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The "fix" for the first two is a text correction in the badge descriptions. The fix for LL is that it shouldn't be awarding the other two as well. Once this patch hits live, you'll be forced to run it a minimum of three times, all with the same basic requirement (get the extremely helpful temps, but don't use any).

Whoever decided these badge requirements needs to play the game before making such ridiculous decisions.

Same, two times on Sunday in fact. Now I just need to get MoLambda on those two toons.

I would highly doubt it. I can't be sure, but I would guess that the game cannot tell the difference between the items in the sabotage and outside. The three item badges most likely have two triggers:

1) Did you get all 10 items of type X from the sabotage phase? If yes, go to 2. If no, go to 3.
2) Did any items of type X get used in the Marauder fight? If no, award badge. If yes, go to 3.
3) Do not award badge.

That is, it only checks whether or not an item was used at all, not whether it's from the lab/warehouse or courtyard. Again, this is just a guess and until the badges are unbugged, there's no way to know for sure.

As far as I can tell, when he's enraged he's affected by Unstoppable and Vengeance. Using a grenade negates them. I assume if you bring enough debuffs and exotic damage, killing him without grenades would be easy. He doesn't have his normal Unstoppable for the trial, for some reason. We managed to knock off about 40% of his health without a single grenade, but it was taking too long and we wouldn't have finished in time, so we all decided we'd rather complete the trial than do all this work and fail due to this one thing.

I was on a Mind Control Dominator for Kotchie's run. I spent most of my time locking down or confusing the reinforcements, which thinned out the incoming damage a lot.

Kotchie's team on Friday night hit the same bug. We met the requirements for Antacid but didn't get the badge. Unfortunately, we were no where near the 4% you got him down to, lol. We started lobbing grenades around 60% with only 7-8 minutes left so that we could at least finish. Managed to defeat him with something around 45 seconds left.

Domination has always provided mez protection, to all types of mezzing. Stuns, holds, immobilizes, sleeps, knockback, knockdown, fear, repel; everything. You can also activate it while mezzed as a Break Free-like effect.

Did you notice that Dominators are a semi-requested AT now? They weren't always that way, even for the LRSF. I remember when people used to LOL at my Dominator back when CoV released; it usually got a pity spot on teams and Strike Forces.

Did you miss the two where you can't use any acid either? The grenades just make Marauder hit softer (-dam) and get hit more often (-def). They truely aren't necessary to win, they just make the aggro holder not die as often. The acid on the other hand....I don't know how it's even possible to win without using.

BTW, where are we meeting up tonight? Pocket D? RWZ? Midnighter Club/Cimerora?

And for those unfamiliar with the Mo badge requirements:

Behavioral Adjustment Facility trial
Not On My Watch badge: Allow no Mindwashed Prisoners to escape.
Alarm Raiser badge: Never disable a Guard Tower using the controls at its base.
Gotta Keep 'Em Separated badge: Defeat Siege & Nightstar without moving them from their initial locations.
Strong and Pretty badge: Defeat Siege & Nightstar while none of their reinforcements are alive.

Lambda Sector trial
Synchronized badge: Destroy a Weapons Cache and an Incubation Pod within 2 seconds of each other.
Well-Stocked badge: Complete the trial having acquired 10 Pacification Grenades and 10 Molecular Acids but using none of them.
Antacid badge: Complete the trial having acquired 10 Molecular Acids but using none of them.
Lambda Looter badge: Complete the trial having acquired 10 Pacification Grenades and using none of them.

I wasn't on the Mo runs, but thanks for the invite to the Manticore.

I have an "unkillable" (ignoring psi damage >.>) Invul/SS Mids build if you want it. Probably cost you around 300-500 million inf to build (assuming you use Hero merits to buy some of the parts), so it's not a bank breaker. Possibly less if you have some of the stuff lying around and/or get lucky on market bids. Course, JFS might kick you out if you slot it, lol.

I recommend viewing other webisodes by the same team. They're now a part of The Escapist group, going by the name Extra Credits.

Video Games and Moral Choice
Video Games and Facing Controversy
Video Games and the Female Audience
True Female Characters
An Open Letter to EA Marketing
Amnesia and Story Structure
Choice and Conflict
Narrative Mechanics

A little bit of this, a little bit of that (quotes shortened to reduce post size). What I truely wanted from CoX endgame was more choices, not more problems.

Will look into this solution later this afternoon.

Off-topic, but this reminds me of season 3 of Gargoyles, Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles. Disney decided to cut Greg Weisman (the show's creator and producer) out of the picture. As a result, season 3 doesn't feel anything like seasons 1 and 2 (and isn't considered canon by the fanbase). Not sure what our development team did to its writing staff following Issue 12, but the writing has definitely gone downhill.

On-topic, I never asked to be an Incarnate. I was perfectly happy having Statestwink, Recluse, Trapdoor, and the various other NPCs being "special" and so on. That's part of the RPG genre: NPCs will always be more powerful than PCs. When they announced that Incarnates were coming, I could only sigh to myself. After seeing Invention System 2.0 on beta, I wished there was a facepalm emote. While I will continue to take part in the "Incarnate experience", I have basically decided to completely ignore the "story" that's being presented. Which makes me sad penguin. CoX used to be the only MMO that I actually took the time to read all the dialog/story/clues/souvenirs/etc.