Penelope Yin TF - Hard mode

[KaizenSoze]

Here is my draft version of hard mode for the Penelope Yin Task Force. Yin is pretty much my favorite task force, at least the one I run much more than any other. I don't think hard mode should be restricted to Incarnate level context. Especially, consider how overpowered Incarnates are currently. Having said that, please let's not turn this into a discussion of Incarnate balance.

 

Interesting points:

• Controls are very useful, not required, but they will speed things up considerably
• Teams really need to understand mobs priority
• Teams could just blast their way through, but it will be slow at best

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ROHrYPW-2EEuD3aIz4tzi7SkgOz4k_pUNb1X8HYuJKs/edit?usp=sharing

[TheZag]

And the camera man in the final cutscene should be 3 feet taller.

 

[honoroit]

yin is great, and would be fun in a hard mode.

 

you have characters that are slotted enough to be dangerous.

 

everyone brings a spectrum of powers at effective 25ish if theyre over level.

 

theres mobs to the side rooms in final map, that are easy xp to enjoy (just force the issue if youre a tank and grab them, you only have ~30s until the cutscene plays on entry because someone is trying to get back to lfg again).

 

it doesnt make you kill n mobs in every zone through 35 (except hollows)

 

they could turn on the reactor bubble thinger mechanic.

 

 

[lemming]

One problem is you have Dr Pierce in there causing her to be arrested before Watkin's arc, where she is uncovered as Vahzilok and arrested at the end of it. 

 

Which is what sets her up for the Buzzsaw arc.

[KaizenSoze]

28 minutes ago, lemming said:

One problem is you have Dr Pierce in there causing her to be arrested before Watkin's arc, where she is uncovered as Vahzilok and arrested at the end of it. 

 

Which is what sets her up for the Buzzsaw arc.

From the Agent Watkin's arc.
It was at this point you made an important decision: You put the lives of others above your own and allowed Pierce to get a lead on you by staying put and obeying quarantine. You emerged from the warehouse hours later with a vaccine, and a new lead. Cortex, the only name that was left in the game for sure, had accessed Pathogen's data dump and got his location traced as a result. When Cortex fell, you recovered Dr. Pierce, whom Cortex was forcing into compliance. She was then turned over to the FBSA for questioning, and she made a plea deal with SERAPH.

 

A plea deal does not automatically mean prison. She is definitely in prison by the time The Freakish Lab of Dr. Vahzilok arc starts. It would be an easy bit of re-conn to say she violated the terms of her parole in the Yin TF and was put in prison.

[lemming]

1 hour ago, KaizenSoze said:

A plea deal does not automatically mean prison. She is definitely in prison by the time The Freakish Lab of Dr. Vahzilok arc starts. It would be an easy bit of re-conn to say she violated the terms of her parole in the Yin TF and was put in prison.

You mean when you go get her from SERAPH in the middle of her plea deal during the Buzzsaw arc.   You'd have to rewrite some of the beginning of that arc then.  You're not getting her from prison, but from the consequences from the Watkins arc.

 

I think it might be easier to find someone else than needing to insert some changes into a fairly recently written arc.

[KaizenSoze]

16 minutes ago, lemming said:

You mean when you go get her from SERAPH in the middle of her plea deal during the Buzzsaw arc.   You'd have to rewrite some of the beginning of that arc then.  You're not getting her from prison, but from the consequences from the Watkins arc.

 

I think it might be easier to find someone else than needing to insert some changes into a fairly recently written arc.

Lore can be adjusted. How about the rest of the design?