Captain Fabulous

If that's your processor you don't have Intel integrated graphics. You have AMD Vega graphics, which is far better. You could just find an add-in graphics card that will fit that machine. No need to buy a whole new system. But honestly, as the game is almost 20 years old you shouldn't need to even do that. When you say "lag" do you mean you see a delay in moving and/or activating powers? Or is it just a really low framerate?

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Ditto the others on Shadow Maul, especially on a Tank.

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I've said it before and I will die on this hill: ED broke the game.

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Check all the character slots to ensure it didn't simply get moved. After that you'll have to file a support ticket, see if they can figure out what happened.

It's a long animation for sure, but no reason it couldn't be trimmed to fit.

Not sure what's going on, but I usually stand right on the loading deck of the zone ferries. Never had any problems. Logged in a character this afternoon and got the badge.

Anyone know how long it's up for?

Yeah, I didn't do it on my Tank. I don't think she'd be in danger of dying, but the mezzing, repel, and KB would get old really fast.

It's a mean tango for sure.

He does a little bit of everything. MAG 1000 repel, stun, & hold, -end, -recovery, -fly, slow, -resist, MAG 80 KB, MAG 10 confuse. Also buffs his own tohit and dmg, and has base ~700-2000 of smashing damage per hit.

SJ/WP for the win.

I think the old Flares animation is the same as Gale and a few others.

It's not fun if you don't get pinballed.

Ohhhhh, I remember that kick! Was talking about it not that long ago. I really wish the devs could link that up as an alternate animation. It was so cool! I seem to remember that Fire Blast/Flares had a different animation at one time.

I wouldn't worry about Lightning Cloud so much. But Tornado does scatter groups if they're not locked down in advance. One of the KB2KD IOs works fine and won't affect any of your other powers. You could also slot one in Lightning Cloud but I don't think it's worth the effort or the slot. Hurricane is another one that scatters everything around you and takes some practice to use well (like you said, pushing critters into walls and corners. etc). The KB2KD IO doesn't work so well in Hurricane because it has repel in addition to KB and repel is unaffected by the IO. Hurricane isn't something you want to turn on and keep on at all times. You need to use it judiciously.

They only got the rights to FF and X-Men back recently, after they bought Fox Studios. Since we've seen both Mr. Fantastic and Professor X in Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool 3 has Wolverine in it the belief is they're using the multiverse subtheme as a way of bringing them in to the MCU. They're using the current phase to to expand the multiverse concept, likely for this purpose.

Yes. 😉

One thing that no one has mentioned is that some characters simply aren't all that interesting, and work far better on a team than they do a solo project. If you look at the X-Men, very very few of them would be a compelling character on their own. It's the team interdynamics that makes them work. The collective sharing of "we are different" that binds them together and makes them interesting as a whole. But on their own? Pretty dull. So while Marvel has been really good at taking B and C-listers and making them popular, it's only because these characters are actually pretty well fleshed out with a wealth of background material to draw from. As you get further down the list this becomes less and less so, and they struggle to find a way to make uninteresting characters interesting. I think this is what people are seeing and labeling as "fatigue". And this will all change once the X-Men and Fantastic Four are finally introduced into the MCU.