Cthulhufan

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  1. Cthulhufan

    Moon Hazard Zone

    He said 5th Column, not Council, they are 2 different villain groups.
  2. The difficulty settings are meant to provide a challenge for players of every skill level. Not to let people just do anything stupid that they want to and still get xp with no risk for your reward. No risk = lame and boring game.
  3. Tell me what you think. (If I have accidentally plagerized any names, characters or concepts let me know I will change them.)

    A former Navy SEAL, Karl Jackson was expelled after he beat a fellow SEAL nearly to death in a fit of rage. Almost immediately he was acquired by a mercenary outfit for his skills, knowledge and ruthlessness. Having led several successful missions around the world, and through sheer brutality, he became the leader of the unit. The unit’s very next mission was in northern Romania.

    The Romanian mission was to force a coup of a reigning warlord in the region. The warlord’s family had ruled there for generations. While infiltrating the local population his unit was befriended by a band of gypsies. The band’s fortuneteller, Madame Karlova, gave dire warnings that if the unit did not leave immediately there would be grave consequences. Ignoring the seer’s warnings, Karl seduced the fortuneteller’s beautiful daughter, she even gave him a silver necklace as a memento. When Madame Karlova discovered this, she banished Karl and his men from the camp. Karl and his men decided they would take over the gypsy camp for themselves. In the ensuing battle all the gypsies were killed, even the gypsy girl he enjoyed the company of was killed by a stray bullet. With her dying breath, Madame Karlova swore a vile curse upon Karl and his men. With the camp burned to the ground and every last gypsy dead, he and his men were forced to seek refuge in the forest.

    The first night brought a full moon and a rampaging werewolf into their camp. The werewolf tore through Karl’s men like they were toys. In a fit of rage, Karl wrapped the necklace the gypsy girl had given him around his fist and leaped at the beast. After a grizzly battle Karl’s rage and the silver necklace stood victorious. Karl curled up in a ball and passed out.

    Karl awoke to the smell of burning flesh. He discovered his hand practically on-fire where he still held the gypsy girl’s silver necklace. Bewildered, tired, hungry and having lost a copious amount of blood, Karl staggered in the woods for some time until he passed out again at the door of an old stone keep deep in the woods.

    This time when Karl awoke, he found himself in a straw bed with warm blankets and a pail of hot water, the exits were another story altogether. Iron bars and a heavy lock adorned the only exit to the room he was in. A tall, lean, fair-skinned man who called himself Boris Dragosani proclaimed to be his savior. That name... Karl remembered it from somewhere in the back of his fevered brain. YES! It was the name of the man he was sent here to help overthrow.

    Boris explained that Karl was infected with Lycanthropy and that he would become a raging killing machine during the full moon and the day before and after it, every month from now until he died. The only thing that could harm him is pure silver. Boris tried to make Karl understand that only he could possibly understand Karl’s newfound predicament and that Karl should begin to see him as a mentor and tutor. Karl would have none of it. His rage was all the fuel and guidance he needed.

    On the first night of the next full moon, even Boris Dragosani’s ironworks proved to be no match for Karl’s pent-up rage combined with his newfound powers. Karl rent the bars asunder and trashed the laboratory setting fire to the entire keep. What become of Boris, no one knows.

    Karl watched the fire burn through a wolf’s eyes. Then as the flames began to scorch even his nearly invulnerable hide he loped away into the forest to stalk more prey.

    When Karl returned to civilization 3 days later he was cold and naked and in a small Romanian town where he couldn’t understand anyone. This fueled his rage and he transformed into the werewolf in broad daylight in the middle of the town market. He slaughtered many people that day before a contingent of Longbow captured him. The Freedom Phalanx unit was there originally to stop the attempted coup but stayed an extra week to do some investigating when the warlord’s castle mysteriously burned.

    Karl was bound in titanium chains and locked away in a dark cell in the Ziggurat prison in Paragon City. Karl’s rage at being imprisoned kept him in werewolf form 24/7 so no attempt to rehabilitate him was even attempted due to the extreme danger involved. He was fed dog-food and water in a dog dish every day for 3 years.

    3 years later Karl could hear the sounds of what seemed like a riot on the floors above him. The sounds grew louder and closer then there was silence and a bright light entered the room. A beautiful gypsy girl, no, THE beautiful gypsy girl was there. How, how was this possible?! Karl’s rage subsided and he returned to his human form. The chains that had bound him so long slipped from his body and crashed to the floor of the cell. He was free.

    The girl, who was she, a sister, a twin, a clone and what was her name? It didn’t matter because 2 heavily armed and armored Arachnos soldiers stepped between him and her. A third whisked her away. Karl felt his rage begin to build. The two men in front of him explained that they were here to break him out of the Zig and if he ever wanted to see the girl again he would have to learn to control his rage and do the bidding of Lord Recluse. Karl wanted nothing more than to see the gypsy girl again, he had so many questions, he readily agreed.
  4. Cthulhufan

    Your Opinion

    Just tell them it's a video game. Most people are satisfied with that answer since video games are becoming more mainstream. Explaining the whole FPS vs. RPG vs. MMO vs. MMORPG etc., yadda, yadda is totally unnecessary.
  5. First, Jenkins never even got to fight in any of my Zig missions. I hosed the longbow and guards before he could even get aggro.

    Secondly, Jenkins is a complete moron as we all know he blabbed our names to the Longbow operatives without even being properly interrogated.

    Third, Arachnos is not exactly known for hiring the intellectual elite into their ranks.

    Fourth, It could be another person named Jenkins. Jenkins is not that rare of a last name and Arachnos has a lot of people working for them.
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    Assassin's strike when slotted with SOs, combined with Build Up and about 4 reds

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    Just want to empahsise that point.
    AS doesnt do it
    AS+ build up doesnt do it
    AS+ Build up + a significant portion of your inspriations tray is required

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    Even then you aren't even guaranteed a kill against a blaster...

    Hide + Build Up + Assassin Strike + Placate + 4 Rage Inspirations + Getaway Power does not = Being 1 Shotted. It's being 9 Shotted and nearly any AT can kill another with 9 Powers.
  7. Hey _Castle_, Hide + Build Up + Assassin Strike + Rage + Rage does not = 1 shot, that's effectively using 5 powers. Many AT's can defeat an opponent with 5 powers.

    We will just pretend the stalker doesn't run 3 or more other toggles for defense or to get away when he fails to hit or kill the target and they turn on him.
  8. Just have them remove stalkers from the game altogether, since assassinations are the ONLY thing stalkers can do.

    Just turn them all into scrappers and be done with it.
  9. Cthulhufan

    Accuracy

    Why do I get streaks of 10 misses against blue cons? I should not have streaks like that more than once a year, but I get them 3 and 4 times a day. I feel that the issue is with the Streakbreaker code as well, not necessarily with accuracy overall.
  10. I haven't tested this out myself but I wholly imagine that it is a bug and not intentional. The devs KNOW people need influence to buy enhancements and SOs are VERY expensive. I expect to see this issue patched very soon.
  11. If your SG is having issues with being in SG mode then they probably arent worth having in the SG anyways. Especially as they can have all their normal costume colors AND they don't have to wear the chest logo if they opt not too and they still remain in SG-mode. There is no excuse for SG members not to be in SG mode now other than they dont want to be a part of the SG.
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    or it is about a serial killer because

    Lord Recluse = Recluse Spider = Serial Killer (Lord Recluse not the spider)

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    Actually, according to the comic, Lord Recluse is a mass murderer, not a serial killer.

    "Along came a spider" would indeed be synonymous with "Along came Lord Recluse"
  13. Better than nothing imo. Though they should really just up the base % for all Defense SR powers, make them actually do what they are supposed to... DODGE BLOWS!
  14. Hi fellow players. I am the person who won the CCG contest.

    If I might enlighten some of you to a few points:

    1. The winner was chosen SOLELY on story, they didn't even get to see a picture of my character until after they had decided the winner.

    2. They (the AEG editors) added the Blood of the Black Stream to the story as you see it posted on the AEG website, I had just listed that "the Pharoah's enemies" and not a specific villain group.

    3. The fact that they were able to tie it into a specific villain group they will be adding is NOT the reason they chose the winner. As for some people saying "oh that leaves xxx AT out". That is 100% untrue, had they chosen some Pirate themed hero, they may have added the Red Hand (or whatever the ghost pirates in CoV are called) in the same place in their background story.

    In-fact, I am pretty certain they would have added a villain group to ANYONES story had the writer left some leeway for the editors to make tweaks and adjustments to their story. I am pretty sure that was something they took into consideration since all signature heroes need to have an arch-enemy or opposing villain group.

    I am sorry that some people feel slighted by AEG's choice in my story. There is no way they could have chosen anyone in the game without someone feeling that they had been looked over as always happens with contests.

    Finally, they chose my 3rd costume option as it was my "newest" aka my L30 costume. I have 2 others that I feel look better and they may eventually post those. The artwork for the card will almost certainly not be representative of that pic/costume.

    Be safe and have fun heroes!