Mysterious mysteries of the mysterious: The Access Computer

I tried looking information up on Paragon Wiki, nothing conclusive appeared. Just recently I was on my favourite brute on Virtue and jumping around Atlas Park like the happy oversized superdine troll I was and I spotted a bunch of Hellions by a sewer entrance. I remember that before there was a DFB, there was the original sewer network and lo and below, the entrance still exists!

I went in and looked to my right, there's a inspiration vendor there too, and also the door to the Abandoned sewer network.

"I'll try to be hardcore and fight through the abandoned sewers", I thought, not having ever been inside for more than a second in the past. I was disappointed I out-leveled most of it, but it only made my journey in easier. Got a few explore badges with some interesting bits of lore written in them (all on paragon wiki I'm sure)

But right near the Hades Aspirant badge there was a unique room geometry located down a short slope. And an old computer system with a NPC bound box calling it the "Access Computer". I tried clicking it, nothing happened, I looked around, seemed like I was in the centre of the map.

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Having not found any information on Paragon Wiki I thought I'd ask.

What is the Access Computer? Is it used for a special taskforce or mission? Or is it like those strange contact NPCs that say something but otherwise don't give missions out. Do you think something interesting could be made to use it someday?

I think it would've been cool if it was literally a computer that controlled the server, enabling you to trigger all kinds of events, change variables summon entities. A computer that controlled Paragon City or the whole game. It's certainly out of the way enough, having to be around Lv36 to even-con enemies on the outer ring. But naturally that would be overpowered to the max, funny to think about though.

So yeah, did anybody even know about this?

It's for the old style sewer Trial:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Abandoned_Sewer_Trial

Ah I see! The computer lets you enter that door I saw to the left that leads to the Hydra, okay cool.

I'll have to try to organise that trial sometime, confuse the DFBers :P

Maybe one day that trial will be available in the LFG queue...

Since they "improved" the trial no one does it now.

It used to be the way to get from 35-40. With that being a nice way to run it 4 times and you are 40 pretty much.

The old way if you spammed enough Holds - you could hold the Hydra and defeat him. Now with faster recharge time on the healing towers, no XP on the Krackens and no way to hold the instant death Hydra head - no one bothers and in fact it shows as you had no idea that a computer was even down there.

Believe it or not we tried it the other night and I still have the way down memorized and haven't tried it in 2+ years! This was another case of Nerf Rage. The Devs said my god they are having fun! Stop that immediately! So now the "content" sits unused.

All the wonderful content isn't really content if players no longer use it.

I used to enjoy the old Sewer Trial

I also used to enjoy running round after carry a PANCAKE big gun

Haven't touched it since the Kraken xp nerf. I never used them to power level but at the same time I wasn't interested in doing a mission where I got nothing from the toughest enemies.

I used to run the current version of the Abandoned Sewer trial from time to time pre-incarnates. The rewards:time ratio sucks but it's a fun fight in a unique map so I used to run it for that. It actually plays a lot like a single-team Incarnate trial and I always kind of hoped they'd make a level 50/Incarnate version of it but oh well.

The silly thing is the nerf was completely wasted. You Nerf content and then it is never played and so it is no longer content.

The old sewer trial was FUN.

The new and improved Abandoned Sewer trial is so much fun - no one plays it. Sound like some of the new content? The old Reactor trial that was fun and a challenge that now spawns even level or even -2 foes and is a boring wait for the time to run out?

I recall my most fun experience of all time in that trial. We got to the reactor and it was already spawning Freaks. We were barely defeating the waves before the next spawned. It got down to everyone on the team was wiped except for 2 fire tanks. The other tank was dying faster than I was he didn't have Weave and the rest of the team was passing purples, oranges and greens to us and we slowly died.

Everyone was dead but me as the last waves hit. I held my ground healing the reactor with my last gasp and the last Freak tank died as I did at the same time. We won the trial and everyone was screaming and shouting we had done it!

Now you are bored to tears for 20 minutes.

Forum regular, Zamuel, is actually well-known for running this sewer trial on his home server of Victory. He still runs it regularly on many diff servers, you may want to hit him up sometime and learn all the tricks!

I met Zamuel character to character one time! Sure, would be nice!