Trapdoor Test Results - the other half of Pylon testing?

[Ratch_]

Slow & Steady wins the race...

Or just gets you a slow time 😅

[Ratch_]

This has been a fun little character run around random TFs with. Has the perfect amount of control & chaos for me to enjoy

[Intrinsic]

On 6/15/2023 at 11:21 PM, Ratch_ said:

 

 

I had a fire^3 dom on the retail servers that I loved.  My build had lots of recharge but low defense, so the dom relied heavily on CC (or teammates) for survival.  Seemed very competitive damage-wise at the time, but blasters on Homecoming pull way ahead with their crash-less nukes.  

[ScarySai]

Timing the new bio/martial, and re-doing the energy/rad and AR/tac. 

 

Claws/EA soon, and gonna push for that sub-3:00 fire/fire/fire soon.

 

 

[Panache]

Do folks still run these?

 

I've been futzing around with my main's* build/Incarnate abilities lately and the current version pulled off 3 things it hasn't been able to before the most recent respec: soloing a Pylon, a +1 Chimera and the Trapdoor test. None of these are eye-popping or anything, but it's cool to go from "couldn't do any one of those things" to "can do all those things".

 

*Pain/Sonic/Dark Def with nothing but concept choices (Agility, Paralytic, Clarion for the relevant incarnates; Paralytic I sometimes have to switch out for Degen)

[SomeGuy]

On 12/14/2023 at 5:50 PM, Panache said:

Do folks still run these?

 

 

Yes.

[Mistamista71]

How do you get past the first mission? There is like 12 AVs haha

 

jk.. I said f it and tested my luck.. Well... You can't die 🤣🤣 

Edited December 27, 2023 by Mistamista71

[ScarySai]

2:56/57 (looks like 56 on first hit to me) - amped.

 

I stopped being lazy and committed to a respec I've been planning for awhile. That archon almost ruined it by actually putting down the RPG, lol.

 

Scorched earth.mbd

 

Might try again later with burnout off cd, but I'll consider this my win for the day.

 

 

[Ratch_]

On 1/10/2024 at 11:01 PM, ScarySai said:

2:56/57 (looks like 56 on first hit to me) - amped.

 

I stopped being lazy and committed to a respec I've been planning for awhile. That archon almost ruined it by actually putting down the RPG, lol.

 

Scorched earth.mbd 42.23 kB · 6 downloads

 

Might try again later with burnout off cd, but I'll consider this my win for the day.

 

 

cleannn

[ScarySai]

With the council being reworked, trapdoor as a benchmark method is going to effectively die.

 

Let's put it out with a bang, let's see the wildest, most cheaty times we possibly can get out of it before it's gone.

 

Temps, insps, anything goes, I might even pay the best time by it going live, who's down?

[Unclemarty]

Is there some sort of AE mission that can replace trapdoor as a benchmark?

[Ston]

Now that our Trapdoor test is dead.. I was thinking of using this AE mission to replace it. What do you guys think? I'm pretty happy with the map and number of enemies, but would you want more variety in enemies?

- Battle Maiden enemies (easy, good mix of range and melee attacks, standard damage types)
- Defeat 1 Elite Boss (vanilla 5th Column EB who has 20% resist to all damage types)

- Outdoor map with 9 total spawn (their location will vary slightly, but they will always be in the water area)
 

 

[Sovera]

46 minutes ago, Ston said:

Now that our Trapdoor test is dead.. I was thinking of using this AE mission to replace it. What do you guys think? I'm pretty happy with the map and number of enemies, but would you want more variety in enemies?

- Battle Maiden enemies (easy, good mix of range and melee attacks, standard damage types)
- Defeat 1 Elite Boss (vanilla 5th Column EB who has 20% resist to all damage types)

- Outdoor map with 9 total spawn (their location will vary slightly, but they will always be in the water area)
 

 

 

The bad with Trapdoor was the tunnels. But the good was spawns couldn't be skipped or running away easily. Seems fine to me though.

[ScarySai]

@StonTravel time will be skewed with this one.

[Ston]

5 hours ago, ScarySai said:

@StonTravel time will be skewed with this one.

Which I think is a good thing, no? Some sets/builds have better movement speed than others which should impact clear speed. Kinda like using Jaunt in Trapdoor would give you faster times than builds without any teleport.

[Ratch_]

On 3/6/2024 at 4:25 PM, Ston said:

Now that our Trapdoor test is dead.. I was thinking of using this AE mission to replace it. What do you guys think? I'm pretty happy with the map and number of enemies, but would you want more variety in enemies?

- Battle Maiden enemies (easy, good mix of range and melee attacks, standard damage types)
- Defeat 1 Elite Boss (vanilla 5th Column EB who has 20% resist to all damage types)

- Outdoor map with 9 total spawn (their location will vary slightly, but they will always be in the water area)
 

 

Would you be able to share a arc # for this so I can give it a few runs and see?

The office sim map I have grown to really dislike due to spawn randomness and all the corners/runners that hide one off. This looks more promising.


In terms of enemy variety, I'm not too picky...but I would prefer if it could keep a similar survival metric as trapdoor. Nothing too difficult but far from packs of punching bags 🙂

Edited March 14 by Ratch_