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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Uh... like what?
It's a mirror universe of OUR (e.g. Paragon) Universe. It has absolutely nothing to do with DC. |
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Or Marvel's version from the Eighties, Squadron Supreme, where characters similar to the Justice League end up taking over the United States government and brainwashing dissenters, among other burn-the-village-to-save-it actions. Or any of dozens of the "What If" and parallel world adventures seen in decades of comics and fiction long before even that. Alternate reality fiction where characters and/or personalities in alternate worlds are inverted is very, very far from new.|
Originally Posted by Prime_Nighthawk
If you change the name of the characters, it's pretty much EXACTLY like the Justice Lords story.
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DC's Justice Lords is merely a Johnny-come-lately to the party, but i can understand how it looms large in your thoughts if it was your first exposure to the trope.
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
I've always thought it'd be cool to control some NPC's movements and actions against a hero/villain team, be it a Sapper with free thought or a Succubus that would strike from the ceiling.
Hmm EATs I'd much rather see.
Rikti there is already two sides within the Rikti faction. It also allows for the branching concept that the VEATs use, of course all would use teleport since it's pretty much the signature Rikti travel power. You can go Gun/chief soldier route which basically makes a mixture of ranged and melee attacks in the primary with a resist based secondary armour, Mentalist for Psi based control primary and blasting secondary or Magi for blasting primary and debuffs secondary.
PPD offers a range of choices when it comes to branching, you can remain a normal human officer and progress into SWAT ranks which would be the equivilent to a 'Huntsman' build in that you offer AoE ranged damage and debuffs (Web grenade, glue grenade, acid mortar, leadership powers etc.), you can be in a hardsuit which offers energy assault as a primary with the minigun and laser arm attacks added in and a resist based secondary which would be the equivilent to a Crab spider. The last option is Psi corp which would mirror the Fortunata VEAT choice.
We already have two things ingame which would make excellent EATs so why go for a ripoff of something that's not even part of the City of Heroes universe?
I'd like to pipe in for a pair of Rikti EATs. A PPD AT could be okay but I feel that they don't really get enough powers to fill an AT. As the Rikti are a bit more interesting, and can't be remade with existing powersets, they'd make a good EAT, I think. This goes for Coralax too.
Also, to say that the original suggestion for a new EAT sounds both too ripoffey, and rather dull. To me it sounds like a sturdy blaster that's unecessarily complicated. I'd leave the idea with the people who publish it, tbh.