Chyll

hypothetical fire escape? it was a perfectly reasonable suggestion, no more or less valid than your power leaper concept.

I am starting to think this show really isn't for you... There has to be some sort of reality program on another channel you could spend your time finding reality breaking plot implausibilities.

That is more logical planning and thought than I am prepared to provide zombies - no matter how much additional thinking they have shown so far beyond the genre stereotype.

I already accepted the alternate hypothesis as viable.

I do not accept cutting the hand off as 'fantastic', however. There are sufficient real life examples to convince me it is more than believable under the circumstances.

As I understand it, most fire escapes do not reach all the way to the ground - for security. You lower them the last distance from the escape itself. So the zombies couldn't have used it.

The jumping option may have merit as an option, though. I did not notice how close any other structures were.

That bugged me at first too, and then I figured there was probably access to a fire escape.

sadly, I don't think his attitudes have that much to do with being 'removed' from society. It may have factored into his responses related to his now extended interaction with mutiple women, or probably more importantly in his view, his wife's extended interaction with other people/women threatening his central position in her life.

Had some recently installed anger/frustration to work off. Went a bit far, though.

Good question. We have seen some signs of zombies remember some basic things - like how a doorknob works. Perhaps, by individual, some nerve pathways are more intact than others? Just a little something beyond the basic 'food' imperative in certain zombies. Just a guess.

To be fair, it makes sense that he probably panicked and sawed through the path of least resistance. He did not necessarily know that the door had been chained shut, and figured that at any minute the zombies would clear whatever was jamming the door.

And he had zero expectation that there would be a rescue group, so no motivation to wait. As I mentioned before I bet there is a fire escape, or access to a fire escape someplace. Avoiding the walkers on the ground leaking blood-smell is going to be hard though.

Task Forces are the key, though. You get a component at the end, and an increased drop rate teamed while you go through the missions.

Ridiculous? hardly. one weekend of average play (a few hours saturday and sunday) got me enough.

You forgot to tell them they'll giggle like school girls.

Add to that the former Soviet Union. In both cases the black market for basic foodstuffs, includes staples, was as (or more) active than the approved distribution network.

edit: and I see all_hell actually put a specific historical note in related to the USSR. nice.

Cuba

There is still a cap on recharge benefit - Arcanatime still rules.

If the core build gets where you need for recharge than there may be better mileage on: damage, accuracy, defense, end, resistance, etc.

Gonna be fun to experiment, I know that.

Really, that is the crux of it - tight target knots. How you arrange those most effectively?

A good steam-roll essentially does the same thing in that regard as a deliberate herd. It is a big part of why I, as the tank, try to leave for the next spawn earlier than the team - to buy some cluster time before they start laying the beat down. It is most fun when it shocks someone on a PuG enough to make a comment comparing it to 'herding'.

Now this is undoubtedly true.

Unless you are already at max.

Though, I'll take +2 completed faster over +3 completed slower. Faster XP (for those concerned with such things).

No doubt. I am surprised anyone still believes this.

Nice solution to try and and quantify it. I applaud the effort, and wish I wasnt' busy with other things that'll keep me from being about to manage a session for it.

(Note: there used to be more than one discussion thread on the herd/steam-roll topic around here that had data and timings...)

Agreed, Bill. My preferred style is jumping in to gather attention, let the team unload, make sure the spawn is down or going down comfortably and then move on to the next. I have the alpha and things controlled in time for the team to join and hit the next, and so on. Get the pacing and time right, and missions evaporate.

Repeating Accelerating your siblings and friends doesn't guarantee mutating them into super heroes either. Does get you a lot of glares when you try to visit them in the hospital, though.

True, now that you slow me down to think more, at least on the def side other than what APP or Patron pick you choose. Regardless, the example was one incarnate tree for one AT/situation which seemed somewhat limiting.

edit: oh and I kinda failed to mention [Combat Jumping], [Hover], [Maneuvers], [Weave]

My ice/ice IO'd for range defense would beg to differ, but yeah in general the hold doesn't seem logical for blasters for that choice. lots of other though.

That makes sense, and there would easily have been time for that. There was information about the refugee center in Atlanta, afterall... and that would have been in context of the larger crisis.

Thanks, I had skimmed over that in the revealed data.

Yeah, endurance, damage, are things I'm really going to look at. For defence softcapped builds, I am not sure what I'll gain beyond debuff insurance... though I could rework core builds to boost other things (regen, rech, etc) and count on def buffs from Incarnate slotting... Ugh, its gonna take me forever to figure all my various plans.

The way I've been told it worked in GR Beta was, that it would add a bonus of 20% (in this case defense) to any, and all, powers you had that was slottable for defense. And depending on the level (common, uncommon, etc.) it ignored a portion of ED diminishing returns in those powers, so it would push beyond current limits. I cannot say if that has changed at this point.

Conclusion leaping is fun.

I don't think I'd doubt our devs that much.

It says right on the preview sight that the basic Incarnate Shards can be crafted into "any". And the Gr'ai Matter listed as unknown has been mentioned many times as being craftable out of Vanguard merits.

Still plenty of room for further definition, but hardly "only come from task forces".