Roy Cooling FTW!!!! *Possible Spoilers*

Captain Castillo is the man.

Anyway, as someone else mentioned, I do find it kinda annoying you never get told why normals don't get access to medi-porter tech. Or rather, it's that you're told you'll get the reasons why, but then everyone just suddenly forgets about it. I'd be cool with it if they just said it's confidential government information and you just need to trust them that they have their reasons, but they don't even do that.

In fact, in the interrogation scene you basically tell the rogue cop the reasons and he goes all OH MY GOD THIS IS ALL PERFECTLY REASONABLE MY VIEW ON THIS ISSUE JUST CHANGED 180 DEGREES. Makes you really curious what those reasons are, huh?

This is an otherwise pretty good arc, but this relatively small thing turned into trying to ignore the elephant in the room for me.

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Originally Posted by Jophiel I tried that but the elevators wouldn't work. I tried all four doors and just got a "You can not enter" for each one. So then I thought they want me to go down and by the time I looked around down there, saw nothing, went back up again and tried the elevators again, it was in the 1:00 range and I said the heck with it. Crime never pays.

You're not supposed to take the elevator in the case of a fire and as a good little superhero you naturally oblige. Did you notice the doors with the stair symbol in front of the elevator rooms while going through the map? You gotta take the stairs for once.

Edit the second: Oh nevermind apparently you know about the stairs already. Anyway, there's a series of stairs leading further down, with plenty of rogue cops littered across the way, and at the very bottom you find your target. Then you need to walk him up to the exit. The first time I did this arc I not only missed two people, but I didn't lead him out in time before the building collapsed. Good thing I had a medi-porter, huh?

Edit the third: For what it's worth, I had no trouble getting Keith to join me, but then again I also did the villain arc first and that had the "use the radio to get secondary objectives" in every mission, so I was prepared for this.

The bug that takes the SWAT npc away in the "Find Stanfeld at the Conference" mish will also take away any MM pets you have already active. They don't make it through the door into the sewers. Dismissing/resummoning doesn't work, they're stuck in limbo somewhere. I had to zone out and reset.

Finished this for the first time last night. Could have done without two elite bosses at the end (fighting Castillo was no problem, it was having all my buffs drop right before the Titan showed up and wiped the walls with me).

For me, it was the challenge of the arc that made it so much fun. So much of the content, while interesting, is just too easy. After my duo took down Castillo and we didn't immediately get the "Mission Complete" message, I was a bit surprised. We turned around to look up at a giant Zeus Class Titan, and I remember thinking, "Now, THIS is more like it." There's nothing like thinking the battle is over and before that sigh of relief is out, you realize the real challenge just arrived. Our duo was blaster/defender so obviously we were going to have to work fast to survive. Took one team wipe to work out a strategy of alternating agro to finally bring the big guy down. The ending to our particular battle was epic as I was killed a split second after I unleased the killing blast. Seemed fitting that my last action on the arc was to use a medi porter after sacrificing myself in the last battle. Totaly epic and ridiculous fun. I've run it thrice with three different ATs, and the fun never stops. This is by far my favorite arc in the game (so far). Glad to see other people seem to be enjoying it.

For those that find it too difficult, try tuning down the diff a bit, no shame in that as long as you're still having fun.

It was insanely challenging for me on my kin/electric brute at level 23. But, eventually... I did finish it. I cannot even imagine how hard it would be with some of my other characters. I'm very glad I didn't hang up and quit it at the last mission.

I only rescued about half the police, which I felt very bad about. But then I ... could hardly find my way to the top of the cruiser and get *outside it* because like an idiot, I didn't actually walk to the EDGE of the first outside area (under all the scaffolding/supply stuff). DUR. When I finally did, I was like, OH okay.

And then CASTILLO. JEEZ.


... AND THEN and then. HURRR. I did at least get a level out of the mission arc, that's not bad at all. Even with all the damn debt from dying every other couple minutes to that damn last Zeus.

With a full tray of insps, it's doable, but maybe if I had more ranged attacks it'd have gone a little better.

But all in all, it was a superb arc, with an excellent story that fleshes out the events between Primal and Praetorian earths. Good work writers.

I ran it with my empath/sonic defender but with help (a blaster + scrapper for the first half and only the scrapper for the second half) and we all had a ton of fun... even managed to get the president to the fire escape before time ran out although the others died clearing a path for me (how heroic is THAT!?).

We loved the final mission and Nance was Chuck Norris incarnate. He's the one that finished off Castillo after we died but unfortunately was on a lower level when he did so he wasn't available for that final ambush! Ouch - we both died a couple of times but it was epic.

I didn't think the PPD were that bad but maybe I'm just used to fighting them red-side.

Can't wait to run the villain-side arc... unfortunately I think all of mine have outleveled that level range.

I don't see how you're supposed to tag all the downed cops OR rescue ____ (who, like most escorts, moves at a slow jog and then whines that you've left him behind), let alone both, in the extremely short time limit. Suggestions from those who've actually done it?