Gold Side Resistance Arc "Spirals: Part Two."

[Darmian]

Odysseus' hunt for a spy deep in the heart of the Resistance intensifies. The Syndicate are involved but so is Praetor Duncan and the danger just cranked up several notches. Time for the Crusaders to fight fire with fire. [A Praetorian SFMA prior to the Praetorian war.]

 

Arc ID 55358

[TerroirNoir2]

1 hour ago, Darmian said:

Odysseus' hunt for a spy deep in the heart of the Resistance intensifies. The Syndicate are involved but so is Praetor Duncan and the danger just cranked up several notches. Time for the Crusaders to fight fire with fire. [A Praetorian SFMA prior to the Praetorian war.]

 

Arc ID 55358

Awesome!  Looking forward to these. Just about to start "The Eve of War" so having some more Resistance stuff in the pipeline will be cool!

[cranebump]

Well done (again). I ended up running the whole thing on +0/x4 by accident, and lordy, lordy.

Spoiler

M1

Ran with my fire farming tank. Forgot to change the +/x setting, so the groups were big. Thankfully, it was just 0/x4.

I missed the front glowie, so trundled back after whacking everything and got it. I even looked in the area I missed it, since I’m familiar with this map. For some reason, when I’m on laptop, glowies are just really quiet.

The “middle” spawn dropped RIGHT on top of me after I got the wall safe.:-) (diiiiiiiiiiiiiiick)

With the barrels in there, you get some dangerous spawn overlap, so it isn’t a cakewalk by any means. After defeating the first boss, I had a pair of spawns of The Dominated RIGHT on me. Took a second to adjust, but I hit the self heal and burnt them down (eventually…this guy is NOT about damage).

No text errors I could see.

 

M2

INTRO: I think there’s an unnecessary space between Tagger and the following comma. Not a huge deal, but it throws the comma to the following line.

For speed purposes, I’m adjusting to default level (plus, I don’t trust you, never did, never will, so nyahnyahnyah).:-)

Walked around that first corner and got a spawn PLUS a destruticble object group. Man. Big alpha. Anyone else, I might’ve been toast.

Smart use of this map. It’s not Praet, right?

So, here’s a sample of the “barrel effect:”

Yeah…they heard me alright. Dropped every AoE, a heal, and 2 burn patches. Do I hate you, Darm. I do. Yes, I do.

Reece fired Heder? What a fucker. Dude’s dead.

So, Reece speed-boosted me before turning on me. Thanks. Douche. (Man…the rezzes…peeps gonna hate you, brutha. I just think of it as S.O.P.).:-)

 

M3

Long story short: HOLY FUCK. I stuck around and handled tne ambushes, but that’s a death trap. 

Nice and quick, though, which is great for mid-arc. 

Superadine tie in=nice.

 

M4:

Well, here’s what I run into. A LOT:

It’s just now I realize, I’m still on x4.:-/

Reece goes down. Twice. 

 

M5

Lotsa mobs, of course, but we find Gigglywigglypiggly (that guy with the Z’s). Bit of minor thing here:

Escort and Objective stacked, I guess. Not sure that can be avoided.

 

Okay, so there you are Dom-de-DomDom. And of COURSE you rez, but screw you. I’m taking you out. And all your ambushes. And the other ambushes when I leave. BWAHAHAHAHA!

 

It's perfectly executed. Plus the use of barrels gives you a lot of overlap (for some reason). Ambushes. Sheesh. Tons. You have the option to run from some, which will be nice for those not wanting to experience the punishment. I am evidently not one of them.:-)

 

[Darmian]

27 minutes ago, cranebump said:

Well done (again). I ended up running the whole thing on +0/x4 by accident, and lordy, lordy.

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M1

Ran with my fire farming tank. Forgot to change the +/x setting, so the groups were big. Thankfully, it was just 0/x4.

I missed the front glowie, so trundled back after whacking everything and got it. I even looked in the area I missed it, since I’m familiar with this map. For some reason, when I’m on laptop, glowies are just really quiet.

The “middle” spawn dropped RIGHT on top of me after I got the wall safe.:-) (diiiiiiiiiiiiiiick)

With the barrels in there, you get some dangerous spawn overlap, so it isn’t a cakewalk by any means. After defeating the first boss, I had a pair of spawns of The Dominated RIGHT on me. Took a second to adjust, but I hit the self heal and burnt them down (eventually…this guy is NOT about damage).

No text errors I could see.

 

M2

INTRO: I think there’s an unnecessary space between Tagger and the following comma. Not a huge deal, but it throws the comma to the following line.

For speed purposes, I’m adjusting to default level (plus, I don’t trust you, never did, never will, so nyahnyahnyah).:-)

Walked around that first corner and got a spawn PLUS a destruticble object group. Man. Big alpha. Anyone else, I might’ve been toast.

Smart use of this map. It’s not Praet, right?

So, here’s a sample of the “barrel effect:”

Yeah…they heard me alright. Dropped every AoE, a heal, and 2 burn patches. Do I hate you, Darm. I do. Yes, I do.

Reece fired Heder? What a fucker. Dude’s dead.

So, Reece speed-boosted me before turning on me. Thanks. Douche. (Man…the rezzes…peeps gonna hate you, brutha. I just think of it as S.O.P.).:-)

 

M3

Long story short: HOLY FUCK. I stuck around and handled tne ambushes, but that’s a death trap. 

Nice and quick, though, which is great for mid-arc. 

Superadine tie in=nice.

 

M4:

Well, here’s what I run into. A LOT:

It’s just now I realize, I’m still on x4.:-/

Reece goes down. Twice. 

 

M5

Lotsa mobs, of course, but we find Gigglywigglypiggly (that guy with the Z’s). Bit of minor thing here:

Escort and Objective stacked, I guess. Not sure that can be avoided.

 

Okay, so there you are Dom-de-DomDom. And of COURSE you rez, but screw you. I’m taking you out. And all your ambushes. And the other ambushes when I leave. BWAHAHAHAHA!

 

It's perfectly executed. Plus the use of barrels gives you a lot of overlap (for some reason). Ambushes. Sheesh. Tons. You have the option to run from some, which will be nice for those not wanting to experience the punishment. I am evidently not one of them.:-)

 

Response!!

 

Spoiler

I'll look at that comma.  As for the Escort and Objective Stacking, I experimented with that, and yeah, I wouldn't trigger otherwise.  PITA but I figured so what. Hopefully the chat in M2 worked, where Reese is going along with you, then there should be a back and forth between you, Tagger and Reese, hopefully like an actual chat, before Reese turns on you.

 

Spirals 3 will take a little longer as I try to tie all the ends together.

 

[Darmian]

32 minutes ago, cranebump said:

Well done (again). I ended up running the whole thing on +0/x4 by accident, and lordy, lordy.

  Hide contents

M1

Ran with my fire farming tank. Forgot to change the +/x setting, so the groups were big. Thankfully, it was just 0/x4.

I missed the front glowie, so trundled back after whacking everything and got it. I even looked in the area I missed it, since I’m familiar with this map. For some reason, when I’m on laptop, glowies are just really quiet.

The “middle” spawn dropped RIGHT on top of me after I got the wall safe.:-) (diiiiiiiiiiiiiiick)

With the barrels in there, you get some dangerous spawn overlap, so it isn’t a cakewalk by any means. After defeating the first boss, I had a pair of spawns of The Dominated RIGHT on me. Took a second to adjust, but I hit the self heal and burnt them down (eventually…this guy is NOT about damage).

No text errors I could see.

 

M2

INTRO: I think there’s an unnecessary space between Tagger and the following comma. Not a huge deal, but it throws the comma to the following line.

For speed purposes, I’m adjusting to default level (plus, I don’t trust you, never did, never will, so nyahnyahnyah).:-)

Walked around that first corner and got a spawn PLUS a destruticble object group. Man. Big alpha. Anyone else, I might’ve been toast.

Smart use of this map. It’s not Praet, right?

So, here’s a sample of the “barrel effect:”

Yeah…they heard me alright. Dropped every AoE, a heal, and 2 burn patches. Do I hate you, Darm. I do. Yes, I do.

Reece fired Heder? What a fucker. Dude’s dead.

So, Reece speed-boosted me before turning on me. Thanks. Douche. (Man…the rezzes…peeps gonna hate you, brutha. I just think of it as S.O.P.).:-)

 

M3

Long story short: HOLY FUCK. I stuck around and handled tne ambushes, but that’s a death trap. 

Nice and quick, though, which is great for mid-arc. 

Superadine tie in=nice.

 

M4:

Well, here’s what I run into. A LOT:

It’s just now I realize, I’m still on x4.:-/

Reece goes down. Twice. 

 

M5

Lotsa mobs, of course, but we find Gigglywigglypiggly (that guy with the Z’s). Bit of minor thing here:

Escort and Objective stacked, I guess. Not sure that can be avoided.

 

Okay, so there you are Dom-de-DomDom. And of COURSE you rez, but screw you. I’m taking you out. And all your ambushes. And the other ambushes when I leave. BWAHAHAHAHA!

 

It's perfectly executed. Plus the use of barrels gives you a lot of overlap (for some reason). Ambushes. Sheesh. Tons. You have the option to run from some, which will be nice for those not wanting to experience the punishment. I am evidently not one of them.:-)

 

 

Also, testing this on 0/8 gives this response in MISSION 1!!!

 

Spoiler

 

This was me getting hit with ONLY TASERS!  ONLY TASERS!  I hit one of them and then they ALL hit me.  Insta-dead.

 

[huang3721]

The ravers are interesting. Unlike the servants, they are less aggressive. Relatively speaking. They will not attack until provoked, even though they are hostile and four levels above my toon.

 

 

 

Let's see what would happen if she shoots the barrel.

 

 

Ow.

 

-edit-

The best part? The ravers' aggro reset after defeat, so she can safely rez right next to them.

 

Spoiler

So, Fixadine labs were shutting down, and Dominatrix switched to Superadine. Two things:

• Superadine turns people green. 
• Fixadine addicts are red/orange.

Too bad the player character foiled her plan. I wish I could observe the result. You know, for science!

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Edited May 20, 2023 by huang3721
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[Zhym]

Another great set of missions.  Some thoughts:

 

Spoiler

• I spent a lot of time hunting for the second spawn (Lady Somebody) in the first mission.  Maybe think about using a smaller map?
• Any mission in which I get to kick Reese's butt is a good mission.  And this arc had two of them!
• In Mission 4, clue 4, it looks like there's an "of" missing in, "The refrigerator contains packages Superadine."
• I saw the twist at the end coming quite a ways away.  Doesn't mean it was bad.  Just...expected. :)

 

[Darmian]

1 hour ago, Zhym said:

Any mission in which I get to kick Reese's butt is a good mission.  And this arc had two of them!

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Query: Did the chat spawn correctly for M2?  So Reese thinks you're back up, and then Tagger tells him you're not and then he responds and turns on you.  I got that trigggering right for me in test, but I like to check with others!

 

[Darmian]

1 hour ago, Zhym said:

I saw the twist at the end coming quite a ways away.  Doesn't mean it was bad.  Just...expected. 🙂

Not much I can do about that!  The presence was telegraphed so, LOL.

[Darmian]

2 hours ago, Zhym said:

I spent a lot of time hunting for the second spawn (Lady Somebody) in the first mission.  Maybe think about using a smaller map?

Spoiler

Ah, I had her animation set to her lying down surrounded by her fawning sycophants. I've changed that.

 

[Zhym]

4 hours ago, Darmian said:

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Query: Did the chat spawn correctly for M2?  So Reese thinks you're back up, and then Tagger tells him you're not and then he responds and turns on you.  I got that trigggering right for me in test, but I like to check with others!

 

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I think so.  It happened pretty fast, so both sides of that conversation happened pretty much at once, but my DP/MA blaster does a lot of damage quickly, so that sort of thing tends to happen.

 

 

3 hours ago, Darmian said:

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Ah, I had her animation set to her lying down surrounded by her fawning sycophants. I've changed that.

 

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Ahhh!  I only found her when I started attacking a couple of generic seeming mobs and she seemingly popped up out of nowhere.