Techwright

Without spoilers, how was Nicholas Hoult's performance as Lex Luthor? I like Hoult alot in what few other works of his I've seen, but I admit to a little concern when I heard he was cast as LL. The trailers didn't alter that concern. He's a great actor, I just have trouble imagining him covering the role successfully.

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I'm just here for the potential Snarky sightings. Well, okay, there are other things, too. The nostalgia, certainly, but after 6 years of newer experiences, I've moved beyond that. There's a better illusion to rooted attacks in this game. It makes me feel like the team's attacks are more fluid than they actually are. That rooted experience always annoyed me in other MMOs, especially WoW. (Firefall was a lot more fluid, but it didn't make it and has never returned.) PUG experience is...usually...a lot better in this MMO than others of my experience. While we do have changes to powers and power sets at times, they're generally not the sweeping changes I ran into in other MMOs. I lost track of how many "from the ground up" changes were done to archetypes I was playing in other games, not just tweaking the powers, but wiping them out and replacing them, forcing me to completely relearn the character or worse, end it because it was so different it was not the same character I'd enjoyed playing. There's a lot more flexibility in how the character can be crafted. In other MMOs (yes, WoW was one) I was informed that there was only one way (possibly two) that a character could be trained and enhanced, or it was considered a gimped character.

It might help to know what you want out of a supergroup, or perhaps what you're hoping to contribute. Take a look at the individual server forums for a listing of supergroup names and/or SG recruitment postings. As Excelsior and Everlasting are the highest populations, I'll give you links to those: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/39-excelsior/ https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/40-everlasting/ You can also broadcast your SG desires in General chat in the game. That will usually get a response. Oh, and Snarky's a died-in-the-wool Red Side kind of guy. Don't outright dismiss his comment regarding Blue Side, but do take it with a grain of salt, preferably garlic salt.

I'd say whatever studio Rob Leifeld is doing art for now, but only because you caught me flat-footed with that question. 😁 Hmm... That's a hard choice. I don't really get into manga or anime, but I did like the old stuff in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Whatever house did Robotech would probably do a fine job with Major Ray Gunn. I'd love for Jim Lee to cover him, so that might imply DC Comics currently, but I also loved early 1990s Valiant Comics, and X-O Manowar had a style I liked, so their successor, Valiant Entertainment, probably could do a reasonable job.

There's a great many wonderful answers to that found here:

You just had to go and remind me... 😭

Wilson's looking a bit different these days. I have to wonder if this was an early model of Atlas that the devs just recycled.

I...I would not have dreamed Chopin would be used for such a show. Wow. 🤯

I suspect you actually meant to say "diameter" rather than "radius". A 10 foot diameter AoE would have a 5 foot radius in all directions. The OP makes a good question though: are all AoEs going to be spherical? or might some be vertically flatter, like a donut?

I'd have to agree on those as possibly the worst. People (and strange cybernetic people) are supposed to work in these spots? They're so pitch black, you're likely to be eaten by a grue. Just like the black Arachnos bases, I have to ask: did the designers ever consider what it takes for the inhabitants to traverse these areas on a daily basis?

Unique how?

I didn't really take to the trailer. I like Glen Powell, what few performances I've seen, but it felt like Arnold's Running Man only in a token sense. I've never read the source material, so I have only the 1980s movie to inform my opinion, and I liked it's over-the-top craziness in a dystopian world. I've even seen it as somewhat prophetic at times, notably the digital facial replacements. We're not quite there yet, but we're well underway. One of the things that irked me was the 1 vs the planet concept. I liked Arnold's version which had much more to do with comparing a modern "civilized" and "sanitized" audience to the Roman coliseum: people getting entertainment from horrific murders but keeping their hands clean in the bleachers. So you're saying the 1 vs the planet is closer to the source material?

On a positive note, MAG TRIPLE THREAT improved by 1.39%. If it were an enhancement, that would be a huge gain.

I know from past experience that some places in the game have a spot where two (or more?) day job buff bar icons can simultaneously appear. The entry to the Vanguard hospital is one of these, having both the Vanguard day job and the Hospital day job simultaneously appear on the buff bar. A discussion the forums had many years ago seem to suggest both would earn in that spot, but is that still the case, or would it default to one or the other?

In other fiction, I've always found the best villain groups to be the ones who figure out that bigger isn't always better. It's the swarms that make it challenging. While we kind of have this with the Clockwork king's minions, I'm thinking a high-tech, nanite or micro-machine swarm enemy might be a fresh approach. Settle them into the destroyed zones like Boomtown where there's abundant raw resources for them to use to propagate. A hive mind would make sense, though not necessarily as the ultimate big bad of the group. While nanites might be challenging to swat, these would swarm and form into forms that could attack. This would not necessarily look like any creature we're familiar with, but could use not only the human wireframe, but beastial wireframes as well, like spider, serpent, and quadruped. We'd fight them to disrupt their collective form, but like Freaks, if we smash the forms, some of the little blighters will swirl around until they can regroup to create a few remaining forms. As their story progresses, things get uglier when they figure out how to control organics, leading to some opponents being compromised human-hybrids, or cyborg-hybrids, such as the Arachnos spiders. As they potentially disassemble and reform, it keeps us guessing, as we're not sure what form(s) they'll be taking.

Haven't a clue. Looked at IMDB for his work and the only two names I recognized are The King's Man and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistence. To be fair though, Sean Connery had a body of work before Dr. No, but the only real standouts were Darby O'Gill and the Little People and The Longest Day. So maybe going with a relative unknown can pay off. As to New Bond, I think there's going to be a lot of Brits really put out, miffed even, if the actor is anything other than a Brit, or at least from the Commonwealth, like George Lazenby was. I've seen discussions on this many times over the last 20 years or so, and I get the impression that not casting a Brit would trigger a riot likely to overthrow the government. I'm fine with that status quo, so long as popular American characters remain with American actors. I'm thinking of future Indiana Jones works (you know Disney won't end that potential cash cow, but just rest it for a while) and Jack Ryan stories.

Hey, if those are Nem Automatons, I too would stay in the ship, just in case they decided attacking me furthered the goals of Nemesis. Now Sky Raider jumpbots: I thought there was a discussion years back where the jumpbots, especially the named, leading jumpbots were either mentally the scanned memories of Sky Raiders (possibly deceased) or like at least one other robot-using villain group, they put the brains of Sky Raiders into the robot (presumably after the human body was too injured to survive).

It's been quite a while but I could swear that a few of them actually had names, though possibly only mentioned in the contact mission stories. Some streets would seem to be obvious, like the Croatoa street running between the tram station and the university. I tend to thing of that as Salamanca's Main Street.

Hmm...interesting question. I can think of 3, but to understand why, it might help to understand Major Ray Gunn a bit better. So, here's his bio: Gordon Rodgers, a dedicated fan of old time serial movie sci-fi, is living his dream. Calling in several markers, he was able to obtain a powered undersuit, the latest in retro-engineered Ritki technology. In addition, he bought the rights to Ray Gunn, a nearly forgotten "space ranger" serial movie hero. Combining these, he rebooted the Ray Gunn franchise, becoming the living embodiment of the character. He purposefully targets villains that draw parallels to his character's adventures. Clockwork, Pumicites, and Sky Raiders he refers to as "killer robots", "alien monsters", and "space pirates". He's probably pushing it by calling Trolls "green men from Mars", and definitely wacko for calling the Banished Pantheon "space zombies". Still, his exploits are gaining fans, and his small franchise of products is taking off. In truth, he cares little for the money. He just wants a new generations to appreciate the great old heroes. So in summation, he's wealthy, but not Bruce Wayne levels of ludicrous wealth. He's quirkily adapts the 1950s "pure" heroes (no real angst) personality, and is happy to retool himself into the living embodiment of one of those on-screen heroes. And he's willing to make a buck off of it. I can also say, despite the goofball antics, Major Ray Gunn can seriously focus and get down to business when needed. It's a bit of a Booster Gold vibe, I guess, though I didn't intend that. So, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillon first come to mind, though they're a tad old for the role, which I envision as 40-ish in age. After recently seeing Glen Powell in Twisters, portraying both the outlandishly wild and very serious sides of his character, I think he might do nicely.

Coyote flight has been tried before to disastrous results.

It really does look like there should be one, but its the War Walls. There are city divisions between the playing areas, and presumably they, too, have the walls as obstacles to some really good routes. Or under the water via tunnel, but yes, it does seem to bypass KW. I'm all for that same ferry making two stops: KW and IP. Just as long as the IP stop is on the western bank. We've far too many connections on the eastern bank largely leading to the western bank being ignored.

Right. Same tactic as with Nicholas Hammond. Don't put them in the Spidey suits but have them visible on the streets. Basically a Stan Lee cameo, but with those guys instead.

I assume Shinji Tōdō was from the Japanese version? I'm aware of such, but have never seen it. It would completely break the movie, but I'd laugh if they had Danny Seagren rub his chin in thought and a thought balloon would appear.

Clearly he had a thing for the woodwind section when you consider these alongside Mission: Impossible: