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I'm level 50, doing a level 24 Flashback mission ("Breaking the Cage" red side). I have the mission difficulty set to -1, but everything in the mission is level 24 or level 25. Seems like it should be level 23 or 24 due to the -1 settings. I'm level 24 inside the mission.

If the devs look at this, I think it might be a good idea to allow a choice of Mayhems, just to allow those who did miss the level range to do the mission anyway. Like Atlas Park mayhem might be offered up through level 15, along also with Kings Row, and then Kings Row is also offered up through level 21 along with Skyway, etc. Would make playing the game easier and not have to mess with the XP settings all the time.

Whoops, early morning no coffee yet, sorry about that. Looks like I didn't read carefully.

For some reason, both Pilot and Marketeer are listed in the Badge window, with the exact same progress text. I don't think this was the case before the Dec. 16 patch just now. This is on my Villain (never been rogue or hero) level 27 in Sharkhead, by the Black Helicopter on top of the hospital. I just logged in and I haven't tested whether zoning or switching Day Job locations clears it.

The behavior dates back to live, it was basically a hack because I guess a proper fix was too hard. Anyway, it should be fixed, I'm just not sure what the dev priority should be on this. Seems like it should be pretty easy, just check that the new pet level is < player level and you're good, but god knows how this is actually implemented. As an aside the same behavior occurs with other "pets" such as an Ouroboros portal. End Synapse, summon a portal for folks to use, someone quits the TF and you change level, and your portal is despawned to prevent exploits from having a too high level portal. What?

I kinda like the chunky animation, it makes the throw feel big and gives it time to resolve. I wouldn't mind additional damage or effects, like at least one 100% chance of stun (to stop runners) or longer stun / KD times. No, steak's good. I like steak.

Not to sound like a curmudgeon, I thought of two more games I played the heck out of: Fantasy Life for the 3DS. Fire Emblem Awakening also for the 3DS.

Best: Civ Meier's Alpha Centauri -- probably my most played game ever. Civ 1 and Civ 3 come in close. Breath of the Wild -- didn't complete everything but I sure tried. Great game. Worst: I have a huge Steam and physical backlog, so I've basically stopped buying games for now while I figure out what to do about that, but some games I've tried to play and also paid something like full price for: Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- just didn't jell for me, not sure why, I think the forced story line bits seemed both not what the game was promised and also cover shooters are not my thing. 19 minutes and gone. Braid -- again just didn't jell, I think the puzzle mechanics were just too inscrutable. Spelunky -- not really a fan of the style of random dungeons. XCom 2 -- timed battles are a terrible idea in a strategy style game.

Yahtzee on Second Wind has reviewed it. He said "I li.. li... li... liked it." Had a little trouble getting that part out.

Making the T1 summon also Teleport is kinda weird, imo. It feels expedient rather than thought out. What about making Supremacy into a click power? Make it do everything now as a passive, and also if you click it it brings your pets to you? That might be just a bit more "user friendly" to make teleporting your henchmen a separate power and not make the T1 henchmen summon also a teleport. Could also just add a new power / macro to do the same thing. Not a priority, just something for future consideration.

Fixed it. Anyway, welcome back, have fun, and don't be afraid to ask for help here or in game. Personally I solo a lot too, it's fun reading the mission text. Some of the missions are pretty interesting if you do read, the problem with teams is you always feel pushed to go quickly, and so never actually read up. There's also a permanent XP increase. You may have to shut off XP to complete mission arc chains, say in the Hollows. I regularly do this. You can also just start a new character and go for the missions you miss, which is fun too. I'd start missions Atlas and Mercy and just run those to exhaustion, get a few toons to do it, and then progress up from there as you like. The "new" content (from the old dev team) and some of the new HC content is rather cool. Some of it is a little over-tuned so be prepared to chug inspirations or ask for help. Also solo or not, most servers run plenty of task forces, and there are free XP boosters on the START vendor (née P2W), and you might want to jump in and power-level yourself up, just to have a couple of higher level toons to play with. Mothership Raids are also good for this, Rikti War Zone is accessible by any level now, even level 1. And again, welcome home.

I actually agree with this. The original idea behind Rage was that it was like the Hulk, once in a while you get really mad and are able to do some extra damage. The huge crash at the end was supposed to be like the Hulk coming out of his mad. Gameplay, I think these big boost, big downside -type powers are just not fun, and probably should be reworked to have less of a boost and less of a bonus too. Personally, the Rage on test right now is fine, but I think we're just used to it. I don't know yet if the toggle is actually a replacement or not, just tried it once so far.

This seems like a huge set of change! I'm still digesting it all frankly. Tho a lot of stuff seems rather nice.

Basically you need Mids to calculate this stuff or it makes no sense. There are just too many numbers to add up. For a good or top performing build, anyway. If you don't care, buy yellow recipes/IOs and just use vibes. You should probably check out your archetype on the forums here for build advice, you'll notice a lot of those posts use builds from Mids to calculate and to show other posters exactly what's being done. Here's Mids: https://midsreborn.com/