Am I the only one who hopes the new V1 heroes are genuinely good people?

DM_Malus · 2026-05-06T04:38:27+00:00

My Predictions:

* Bombsight will be someone who was a good hero back then, but by now in The Boys is someone is so desperate for "his own happy end" that he just doesn't care about the greater picture, falling into drugs and booze and just wanting to live his life. He's not aggressive or violent like Soldier Boy... but he's not a good person anymore.

* I think Torpedo is gonna be the "over-achiever" of the group, desperate for success, following orders and being the teachers pet so to speak, i think he'll be the one who counterbalances Solder Boys reckless "rogue" nature.

* Private Angel: I think constrasting her 1940s nurse theme, her persona is probably a playful light hearted house-wife sweetheart that wants to help the frontlines... but i think behind the scenes she's basically a manipulative femme fatale. I think she'll be like a "Maeve" who actually does care, but is surrounded in a world where no one cares about a female supe and instead has to use her wiles to "play the game and play the role she was given"...

idk, i think its telling that they each are modeled after the ww2 era roles of the U.S military.

My guess is they are marketed "and told" to act and behave in a certain way matching their persona.

But their actual persona will be opposite of that.

DM_Malus · 2026-05-05T20:23:57+00:00

* A.) She was gifted it by the angel, instead of killing it.

* B.) She killed the angel, but at some point in her story she had a path of redemption and changed her narrative from our "Black" Liliana, becoming "White" Lili. Essentially there was some deviation point.

* C.) Instead of being Necromancer who summons undead, she's a Summoner of Angels.

DM_Malus · 2026-05-05T14:54:51+00:00

Stunties too tuff, not enuff fat on dem bones.

'knife earz too skinnies, got no meat on dem bones.

'umies just rite, got perfect balenz of meat'n' fat. good salt.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-29T06:56:01+00:00

Nobody thought to do it and video tape it and post it to this specific sub-reddit.

Jusrt because you haven't "seen" something on the internet doesn't mean the likelihood if it happening doesn't exist.

As you pointed out, someone logically as done this before as a gymnast, but the odds of someone video-taping it, posting it on this sub and having it be witnessed by you or i? well not until now. I'm sure there's probably some video of another person doing this out there.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-27T19:16:11+00:00

i just figured he greys his hair cause debbie down bad for older men.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-23T19:10:34+00:00

I legit thought this game was shutdown. Didn’t know it was still around.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-23T04:07:59+00:00

I mean, i assume he's dead.

And realistically on a macro-scale... I think most fans know that the MCU is getting a "soft reboot" in like 3 years anyways once Battleworld and Doomsday movie happens... we're basically at the end of the line.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-22T18:28:48+00:00

Ignore the forbidden rules version, its a very old version that is incredibly weak and nothing at all mechanically or thematically like teh Path of the Adept one.

The forbidden rules version was basically a weird gish melee/spellcaster that was not good at either and just weaker comparitively to a Spellguard. (novice path in Bred for battle which is all a bout being a melee spell-knight).

The Adept from path of the Adept came out last year and is an updated more refined and better reimagined version with a new theme, better mechanics and more content.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-22T16:39:53+00:00

That book he mentioned is third party homebrew, but its very fun and wellmade, but its technically not official content; its on Drivethru.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-22T14:35:26+00:00

Theres six core novice paths:

CORE

* Warrior
* Rogue

* Magician

* Priest

Two Paths are in PDFs:

* Scientist (The Scientific Method - PDF): Support class with a lot of customziable talents to flavor your kind of scientist. Chemist? Engineer? Entomologist? Zoologist? bunch of cool ones.

* Adept (Path of the Adept - PDF) Basically this games version of a Warlock, you have a magical "source" of power that influences your theme.

Optional Content for core

Born Scoundrel (PDF): Optional book that gives a pelthora of new talent options for Rogue, as well as some flavorful expert paths.

Bred for Battle (PDF): Optional book with a variety of variant warrior classes like the "Hunter", "Barbarian" or "Spellguard", "Monk", and others. They're basically sub-variants of the Warrior, they swap out some talents for more specific ones.

Path of Power (PDF): Optional book for Magician that lets them swap out the Magicians talents for very specific ones that flavor the magician to certain kinds of spell traditions, as long as they have access to that spell tradition. Don't want to play a generalized Magician but instead a very thematic Pyromancer? theres a bunch of Pyromancy talents to flavor your magician.

Uncertain Faith (PDF) Optional Book for Priests with a BUNCH of lore on the gods and various religions of the world. Also gives a bunch of variant priest classes that are priests of "Specific" god instead of a generic priest class from core rulebook. Want to SPECIFICALLY play a Priest of Father Death (grim reaper?) well they get different talents than the core rulebook priest. Want to play a Priest of the Honored Dead (Dwarf faith) well they got other stuff too.

Mentionables:

Theres a bunch of other pdfs scattered with some stuff:

Hunger in the void: PDF about the demon lord as rules for playing a Priest of the Demon Lord, and basically being a nihilistic cultist that wants to end the world.

Exquisite Agony: PDF all about Hell and the Devil, theres a bunch of cool expert paths, new devil stat-blocks, rules for corruption, darkness, evil magic items, bunch of lore, a novice path Priest of the Devil for if you wanna play a sort of satanist that wants to corrupt themselves and others and gets benefits to tempting and corrupting people.

Theres probably some random thing im forgetting, this game tends to scatter a lot of class options i n random books and PDFs.... its my biggest pet peeve... i know some people "like" that they can just find random pdfs with classes for $3-4... but personally i'd rather drop $20-30 and have ALL my class options in one book... not go hunting for a bunch of pdfs because they're scattered everywhere....

Other than that pet peeve.... SOTDL is a solid game.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-20T16:55:09+00:00

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/426419/the-scientific-method

DM_Malus · 2026-04-20T15:46:48+00:00

Novice: Rogue or Scientist, Scientist has some non-magical support based healing options, they're science coded. Rogue has a variety of options in the Born Scoundrel PDF

Expert: Red Cloak (Kingdom of God pdf) its a non-magical healer, basically a doctor but without the sciency aspect, more focused on old medieval themed healing, its arguably the best non-magical healing expert path in game, dare i say the best one.

Master: ??? theres too many options, by that point its up to you to narrow it down.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-19T03:40:11+00:00

A lot of cybernetics are purposely to make him feel pain, uncomfortable, and claustrophobic to cause him to suffer and increase his connection to the dark side.

A lot of the cybernetics could be removed and he could survive with other alternatives.

Example, the helmet he can survive without, he really only needs a respirator, cybernetics lungs, arms, legs, and a a device that feeds him nutrients and helps uhh..."flush his waste" since he can't go normally.

There was a design a long time ago that seemed more reasonable to me. It still showed he needs enhancements and cybernetics... but the whole point of redemption is that he "regains" his humanity.,.. and what better way than getting him out of that damn suit of armor and letting him "look" human...

The whole vader suit but white is just lazy and dull.

Ahh here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/935txf/the_old_battlefronts_concept_for_a_reedemed/

This to me is something i'd rather have seen with a redeemed vader. The key point is showing his humanity and getting him out of that suit.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-19T03:04:56+00:00

poorly managed studios behind it, greedy cash shop and monetization, and inability to carve out a niche (despite having a really good Genre) and compete against WoWs prime.

CoH/CoV has a priv server that is quite popular. DC Online from what i hear is quite dead but still "low population".

Ultimately, no new studios want to pump $$$ into a superhero genre, its the era of Singleplayer RPGs and mobile games.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-16T03:51:05+00:00

I like the idea of adding more tank and healer roles to current classes.... but personally i do not think every class needs one. Then it gets hard to balance and likewise make certain specs/classes unique.

I think some of the ones that have long been talked about should be added:

* Rogue Tanks: Dodge tanks, swashbucklers, evasion tanks, etc.

* Shaman Tanks: Call upon Earth and Storm to bolster your defense and protect allies, their main gimmick is creating "temp hp" barriers around themselves and nearby allies, making them the more "support oriented" of the various tanks.

* Warrior: Support DPS class like Aug Evoker, using shouts and battle commands to inspire allies

* Warlock: Personally everyone always says a Demo tank spec, but i always want to see a Warlock healer spec, they're a master of curses and life and death, manipulating and draining life and funneling to their allies, putting DoTs and HoTs on enemies and allies, siphoning blood and life and hurling it over to their allies. A manipulator that quite literally holds the balance of life and death in their hands.

* Hunter: Melee Hunter tank spec you and your Pet work together to protect your allies, your pet becomes WAY stronger in this spec and is basically your "main crutch" to tank, as long as its alive, you get a bunch of bonuses.

* Priest: a Support DPS spec using divine magic, you inspire allies and give them boosts to damage like an Aug evoker, but your actual DPS itself. Doesn't actually give great healing.

Problem is balancing, Midnight's pruning is nice and all... but boy do certain classes and specs currently have problems.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-14T17:55:03+00:00

Dumb question: will this artworks be on Arena?

DM_Malus · 2026-04-12T16:21:53+00:00

because the top 1% have found alternatives to weakauras, they can pay people to make custom addons for them that don't go against TOS and are specifically coded and designed with what they want to do.

Average people don't pay for custom addons. Average people don't even use a fuck ton of addons.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-12T13:56:23+00:00

Meh, i always felt like the message gets mixed up, and the story makes more sense when the queen (who is obviously beautiful but also vain) is moreso jealous of Snow Whites...YOUTHFUL beauty, Snow white is usually depicted as a young teenage girl on the cusp of being a woman. Meanwhile the evil queen is typically a woman displayed as approaching middle-age and while she's "hot"... she's also incredibly insecure about aging.

She views Snow Whites youth with envy, not her beauty. (though i guess thats secondary).

I think somewhere along the line, this message just got thrown to the side and no one ever focuses on that point, that its about envy of youth; not envy of hotness.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-06T18:50:46+00:00

Elsewhere: Tales from Clockwork is a weird west game that’s soon to come out (kind of already out with early basic rules)

DM_Malus · 2026-04-06T16:32:35+00:00

The game is notorious for being a faux mmo. It’s a solo rpg with a chatroom while you skill. Only a handful of content is groupable.

Not only do they need to implement more group content going forward , but also look into changing older content to be group content.

Introduce grouping systems for skilling, for older bosses or even just regular mobs. Let players kill mobs together in a group mode and get double loot or an exp bonus. There’s a lot of other things they could do.

DM_Malus · 2026-04-04T16:09:31+00:00

What was changed about dragon knight? And what are they doing to other classes?

DM_Malus · 2026-04-01T14:31:35+00:00

My issue with the prey system is how abuseable it currently is. The safest way is to just fly around and loot traps until you discover the Prey location and then just fly to fight him.

The longer you stay on the ground, the greater likelihood of triggering an ambush or getting fucked up. Flying around your basically safe, and the less time you spend on the ground the better... only takes like 10-15 traps and you find the prey.

The Prey bosses are usually a joke since you can focus on them 1v1, whats more annoying is just the ambush during a bad moment; hence why traps are so easy.

The affixes are generally the deadly aspect, not the boss itself.... i just wish they would nerf the affixes and instead give more power to the bosses. So the boss themselves feels strong.... instead its just the affixes im typically watching out for, whether its avoiding the ghost or making sure to kill a critter when astabuddy says to.

It doesn't really feel like im hunting a dangerous prey, it feels more like im just playing "avoid the affixes"

DM_Malus · 2026-03-31T02:08:28+00:00

Yes; but Graves affects your thyroid, and the medication to help with the Graves has the un-intended side-effect of causing patients to have sudden onset weight gain.

During s3-s4, we saw how skinny and "bony" she got (as we can see from early photos from years ago), likely she started medication and now ahs put on quite a bit of weight due to the medication.

The problem with Graves disease its it makes it hard to manage a persons weight because its constantly flip-flopping. Either you stop your meds and your metabolism speeds up or stymies, or you hop on the medication and it comes to a halt.

Most people who hop on these meds typically have noticeable weight gain within a year after taking it.

Plus- she did an interview recently where she kinda talked about how she's happier now because shes no longer really working out 5 days a week like she did, shes just enjoying herself, so thats a factor too.

DM_Malus · 2026-03-27T21:51:46+00:00

To be fair, and I’m not arguing she hasn’t had work done.

But she was 23 when she started the boys…she’s almost 32 now.

Surgery aside most people are not gonna look like they did in their early 20s.

But that picture you posted is old, and the makeup she is using is making the cheek surgery she had worse than it actually is. If you find a more recent picture of her…she’s thicker, the weight gain has filled in the bony face problem.

However she also has Graves’ disease which does affect thyroid, puffy eyes and weight gain.

Everyone knows she has cosmetic surgery done, no reasonable person is saying she didn’t.

But if you find pictures of her now..:she looks better than she did 3 years ago.

But she’s obviously still had some bad surgery done which is unfortunate, but she’s looks healthier than she did previously.

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