Re: The Certified Serpent Lantern Review
The Bunker missions are good in themselves but need something to break them up in between. This could take on several forms, maybe stopping a supply caravan or an attack on the forward base itself. To test out the high difficulty I decided to run Serpent Lantern again solo with my main character Lady Night. The character was a theme kind of concept that worked out and can take on things 2-3 levels higher than her with little problem.
On Very Hard she breezed through the first Bunker and didn't really have any issues taking down Viper-X. The second Bunker was a repeat of the first, no real challenge just cruised through until Freon. There was nothing I could throw at him that had any real effect. Ultimately I broke down and had to call in the aid of 2 other players. Now some people might call this a failure but I think it's a good thing. I'm not sure Soloing on Very Hard should be a breeze and it was nice to hit a wall like that. One of the players stuck with me for the remainder of the task force and we cleaned house fairly quickly. The character was a Fire/Power Armor themed hero and focused heavily on dishing out damage. So the two characters blended well.