Techbot Alpha

Because failing thanks to pants on head spack-tarded A.I. that loves to go rambo is ALWAYS fun.

No. *Hell* no.

Seven years of content that was all viable for the Alpha slot.

Why was that not the case for the other slots? Why, specifically, gate all meaningful progress to only three things in the entire game?

Edit: See above, Steel Shaman's post is a very good one.

Nope, she's normal size.

Look at the 'default' for the female body scaler. Look at the waist.

Now, go find me a very athletic or fit woman with a waist that insanely thin? Thats not thin, thats called Anorexic. Valkyire is a girl who wears a full suit of armour (Which in itself is part of the bulk) and wields a damn big sword one handed like its nothing. She's going tp have some muscle on her.
Not look like a dman stick insiect in tin foil >_>

And yes, Psyche's face I couldn't get to look right. She needs a unique render. They all do.

Because, while the Alpha system wasn't always ideal (those shard drops are mean when the RNG is in a bad mood...), it was a helluva lot better than 'Grind X over and over again. No, you cannot do Y, or Z. You can do X. And you will like it.'

So? They are still very much considered 'alien'. Heck, foreigners on this planet are called 'aliens', usually in legal and judicial terms and such not, but it's still there. The Rikti are, whatever else, a technology advanced and vastly different culture from that of Prime Earth. They are alien. And, good point. We already have the Kheldians and Battalion in canon. Why bother introducing, say, the Martian Mervins and simply clogging up lore more, when you have two perfectly good groups crying out for more back story and development?

No. Just HELL no. There are still non level 50s, you know. Not everything needs to be tied in with the bloody well and all that crap.

Sure? That works. But I see no connection there between choosing Japanese over Vietnamese. In fact, that's a perfectly good reason to NOT add anything in the form of a new group, and instead focus on the ones we have.

Name one other group, barring the DE and Arachnos, that has a themed zone made for them?
Hollows doesn't count as its a mish-mash of Trolls, Outcasts, Igneous and CoT. Faultline doesn't count because it's a four way scrap between LB, Arachnos, Lost and Raiders.

Making a themed zone? No problem, great idea. Making a themed zone about something that has no grounding in-game, no mobs to its name and no decent reason to exist? No. There are other groups that could be focussed on that would tie in fine and be just as interesting, if not more so.

Well, if someone can get me a hacked copy of the Dev's tools, some 3D software and a years worth of snacks, by all means I could likely do something a bit more unique. Going with what I got here, sheesh

So, after about four-five years in game, lets do a compare;

-Two columns worth of alts, and I STILL haven't finished all the redside and blueside content. I still run into contacts and go 'Wait, who the hell are you? Oooo!'

Versus

-Two/Three Trials. The three, exact same missions, over and over and over and over again with no alternative means. You want any power above Alpha? You have to do trials.

No, picking up shards through other content is NOT an alternative method, because the shard-thread conversion rates are unrealistic and doubly grindy, given how you need 4/5 times as many threads per component as you would shards, and shards drop less than threads do.

I can also do game-mission any manner of different ways. I can ghost them, I can ignore parts and clear others, I can go cackling like a maniac through killing everything, or I can take my time picking off mob by mob to make sure my squishy doesnt fall over. I can do everything as I choose, when I choose, how I choose.

There is no such choice on trials. You do it the certain way, and you do it within the time limit. Or you fail.

Last time I looked (I.E. last time I saw Arcana talk about it) Tip mish DE were getting 65% base acc instead of 50%. 65% is also the standard for all Praet mobs, wether 1-20 or 54+

This really, really shreds lowbies something fierce. Not to mention the increased number of attacks they have in relation to Primal mobs, more exotic damage types, and a plethora of debuffs.

The fault is, indeed, with IOs, though. Cranking up the mobs just penalises those who don't use IO, something that was claimed was NEVER going to happen. (Its even an in-game Tip)

Hint, there is no techno in Tech-bot

Uuh...

Iron Man:

Then;



Now;



That's NOT just 'enhanced graphics', thats a full re-design and upgrade. For the better, might I add. This isn't the 50s anymore (unless your character is from there, and thats totally understandable)

Theres no point making an outfit 'pop out' more if said outfit is hideously outdated from the start.

Eh, States costume is pretty much ok, I think. He's a creature of habit, and the CG renders look great.

In game, all he really needs is higher quality textures and a re-render. And, yeah, him and Tyrant could both use full helmets like Imperious. It'd be safer, too.

Believe me, I tried to avoid them this is why Luminary only has two, and thats purely because they had the best fits.

The Valkyrie chest plate looks blah. So does Cyborg 1. Cyborg 2 glitches horrible on females, even with the chest as far left as possible, and gives them a HUGE rack. Did not want.

Ideally? Unique costume parts. Sadly, I can't do them

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUuu-!

Yeah, the Valk belt didn't fit right. I wanted to stay close to it looking like a functional suit of tech armour, since that's what she's meant to be wearing re: her own bio.

Libby was tough. I honestly think she could use a professional look at, cos gods knows I ain't. I'm not outta Uni yet XD

Nightstar is very epic. Thing is, I wanted to use robot parts while specifically avoiding using Praet Clockwork parts. The face, however, fits IMO. Both her and Citadel are patterned off people, are sentient and try to fit in with humans. They want to be able to put people at ease. The cyborg faceplate and jaw on a female model jsut look ugly as hell (IMO) which doesn't fit for Lumi.

Again, fully custom-job would be the way forward.

Second CGI render of Chalice. Forget metal, make it so

Uuh...
Battle Maiden wears ALL of it



Which, honestly, looks a little boring too. The helmet also looks wrong (and she's bald?) but, hey, at least she looks HD now.

Uh...No. No, we really don't. Look up about those you're trying to insult next time, chap

I guessed as much

Really, though, she looks like something terrible from the era of Robby the robot and tin-foil costumes. She and Citadel are meant to be some of the most advanced robots/android+gynoid on Primal Earth. So, they should either look human while having robotic parts showing in combat mode (Terminator style androids) or at the very least look cutting edge.

My reasoning to picking what I did was to try not to use Praetorian parts. I gave in on the face because it's the ONLY good robot female face (well, that whole selection are) and the legs because the cyborg ones look a bit too clunky, tech-wired is too dated and too like Positron, and none of the others fitted. I also didn't give her hair etc to keep her a close to the original as possible while still being an upgrade.

I'd love to know where you get your information from.

Y'know, instead of making comments worthy of Golden Girl making it sound like you are clearly right and everyone else is obviously a moron.

^ Can't really disagree. Then they could actually listen to the feedback from the PvPers, who by all accounts did a pretty good job of drawing up a large draft of changes before 13 steamrollered them with no real grounding.

Oh, undoubtably.

Ideally, I'd much rather see these supposedly important NPCs get the Foreshadow and Mirror Spirit treatment. I mean, come on, you see those two as trainers and, what? All of two missions in the entire game? You see the Phalanx and Vindicators a HELL of a lot more.

Foreshadow and Mirror Spirit are, to date, the two most detailed models in game. That should be the LOW bar for the Phalanx, Vindicators and signature NPCs.
Why are they still stuck with low quality, SD rendered models after so long?

This bares quoting again.

'Just a few trials' is EXACTLY what we got. The Alpha slot wasn't 'just a few trials', it was everything and anything. It worked just fine.

And the someone went and broke their own design mantra.
Big freaking whoop.