Clave Dark 5

Yeah, that's still not everything, but it's a good start.

Very much this. They need to make some change so that every bit of text that the team lead sees can also be seen by anyone they're teaming with, like a Clue drop or a big ol' text box that shows up on screen (although I'm not a huge fan of those; even with my new much wider screen they always post up under my map or a Pet window or something).

I've done it all of twice since HC started up; never did it on Live. And I saw someone advertising for it just last night, or maybe the night before? Plus I play during usually dead hours. Still, that is only 3 times. My guess is it doesn't contribute to an accolade that makes min/maxers super happy, and it can't be easily farmed, or maybe doesn't pay out well enough. Lots and lots of stuff in the game gets ignored because of that. I keep thinking I'm going to start starting more teams myself to get away from the usual TFs, DFB, and Incarnate-level TFs only style we've encouraged with endless farming... still really haven't gotten to it though. Maybe just some random AE stuff (played a fun one last night), but the way only the leader can see all the text is just a pain.

Nope, I've never read any of it. That was, as I understand it, "adventure fiction," this is horror.

Eh, just a dumb comic-type storyline. Like alternate universes, every comicsy media property is going to mine that tired well sooner or later.

I think I had seen that someone made a TOAST IN THE MACHINE a few years ago too, roughly; those shoulder dealies figured in prominently the same way. But kudos for the good use of the costume change here! (I guess he must burn the toast a fair amount if he's only getting three stars though)

I've fixed the noted typos and updated some of the dialogue to make sure the timed mission doesn't surprise anyone.

Is that another monstrosity created by the Chile Pepper Institute in New Mexico?

Unless you tank because the team is hard up for tanky-types, or if you run waaay ahead of the team on the map, then TP them to the AV, or other such things. I enjoy the tanking the most, THAT impresses a lot of people who don't know nany better.

With Incarnates walking around a dime a dozen, fully purpled-out builds, you name it, isn't this game already easy enough? The only time I might agree with this is MMs, who's pets seem to very often get one-shotted, which of course gimps you terribly.

Whoa, may I ask about this? If you'd prefer not to, feel free to not even reply.

They need to update the Wikipedia article then, it disagrees.

Probably yeah, for most people. I get super tired of bouncing off walls in caves, and I find a Kin deathly dull to play, but having one around is always ha ha a boost.

Again, notes inside in hidden stuff...

Some points addressed above in the hidden text (I hope, I'm not sure how that works on these forums)/

Go fight some Romans and tell me that you never get tired of hearing their constant "Eeeeuuuuraaaugh!" And then make me believe you. 😃 I've been considering getting enough into modding to get rid of those sounds...

So back on Live, I was working on this one story and gave up because of how wonky the AE works, which included weird NPC actions despite being set to do X. I've now resurrected this from the tombs, thinking it was "nearly done" but ho ho, nooooo... I've reworked it into nearly a workable shape, notwithstanding the NPCs still doing a few odd things when they shouldn't. Regardless, it works! To give you some ideas about it... It was inspired a number of sci-fi films such as Planet Of The Vampires and Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, which is shares some DNA with, although I didn't see that one until I already had most of the story worked out. You may also note similarities to a certain group of in-game foes, lore that I also didn't know when I conceived the story, ha ha. This is a straight-forward style of story telling, nothing surreal as some of my past (but not all!) AE stories have been. Enjoy!

Hard pass from me. The few times I've heard voices in vidya games (not that I play any, really), their idea of "good voice acting" is like bottom of the barrel Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Like nails on the blackboard of my mind.

Second time I've been able to post this today, but he also does good work near a dumpster.

Dumpsters do that too with trash.

That's all from me on this topic, see y'all next year!