Roy Cooling's Arc (spoilers)

With the Incarnate stuff consuming plenty of attention I almost forgot about the new lowbie arcs. Just played through Roy's (the Medi-porter one) solo for the first time, it was a truly fantastic arc! Nance/Dean set the standard with their arcs, and Roy's was even better than theirs! It was fun fighting Costillo again, he was a riot with his antics! And I nearly soiled myself in the last mission when the Zeus Titan came in and started wrecking me! Bravo, devs.

I'm glad the devs are continuing to put in quality low level content even with the "elder game" in the works.

Castillo's such a colossal jerky show-off

What I really like about the new arcs is that they bring other contacts into the story. Talking to other contacts I've previously worked with in the middle of a story arc and getting help from them is a great touch.

This arc was fun.

I just have no idea what was going on with the mediporters to begin with that caused a ruckus. Curse you Ouroboros.

I didn't even know this arc existed. I somehow glossed right over it.

I actually liked the new Villain arc a little more.
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The last mission is actually a bit tedious, but the Souvenir very cleverly saved the story, in my opinion. I liked the idea of being the end-of-the-TF AV for a group of heroes to fight.

I thought the final mission of the villain arc was ridiculously tedious, but then when I was suddenly attacked by a Task force team and realised that I was in fact now the NPC AV, everything was awesome once again

The final battle of the Hero arc was marred by the fact that I was trying to hurry up so I could retry the Non One Left Behind badge. I would have enjoyed it much more if that wasn't the case. Even so, when the Zeus arrived I laughed, then I said "eep" when I realised it was an EB and my level 29 psychic attacks were doing about 5 damage to it

Stoopid robots. Is it me or did the Castello guy jump into the robot as if it was a mecha, like in Avatar/District 9/Matrix/etc? I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a totally different enemy or the same guy.

I think the bot showed up at the end to save the Hostage, 'cause he was a Malta guy and in trouble. It says something to that effect when it first appears.

I also wanted to add that I really like how the devs gave personalities to the SWAT Officers that accompany you in one of the missions. I loved feeling like I was fighting alongside characters rather than robots.

And if the villain one is better, I can't wait to play it.

He made mention of wanting to be the Brad Pit of Paragon.

I'm curious, for those that have run this arc, were you able to successfully complete the 'fire drill' mission?

Okay, I wasn't going to say anything because ranting really isn't my thing but... this particular story arc gets on my nerves for a one big reason...

Ahem... Spoilers ahead (sort of) so stop reading if you haven't played it yet...

Freak-A-Lympics Arc: 2 Scheduled Bosses (boss level only/separate missions) + Last Mission Clear Final Room + mostly minion/lt enemies throughout + 8 mission arc = 34 REWARD MERITS

Roy Cooling's Arc: 2 Elite Bosses (Back to back/same mission) + Last Mission multi-tiered stacked objectives + mix of minion/lt/boss enemies throughout + 7 mission arc = 5 REWARD MERITS

You have GOT to be freaking kidding me! Roy's arc was at least twice as hard as the Freak's arc and it only scored a smidge more than 1/7th the merits?! I'm of the mind that difficulty and time spent should be the determining factor for reward merits awarded but it seems that FIVE is the magic number the Devs give to anything new that hasn't been play-tested or data-mined yet...

Okay... I'm glad I got that off my chest... now back to your regularly scheduled Steelclaw...