Using Ion on Civilians in TPN (Yes, this happened)

Personally I'm fine with some basic instructions but don't bother trying to tell me anything once the fighting starts. Not that I don't pay attention its that I can't if I'm focused on my character and not dieing.

Some of us are playing with disabilities of sorts. I have tunnel vision and can only see the center of the screen. So I don't see the chat window, or my Health or any warnings that may pop up near the top of the screen. Only warnings I may catch will be ones that pop up immediately overtop of my toon's head like Sequester notices and the rings. Pretty much anything outside of a spawn that I'm currently engaged in melee with I won't see.

This.

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Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei Which brings up another point that IMHO is being overlooked is the fact that MOM and TPN require you "not" to use certain powers, Depending on the build and AT this can go a LONG way in making these trials UNFUN. The entire don't use this or that power because of the gimmicky way the devs set up the trial is basically an auto-failure in terms of something being easily accessible and attractive to the wider player base. I didn't go through 50 levels of content to get to powers that now I can't use in certain I trials because of the design. That is failsauce to the extreme.

I like ion judgement. It's fun. Especially on an elec/kin corruptor. It's nice to actually feel I'm dealing damage for a change. I understand that isnt exactly a solo friendly breed of corruptor, and that a fair amount of the powers are more beneficial to team/league play, but every now and then I want to stick the boot in, and what better way than with electrical chaos?
If I'm ever on the outside team of TPN on that toon, I have to just stick with Mael and use the heal, +end, +att and +team att powers, occasionally throwing in an SB or ID or something.
I admit that's my choice of toon, but being told the big pets I spent a long time unlocking have to be directly controlled very specifically, or not being able to use my t4 judgement just seems a little... annoying?
Just my two cents.

This is a sort-of quick reply; I've read the first page of posts.

I understand your frustration, I really, really do. It never boggles my mind how no matter how many times you tell someone not to do something, it's like they just can't resist being stupid.

However...

First of all, in my opinion, it's not cool calling people out on the forums like this. Yes, I know you didn't name names, but still, anyone who ran this trial with you probably knows who you're talking about, and what purpose does that serve? They already knew who it was because they were with you. However, if the guy who did whatever perceived grievance to you sees the post and had an actual legitimate reason for doing it (cat on keyboard, afk and his four-year-old started punching pretty buttons, he mis-aimed his mouse and accidentally hit the Ion Judgment key, he forgot that he re-bound I to be Ion Judgment instead of Info Window, etc.) and he reads this thread, he's going to feel like dirt, possibly even to the point of quitting the game. If, on the other hand, the guy is a griefer and did it purely to cause you anguish, well guess what? Job well done! Let's find another team to screw over and see if we can get them to post melodramatic rants on the forums! Congratulations, you're giving him the jollies he was seeking. In any event, you're not helping anything.

Second of all, I really get tired of people posting these rants as if someone single-handedly destroyed your life. This person wasted, what, fifteen or twenty minutes of your time? And really, not even that, since you were getting rewards up until the trial failed, so it's not like you came away completely empty-handed. How many trials have you failed in all, versus how many have been successful? If you're like me, one trial out of maybe 30 or so fails, and that's being generous. Sure, the number is a bit higher after a new trial is released and people are getting used to it, but all in all, I'm really tired of people complaining that something in the game is failable. You spend 99.99% of your time cutting through missions like a hot knife through butter because the game is so simple that there's a good chance that even the aforementioned four-year-old can be successful at it, but that 0.01% makes it all just a big, fat waste of time. Yeah, I don't buy it, and I don't have much sympathy.

Third of all, to those of you who are interpreting this anecdote as some sort of indication of a systemic design flaw of the trial or even the game, :epic eye roll:. If I set my mind to it, I could single-handedly make just about any experience in the game miserable for you. Sure, it would be griefing, and yeah, I might get a slap on the wrist or even banned, but if your standard of "playable" is defined by how little a dedicated griefer can screw you over, you might as well stop playing multiplayer games altogether. A better idea is to accept that griefers are out there, don't let them get to you, take sensible measures against them (that is, kicking them, one-starring them, petitioning them if necessary, etc.) and get on with your life.

Like I said, I understand your frustration. It's not like there haven't been moments when I yelled and gestured madly at my monitors because some putz has either intentionally or even unintentionally screwed me over and wasted a bit of time. But then I remember how much other people also make this game supremely enjoyable, that the threat of failure adds to the thrill of victory, and I realize that I wouldn't want it any other way. So to the OP: chill out, man. To everyone else: please stop feeding the negativity and trying to get the devs to make the game one giant "I win!" button. It's already too easy as it is.