The Descent of Lambda, Told through chat.

Well, I should be on a Lamba right now, but I'm not, because the prompt appeared for a second then vanished before I had a chance to click.

I did have time to complain about it in League before they all went in and I got booted, so at least I won't be counted among the "can't click a stupid button" brigade, but I'm still annoyed.

That's bad. And extremely dangerous. There's a very tiny chance you could accidentally attempt to pull that trick on me. I wouldn't advise it. I'd definitely out a player for trying to pull that fast one. Slip me a temp power because you were too afraid to admit you didn't see it, and I'll just use it and call it a day. Try to frame me for it would be a bad idea, especially because I doubt anyone thinks there's enough alcohol in the world that could make me forget where my temp powers are listed. I actually keep my power window open all the time when running trials now, just to be triply sure I used them all, I don't have any more, and I didn't get any when I wasn't looking.

In fact, this is what my blaster's set up looks like now, basically all the time. Note the power window in the upper right: its always there (although in trials I specifically scroll it to the end of the temp listing, its not in the screencap).



I'm not even on a trial at that moment, and yet its still there.

Its actually kinda absurd I have nine power trays open *and* the actual power menu, but I have a fairly big screen so I can scale the gui to 75% (which is what that is above). I don't use all the powers all the time, but I hate hunting for them in the menu so if I use it at all, I put it on a tray. I could reduce some of the clutter with keybinds, but I'm not really a keybind person. Target_enemy_next is the sort of thing I will keybind. Teleport is something I'll mouse-bind. But I don't want to have to think about which key is nova, and if that's the same key for EMP on my controller.

Even the list of powers I use regularly, constantly, is getting long. Sprint, Power Bolt, Power Blast, Energy Torrent, Explosive Blast, Bonesmasher, Total Focus, Hover, Fly, Combat Jump, Weave, Temp Invuln, Tough, Power Thrust, Boost Range, Power Boost, Build Up, Aim, Conserve Power, Sands of Mu, Judgment, Destiny, Lore. That's 23 powers. Toss in Pocket D teleporter, Ouroboros portal, Mystic Fortune, Mutation, Nova, Reveal, PFF, Force of Nature, and Archmage and you're up to 32 powers I use nearly every single time I log in at least once or would tend to want to use at a moment's notice. And that doesn't count Hasten which I have on autofire and superspeed which is one of the few powers I have keybound.

And I have to admit: I use Return to Battle also.

If someone falls off the wall and into the courtyard, there's a possibility they'll aggro and die. Not to mention the traditional route places you on the raised platform closest to the turrets, making for an easy starting point.

Also I really wish they'd do something about the elevators. Every single post-launch day failed Lambda I've been on has been due to somebody going through the elevators and starting the timer early, causing everyone to scramble in confusion.

I'd really like it if the leader and only the leader had to click a glowie or something in order to activate the elevators. Barring that, a message indicating who activated the timer, so they can be swiftly kicked.

It bit a friend of mine on a League that I was leading tonight, too. This is a nasty bug that needs to die as quickly as possible. I'm beginning to wonder just how common it is.

Yeah, must be nice. My screen is a horrid mess on trials, with the league window and that stupid ENORMOUS objective window, and I just discovered today that the powers window's scrollbar sets back to somewhere around the middle position when you close and reopen the window. My main has a LOT of temp powers that I have to scroll past. Lag does not help here.

On a related note, if you're the one handling the grenades, HOLD FRICKIN' STILL so people can give them to you. Don't go rushing Marauder while demanding people hand over their grenades which they're still trying to find while lagging to crap and getting stabbed in the back by a Vicky.

This is a brilliant idea. The League chat window could have a tiny tray attached across the top edge for that purpose.

I made a roughly similar suggestion, late in the beta. My suggestion was to do something similar to what they do while Warburg nuke hunting, while Shivan shard hunting: put the two grenade buttons, with counters, on the compass window.

Why not, it's not like it's being used for anything else during the trial.

Don't knock it till you try it.