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Regardless of what they said during the marketing, what was there at release is what was there. You can't claim "it was going to be in the release, but it's not" should count the same as "it's in the release".

And in this specific case what was going to be there was simply rolled back into the free issue that contained the meat of the system.

Your specific reason for the purchase isn't a factor. Access to Incarnate content is dependent on owning GR, but it was *not* a part of GR.

wha? I don't follow your meaning here. I know all of these words, but the order isn't making any sense. No sarcasm intended. I literally don't know what you're asking.


edit...i get the first part, pre-comma. Yes. It's software development. You buy it, knowing that it's pre-beta, it's quite possible that it may change, or have some feature delayed.

Which they then removed, during beta.....cuz it's a beta and things change.

They're phasing in inactive accounts over time until the official launch

Apples and oranges, I'd say. This game has proven to have a fairly loyal subscriber base through the years, and the stated intent of Freedom is to grow that, (as sub fees are a far more stable and reliable income source...shareholders like that) not simply grab money from a high turnover of premiums.

Incarnate access is the one thing that you can *only* get by subscribing. Ergo, if one could get that without subscribing, and a'la carte the other things one needs/wants, it could well come out cheaper than subscription (depends on rewards level and what one needs/wants). Why would anyone *not* drop their sub if that were the case?...seems pretty logical to me..spending less > spending more.

I'm tier 9....fairly certain it'd be less than 15 a month for me if incarnates were free

Us looking over their shoulders at a priority list will change any of that how? They're not going to change their procedures...bug X has priority 3-Bravo now, it'd still have that priority if this happened and we can see their redacted priority list. It's a placebo at best.

No...DDO had dice rolls...it tried to emulate the PnP ruleset as closely as possible.

Standard Code Rant applies here, me thinks.

I don't know that they've ever gotten into the nuts and bolts of his ability. It's an always on thing, afaik. He can walk, so apparently not 100% of the energy is absorbed and converted into augmenting his physical abilities.


here's his wiki

Shaw is a mutant with the unique ability to absorb energy and use it to augment his strength, speed, stamina and recuperation capabilities to superhuman levels. He absorbs the energy of any blow he is struck by, including not only physical strikes, but also bullets (both are forms of mostly kinetic energy), and less successfully, concussive energy beams; notably Cyclops' optic blasts. By absorbing enough blows from an opponent, Shaw can surpass the strength level of said opponent and then overpower them. Whether it is possible for him to reach Hulk-level strength is unknown, but he has, in the past, been known to overpower Colossus who is close to 100 ton strength level. He is sometimes shown to be capable of absorbing the cutting, piercing and thrusting energy from a blade which makes it exceedingly difficult to cut or stab him with sharp edged weapons. While Shaw is highly resistant to injury, especially kinetic ones, even he can be damaged by powerful enough blows.
Without any absorbed energy, Shaw is merely a strong ordinary human in excellent physical condition, but regularly works to keep his strength at a superhuman level. In one instance, he was shown to spend time hitting a wall after waking in order to build up his power reserves before starting the day. It is not known how long these power levels can be maintained without absorbing more energy. If Shaw is captured and bound so he could not move at all, he could certainly be detained.
Shaw also can forgo sleep if he receives enough energy. Often he will have his mercenaries pummel him so that he need not sleep for some time. As a way of aiding himself in combat, Shaw is adept at taunting, and will not let enemies realize his power until they have hit him one too many times. Members of the X-Men have learned the best way to defeat him is to remove him from the field of battle. The most dramatic example of which was when Rogue threw him hundreds of feet directly up into the air and away from the fight, essentially temporarily defeating him. It is not known if other human limits apply to Shaw, such as, among other things, whether he can be hurt or killed from drowning or from a lack of air.
Shaw is, however, vulnerable to being incapacitated, or being attacked psionically. During the "Dark Phoenix" story arc where the X-Men first encountered Shaw and the Hellfire Club, after realizing that direct physical battle was not working, Storm dramatically lowered the temperature of the room to sub-arctic conditions, temporarily causing Shaw to flee and recuperate. While it did not take Shaw out of the battle for long, it was just enough to turn the tide of their battle. Shaw has also been overloaded by being struck by lightning and by falling a great distance when his mass was increased.

Yeah, that was a concept from the 90's.

I don't know where Wolvie's power level is now, but just before he became Marvel's go-to bad-*** in the end of the 80's, he got skeletonized by a blast from a Sentinel in Days of Future Present. Granted it was a an alternate future, older (but what's a couple of decades to him?) version of Wolvie, and like I said, just before his mainstream break-out in popularity, but he *was* dead, and I'm sure Sentinel's aren't packing the beam weapon equivalent of tac-nukes.

Deadpool can't die, period, even if he didn't have regen powers. Thanos is jealous of his relationship with Death, and made him immortal so that Wade and Death could never be together again.... Wow...seeing that written out suddenly it seems *really* weird...I'd always just accepted it before. heh.

It's beyond past time for that. Anyone know the status on the Shadowrun property? (Though I'd probably prefer Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk...just figure Shadowrun has more name-recognition)

Way too reasonable!

I'd say they should...not for *our* effects, but for NPC stuff like this, yeah, maybe avoid using red/green on gauzy ground effects. And in this case, there's no need to match that attack to AM's others, since it's not coming from him, but his orbital base.

Inherent nothing. The man is wearing sealed power armor. A public address system (microphone inside, hooked to amplified speakers outside) would be the only way to hear him speak at all...cranking up the volume past conversational levels should be a fairly easy task, even for him, to accomplish, i would think.

I thought it was more of a pre-quel, than a remake, but I lost track of the original series after the second or so...was there one where they showed how the apes took over, like this one does?

Looks like a wedge heel, to me, if anything...

Hmm...i don't see head mounted lasers on that shark, mister.

That's something that I always thought was kinda funny about Cap...to fight the Nazi's, the U.S. basically creates Hitler's wet dream