Golden Girl

That's because its purpose is to lead into the dimensional war and the Incarnate system - GR launched with the Trial locations already built into the struture of the zones, so the destruction of the loyalist dictatorship was already in place before GR even went into beta - it was a doomed world right from the start.

To be more exact, it's the Maria Jenkin's arc on steroids - only instead of fighting our way through the AVs to rescue one person, we fight our way through the AVs to rescue the whole population - Tyrant even thoughfully makes sure we get to fight him in a suitably hellish landscape, just in case we were missing his original lava lair.

The murder and insanity that GR attached to his character made him worse than the more generic character he originally was.
All the Praetorian AVs in their original form were pretty generic because they were only ever presented via their bios and a few text bubbles - for example, Chimera in his original form was only really identified as a villain by his bio saying that he was happy to agree to be trained as an assassin by the man who killed his parents - apart from that, he was just a guy who hung out with ninjas in a graveyard - it wasn't until GR that he was shown to be a sinister and sadistic control freak who ran the Praetorian secret police.
The original Neuron never had the human experimentation atatched to him, and the original Mother Mayhem is nowhere near the level of insanity and evil she was given in GR.
The setting also made them all more evil - the original Praetorian Earth was shown to be some kind of post-apocalytic wasteland, with very few signs of civilization or organization - apart fromt he clockwork, most of their fighters seemed to be gangs of street thugs, and we never saw any civilians or signs of anything close to a normal world - so the degenerate nature of the ogirinal AVs suited the setting.
But in GR, they added a non-wasteland setting, shifted the original ruined world setting into the bakground, and filled the new area with civilians and normal people, as well as signs of civilization - but at the same time, they also made the original AVs more evil, which helped to highlight how false the "utopia" really was - even though the new Praetoria looked like a better place, they added slavery, mass-murder, and a drugged population which were all missing from the original Praetoria, as well as a much more frequent and systematic use of torture - so while the outer world seemed to be getting better, the inner world was getting worse and worse.

I'm pretty sure we'd have heard about that by now if any of it was true

That's not really the same kind of wiggling

A standard loyalist.

Three more of the original AVs that GR made much more evil.

He murdered the Praetorian Russel Brandt/Clockwork King, who had been helping him develop the clockwork, and took all the credit for himself.
He also came up with the plan for Tyrant to use the sonic fences as a weapon to wipe out everyone First Ward - which adds extra importance to the mission to seize control of the reactors that power the fences from the loyalists before they can try something similar in Praetoria City.

Gaming isn't a job or a career - it's just a hobby - and anyone who takes part in it is a gamer.
I don't own or play console games, but I'm still a gamer.

Those were just NPCs

He isn't

He is.

Anti-matter was yet another one of the original Praetorian AVs who was made more evil in GR.

So the Thief role should have the laser section changed to be more like the laser training scene in "Entrapment"?

Fixed.

Both cover 3 movies, and both did worked as intended.

I have 12 badge hunting 50s spread accross 12 servers - it's not always easy to remember which one has unlocked which badges

No