Zombie Man

As far as we know, it doesn't.

From what I can glean from various comments of various Devs is that the player character model engine is not expandable. It has an X amount of nodes and polygons baked into the coding of the engine without any expandability built into it. So, it was never coded for input so that a Dev can be queried by the system: "How many nodes do you want along the back? How many polygons do you want to use to create the hands?" Etc...

What *can* be done is to use textures and 'skins' that have more and more detail and texture. Look at the faces of the Scrapyarders and you'll see a photo-realistic face texture applied to them. Or, look at the costumes that come in the Booster Packs that looked 3D bumpy.

BAB already told people at HeroCon that non-mitteny five-fingered hands was not going to happen. And Jay told people that backpack-type items were still a way off because of severe clipping problems (PC models don't have a node easily available to hang the backpacks on).

Of course, 'never' doesn't always mean 'never'. They *could* totally rewrite the player character animation engine... but that would be a lot of work over a lot of time. There would have to be a decision made that it would be worth it both in the cost and in the management of resources. Programmers rebuilding the PC engine are programmers not working on the next Issue or Expansion (unless a new PC engine *is* the next Expansion).

You laugh at one post I make when I provided a link presuming I misread the OP and now you snap at me for not providing one when I actually did.

What is your problem?

And they fight crime! They're known as Zues' Angels.

That reminds me of a huge continuity gap with regard to the Praetorians:

The Primal Earth Phalanx and Vindicators all are from Primal Earth; but, many of their Praetorian counterparts each have their own 'World.'

Wha?

If Portal tech is something they just discovered in Praetoria, then how did Tyrant hook up with all these goatee-counterparts from various dimensions?

That's the problem.

Patsy: It's just a model.

I'm going to disagree with the assessment that Cryptic would have just thrown together some Behemoths and Imps to create a Demon Summoning set. Both Cryptic and Paragon have always been committed to *not* reusing art to create a Pet Set but instead creating brand new models and kickass upgrade and summons animations.

Where Cryptic would be at fault if they still had the CoH IP would be keeping only 15 Devs on CoH with BAB the sole animator making it nearly impossible to have the time to actually create a new MM set.

With regard to the current look of the Demons: I don't see how they're a copy of the Flesh Golems. Angel class characters have similar looks; Zombie class characters have similar looks; and Demon class characters have similar looks. Within the class of 'Demons' the two looks posted here are different enough.

Heh, he'd have to summon at 99% health because he goes down *that* fast.

Said me:

I did not say 'nothing' to do...

Remember that +2 level spawns take longer to kill. Yes, I know that +2 is the sweet spot for a team working well together to maximize XP, but it's not like you're going to get double or triple XP rewards per kill. And while XP gains are up (for many, but not all teams) salvage and recipe drops *go down* per unit of time.

Also, if you're going for the extra XP that comes from +2 Level spawns, then you don't get that much if you speed run, skipping as many spawns as possible. And if you treat all the missions as kill-alls so that you get the XP from the spawn-defeats, then you're slowing down the rate of mission-completion XP and TF Merits that you could get from a speed run skipping foes and fighting the rest at +0 level.

There are trade-offs for the +2 XP gains.

If you want greater rewards for greater challenges, then rattling around for 4XP to come back to TFs is not the route to go (though, it's slated to come back anyway); rather, keep suggesting to the Devs for a real reward to challenge settings.

If you want just the extra challenge, you don't have to wait for 4XP to come back since TFs have challenge settings.

That's true in real life, too. I know because on the Weather Channel, there is no weather in Canada: No clouds, no storm fronts, no radar... apparently, there is nothing there for the radar to blip off of.

Just in case you don't know, that's a Dev-confirmed bug. It happens when you target an un-attackable object or NPC, such as a Wentworth employee. Hitting Escape clears the target window and your auto-power will start working again.

Actually, I consider this a feature. Everyone with Healing Aura on auto and who rock the aura at the Market now have it automatically paused.

Paragon Studios is still part of NCSoft and there are administrative services provided by the parent company: Web Services; Game Mastering; and QA. (Although, I think they may have one or two QA staff on-site, but the rest is still farmed out.)

I know Web Services are at the NCSoft parent studio (and always have been) because all the other NCSoft web sites use the same forum software. Moderation of the web site and forums has been brought under one roof, but the servers are located elsewhere and they serve all the NCSoft subsidiaries.

And some services may be contracted out to a third party. Obviously their East Coast Servers can't be maintained by staff at Mountainview.