![](\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/safeguard.jpg\" "\\"Safeguard!\\"")
So I’ve run in the Atlas Safeguard mission with a variety of toons and players in the last week. I’m pleasantly … well, pleased by how they turned out.<\/p>\nSo I’ve run in the Atlas Safeguard mission with a variety of toons and players in the last week. I’m pleasantly … well, pleased by how they turned out.<\/p>\n
The earlier “Protect the Widget from the Bad Guys” missions in CoX were, generally, annoying — an unknown number of enemies, too many targets or too fragile a target or whatever. My fear about stopping the robbers from escaping the bank can be summed up in three words “Fir Bolg” and “Dolmen.”<\/p>\n
Instead, the crooks here act pretty much like bad guys. I’m sure that, given the chance, they’ll really try to get away (though the truck is stashed across the zone), but faced with heroes blocking the way, the bad guys, naturally, choose to fight their way through.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the vandalism events in the city come in series over time, and so are somewhat manageable, and also are trigged by villains seeing heroes, which makes life a bit dicier. Again, it makes the game experience more enjoyable, even if it’s not 100% realistic.<\/p>\n
The related side missions — foiling other robberies, plantings of bombs, etc. — are also well structured (and pretty to behold), and provide a decent challenge.<\/p>\n
By “decent challenge,” I mean, “Capable of being won, but not without a few tense moments or even deaths.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, I’ll go a step further — I think the Safeguard missions are as good as, if not better, than the Mayhem missions. Ideally, I’d love to see a combination of both — I can imagine a “Mayhem” mission for heroes (a smash-and-run raid on an Arachnos base, for example), as well as a “Safeguard” mission on the Villain side (“Longbow is raiding the Arachnos archives!” or even “Other bandits are robbing the bank — the one you’ve got your money laundered into!”). <\/p>\n
It’s early in the day, and I haven’t tried any of the Safeguards at higher levels (need to try something with Hildy\/Torchy sometime), but I’m pretty pleased by this addition, as well as the Police Band stuff, to the CoH world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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