srmalloy

They've been doing that since launch, in the original Atlas Park zone even before it got moved to Echo: Atlas Park when AP got a revamp. Also, if you stand around in the lobby the 'main' building of Portal Corp (the one at the base of the 'U') and watch through the windows, you'll see NPCs wandering through the walls there, too; this has been happening since the zone was rolled out.

But there's already a perfectly good animation for EotS; you just don't see it unless you're flying. If we have the option to make that animation standard for both flying and grounded activation, that would address my issues with the 'breakdance' animation perfectly.

I've never been fond of the 'breakdance' animation for Eye of the Storm from the Staff Fighting powerset, but I recently noticed that, if your character is flying/hovering when the attack animates, they perform an animation for the attack that doesn't have them spinning around on their back like an idiot. Can we get the 'flying' animation for the power made selectable as the default animation for all cases?

This benefits a character only if they want to get TFC by running the TFs only when they're the WST; there's nothing stopping a character from getting TFC in one day by running the required TFs one after the other. And there is nothing stopping you from running the TFs when they come up as WSTs after you've already got TFC. To my mind, this is asking the HC staff to 'solve' a 'problem' that's a non-issue.

Except for the people who seem to be convinced that the $loc coordinates are unique, so you get posts in LFG like "Kronos at [x y z]", and they don't understand what's wrong until you post back that you're rushing right off to Firebase Zulu to fight the Kronos, because that's clearly where it is from their message.

Exactly. Just recruit a smaller team and set difficulty to max team size.

I was throwing it out as something to create an alternative to the WLs just standing around chilling waiting for the players to show up to beat on them, and make it more like they were actually 'wreaking havoc'.

When people are running around opening presents, they get a 'Naughty' result and spawn some hostile snowmen. If they're in a large enough group and unlucky, they'll spawn a Winter Lord, and the message "A Winter Lord is wreaking havoc" will go out as a zone message. But when you find it, the Winter Lord is just standing there among the other snowmen in the spawn, not hurting anything. Now, I know that there are NPC-destructible objects in the zones; in Kings Row, for example, you'll occasionally see something like "Gravedigger Assailant has defeated Car" when an NPC has done enough damage to an environment object to destroy it. I don't know if it's possible, but it would enhance the immersion if, when a Winter Lord spawned, it would be given some sort of random-walk path through the zone where it would attack the destroyable environment objects it passed by, so that a) it's legitimately 'wreaking havoc', and b) isn't waiting in some static location for heroes/villains to show up to beat it into the pavement.

And you define a valid target for being controlled for enemies as being organic, which eliminates Clockwork, robots, presumably the DE stone and crystal mobs, etc., but all player characters are vulnerable, even when their character concept is that they are a sapient machine or some other non-organic construct/entity. While this is understandable, given the difficulty of determining whether any given player character is vulnerable or not, it still represents an ability where players and NPCs are treated differently, which is a dubious basis to build an archetype from.

Any ambush-type group of mobs will be able to follow you by the tracker invisibly planted on you when you entered the mission. Stealth, invisibility, cloaking devices, or any other method of avoiding aggro is inconsequential; you will be tracked, and the only way to avoid them is to move faster than them.

You're missing the point. Having someone whip out their T9 and discovering that they've fallen out of a comic book and conservation of momentum actually works on them is funny, not that I'm suggesting that should be how it works.

And the mini-pets where you get the same physical distortion are just... disturbing; the ones that are properly-shrunk versions, like the mini-Kronos, mini-GWW, or mini-U'kon, and the ones like mini-Lusca are all significantly more palatable.

I see something loosely similar to this with Arsenal Control's Smoke Canister, which has a confuse rolled in; if I drop the rest of the spawn, the remaining mob, while still showing the purple "I'm Confused" dots, will attack me. It's specific to being the last mob from a spawn; as long as there's another mob in the spawn still standing, they'll attack a friendly, and will only attack me if there's nobody else to 'shoot' at.

And I have the mental image of a character making the huge arc while in the air, and because they're not anchored on the ground, they spin one way while their weapon swings the other, turning the attack from an arc to a single target effect...

I've got one following me around right now, and it's definitely non-creepy. Unfortunately, it's so small it's invisible, which sort of defeats the purpose of having a pet following you around, but...