Posi I Dopplegangers: Was this supposed to have happened this way?

[Dacy]

I was duoing Posi I with a friend. They were playing a Radiation/Psi blade tank, I was playing a Fire/Kin corruptor.. When we got to the Dopplegangers at the end of the final mission, there were six of them, and I was very surprised to see one of my "doubles" using Accelarated Metabolism!

You can see in this photo that some of the characters glow with the AM glow, and you can also see that some of the characters are being hit with a kinetic power even as I snapped the shot.

 

Some of my partner's "doubles" had ranged Psi powers.

 

So essentially, we saw a mashup of power types and ATs. The tank's character (again, rad/psi blade) appeared as a ranged psi powerset. (Presumably a corruptor with psi ranged powers, although I cannot guarantee that it was a corruptor and not a sentinel; I saw no fx to indicate the secondary set on that  character, but everything is black but the AM glow and the kin buffs, so, not sure.) In the heat of battle with 2 of us vs 6 of them (and the combo of rad and kin is especially potent), we did not have time to fully sort through the power combinations that were present. At least one of the Dopplegangers seemed to represent our power sets as they are on our characters. At least one doppleganger that looked like the tank, instead had the tank secondary as their primary, only in ranged form, and at least one (I actually think 2) of the dopplegangers that looked like my fire/kin corruptor, actually had the secondary power set that was the support version of the tank primary.

 

Is this mix and match powerset mashup the way this is supposed to work?

 

-Dacy

[starro]

I always thought it was a best try mashup of power sets (and costumes) from the era that task force was released and uncertain it ever gets updated.   On a task force when I thought a power set like symphony or a animal mastermind was new the character power set partially or whole was replaced with a generic energy blaster.  I know once a large body was swapped for regular male body too. 

Edited February 11 by starro

[Bionic_Flea]

Whenever new powersets come out, clones are always troublesome.  Which reminds me, I need to run Posi with my Arsenal on test server.  But it should already have rad/psi tankers in its list of powersets.  You should report that as a bug.

 

And while it can be annoying, clones generally have access to the full powerset, even if you don't.  Something about spaghetti code and AI cheating.

 

I'm guessing you were running at x6 and that's why you got the multiples.  I usually run Posi at standard level so +0/x1 if solo or by however many people are on the team.  So I never noticed multiples like in your photo.

[Dacy]

Thanks, and that is what I figured. Do I report that in game, or..I thought there was a place on the forums? I actually thought this was it.

 

-Dacy

[Bionic_Flea]

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/32-bug-reports/

 

Or you can ask a GM to move it.

[UltraAlt]

 

On 2/11/2024 at 3:50 AM, Dacy said:

Is this mix and match powerset mashup the way this is supposed to work?

 

What was the lead player's Notoriety settings?

[SuggestorK]

On 2/11/2024 at 9:50 AM, Dacy said:

I was duoing Posi I with a friend. They were playing a Radiation/Psi blade tank, I was playing a Fire/Kin corruptor.. When we got to the Dopplegangers at the end of the final mission, there were six of them, and I was very surprised to see one of my "doubles" using Accelarated Metabolism!

You can see in this photo that some of the characters glow with the AM glow, and you can also see that some of the characters are being hit with a kinetic power even as I snapped the shot.

 

Some of my partner's "doubles" had ranged Psi powers.

 

So essentially, we saw a mashup of power types and ATs. The tank's character (again, rad/psi blade) appeared as a ranged psi powerset. (Presumably a corruptor with psi ranged powers, although I cannot guarantee that it was a corruptor and not a sentinel; I saw no fx to indicate the secondary set on that  character, but everything is black but the AM glow and the kin buffs, so, not sure.) In the heat of battle with 2 of us vs 6 of them (and the combo of rad and kin is especially potent), we did not have time to fully sort through the power combinations that were present. At least one of the Dopplegangers seemed to represent our power sets as they are on our characters. At least one doppleganger that looked like the tank, instead had the tank secondary as their primary, only in ranged form, and at least one (I actually think 2) of the dopplegangers that looked like my fire/kin corruptor, actually had the secondary power set that was the support version of the tank primary.

 

Is this mix and match powerset mashup the way this is supposed to work?

 

-Dacy

Hi Dacy,

 

was your diff setting maybe x6 ? That would explain why there was 6 of em, and the game fills it up with what it thinks its best. Same happens when someone leaves or Quits TF while this mission is started already.

 

Funny thing is in Morty Kal SF we did a run with 6 players set to x8 and in the Cutscene with Positron in last mission  2 chars of our team was doubled (Team Leader and my char in that case) so it filled us up to the set x8 diff setting with selecting to double randomly 2 of our Group for that Cutscene 🙂 .

 

Greetings

[InvaderStych]

I think the clone issue with Psi Melee is a known issue. Same thing happens with the body snatching Nictus things in the HM ITF.

[Dacy]

Yes, we were set to 2 x 6 so the number of doppelgängers wasn’t the issue; we expected that. Did not expect the power swaps.
 

-Dacy