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If it's a modest amount of work, then yes this could be a decent quick solution. I think there are some issues though. A lot of maps are VERY large, and this will make traversing them even more tedious. It's going to be a trade off, some maps will be better, some might end up worse. The extra work required to fix the largest maps might remove any benefits of a "quick" solution. It might not be that hard to make new maps. Considering the player base seems to be asking for simplified geometry, this might be feasible. Spending resources on a proper fix instead of a "quick fix" might be the way to go. (The disadvantage of better maps I think might be that a fair amount of "gameplay" is spent fighting the map, and if that goes away, then the maps might be very boring. So again a potential tradeoff.)

It's kind of "everything" for me, but yes, the Oranbega maps are a good example. I often play very tall, winged flyers, and the maps are super hard to navigate. The OG team obviously tested their maps with a default height "male" toon and called it good.* And I think this is the crux here, is that the team seemed to do no grey boxing, no early testing, and once the map was done, there were no resources for additional changes, so problems found later were never fixed. (Remember when Oranbega teleporters randomly placed each character on a different point on the map? Who the heck play tested that feature?) The sad thing is they never seemed to learn. Oranbega didn't result in any learning, and neither did any other content. Not really anyway, you can see some improvement, but it came very slowly and was never enough. (*) Have you seen the "collision box" available in the base builder? It's supposed to represent a player's collision box. It's a capsule--a cylinder with hemisphere ends. I wonder if the OG dev team was testing with one of those rather than an actual player model, it would kinda explain a lot.

Yes, this especially. I don't like that you don't have access to your current build when respeccing. It'd be nice to respec in a window rather than full screen, so we could look at other things while doing it. And it would be nice to save that respec, like saving a constume slot, so we can come back to it later. Both Enh and the powers trays are a pain too when respecing, could just leave the powers alone, saving only those that are no longer available.

I get a lot of graphical lag, which I interpret as the engine loading resources from disk, but the whole screen freezes. Other things too, like opening the Auction Hose will cause the whole screen to freeze for about one second. It's brief but very noticeable. Chasing these graphical hiccups down might lead to other improvements as well, so I'd like to see the devs start to take a look at them. I think the current engine might be too aggressive unloading resources. Any time I stand still for a short while then try to move, I get stutter and lag. I think again the engine is loading animations from disk, but the self-move animations should probably be kept around and available, since they're so common.

I think this idea needs expansion. I'd like to see a more clear story progression as we level, with the player directed towards contacts that explain "what is going on" in more detail. Like, Crey should start out being the good guys, and it should come as a surprise that Countess Crey is actually totally a villain. Instead what happens is you get random missions full of baddies, and then later you get random missions full of other baddies. The player has to really work at getting a coherent story from all that, the story line is not presented well. I'd probably reduce base XP too, just to prevent folks from accidentally out-leveling content. Then I'd add additional START powers for higher XP boosts, so those in the know can get back their old leveling speed once they're done with lower level stuff. All XP everywhere doesn't need to change -- DFB should probably remain special, and some other content -- but the "ordinary" contacts we do might need adjusting downward by about half or so.

Yes, although I think I'd like to see less rooting and more animation blending and movement allowed. (Personally, I felt even at the release of CoV that Stalkers went the wrong direction with their very long animation times, especially for Assassins Strike. Rather the rooting for that class should have been removed entirely.) I also like the art style of the PCs and NPCs, there's a different quality to them which is not modern but still good. My other like is that we're allowed to be super. We start off rather weak and can struggle vs. small number of enemies, but by the end game we're wading into large groups of powered enemies and blowing them all up. This feels good.

I got "Dark Fey" recently, which surprised me. Having fun with it on red side.

If you log out next to the Base Portal or the Hospital, you can get progress towards those badges instead of the Vanguard one. Or even not "next to," the distance those two work at is pretty large. Thus it's important to actually check which bad you're getting before you log out. This can happen even through walls, as the Day Job check is just distance, and doesn't consider line of sight. @Erratic1

There's a lot of robots in game we could use for robot models for MMs, but one thing this game is sorely lacking is robots with light bulbs for noses. (Blackhawk #19 1948) This guy is clearly a Mastermind, he's even got exactly three tier one robots. This is more Golden Age than anything else, but it's also pretty good comic book robots.

I think "mercenaries" would be cool place to put this. Lots of lethal damage, just a few tweaks for look and feel. Footmen with shields for T1, Archers for T2, a Chirurgeon pet, and some sort of heavy knight for T3. Light and Dark variations of each. Could go both medieval and Roman, as there's already pieces in-game for that. I also made a "Fey Sylph" character and that got some positive comments. I'd like to see Fairy Court set. Sylphs for T1, Knights with rapiers and lots of flowing clothing instead of armor for T2, and a Fairy Queen for T3, tossing magic at folks. This is kinda extra but still might be fun if someone is up for it.

There's a few Egyptian heroes on my server, I thought an Egyptian themed Beasts MM would be cool. Jackals for T1 (use the coyote model), Snakes for T2 (you'd have to remove the arms), and the Manticore pet for T3. Would have to be Fire and Poison themed, I think, instead of Cold like the current Beasts. I'd also like to see a Dark Beasts MM for red siders. Dark Wolf for T1, Spirit Panther for T2, then take the Spider vanity pet and make it roughly as big as a house for T3, because that would creep me out. Dark themed with lots of tentacles, an AoE self heal, and webs.

There's an old abandoned warehouse just west of the base portal in Mercy that would make a good Vanguard base entrance for RWZ. The Vanguard DPO in Founders has some large banners on it that would make the base more obvious. And the interior of the Vanguard DPO in Peregrine Island which looks more like a converted warehouse would make a good interior. I'd also like to see a fair number of Vanguard soldiers out in front to make it more obvious what is going on there, plus a couple of Vanguard "barkers" handing out flyers and reminded people that they can enter the RWZ there. This game's artwork tends to have poor discoverability imo, so I'd like to make it as obvious as possible that there's a new RWZ entrance there.

This. Also please move the Black Helicopter in Mercy from Fort Cerberus to over closer to Dollface and Dresslock, maybe put it on the empty pad that's there close by.

I almost missed this in the patch notes, so I thought I'd point it out to others. There's now a black helicopter in the Hive, which villains can use to access the Hive zone. I believe it's any black helicopter red side, I tried it from the BH in Shark on top of the hospital, worked fine. The BH is located in the north west corner of the Hive zone, about on the opposite side as the hero entrance from Eden. Its loc is about [1970.8 0.0 -4375.4]. Here's a screen shot of the exit locations from the Hive, I believe this is the list of entrances too. Here's a screen shot of the general area:

BTW I just noticed this, thanks very much for adding it! (Can we blame this on Arcanum as well?)

This is actually a bug from live, but I think Beta is the same. Neither Roots nor Strangler seems to affect Citizens in a Mayhem mission. The Citizens are targetable and you get a badge for "arresting" them, but it'd be nice to slow them down so I could off them more easily. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to do that, which seems odd. Perhaps this is intentional (the citizens die in two hits) but I thought I'd bring it up.

Non-Euclidean office buildings, which is to say all of them. I pretty much don't like any of the indoor maps to be honest. The OP is correct, the maps lack landmarks for orienting and navigation, and any real interesting geometry to just look at. They could all be improved frankly.

I'm trying to test the difference in performance between a power set on live and beta. I'd like to collect the combat spam from the chat and have a go at analyzing it. But I'm having trouble finding missions that are reasonably the same so I can compare like to like. Anyone got ideas what I could do? I have a few ideas but I'd like to know if anyone else does as well. Important things (to me): needs AoE damage, I don't think pylons will work. I'd like try different enemies and damage types, so if there's good ideas for different enemy types it'll help. I tried the AE but it seems different between live and test, looks like the files aren't synched up between the two servers. I'm level 50, so that's preferred, tho now that I think about it I can just auto-level on beta and test there too.

That's how I read the patch notes too. I wonder if this is a mistake or if the TCannon was doing more damage than desired. I haven't tested this yet tho.

It's kind of a sticky situation for everyone right now...

I agree, it's valuable feedback. I'd add it to the beta feedback threads.

I personally don't have enough free time to "figure out" what the game numbers should be, I just trust the HC devs are close enough and roll with it. The Tanker nerfs are going to hurt my Shield/War Mace tanker, but them's the breaks. I'm not really even concerned. It's a game, nothing to get too excited about. I think the only speed concern I have is leveling speed. It's way to easy to just blow past content, and it requires really careful management not to. I think for new players especially this is an issue, but I'll admit that I get bit by this regularly. I wouldn't mind an Option to just click and set your XP back to the current rate, I just want the default to be about half of what it currently is.

This was my take also. I read the article, and it seemed like more of a hot take, or a deliberate attempt to manufacture controversy. I don't know if that's just the author's bias, or if there's an editorial policy to gin up articles. They basically contradict themselves several times. "I know that A is true and there's a lot of good reasons for it, but I'm going to deflect to B anyway!" So it's an "ok" article if you take it as an opinion piece, but it seems like the article just doesn't reflect reality, it's got a definite slant to it. All we need now is Wolf Blitzner reporting from the street, saying "Patch notes! I see patch notes here!! There are patch notes!!"

Can confirm, my pure villain can only go Dark Astoria, Kallisti Wharf and RWZ on the high level zone porter at the base. Eden is not available. Maybe add a "crashed Black Helicopter" in the Hive so villains can make it there? Allow transport from and to Grandville. Have the BH in the Hive be on its side and a little on fire, and the pilot is out cold on the ground next to it.

Random thought: My widow has sliding resists, the more damage she takes the more resistant she becomes. Perhaps give Regen sliding Recharge, the more damage you take (the more in danger you are) the more your expensive click powers become available again? Just spit balling here, no idea if this is useful, but I've never seen this concept mentioned so I thought I'd toss it out. Doesn't have to be added now, but something to think about for future tweaks.