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A near perfect Lambda.. it CAN happen!

flipside

By flipside,
Posted on: 2011-07-15 10:51 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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So last night I pulled out my Main/Badger Operative Tessa and did a couple of trials. She has long ago gotten all of her 5 incarnates to 3 or 4 and I have been busy with the other 10 I currently play. The BAF she joined went well . nothing spectacular just your normal run. Then she joined a Lambda.

Phase one went by so fast it was almost rediculous. The mobs dropped in front of us and the turrents went down without a hitch. As an indication of what might happen later even the Security guard dropped fast and never had a chance to even heal itself.

Phase two was amazing.. at one point both team 1 and 2 had found 9 of the glowies. I was on team 2 and team 1 did finish slightly faster than us and came by to help with the last grenade. OH did I mention that we got the extra Astral for taking out a weapons cache and a containment pod at the same time.. well we did.

On to phase three and OMG people are actually aware they had acids and are closing portal.. leaving just the one open like the league leader asked! After buffing up we launched into the ADDs and Maurader as they assembled at the front gate. Now this is the only thing that went wrong during the entire trial... we wiped out all of the ADDs getting to 21/30 and when I looked up to check that total I noticed Maurader was down to like 6% health after we'd used exactly 1 pacifcation grenade. The poor guy never once got to use his patented catch phrase "On the ground again" because seconds later he was dead (err defeated). So our only ERROR was killing off the AV so fast we missed the added Astral for defeating 30 IDT troops. To be honest we were all so excited at the massive firepower we had just displayed no one seemed to care.

So to recap.. no one died, not even once. Everyone went where they were supposed to go and did what they were supposed to do. Everyone followed instructions and knew how to count to 2 and recongnize the numbers (LOL). And when the final battle occurred we made the So-called BAD-BOY Praetor look like a 2 level Hellion being attacked by a 50 level. If I were that league leader I think I'd have friended every person on that team so I can find them again

�We�re always the good guys. In D&D, we�re lawful good. In City of Heroes we�re the heroes. In Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.� � Leonard
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I think I may have been on that Lambda (Scrapper called Tanhauser). Marauder went down so fast everybody just stood around for a sec going Huh..? Wha...? Wow...!!!

Man if was refreshing too, The two previous Lambda I'd been on failed (1st time failing two of those in a row since 2 weeks right after I20). Not to threadjack, but has anyone else noted Trials not working like Clockwork anymore?

For several months, BaFs and Lambda being completed easily was taken for granted by me. Every once a while a small glitch, but lately, the last week I've been on 3 Lambas that failed outright (tons of doors left open), and many BaFs where the 2 AVs were not killed close enough together and thus rezzed to dish it out again (on 2 BaFs they rezzed twice).

Have people become a bit complacent on the trials and not quite watching things close enough anymore? Maybe it's just a spell and just leagues I've been on...

 

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Originally Posted by Socorro View Post
Have people become a bit complacent on the trials and not quite watching things close enough anymore? Maybe it's just a spell and just leagues I've been on...
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I've been on a series of Lambda where dancing during the Marauder cutscene is the 'in' thing to do, so there's always a bunch of people doing it.
I'd say, more then half the time, someone will aggro him and either drag him out (intentionally or not) or bring him to the league.

It's been putting me off from doing some recently, but with the OP's post, I might have regained enough faith to run a few...

 

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Originally Posted by Narkor View Post
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I've been on a series of Lambda where dancing during the Marauder cutscene is the 'in' thing to do, so there's always a bunch of people doing it.
I'd say, more then half the time, someone will aggro him and either drag him out (intentionally or not) or bring him to the league.

It's been putting me off from doing some recently, but with the OP's post, I might have regained enough faith to run a few...
Okay not to discourage you but LOL the one thing I didn't mention was the one individual from the other team that WAS in the cut scene with Maurader. HOWEVER... things are changing as more and more leaders are tired of exactly what you are referring to happening. I have been on Lambdas where the league leader made in very clear when giving out the assignments. "If one team finishes before the other.. head to the other side to help. I see anyone Bombing the cut Scene I will kick you!" Amazingly the threat of getting to the fianl phase and then being kicked which means doing it all over again on another team if you want your daily Empyrean has cut down on the discoing behind the AV a lot.

Also it was only 1 team member and like I said at one point both teams had 9 glowies located and acids/nades collected so out little disco queen was not out ther very long and she was in stealth mode so until WE attacked her moment of "GLORY" didn't hurt us. I'd still prefer that no one do that but in this case things went so well.. who cared!

�We�re always the good guys. In D&D, we�re lawful good. In City of Heroes we�re the heroes. In Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.� � Leonard
�Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research!� � Sheldon

 

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I wish, I absolutely wish I could find Lambda teams half as competent as this one. I've been on not one, but two failed MoLambda runs now that involved some stooge popping an acid on a door after several long discussions about what badge we were going for and to not use any of the powers received.

Congrats to the OP and bring me along next time!

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