Triumphant

Snarky might put it a bit more bluntly than I would, but I agree with his general sentiment. It's few minutes of flying from plyon to plyon, knocking each one down in the span of about 3 seconds, then planting the bomb, then standing in the bowl of the mothership for an hour or so, with the entire screen clogged into an unwatchable mess, while you hammer buttons until the timer runs out. I will join them if I'm desperate to grab some levels and can't find anything else. Otherwise, I avoid them like the plague.

I don't mind the idea of obscure teams/comics being adapted into films. Guardians of the Galaxy is definitely one of my favorite film franchises. Likewise, the newest iteration of Suicide Squad. I did enjoy the Black Widow movie and Red Guardian was amusing enough, but it wasn't one of my favorites. Likewise, the Thunderbolts and the new Cap movie don't really excite me that much. It's not even that I think they'll be terrible. I'm not a big Disney hater or anything. They make good stuff, they make terrible stuff, and they make stuff that is just... meh. I'll see both films, eventually, and I'll probably even like them okay. I'm just not really excited about them. Actually, not to derail the thread, but what I would really like to see in this vein is James Gunn try his hand at doing a L.E.G.I.O.N. movie for DC. That's an obscure team with a lot of cool (but not extremely well known) characters that could be as much fun as GotG, in their own way.

I could only find a reference to him in the Wiki that says he appears in Mothership Raids. You may just have to keep on grinding MSRs until you get the badge. Sorry I haven't got a better answer for you.

Meh. And... Meh. 🤷‍♂️

This installment truly is for the little kids, in the same manner that the old 80's Ewok movies were made for little kids. And yes, there are callbacks to other 80's youth nostalgia like Goonies and what not. I actually loved those Ewok movies back when I was a kid. Yes, they were not sophisticated entertainment or award winning television. But they were fun and endearing in their own way. I have occasionally rewatched them, as an excercise in nostalgia and a bit of a guilty pleasure. If you have very young children that like Star Wars, I suggest watching the series with them and watching their reactions, as I think this is how adult fans will get the most mileage out of the series (unless, of course, you are like me and also have a soft-spot for the old Ewok shows). Of course, I could be completely wrong and the show could be absolutely terrible, regardless of who is viewing it. I actually like what I see though, and feel fairly good about what we have been shown so far. I will, of course, reserve complete judgement until I have viewed the show in it's entirety.

@Digirium I don't want to be condescending, so try to take my response here as what it is: Just another point of view. None of the things that you mentioned in your reply bother me in the slightest. Though, if they did, I could easily fix it by using one of several AE buildings that are in regular zones. As to leaving effects on, that happens everywhere, not just pocket D. The solution is to turn camera shake off (which I have done). If you want to solve that problem, it's the only practical solution. I think that probably most players in this game (or any game, really) have pet peeves about things that they find personally annoying. One of mine is masterminds. I hate them, especially fire demon masterminds on constricted maps, because those flaming fiends clog up my screen and make it very difficult for me to see what the heck is going on in a fight and sort of impede my ability to concentrate. When I join a pug and there are masterminds on the team, it greatly impacts my ability to enjoy the missions. Maybe lots of other players have this pet peeve too (probably not, but I suppose it's possible). So, what's the solution? How about we just ask people not to play Masterminds? Except... I'm not going to do that. Players have the freedom to choose to play the thing that they want to play, regardless of how I feel about it (which is as it should be). My solution to this problem (realistically) are the following: 1) Lead my own PUGs and clarify that Masterminds are not welcome. 2) Only play solo. 3) Suck it up and live with it. It's okay to openly discuss your opinion on these topics. If enough people complain, then maybe you'll get enough traction to change the thing that annoys you. But don't assume that most people share your pet peeves (or mine), because that is not necessarily the case.

Yeah, I've never seen it in a non-AE zone. Not sure why someone would do it, given the very low return for farming via street sweeping in regular zones.

BRUTE SMASH DEER!!! 😁

I think you just need to take a break. Play a different game for a while, as a change of pace. There are plenty of games out there that you can grind levels on. Do something new, and then when you come back to CoH it will feel fresh and fun again. For what it's worth, I don't think anyone want's you to leave. It's just that the observations you make and the conclusions you reach in your posts often feel so left-field and so far removed from our own collective experiences when we play the game, that we're all bemused (and yes, often amused) by them. We all experience periods of burnout in certain hobbies. I quit playing CoH for almost 6 months once, for that very reason. But I came back to it and have been playing obsessively for over a year now (though I also change it up with a bit of Star Wars the Old Republic, throughout the week. This is a pretty good game for feeding your grinding obsession, btw. That's not why I play- I don't care for the grind, myself- but it's one aspect of game play, none-the-less).

I fear I have derailed this topic with one distracting (if well-meant) joke. Apologies. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Brute discussion... 🙏

M'kay. But film or TV series? And which is the better Daniel Jackson: James Spader or Michael Shanks? 😄🤷‍♂️

Is this a bad time to ask which is better: Star Trek or Star Wars? 😏

Heh. I remember those old comics. House of Mystery, and such. Good times. 😄👍

M'kay. But it seems to me that it's the Cat People that are the real problem around here. Like that annoying roomate of yours, for example:

Stackalacka. 👀

I feel like there used to be several active supergroups of this thematic type. You might ask around on the discord (or even in-game) and see if there's an active one.

This may be, at once, both the most accurate and also the most polite description of the OP that I have yet encountered on these forums. 😄👍

While that might not be true for more skilled players, it's definitely true for me. I run at +4/8, but have to be VERY cautious and use Psionic Lance and/or Teleport Target to pull mobs, as opposed to diving right into the crowd, as I do with my Brutes and Tanks. And even with these tactics, I still manage to go down for a dirt nap semi-frequently. On a good team, this isn't an issue, but you (well, "I", at least) can have a tendency to be overconfident because that Crit ATO proc allows you to lay down such hideously devastating carnage that you think you can obliterate them all before they kill you. Unfortunately, Scrappers just tend to be a little more squishy than other melee AT's, so you gotta use careful tactics when playing solo.

Hm... I need to train. 😁

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I have not, no. 🤷‍♂️

I don't have any particular gripe about them. Maybe their costumes don't really knock my socks off, but that's purely a matter of aesthetics. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, they're pretty cutsie/silly looking, but I was going to make sort of humorous concept character with it. One thing I'm curious about, is how it looks when applied to a character that uses the "huge" body style.

I do want to get at least 250, so I can get a "mini-me" costume. My problem is I'm not patient enough to save them up and I tend to sell them on the /AH for cash, instead. That's my deficiency though, and not any comment on the rate that they drop or any of that. I need to trick or treat more and just start compiling them from all my characters.

This is somewhat close to my feelings on the AT. If you look at all the Melee AT's, they're each better than a Brute in their area of specialty. But in a generic sense, and especially for a newer player (or just a mediocre player, like myself) they're a very forgiving AT that useful for most types of game play and great to learn on and can fill in for a tanker or a scrapper in a pinch (okay, maybe not so much Stalker, but you can at least slot a stealth IO in your sprint power). I guess they're a bit like a Sentinel in that sense, though the melee equivalent to the Sentinels ranged equivalent. This is why I have a lot of Brutes and Sentinels in my stable. They're (relatively speaking) easy to build and play and do well in a wide cross-section of game content.