(Almost) Everyone's best friend?

[Riverdusk]

Use the wiki to help you not miss anyone.  I also use the "find contact" button a lot to help me not miss anyone.

 

And MM does work just fine.  When you want to stealth you just dismiss your pets and resummon when you need them.  The recharge on them is super low now so they are pretty much always ready.

[CountZero]

7 hours ago, Riverdusk said:

Use the wiki to help you not miss anyone.  I also use the "find contact" button a lot to help me not miss anyone.

 

I did a bit of prep work using the wiki, I put together a spreadsheet with all the contacts names and levels. Although the wiki isn't 100% accurate it's pretty close.

Hadn't though about the "find contact" button, thanks for that. Just hit level 10 and there's a block of 25 contacts to befriend, I can see how the "find contact" would be a good safety net.

[CountZero]

The large block of hero contacts hasn't worked out exactly as expected. right now I've only been able to get in touch with half of them. So a switch to the red side to get those lvl 10-ish contacts went pretty well, although something slightly odd happened as after going up a couple of levels all the blue side contacts were showing up giving missions, which feels off I was playing for the other team. Also Celerity: Stealth is absolute game changer for sneaking round, so everyone gets to be a stalker at lvl 12.

So the bestie count is now up to 42, and just a few more missions before it's time to switch back to the blue side.

[CountZero]

So after a little break dealing with other toons dramas, it's back to Ash Lee's adventures. At lvl 15 there was a huge block of potential hero contact but with far fewer villain ones, the upshot being that all villain contacts were maxed out but only about half the hero ones were contactable at all.  There was a long time staying at level 15 that eventually brought the bestie count up to 62. Now a little burst of levelling needed to get to 20 and unlock the next batch of contacts.

[catsi563]

On 9/2/2025 at 1:52 PM, CountZero said:

 

Well that's just not true. There are 5 starting contacts in Atlas, you can talk to all of them and max out all of their friendship ratings. Mercy gives you 3 starting contacts and again you can max all of those out. Kuzmin gives you a choice of one other contact but you never get a chance to meet the other unlike most other contacts.

And the whole point of this exercise in lunacy is to get as many maxed out contacts on the inactive contacts tab. Something that Ouro doesn't help with.

 

Strictly speaking and lore accurate there are TEN contacts in atlas 

 

the five listed above and their 5 counter parts from galaxy city who were shifted into altas after galaxy was wrecked

[CountZero]

A little trip into the First Ward, gives a nice chain of contacts to make friends with and all in close proximity making them easy to befriend. However things get a little more complicated with a return to the blue side and contacts scatter across IP, Talos and Faultline. The various Special Agents in Talos are easy to progress but having 8 contacts on the go at the same time makes it feel like there's a lot of effort for not much progress. Currently down to 3 active contacts, and I get the feel that many of the remaining potential blue side are just repeats of other contacts so won't be introduced.  Anyway the bestie count is now up to 84, and the question becomes who will be the 100th bestie?
 

On 9/27/2025 at 5:37 PM, catsi563 said:

Strictly speaking and lore accurate there are TEN contacts in atlas 

 

the five listed above and their 5 counter parts from galaxy city who were shifted into altas after galaxy was wrecked

Strictly speaking there are TWENTY EIGHT contacts in Atlas but as the Galaxy ones don't offer missions and don't have a friendship, they don't count for the purposes of this lunacy.