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Avatea,
Posted on: 2010-01-26 10:27 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Originally Posted by Torell
Im really excited for Mercedes, Austin and what's his name..
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wow sci-fi and fantasy fans not knowing who Mercedes Lackey is....eek..well that's what Google and Wikipedia are for.
And squee..I can't wait to try Mercdes' arc. She's one of my favorite authors! Good job folks on pulling this off.
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Originally Posted by Forsaken_Empire_EU
and these three people are???
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Originally Posted by Avatea
I'll be at the Rikti War Zone MA Building so both Heroes and Villains can join in. I think I'll ask everybody trivia questions to make the teaming up fairer, instead of randomly choosing people.
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Trivia im not so good at but i'll give it my best 
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Originally Posted by ThePill
Troy Hickman. Are you afraid, he'll show up if you type in his name?
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Originally Posted by ThePill
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I love Guest Author arcs! It gives us professionally-written stories between Issues that we can play around in. And I like that they're getting the talent from a broad variety of mediums. Not only comic books, but also novels, webseries, video game writers, etc.
Did anyone actually play-test this?
Spoilers:
An Elite Boss Zombie/Dark Mastermind? That's as nasty as a Ballista.
And Minions with an END drain? A 100% total turn off. Maybe the third arc won't have grievous balance issues.
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Originally Posted by ThePill
Troy Hickman. Are you afraid, he'll show up if you type in his name?
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Excellent. I'll be playing through these arcs for sure. Only downside to this is having to read about it on GamePro's website. My eyes...they bleed! They need some serious layout work done.
Mercedes Lackey's arc needs proofreading. Errors I've spotted so far:
"The old man in in league with $character_name. Find him and make him one of us!"
"$character_name is close. I can feel him"
"Sometimes good deeds do pay off. omYou freed the Singing Tiki..."
In the final mission, several things the Singing Tiki says are cut off.
The guy you rescue is variously referred to as "Old Man MacGruffin" and "Old Man MacGuffin".
Other than that, it's a very enjoyable arc. And if it's the one that Futurias is complaining about, I didn't have any trouble with the final boss (although I was only running at +2. If I were running at my normal +4, it might have been harder).
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Well for one thing, Hickman doesn't usually wear pants.
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Originally Posted by Katie V
Mercedes Lackey's arc needs proofreading. Errors I've spotted so far:
"The old man in in league with $character_name. Find him and make him one of us!" "$character_name is close. I can feel him" "Sometimes good deeds do pay off. omYou freed the Singing Tiki..." In the final mission, several things the Singing Tiki says are cut off. The guy you rescue is variously referred to as "Old Man MacGruffin" and "Old Man MacGuffin". |
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Originally Posted by Futurias
Did anyone actually play-test this?
Spoilers: An Elite Boss Zombie/Dark Mastermind? That's as nasty as a Ballista. And Minions with an END drain? A 100% total turn off. Maybe the third arc won't have grievous balance issues. |
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Originally Posted by ThePill
**** *******. Are you afraid, he'll show up if you type in his name?
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I will be in the Rikti War Zone MA Building for anyone that would like to run one of the arcs. Lets play!
I played the hickman arc - it was very entertaining and well written. My only complaint is that the end drain is BRUTAL in the first two missions. And by brutal I mean ridiculously over-powered. It's bad enough that I'm fairly certain many people would quit the arc over it.
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Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
I played the hickman arc - it was very entertaining and well written. My only complaint is that the end drain is BRUTAL in the first two missions. And by brutal I mean ridiculously over-powered. It's bad enough that I'm fairly certain many people would quit the arc over it.
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Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
I played the hickman arc - it was very entertaining and well written. My only complaint is that the end drain is BRUTAL in the first two missions. And by brutal I mean ridiculously over-powered. It's bad enough that I'm fairly certain many people would quit the arc over it.
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I put a lot of effort into the text and characters, but my grasp of game mechanics probably isn't up to the level of a lot of MA creators. After I'd finished I played through the entire arc AT LEAST several dozen times to work out all the particulars, with a number of different ATs, and was able to get through it without TOO much effort. But I'm sure I didn't take everything into account.
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Originally Posted by Niviene
I will be in the Rikti War Zone MA Building for anyone that would like to run one of the arcs. Lets play!
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Originally Posted by The_Killbot_5000
I appear to have missed this opportunity. Is Dr. Aeon still making an appearance on Freedom RWZ AE at 7pm PST?
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Originally Posted by prae
I already did once -- I'm planning on going back with my difficulty settings lowered back down.
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The problem is not with the energy drain itself, but the fact that it's autohit, meaning that you WILL have your end drained every time. If they had one that required a to-hit check it would be a bit fairer as you could use either your powers or insps to avoid some of them.
By the Way, the MA: Stories and Lore forum has a thread put up for feedback on the arcs themselves.
*slight nudge for forumers to see the other arcs on the forum*
I've found a pretty big bug with Austin Grossman's arc. It can't be completed.
All of the missions have linked objectives - where one must be compelted for the next to spawn. In his final mission, the third objective never spawns, even when the first two are completed. I went over the map many times looking for it, assuming that I was somehow missing it. I replayed the arc, which was fun up until that point. I even set up a special bind of "targetcustomnext notmypet" and went room to room using it, including the small cave area. I could find nothing except for 2 glowies and the first 2 destrucible objects. In total, I probably spent an hour trying to complete the final mission of the arc before finally giving up.