MisterD

So..I am doing Leonard's arc in sharkhead (obviously) and everything is normal.

I defeated all 8 clones, earning the Army of Me badge.

Then, I got up to the 2nd last mission, the lab with Protean at the end. I killed him, ran out, and saved my dying clone alone the way, getting the Explosive Finale badge.

Going back to Leonard, he gave me the stealing fiunds mission, so I went to the bank and did that. Then, my clone appeared, and I picked the 'Saved you so you could have a life of your own' option. After this, I choose to ask the clone what it was going to do now.

Up till now, everything is normal. Then..I go back to Leonard, to talk about what happened (which normally wraps up the story arc). And.....he acts like I had NOT done the Protean mission!! So I talk to him again, and he gives me that mission again..only now..it is called:

'Test your brand new cutscene! NICE!'

What the hell??

It gets more interesting. When I enter this new mission, and trigger the old cutscene..it is now new! Shows a close up of a big sign advertising Infront Steakhouse, then a purpleish picture of some guys eyes...Ok.

Then..inside the room, Protean is there as normal. But behind him, at the computers, there is another Protean, who appears as a purple conning Minion_U...with 55 hitpoints. He is attackable, but wont take any damage at all. So, I kill the normal Protean and run out, also now I am unable to talk and save the dying clone.

Now..I have the Speak to Leonard about facility mission. Only when I get to him..he acts like he is still waiting for me to complete the prior mission. I tired dropping the mission, but now I am back at the protean bit.

I have NO idea what is going on!

Oh and just for giggles, while escaping the fire..
Fire MISSES! Fire power had a 95.00% chance to hit, but rolled a 95.61.

Well gee..I AM sorry. Next time I will totally do my research on the background of every single person that posted something I do not agree with, just because there is the off chance I might hint at something that is not true.

No wait, I wont do that.

Nowhere did I accuse you of playing favourites. I merely said that for that specific example..you were turning it into a side vs side issue. Now, I could just have read it that way, maybe you didn't mean it like that at all (and I will assume you didnt, going by your fast denial of any favourite) but it still sounds like you did.

Listing all the examples about how red and blue side arent equal doesnt change that. I never said they were equal at all either. I agree with you. But if you are going to bring up a QoL issue, and then provide a specific example of how the other side doesnt have it..well..you cant blame people for thinking your picking a side.

Simply say..'The missions to unlock the stores in paragon city are annoying and a big slow down if your enhancements turn red mid team or tf. Can we remove them?'

Wow a level shifted AV that is meant to embody the most powerful thing in the CoX universe, and you are upset it is too powerful? I see why that is just an outrage. Obviously it should just be a bag of hp with 'normal' attacks that can be killed in under 30 seconds.

I have done 3 UG trials. The first, I ended up escorting Dessy, and so stayed outside the main room. The Avatar was dead before I even got through tying out my questions about the fight.

The second trial, I was on my MM, and the Avatar was dead BEFORE his freezing rain recharged after the first use. And I dont think I saw anyone get confused on tanks being one shot.

Are the mag 20 or whatever confuses annoying? Yes. Are they gimmicky..yes, but no more so than keyes pulse damage, Marauders nova fist,etc etc.

The third keyes I did, took about 25 mins to kill AoH, and I am postive that was because we had very little support. remember those early bafs with too little support, how the bosses wiped people..same thing.

Also, if you think about it, all these trials and AVs need a gimmick or special attacks..to stop them being trivial. A lvl 54 av with 200k hp, but nothing special, will die in a blink vs 24 incarnates.

Yes Vanden..cause I totally came out and said this was the worst update ever! Try to pay attention.

Freedom went boom! Gee it was lucky they warned us! Oh wait...

Someone was saying they were on a MO lambda, with the av at 3% hp! That is a great time to dc.

And while I am complaining..wtf is with the fog of war on maps resetting every 5 mins? I have toons who have opened an entire map,. log them in and its all black.

Oh, and is there a way to default this new genius map system to actually SHOW everything? So I dont have to go through every toon and turn everything back on.

i21..CoH Freedom: Offline!

Ahhh that could be it

Interesting idea..I have always liked those types of heroes. Trouble is..it does seem rather complex, and would no way be suitable for new players. Werent the khelds made as a way to expand power sets a bit, and add more complex things? Or something (maybe I just made that up).

So..we had the preatorian Hamidon invasion today, on the Freedom server. It was pretty fun, seeing talos and shark covered in the seedlings.

On the good side..I found it too be about 50 times less laggy than the 'stress test' prea invasion we had a little while back.

On the bad side...the two invasions began in mid level zones, and in particular, sharkhead is NOT the zone hub that talos is. Meaning that a lot of the people are going to be lowbies. I formed a league of about 40 players myself, on my lvl 25 time troller, just because no one else was inviting.
Then, the invasion progressed to GV, fair enough. And from there into the Abyss (and Hive). I would just like to ask..was ANY thought at all given to what would happen to the non 45+'s in the leagues, when the invasion moved to these zones? Not to mention that both are player capped at 50 people, meaning a lot of leagues and teams were left stranded and unable to enter.

I understand that the Hive and Abyss are the logical conclusion areas to the invasions..but really..looking out a lot of the newer toons just totally ruined it for me. Can you see the headlines now?
"Hamidon Seed has taken over Grandville! Not enough people could enter the zone, and all the weaker villains got frustrated and left! Doooom!"

Please, think about things like this for events.

Ahh..I see. Thanks Morgan and Bill. And dont worry, I didnt see your post as snarky.
Managed to find Mr Rod in my 'find' thingy.

However...does anyone else find this a trifle shifty by NC? Even prior to i21, unless you already KNEW who to see for auras and capes, there was nothing at all in game actually TELLING you who to see. Especially hero side..very easy to never even see the city rep at all, at least redside you might accidently call Kalinda on hitting 20/30.

Just seems dodgy to me that in the costume editor, adding a locked aura takes you right to the store and encourages you to pay to unlock the auras...instead of actually mentioning you could take a few mins and unlock them the old (or new) way. Not impressed.

Oh...ok. Not to sound rude..but where the hell is the contact? Me and a friend are trying to find them..good thing they dont go out of their way to draw attention to a contact that might mean they lose some money.

I thought the whole ide aof being a VIP meant we didnt 'lose' anything? So now, because apparently some people found the cape and aura missions too much effort...we have ato PAY to unlock them, instead of doing the missions? What utter rubbish is that?
How about letting me spend 15 mins doing the arc and earning xp, instead of giving you greedy NC people more money?

I have seen this too..and I KNOW what is causing it. I was doing the UG trial on my dp blaster. With my graphic settings around..middle? I used HoB, and it was the normal animation. Then, I crashed. SO I lowered all my settings. In particular:

Max particles down to 100
Character Detail low

And then I used HoB again..and got the purple dolls. Nothing else changed.

I do not have a Mac. But I do feel for you guys and all the stuff you are having to go through, to get things working. It may be a comfort to know the servers appear to be down. Again. CoH Freedom, now with equality to its OS hating.

I am making tea and muffins, due to not actually being able to log in to get this head start. Fun!

To quote the i21 info..

Poison Trap: Reduced this power's interrupt time from 4 to 2 seconds. This power now deals minor damage over time, will hold foes instead of put them to sleep and will reduce the affected targets' recovery while they're within the poison gas. This power now accepts Hold enhancements and IO Sets and Damage enhancements and Melee AoE IO Sets and can no longer accept sleep enhancements and IO sets. Additionally, this power no longer has an interrupt time.

So..the interrupt time, as per the first line, has been reduced. Goody. Now check the last line. Hmmm...the interrupt it no longer has, is reduced? Say what?

Well if this is still a test..any guesses on what mark it should get? And saying problems may arise on Live that cant be anticipated is just a poor excuse. Why couldn't they, during the 10 hour downtime, update all the new stuff to LIVE..then, you know..test it to some degree..before letting everyone back in?

lol, patience? Work out the issues? Um hello..isnt that what the BETA TEST was for?? If the issue is this unstable, why the hell did they push it to LIVE?

Oh wait..here is a fun quote, regarding issue 21:

Freedom and the accompanying issue Convergence are the culmination of over a full year of research, planning, designing, development, testing, and debugging.

Yes, clearly a lot of debugging went on. And testing. And planning. I see this in the way the servers are..down.

WTFness? I just checked the server status page..and they are all DOWN? Seriously? Already?

I find this very very sad..and totally not in the least shocking. Way to go NC..way to go.
City of Heroes Freedom..the freedom to log in..when your download is done, and the servers are actually up!

If it makes you feel any better Matt..I spent 10 hours downloading this, went to log in..and cant. I am not sure if thats more of less sad though.

Also getting this error. Not very ******* happy to see this after waiting half a day to get on. I'll be the first to say it..can I go back to i20 please?