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@Syler yeah...Major Holocaust has been (pardon the pun) brutally efficient in taking out foes. Managed to dominate against up to 10 yellows and the only Arch Hero he's had issues with has been Infernal, but he only had two face plants before finally taking him and his many minions down. :) I still have his trading card from back in the days of Live. He looks better now than he did then I think as well. lol

Hmmm...tough. So many choices. I'd have to go with either my Elec Blast/Rad Armor Sentinel or DM/RA Brute....though my SM/PA Brute is a close second.

Major Holocaust was my first red side character back in the days of Live though originally he was a Fire Melee/Earth Armor I managed to get fully to 50. Now he's been recreated as an FM/Rad Armor Brute just a mere 5 levels from a solo'd 50. Major Allan of the USAF was the experimental pilot of a spacecraft with a new drive system reverse engineered from Rikti salvage. The test was fine until the engine engaged...and exploded in a massive surge of radioactive fire that plummeted into the atmosphere. Major Allan was presumed dead...however, his mutilated body washed ashore in the Rogue Islands with fearsome radioactive fire powers; his flesh burned away leaving only an apparent skeleton trapped within his special space suit and a mind warped beyond all morality. "He burns for your destruction." From Gold side to Blue side comes Infinite Ice; A mutant blaster with powers over Time and Ice that has been working rather extremely well. The powers really play off each other allowing him to dominate most fights and rapidly heal when taking damage. When he's around crime really slows down. He's managed to solo to level 31 so far. A mutant with no knowledge of his past; 'Ian' as he came to be called was trained by Cole's minions and inducted into the Powers Division upon graduation from an accelerated educational course leaving him with a degree in temporal science and masteries in several martial arts. He blazed through his time within Praetoria and was known for his more responsible outlook towards fighting crime while serving under Praetor White. But he sensed something rotten in the regime and took the first opportunity possible to immigrate to Primal Earth and Paragon City. Sure, the society was more flawed than a box of crayons in a microwave, but it was also more 'honest' about those flaws and how the people lived their lives. Something far more satisfying than serving Tyrant.

The Shivan are pretty cool looking and all. They're also the only faction to have utterly destroyed an entire portion of Paragon so thoroughly that no one is even contesting it and have sealed it off and abandoned it for the time being. 😉 I've not ran up against Blackwing yet...but the Rularuu are pretty cool looking as well and can be an utter bugger to fight.

HEY! CAP'T KRAKEN's CALLED....THEY WANT THEIR MYSTERY INGREDIENT BACK! 😜

Balance? I thought that was just some mythical thing...ya know...like a pink fuzzy Lord Recluse or law abiding freakshow. ( Oo ) Balance has been a complaint in nearly every game created...and achieved about as often as harnessing a black hole for green energy. Especially in fictional games where everything is based more-or-less on abstract concepts modeled to give a semblance of realism despite not being such. So...while I can understand people's desire to make changes in things based on their perceptions and thinking...I just don't see it happening because obviously those changes from the 'old' to present were made by someone else for a reason or three. As they say...if it ain't baroque...don't tinker with it. :p lol

Not overly thrilled with how they did Bio-Armor myself...it could have been done soooo much better visually speaking. The power set itself though is decent at least. 😉 lol

Have a red side Beam Rifle/Elec Armor Sentinel I've solo'd to just ding 40 and while the set isn't overly flashy, as others have noted, it is very solid damage and attack speed-wise. Taken out AVs and red bosses quite handily. One of my favorite toons.

What do I think about that? I think that you've not taken into account the broader associative factors of things and are focused on justifying your stance vs objective assessment...and I don't mean that derogatorily...just as simple statement. I've been in engineering for 40 yrs and project analysis is one of the things that comes with the profession when doing cost estimates, accounting for design issues, etc. Now...if discarding those other potential negative factors and only dealing with AI IP, AI licensing, and other legalese for commercial usage...it still is unlikely to be some sort of 'basement dweller level of development'. Given the declining educational level of students in the last twenty years I'd have my doubts about 'average' anyone being able to write code much less even understand it. Taking into account the backlash against AI art vs artist IP and increasing restrictions being applied to usage there may not be much available for AI unless it can create original pieces available in 5-15 years; AI being a computer algorithm I don't see that happening either without Skynet being involved...at which point we may have larger issues involving "phased plasma rifles in the 40-watt range". The other thing is that you'd likely need the game to operate on more of a smartphone platform which is where the younger generations seem to be migrating too in terms of game play if my kids and their friends are any indication of things. The instant gratification factor that has infected even tabletop games would mean the discarding of the xp grind as well plus shorter missions as the attention span of kids these days seems akin to that of mayflies. lol But those are more sociology assessments.

Very unlikely given both the economic climate at present and amount of work that would be necessary to do so successfully; the latter of which hasn't managed to get done for any other superhero MMO over the last 20 years. Be it the fan-base or that the other attempts, a couple of which being similar to CoH, just couldn't hit the same sweet spot that CoH does or some other factor. The only thing I could see doing a CoH2 for would be better zone maps, many of which presently are quite dated and more in a style for Quake type battlefields than immersive city-scape, and new story lines and such...though I can also see the way contacts and mission dole-outs happen changing.

Yeah...I gotta go with Sappers too as the most annoying. Especially if I'm running an End hog toon. Pretty much have mobs I treat as primary drop-first targets with most of the villain groups though even if they may not be the strongest mob present. Sky Raider Engineers, Illusionists, & Fortunata-types for example.

When I play squishies then Hover is an absolute must by level 8. Even in buildings and tunnels there are areas that you can be out of reach of the melee based mobs...which increases survival immensely. After all...what can't hit you hard can't kill you quick. Usually. 😉

The Malta Group finally deployed their version of Skynet...

yah....let's not and say we didn't. A lot of those issues brought up aren't really all that visible to new or casual players...so aren't really issues at all to us and we really don't go looking for them all that often as a generality.

Not been to Kallisti in over a year...long before it was populated with anything and was more interested in just seeing what the place was like than close inspection. Pocket D is not a preferred hang out but I have been outside of it back in the days prior to Cryptic's shutdown...and been there a couple times over the last three years...just never for long. Been to Ourobos as well...again only a few fleeting visits. Casual solo player and I've yet to get any toon to 50 (mainly due to altitis) since I came back 3 yrs ago. Though Major Holocaust (45 redside) and Nuclonus (42 blue) are slowly, if infrequently, grinding towards such. Ya kinda missed the point of my statement though about lack of gas stations in the zones. One gas station in Kallisti for ALL of Paragon? Kinda silly ain't it. Just like how heavy the traffic is in Faultline vs somewhere like Talos or Indy. 😉 lol