Make Twinshot a starting contact choice?

I've only done the first two Twinshot arcs, so I don't know what topics the later arcs are supposed to cover, but judging from the 1st two I'm thinking it's kind of ridiculous that her missions come as late in the game as they do, especially given the training content they include. I only get Twinshot at level 5, after I've trained up 4 times, and she sends me to the trainer? I've been fighting the Vazhilok and Outcasts already at levels 9 and 10, so she gives me an introductory course on these villain groups?

Here's an idea: Make Twinshot one of two possible starting contacts in Atlas Park. Matthew Habashy would be the other one. Let her training arcs be one of the possible paths you can follow as an optional parallel to the Habashy line. Give the user a choice at the end of the tutorial saying, "If you are really, really new to Paragon City, you might want to choose Twinshot to be your heroic mentor. But if you think you're ready to hit the ground running, choose Matthew Habashy."

Again, I haven't played the later two arcs, so it might be that the mission content of those would need to be reworked somewhat so that they can take place in the new Atlas Park. But I think providing these training arcs up front in the game would a lot more valuable to new players (and a lot more fun for old players who prefer to change up their Atlas Park experience now and again).

I'll agree, I'll also say to extend the level range of Matthew so that you can easily chain from Twinshot to Matthew or the other way around. That way You could do both on a character if you wanted, 1 after the other.

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I don't think that the arcs can be taken as is and moved down. I agree that talking to the trainer is level 1 mission, but the followup traveling to Kings Row can't be undertaken safely by a low level character. In fact that kind of requires the travel power selection at level 4, and characters who haven't taken that will be at a disadvantage, wasting quite a bit of time for this mission, and possibly dying as they try to navigate Kings Row.

Good idea. It struck me as very odd that Twinshot's arc included information on how to use the trainer when you've already used the trainer at least 4 times before you started the arc.

She really should be one of the beginning contacts.

Sure, why not. I see no downsides to this, and it might make the single contact chain of the low-level game a bit easier to bear.

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I'm in favor of this, but from the other end. None of the gameplay concepts introduced during the level 15 to 15 arc (no, there isn't enough activity there to level your character once, barring assistance) involve activities for lv 15 or higher characters. Everything there should have been wrapped up and taught by level 10, when Montague is calling you over to the university. Thus, slifing everything DOWN in level a full category would be in everyone's best interests.

Of course, we'd need a little productive content for the 15-20 range at the same time, just like our red-side competition enjoys. (Hey, the Marshal Brass arcs offer both Entrusted With The Secret AND potentially Man/Woman In Black, both important for character development)

Totally agreed and /signed

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I actually managed to miss Twinshots entire starting arc 2 or 3 times because of the new sewer stuff.

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More choice? Yes.
Twinshot? No thank you.

Twinshot is the bluside training contact. How much more training do you need before you start skipping over parts or clicking through the dialogue because you've heard it so many times.

The old five-origin contacts were awful which is why they were gotten rid of. Simple design but far too tedious, sending you all across Atlas and Galaxy for no reason other than the old philosophy of artifically lengthening the journey from 1-5. Which is why most of us wanted to skip 1-20 or we did sewer runs before it was somehow deemed necessary to turn it into a LFGtrial. The same will happen with Twinshot. Skip past and maybe go back and run it with friends (or via Ouro for the badges).

With the teleport to contact; people don't even need to make the run from Atlas to the Hollows anymore, missing out the east side and the south barely gets touched in all the new arcs. Another contact chain around the south areas wouldn't go amiss.


Redside; reactivating the old Kalinda->Mongoose and Burke->Creed chain. There was nothing inherently bad about the actual arcs themselves except the continuous repetition of Snakes. A little remoulding, perhaps expanding on Burke's Roguishness for more than two missions (nothing ever seem to come from planting those bugs at Fort Darwin). Maybe even the chance to betray Burke and sell him out to Arachnos to curry their favour OR help him stick one up them, earning their respect?

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