Techbot Alpha

Originally Posted by Kheprera

Pretty much, Zyphoid. I got there a while ago from a lack of response to the Basers, and it's been recently solidified by the dev responses to costumes. I could see a LOT of soothed feathers if they would just prioritize a few key items, not gated behind any kind of unlock except a store cost, and then move on.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

I like this and Sam's ideas (I think I posted in Sam's thread when he proposed it.)

But personally I already find this game too easy so maybe another level of difficulty could be added to the defeat - optional of course - that allows you to decide how "badly" beaten you are and the ramifications of that. Maybe there could be a trade off with greater rewards, XP or shards etc.

On the other hand it's adding a whole extra few levels of complexity to the game that could take up an awful lot of resource for limited benefit, so I won't be holding my breath

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

Lord knows this game is too hard as it stands. Maybe there's time to convince the devs to add -defeat to the -kb IO?

Originally Posted by Dz131

Uhh that only happens if you stay in BGmode and afk your way through a mission. If you have proper macros you can control your pets much better. I macro my assault bot attack to my taunt and it works alot better while the rest stay in BG and keep me safe.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Here's my dirty little secret for pet micromanaging... I don't. It's either all out aggressive or passive or, sometimes for strategy, Body Guard mode. Situational awareness, movement, and Team Teleport is the best pet control power, IMO.

Also, I let 'em die and resummon... no fretting over their 'death.'

Speed runs love my pets because they clean up the stragglers or rezzers for kill-alls while the Brutes forge ahead. Or, I'm sending pets to the next spawn ahead of the group.

Lambda? I solo crates.

But I can see how people who don't like playing a defender don't like MMs. On my MMs, I feel like a Defender with my own team of death.

Oh, and the crazy agroing of pets trials with 'Bosses' is fixed in a patch on Beta. Coming 'soon' to Live.

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

I am playing a MM. In fact, two of them.

Rather than encouraging others to play them, it'd be great if we had fewer people playing them.

Most people seem unwilling to invest the time and energy needed to make sure they're not running wild. I wish I had a dollar for every time pets go streaking off into the distance when a Tank is trying to pull Seige to the desired spot. Repeated requests to heel pets go unheeded.

Yeah, have to say this AT really ought to have an IQ test attached before you can roll one. The only thing worse than a careless MM is a careless Stormy - and don't get me started on THEM.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

They actually do all of the things you mentioned (have you already forgotten about the Atlas Park and Dark Astoria revamps?), they just haven't and won't devote an entire Issue release to them because that would be moronic and the outcry from the community over a full release containing no actual new content would likely be quite larger than you seem to think it would be.

Also, it's really easy to say "just fix the bugs", but a prerequisite to that is actually knowing how to fix them, which is not near as easy as people seem to think it is, especially in the spaghetti mess of code that the game has become over 8 years. Sometimes trying to fix something that's pretty horribly broken only makes it even worse, so it's definitely not trivial to get that done while continuing to put out new content so the playerbase doesn't get bored and move on to a game that's actually making new content.

Originally Posted by Gemini_2099

Adding new stuff to the game without upgrading the core creates a stale environment. This is why an issue to polish up the core game is sorely needed. Biggest fears of Incarnate content is coming to fruition..the foundation of the game needs help now.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

I'm genuinely impressed by the It Feels So Stale Because We're Getting Too Much New Stuff line of thinking.

That is quite the amazing feat of mental contortion!

Originally Posted by UberGuy

As in "one Endurance point per second" improved in the build? Because that's potentially a huge difference in how something plays.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

I'm all for anything that gets people out of instances and into the open.


/signed

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Speaking of Legacy pieces, there are quite a few that represent a unique, unexplored costume theme that newer items have never really gone into. To avoid derailing further, let me give a few general ideas:

*Large Robotic gloves: Eight years after the fact, Large Robotic are still by far the game's largest gloves and the only ones that are big and round. They don't clip at the hand, they look pretty good and I'd like to see more gloves of that nature.

*Medieval shoulders: Eight years later, these are one of, um... Two or three sets of large shoulders and the only one with this particular "shoulders" form. The Olympian Guard shoulders are a great step in the right direction, but we need more large, bulky round shoulders,

*Large boots and gloves: This is an old idea - a static model that can have all the existing textures used on it. We can use a few more of those, I think, since it only really requires one mesh, but makes for a whole host of different items. They're not GREAT, but they're very versatile.

*Medieval helmets: These have had nothing new added to them since 2004. I'd really like to see a bunch of new helmets, beak helmet, for instance, as well as a bunch more fantasy-looking helmets. There's room for more.

*Glam hair: The female Glam hairdo is amazing, and we need more like it, both for men and for women. I get that this works VERY poorly with back details, but we can just not use back details with it. More very long hairs would be welcome.

*Horns: I don't really recall seeing any new horns for a long while. I guess the Organic Armour "horn crown" counts, but we can do more, I'm sure of it.

*Tails: We haven't had a new one in ages. I mentioned these, but allow me to mention them again - TAILS. Robotic tails are a big thing, and larger versions of the old ones would also be welcome.

*Stealth/ExoProto boots: These look like bare feet with socks pulled over them. See also: Zombie Feet. These are ten times better than the "bare" texture for the flat boot foot. These are not bare feet, they're boots with toes painted on them. We need a better bare foot model that looks like a bare foot, and the mesh for it already exists in the game.

*Large gloves -> Wrapper: These are what I like to call "man hands. Large gloves in general have a much thicker, larger hand, and with the Wrapped gloves, we have a skin hand that simply has big fingers. I'd like to see a hand option which gives us a hand this big without it being wrapped up in a glove.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

How about these?

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

THIS is the only "urgent, must see" thing so far in this thread.

If you haven't already seen (or aren't planning in the VERY near future to see) The Avengers, then you're a terrible person and you should feel bad about yourself and the choices you've made in life.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Revamping content is only new content when it doesn't backspace over old content. The new Atlas Park was exactly this, leading to me hating the low levels these days when I used to love them. Dark Astoria is less so, just because it had no content to speak of, only mission redirections. Circle of Thorns is a mixed bag - I enjoy the set for my own, but I like the look of the old CoT far better when they looked like wizards in robes as opposed to coral reefs on legs.

David Nakayama made the right call when he decided against "upgrading" old costume pieces and completely dumping the old ones. I know the Techbot is gung ho about "fix the old stuff" but I seem to recall him being one of the most vocal opponents of more reflective metal pieces to replace the old matte ones. I wouldn't mind seeing up-rezzed versions of old costume pieces, but I WOULD NOT want to, say, lose Tech Wired to something that's called Tech Wired but is shiny and reflective and completely different.

Add, don't replace. We even have a toggle now that hides costume pieces that match a certain criteria. If clutter or ungainliness is a problem, add a toggle to hide "old stuff." However, I will never agree that something I like be taken out of the game because someone else things it makes the game uglier. It's my call.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

/This 150%

Uhm you actually bother shooting the giant Shivan? I kill of the little guys because they are the ones you need credit for to advance to the next map, and then read a book while the giant Shivans dies like it is programmed to.

Originally Posted by InfamousBrad

Now that I go back and look at the picture again, I see one minor problem with giving these to player characters: they're three-color. Color 1 for pants, color 2 for armor, color 3 for pants and armor. They'd have to pick one of the three colors and "bake it in." Whichever one they chose, I'd be okay with it, as long as it was still possible to duplicate both Resistance Commandos and Resistance Runesoldiers.