Goliath Bird Eater

Marketing gave the okay for the dev team to finally announce Clown Summoning?

Praetoria may be safe, but the rest of the world still needs people fighting for justice and order. Those people with superhuman abilities are true heroes, going off to god-knows-where, and doing what they can. And in some places, it's an uphill battle. In some places, stability isn't going to be achieved for months; maybe even years! Thankfully, Emperor Cole realizes just how hard it is on both the Super and their loved ones. That's why - when it's safe for them to do so - he makes accommodations for them to be together. And besides, sometimes it seems like Praetoria is the only place left where people are actually optimistic about the future. I think it's a good thing for people from here to go out there (when it's safe, of course) and spread some good will around.

You know, you ask some strange questions sometimes. And I'm not sure I like your tone when you talk about Emperor Cole. If not for him, most of us probably wouldn't even be here right now, you know! He's given us everything we could ever want or need. He saved humanity from destruction, for heaven's sake! And you question him? You accuse him of all sorts of horrible things?

*backs away slowly*

You know those "imbalanced" people I was talking about? Well, maybe I was talking to one of them! I hope the Seers know about you, because you need help, lady. Serious help.

Why would anyone be thinking anything other than happy, orderly thoughts in Praetoria, unless there was something wrong with them? Y'know ... unless they were imbalanced or something. In which case, it's a good thing that those sort of people are taken in for treatment. I mean, what if they got violent? What if they hurt you or your family? Thanks to Praetor Tilman [or whatever Mother Mayhem's civie alias will be] and her Seers, we don't have to worry about that sort of thing. We're safe in Praetoria. Safe and happy and free to live our lives without fear of monsters, poverty, sickness, crime, hunger, or war. And we have Emperor Cole to thank for all of this!

Hey GG: Quit posting as if you've already played through the stuff and know what's going to happen. You may have 40,000 posts, but unless you're employed by Paragon Studios or are friends or family of Paragon Studios employees (assuming the F&F beta has even begun), you don't know any more than the rest of us.

For all we know, most or all of the unpleasantness that goes on behind the scenes in Praetoria may be explained away or covered up to those who are truly loyal to Cole. I know that you want or expect the character to pretty much be a guy in a white suit with a giant "EVIL!" sign above his head with an arrow pointing down, but from everything we've seen and heard so far, the devs at least appear as if they want to play Tyrant more shades-of-grey. I know that doesn't really work for you, since you've pretty much made it known around here that you're a very "black or white/good or evil" type of person. But don't assume that everyone who leaves Prateoria at level 20 knows for a fact that Marcus Cole kicks puppies and puts grannies in concentration camps. Or that even if they know that not everything is exactly on the level, they wouldn't be willing to chalk it up to being necessary to defend the greater good and ensure peace for all of Praetoria's law-abiding citizens.

You know, just like how the heroes of Primal Earth are able to use guns, knives, swords, axes, and set criminals on fire in order to defend the greater good and ensure peace for all of Paragon City's law-abiding citizens. Or does that not count against us because our Marcus Cole is "a good guy"?

Absolutely. If you're a Loyalist Super who's never really run afoul of the darker elements of Emperor Cole's rule, it's entirely feasible that you'd see heroes of Primal Earth as your counterparts and allies since you're all doing your part to make sure that justice, law, order, and peace prevail in your respective dimensions. Similarly, if you're a member of the Resistance on Praetorian Earth, you might not really be willing to trust anyone named Marcus Cole or those who follow his example. These folks just might seek help from elsewhere. From someone who hates Marcus Cole as much as they do. Someone who might not have as many scruples about doing whatever it took to eliminate Marcus Cole, even if it's an alternate version. So it would be very nice if both Loyalists and Resistance had the option of choosing which side they went to upon leaving Praetoria.

DUDE! T-Rating! T-Rating!

Hmmm ... New, higher-res hair and facial hair; new glowy costume; and what appear to be new goggles.

Please, please, please, please, please, please say that we're getting overhauled costume pieces to go along with the graphics upgrade! I'll name my children Jay and Cheryl if this is true, I swear!

Fun Fact: Her forum title reads "Rookie", but if memory serves, she's actually the senior-most member of the dev team, having been involved with City of Heroes since 2002.

Indeed. Based on a PM conversation I had with Dark Watcher about Ultra Mode and ATI cards, it sounds like the current plan is to release the graphics upgrade either as a part of or in conjunction with Going Rogue. Of course, even this is subject to change up until the moment we can enable Ultra Mode in our options window.

I'd be very surprised.

And yes, I know I'm starting to turn into one of "those" people. Believe me, I don't like it, either.

Y'know, while I can't fault Brawler for doing this - lord knows there have been times when the level of stupid around here has risen to such that I've told this place to go fornicate itself with an iron rod - as someone who's really been feeling the general lack of information and communication about, well, anything lately, I honestly have to say that this does not boost my spirits any.

And as posted elsewhere, I hope this is just a sabbatical from PMs/forum interaction and not the beginning of a swan song.

Download these drivers.

They're the hotfix version of the 9.12 drivers. One of the incorporated fixes handles the "strobing" bug in OpenGL games, CoH included.

It ain't working. It was fun at first, posting bits of Bill Paxton's dialogue from Aliens, but them not telling us anything about an event that is supposed to take our minds off of them not telling us anything about going Rogue really does start to cause one's patience to wear thin after time.

Chief weapon: Fear
Addendum: Surprise
Chief Weapons: Fear, Surprise
Addendum: Ruthless Efficiency
Chief Weapons: Fear, Surprise, Ruthless Efficiency
Addendum: Fanatical Devotion: Hro'Dotz
Chief Weapons: Fear, Surprise, Ruthless Efficiency, Fanatical Devotion: Hro'Dtohz
Addendum: Rikti Battle Armor
Chief Weapons: Fear, Surprise, Ruthless Efficiency, Fanatical Devotion: Hro'Dtohz, Rikti Battle Armor

How do I get out of this chicken**** outfit?

I ... wha ...

No, you're right! I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate bad@ss! State of the bad@ss art! You do NOT wanna frak with me. Check it out! Hey Paragon, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate bad@sses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks ...




(Think that's about all my situation-appropriate memorized Hudson quotes)