B_L_Angel

I don't think you have covered everything.

I think if it was a goal to have blasters as easy to play as the other ATs then they needed a buff, but that was just people seeking a foolish consistency. Not everything has to be the same and when you try to make everything the same you alienate people that cherished the differences.

When you talk about depth to the game I agree, but if you increase the power of blasters in the game you take away part of the skill development needed to play them.

Hmmm as few as 6 you say but not on protector hmmm

Time to look at City of Data and find a time to do this.

Thanks hyper

We got the GM on a later run we did on test. But even buffed to the gills with amplifiers/team insps/ and every temp we could grab we couldn't put a dent in him.

We got the GM but only had 10 minutes with shields down.

I don't have much experience with other current MMOs but that doesn't seem right. I gave CO a try and my level 5 marksman can shoot nearly continuously. I also gave WoW a try and my level 4 hunter can just keep up a withering level of fire.

I am trying to work through all the flashbacks before the end and noticed the wait for recharge on my crab. It seemed really annoying that a crab with a 20 billion inf build when exemped to level 9 felt worse, than unenhanced low level toons in the other games.

That brings up something else I won't miss,

WHY AREN'T Alan Desslock's in flashback ? How can you replay soldiers without them ?

::NODS::

I am sure the game will find a home with wonderful people, surely such wonderful people won't mind spelling out how they plan to provide for the games future.

O.O

I remember that our ace crew did it with a really small number of people pre incarnate. But that was a long time ago, back when Hami was still Mr. Big Stuff and we could count on our saturday raids.

Uhmm BETA ??? Uhmm I am not the only poster who has posted objections.

Sad. But expected, I suppose you would like me to say something equally insulting to you ?

Habanero peppers aren't for everyone.

I'd like to reply to the rest of your post but it's pretty much you saying things about how other people play.

You can use numbers to describe how easy or hard a task is, how much effort it takes to complete, how often people manage to complete it, you can't capture the joy people get from success, let alone predict it.

If you want to think about it numerically getting rid of the outlying elements just narrows the appeal of the game.

Being different isn't a bug.

I am sure you have the numbers down pat, but it's the same way Robert McNamara had the numbers down pat. Which is to say in a way that does no one, any good, at all. You can't measure the enjoyment I got playing my blasters. What I can see is that people stuck with them and played them anyway and got real enjoyment from doing difficult things with them.

In a game where I could fall asleep playing some ATs, blasters never had a dull moment. What's the number for the delight of soloing a pylon with a blaster ? What's the value of soloing an ITF on a blaster ? Soloing the old Positron TF without deaths ?

How much is lost when these challenges are removed from the game or just rendered trivial ? What is the number for the lack of fun.

It doesn't matter of course, your argument about performance gap is really meaningless. There wasn't any task in the game that blasters couldn't handle, prior to the I24 changes. There was a poster way back, who soloed every GM with a blaster without temps or insps. Did they need to be able to take on 2 at a time ? There's posters on this board that have done the scrapper challenges with blasters as well, and I can't think of a TF that has been soloed that hasn't been soloed by a blaster.

Same as well

There's 12 ATs. There was room for easy mode brutes/scrappers,controllers,doms, normal mode veats,corruptors, dominators,controllers, stalkers, tanks, defenders, and hard mode Heats and Blasters.