Nocturne, in Hero morality mission "Fire in the Hole"

[RikOz]

Nocturne is certainly my most-fought named villain, given that I can fight her twice (and optionally a 3rd time) in Faultline, and she's also the end boss in the level-20 range Hero morality mission, "Fire in the Hole". It is in this last appearance that she exhibits odd behavior.

 

Basically, while fighting Nocturne in that mission, I will beat her almost all the way down, and she instantly heals herself back to full health. She does this twice during the fight. For a while she also had a tendency to come popping back up and attacking me again after officially completing the mission, but before clicking on the Exit button, though that seems to have stopped.

 

She does not seem to do the self-full-heal thing during any of the fights in Faultline, so the fact that she does it (twice) in the morality mission makes me think it's a glitch. Is she actually supposed to do that? I know I ran the mission multiple times on live, but it's been long enough that I honestly can't remember if she did this back then.

[EmmySky]

She did this to me in the Faultline missions.  I figured it was some MoG or IH kind of power she must have.

[RikOz]

Really? I've literally never seen her do it in Faultline, fighting her as an EB. Maybe there's a level cutoff where her powers change or something? I'm usually done with Faultline by level 22, but I'm still doing this morality mission all the way up to 29.

 

EDIT to ADD: Just fought Nocturne again at the end of the Jim Temblor/Fusionette part of the Faultline story, and she definitely did not self-heal. I reduced her to near-zero health, and she promptly teleported herself out of there. My character this time started the mission at level 20, and leveled to 21 upon defeating Nocturne (love it when that happens, leveling up on the final boss of a mission!) Anyway, that character is ready to start the final part of the Faultline arc (in the dam), so she'll get to fight Nocturne again. I'll pay attention to what happens.

 

I think I will also XP-lock a character at level 20 or 21 until they can get the Fire in the Hole mission, and see what Nocturne does at that level.

Edited December 1, 2019 by RikOz