Ideas for Enemy Group additions

Lost:

Scrounger Scavengers- Attack with broken pipes much like the old Contaminated Scavengers did in the 'Outbreak' tutorial or the Infected Scavengers.
Versions of Scrounger minions that throw rocks instead of using pistols.

Freakshow:

Pyro-Tanks
Female Freaks
Tank Berserkers (I noticed while choosing a model for a Freakshow boss in a MA mission that there is a "Tank Swiper" model that has a claw on one hand and a hammer on the other.

Maybe you can make a Tank Freak that uses both a claw attack and a hammer attack?

Malta:
Snipers
Some kind of armored suit unit.

Nemesis:
A human Boss class entity or two, like Brigadiers, etc. Or change the Colonel rank to Boss class.

Trolls
Some kind of Titan Weapon-wielding members. (Wielding the Concrete Hammer, of course)
Female Trolls

Family
Button Man Sluggers and Slicers

Council/5th Column
Battlesuits

Rogue Arachnos
Rogue Bane Spiders

Coralax
Virtea Slaves

Vahzilok
Some sort of freakish cadavers - ones with 8 legs or 4 legs (or 8 arms that they walk on).

Devouring Earth
Something that uses Plant Control powers

Hellions
Fire Imp-using boss.
Blood Brother Firebomber - Minion Hellion that basically uses the Molotovs

Rikti Guard - Personal guards of the Lord of War, sometimes they are sent out personally to fight his foes. They could use TW or Staff, or some other powerset that makes sense.

Circle of Thorns
Circle of Thorns Summoner - One of the Portals on legs, basically.

Also, for Hellions, Skulls, Outcasts and Family, minion Thugs that just use pistols and no melee attacks, like the Contaminated Thugs from the old 'Outbreak' tutorial.

I certainly hope that they keep doing updates and additions to old enemy groups. Some just look out of place, especially in newer zones and mission maps, as if someone were to use old Goldeneye models in a Counterstrike game.

New models for civilians would be nice. One of the character artists said that they have significantly lower polygon counts and worse textures than players so that they don't use up as many system resources. But they were designed for computers 8+ years ago. Surely they can be improved somewhat?

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Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer Trolls Some kind of Titan Weapon-wielding members. (Wielding the Concrete Hammer, of course) Female Trolls

There already ARE female trolls. According to the game lore, Superadyne causes a buildup of male hormones, which results in Trolls being androgynous, with a masculine appearance. I think the official page said that about 30% of Trolls are female.
Trollkin have just barely started to show the effects of Superadyne use. Female models here would definitely be appropriate.

I suspect that this was mostly written to handwave away the limited number of models. Back when the game was new, there were far fewer enemy types in each faction.

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Family Button Man Sluggers and Slicers

The Family is getting an update in Issue 24, both to their appearance and powers.

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Rogue Arachnos Rogue Bane Spiders

Don't these already exist?

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Circle of Thorns Circle of Thorns Summoner - One of the Portals on legs, basically.

Ew. That's just MEAN.

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Also, for Hellions, Skulls, Outcasts and Family, minion Thugs that just use pistols and no melee attacks, like the Contaminated Thugs from the old 'Outbreak' tutorial.

That might be TOO weak for anything above level 3-5 or so. If it were given a few Dual Pistols attacks (like the three available to Thug Masterminds), it might work.

I like to fight a lot of different enemy types. It is the one reason I still use AE on a pretty regular basis. I LOVE making new enemy groups to fight, so I am ALL for new additions as set forth in the OP post.

I just hope the devs find it in their hearts to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE update AE with the newer powersets faster. That is my quota of begging for the day tyvm.