Eva Destruction

-1 for obviously fake boobs. Seriously, she's that stacked and wearing a push-up bra that Anti-Matter obviously put a lot of effort and engineering expertise into and her ribs are showing above her cleavage. Gotta be fake boobs.

Fixed that for you. On the Lambda runs I did the squishies were dropping like flies. The only run where we got a siginificant number of temps was very melee-heavy.

You can keep failing, or you can keep succeeding. The problem is, you have to do them multiple times just to unlock the slots. A much better design would be to have a success award a huge chunk of iXP, IMO.

No, not really. To my understanding, giving everything +acc would raise the to-hit "floor," and make defense buffs less useful. Whereas giving everything +to-hit just encourages those softcapped people to invite a bubbler or eat some purples.

Not stupid DE quartz-level to-hit of course, that's just stupid.

Because everybody is softcapping everything, probably.

Your point? Yeah, I didn't take Crippling Axe Kick until it got the alternate animation either. Some things are just too fugly to use, and too time-consuming to get just for the level shift and never use.

You're right, it isn't. For one thing, the Rikti had much more of a reason to think of our dimension as a cohesive unit, since that's what they are.

Ultimatum has a very low impact unless it turns out they fired first. Then they have a huge impact.

Right, because this is a comic book universe where the only sane, rational response to any sign of aggression from a dimension that has been nothing but friendly to you up until then is a Daffy Duck-esque "of course you realize, this means war." Other dimensions. They are all just amorphous entities where everyone is the same. Which is exactly how the Portal Corp missions present most of them, so who can blame the Rikti or Praetorians for thinking our dimension is just like the one where the secret exclusive hand-picked girls-only assassin cult makes up the entire population?

Ultimatum would fall under the heading of "shoehorning." This is where you make up something completely new and stick it into lore because it's new and you have a signature NPC to promote, even though there are existing factions that would serve just as well.

Malta would make more sense, if not for Unai's missions that have them just beginning to steal Portal tech at the same time the Praetorians are kidnapping Statesman.

Groups that would make total sense are Crey, Arachnos, and much as I hate to say it lest someone up there get any ideas, Nemesis.

The Nemesis/superdyne connection is at least a logical conclusion to draw, if it's not explicitly in the game in some random one-off mission in a level bracket that has enough arcs that nobody ever does random one-off missions anymore.

When the story builds off what came before, that's evolution. When it changes what came before, that's a retcon. See the difference?

Who knows? Does it matter? Superdyne and Dark Watcher aren't the only means to access other dimensions. The CoT have tried it, so it logically follows that there must be magical means. Dark Watcher had the help of the Midnighters to trap Rularuu in the Shadow Shard, and if magic can seal a dimensional barrier, it should also be able to open one. Furthermore, the Praetorians have accessed other dimensions than our own, since Battle Maiden and Infernal are not native to there. And where are all the magic users in Praetoria anyway?

And the developers' time is of paramount importance to them, and how they spend it is of importance to more people than just you. I'm sure they'd rather not spend it on something that's mostly a non-issue.

Or forcible recruits. They do that too.

Isn't the Center's superpower essentially getting people to do what he says?

Yeah, but the Mega Mechs on the ruined Atlas Park map have Council logos on them, don't they? So, what Dr_Mechano said.

And then Requiem becomes his own grandfather, thereby protecting himself from the brainspawn.

No seriously, how did the Path of the Dark get started? Is there anything in the Kheldian arcs that mentions that? Are the Cyst crystals a relatively recent development or have the Nictus been using them for centuries?

he could always recruit Burkholder back to his side.

"So, what's the Center paying you these days anyway?"

"Oh, he's giving me everything I need to build a giant robot."

"Giant robot hmm? Well I'll double it!"

"Deal!"

And then years later the Center recruits Burkholder back with a similar deal, and that's why there are four destroyed Mega Mechs on the ruined Atlas Park map.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the whole thing is Maelstrom's fault. Hmmm, let's see....

1: NPC who shows up everywhere even though nobody cares about him? Check.

2: Organization that has been around for ages but we've never heard as much as a whisper of before? Check.

3: Plotline that makes sense as is (Praetoria fired first) and doesn't need to be retconned? Check.

4: A retcon that would be a hamhanded cludge at best and doesn't in any way build on pre-established game lore? Check.

Yep, Maelstrom started it.

You should go see them. Monster Island too. You'll get some merits out of it at least, and I look forward to your rants on the subject.

The ones in the Shadow Shard bug me extra hard because they would have been a perfect opportunity to introduce some more background lore on the Shard. Instead, they use them to try to convince you the Shard is a creepy place. I wasn't creeped. Now those twisted trees in the Storm palace, the Storm Palace itself, the rivers of blood (that I am not stupid enough to drink, thank you very much whoever wrote that badge text), Ruladak's cave, giant chomping eyeballs....those are creepy, because they are so alien. The badge text is just...there. It tries too hard, and fails utterly as far as I'm concerned.

Am I the only one who hates these? They're god-modding. I especially hate the "you drink the water" one and the one that goes on about your mom.

Because the villain missions are written for villains who know they're evil. Either you're doing evil mercenary work that you know is evil, or you're blowing up Rikti bases for teh evuls. There aren't a lot of missions for villains who think what they're doing is right and necessary. Redside caters to the selfish and the greedy. You don't get to be Magneto. It's a problem with creating villainous content; it's easy to write for the selfish and greedy, not so easy to write for villains who think they're the good guys.

This would work out so much better if redside wasn't mostly mercenary work more fitting of Rogue morality, and the Villain tip missions didn't involve a lot of mustache-twirling and wrecking stuff just because you can.

Then why is they first showed up during WWII and attacked Paragon City on the orders of the Germans?

No, the game never uses the word "Nazi." They're different enough from actual historical Nazis so you can have all the fun of beating them up, but none of the controversy of having real Nazis in the game. They are also, as far as I know, never presented as having a racist agenda, just a world domination one. But do you really need it spelled out for you? A German villain group that formed during WWII and fought for the Axis...what else are they?

It's like the Terra Volta reactor now. You're standing there going "hurry up and ambush me already. I'm bored."