twozerofoxtrot

Smart suggestion. Tankers are the sturdiest AT, and we've had the discussion about how that enables proc building and also how it's less useful on teams with buffers who can close that gap on other melee ATs. What hasn't been discussed is how trivial that beefiness is when you have one or more well-played control ATs on your team. Taunting stuff to chuck rocks at your sloped glacis doesn't really matter if they're all stunned or punching each other. And with adaptive recharge this will be even more the case (as much as I like the concept). Giving Tankers a bigger Threat Cap helps bring their purpose of managing agro into focus among control ATs by enabling larger pulls and/or managing accidental agro that might otherwise swarm the team. But it's a double edged sword if that Tanker hasn't really invested in their Primary or is still leveling/kitting it. Unfortunately since we're at release candidate I think this unlikely to be considered for at least several months.

The fact that Homecoming has attunement for all IO sets is incredible. No matter what tweaks happen to the game, your high level characters can be Viltrumites on mid and low level TFs because of the set bonuses they have access too. It's way better than live ever was.

Would like to test more but really gated by time available this week. Used Galaxy Brain's Office Mission Simulator on Beta at +4/8, Bosses, No Insps/Destiny/Active Hybrid. Will try to ensure all tested characters have Musc Core, Reactive Radial, and Assault Hybrid (Core/Radial doesn't matter inactive). Not doing exact 1-for-1 tests because some of these characters aren't fully leveled on Live. Some are, some aren't. I took what I had that felt relevant and ran them. Warning: there is music and you might hate it. I put it on repeat because I like it and it helps me track how long I'm taking. BA/Nin Scrapper - 9:37 Elec/Fire Tanker - 8:20 MA/Bio Brute - 6:40 Fiery/BA Tanker - 7:06 Claws/Bio Scrapper - 6:18 =================

Definitely have some respecs incoming. At least two brutes who are going to have a great new life. A controller who no longer needs Teleport target for Singularity. Probably a Dom or Controller or three who will actually take their AoE Holds since adaptive recharge makes them so darned efficient now. And i think Ill be dumpstering an EnA brute and plant dom. Already shaved off several tankers an a fledgling plant controller. Only mentioning since I use the clunky respec system to strip enhancements and put them in storage.

Not sure how to feel about the AoI change for Sents and Stalkers on build 6. I'm assuming this is because max HP pools are lower but I can't help wonder if the change might have come to leash their AoE damage as well. Will have to test, but on my Sent at least incoming melee damage was absolutely not an issue. And having that extra puddle damage on mez resists was nice.

This is a much-needed modification to the power change. We've seen a lot in this Page's open beta how changes to powers (or ATs) have resulted in perceived fringe cases to become the norm. Shin brings up a valid point here, it should be thoughtfully assessed. Otherwise some jerkass player with +KB slotted Power Push is going to have a field day wombo-comboing a mob into oblivion.

Ironically I found this to be fairly humorous.

To paraphrase a tweet that might not have it's place on this Forum: "That's a whole new sentence."

It gets even better with a few (5-8?) Stacks of Reactive Regeneration. My Sent was walking around with maxed Regen resist (95%; the players asked for more, now we can cap it!) and 70% Recovery resist (at 50). HC: "Hey Invul players, we know you already cap HP with minimal investment so we're tweaking DP max HP downwards and giving you an extra rez power you didn't have before lol. Don't worry, you can still run perma capped HP lmao."

A microcosm of the Focused Feedback threads.

Unfocused Feedback for this overall Open Beta deployment process. The pace of updates on both fixing bugs and adjusting powers is really rapid. I didn't check to verify but "it feels" like this his the highest rate of builds I've seen in an open beta, this early in deployment. The Design Notes are fabulous, thank you!! I can't say this enough. I know this forum community has asked for more transparency and rationale be provided with changes, and whether or not we individually agree with the reasoning isn't as important as actually knowing, outside of the CBT testers who personally dialogue with our devs, where the logic and scope of power changes are coming from. This also marks in my view a further maturation of the Dev team, who is providing information with their changes in a format that is consistent with most major game devs out there managing live service games. In the same vein, thank you to the devs (and GMs!) who have contributed to the Focused Feedback threads. Especially @Faultline and @Cobalt Arachne. I'm not sure if you guys drew straws on this or what, but it's not lost on me that the two of you constitute something of the old guard and new guard in providing answers in the threads, (within your respective domains of expertise).

I know this seems like a really nitpicky thing that 99% of players aren't going to care about, but that machine looks god-awful. I don't just mean how it's rusted and doesn't at all fit into the ambient environment or the AE-style holo pad it's paired with. The pipes lead up and out of nowhere and are missing textures at the top. It just looks really bad, incomplete, and unfinished in my opinion. Please consider using a different asset altogether, if you aren't able to put the elbow grease into cleaning this one up.

(Jokes aside this is really slick design First Player)