Baracuda SF

Dear developers, please make sure that, whoever was and is responsible for the Baracuda SF is NOT allowed to work on Going Rogue.

If this is the new idea of "Fun" all i can say is epic fail......

Do you ever test the [censored] you produce before allowing it to go live ?

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Barcuda SF = the new TF?
If so, then what is the part you're having trouble with?

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@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

Killing Reichsman :-)
Lack of hints what to do and how.....

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Well, what part of him was giving you trouble? Like was it his regen, or his attacks?

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@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

We just completed it

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Yep we have just done it, took some doing but it can be done

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Maybe you and Moghedien could both list your team make up, and what you did on the final mission so you could compare notes on what went wrong and what went right?

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@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

Ice/cold corr
Fire/fire brute
Fire/kin corr
Ice/kin corr
Robots/dark MM
Sonic/thermal corr
Ice/mind dom
Fire/rad corr

2 Shivans on him.

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Just did it in 2:30

2 Rads
On dark MM a one dark corr
3 /WP brutes
Me a night widow

Took abit of faffin on last mish as we didnt no what to do, in the end we tp'd in, an smashed the living crao outtta him no problem.

alot of hassle for 20merits but great fun factor.

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Yeah i was a bit disappointed with only 20 merits but still got a nice shiny badge and the end fight was epic

But best of all Shock didnt moan as much as normal

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Completed it earlier on heroes and it's not exactly what I'd call 'epic', more just time consuming.

It just seems a little bit rushed to me. And only 20 merits?

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Have a necro/dark MM looking for this redside and a Rad/Rad defender blue. Figure one run of each will be enough for me

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Did it redside last night. We had 2 brutes (1 shield + 1 inv irrc), 2 MM's (bots), a Crab (bane), 1 rad cor, a stalker (regen) and a domi. P.S. MM's and all those pets are annoying since maps consist mainly of caves...

First couple of mishes were just too easy and simple, and the endfight against the Bison wannabe (called Reichsmann in CoV) was too hard... untill we found out that stepping in the telepad (like you do to get red bubbles when doing TV respec TF on blue side) in the final room gives you nice temp powers with which it's not that hard too kill the git, though it takes a very long time due too his absolutely insanely high regen rate. And before you get to do this you gotta survive being swamped by many, many ambushes of 5th colums containing LOADS of bosses (also with many big bad wolfies). Then you can start punching Reichsmann for like 10 minutes till he's down.

All in all this new SF isn't really all that interesting and worthwhile imo. Hopefully I can find time to do it on blue side this week and discover that one is more interesting.

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the blue side is much worse ... why an earth would u want to do a boring hours long TF when u have a very good simalar tf in Ernesto Hess. Tbh both were fails of epic proportions to me
but the cut scence to next part of the mish in BSF was fun

But why do they insist on using caves when hardly anyone likes caves

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Well, I'm glad ya not the only one who ran into mass problems with the villainside one.
Team makeup;

SS/WP (Or invul) Brute
DB/WP Brute
Bots/Traps MM
Plant/Thorns Dom
Fire/fire Dom
Thugs/Dark MM

Now, at least 3 of those players are the sort that make Rommy, States anmd Recluse weep, and have done so. In the end, we just gave up.
We got to his 'Immortal' satage, where everything is unaffected, the MM power which is supposed to break that didnt work, and so we simply couldnt damage him. Given we dropped a few nukes, three shivans and even a blooming HVAS, that kinda sucks.

Whats with the glowy in the laser room? Does Mako actually do anything useful? Or do you need a stalker on the team?
Oh, and I hope the ambushes are meant to only be two waves. We had about twenty. Big waves. That hounded us all the way to the entrance.
-unamused-

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But why do they insist on using caves when hardly anyone likes caves

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Because it saves them making something new.

Very disappointing this issue consisted of 2 task forces with nothing new to look at in them.

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My understanding, from what I can piece together from the US fora, is that MMs are supposed to get the 'anchor' power (as the heroes who deal finishing blows to the other 4 AVs do blueside) which stops Reichsmann legging it to the machine to regen —*but they're not getting it, or it doesn't work.

I'm pretty sure that only stalkers are able to get into the glowies room, which does *something* to help with the ambushes. Just being stealthed doesn't work; tried gojng through those lasers with my NW and — ouch.

Anyway, ran it in about 2:20 with a mixed bag team last night; Shivans, Vanguard Heavy and various other buffs (popped a spare Serafina, etc) got us through it, but I had to fire Elude after eating 4 blues over the course of the 25-minute-odd Reichsfight. Also, I swear he did a PSYCHO CRUSHAA at one point, but that might have been fatigue kicking in.

Ran the heroside version a few minutes later and clocked it in 1:20 —*might have been a lot longer but we had two tanks on the team, which seemed more than sufficient to keep RM busy while we dealt with t'other AVs.

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One thing I want to commend the devs/SF writer on for this one is the GET TO DA CHOPPA navbar thing in mish 1, which made me laugh very loud IRL.

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Made an attempt on this last night. We had to disband after 4 drops/DCs on the last mission mainly due to the relentless ambushes.

Team make up consisted of
Nrg/Kin corr <-- Me
2x Nin/SR stalkers
bots/bubbles MM
Thugs/Dark MM
Bots/Pain MM
2x Brutes I forget the sets

We lost a stalker early on, followed by a brute then an MM and the 2nd stalker as went so had to call it quits.

The Cutscene is cool ill give it that.

I would like to try an all MM team on this though.

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Sounds like the SF is much harder than the TF TBH. We did the TF last night and apart from the last mission we had zero trouble. And the last mission was harder because we had two people disappear. Even then once we worked out how to do it he want down PDQ.

I liked the edited council maps, especially the base entrance area on the find power sources mission and the entry area on the last mission. I was disappointed that there were no cut scenes at all, and while there might have been clever dialogue I was mainly too busy stomping on/being stomped on to read it.

Overall I would say that the Blue side version was far to easy.

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[ QUOTE ]
Made an attempt on this last night. We had to disband after 4 drops/DCs on the last mission mainly due to the relentless ambushes.

Team make up consisted of
Nrg/Kin corr <-- Me
2x Nin/SR stalkers
bots/bubbles MM
Thugs/Dark MM
Bots/Pain MM
2x Brutes I forget the sets

We lost a stalker early on, followed by a brute then an MM and the 2nd stalker as went so had to call it quits.

The Cutscene is cool ill give it that.

I would like to try an all MM team on this though.

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All mm team with those ambushes.. ? Count me in with Liz necro/dark

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From the US fora:
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"Stalkers get Makos Temp so they can sneak past the lasers to activate fail saves which kill all the 5th column ambushes. NOTE: There are only 4 fail saves.

Brutes (and VEATs) get Ghost Widows Temp power that shuts off Reischmans debuff aura (purple swirly thing) OR protects from the debuff aura.

Dominators get Scirroccos Temp that is a hold for the 5th Column ambushes.

Corruptors get Scirroccos Temp that kills all the held 5th Column ambushes (both regular holds and Dominators version of Scirroccos Temp).

Masterminds get Black Scorpions Temp that allows to knock Reichsman out of Unbreakable mode OR prevent him from going to Unbreakable mode OR kill his regen while in Unbreakable mode."

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Possible bug note: What confused the hell out of me is that I got all four temp powers (a couple of which were duplicated), and was clicking all of them to see if any would drop into my power tray.

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Cancelled in Three - MA ID #34608. Please play and comment! Top 10 placing in Projectionist's MA contest!

My brute gained four auto powers, one of each patron, which gave some +reisitance to stuff from and had a second click ghost widow power, to protect against his end drain.

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God...seeing as they give you NO time between getting all those powers, and having to duke it with Mr d00mhammer, they should give you time to actually see what they all do.

And, I can tell you now, that MM power doesnt work, or didnt for me. Maybe sheer bloody bad luck, but really, REALLY annoying.

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Well, what annoyed me was:

1. Same old maps, some with a little twist at the end
2. Endless pointless hordes of ambushes, it's like the MoG'ing girlie in LRSF - pointless and time consuming
3. Twenty merits? 20!!! Sure we can get the complete time down a lot with some practice, but that's weak!
4. Oh, that's it, nothing more in the issue??
5. Oh, stupid pvp badges! Yeah, feed the DEAD DUCK!!!

Point 4, the "little content whine" is explanable since this really isn't a real issue, it's a fifth aniversary event gone wrong. Also, at least they did a villain and a hero version instead of coop. Cudos for that.

Also it IS nice to finally have something new to "figure out". It'll take some time to find a good set of team and strategies for the end-mission to get acceptable completion times. Gives us something to do.

Now where's the new purple sets for the remaining powers and my thermal special ones?
As for the MA? Didn't really notice much, it's says my arcs are work in progress and some more ways of rating/searching (still useless though)

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Did the blueside one in 59:16 with a great team last night, and we all had a blast doing it.

Then went to do the redside one. Again it was a good team, proper mix of ATs, all decent good players.

Got to the last mish on about an hour in. Total Strike Force time? 3 hours 7 minutes.

Two hours we spent trying to put Reichsman down, mainly due to that damn MM Debuff that doesn't seem to have any reliable cause/effect on Reichsman. You hit him with it while he's unbreakable/phased? "Unaffected". Hit him with it while he's taking hits normally? He pops Unbreakable a few seconds later and all you get is "unaffected" for a while. If there's a specific time you're meant to hit him, or a specific cue, there's no way of seeing it and I really don't know what it is. (was playing one of the two MMs on team, btw)

We did eventually get him, but I really just don't know what we did differently. Maybe he just got bored too and gave up before we did?

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