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Loving TIPS missions!

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By Bad_Influence,
Posted on: 2010-12-19 10:53 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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I'm working today on bringing a Stalker from Rogue to Hero. I am loving the Tips missions I am getting today. It's not "Oh in the Rogue Isles I decided doing everything for money and now that I'm in Paragon I'm doing it for pure altruism ..." It's "I'm still out for number one but I'm learning that there are things I WON'T do and maybe I'm changing ..."



I want to buy whoever wrote the Polar Shift and "Fake Rescue" Tip missions a drink! I had SOOOOO much fun doing them.

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Originally Posted by BlueBattler View Post
I want to buy whoever wrote the Polar Shift and "Fake Rescue" Tip missions a drink! I had SOOOOO much fun doing them.
On the other hand, I'd like to take whoever wrote the General Aarons mission out behind the woodshed. 15 ambushes and a lead-out on a Longbow map where the captive stops at every group and gets "re-captured," turning it into a defeat-all?

Thanks. I love missions that take over an hour to solo on my defender, set to +0/1.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm View Post
On the other hand, I'd like to take whoever wrote the General Aarons mission out behind the woodshed. 15 ambushes and a lead-out on a Longbow map where the captive stops at every group and gets "re-captured," turning it into a defeat-all?

Thanks. I love missions that take over an hour to solo on my defender, set to +0/1.
But think of all the experience and drops you got!

If you're 50 this is actually a good thing since drops are all you care about.

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Is there any reason so many people call them "tips" missions? I mean, when you find one it says "Tip found!"
Obviously this thread is about the new To Insure Prompt Service missions. Don't you read the patch notes?



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I'm working today on bringing a Stalker from Rogue to Hero. I am loving the Tips missions I am getting today. It's not "Oh in the Rogue Isles I decided doing everything for money and now that I'm in Paragon I'm doing it for pure altruism ..." It's "I'm still out for number one but I'm learning that there are things I WON'T do and maybe I'm changing ..."



I want to buy whoever wrote the Polar Shift and "Fake Rescue" Tip missions a drink! I had SOOOOO much fun doing them.
I hate the Polar Shift tip mission with a passion. Clear the map, THEN hunt through three floors of map for objective 1, THEN hunt through three floors for objective 2, THEN hunt through three floors of map for objective 3. I find it to be a tedious time-sink, but mileage will vary.

Ill be declining this one unless I just have to have it from now on.

There is another one whereyou have to clear a three-level map hunting for "bomb" glowies which are stashed in the most obscure corners of the map imaginable. This would be less of a problem if the glowie sound had not been recently reduced. Even turning up the sound is of limited utility in finding them. I forget the name, but I know it when I see it and thats another one I skip unless forced.

I like the Save the Bane Spider morality one though.

 

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I too love doing tip missions Just the way how each one feels completely different depending on which choice you made.

Wierd but i prefer doing them as i level up a character since it feels like the main "tip characters" are leveling up as the same time as yourself and chosing their own morality at the same time. Feels more personal

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I admit I've only run Tip missions on my 50s, but I like most of them. My favorites are the Villain versions of "Uqua: Dead or Alive" and "A broken Jaeger". The Uqua one for 2 things- it feels very villainous and opportunistic raiding a Rikti base while everyone is distracted, and 2- any time I get to smack Flamebeaux around I'm a happy camper.

The Nemesis one is a blast for 2 words....SHOCK TREATMENT!!!!!!!! The first time she yelled "For my Toothbrush!" I lost it.



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The tip missions are great writing. If ONLY, for the love of sanity, they'd go back, kill all the old 'content' (I hesitate to use that word about so much dross...) and replace it with the new stuff and new tech that is coming out. It'd be fantastic.

Heck, if the alpha slot had just been the same old same old, I wouldn't have un-retired my level 50. But Alpha is having a whale of a time doing exactly what he wants, not what some Arachnos goon is telling him to do.
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Oh man another good one done today...

They even made Statesman likable!

I used to like statesman

He used to be my ingame idol

A man of courage, hope and all that is good within the world

Now i hate him

He is a coward who is scared to take the risk that could potentially rid the world of all evil

He will be the first to suffer the full wrath of a true hero who was able to tame the well!

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My favorite part of the tip missions is interacting with the Rogues Gallery. It reminds me of comics from my childhood when having a hero "guest star" in another hero's series was a big deal, or one of those monthly "team up" titles. For example, I bought my first Daredevil comic because it had Spider-Man on the cover as a guest star. Same thing with signature villains appearing. It just feels like you're stepping into a fully formed, well-established universe.

I also like how the personalities of the Rogues are portrayed, and the subtle changes each character undergoes depending on the type of arc you're playing. (i.e. Hero vs. Vigilante). Polar Shift, for example, is either an unbalanced, loose cannon or justifiably paranoid, depending on which tip mission you're running.

Similarly, Stalwart's involvement in the Hero tip mission was surprisingly poignant in light of his reason for showing up at the Family drug deal. I didn't expect such characterization.

So yeah, I'm also digging the tip missions.