"No Ambushes" option on difficulty slider

City of Ambushes isn't fun for most of my characters.

I'd like to be able to turn them off; even if it was only when solo (like bosses).

It's the main reason I won't start a character in Praetoria. I notice there's a lot more ambushes creeping into CoV/CoH too. It's unwelcome for low level squishies.

My initial point was: How far do you need to go to water down the game? If ambushes aren't fun for you because you can't handle them on every character you play, so they get removed, then what's the next to go?

More than that, ambushes are a necessary part of the game. They're part of the story, and they're not impossible to deal with. Pretty much every mission you get ambushed in you can see it coming a mile away. Text warnings and visual cues are present. Pack a few inspirations.

The narrative flow of certain missions would be broken without ambushes. So while I understand your concern, I don't think this is a good idea or likely to become reality.

I quite like the ambushes as they make the missions more lively and give the impression that our enemies are actually reacting to our attack, rather than just standing around waiting to get taken down.

That said, I hate hate hate the ones where the ambush spawns directly onto you, in melee and instantly firing off their attacks. Unless they have been established as having teleport abilities/technology they shouldn't really be doing that. I've noticed several of those in the Tips, though the GR missions generally have them running into combat in a more believable, and survivable, way.

I understand the OPs feelings on this, especially in Praetoria.

Ambushes that;
1) Don't spawn on top of you
2) Don't auto-home like a rabid bloodhound
3) Don't auto detect through stealth

Thats not much to ask for. Especially when the ambush size in Praetoria doesn't seem to be x1 even when set to x1. It very often seems like x2. Which is not balance or a 'challenge' like debuffs are. Thats just unasked for and unneeded.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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I dont usually have an issue with ambushes in general. What I greatly dislike are some of the Praetoria missions where the ambushes keep coming and coming ... and coming.

Some lowbie archtypes just cant deal with it. They really need to limit the number of ambushes in a single mission that a solo character has to deal with. Yes, inspirations help, but after a certain number of ambushes, those run out.

Simply making ambushes target your location would solve 90% of the problems they present. Ambushes that don't ignore stealth, don't chase you all over creation, don't ignore Mastermind henchmen and which you can hide from without the need for special powers would be far more manageable.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

That makes the game start sounding more like this:



Ambushes don't let you pace your recovery? This is not a bad thing. So you can't sleep through a mission. *shrug* No, adding more mobs to a spawn is not the same thing at all. You can still just hang back if that's all that's done (or bypass them entirely - and not just on a stalker.) It would be "overriding the difficulty you've chosen" if they forced the ambushes to be EBs or AVs. You don't - bugged ambushes aside - get a bigger spawn than you normally would. In fact, with the way some spread out, it's often smaller and easier to handle.

It's not like they come up by surprise, either - very rarely do I see one show up without SOME sort of indication that lets you prepare.

And so what if you can't open with Assassin's Strike on a stalker? They also tend to have other decent attacks as well (if not other "tricks" entirely.) Get out of the "AS-Placate-Hit-Run" and actually scrap it out. Yes, Stalkers can do that, despite their hit-and-run reputation.

I tend to - well, *not care* if being ambushed means all my powers haven't recharged. Why should I have all the advantages, all the time?

See my Guides and Tutorials

Are ambushes really a problem? Can't you simply outrun an ambush using sprint? If it is a problem I can run to a safe zone such as an Arbitor/Police Drone.

Think they mean in-mission. I almost never have an outdoor ambush actually find me. *shrug*

See my Guides and Tutorials

Am I the only person that uses this craftable temp power to keep from getting killed by ambushes that start to overwhelm me and to get to a position where I can pick them off?

Ethereal Shift Self Intangible

You can shift yourself into the Ethereal Plane. Although you do not become completely invisible, you are translucent and hard to see. You are intangible, and cannot affect or be affected by those in normal space. Once activated, you will remain shifted for 30 seconds. You cannot rest on the Ethereal Plane. You may use this ability five times.


Sure I have to replenish it a lot in Praetoria but they aren't hard to replace.

A good number of missions wouldn't make any sense anymore if you removed the ambushes.

I like ambushes. They're often the only thing that adds a little flavor or challenge to otherwise straightforward missions.

What I hate however, is ambushes that spawn, move toward you, only to turn around and walk away without engaging you. It's especially bad on the second mission of the ITF. Really annoying.

A little from both sides?

Keep ambushes no matter what.

Add slider for ambush difficulty.

An open letter to NCsoft

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For plenty of reasons stated.