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I wanna see it remade with Snarky. Instead of him shooting someone and getting demoted, they could have him in the middle of a sting operation that goes bad, declare “that’s it, I’m out” before just walking out. Which would then lead to his demotion.

Damn, Snarky’s Machine is a great name!

Who is saying a defender became tougher than the tank? My point is that currently, to successfully play a true squishy (not one built to be a “pretend” tank) it is very beneficial to have a melee toon on the team to occupy the aggro. If you take away the squishiness, haven’t you just taken away the usefulness of the melee toons? The EXACT same thing you mentioned happening to defenders when they buffed melee. Again, this sounds like a great benefit for soloing and counterproductive for teaming, which is great if that’s your objective. I prefer teaming, for more than just watching 8 players all go off in their own direction, doing their own thing. Me personally, I don’t want this game to get to a point where you can just blindly pick any AT, and then just go through missions/TFs blindly mashing buttons with absolutely no thought for strategy. I know others feel differently.

I’ve had a couple toons that while in the middle of a DFB, I realize that I just don’t like the set. Then it’s just a matter of hurry up and finish so I can delete. The vast majority of the time though, I’ll run through 2DFBs and both Posi’s before deciding.

You got this!

That’s understandable, but when they say “we are still opening. Thanks for coming” - that’s it. I can understand the frustration from that, and at no time in all these discussions did I fault you or discount you for that frustration. I’m simply trying to say - we know it’s coming out. We know you don’t like it, so don’t play it. You still want to suggest changes, cool. Do it respectfully and you’ll find that people are more Inclined to agree with you. Otherwise it’s “Why are you even playing something you don’t like?”

My “don’t like it, don’t play it” comment is because I don’t understand your mindset. Why would you play something you don’t like, or are not happy with? A set that doesn’t meet your expectations? If you don’t like a particular restaurant, you don’t eat there again. I doubt you stand out front and demand they make the changes you want….so why do it with a set you simply don’t have to play? Seems like a much easier solution then getting upset and going on a rant - which most people know never ever accomplishes anything.

A bug? That should be pointed out. Never said it shouldn’t. A potential bug? That means it may or may not be an issue. It should be brought up, but that’s it. If they decide it’s a non-issue, that’s on them. Not performing the way you like? That’s a YOU issue which can easily be resolved by…..not playing the AT.

Sorry Bill Z, but this is pretty damn funny to me BTW, welcome back to the forums. You were missed!

I see where Glacier is coming from. It starts with, “allow me to purchase anytime” and then COULD slowly morph into “well, we can purchase those whoever we want, so why can’t we purchase these? Not fair!!!” Remember, a certain percentage of the player base always wants more, more, more - and those requests are usually justified with “that gets it, so this should too”.

When @Snarky ragequits a team, count your blessings and just keep going. No TF has to be full in order to complete.

So simple, and yet so difficult for some.

You’re talking to someone that enjoys playing squishies as squishies. I do not play defenders and brag about my tanking ability. I play defenders knowing that whatever team I am on will stay alive, not worry about needing anything, and will succeed. I enjoy the challenge of knowing that one wrong move will result in a face plant. So no. What you’re proposing does not sound like fun to me. If I understood you correctly, part of your argument is that the support class is not really needed anymore due to the increases in survivability of the other classes. So, Wouldnt increasing the survivability of the classes that historically relied on the melee classes to manage aggro, suddenly make those classes (tanks/brutes) become less necessary? Wouldn’t that ultimately end the need to team up? Or, is that the ultimate goal here?

This right here! I sometimes get the feeling that some players feel they must approve of everything. NO. If you like and enjoy 80% of the power sets, play those 80% instead of complaining about the 20% you don’t like. That particularly set or power is not for you.

If half the players don’t like something, and half do - which group do they listen to, without being accused of not listening? 🤔

Suggestions can be spun a million different ways. The truth is, the majority are about one thing and one thing only - Give Me More Power!!!

Your analogy is nowhere close to what I said. It would be more akin to you buying a house next to a trailer park, and then complaining to the city that there’s a trailer park next to your house and demanding it be torn down. There is no resistance to the game evolving. My personal resistance is to making all the ATs equally powerful, and therefore taking away any sort of strategy or thought process when it comes to choosing and playing an AT - which is where suggestions like this would have the game headed. “Emps should be able to use Heal Other on themselves.” ”Not fair, Time/Rad only have aura! They also need an individual heal to make it fair!” It’s all part of the evolution that will eventually see all the ATs play exactly the same, and then followed up with cries that “this is not fun anymore because there’s nothing to differentiate any of the ATs”.

To your second option.. Guess it would depend on which server. I see Synapse runs almost daily on Excelsior. They could form there own team. Of course the speculation could be put to rest, if the Op had actually have some context.

I’ve always found it strange that someone will pick powers (and to a degree, ATs) - knowing the benefits and limitations (that are all well documented, so “not knowing” is not an excuse), and then want to change those limitations.

Sorry you died. Absorb Pain was still on cooldown after I USED IT ON MYSELF

Loved the first season. This one, not so much. It’s too bad we didn’t get the same level of unhinged craziness from Vigilante. He was one of my favorite parts of season 1. I was expecting much more from the alternate universe. It felt more like they were just teasing us with it. Then when it finally started to get going, we get the big reveal, and then it just sorta gets wrapped up. A couple good action sequences sprinkled throughout, and then everything came to a screeching halt with the final episode. Which of course ends on a cliffhanger. Not a big adrenaline fueled, action packed cliffhanger, but a “limp across the finish line” cliffhanger. One that left me very disappointed, and wondering if there was supposed to be one more episode to have the show go out with a bang. Having said all that, it wasn’t horrible. It had its fun moments, but they seemed to have really dropped the ball this time around.

Because…….people want everything given to them

Less slots, not more!

Trailer started out looking promising, but then got really strange. Doesnt help that I hated the use of the chant/song of the movies title. It came across as extremely annoying and I damn sure hope to not be inundated with it during future promotion. This is one movie in which I’ll wait to see what others are saying before deciding whether or not to see it.