PeregrineFalcon

I do love a good chainsaw, but you missed a great opportunity with this reply.

I on the other hand DO advocate throwing bears. Bring it!!!

Yeah, and people would light the forums on fire because their character concept includes Rage as is and has since 2004. Face it, anything the developers do with Rage, including nothing, is going to light the forums on fire.

I was once like you, Luminara. I too thought the world was simple.

You're correct. Thank you.

Oh, we all know that the Council of Thirteen isn't going to take my suggestion and remove Rage from Super Strength. Every time they touch a set they add a combo or other weird mechanic to the set, and every new set has its own combo or weird mechanic. Rage is safe because it's a mini-game that's already part of a set. So that's the quandary the Homecoming developers find themselves in with Super Strength. They are good at math and know that it'd be too powerful on a Scrapper, but they can't bring themselves to alter or remove it because they loves them some weird mini-game mechanics.

There are plenty of comic book heroes who have super strength (more than that of a human if not as much as Superman) and are also highly skilled combatants. I would argue that the DCEU version of Wonder Woman is a Scrapper with Super Strength. Yeah, she uses a sword, but she's shown to pick up and thrown an 8 ton armored car. I'd say that qualifies as super strength, wouldn't you? Her and her fellow amazons are also shown to be highly skilled combatants. I agree, but the power proliferation ship has already sailed. However, if they alter Super Strength as I've suggested then it would increase the available 'flavors' if you will of Super Strength. Each AT will offer a different version of Super Strength by virtue of its inherent.

Wait, what?!? No! That's not how it works. Look, let's say a Hellion shoots a Firebolt (Ranged, Fire) at you. It will check your Ranged Defense and your Fire Defense. It will then roll to hit against whichever of your Defense numbers is higher, determine if a hit or miss, and if it hit check your Damage Resistance. Positional (Melee, Ranged, AoE) Defense and Typed (Smashing, Lethal, Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative, Toxic, Psionic) Defense do not stack.

I did. Before you started sending nudes.

The best thing that the Homecoming developers could do for Super Strength would be to remove the Rage up/down minigame altogether. Remove the Rage power, replace it with an attack power, and then rebalance the damage of all of the Super Strength powers. Then they could port it to Scrappers. Heck, they could even add it to a Blaster secondary at that point. You want 'Rage' play a Brute. You want someone who's super strong but not a raging psycho? Play a Scrapper or Tanker.

Energy Focus is the end result of the gimmicky "combo system" the Homecoming developers jammed into Energy Melee as the price we had to pay in order to get the faster version of Energy Transfer back. So, whenever you do Total Focus you pick up a charge of Energy Focus. If you use Energy Transfer while you have a charge of Energy Focus it will do the fast animation instead of the slow one. If you do Whirling Hands with Energy Focus it makes the AoE larger, and if you do Bone Smasher (IIRC) with Energy Focus it gives a damage resistance debuff to your target. Correction: It increases the max targets of Power Crash and adds a -regen to Barrage. Once you use a charge of Energy Focus like this it goes away. Oh, and Scrappers sometimes get two charges when they do Total Focus. .

At which point was I trying to "naysay the whole idea"? Oh, right. We already established in the last thread on this that you're psychic and you can read my mind. Well, it's really good that you're able to read my mind and disclose to everyone what I'm actually thinking instead of what I actually wrote. Why don't you try responding to what I actually wrote instead of trying act like I'm secretly your enemy?

So what if we make your proposed "many different effects" set and then give the player magic animations for it, and also tech animations, and then some animations that look more generic (for mutants or aliens or whatever). Now, instead of a set that only works for one origin you've got one that can work with any origin. Wouldn't that be preferable to a magic or "wizards only" powerset?

Helldivers 2 has eaten up pretty much all of my free time since it launched last month. It's a third person, team shooter that has a difficultly slider that goes from "I love the scenery on this planet" all the way up to "Dear gawd, I just landed and I'm on fire!!!" I just wanted to see if anyone else has been playing this game and, if so, what you think of it.

I'm convinced at this point that the OP is Diantane's second account.

Not as easily as APFSDSDU does.

We do have those kinds of bombs, they're called missiles. And it's called Remote Bomb because that's easier to say than "Man-Portable, Command Detonated, Anti-Personnel Ordinance."

I'm not certain that you really did.

I still have screenshots of my character in SWTOR's open beta and I was subscribed for years. Yes, I am aware that they have in-game gambling. Did they get a license to do that? Is it allowed in their specific jurisdiction? I don't know and neither do you. Just because Bioware/EA can afford it doesn't mean Homecoming can. That's what I pointed out earlier. There's precedence? Really? Could you please cite the case that established that precedence? Look, I'm not trying to be a jerk, and if you go back and read my posts you'll see that at no point did I say that it couldn't happen. What I said was that it's unlikely and that there are possible legal issues and you all don't understand what those issues are.

IIRC that's not entirely correct. Lawmakers have talked about taxing "WoW Gold" for example, and you can't cash it out. Yes, and a lot of those executives have been repeatedly called in front of various congresses and parliments to explain why certain elements shouldn't be classified as gambling. Google "EA surprise mechanics" if you'd like to watch some videos about it. I'm not worried about it, I'm simply trying to point out that it isn't as simple as a lot of online people believe it to be. A lot of those companies may have servers in other countries or they may have licenses, you don't know. Also, people talk about "The Law" without realizing that they have no clue what they're talking about, and that's a personal peeve of mine. People grow up watching Law and Order or NCIS and think they know as much about the law as an attorney does. I deal with these people all of the time at work. People will literally call my law firm and argue that what we're doing is illegal and when I respond "Well, the judge didn't think so that's why he signed the court order" they have the gall to get angry with me and demand to speak to my manager.

That depends. For people like myself who despise the Woke Message it is not good and a sure sign that I will not be buying that game ever. YMMV.

Probably nothing at this point. However, lawmakers in several states, and the IRS, have tried in the past to link in-game currencies to real world value thus allowing them to be taxed. I don't know all of the laws in all of the states so it's possible that some states have already passed laws that do just that. If in-game currencies are linked to real world value then current gambling laws would apply. Also, the U.S. Federal government does have laws that cover online gambling. I don't know if they would apply because it's not my specialty. And, unlike most people online, I know enough about the law to know that I don't know enough about the law, except in my specialty, to make a definitive statement. The U.S. has billions of laws on the books. So anyone, even an attorney, who claims to "know all of the laws" is flat out lying.

At this point it seems unlikely that we'll get new stats ever.

Please respond to my post with your BAR Number, otherwise you're just making $#@& up. I'm writing this while sitting at my desk at a law firm in the U.S., so please please don't try to explain to me how the law works in the U.S.