Mothers_Love

The Zombie Apocalypse Invasion is triggered by handing in the Halloween salvage on a toon that needs the 5th costume slot.
The salvage items needed are the Statesman/Recluse/Masks, BaB gloves and Hami costume and should be given to Annah in Croatoa (left of station near the bottom of the steps).

Its a +chance of invasion and Its rumoured to be more successfully triggered on the night-cycle (although not sure about the validity of that, why chance it when the salvage has cost you a million or two.)

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or reroll i12 pvp that would take 0 effort

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That might mess up their work on new stuff to make 50s more powerful - Positron said that since NCSoft bought them, they've been able to plan ahead longer - like around 4 Issues instead of 2, so we won't see the full benefits of some changes until some time in the future.

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I don't see how it could mess up the mechanic of making your toons more powerful... The 'Going Rogue' or open-world PvP concept perhaps.

Actually, In retrospect it may even make things more interesting. You know some toons are supposed to be more powerful within melee-range, some are deadly at range if you don't close on them fast enough, some are supposed to be more survivable and evasive.

That was the variety in I12 pvp. All this was lost in the mass-genericism that was I13.

Well done Sorudo. *applauds

Whether what he did was within 'the rules' or not, social experiment or not... "WHAT AN UTTER TW@T!".
This reflects badly on NCsoft, the fact that they sat on their hands and allowed this blatant griefing to carry on for so long.

Farewell Hersoos, take care.

If I had a hammer...
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this laaaand
I'd hammer out danger
I'd hammer out a waaarning
I'd hammer out the love between my brothers and my sisters
Whooaaah, All over this laaand.

/em,signed.

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Indeed! Who needs super strength when you can fly, turn invisible, and heal any injury in seconds?

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Probably you FFM if the injured party is under significant amounts of building rubble and surrounded by gunmen suspicious of Westerners.

For all the negative experiences of customer services,... I suppose its only fair to celebrate when Support gets it right.
Heres to your positive experience and resolved issue.

/em,raiseglass.

One of the two most well-intentioned yet misguided Re-duxs in living memory for Paragon.
First the Hamidon Re-dux then The Hollows re-vamp. Sorry Warwitch, I know you worked hard to balance the zone and thin the mobs out - but the big mobs and frustration of nearly getting there and falling 100 yds from the Mission door was the sadistic appeal.

Keep the Med-camp but re-double the mobs and put the over-sized spawns back where they used to be in my opinion, the thrill was finding a way to the Mission entrance. Besides, Its not exactly that hard with all the flightpacks and temporary travel powers about.

# Sighs #; I miss the good ole days of being on-duty in The Hollows. I still patrol now and then but I have noticed the numbers have twindled from 20-30 Heroes in the Zone to less than a handful per night on average.

Considerating the state of the world today, I'd go with;

#Flight
#Invunerability
#Resurrect

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perhaps more in the way of zones reacting to players in a similar manner to RV?

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I'd also drop a nuke on what is supposed to be the design of Recluses Victory which is actually just a lazy rehash of Atlas park. Comon,... Recluse comes to power and all he changes is the flags, posters and one statue? - I don't think so.

I'd love to see an enviroment swinging red-side to a more similar post-Fallout Washington DC with subterranian tunnels for chase duelling, trenches and a 'capture the flag' system that makes more sense and is more like a front-line war scenario with pillboxes that can be utilised by players in a strategic battle.

PvP needs all the help it can get at the moment to make it more interesting.

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I think if you are talking about raising the graphics bar in MMOs you should be looking at games like Aion. If you are talking about the comic-book inspired genre, I can tell you that that we are working on something we think will keep City of Heroes on par or better than our competition.

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I think when you talk about graphics updates you should not just be talking about the resolution Issue.
Remember we had an update to high resolution graphics in Issue 7esting Manifest (if memory serves), Graphics is not just resolution, but a whole spectrum of factors including colour palette used, enviromental/architectual design and planning (everything is still to locked to a grid-based design), and the non-repetition of art assets. It all comes together to create a recreation of a realistic city where everthing doesn't look too considered and planned but has grown sporadically over time, you know, like a city does.
Compare the layout of Steel canyon and Millenium city and you'll see what I mean.

I would thoroughly recommend the design team look at taking the zones global on further expansions, It would take points away from CO and give new opportunities for designing new TFs and arcs.

# Scirrocco arc based in the Middle East (Pyramids, Desert Sandstorms, Tomb maps etc).

# Coralax Arc (Lost Kingdom of the Coralax; Underwater zone analogous to CO's Lemuria, accessable via an exploration rig out in the tropical Pacific or Atlantic somewhere).

# Flower Knight arc based in the Far East

#Any of the other Signature Heroes/Villains arcs in different cities, say... a grittier city more like Gotham than the Metropolis-like Paragon.

#Antarctic research station with (new) Ice Crystal caves the size of the cavern in the Eden TF, and big open snow vistas on the coast of antarctica with Icebergs and snowstorms and crevaces.



We've got a whole world to explore and thats before we even touch on going to Spacestation Gagarin and Moonbase Armstrong.

Take care Gall. Feel free to drop a line to my email if you ever try another MMO and fancy teaming, In-time anyway I'll be in CO, ST:O and SW:TOR so maybe I'll see you again online sometime.

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There seems to be some confusion as to the use of the dimensional ground ray in the final fight of the Task Force. Before Reichsman’s hit by the ray, he is in a phased state and is running a rather nasty debuffing aura. When he is hit by the ray, it “grounds out” some of his power and he returns to a normal state and his aura is shut down. This will persist for the duration of the fight. The dimensional grounding ray isn’t intended to be used at specific points in the fight; it should be used early on, and one hit will do.


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Thats all well and good, but the questions on everyones lips over the last two nights have been:

# Is it bad decorum to crack jokes about 'not crossing the streams' mid-fight..

# Why does the sfx for the grounding ray sound like you have a bad case of The Trots.

No, but I expect Reichsman to have his regen tinkered with in the next patch, It does seem a little extreme.

I have beaten him twice on 2 runs of that TF, the first fight took a long looooong time, the second team we had a squishier setup and had 3 defenders, a troller, two scrappys and two Tanks and we tore into the Reichsman, tearing him a new one in record time.
Until it is fixed, De-buffs Shivs and Vanguard Heavys are the friends of any team having a problem with the regen.

A day or two ago MA chat is Atlas descended into foul-mouthed abuse the kind of which I have never heard in all my years in Paragon. I did request a GM attend to lay down the law but instead got an email back asking if I could detail the logged chat and to take their names. I'm sorry I did my part by reporting it and although willing to moderate and temp-Ban on Union's global channels, I did not want to overstep my remitt as just another EU.player and try and settle the situation myself that was going on over local and broadcast.

It needed a GM to appear and lay down the law quickly to stop the on-going flare-up and that didn't or couldn't happen unfortunately. Needless to say things went from bad to worse.

Welcome back to the warm comforting forum-bosom Scarlet!, - hope it proves suffient therapy for you.
We're all the richer for your return.

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Happy Birthday Tsumiju Zero! - hope you've had a great time Tsu.

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Who's Mothers love :P

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Thats quite refreshing, thankyou Effy

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ML remember nearly getting one shotted in sirens by a brute. muhahahahaha

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No, I haven't been into Siren's Call in..... Ooh, about a year or so, my last great memory was of that fantastic Siren's zonal event where masses of Heroes and villains clashed over at the Bloody Bay base, Siren's Call and briefly in RV.

*sighs - "ahhh, good times!

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Erm people, Is it just me or is I15 prepping parts of the game for future changes...

Pocket D's VIP area Tailor...

Trina the Seamstress -> Trina the Body Sculptress

And the changes in name to some of the Face/Icon staff too.

Looks to me like this is prep work for allowing us to change body type/size/build!

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Hmmm, this makes me wonder whether this is purely the shape-changing costume slot element known about or whether that Paragon Studios job position advertised wanting 'experience with non-bipedal rigs' has anything to do with this.

/em,speculation-on

Best of luck with everything Hey_Man, hope to see you back in an Issue or two.

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This Issue was never meant to be a full blast Issue but it is still a lot more than just the customary Anniversary badges.

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I think you've hit the nail on the head there Avatea. In retrospect it probably would of been better not to have tied The Fifth Anniversary with Issue 15 as there was sooo much anticipation for it. That said I did find the new TF blue-side really disappointing (but mainly from the angle of a missed opportunity on story-telling and the repetition of rehash as i saw it).

And yes, we all should have patience with new blood learning the ropes. From tiny acorns grow mighty oaks and all that jazz.

Linkypoos

If this is the I15 launch it feels odd, No system messages!, no Intro text!, no new contacts! - you sure its launched right Tia?

Thx.

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