I Fail at Gaming, Too

[rowyn]

"I'd like to surrender," I say through my villainous avatar to the Longbow heroes gathered in the city square. "I'm tired of this life of crime. I want to pay my debt to -- "

Longbow Nullifier hits YOU for 95.5 points of crushing damage!
Longbow Flamethrower hits YOU for 53.2 points of fire damage!
You are on fire! You take 53.2 points of damage.

"Ow! Hey, quit it! I'm trying to surrender here!"

Longbow Warden hits YOU for 73.8 points of lethal damage!
Longbow Nullifier hits YOU for 45.5 points of crushing damage!
You are on fire! You take 53.2 points of damage.

"Ouch! Look, can't we talk -- "

You are on fire! You take 53.2 points of damage.
Longbow Minigun hits YOU for 100.8 points of lethal damage!
Longbow SpecOps stuns YOU!

"ohhhh .... uh ... about this ... ?" My avatar weaves dazedly from side to side.

Longbow Nullifier hits YOU for 52.5 points of crushing damage!
You are on fire! You take 53.2 points of damage.
Longbow Warden hits YOU for 73.8 points of lethal damage!

" ... well, you're going to put me in jail after this, right?"

You are on fire! You take 53.2 points of damage.
You have been knocked unconscious!
Engaging transporter ....

You wake up at the hospital.

"Hey," I say to the indifferent interns. "Is this the prison hospital? When's my court date?" They don't answer me, and no one stops my avatar from wandering back to the street.

"I just can't get the hang of this," I mumble. I spot a group of Wyvern agents, also heroes, and move my avatar to them. "Hey, I'd like to surrender ... "

Wing Talon Agent hits YOU for 93.8 points of lethal damage!
Wing Talon Agent hits YOU for 103.8 points of lethal damage!

"... *sigh* "

[Note: not actual City of Villains combat text, which is much spammier and I don't remember the exact wording of. ]

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Lately, we've played... let's see...

34ish virtue villains, 26(?)ish virtue heroes, 40ish virtue heroes, 12-24ish pinnacle heroes, lowbie infinity villains, and the level 14(15?) pressure cookers on justice (/storm controllers).

And yes, super speed + stealth IO (running or jumping can be put in Sprint, so those are useful to any player) is invisibility except against a few enemies with +perception -- turrets and rikti drones, mostly. Oh, and KoA.

[calamitous-cani.livejournal.com]

[Well. I never set foot off of Virtue if I can help it, myself, and I personally cringe at most of the redside missions - they strain my characterization on a very regular basis. I personally avoid speed, because it renders one unable to do mayhem/safeguard missions without racking up mindblowing levels of debt. I have a variety of heroes, but my highest villain is 16, and I rarely play her because she makes my hand hurt. Maybe the new powersets will bring something inspirational.]

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

How does speed hurt you in mayhem missions? It's the best travel power for them because of the built-in stealth and lack of vertical movement to summon the longbow eagle death squad.

[calamitous-cani.livejournal.com]

[Because everything in Mayhem/Safeguard missions has inherent mindblowingly high perception. Normally you whiz past everything because of the +stealth in SS; in a Safeguard or Mayhem you get about fifteen steps and get turned into swiss cheese by everything on the street. Last time I was in a group Safeguard with SS, my poor Controller died four times just trying to join the rest of the group at the bank, in an even level mission.]

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

As far as I know (and most of my characters use superspeed and do safeguards and mayhems), only the ambushes see through stealth, and you should already be at the bank by the time they're a problem if you're rushing it. Plus getting shot doesn't kill your speed, so you can just keep going.

Really, it's jump and fly that always get me killed in mayhems. Especially fly since it's so slow.

[calamitous-cani.livejournal.com]

[I don't know so much about Mayhems. In Safeguards, I get shot at by mobs on the opposite side of the street through Superspeed's stealth, and Invisibility gives me only slightly more safety against being shot at as walking around completely unstealthed does in other parts of the game, and significantly less than Stealth alone.]

[rowyn]

That is so weird. I've had quite a few mayhem missions go south, but I've never had any problems in a safeguard, regardless of travel power used or lack thereof. Maybe it's because I'm almost always with the same teammates and not with a pickup group.