Herotu

They'll never meet because they're all busy doing their day jobs. Like real life!

Just giving this a nudge, I need MOAR good combos!

... ... ... /shrug Sorry.

There are two questions here; Do you make lots of characters with the exact same powersets/builds? And.. Do you make lots of characters with the same look?

Now you're just being facecio.. facetio.. facesio.. funny.

Yep, how does it look if you replace the swords with ice fists, but keep the animation, I wonder?

That alternative colour tray is ... well... bland? There must be a reason.

So... what... would the game be better if every ability were reassessed in terms of cooldowns? I'd love to bin hasten- I hate wasting my auto on it. I always forget to hit the "click when off cooldown" powers. Perhaps those powers (like Hasten) should be Toggle/Auto instead somehow? Perhaps a new class of AutoPeriodic powers?

Spring Attack

Awww 😞 I thought it was a neat idea.

Ah yes. Now I do! :)

That would make sense if the animations for people didn't exist. I think it's more to do with the creapiness factor. They're weird, unfamiliar and spooky.

Hurled Objects... Sounds stupid, right? NOT SO FAST! This powerset is all about throwing... things, but not SPECIFIC things. The notion is to give a VAST array of object choices in the power customisation menu. This way players can make all kinds of crazy shit that I nor the developers even consider. Check this out: Now that we have Experimentation as a pool power, how about we allow the Hurled Objects character to use the flasks from the /MixFormula emote. Now we have a mad-scientist! Perfect, right??! I suggested Rock Blaster powerset recently, and although it was a replica of what someone else had also suggested, it could simply be incorporated into Hurled Objects as a customisation option. Downside is that it seems a lot of work and messing about with models, which NOBODY enjoys! Ahh, now I've thought of a better name for it... P R O J E C T I L E S

Neat idea! That would be a costume option, I suppose.

It sounds like a modmanager. Nice idea!

Erm... These are very pretty, nice and crisp! Good job, Rylas... ...but what are these for? Do we put them in an override folder, or are people just using them as avatars and shit?

Spines/Fire is the answer you want.

I've seen this argument a lot over the years, but I am not buying it. There's plenty to do at level 50. I find that I tend to abandon my 50s because after that you want a fancy dancy build and that's ... boring i.e. work.

Thanks :)

I think if I were to redesign the game, the "levelling journey" would be the Hero/Villain "learning their powers" - it's their origin story! At "end game" it'd be saving the world from existential threats. I guess that's sort-of where we are - but other players have different theory in their heads. Maybe that flexibility of concept is what's good about the game, or maybe that's a bad thing.. I don't know.

How about the game (I don;t know if client or server) calculates whether the enemy will die from the damage, then ONLY knock them back if they've got low enough health to be killed by the attack?

Oldschool gameplay was super-fun. As a tank, I enjoyed pulling a room around a corner and watching my team obliterate it. I enjoyed watching our stealther disappear into the distance as we waited for tp to the end. I remember having to be super careful for fear of teh wipe. That was fun and challenging, but tbh, it's still very possible to get TPK'd and it still feels good to do aoe knockdowns and such. I'm still having fun!

It's like if they added Pocket D to Atlas Park, right? It's like bases with loads of teleporters. Hubs and remote access convenience stuff make games both more modern - everything is at our fingertips via the internet these days, ,,,but also less fun - we don't have to travel around int he game anymore! Why make a world if we don't have to use it? So where do we strike the balance? SHOULD the game embrace a setting of mid-2000s and bin the convenience stuff, saying, for example, "NO! We don't need to update all the CRT monitors to LCD instead."?

It's a character in a video game. It'd be boring if they were all the same. If you read the computer file of Flambeaux in one of the missions it identifies her as a potential for Going Rogue (switching to villainy), which was the name of the product they were making at the time. There are reasons she's written like she is. Also, we all know of people like her IRL, so I think she's well written. If the miserable Emo Goth kids didn't like her, that's fine. Get over it and on with your life. As an adult at the time, I enjoyed it.

Thanks. :) Thanks. :)