Lambda and BAF In Game Contact To Explain?

Is there an npc anywhere in the game that can give an overview and explanation of these Lambda and BAF trial things (like how AE and the consignment houses have a information contact?)

The Wiki has nothing on BAF, and the information on Lambda is rather sparse at the moment. I'm sure that I could probably go to the global and help channels and eventually perhaps finally make heads or tails of the couple dozen or so different and possibly conflicting and even more confusing explanations that would be offered, but I would much rather get the info from a contact npc on what needs done to get started, where to go to get going, what to expect, etc.

It seems odd that i20 would be released with absolutely nothing in game to explain what is going on and how to get started on this stuff.

You can get into Lambda/BAF from the LFG button next to Email on your chat window.

Once inside, a narrator (it's unclear who) explains your objectives and what's happening as thing occur.

Well, I just spent a good five minutes or so in Pocket D2 on Virtue with the LFG window up and set to be in the queue for BAF. Then waited, and waited and waited and waited. Is that how it's done? This is why there needs to be a contact npc to explain this stuff.

Guess I'll take a break for a couple hours and try later this evening.

Ah. The Wiki info on Lambda was what was causing some of the confusion. The way it states: Zone - Any (but co-op zones are best) implied that everyone has to be in the same zone. That bit about co-op zones should probably be removed, since it is extraneous info.

I'll try later to get on a Lambda, when I'm not feeling so flustered about all this (as well as trying to figure out all the other incarnate stuff). I am holding off on BAF since there is no Wiki entry on it, and I would rather not go into it knowing absolutely nothing about the trial.

Oh, never mind then.

Okay, going to have my Warshade be the first to give this a try. Hopefully she doesn't get passed over or kicked from a team for not being level shifted or anything like that. (She hasn't done anything incarnate related actually.)

Will this serve as a substitute for doing Ramiel's arc, or do I have to go through that first? Is that what is meant by unlocking the Alpha, or is that something you do after going through Ramiel's missions? Had too much information overload since the beginning of the incarnate content, so much so that I have mostly ignored it all the past couple months except for the couple heroes who did struggle through Ramiel's stuff and were subsequently re-parked.

Alright, just did my first Lambda and BAF on my Warshade and got her 60% of the way to unlocking her alpha (I was under the impression that completing one of these would unlock it. Guess I have to go do Ramiel's arc after all now if I want it unlocked tonight...hopefully I can find a team for this), plus got 32 Incarnate Threads, a Dimensional Pocket, Biomorphic Goo, 7 Astral Merits, and 2 Empyrean Merits. Guess I still have plenty of time to figure out what I'm supposed to do with this stuff.

Anyway, that was fun, even though I was totally lost inside the Lambda facility and had no clue what we were supposed to be doing in there, other than running around looking for somethings and getting creamed by the things inside.

I guess that there is the disadvantage to being unfamiliar with this stuff. Everyone else forgets that some of us have not done this a gazillion times.

Ah well, a few more times and perhaps I will understand this. The BAF trial was definitely more fun, and felt more like a typical Giant Monster Bash party.

You could use some of those 32 Incarnate Shards to buy 'XP' to unlock the Alpha, you should have way more than enough.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

You mean the Incarnate Threads? How and where do I do that?

Although right now, she's starting Ramiel's arc anyway, hopefully some tips will drop for her in the process.

And she just soloed her first AV... Granted, it was just the Echo of Rolodex the Strong, but hey! He had Arch Villain by his name.

In the Incarnate window, on the Convert tab, expand Incarnate Thread, "Incarnate XP", and use one of those in there (I assume they count towards Alpha if you don't have it unlocked... but haven't tested).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.