Eva Destruction

In other news, people are jerks. Film at 11.

There is no conspiracy. Just a bunch of jerkwads. They don't so much keep Atlantis off the maps and keep the Martians under wraps as griefed Atlantis into oblivion and convinced the Martians that the human race isn't worth their time so they went home. Thanks jerkwads, you probably cost us the cure for cancer and infinite clean energy.

Where am I going with this....oh yeah:

This. With a side order of DOOOOOMMMM.

Also, you should play Fred's arc cause he put Fusionette in sewage. And the bugs made me giggle for some reason. It's a pretty good arc overall too, I'll have to put it on the list for the 1-50 in AE thing.

Yeah, I'd much rather deal with a single guy not giving XP than say, a whole map full of guys giving next to no XP.

Ideally of course, betraying allies set to Aggressive or Defensive would give XP, but ones set to Passive wouldn't. And of course they'd get their low health lines back. It's weird to beat up a named boss who doesn't say anything.

That would kind of defeat the purpose of having a set based conceptually around not being hit.

Unless you mean 40% from set bonuses. That....wouldn't really do anything.

You didn't. The same thing happened to me in testing and I deliberately pulled the enemies away. I believe the way it works is that betraying allies will all change to "aggressive" upon betraying. I think it changed in i17, when betraying allies started giving XP.

You generally can't recolor robots. He's optional anyway, and if you accidentally aggro him he's -8 at the highest, so you can ignore him. Besides, if you were a bunch of expendable Council minions testing out the genius ideas of your not-quite-sane overlords (who interestingly enough have their testing done far away from where they are), wouldn't you test on something you could easily beat up if it went haywire, like last time?

Yes they are. Comrade and Hollow Point get them though.

It made them all aggressive. It may have stopped them from running also, or at least "I wanna break your face" overrides "I'm outta here." It also made them not say their low health lines and death lines. But hey, they give XP now...

Ah ok. Gotcha.

This. I've never received a ticketless rating with a comment attached. Every single one has suspiciously been right after an arc reached 5 stars. I also find it very suspicious that Fred's arc got knocked back down to 4 stars the very next day after it reached 5 stars.

Then they should have waited. Let's face it, everybody's going to be playing with the new shiny anyway, and people who already play MA have been waiting for years for buffs, we can wait a little longer if it means they'll do it right.

People are complaining because they'll be able to kill faster at the expense of a control power they are used to relying on. I consider it a fair trade-off but I can understand where they're coming from.

Others (mostly me, probably) complain that they can kill faster if they take the ugly mess of effects nobody else wanted that is CAK. Also that this prom dress made out of carpet remnants was buffed while EC's biggest issue wasn't even looked at.

They're doing it already. The new Praetorian enemies introduced in the rewrite of Maria Jenkins' arc are significantly more difficult than the old ones. They hurted my DM/SD, yes they did. I forgive them though, because they have really big robots.

Interestingly, the one group where every single guy has targeting drone was the easiest. Eat a medium purple, negate targeting drone. Kill. Generate more purples. Repeat. They ended up being the most boring of the new groups actually....IF you could handle them on a high enough difficulty to keep generating purples. They would probably stomp all over an SOd /SR or /SD.

Oh yeah, and DE at 50 have quartzes now. But I'm guessing "to-hit buffs so high you might as well not bother with defense" aren't what you meant.

Edit: Werner, is your Katana/Dark build posted anywhere? I've been looking for a good one to see what I'm doing wrong. Dark Armor builds in general involve a lot of swearing and ramming my head off the desk.

Well he was SUPPOSED to run off and not fight unless you started it, but you can't do that anymore.
Oh, how I wish the Warcry robots could emote.

Only Lieutenants, which can't be used as boss objectives, and you can only have one ally in that back room. The Rogue Robots were lower level anyway.

He's not a custom, it's a repaint of Comrade from the Khan TF. Giving a bounty hunter an escort didn't really make sense.
See, and that is why I used the "romance" flag. I knew somebody would understand.
His dialogue may predate i17, and he may have originally been set to run off....although I don't think he was, cause you know, Freaks. I might have to take another look at it.

So...what you're saying is, I should give her Rage?

It is implied in game that what we get isn't all there is to the venom rockets. Because seriously, who cares about those piddly things? Just get a Rad defender and call it a day. Then again it's also implied that the Rogue Arachnos aren't actually Rogue....hmmm, that might be a way to tweak it.

This is deliberate. I didn't want to overuse them; they're a Mastermind's personal henchmen, not an actual enemy group per se. I didn't want to give him his own personal robotic army, just a couple of robots he built to do his evil bidding.

That's why they're optional. But I guess people who play a lot of AE will go around backtracking and carefully hunting down every last objective to cut down on further backtracking huh?

Honestly I find marking stuff as optional in the navbar to be immersion breaking. I guess I could just make them spawn at the start of the mission and place them in the front, that'll make them easier to find.

I think I might have to rethink how the Warburg connection is worded. It obviously didn't come across the way it was intended. The bomb thing should be a lot easier to tweak.

Yeah, me too....all these MA buffs would have been the perfect opportunity make EC actually worth taking, but noooooo....we get another buff to CaK, the ugliest power in the set (both for looks and secondary effects), and another secondary effect presumably chosen by throwing darts at a list.

Didn't they do that when they changed the level at which Taunt was available? It certainly didn't delete all the tanks on every server.

I want the taunt aura for Scrapper /SR. Stupid ****** runners. I can't kill stuff when it's running away. If I had that taunt aura I'd be happy with my minimal investment toward soft-capping freeing up slots for all kinds of other stuff.

What AE needs is the ability to tweak mob difficulty (and incidentally, their rewards) by increments, instead of making it all or nothing.

Incompetent people will find a way to make bad arcs no matter what tools you give them, so that argument doesn't wash.

In that same vein, it would be nice to be able to give them some mez RESISTANCE without giving them mez PROTECTION. So whatever mez or mezzes you give them resistance to just doesn't last as long. It's less binary than mez protection, it makes the critters tougher for characters that rely on mez powers without rendering said powers totally useless.

Yes.

It is permitted until a GM decides it's not. You can argue trademark/copyright law all you want, in the end it's their game and they'll err on the side of caution more often than not. Homage characters should be ok as long as they're not too blatant.

Because their usage, even as the bad guys, might offend people. This is a pretendy funtime game where offending people should be avoided, hence the 5th are never directly referred to as Nazis in canon even though they obviously are.

Also, the stupid profanity filter is stupid, and won't let me use "Gunslingers" in a title because "slingers" cannot be used as part of a word in a title, even if said word is referring to an in-game enemy. I'm assuming this is because it's the name of a Marvel team and not some obscure profanity nobody has used since the 60s.

Because Reichsman is a giant sack of HP that requires a special temp power to defeat. Gyrfalcon was added, so it's not that the boss list hasn't been updated to include the TFs he appears in. It doesn't explain why the LRSF Ms Liberty is available.

Except that you don't have to finish an arc to vote.

If you did have to finish (which you should, regardless), you'd still have the problem of people using friends to push easily completed single-mission arcs into HoF.

Enough people do to clutter up HoF with garbage.

Sure. Just hide behind a police drone until some hero takes care of the problem.

Villains have to stick around and gloat before they kill you. They can gloat for days. For months even, if you're an altoholic.

These are not the wizards you're looking for....

You don't need to have anyone only come out at night. Just limit the "secret" groups to back alleys and such, like the Vahz are. The Nemesis and Carnies and Rikti and other groups that don't care about secrecy can be out in the parking lots and street corners.

He's an aspect of a god, he shouldn't need a phone. He should be able to just yell into the next zone. Or hand you a piece of floating rock with mission objectives that shift before your eyes, or something.