Schismatrix

Also, his first name is Wesley.

i agree with what Fenrisulfr posted and rarely take snipes on any character, though some snipes are pretty cool looking. In general i don't find them very useful outside of very limited situations. My D3 used to find Moonbeam a very useful pulling tool with 3 dmg/range HO's, but that's about it.

Or they'll just have a bunch of picked-apart, pretentious gibberish with no tangible intelligence within. Being tightly-wound some fail to realize that 1337-sp33k often has nothing but stupid pretentiousness in it no matter how much you dissect it.

Random punctuation is random.

For the most part the "nerfing" that has occurred in AE is a good thing. People will continue creating simplistic missions with mission text that makes smacking your face into the keyboard look like Shakespeare and are intended to maximize the reward for the effort, but by reducing the rewards for mission designs that minimize risk the Devs allow content to be more balanced.

Want to design a mission that features a single enemy type that you have an advantage against? Go right ahead, but the rewards will be less than fighting a varied and challenging group of enemies.

Nerf/nerf/nerf is the logical response to exploit/exploit/exploit; the real challenge is minimizing the impact of the nerfs on non-exploiting content. i think the current changes on test are doing a fairly good job of addressing this, but some tweaking is still needed.

The article itself was a bit superficial and largely irrelevant to the game, but the comments range from insightful, to clueless, to inciteful.





...Is everyone really sure they want Blpup to write more? Really? The short bursts of sentence-like strings of mostly words are slightly difficult to parse. Posts containing full-on paragraphs (or large blocks of word-like text, whatever) would almost certainly be a painful experience to actually read.

Oh come on! Manticore shot Statesman in the heart with an arrow. That was hilarious! And then they brought Statesman back to life. (Okay, that last part wasn't quite as funny, but it was still funny.)

Actually it's, uh, the Devs are making the Freakshow xp reduction retroactive to a year ago (somehow) and increasing lower level xp in the present?

Someone drank too much of their namesake?

I had one grunch, but the eggplant over there?

A wizard did it?

Spoon!

i agree. Being able to effectively double the duration/output of accolades and tier 9's every 10-15 minutes would be incredibly exploitable. The final battle of many SF's/TF's comes to mind, just for a start.

i like biff, he reliably makes good bad examples.

Excellent.

i play on Champion as well.
Redside is slow compared to blueside, but far from dead.
The past couple of weeks a friend of mine has been running redside teams as she levels up another villain and is currently in the low 40's. This is by running mission arcs, not AE. Focusing on getting badge arcs and missions on the way up. As long as there's lackey room and you can contribute even lowbies are invited.

i haven't been involved since i'm working on finishing a build on my latest Defender, but i regularly see people on several global channels running redside content and inviting others to join them. When super-sidekicking goes live it will be even easier to form teams redside, and i will be there leveling up my Fire/Earth Dom, Archery Corruptor, Huntsman and possibly a Clawlz Brute.

Over the years i've seen a lot of content added throughout the level ranges. Sometimes with the addition of new contacts or missions, and also by adding new maps and mission designs to older SF/TF/arcs. i regularly join in teams running various TF's, Hami Raids and occasionally SF's. i know of several LRSF runs a week, and i haven't even been playing my villains lately. This is all on Champion.

Though many of the teams start in various SG globals, they usually advertise on BMT if there isn't an immediate full team just from the SG channels. Again, all on Champion. BMT is useful, i filled a GM hunting team pretty quickly through BMT Tuesday, but it also helps to make connections with active SG's/communities as well. For example, on any given evening there are several Pingu-affiliated people playing redside and chatting on the Pingu channel. Monday to Thursday can be pretty slow at times, but there's always something going on Friday to Sunday. It's an unfortunate fact that many of the people who play the game have to work during the week to pay for it, and don't have as much time to play during the week.

Same here. i have a Scrapper with a costume slot i can never edit because i'll lose his Malaise pants if i do. The same thing holds on a couple other alts that have pieces that are no longer accessible.

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Yes.

To be fair, his location does not sound like it's easy to reach.

HBD Pog, regardless.

Viridian's Duplicity Mastery.
You get a stealth/PBAoE damage* toggle, 2 confuse powers and the ability to summon a random Longbow/Arachnos/Malta pet.





*Yes, it grants both at the same time.

i was recently fighting them with a Defender and they seemed to aggro at the same distance regardless of whether i was using Shadow Fall, SF+stealth IO and no stealth at all, so i think the ignore stealth approach was used on them as well.

Mildly annoying.

...
Damn Moties.

Put all the quoted comments in a blender; that was pretty much my reaction.

Who.
Murdered.
All.
The innocent.
Children?!

i did! Me! Me! Me!
(George Stephanopoulos helped.)

Like Dalantia said, with two identical builds no power has longer recharge than 15 minutes as long as you can go to a trainer. Reducing the recharge or allowing to switch on the fly would be very, very broken. Changing this would be non-trivial, perhaps requiring a costly rewriting of the basic game code for a minor benefit.

Doesn't mean it's impossible, but unless it comes as a side-effect of some other changes i doubt we'll get build switching on the fly.

Are made of these.

Did a speed STF* the other day and never noticed the bug. Then again, most of the ranged members had rain powers, so it's likely that those interrupted the repairmen without needing to target them.

*i'm not sure if speed is the right term, but we went after the main objectives and ignored the riff-raff (basically anything below AV rank that wasn't a required target), relying on splash damage to take out any that followed us. Turns out you can also ignore the Thorns in the vine room and just take out the vines and the tree directly. When it came time to take on the four before Recluse we fought them all at once as well and just focused on each one in turn starting with GW. i'm sure this is old news to some, but it was the first time tackling the STF that way for me even though it's the same basic approach as a speed ITF.

But Pohsyb's the one in the box. Go figure.

Ah, the 7900 is a bit better than the 7600, but i'm thinking of building a new system soon, so i may wait a bit longer.
Or i can just go reinstall Windows with the latest drivers and try it both ways for myself..

i thought Jack left the CO team a while back to work on other Cryptic projects.