Johnny_Butane

More precisely, their wording was 'when the store on Test comes back up' we would be able to try Titan weapons. That has yet to happen as of me typing this. So technically, its still true.

However, I've known the devs to enhance the truth after the fact in the past, so don't hold your breath.


But the bottom line, the set not even appearing in the powerset list as locked does not bode well.



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Because Paragon Marketing had an agreement to send those exclusive pictures to the magazine they were illegally scanned from in exchange for the publicity. Allowing them to be displayed here isn't good for any such future arrangements.


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Good point. But in that case we can narrow down which of the Surviving Eight it's not.
It's a good chance Synapse, Numina, Statesman, Manticore, Sister Psyche and Aurora are off that list.


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Defeated enemies deal ZERO damage to teammates.


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I don't really claim to represent much of anyone. Most of the people who care that Tankers got screwed out of their role, out of Fury, and were made into farm equipment left. They either defected to Brutes when they came blue side or gave up on Tankers period.
That's just common sense.

If you owned a steak house that served terrible steaks and you walked into it on a Friday night and asked the vegetarians at the salad bar (who now make up 90% of the clientele) why they hate the place, they're going to tell you they don't and that the steaks are fine as is.


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The majority of said people are quite happy to have a Tractor to finance their other ATs. They don't want to rock the boat, especially if that means the devs casting a critical eye at Brutes and Scrappers. The number of people who play those two ATs greatly overshadow the small number who actually give a damn about Tankers beyond using them. The few who do care have learned long ago to keep their mouth shut or be attacked by the poseurs and the Scrapper/Brute sets.



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Maybe so. He dodged it either way.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/13/sea...rosecuted.html



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I know what you said and I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was just offering commentary to the discussion about why I agree.


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Well, watching the video of this particular incident, several people were already on the line with 911. In fact, the one guy is talking to the 911 operator throughout the entire video.

With that in mind, the police response time was around...10, maybe 12 minutes from the 911 call to them rolling up on the scene.

Protip: it doesn't take that long for an attack to be fatal.

If I was being beaten, I sure wouldn't want to wait for the police to show up, even if my help was an untrained idiot in a mask. At the very least, he'd draw the attackers' ire for a few moments and that could be what saves my life.

Having said that...

Mr. Jones breaks the basic rule of super hero vigilantism. Spider-Man doesn't stick around for the police to bust him with the crooks. Batman gets scarce when the GPD shows up. I question his genuine desire to help people with his super heroics, because it seems like like he's an adrenaline junkie out picking fights and looking to be the center of attention and he's using the costume to justify that. Batman is right to call him a d-bag.

Reviewing the video, I would have handled the situation differently instead of pepper spraying a girl half my size and staying to further antagonize her and her associates.

For one, I would have waited until I had incontrovertible video proof that it was an actual fight before acting. His video coverage doesn't really show anything that can dispute the claims of the people he pepper sprayed that they were 'just dancing'.

After calling 911, I wouldn't have run in announcing my presence and tried to break it up in person with that many involved. That's just stupid. In this case, tossing some cheap noisemaker firecrackers near them from an alley before retreating would have startled them into stopping the fight and caused enough confusion until the police arrived. If he had smoke grenades, that would have been even better because it would disperse a crowd, attract more police attention and facilitate your retreat.

Distract and exit. That's all that needed to be done.



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So you see the beauty of that power. For Brutes and Scrappers.

Let's drop the charade that Tankers are being used as anything other than farm tools by people who can't yet build a good enough Brute. That's why Tankers should renamed 'Tractors'; there's no better name for an AT that hits like a little girl but can move at a steady pace back and forth across a farm. They're a real workhorse. Like Boxer in Animal farm.



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Or better yet, they do hover-wolves and then they don't need to make any more animations. Zooming around Atlas on my wolf. Yeah.


But really, this just goes back to mounts. I want this:






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Nobody envies Stalkers.



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No. Brutes complained that they still don't outnumber Tankers by a large enough margin and the devs agree that stealing Fury from Tankers was cool back in the day, so Brutes will be getting Bruising in i22.

In exchange, Tankers will gain an auto taunt power that randomly removes Inf and valuable recipes the Tanker is carrying and automatically distributes them to any nearby Scrappers and Brutes.


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Depends how you look at it.

Yes being a click, CP is more potent than SC, but there's also playstyle to consider; micromanaging yet another click in combat? Not all that fun to some.

Also being a click means CP is subject to recharge debuffs and may require another slot to be all that useful.


Also, how many IO sets does CP accept?
Jack all.

Ultimately that's the biggest drawback.


Superior Conditioning has it's place, even if it's not the "better" power.

All in all, I'd support Superior Conditioning being proliferated, as well as allowing CP to slot EndMod sets, even if they wouldn't affect anything but the power's recharge.
But that's not going to happen.


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Could be. I didn't pay much attention to it. The silhouettes look similar.


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Behind him I see on the right screen:

-Concept art for the new CoT
-A "Who Will Die?" load screen with Statesman turning away from the camera.
-A '"Who Will Die?" load screen with a split view of Sister Psyche and Aurora in pain.
-Underneath, his wallpaper with the now familiar Statesman-fighting-a-Warworks concept art.

On his left screen I see:

-What looks to be the "Who Will Die?" Part 2 load screen with Numina and her skulldad.

The rest is obscured.



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Negative to that.

If the idea is to show SS is super strong and super damaging, enabling the StJ or MA (or name the melee set) next to you to do more damage with their attacks defeats the purpose.

If anything, the set should utilize bonus damage. If, for example, Rage granted you bonus damage it would still have a benefit even if every melee set is suddenly hitting the damage cap.



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While it's true animation preferences are subjective, my point that SS uses a lot of shared/recycled animations is a fact.

Punch is just a recycled Axe/BS/Mace animation.
Haymaker is used in a bunch of attacks, including Air Sup.
Jab is just old Boxing.
Foot Stomp as also used in a bunch of places.
Heck, even level 2 RIPs in CoV are see using KO Blow's animation as an idle.

SS has to make due with a bunch of stock animations that were just assigned to it while StJ has its animations crafted for it. I can't buy that these animations and effects are perfectly suited to super strength because they weren't even made for SS in a lot of cases.

And yes, I know there are alternate animations. But they're...clunky to say it kindly. No flow. Not clunky as in 'the difference between an untrained fighting style using raw power versus a finessed master of martial arts'. Clunky as in they were banged out super quickly by someone with a long task list and they are what they are.

I can't imagine Superman or the Thing being so sluggish as SS is. Remember that despite being big and made of rock, the Ben Grimm retains the agility he possessed as a pilot and former USAF boxing champ.


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I disagree to the maximum extent allowable on these forums. Street Justice shows how far animation and sound has come in this game. Even without looking at performance, SS is just a bunch of recycled attack animations from other sets that are so slow they lack any visceral sense of power. The feeble screen shake and halfhearted concussion bubbles don't even begin to cut it.

Looking at performance; it hinges completely on Rage, has one of the worst melee powers in the game and 2 of it's 9 powers flat out do not function with one of the most popular (and conceptually appropriate for super strength) travel powers.


Street Justice looks and plays like it's someone's baby and they really cared for it.

Super Strength looks and plays like seven years ago someone said "git 'er done and ship CoH" and "of course they'll want a power who's sole purpose is to scatter enemies".




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