defence(10%) to melee attacks and +defence(16%) to ranged attacks

L2, Unexpected Attacks(auto): Because of your lack of training, you attack wildly in your own style, giving you an extra chance tohit(7% unenhanced) unexpecting enemies

L4, Freestyle(auto): Your free way of life has taught you how to navigate the streets and fights with ease, increasing your running and jumping abilities(35%) aswell as your reactions, effectively making your powers recharge quicker(20%)

L10, Build Up

L16, Aim

L20, Sabotage: You set up a crude explosive and trip wire (same as Trip Mine in Devices with a different mine model)

L28, Gang Up: You call out for your friends to gang up on an enemy (Gang War clone)

L28, Empty Clip: You aim your pistol at an enemy and fire wildly, emptying the clip for moderate DoT, short recharge, low accuracy

L35, Trick Shot: You quickdraw a gun and fire a few shots towards the enemy in hopes to hit them for moderate damage. This power has low accuracy but a 50% chance to critical hit, additionally it can hit any enemies in a cone with 50% accuracy, slow recharge

L38, Secret shot: You quickly draw your pistol while in melee and shoot your enemy's vitals for extreme damage, has a 15% chance to critical hit, very slow recharge, high accuracy, if you use a melee attack on the same enemy after using this power there is a 50% chance the attack will critical hit

Weapon Customisation:

Bat - Baseball Bat(default), Cricket Bat, Tennis Racket, Hockey Stick
Club - Golf Club(default), Tennis Racket, Hocket Stick, 2x4
Pistol - Same as Thugs Mastermind variations

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I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
Union EU player! Pip pip, tally ho, top hats and tea etc etc

I really, REALLY like the ideas of these so far. Much more 'traditional comicbook' options, even more so than the normal ATs. They just have a ton of character. Yes, numbers might not be perfect (Im not wise on them, but a few looked a bit high on some powers) but its just...well, dunno how to put it, except;
/SIGNED

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I am not that favourable.

This is not about joe the beat cop on patrol. This is about superheroes and villains. Normal humans should not be in the picture except as people who need to be rescued.

And yes, I hate the manta, the scrapyarders and the normal police officers as well. For me they are wrong.

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This is not about joe the beat cop on patrol. This is about superheroes and villains. Normal humans should not be in the picture except as people who need to be rescued.

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So, we're scrapping any Natural who isn't an alien, and the Technology origin?

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Posts are OOC unless noted to be IC, or in an IC thread.

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This is not about joe the beat cop on patrol. This is about superheroes and villains. Normal humans should not be in the picture except as people who need to be rescued.

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So, we're scrapping any Natural who isn't an alien, and the Technology origin?

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^ This
This is about Heroes. And Villains.
Heroes: Someone who goes above and beyond either the call of duty or what is expected from them to perform great acts for others.
Villains: Those who do bad or terrible things to further their own diabolical ends.

That by no means exempts normal humans from that. Anyway, what about fictional characters like Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne? Their still only humans, they jsut have all the shniy gear. I see no reason why the classification cant extend to the likes of the two ATs suggested above.

The average joe on the street is just that; someone who cant be bothere or doesnt have the guts to be either good or bad. The two ATs very much fit the idea that people are either stepping up, or jumping off.
/Signed (again)

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A policeman is a person doing his job protecting the street. He is not a superhero. If policeman could do a superheroes job they wouldn't need us to do the dirty work right? In fact they would downright forbid us being vigilantes. It was only after heroes had shown that they could do things the poclice could not that the superhero act was signed.

So I don't see a policeman archetype as a viable one. If the policeman feels like beating up villains after office hours though. He can pick up his cape and do so in his own free time like any other hero. This will of course be nicely covered in i13.

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Meh, the fact that not all Villains are superpowered still leads me to disagree. Anyway, PPD Swat, namely Grenadier bosses, are still human, and can still duke the watsits offa people.
And, hang on, arent Heroes doing the same thing? Protecting the streets? I dont really see the differences. As far as I can make out, in fact, most of the PPD could easily be classed as Natural origin heroes. Its so fine a line I dont even know if its there.

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Law enforcers generally don't like others coming onto their turf. So they probably don't like the hero thing one itsy bitsy bit. So the police are trying. With swat teams, robots, psi cops and kheldians to try to prove that they can control the streets and fight superpowered threats. To prove to the government that heroes are no longer neccesary. So that law and order will be restored to the proper authorities. Politics at work.

So they won't be happy with a policeman going out of the team. Especially when that hero is wearing their colours.

Also note how the police is dealing with the super powered beings they must fight. At high threat levels there are no non enhanced policeofficers at work anymore. There is a limit at what flesh and bone can do unenhanced.

Of course you can point out that lot of opponents are unenhanced which imo is a terrible mistake of the developers. For example a freak minion should be able to beat up a an working at the docks. Yet they can't. So whats the point enhancing yourself when joe doe is as strong as you are? And a dockworker is just a john doe on strike.

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Riot Officers stop appearing past, what, level 20? Kind of shows their ranking in the metahuman food chain. Wouldn't make much sense to see one in, for example, the STF.
You'd be better off rolling a Peacebringer and asking the devs for that nifty sash the PPD Awakened wear.

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Meh, fair point I guess. Maybe give them a battlearmour option. I Know Id sign up to wear one of those Shell or Hardsuits :P
As to Scrapyarders, YES they are stupidly overpowered. It really galls me. Wyvern are bad enough. Mind you, I think dynamite would hurt whatever you are. But, again, meh...
Anyhow, it was a suggestion. I think it was quite neat. Game on.

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Aren't Crab Spiders/Fortunata VEAT's kinda the same in terms of their just ppl who work for LR?

I think HEAT's could use an added boost like this! I for one would roll one tonight if I could

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The PPD AT is brilliant. Really liking the sound of it.

The Anarchist idea is just classic though. A Mace/WP Brute and a Thugs/ MM rolled into one? Awesome!

/Signed, definately.

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Also note how the police is dealing with the super powered beings they must fight. At high threat levels there are no non enhanced policeofficers at work anymore. There is a limit at what flesh and bone can do unenhanced.

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Yeah... you still have to fight Malta at higher levels, which implies that a normal person, with the right gear, can still kick [censored].

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a normal person, with the right gear, can still kick [censored].

[/ QUOTE ]In the case of the PPD this appears to be a Kheldian shoved up your butt, not a nightstick and riot shield.

In the case of Malta it's bigass robots and Sapper rifles. Oh, and pretty much the deadliest handguns ever designed on this planet. They must have those patented or something.

In the case of VEATs, well... You see Fortunata, Crabs, Banes and Night Widows(?) all the way up to level 50. Don't underestimate psionic ('Normal' only in the loosest sense of the word) women, or men armed with laser-maces wearing 3-inch thick plate armor made out of who knows what. Banes in particular are murder.

At least recommend the Power Armor Corps (popular request) or the Psi-Cops (Oops, Psi Blasters, i12. Not even a unique costume.), they'd be more convincing.



...Granted, who am I to talk about "convincing" when I have a level 50 Thugs/ Mastermind?

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I just want a Shivan Decimator Epic AT.

That is all.



Ok, so not quite all, but while the points made in this thread are valid, they are rather pointless, if the Devs have the imagination to reason the creation of the PPD EAT, then they can put it into the game.

Some players will agree with whatever the Devs say (and I mean a thought out reason, not just 'a wizard did it') and play them. Some players will agree with the points already made and not play them. Finally, some players will just play them because they are new.

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ohhh i like both the hero and villian ideas give abit more to the aspect each archetype is a dark or light version of another (though never figured what the good version of a stalker)

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