Eva Destruction

I agree with Venture.

[edit] But only if the replacement is actually good, and actually written well, and doesn't involve Marcus Cole in any of his incarnations except maybe Statesman in a minor role.

My powers look and feel plenty powerful to me. It's the enemies who look weak and puny.

Except the giant robots, those look and feel powerful. If Tyrant wants to be taken seriously as a threat, he needs more giant robots.

The Well is another reason I do not want a Praetorian pet. Gameplay improvements should never be so inextricably linked to a story element, because then when you don't like the story you can't ignore it without skipping the power. In this case, the power in question has a level shift that makes it less skippable than others.

Using a badly written story to justify constantly reminding people of another badly written story when they just want a gameplay improvement won't convince anyone of anything.

As has AE, from the looks of things.

I really, really hope not.

I have vanquished non-Praetorian foes in the past. I can vanquish non-Praetorian foes right now. I have vanquished many more non-Praetorian foes than Praetorian ones. I could build a mountain out of all the Rikti I have vanquished and leave it in the middle of Portal Corp as a warning to the next guy stupid enough to try to invade my dimension. So why can't I summon forth the essence of a vanquished Rikti?

Well yeah, since Primal Earth is the game's setting and all.

No matter what they do with Praetoria it will always feel like a second-fiddle tacked-on alternate universe to a lot of people. Everything there is only important as it relates to us. When I meet a new NPC the first thing I ask is "so which Primal Earth character is this an analogue of?" and I'm not the only one. So much emphasis has been placed on Praetoria's "mirror" nature that no matter what the devs do it will always be "evil goatee universe" in a lot of people's minds.

So yeah, the reason I have a problem with this is that I consider Praetorians to be an "entity" and a "storyline" spread out over more zones than most. It's not a game world in and of itself any more than the RWZ is a game world.

But are they working with him or just taking advantage of the chaos to pursue their own ends?

Oh, you know who else appears in Incarnate content? Malta. Come on, you have to admit keeping Malta as pets would be poetic justice.

I don't like the idea of the pets being "essences" pulled from the Well either. Ditch that and make them an actual ally, or a defeated enemy that has been convinced, coerced, bribed or intimidated into working for you. Again, this would make it a pet that we earned, not one granted by the Well. Of course I want to name them.

Becoming incredibly powerful does not necessitate becoming a god. Superman is not a god. The Green Lantern Corps are not gods. Doctor Doom is not a god.

Turning everyone into gods homogenizes the game. It also assumes that every character wants to be a god and that every player wants to play a god.

No, it's a part of the "I hate Praetoria" and more to the point "I'm sick of everything being all about Praetoria and having content I hate inextricably tied to mechanical advancement" argument. The devs love Praetoria, not everyone does, and never in the history of this game have four issues been devoted solely to one enemy.

CoV doesn't have simu-click missions either.

While technically there isn't much "keep alive or fail" going on in Praetoria or tip missions (General Z proves the old adage about military intelligence), those computers and the combatant NPCs that you talk to can be attacked in many cases. If they die, it either triggers the next objective (and an ambush, or three, usually) or in the case of Maelstrom breaks the mission.

I remember when he ran away from my Fire/Traps Corruptor We need an "evil laugh" smiley.

I actually like that one. I've also never failed it except when it was bugged, so I might be biased.

Worse, apparently. Some of them are immune to mezzes and taunt.

Yep, that would be Crimson and Biff. They are both also resistant or even immune to slows, and Crimson is a scaled down AV so he has purple triangles. You have to immobilize him. Or let him step on a huge pile o' trip mines. He was also at one point broken (still might be for all I know, I haven't bothered with that mission in a long time) to sometimes run at full health instead of at 1/4 like he's supposed to.

I failed a mission with Havoc Punch with my Brute when that bug was active. Havoc Punch doesn't do knockback for Brutes, but I guess they must have copy/pasted the power from Blasters and set the knockback to 0 instead of actually removing it.

Well everyone I play with hates Praetoria, so there. See, I can claim to speak for a larger group too!

Aside from Noble Savage, we've been hearing more from marketing than from the people who actually work on the game for some time. We can't know how much they read the forums, but they sure aren't talking on them.

Like we got other options for PPP pets for people who didn't like the blatant Arachnos concept?

If there was only time to create one pet per tree, it should have been generic. If they want non-generic pets but are concerned about balance, they can create one pet per tree with different skins. Someone in another thread suggested using something similar to the Halloween costume tech. It's quick and dirty but it's better than everybody having a Praetorian following them around.

I doubt it.

Although it would be awesome. It would certainly make them easier to explain away on weapon-using characters. And, um, awesome. KNEEL BEFORE THE WRATH OF MY VOID RIFLE PUNY HEROES!!!

Magneto, Doctor Doom, Jean Grey, Doctor Strange. Squishies.

Your Brute was much more differentiated when your origin, and the source of your powers were different from my Brute's, and when your future path was determined by choices you made and might be very different from mine. There's nothing wrong with being a Flying Brick. Superman and Wonder Woman got their powers from different sources and in different ways and that's part of what makes them unique. They'd be pretty boring if they both got their powers from some source that spits out flying bricks for it's own amusement, or whatever motivation they're going to assign the Well for giving us powers.

The Lore slot provides a level shift on Incarnate Trials. The Lore slot seems to be the one most people want to skip. So in order to not be one level behind in future Incarnate Trials that will likely be designed for people who do have the level shift, you must slot up Lore.

Call me paranoid but it's almost like they did this on purpose....

No. She obviously still thinks villains are two-dimensional mustache-twirling EEEEVILS and that's all players want out of them.

Which explains a lot actually. It's the only way anyone could consider Tyrant a good villain.

The RWZ revamp also included soloable story arcs and repeating missions, a task force, a raid, and zone invasions. The Rikti were kind enough to allow people with a wide variety of playstyles an opportunity to kick their butts.

Ok, forced repetition for the sake of repetition then.

Um, no. I want to play a villain, not a villain's lackey. I don't expect you to understand this.

Heh heh, convenient, isn't it?

Anyway, did they confirm that i20's SF will require you to be a villain? Couldn't you just go Vigilante to earn it, like with all the other SF badges so far? The fall, and consequently the road back, is much shorter that way....

I don't mind badges that might require multiple attempts. I like the MoApex and Tin Mage badges. I do mind badges that require you to succeed...then once you've succeeded do it again and again and again. The ones for running a WST after you've already earned the reward are particularly grating because they absolutely require you to do a given thing at least twice in one week. I would not at all object to a badge that required running 50 WSTs if the first time you ran it counted. These badges are saying "We want you to grind this content." For a hardcore badger who likes having badges to work on it might be ok, but for a more casual badger it can make badging less fun.

I do have a problem with badges that require repeating the same thing over and over and over, when it was stated that going forward badges would be moving away from this philosophy. If we're going back to it, can I have my AE badges back please?

Which incidentally they left hanging for years, even though at one point bases were bugged to not allow team members to enter for quite some time, essentially making this a coalition-only SF. I suspect the change was only made to make the SF accessible to vigilantes.

Hate to burst your optimistic bubble, but read the i20 overview. It's linked. Yes, it is an indescribably awful idea.