Roy Cooling FTW!!!! *Possible Spoilers*

My friend and I duo'd our way through the new Roy Cooling arc last night, and may I say it is amazing. From the first mission, to the story, to the final epic battle, this arc is full of win. A final battle on the roof top of a burning building facing off against a Zeus Class Titan felt like something right out of the pages of a great comic. Our duo of elec blaster and Kin defender faceplanted a few times in that final face off, but anything worth doing isn't easy. Better than many TFs in the game. This is one I will be repeating many times over. Bravo devs, bravo.

I ran this last week. Fully agreed with the above. Definitely a high HSQ (Holy Moly Quotient). Particularly impressive was the way several maps were sewn together in each mission. And, love him or hate him, you have to respect Castillo's commitment to drama.

I'm looking forward to running the new villain arc now. Enough that I'm pushing through my Power and Crusader Praetorians double quick.

I loved this story.

I just don't really agree with the decision to give the medi-porters to the elderly and handicapped. The medi-porters should have been given to children. If covering all Paragon's childern with medi-porters would have put too much strain on the system, then medi-porters should be handed out to schools, so the childern are protected when they all gather in big groups in easy to find buildings.

All those resistence fighters immigrating from Praetoria talk like good guys, but somebody willing to blow up a hospital to make a point is more then capable of blowing up a school in order to keep the kids off their lawn.

This thread is now more daring.

I ran this arc for the first time this morning, and I must say that I loved it. I ran it on a Praetorian, but I think I missed out on the fancy Praetorian dialogue by keeping it to myself at the beginning. It just wasn't the sort of thing the character would blurt out. Looking forward to running it on prouder Praetorian some time soon, though.

I got a little bit nerd-excited when I saw that people who had already done Jenni Adair's arc could call in assistance from SAM. I couldn't take it, but the option is a very, very neat game mechanic. I think the only thing I would have loved more as an option would be calling Provost Marchand and reporting in what I'd discovered.

Edited to add: Laughed like hell when Castillo remade his entrance. Funny stuff.

By the way, I think it's quite clear now that Talos Island is being "stealth" revamped into the next stage of the Praetorian 1-50 path for people who choose to go blue side.
Keith Nance and Jenni Adair have their arcs their, and now Roy Cooling is there too - and each arc is linked to the situation in Praetoria, as well as using the newer game mechanics from GR.
They'll probably need a few more arcs to allow someone to play 20-29/30 only using new content, but it does seem to indicate that any new Paretorian zones won't start until level 30 at the earliest.

Baby New Year is more of a spiritual entity, the symbol of the New Year. He only needs protection from Snaptooth.

It was a fun arc, with some interesting twists.

Also, there's a badge for saving all 12 cops in that burning building!

The one disappointing thing about the arc was I don't think they ever did say what the actual reason was for not allowing everyone to use the system. I mean, I thought I read every clue and piece of mission text, but didn't see the reason explained. Closest I saw was "for reasons I'll get into later" at the beginning.

Otherwise, fun arc.

I had a terrible experience with this and quit 5 spawns into the second mission. What level were you when you people ran this?

I ran it with a fresh level 20 scrapper and quit five groups into the second mission. Mobs spamming -50 hit debuff and -35 defense debuff that lasts a minute? While throwing +100% recharge debuffs and slows? Really?

Debuffs in this game have gotten out of hand.

At high level sure, but I don't even have SOs yet. I'd rather stab myself in the eyes than play through a mission at level 20 at 1/4 speed with my attack chain having 30 second wait periods while I have a 27% to hit.

You can run that mission at level 20?!? That's insane. Those debuffs that Malta tosses around is the very reason why they are a level 40+ faction. Has any sense of game balance remain in the designers?

A level 50 Enemy scaled down to level 20 is not the same as an Enemy designed for level 20. There is a big difference. Players aren't equiped to handle that kind of strong enemy.