Dr_Mechano

erm...to be fair if you're not even getting your own proper boxed copies of the game with server languages designed for you...they're probably not considering you a market. They barely bother with the EU market as it is, so a region where they saw their one attempt to crack sink like a lead balloon...they're grateful you've got the game but you're obviously buying US editions aren't you? Or is there a specific edition in your language DKellis?

See I claim that the EU marketting guy has to be a Budgie...a poor, starved, undernourished Budgie that wants to peck out a message for us even if it's only "help need more seed cant go to shops only one left emergency"* but can't because it's too sickly and tired.

*yes he's too ill to think about puncuation.

And the marketting guy that's finally showed up is dodging any questions with regards the EU...well it does make sense since he's the NA marketting guy but still...

NAZIS!

Everyone hates nazi's, so it's a commonly disliked feature between all...

So you guys are making a Nazi booster pack...shame on you!

Edward shook his head.

"For her, nothing, just as I charged her old friend Sprunk nothing...just take good care of her...now I must depart...there is other business to attend to..."

Edward returned to the labs and Project Chimera...

Alicia was wheeled into the operating table beside her new clone body, Edward nodded to the gathered team of surgeons and the operation began.

Eight Hours Later
Edward dabbed the sweat from his brow as Alicia was wheeled into a private ward, being lifted into the bed and hooked up to all the required machinery, she'd come round soon enough, the operation had been a success and the nanites had successful attached the brain to the new body, healed all the surgical wounds and finished the last round of modification.

However she would experience something the good doctor liked to call 'Nanofever' where the heat given off of the millions of hardworking atom sized machines would raise the patients blood temperature and cause them to feel feverish...it would pass soon enough though.

Dressing out of his surgical scrubs and heading into the waiting room.

"It's finished Father Pious, please she can't take visitor at the moment, give it an hour or so when she'll be fully recovered...she should be out within another four hours once I've done all the tests to make sure everything went well and the nanites have deactivated themselves. Don't worry the nanites will be naturally flushed out of the bloodstream."

Edward nods his head, leading them both into a prep-room, "I bought in my head of section for this...this is Doctor Andrea Namel..." gesturing to a petite woman with green eyes, little else could be told about her due to being dressed from head to toe in surgeons grab.

The woman nodded politely and went about inspecting the equipment, checking it over, occasionally dipping it quickly in a bath of the same semi-transparent grey goo to let the nanites quickly strip any possible bacteria from them.

"She's a highly skilled surgeon and an expert with nanotechnology...I will be accompanying and overseeing the operation...I'm going to have to ask you to leave the room Father Michael while I go make sure that the operating area is completely sterile and get dressed in the correct clothing..."

Edward turned to leave before turning back, "there is a private waiting room with a television, a sofa if you require sleep along with tea and coffee making facilities, one of my assistants will guide you to it Father Michael..."

He motioned to Alicia, "now, just lay down here, unfortunately anasthetic doesn't affect the Undead, still, I assume you can do as most of them and enter a suspended state of death while we operate...if not, then I shall just have to settle for the old method and knock you unconscious with a mallet of some kind, I do not usually operate on traditional vampires"

Edward nodded to Andrea, "if you continue to make sure our patient is comfortable I will go get ready..."

Edward exited the room to get changed, getting into his sterile scrubs, sterilizing his arms and hands and awaiting in the operation room as the clone body was bought in. Giving it the once over to make sure everything was fine he motioned through the glass window seperating the two areas for Alicia to be bought in.

The operation was about to begin...

WARNING, SPOILERS!

Alright we've now got ingame an enemy NPC that not only copies your characters costume BUT can provide an alternate mirror of that characters costume (as the 'evil clone' of you does in the heroside arcs, for example my character has black belly tee, black pants with a red stripe, the evil version had red belly tee with red pants with a black stripe).

Perhaps Illusion Control could have added to it the much wanted 'doppleganger illusion' theme?

So for Illusion control you would have:
Original (non-tintable)
Colourable (what we have now)
Mirror you (replaces the Illusions, Phantasm and Decoy Phantasm with the new NPC Doppleganger)
Evil Mirror you (same but with the evil mirror version costume).

That's if this is at all possible...it's merely a suggestion, a whimzy if you will.

I would like to see thugs MMs get the option for an entire gang made of your character but the big problem with MM henchmen is that they have three variations for each type (basic, first upgrade, second upgrade) where as Illusion control doesn't have that problem.

Of course that's if this is even remotely possible, something of a whimsical suggestion if you will.

Loved it, especially the flyby switchover, very well done.

And I noticed Plasma warrior's character from the Off the Cape radio broadcasts!

Edward smiled, "of course not, she's all ready and waiting for the procedure with the modifications you asked for..."

He looked to Pious, "rest assured that while I AM a villain, I do not screw over my customers...that would be bad business practices and bad publicity doesn't make people want to use my services..."

The genetic copy was suspended in a semi-translucent grey goo, if one had microscopic eyesight they could see that it was a mixture of water and nanobots, busy working away to put the finishing touches down.

"Eight hours is also the fastest I can do this kind of operation , I can go faster but the risks of something going wrong get higher and higher the shorter the time spent"

Edward smiled as he greeted Alicia, "ah Ms Barzini, welcome to Necrotech toasty dreams factory and private hospital...now as you are aware all the arrangements had already been made, now for a few hours your brain will be disconnected from your body, do not worry, keeping a brain alive outside of the body is childsplay for one such as myself..."

Edward ushered her and the Priest through the factory/hospital, passing by genetic fast growth tanks amongst other things.

"Normally I'd just send in the nanites to repair your body but unfortunately your particular case of undeath doesn't really allow for the whole schebang as it were...and you requested additional powers.."

Finally going through into Edward's lush office where he sat down in his large office chair, the Shivan, Steve, standing beside him.

"Now there's just a matter of signing a contract and we are all ready to go...in eight hours you will be a new you..."

((Updated the Necrotech inc entry on the wiki, also fleshed out the part of 'Dave' mentioned in my post a little bit since he seemed like a nifty backstory character))

The funniest thing I've seen with regards cutscenes was a /traps defender on a LRSF being inside the Lord Recluse speech cutscene, paused just after he'd set up a mine, so he was doing the kneeling down pose while Lord Recluse stood ontop of his mine while preaching how foolish WE were.

Erm...look down mate...might want to see what's going on at your feet.

Also had my neon pink forcefield pet bubble as my own Traps defender highly visable in the background of the Rommy to nictus cutscene...somewhat killed the epiciness with this hot pink bubble glowing away in the background.

Scrapper primaries:

Dual Blades: Uses the combo system, doesn't hit hard but hits fast, each successful hit does a minor debuff which increased your chance to hit your foe..

Katana: Hits harder and slower than dual blades but not as hard or as slow as the other sword based powerset, same secondary effect as Dual Blades.

Broadsword: Hits very slowly (powers take a while to recharge), is quite an endurance hog but hits VERY hard, has the same secondary effect as Dual Blades.

Dark Melee: The 'utility' primary, hits reasonable well but has powers like fear and a heal, secondary effect decreases the chance for enemies to hit you.

Spines: an Area of Effect/Ranged focused set, all but two of it's attacks effect more than one foe, endurance heavy and slow recharge but has a great deal of secondary effects.

Martial Arts: low on damage but quick on attacks and medium on endurance usage.

Fire melee: Pure damage focused, secondary effect is a chance for damage over time, good mix of single target and Area of effect powers.

Electric melee: Much like spines and Fire is highly Area of effect focused, secondary effect drains endurance from your enemies.

Claws: the lightest hitting set of all the scrapper choices however it is also lightning quick with attacks, same secondary effect as the sword based ones.

Hope this gives you some helpful pointers !

open up the 'run' box from the windows menu and type in

ipconfig /flushdns

These seems to clear it up for me when it hangs, hope that's some help!

It's why I'm looking forward to the attack on Dr Mechano's factory/Hospital.

Up until now Humanity First have only really gone up against heroes or the slightly less villainous of villains (Big Lunk et al were more mercenaries and not mad scientist who are more than willing to smash someones face in if they upset him).

When they do attack the factory they're in for a nasty shock when Mechano is quite at home smashing in faces with Foehammer (his Sledgehammer) or ripping out peoples throats with his cybernetics...not to mention unleashing his secret project in the first battlefield test...dun dun duuuuunn.

As mentioned, Metahuman hate is irrational and when directed at the wrong people, downright crazy...but then most hate groups aren't very sane in the first place either.

((Bah completely missed this! Mental note to self, keep an eye on things! Also nice work on the naming of the bots, I shall provide a little more background myself for them in a moment, feel free to place them wherever you need them for dramatic purposes.))

Passing by Catwalk was the Doc himself, dressed in a lap coat with the arms cut away, exposing one fully cybernetic arm on one side and a cybernetic hand on the other, he moved like any old man did, with a slight shuffle. However this was merely a diguise, he was still a powerful man.

Beside him followed his Shivan bodyguard who, whilst in the factory, never seemed to leave his side, from what Catwalk could make out the two were having a dicussion, it was like listening to a phonecall, only one side of it could be understood, the other was a mix of growls, gurgles and gargles that Edward seemed to understand perfectly.

"Hmm time to check the bots, the last thing I want is any of them malfunctioning...good thing these ones are particularly adverse to tampering...though I cannot say the same about the more mundane ones..."

Unlike most of the other guardbots the named guardbots were tailored to the personalities he had named them after, BG-LNK, ECH-0 and SM1-LR were large assault bots, tailored to close combat with energy generating gauntlets and more heavily armoured than normal.

PRF-TRRR and HL10S were Support drones outfitted with whatever R&D had come up with recently, PRF-TRRR was equipped with a a strange glowing weapon that seemed to continually heat and cool plasma, HL10S was equipped with dual gatling lasers instead of an additional manipulator claw and a stronger forcefield generator.

T0N-E may have been small but he seemed to be packing more firepower than the rest of them, all standard issue but on the tiny frame was fitted two gatling lasers with underslung flamethrowers on each arm, shoulder mounted single shot rocket launchers and a loud vocal speak which occasionally played 'The lion sleeps tonight' by Tight Fit seemingly at complete random intervals.

With his checks complete he smiled and nodded, "Morning Mike, Morning Cathy...nice day isn't it?"

Before they could answer he continued, "Anyway just like to say that I'm liking the work your team is producing Mike, some of the best to come out of R&D in the last couple of years, so you're being awarded team of the month and getting your pay increased, keep up the good work...just don't let Dave try and convince you to test the black hole gun he's working on...the last time that thing fired up it took out all the undergraduate students he had working for him...not to mention everything else in the room."

With a smile and nod he continued his walk, the Shivan looming over Cathy for a moment, cybernetics whirring as it seemed to be looking her over, before moving with powerful strides after the Doctor, as he walked off a small snippet could be heard.

"Tell Jonathon he's off project Chimera, Cathy and Mike are on that project now, I want my best team working on it..."

((will PM you with the details of Project Chimera))