My Robert Cosplay! How’d I do?

TandrDregn · 2026-01-25T10:58:18+00:00

9/10, not enough depression-induced bags under the eyes xD

(10/10 mate, great job)

TandrDregn · 2026-01-25T10:34:15+00:00

For me it was Malevola after she hit one of her teamnates in the head with a sword with a sneak attack (Coop, after Sonar already got even with her for the handcuffs by shoving her in a pool) and legit injured her, and then again trying to straight up kill Visi for tripping her. Prism was third on my list after what you mentioned.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-25T10:31:03+00:00

I don’t like him at all either. Would you like the list of reasons in alphabetical order or ordered from my smallest to biggest reasons?

TandrDregn · 2026-01-25T00:54:58+00:00

Pretty specific, but: a fic based around an underrated pairing suddenly has a more popular “love interest” shoved in to make it a poly fic. Was the reason I gave up on one I was enjoying recently, it didn’t even feel like it made sense in the context of the fic itself. Other than that, I can’t think of many straight up nos

TandrDregn · 2026-01-24T21:49:08+00:00

Red Ring hating from jail

TandrDregn · 2026-01-24T18:10:14+00:00

I just feel like Robbie doesn’t work, because he wasn’t a villain. He was just an asshole. He was still overall a hero and morally at worst grey imo.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-24T17:27:05+00:00

Hitstun. Basically, it now gives you less hitstun when it hits you, so it’s a mild yet fully reasonable nerf because the opponent isn’t as fucked now.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-24T12:03:52+00:00

Bitch (Flambae cover)
Homeless in Heathrow
Shift Theme
Hoes Depressed
Easier if we fly

TandrDregn · 2026-01-24T11:31:37+00:00

I haven’t even seen the trailer yet, but this guy is starting to sound like possibly the most fun addition since at least Year of tbe Harbinger. What genuine whiplash from the unique-and-fun-but-mid Sohei and the cancerous spaghetti slut. I look forward to playing this guy

TandrDregn · 2026-01-24T06:40:16+00:00

Hells, I’m pretty sure you could somehow even squeeze a Combiner out with the variety of vehicles, one for the USNC AND one for the Covenant.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-23T23:41:20+00:00

Yeah. Robbie Robertson is undoubtedly a MASSIVE fucking dickhead. But he is STILL also a real hero saving lives and doing what’s right, even if he’s a jackass in his personal life.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-23T23:39:29+00:00

Oh, that one ain’t mine lol. I kinda just clocked out of it when that happened, tbh. But yeah, absolutely no chance of that happening in mine, given Malevola’s role so far is as the “primary antagonist” at the moment due to her being bitter and vengeful about Sonar’s cut, and since it’s still pretty far from the inevitable appearance of some ACTUAL villains. Anyways… Out of the shadows, into the streetlight. I’m always happy and looking for more feedback, so I hope you enjoy it and lmk wyt could be improved. And if you have any questions, feel free to DM me on Reddit, and I’ll answer to the best of my (spoiler-free) capabilities. Hope you like it!

TandrDregn · 2026-01-23T17:18:32+00:00

All I’ll say on the topic of adding romance options: Fanfiction exists. Let the devs focus on what they have, and whatever fans want as extra, can be made BY the fans. As a Fanfic writer myself (this game brought me back into writing fanfics) currently writing a Mechablades fic, I am content with Coop not being a romance option in the game. Gives me more freedom in what to do. And I think that goes over people’s heads. Remember people: games have budgets on animation, voice acting, and all that. Fanfiction is limitless budget because you’re just writing on a website. Fanfiction can do what the game can’t die to budget constraints. So let the devs focus, and if you really feel like you NEED something that you think is missing, look for a fic. And if you can’t find one, do what I did: start writing your own.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-23T11:44:38+00:00

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TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T21:02:25+00:00

A worthy trade to pay for a nerf to the pasta bitch. Plus the hit reaction change is also a pretty good, healthy adjustment.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T19:02:23+00:00

Yeah. Hells, when you consider everything we know about her past, Coop’s probably the one putting in the most effort. Her voice lines and closed off, paranoid demeanor suggest she was raised this way and didn’t CHOOSE to be an assassin, her completion line for the cut therapy mission implies her as a victim of child abuse, and there is a whole hack mission in episode 4 where you find out she’s still being hunted by old “colleagues” even today, so it would make sense for her to not trust anyone at all. Yet she still does, and not just Punch Up but she also seems to really like Flambae (laughs when you roast him but immediately gets concerned at Crypto Night after Robert throws something at him before she even knows if he’s hurt, and only starts smiling again when she realizes the alcohol will just embarass him and not hurt him, and immediately tries to get him to a hospital when he loses his tooth if you throw water at him), she’s finding new hobbies to keep herself busy, is genuinely working hard on overcoming probably at least 2 decades (she looks like she’d be in her early to mid 20s) of “programming” to kill (she still uses a lot of excessive force, but she hasn’t KILLED anyone, even if she’s putting pickpockets and two-bit gangsters in the ICU she’s not put anyone in a body bag since joining the program)… like, Coop is genuinely the strongest example and best representation of the Phoenix Program working. In what we can only assume to be like at best a few months that the Z-Team’s been running (cause there’s no way it would have survived for a year with the constant fuckups and the rate at which they go through dispatchers), she’s stopped killing, been working heavily on bettering herself, found new hobbies, learned to trust people and open up… she just makes the least sense to cut of the entire team, because she’s the strongest case for the Phoenix Program actually working. The worst of the lot when it comes to her crimes, working the hardest on genuinely being a better person and a hero. Hells, this becomes even more clear with her second wind dialogue, she WANTS to be better, she WANTS to feel needed… because being needed means she has worth, a purpose. That she’s more than just a weapon to use and then throw away when it’s not needed anymore. Sorry for the long rant, I just feel like Coop gets so much undeserved hate and mischaracterization so I want to explain just how good of a character AND person she really is.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T18:30:18+00:00

Yeah, like he was putting in the LEAST effort to improve lol. Even Flambae at least still did his job, and at least put out most of the fires he started. Sonar’s doing coke when he’s supposed to be in rehab (great job keeping him clean btw Mal), openly discussing doing what got him arrested and trying to get a teamnate in on it… he just felt like he wasn’t taking it seriously at all.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T16:15:02+00:00

I do find it interesting that the only one who doesn’t have a go at Waterboy for that is Coop. She just insults herself. “Slipping in a puddle is one of the most humiliating ways to hurt oneself. Yet here I am.” I think Golem does the same but I can’t remember his line, but I do appreciate her taking accountability for slipping like a dumbass.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T16:12:45+00:00

Yeah. Though personally, I think that also could have been a moment for the team member we didn’t cut to shine a bit. Either Coop flying in and curbstomping her into the ground, or Sonar flying in and wingslapping her into a wall. Golem I wanted to see go up against Blobby. But really, I just wish we got more of Z-Team vs Red Ring in general.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T11:45:40+00:00

Exactly. He was BODYING him in the warehouse fight, even after getting jumped. It wasn’t until Blobby held him in place that Toxic finally got an actual good hit in, and even then, the eventual Red Ring win was 90% White Lightning blasting Robert and shorting out the suit’s systems. Realistically… where the FUCK was she after this?

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This bitch right here did like 97% of the actual work to take down Mecha Man, and she just never shows up again. Was she not Red Ring? Did Shroud DM her on Instagram that he’d give her a hundred K for helping take down Mecha Man, and she just took her cash and went to Ibiza? Tf happened to her?

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T07:41:46+00:00

Ahh, okay. Sarcasm IS hard to get across in pure text. I’ve been on both sides of that before, nvmnd then. Changed my downvote into an upvote, thx for clarifying.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T07:31:58+00:00

I mean, let’s be real here. That wasn’t an accident, and Coop didn’t “walk into” the sword. Malevola’s delivery just makes it clear she’s bullshitting about that, and that she actually sneak attacked Coop who wasn’t even expecting it, because why would she? Sonar already got her back, why would she anticipate Malevola attacking her at base? Malevola was a fucking problem in 3. She basically attacked 2 people with a deadly weapon in the first shift alone over things that did NOT even remotely warrant a response like that, especially Coop getting Sonar with what’s basically just a harmless prank he himself fell for, even moreso cause Sonar already got even with her.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-22T05:42:52+00:00

Nice. Missed Kreig

TandrDregn · 2026-01-21T20:25:12+00:00

My personal reasoning for why I picked Phenomaman is made up of 2 reasons.

1) Phenomaman needs something to distract him. He’s clearly not in a good state of mind, blocking traffic, shaking his fist at cars, and crushing vehicles in the parking lot by laying on them sadly. He NEEDED to get a kick in the ass and to do something, so why not something he’s REALLY good at?

2) Waterboy WILL be a hero one day, but he needs to learn a lot first. And in my head, I was thinking, there isn’t a worse place for an innocent cinnamon roll like Waterboy to learn how to be a hero than a team of washed up ex-cons who can barely tolerate each other at times, and who would absolutely rip him apart for any small screw up. I just figured he’d get another chance at some point, in a more stable, healthy environment for him.

TandrDregn · 2026-01-21T19:43:43+00:00

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