I'm pretty sure there's some valid technical reason why MA arcs run as TFs, much like there's a reason arcs rerun through Ouroboros slap you into TF mode as well (maybe it's the only way the devs could apply temporal/power scaling? *shrug*).
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Max: "Me too."
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Yeah, it would be good. The highlighting would be useful as well.
Too many times in my daily journey of attempting to do a really long MA arc I die a lot until I come across a mission that my usual WWII tactic just won't work on. And I want to leave it and go do some other missions until some friends come online and I can get a team together.
Not to mention the amount of times when I'm in the middle of soloing an arc when some friends invite me do a Mayhem or a bunch of missions with them. In fact, the first time they did this I left the arc I was in thinking 'Hey, I'll come back later and finish it' only for it to disappear.
At the moment MA is in a kind of taskforce mode where if you leave the mission you lose all your progress that took oh so many hundreds of deaths to get through :P I think there should be the option to not put it in "taskforce mode" and to be able to leave that mission and go do something else for a little while.
If people really want their series of arcs to be in "desperation", you have to do this right this minute mode I'm not going to take that option away from them. I just want the option for missions for me to leave for a minute and go doing something else, and then come back and do the mission I was up to. Like normal contacts. Perhaps even the option to save your progress in one mission and bring up another contact in MA. Gives the awesome possibility of having two, or even three arcs that work together, that mission 2 in arc 1 won't make sense until you've done mission 1 in arcs 2 and 3.
Anyway, yep, this is my idea. I think I've had a couple more ideas over the way about MA as I've been playing/creating but I think I've forgotten most of them.
Oh! One more thing, is there a possibility to be able to actually place where you want things in the map editor, or at least the option to make the "Back, Middle, Front" more focused. Specify EXACTLY what you mean by Back by highlighting an area on the map, what you mean by middle and what you mean by front. Or even the possibility of having more options than Back, Middle and Front, Areas 1-5 for example. I'd imagine it would follow the same principle but then again I know next to nothing about programming.
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