Techbot Alpha

Trial accounts shouldn't be able to hold names. Stat.

Will you guys please take this chance to revamp the Phalanx models? Sister Psyche in-game looks NOTHING like her CGI or official art reference and model. In fact, she's 100% reproducible in the Player CC. Hardly a signature character, hmm? BaBs could use a higher quality render pass, too.

That said? This is looking very nice. The fact Recluse seems to have suddenly exploded his way in in a very noticeable way is very good.
Rock on 21!

I dunno, maybe I should have read the guides, or it might have helped if we'd had a better leader to understand things faster.

Eventually it all made sense, but the rinse and repeat hospital runs are really, really lame.

1) Pulse of cheaty-hax two-shot death. Yay, hope you brought your rebirth slots, kiddies! And pray you can FIND your team again in the chaos, if people have bothered to group up, so you can be healed.

2) Don't touch Antimatter! Oop, better put pets in Passive mode then, with their trigger happy AoEs! Oh, look, bodyguard mode goes off! Two shotted! Yay!

3) And this is the big one.
WHY do Praetorian mobs have such high base accuracy? Vickies seem to totally ignore defences, and this is with a softcapped MM with T3 Barrier up. BAM. Eye lasered and dead.
Praetorians do NOT need such high accuracy. There are ENOUGH things screwing you over in trials as it is, WITHOUT them having an 'I win button'.

Not touching Keyes again, not until they strip some of the 'cheat' out of it.

The fact that this is already in game is what bugs me most.

No, not moving hair. The hats with different hair thing.
Go look at the standard Cabal minions. No hair, right?
Now go find one of them in PD. Or Katie here;



The Cabal hat. With hair, no less.

It can be done.
WHY has it not been done? There is NO good excuse why.

Run once, completed once. Never again. Thankfully the game and RNG felt sorry enough to give me the Rare I needed for my third T3 for the +3 level boost.

Giant auto-hit pulses? Pets being effectively useless because Bots are AoE heavy and we need to NOT hurt Anti-Matter? Dying in two shots from Vicky's spamming eye lolazers? Stuffed full of so many gimmicks trying to be 'cool' and 'challenging' and just being annoying?

KIR can go back to Beta, for all I care for it. Even Lambda is more fun than that, and I really dislike Lambda.

I just want to get rid of the damned 'essence' effect. I don't want the damn glowy/tendrilly stuff. My Crab Spider, for one, isn't summoning ghosts; those are going to be actual Arachnos soliders, Puddle of Mild Annoyance be damned.

/Signed. /Very Signed

I'm hoping I21 and onwards see's a total house-clean of all the old contacts Blueside.

Because all of them, bar Hollows->Faultline->Talos these days, are TERRIBLE. The missions are terrible. The contacts are terrible, two dimensional and badly written, the run-about is terrible, the plot is non-existent.

This junk is even years old and, by frag, does it show!

Yeah, that's another point. They REALLY need to make it obvious, in seven foot high letters, that Null exists, he is the NPC you need to talk to, and WHERE he is.

The fact that me and someone else in Beta spent about 15 minutes looking for him should have made it clear this would be a problem.
People were likely too busy making sure KIR was in a playable st-

Owait...

Ok, first off I want to clarify that I LOVE 20.5.

However...(this is me, you knew it was coming)

However;
1) The delay between claiming vouchers is still there. Why? I assumed it was to stop the servers overloading in Beta with lots of people testing at one time.

2) 1 Emp merit for 1 Astral merit? Excuse me? Pardon? I...yeah. Fix this, please.

3) The big one. Keyes Reactor Trial.

Ho boy. Hooo boy. The pain and suffering we went through for this one. This is like the trilogy finale of games and films, where they throw away what works and shove as many damn gimmicks in to make it 'cool' while forgetting that, sometimes, less is more.

The Anti-Matter pulse is INSANELY annoying. As an MM who hated the Lamda for making me feel useless in the tunnels, the WHOLE of Keyes makes me feel useless. I get splatted by Victorias in two shots, defences be damned. I get pummeled by the Pulse for an ungodly ammount of HP. And bodyguard does nothing, because I have it turned off. Why? Because doing damage to Anti-matter is BAD.

Fortunately, in an almost apologetic way it gave me my first ever Rare drop on Alpha, so I could make my second Ilevel boost and finally fight at +3, making BAF and Lambda my Plat de Jour from now on.

Yes. Take Nova.

You are every form. At once. Bind Nova to 1 and Dwarf to 2. You are immune to mez. You are a close combat tank and a long range hovering gunship. Build up carries through to every form. So does hasten and dull pain. Both of those two are your friend.

Become every form, all the time.
You are...THE MF'ING PEACEBRINGER!

Really, it worked for me Loved my concept for my PB gal, but was terrible to play as only human form. So I took Dechs advice that had worked wonders for my Warshade/Nictus and applied it to her. Different AT, same results. Win/win