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Basically, all the inFamous profiles need to lose their immunities
Cole's immunity to electricity needs to go and just be left with resistance. He's shown to have no problem with producing seemingly limitless amount of electricity in the good ending and sending it through his body, but if people like Nora Valkyrie, Laxus Dreyar and Electro, who have dozens of similar feats, don't get immunity, then neither should Cole. Also it's a huge NLF
The immunity to disease for all Counduits needs to be replaced with resistance. It comes from the fact that all Conduits are immune to the Ray Spehere Plague, a cancer-like disease that spreads like wildfire and was stated by the in-universe CDC to be one of the worst epidemics ever seen. Again, while it's impressive, it's not enough to be considered full blown immunity.
Not sure how we want to treat Sasha, but her immunities may need to be left at resistance as well. Also, her pain manipulation and and illusion creation should just be replaced with Perception Manipulation, as she doesn't create actual illusions (Trish couldn't see the Reaper hallucinations that Cole was freaking out about), she just manipulated Cole was perceiving. The hallucinations can actually hurt you as evidenced by Cole taking damage every time the hallucinations "shot" him. Another thing, not sure about this, but shouldn't she also get Type 2 Madness Manipulation? When her tar was turned into a gas and sprayed all over Empire City, it drove its victims stark raving mad, forcing everyone to attack anything not infected.
But now onto the good parts, the additions
All Conduits should get Accelerated Development
Even without the use of things like Blast Core, Ray Spheres and other outside power boosts, Conduits have still shown the ability to get stronger and improve upon their abilities just by fighting and training with them. For example:
Lucy Kuo only had her powers for a few week. At first, she showed that she had no control over them. But after training with Cole for a awhile and using them in different ways, she eventually managed to get to Cole's level
Nix became a powerful Conduit that even Evil Cole had to give props to and developed several powers all be herself just by mixing it up against the Militia for awhile.
Cole MacGrath initially had no control over his powers when he first got them. But after training with them for less than 2 weeks, he had gotten strong enough to casually flip cars and one shot superhuman enemies like the Reapers with headshots. And he got stronger from then on (though he had some help with the substations), and if we want to use the whole upgrades system, he can unlock new powers and increase his striking strength and durability by fighting enemies.
Abigail Walker developed a bunch of her powers while on the run with her brother, and has shown that she can unlock new powers during rage snaps.
Cole and Kessler should also get Status Effect Inducement
Cole can paralyze people with his lightning, and can cause them to suffer from heart attacks, as evidenced by how people struck by his attacks with clutch at their chest and spasm. This scales to Kessler since their literally the same person.
Kessler can also cause paralysis with his electro-magnetism based telekinesis clutching onto you and flinging you around
And finally, Evil Cole can use Nightmare Blast to trap enemies in a clouds of smoke and ash, stunning/paralyzing them, and presumably suffocating them. There's also seemingly electricity used in the attacks.
Kessler should also gain resistance to perception manipulation as it was stated in a dead drop that Sasha's usual tricks had no effect on him. Even Cole, who could resist the mind manipulation of the tar, was shown to be effected by the hallucinations that were brought on by physical contact with the stuff, but Kessler was seemingly unaffected, so that means it will only scale to him and not Cole.
Kessler should also gain resistance to the madness manipulation aspect of the tar as well, since again, he no sold all aspects of the tar. This one actually scales to Cole, since he wasn't driven made by the tar upon making contact with it as well.
Another thing I want to discuss:
Where exactly do the inFamous mountain+ level characters fall on the 7A scale? I've seen a lot of differing answers regarding where they fall on the scale, and it's caused some confusion, so it's best we settle it ASAP.
For reference, mountain+ comes from the fact that Cole created a 300+ megaton storm unintentionally, and with absolutely no control over his powers. Over the course of the game, he gets much stronger through overcharging on substations (which he does so 8 times), absorbing Blast Shards, and fighting (in the game, Cole can upgrades his durability, striking strength, power output, etc by defeating enemies and performing stunts, which is a nod towards the whole "stressing his body" thing and I think it was stated in game that the purpose of the Quarantine was to give Cole an area where he can test out his powers and grow stronger)
So, TL;DR
Conduits lose their immunity to disease and have resistance to disease instead
Sasha should have here pain manipulation and illusion creation switched to perception manipulation
Cole loses his immunity to electricity
All Conduits gain Accelerated Development
Cole and Kessler gain status effect inducemet and resistance to madnesses manipulation
Kessler gains resistance to perception manipulation
Basically, all the inFamous profiles need to lose their immunities
Cole's immunity to electricity needs to go and just be left with resistance. He's shown to have no problem with producing seemingly limitless amount of electricity in the good ending and sending it through his body, but if people like Nora Valkyrie, Laxus Dreyar and Electro, who have dozens of similar feats, don't get immunity, then neither should Cole. Also it's a huge NLF
The immunity to disease for all Counduits needs to be replaced with resistance. It comes from the fact that all Conduits are immune to the Ray Spehere Plague, a cancer-like disease that spreads like wildfire and was stated by the in-universe CDC to be one of the worst epidemics ever seen. Again, while it's impressive, it's not enough to be considered full blown immunity.
Not sure how we want to treat Sasha, but her immunities may need to be left at resistance as well. Also, her pain manipulation and and illusion creation should just be replaced with Perception Manipulation, as she doesn't create actual illusions (Trish couldn't see the Reaper hallucinations that Cole was freaking out about), she just manipulated Cole was perceiving. The hallucinations can actually hurt you as evidenced by Cole taking damage every time the hallucinations "shot" him. Another thing, not sure about this, but shouldn't she also get Type 2 Madness Manipulation? When her tar was turned into a gas and sprayed all over Empire City, it drove its victims stark raving mad, forcing everyone to attack anything not infected.
But now onto the good parts, the additions
All Conduits should get Accelerated Development
Even without the use of things like Blast Core, Ray Spheres and other outside power boosts, Conduits have still shown the ability to get stronger and improve upon their abilities just by fighting and training with them. For example:
Lucy Kuo only had her powers for a few week. At first, she showed that she had no control over them. But after training with Cole for a awhile and using them in different ways, she eventually managed to get to Cole's level
Nix became a powerful Conduit that even Evil Cole had to give props to and developed several powers all be herself just by mixing it up against the Militia for awhile.
Cole MacGrath initially had no control over his powers when he first got them. But after training with them for less than 2 weeks, he had gotten strong enough to casually flip cars and one shot superhuman enemies like the Reapers with headshots. And he got stronger from then on (though he had some help with the substations), and if we want to use the whole upgrades system, he can unlock new powers and increase his striking strength and durability by fighting enemies.
Abigail Walker developed a bunch of her powers while on the run with her brother, and has shown that she can unlock new powers during rage snaps.
Cole and Kessler should also get Status Effect Inducement
Cole can paralyze people with his lightning, and can cause them to suffer from heart attacks, as evidenced by how people struck by his attacks with clutch at their chest and spasm. This scales to Kessler since their literally the same person.
Kessler can also cause paralysis with his electro-magnetism based telekinesis clutching onto you and flinging you around
And finally, Evil Cole can use Nightmare Blast to trap enemies in a clouds of smoke and ash, stunning/paralyzing them, and presumably suffocating them. There's also seemingly electricity used in the attacks.
Kessler should also gain resistance to perception manipulation as it was stated in a dead drop that Sasha's usual tricks had no effect on him. Even Cole, who could resist the mind manipulation of the tar, was shown to be effected by the hallucinations that were brought on by physical contact with the stuff, but Kessler was seemingly unaffected, so that means it will only scale to him and not Cole.
Kessler should also gain resistance to the madness manipulation aspect of the tar as well, since again, he no sold all aspects of the tar. This one actually scales to Cole, since he wasn't driven made by the tar upon making contact with it as well.
Another thing I want to discuss:
Where exactly do the inFamous mountain+ level characters fall on the 7A scale? I've seen a lot of differing answers regarding where they fall on the scale, and it's caused some confusion, so it's best we settle it ASAP.
For reference, mountain+ comes from the fact that Cole created a 300+ megaton storm unintentionally, and with absolutely no control over his powers. Over the course of the game, he gets much stronger through overcharging on substations (which he does so 8 times), absorbing Blast Shards, and fighting (in the game, Cole can upgrades his durability, striking strength, power output, etc by defeating enemies and performing stunts, which is a nod towards the whole "stressing his body" thing and I think it was stated in game that the purpose of the Quarantine was to give Cole an area where he can test out his powers and grow stronger)
So, TL;DR
Conduits lose their immunity to disease and have resistance to disease instead
Sasha should have here pain manipulation and illusion creation switched to perception manipulation
Cole loses his immunity to electricity
All Conduits gain Accelerated Development
Cole and Kessler gain status effect inducemet and resistance to madnesses manipulation
Kessler gains resistance to perception manipulation
