Nericus

In 1996, for the 30th anniversary, Ultraman franchise was revamped and they switched to a new universe (much like the many GUNDAM series) and created Ultraman Tiga. Then came Dyna, Gaia and many others with the majority in their own universe/timelines separate from the rest. Some may mention Nebula M78 where the original hails from or rehash classic monsters like Zetton or the Baltans but they are in their own universe.

In 2006 for the 40th anniversary, they return to the original universe where Ultraman, Ultraman Zoffy (the one that saved original after he was beaten), Ultraseven, Ultraman Jack/New Ultraman, Ultraman Ace, Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Leo, Ultraman 80 and Ultraman Father, Ultra Mother and Ultra King all hail from. The new Ultraman was named Mebius and was a rookie Ultraman with a lot of power that even he didn't know he had who was sent to Earth to defend it from evil. On earth it was peaceful since Ultraman 80 departed by aliens and monsters were returning. Many were rehashes of classics, even Zetton was used. Though sadly the Baltans were not . As the TV series progressed, in theatres came the Ultraman Mebius and Ultrabrothers movie which shows where Original, Seven, Jack and Ace have been and why. The actors that play their human forms all return (yes even Hayata) to counsel the new Ultra and give advice and yes, to transform and fight.

Later in the Mebius series, Taro appears a few times along with Zoffy and Ultra Father lends a hand in an episiode. After that, Ultraman Leo appears to give Mebius and the defense team a verbal and physical kick in their seats to make them realize how serious and important their mission is.

Ultraman 80 appears as they wrap a loose end from his series.
Ultraman Ace appears to aid Mebius against his old foe the Yapool (I'm not making that name up), and to wrap a loose end from his series as well.

Ultraman Jack and Ultraseven appear in episdoes to give advice and assistance.

Then came episode 47......and the one monster that got away from the original Ultraman has now entered the scene. Mephilias (named after Mephistophles) is playing his old mind tricks and Mebius and when they face off for the final fight (which Mebius WOULD have lost), we see Hayata observing the scene then transforming to lend a hand.

The final 3 eps were the three part finale against the ultimate darkness.

Then came the Super 8 Ultra Brothers, yet another alternate Earth that Mebius visits while pursuing a great evil. The main purpose of this movie was to unite for the first time Tiga, Dyna and Gaia with some of the classics, in this case, Original, Seven, Jack and Ace along with Mebius.

There is a another series currently in production, but its yet another alternative universe and another movie which I hear will have whatever current Ultra is around joining with original and Ultraseven.

I noticed that, however is it confirmed as the design intended? Also a glowing red dot to indicate the GM location would still be good for those that just arrived and missed the banners, and also for showing the location of the normal Jack/Eochai spawns.

You refer to the Spirits spawn rate during ToT last year. So far this year, spawn rates all appear to be in working order.

I have a hunch the X_mas event will get another update this year, I just hope no new ski courses are added. The two ski courses are enough.

Give Baby New Year a facelift so that he doesn't look like Dr Evil's mini clone and throw in something extra so that we don't need to kill Snaptooth ad nauseum.

Currently just another cool shiny. Nice artwork on the new badges.

Ah but which is easier and can also save money on the budget? Rehash or create new monsters?

Also the GM indicator for the map was perhaps the most popular request on Broadcast and the Test Channels. I hope that said feature does get added along with the Jack/Eochai spawn code being looked at and hopefully tweaked to have a better chance of Jack.

Correct. Also Ghost Falcon was commenting that redeeming Halloween Salvage now has a random chance of triggering Zombie Apocalypse or the Deadly Apocalypse.

Ultraman predates the Power Rangers by a significant amount of years and as a franchise has been running for over 40 years with many different versions of the iconic character.

One run of the Sharkhead SF can get you that.

This. Last time I checked, the game can't do two events at once. Perhaps it will run a bit into November and then we jump into Xmas event?

Well last year the doors were not spawning the Ghost/Spirits like they were supposed to and the report was that it couldn't be fixed at the time. Here's hoping that has been fixed.

Wouldn't mind seeing Mummies spawn from the doors or something resembling Frankenstein's monster.

The upgrade I'd live to see is the Hero/Villain zone alert channel be able to broadcast "eochai has spawned <insert zone name here>" and "Jack has spawned <insert zone name here." Also that we could open our map and see a glowing red dot like we get with the burning building of Steel Canyon and the Troll raves in Skyway that show the location of the GM.

Be nice......

Yeah there is a timer from when Reichsman appears to mission end, but as he can easily turn any character into a greasy smear it is the height of absurdity to hang around in that mish after he spawns when its a Master run. If you are instructed by the leader to bail from the map then bail. Use Ouro, or get to the chopper, doesn't matter which just GET OUT.

Ambushes can be bottlenecked, yes. However they will spawn from the sides/thin air around us as well and target any and all of us at once.

In fact sometimes not clearing the corridor that leads to the hall that has the door to Reichsman's room can aid in bottlenecking ambushes as the ambushes have to get through all the 5th in that tunnel and it can jam up.

Clear say the west half of it, then if need be double around back to the clear part of the tunnel when leading the AV's in for the kill. That leaves half the tunnel full of 5th and it can aid in jamming ambushes.

Ah yes, problem with that is the location of the glowie can vary. Sometimes its near the boss, sometimes not. Stealth TP is great on this mish but the back tracking and searching for the glowie may not be.

Ambushes can indeed spawn atop you in the last mish. Kinda lousy eh?

On a Master run it's not who dies the most.....but who dies first. Wasn't me

Yes!

about 3 waves possibly 4. Also some of the PPD's were Khelds that rezzed.

Yes a Stalker with TP as Assemble the Team will be useless on master runs. Also purples and the Vanguard accolade can aid against Numina.

Who did that to you? of course what's worse is when someone stays in the mission claiming "Reichsman can't touch me!" instead of following orders to leave the mission.

Again Stalker with tp. Or else Team can fly at hi altitude and dive down to the area.

Yes it is important that the team remain focused and not be distracted when the AV's are freed.

Once temp powers are obtained, brutes need to be ready to taunt Reichsman away from the rest while the rest take up support positions and be ready to attack/debuff him as well as deal with ambushers. If there another brute, that one needs to be ready to do some massive taunting to aggro ambushers. Also the Reichsman brute needs to aggro some ambushers well. Should there be a Stalker on team, they need to remember that it's 4 switches, 4 guns, 4 blasts. Use them wisely. And no it is not click all 4 to get one blast....someone did that on a previous SF I was on,......

It was fun! Looking forward to the rematch.

Thank you. Though it was nice yesterday to get one last LGTF in with my Gravity toon and warp the Blues and Greens out of Hami, then after the pylons went down to send Hami on a wormhole ride as well.

It's possible that the previous fix for the Manti TF caused the problems with the other TF Archvillains spawning too low. Who knows.

It was stated after the previous DXP that due to the server issues that many encountered during that event, that after ish 16 was released they would offer another DXP.

Sorry, no panic mode.

Strictly speaking, they tend to not run two in game events at once, presuming the game even can handle such a thing. I wouldn't expect Halloween Event to start until mid October. I just hope this year they fixed the spawn rate for the Spirits when Trick or Treating.

Also I wonder if it would be possible to update the Giant Monster/Event alerts for Halloween to send out "Jack has spawned in Grandville" "Jack has spawned in Peregrine" "Eochai has spawned in Mercy" etc.