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Well there was the mission (St Vals IIRC where the team entered and everything was Black, walls, floors ceilings etc. The Mobs were still there so we tried to do the mish, it was amazingly funny, everyone running around trying to figure out where the walls were. Just to top it all off the map was blank too. In the end we gave up left and re-entered and suddenly everything was fine. Should have taken some screenies!

Had an empty mission map in D.A. once, empty except for the 3 glowies we had to click, bit of a quick mission.

Had the "get mannies Trophy mission", stepped through the door and went around the first corner and found a glowie, click it and completed the mission, maybe 10 seconds for the mission. Possibly not a bug though.

2 machines ago (gosh I've played CoH for a long time) the graphics card couldn't really handle the game. After a while it would start extending the polygons. So someones arm, head etc would become a spike sticking out to infinity. Over a 5-10 minutes it would do this to all the polygons, so my screen would end up a mass of multi coloured triangles. Oddly you could still move about, target mobs etc, you'd just have no idea where you were or what you were hitting. Definately not a bug, but amusing (in retrospect).

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You know, serious answer, I would only ever like this idea if they raised the cap to 100 from 50 and put in a whole new game's worth of content in to make the whole thing worthwhile.

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I thought it was 100, first 50 as a normal AT next 50 as an EAT

Took part in one last night in Talos and it was the worst Lag fest I've been in. Worse than the Rikti Ship during a big raid, worse than lag hill in the ITF. So bad in fact people were leaving the zone!

I took part in one in Talos the night before and it was okay and quite playable. Hope it was just a minor glitch or it'll ruin the whole thing.

Got involved in an invasion in Talos and got 4 badges from that.

Have to say ToTing seems to be many more tricks than treats this year and we're only getting little Insps not the huge ones of the past.

Didn't get the buster badge even after door camping 1 door in Talos with a team of 5-6 for over an hour and getting 1 spawn every 15-20 seconds (so maybe 200 spawns).

Having been invovled in the Skyway race that was to be part of the Summer Games it seems to me that you'll get a better turn out if you go with newly minted level 1s. That way anyone can have a go with minimal set up, plus you'll have less powersets to police and it takes temp powers out of the picture.

Just my opinion, but I think it would make things easier all round.

Had a PB on the team last night. PB left after a while. Couple of hours later and we're still getting Void and Quantum Spawns. It's like the Kheld with team flag gets set and just never gets unset.

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How about Shark Repellent batspray?

Or a Monty Python power set:
* Pointed Stick = moderate damage
* Fish Dance = + def and attack
* Ministry of Silly Walks = -speed but PB AoE confuse
* Dagger in the clitoris = high damage
* Poke in the Eye = Minor damage, foe -accuracy
* Albatros! = self heal
* Parrot Sketch = PB AoE Disorientate (as everyone is trying to join in but can't remember it all)
* Wafer Thin Mint = Extreme Damage, knockback on both friend and foe
* Meaning of Life = GOD MODE

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You seem to have missed off the holy hand grenade power!

It does seem like a longer wait than normal, my hope is it means theres lots more to come

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I'm of the opinion the green glow attracts the other heroes, like moths to a flame

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Whoa there.. You saying that the green glow is not the game telling me which one to attack? Suddenly it all becomes clear why rads hate me so much.

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No No NO.... read the rest of the post, we don't HATE you we love you, you grab the Agro that would otherwise squish us!

Alas not all Rads realise this

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Crossbow... likes Crossbow. Thats a neat idea right there.

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Nah just make it an unlockable weapon for ARs or archery. My guess is you get it for killing those annoying CoT with Cross Bows.... boy they make me cross

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It's from the devs April Fool joke, where they claimed they were going to delete the sound files for powers, and replace them with comicbook style sound effect bubbles - "Freem" was given as an example of how one of these bubbles would be written to represent a Blaster shooting.

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I know it was an April fool, but it was a cool idea.

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Beastman Pack

Various animal costume pieces ie more variants for monstrous and more animal heads (bird-heads, webbed feet and gloves etc)

Power: Beastial Rage - universal "build up" power

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It would probably need to have a -Res or -Def as your rage means you don't try to defend perhaps.

Nice idea though

My experience with Multi Coloured bloke (Rad/Rad) is which ever person you pick as an anchor is the first one to die. You can pick the nearest, the 3rd in the tab queue or the Boss and they'll be the first to die.

I'm of the opinion the green glow attracts the other heroes, like moths to a flame.

Thus I always pick the one I feel like attacking to use as an anchor, that way someone closer will hit them and cause them to agro on them instead of me

When my anchor goes I don't worry about it, it will have helped the team no matter how long it (didnt) last for.

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I dont expect someone who is so ignorant as to write something like this to understand what I was getting at or why I was getting at it.

Bye bye little man. Or, more likely judging by the writing, boy.

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And you wonder why people have a hard time taking you seriously...

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Actually i know full well why.
And what? You like people you never spoke to calling you thick?

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But your sig says you are thick so how can you get upset when someone agrees with you?

What about a Vampire hunter pack. With appropriate emotes, cosy bits and a temp power of,

Drive stake though Vampire Heart.

Very Minor damage to most enemies, But Ultra Extreme Damage to vampires.

Oops looks like I broke one of my own rules

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This would summon up a tailor, teleported from a local shop

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For some reason this made me think of Mr Benn "As if by magic, the Shopkeeper appeared.".

Oops I appear to be showing my age

Toddler Blast

1. Cry of the Toddler (Single target, minor damage and short fear)
2. Hurl used nappy (Single target, minor damage and medium fear)
3. Wail of the Toddler (Cone, minor damage and short fear)
4. Hurl Toddler (Targeted AoE, Long Fear)
5. Scream of the Toddler (Cone, moderate damage and medium Fear)
6. etc

you get the idea and yes I have a toddler...

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It's perfect as power armour and that's how I've been using it. I just wish AR didn't suck so bad.

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It's fine as long as you don't combine it with /devices, which is a great shame because they gel together perfectly conceptually. I got my AR/Dev to 50 just before ED made it so boring to play I stopped bothering with it. Since then the inventions system has helped a bit but it still lacks the accuracy/damage of other blasters. Something that a handful of caltrops doesn't really make up for...

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It's odd 2008 (see sig) is an AR/Dev Blaster and having played him throug to 50 (started new years eve 2007 finished March 2008) I always find myself wishing I had the targeting drone on other builds. The accuracy it gives means you can still hit a triple vengenced Nemisis boss with a 95% chance of a hit, yes you've not got the damage bonus of other blaster secondaries, but you will hit. To my mind I'd rather hit and do less damage than miss and maybe have done more.

Of the other Dev powers though some really really suck (time bomb for one) others are very sitautional, use stealth to plant a mine near a target back up, lay another mine, backup lay another mine, back up drop caltrops and snipe target. very powerful as they run through the mines and a hail of bullets and the slow to a crawl through the caltrops, but useless in a team as they'll never wait long enough

I just don't think its as bad as people seem to think, still each to their own.

The new BOOM power available with the Cyborg booster pack got me wondering about what other powers could be given away with other packs.

My thoughts were, <ul type="square"> [*]They can't be game breaking[*]They can't be must have[*]They shouldn't be attacks [*]They need to be useful [/list]
I came up with 2 TP powers.

My Suggestions

TP to base portal
If there is a base portal in the area this power TPs you to it. Graphics and delay as per the TP to base Vet award. If there’s no base portal in the area it doesn't work.

This would give people without the Base TP vet award a quicker way to their SG base.

It would also mean you could jump across an area safely/quickly. For example getting to the centre of Steel or Portal corps in PI.

TP to Egress
This power brings up a list of places you can exit the zone you are in and another zone. You pick one from the list and are TPed next to the entrance to that new zone. Graphics and delay as per the TP to base Vet award.

So you example you're in Steel and activate the TP, it gives you a choice of

Yellow Line Station, Green Line Station, Atlas, Perez, IP, Boomtown, Bloody Bay and the Sewers (ie all the places Steel has exits to), you pick one, say IP and it TPs you to the IP entrance in Steel.

For Talos I'd be DA, Founders, Skyway, Green line station, PI ferry and Striga Ferry.

Can anyone come up with any other good ideas, not just TPs anything?

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*Not whilst in the middle of a mission/killing spree, obviously. I wait until he's gone to bed for that - can't really picture myself doing the "What's the little lady doing? Oh, she's blasting the little man's head with a machine-gun, darling" talk just yet...!

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With my 5 year old I have to tell her I'm arresting naughty men. That way it's okay to be shooting them with fireball, guns etc. Though she did ask the other day how the man leaning against the wall was being naughty...

It's a bit more difficult when I'm playing a villain and robbing a back. ho hum.

I wouldn't worry about the little old lady, I mean have you EVER seen one let go of their bag and the bad guy run off down the street?

Of course you haven't, cos that little old lady is a hero in diguise! How else could she me hanging on with a huge bloke trying to nick her bag.

If you just take a few minutes to stop and watch he NEVER gets away with it, she just won't let go. My guess is eventually the bad guys give up and go off to find some unlikely scheme to do instead.

Yep seen the vid, but 10 second activation time doesn't sound that long, maybe I'm wrong though. We'll see in time I suspect

Six tries to post what is up with the forum these days

Erm, so everything is going pair shaped and I'm going to die,

No greens left, empaths is down, I AM going to DIE

So I use the self destruct power and avoid the debt....

I know debt isn't much these days but that seems wrong

You could always write one your self once I#13 comes out

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Why not let one person exemplar down many people, no harm done there imo.

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I Agree, that makes sense.