ShardWarrior

So allow me to be clear, I do not care for YouTubers like Critical Drinker or Nerdrotic either. I find their schtick formulaic. Having watched films that they completely pandered, I personally find them not to be as bad as they claim they are. Having recently watch CA: BNW, I did not find it to be a very good movie and it is very clear it suffered from extensive story edits, but I did not find it to be anywhere near as bad as critics like Critical Drinker made it out to be. They are certainly entitled to their opinion, but I disagree with the degree of it. I certainly will not allow them to be the arbiter of whether or not I will watch a film or TV show.

This is giving people like Critical Drinker far more agency and credit than they deserve. He simply does not have the power or influence to sink a film on his own. At some point, a bad film is just a bad film and if people are not turning out to see it, it is not because Critical Drinker told them not to. And you know this as fact? Every thumbs down on a movie trailer is from someone deliberately trying to tank a film just for the laughs? None of them cannot possibly be from anyone who just did not like the content?

For me personally, once. The trailer for the Shawshank Redemption comes to mind. It did not do the actual film justice With that said, it was a singular extremely rare edge case, and believe me, Ironheart is no Shawshank Redemption. I take it you never read product labels to see what is in the foods you buy or read the ingredients on menus at restaurants? If we see ingredients we know we do not like or cannot even pronounce, it is unfair that we do not buy the product and eat it?

Until you have various team members all using Fold Space without communicating so mobs are getting teleported all over the place. These new abilities were ill conceived in my opinion.

Help me understand you here. On one hand, you are suggesting it is toxic to post a negative review "before even seeing the product". That means anyone who has seen a trailer, but not the actual product in its entirety, who then posts a negative review is being toxic. Now, in your follow up, you are suggesting it is not toxic. What exactly can be "review bombed" if there is not even a trailer released to be reviewed or bombed? How do you know that these YouTubers you are so focused on have not already seen the product, or have seen enough of it to know that it is not good? I saw the trailer for Ironheart. I did not care for it and did not like it. I posted my observations and suggested that the story did not makes sense and I found the main character unrelatable. I did not care for her in Wakanda Forever either as I felt she was poorly written and developed. Am I toxic? Or should I have given the trailer a 4 star rating and a thumbs up because that is the nice thing to do? I can completely understand not liking a particular reviewer or their given modus operandi. Those people are very easily ignored.

Just so we are clear, does that include any trailers for said product?

So all of these fans who are not turning out to see the latest movie or watch the new streaming show are now "toxic" because they do not like badly written stories? Automatically ascribing the label of "toxic" to anyone who simply does not like poorly written characters, poorly produced content and poorly executed series or films is a statement too. You had several people in this thread calling others all kinds of horrible names in posts that have since been removed simply because they do not like a badly written character. That is toxic behavior. It reads to me that Glacier Peak did not care for how the character is portrayed. I agree. Does that mean we are toxic? Of course not. We are people who are intelligent enough to know a badly crafted story and badly developed, unrelatable character when we see it. The MCU is not doing as well as it used to and that is not because the content is getting better. The fans are intelligent enough to recognize that.

Having watched the first 15 minutes of this, I have no doubt you are right about that.

Right. No one is ever complaining about farming ever. HC has never made changes to the game because of farming. You have completely misunderstood my post regarding the use of Pylons and Trapdoor. Try reading it. How much damage and how fast a Tanker can clear the trapdoor map is a meaningless measure. I explained this already.

Right because there were just so many people complaining that some tankers can solo the Trapdoor map faster than a Brute or Scrapper can and that is just unfair..... Yeah... These measures are absolutely meaningless in a team setting. Most meta content runs do not even allow you to bring a tanker or melee in general. There are Hami runs going on all the time where people are discouraged if not outright not invited to the league if they bring something other than DPS. How fast or slow a tank solos the Trapdoor map is absolutely meaningless to them. I personally could care less how fast or slow one AT or the next solos a specific map. I could care less if tanks could farm faster/better/more efficiently than Brutes could. What I do care about is that my tankers now feel less powerful and thereby less fun and now take longer to run content that I like to run. These are disincentives for me, so as I said before, thank you for that. If the HC goal was to make tankers less fun, then well done. Mission accomplished. I can easily switch to a Brute or Scrapper, at least until someone decides their Trapdoor clear times are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent too fast...

Of course it was.

A better question is why was this change necessary in the first place? Brutes are still farming just fine. If the intended goal was to slow down farming, then well done and thank you to the team here for making my non-farming solo play experience on my tankers more slow and thereby more boring. As I mentioned in the feedback thread, thank you for the disincentives to run my tankers.

Personally, I found Kinetic Melee fun while soloing, but definitely not for a team setting. The animations are far too slow for teaming to be of any use.

My main is Street Justice/Ninjitsu and has very little issue with any content in the game regardless of difficulty setting. It's very easy and inexpensive build-wise to cap positional defense (Ranged/Melee/Aoe). I will message you with the build I use if you like. I would also take advantage of using the Scrapper ATOs.

Yes if you have built in enough recharge to be running perma Rage on a SS tanker.

IOs and Incarnates are not the problem. The problem is that there is very little content designed and balanced for characters taking full advantage of them. 4 Star Hardmode TFs were a step in the right direction. The new Kallisti Wharf content is leaning toward that as well. It is not a "nothing burger" to have a different view than you. Speeding and doing maximum DPS is how you define feeling "super". That is not universally true for others. Some people do enjoy interacting with the game and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Scrappers and Stalkers already fill that role. Brutes are essentially superfluous without any meaningful role in my opinion. Not quite a tanker, and out shined by Scrappers and Stalkers.

I have a question regarding these changes. Are these in part due to wanting to make Brutes more attractive? If so, then perhaps working on Brutes to give them more of a unique role or improving their ATO sets may be better than nerfing tankers?

Thank you for this. The City Badge Tracker is a wonderful and welcome addition. I specifically liked how it will tell you missing spawns for badges like Dreamwalker. Well done! 👍

Thank you for making the new Council slightly less tedious and annoying.

Rather than arrogant, I think a better word is unrelatable. When I saw the trailer, I too found it odd that she would seemingly be having difficulty finding anyone to help fund her. As was pointed out, there were many interested parties in the Iron Man technology which others struggled to re-create, so if there is someone out there who can replicate the technology, there would be interested parties trying to recruit her. As for Shuri, I am assuming that Riri Williams must have had some kind of falling out with the Wakandans since it would appear they are not giving her any help. We will have to wait and see what the story says about this, if it is addressed at all.

From the article - https://massivelyop.com/2025/05/29/into-the-super-verse-what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-balancing-in-city-of-heroes-homecoming/ I do agree with some of the points they make. Others, not so much. Interesting read regardless.

Thank you for the disincentives to play my tankers.

If you honestly believe that source like the NYT or other sources as you mentioned have never been sued for posting false information, I do not know what to tell you. Again, you can choose to believe whatever you like. Being in the entertainment industry, I have seen and heard firsthand how "friendly" outlets are favored over others, and those same "friendly" are incentivized with all kinds of compensation (not necessarily money) for their favorable reviews. Take that with however many grains of salt you like and believe whatever you like. I will stick with what I know. Feel free to disagree.

This is demonstrably false, but as I said earlier, you go right on believing whatever you like.