So what is left to fix?

the OP probably did not mean new features, but screw them

I want katana on tankers

You're referring to yourself in the 3rd person now?

...oh, this should be interesting.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.

Frozen Aura from Ice Manipulation.

Possibly the wost T9 secondary blaster power--maybe even the worst in the game.

It's a Mag 2 sleep that does no damage. There's really almost no reason to take this power except as maybe a mule for an IO set.

Almost any change to it would make it better! Replace it with ice control's Frost Bite so there's some synergy with Chillblain. Increase the sleep to Mag 3 or Mag 4 so that it's more reliable. Have it do moderate damage like its Tanker companion power so to add another AoE attack.

It's terrible. It definitely needs to be fixed.

Thanks for the note, Arbiter Hawk, but I fear that most people's impressions of Praetorian difficulty are already set, and have probably discouraged them from making and running any more characters through the gauntlet to see the improvements you describe.

On the thread topic, I'd like to see AE given some attention, but I doubt it will happen - everyone seems to have moved on, even the farmers(!). It's also a big job.

Fixing ragdolling is probably quicker and simpler.

Costume Powers and non-Hide Stealth Toggles no longer locking each other out.

Fixing up Dark Armor for Stalkers would be cool too, but I don't really have a stake in that.

Really quick wish list

Energy Melee: Make either Total Focus or Energy Transfer into Sweeping Cross from Street Justice when it comes to implementation. Play with the numbers to make it fit the set.

Poison: Make the splashes do the full effect but make it unstackable and adjust as needed. Adjust Noxious Gas and make it a toggle for Masterminds - or give it Venomous Gas.

Sonic Resonance - adjust Liquefy's recharge to be up every other spawn on standard slotting. Have Sonic Cage become a toggle.

Trick Arrow - Trickshooter's Thread here.

Force Field - have Force Bolt work like Jolting Chain. Have Detention Field become a toggle. Force Bubble - not sure, seems like something could be done with this to make it more desirable - seems like it is just an aggro magnet for the most part.

Storm Control - raise Gale's accuracy a bit.

Thermal Radiation - lower Melt Armor's recharge a little.

Dark Blast - Make Umbral Torrent do knockdown. Raise Dark Pit's accuracy to 1.00.

Assault Rifle - Widen Full Auto and make it less deep.

Beam Rifle - set plays kinda slow for being single-target focused. Not sure on this one.

Electrical Blast - Raise Short Circuit's damage.

Radiation Blast - Electron Haze animates too slow and the random kb seems out of place - could be eliminated or turned into a higher chance for kb, or altered to kd.

Traps/Devices - Time Bomb... ugh - it's not designed to be used in a way that this game plays at all. It's all been said before. I think Hawk was looking at this one recently.

Ice Control - the set is a mess. Eliminate the knockback debuff from Frostbite and Chillblain. Arctic Air is considered skippable without the Contagious proc by some. Up the chance for kd on Ice Slick a small amount.

Darkness Control - could be just me, but it seems I eat alpha strikes with this set more than any other control set, perhaps due to a delay for the effect from Fearsome Stare kicking in or something - it was briefly discussed on the forums awhile back.

Mercenaries - Serum is a freaking joke - the recharge is insane and is only for one pet. The entire set seems to do the least damage of all other primaries, but it would be tough to balance right. A straight damage buff might work just fine in this case. See the MM forums for this set.

Necromancy - Zombie Horde pets die way too easily, other than that, it isn't too bad.

Ninjas - Would a heal be out of the question?

Beast Mastery - maybe speed up recharges or give them an additional attack or soft control (stun/fear)

Regeneration - sigh, good old Regen. I think turning IH into a toggle again wouldn't be a bad idea. Brutes and (eventually) Tankers have a hard time taking aggro with this set compared to others for teams. You get hit for (nearly) full damage and take all debuffs constantly and it's difficult to keep up for the average Joe.

Dark Armor - still not convinced Dark Regen needs to take such a massive amount of endurance, but the forum exploded in rage at the idea of touching this set at all. Cloak of Fear's accuracy is a pain and makes no sense to me.

Battle Axe - up Whirling Axe's damage just a little bit.

Ice Melee - buff Freezing Touch's damage a little and make it a burst or lower recharge. Make Frost do more burst up front perhaps - could play around with this set - awhile back I thought it was shown to be the lowest damage melee set in the game when it comes to real-world play.

Psychic Blast - Blaster version in particular, maybe raise Psionic Tornado's damage or play with the soft control to make up for it. Will Domination could use 100% chance of sleep (how do you explain Cosmic Burst otherwise for Rad?) Other than Psionic Tornado, this set isn't as bad as some make it out to be.

I think Physical Perfection should be available to ALL ARCHETYPES.

Make Energy Orbs powerset.

I might think up some more later but I didn't sleep much last night.

My wants list is:
more targeted aoe IO set's one more uncommon and another rare would be nice(PLEASE)

Overveiw the older hero contacts and pull all defeat X group mission heroside that are NOT part of arcs, alongside reordering the legacy hero contact missions so that they have a 1st mission 2nd mission and so on. Alot of the time when doing some of the oldest content in game, regardless of if everyone has the same contact and your doing the same arc, the contact will give the mission in a scrabled order to everyone (ie this person will get go here, another will get the kill such here, while another will get door mission here even off the first intro to the arc.)

The next is a totaly wish, but can we get a relook at all melee IO sets 1st set bonus. There is NO reason that the first bonus in almost every melee set is a immobilize resistance. No one can stack enough to make it worthwhile, and no one NEEDS it. Even on the powersets of dark and firey aura can pick up on the cheap combat jumping.

Say give kinetic combat a 1 point of of imobilization protection, touch of death 1% extra dmg, focused smite 1 point of kb protection, makos bite 1% leathal resistance, smashing haymaker 1% smashing resistance. The only one I say leave alone would be crushing impact, that set's overall powerlevel is good enough that a little rain must fall or it gets to be TOO GOOD.
The above would be things that would be relevant to most players and overall would increase the enjoyment or might even temp folks to try Io's that normally wouldnt, and I think wouldnt change up what and how most folks us IO's anyway

Oh. I remembered something.

An Accuracy/Endurance Reduction/Recharge Reduction IO set. If an ability doesn't do damage and has no modifiable buff/debuff, you presently can't put any sets into it.

I remember Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now had a VERY cool "replay" feature complete with a controllable camera that could be panned around or locked to specific targets, and this was able to dump the footage straight to video. I had so many videos of the amazingly stupid things I've done by accident I probably filled up half a hard drive (admittedly a small one of the time). The really cool thing about that was it was recording ALL THE TIME, so at any moment whatsoever, I could pause the game, rewind and try to figure out just how the hell I split my car in half by landing on top of an exposed drain pipe.

I've often felt that video recording in this game could be a great benefit, even if I forget how I felt at times. The ability to replay a mission I did, but look at it from an observer's perspective without actually thinking about the controls and just watch would be VERY cool. I'd do that if I could, but considering I have to do it ahead of time AND I need a special launcher AND those things come out bugged anyway... Nah, too much of a PITA.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

this game will never be as cool as Carmaggedon or Carmaggedon 2.
no game ever will

I'm surprised bases aren't coming up in this thread. There will always be niggly little details to fix. But in terms of major systems, or going by lines of code, I would guess that bases are the biggest thing in the game right now which needs to be fixed. From what the devs have said, the whole thing is such a mess of spaghetti code that they don't dare do anything with bases. Even if you're happy with the way bases are now, I can't imagine being satisfied, as a developer, with having such a big chunk of code be untouchable like that. Lots of things could stand to be improved, but bases need to be rebuilt from scratch before anything else can be done with them.