Techwright

I hardly consider my illusion/storm controller to be "support". More like "You poor goons are locked in in this instance with me. And me. And me. And me, me, me. STORM!" Oh, and here's my team as well. That said, I also love my ice controller, and while he IS support, and isn't so much chaos and destruction, it's terribly satisfying to freeze virtually every enemy, even the big ones, if slotted right, then let the team carve on the ice sculptures.

I've long said they need to do something to help badgers get Sally. Something like...I dunno, maybe doubling her hit points.

I thought it was a great episode and the best one with Boba in it. (Oh dear, is that a spoiler?) 😉

You surprised me, and that was a good laugh.

Would that be an Idaho spud or a good ol' Southern sweet potato? I'm pretty sure the red-skinned potatoes are too small for the job, unless you're planning on daisy-chaining them, which is tricky. It's too easy to make a hash of it.

Getting Cat Woman vibes from this, and I love it! I assume the name is a play on the well-known full-alphabet sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?

I just had a thought regarding the big reveal of episode 6. This will tap into the first season of The Bad Batch as well, so consider yourself warned:

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Lee VanCleef? Interesting. I'd not considered that before. You might be seeing too much but only because there's a long history behind this episode. Okay, I didn't expect to ever have an episode get me as excited as "The Rescue" in The Mandalorian, but someone pulled out all the stop for this one. Amazing episode. I kept babbling at the screen (which I never do) to the point where a relative near me became concerned. (She's not a Star Wars fan, and as I chatted with her she asked if it was the TV show with "Baby Gouda" 🤣) Episode 6 thoughts and there's going to be big, big spoilers here: EDIT: Thought of two other small, but perhaps important details:

We do have horseshoes in the chest emblem lists. Oh, and if his biography includes the phrase "they're always after me lucky charms", I'm going to spew milk.

Who says that I don't? 😉

I found this new YouTube chat covering super powers to be hilarious.

"Does it just come out of your wrists or does it...come out of anywhere else?" - MCU Peter Parker

If there isn't, there should be. I'd probably call it "Committed". If you finish it, you probably should be... 😉 @Snarky, fantastic work, dude! A question regarding "every contact": Are you referring to only one side of Gold, or did you somehow manage to run both Resistance and Loyalist?

Has there ever been, either in the original game, or Homecoming, a "Danger Room" scenario, for lack of a better phrase? (I think there's a specific name for it in gaming, but I've forgotten it, so I'm using a comic book reference.) That is, a room or instance where players enter and the goal is not survival to an end, but survival increasingly difficult waves for as long as possible. Start with a simple level one, gradually move towards levels where the sheer number of opponents, combined with their ranking will eventually overwhelm even the best players. I'm guessing if it existed, it was probably an AE creation. I realize culling hordes is what farming is, but I gather that has been tuned for quickly dispatching scores of opponents, not a survival scenario.

I was reading old posts of mine back in the original game forums, and found a thread I'd started that, curiously, I'd been thinking about just this week, well over a decade after posting it. Weird. Anyway, I found it an interesting discussion back then so I thought I'd bring my OG post forward into the Homecoming forums just to see what people came up with this time. In-game, as well as superhero portrayals in many venues, ice powers seem to be displayed as being "pushed" from the caster to the target. Its been decades since high school science, but I seem to recall that cold was an absence of heat, that is, that heat had been drawn away. Is this correct? If so, would it not be more accurate for a ice power to create cold or ice by "pulling", parasitically drawing heat from the intended target? In essence a ice blaster would be a living, overpowered heat sink. Of course, this could cause issues if there was no easy way to dispel the received heat. An ice/fire blaster would be one solution. This is not to say that a technological solution could not push a stored, frozen mixture out. My fall in front of a snow-blower on the ski slopes taught me that much. Thoughts?

Thanks! Found it! I went under a different nom de plume back then. I'd complete forgotten about that alias. Looks like I've got a ways to go to catch up to my past self on postings.

Where does one go to see their old forum post count? (That's assuming I remember my old forum name, that is.)

Steam notified me that a game on my wish list, Everspace, is on sale. It's expansion, Everspace: Encounters is also on sale. I use a Steam wish list as a "hey I took a 5-minute look and its seems good", not a "I've done an in-depth analysis, and this is the game for me when it is on sale". So...has anyone played it at length and can comment on the pros and cons?

I'm getting the distinct impression that we'll only get a partial victory at the end of this miniseries, or perhaps I should say "season" because the number of warriors, no matter how skilled, is looking rather thin on Boba's side to go to a full-scale war with the Pykes. It feels more like the last episode of season 3 of Star Wars: Rebels, where the Rebels had a survival victory, but didn't destroy the Big Bad of the series. So maybe Boba defeats the current Pykes on planet, and perhaps convinces most of the Mos Eisley underworld to side with him, but episode 7 ends with a Big Bad stepping forward having taken note of the Fett resistance. Just typing that out makes me wonder if the Big Bad, should they exist, is someone we know already from other Star Wars lore. Let the speculation begin!

I'm not sure "compelling" is the right word. "Consistent" would be more like it. Boba's first ground fight after recovering his armor in The Mandalorian was absolutely glorious, and everything the fans had hoped for. Somehow in TBoBF, the writers have strayed from that path. Not entirely, the Nikto slaughter proves that, but there's definitely a difference in what they give Tem to work with. Here's hoping for a return to form for the final episodes of what is likely season 1.

I know I've not been everywhere in the game, but this one has me stumped. Where is it? Is it Mot in the Dark Astoria revision?

In answer to your hidden comment regarding the "side mission", it is a Chekov's Gun. It's been revealed, so at some point it must be done, or at least attempted.

Okay, this is definitely the first episode where I have to be in agreement with some critics. (But please don't let my opinion stop you watching it. There's some great stuff in the episode!) Major Spoilers ahead:

It may be a common location or it may not be generally known. It may be an instance, or possible affected by the time of day or night. It may be anything from a scenic landscape to a dramatic statue. What do you consider to be the most spectacular view anywhere in the game? Location info and screenshot are preferable. If your resolution is low, that's fine. You might ask viewers of the thread who have better graphics to take a screenshot.