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Quote:A cool skin for the Katana? Or for the other weapons?Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Seems we already have alot of Ninja and Kung fu pieces already... and the Samurai set for Vet Rewards.
What else could possibly be coming for this "Natural" costume pack?
A "throw a smoke bomb at the floor" costume change emote?
Rocket belts that animate like the rocket boots?
Fancier "utility belts", with tech or magic looking stuff hanging off them?
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Quote:Highly unlikely, I'd think. No more than Broadsword and Katana got combos like Dual Blades after DB was introduced. And where would they stick the "Reload" power?Originally Posted by RottenLuck
Me what I want to know is....
Will Assault Rifle be able to use different types of Ammo that Dual Pistols will be able to use?
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Quote:Well. Actually, it may have been stolen from another erotica site I know of, and not from that deviantart link; since at the site I'm thinking of the artist is called Sapphic Neko, refers to them and other pictures as "her characters", mentions that particular image was drawn by Swissy, and links to that same deviant art picture as "the clothed version". And also mentions that is has now been "watermarked due to theft", aka has faint letters across it.Originally Posted by Thyristor
I think this is the piece of art you were looking for.
It was penned by EU player Swissy and 'appropriated' by the hentai site. Last I heard he was taking steps to have it removed. Search for @Sapphic Neko at the AE to 'team up' with both Sapphic Neko and Sapphic Shock.
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Quote:Well, at least as I see it, the problem is that there's a paucity of goods to buy villainside regardless of how much infamy you have. Maybe they need to add a "Raid Wentworth's for Recipes" SF if they aren't going to merge the markets.Originally Posted by Chyll
Healthier? My most accomplished marketer may be a villain, but I have no problems making inf in exactly the same way doing the same things either side.
I just don't understand this "merge the markets" noise.
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Just yesterday on Guardian when the Greater Mystic Aspect spawned inside the landscape again, a GM showed up before the timer ran out ( GM_Sharon I think ) and yanked the thing out where we could get at it. Everyone was quite happy with her.
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Quote:From what I've been reading what we know is that 20 is when a Praetorian chooses whether to go to Paragon as a hero, or the Rogue Isles as a villain. That doesn't mean that there isn't more Praetorian content after that, since you'll still have access to Praetoria.Originally Posted by UnSub
- isn't only having a lvl 1 - 20 range for the new content fairly limited? That isn't going to last long. Perhaps there will be more, but a major new CoH/V expansion that aims to bring people back an hold them needs to last more than the first (quickly passed) 20 levels. Maybe the additional content for lvl 50s is going to end any concern I have, but it is certainly fair enough to ask the question.
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Quote:It looks like yes they can:Originally Posted by iPwn_
Alright, but lets say i am a rogue and I am on a team with heroes in PI. THen I die in a mission, can my hero team members hand me a wakie?
Quote:Originally Posted by Fuzun
And Positron said no trading between alignments except for inspirations (A nice new QoL change as well). -
Quote:Yes, that sort of thing happens. Clockwork that talks like street criminals; Trolls that sound smart.Originally Posted by Willowpaw
Check out the chatter between the rescuee and her captor. Does this seem a little odd to anyone else?
Well, I recall running into a redside mission where a Circle of Thorns boss "calls me out in front of the press", and when I show up it's a Behemoth. Must have been an interesting interview. And there's all the Carnival of Shadows bosses and occasional CoT succubus who get referred to as "he" in the mission description. Clearly the CoT and Carnival have great skill at cross dressing.Quote:Originally Posted by Willowpaw
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Most of my villains are over the the top evil and will stay evil; barring me adding a retcon about Sister Psyche rewiring their brains.
Deadlander the Rad/MM Blaster is likely to go towards Vigilante or even Villain/Rogue status. He is from a post-apocalyptic Earth where the heroes lost, all those last minute attempts to stop the doomsday machines and alien invasions failed. He'll do anything at all to prevent that from happening.
The Accelerated Man, the Fire/SR scrapper will likely go Vigilante. He's really an adventurer, in it for the thrills and not all that heroic.
Special Effectz the Ill/Sonic will likely go all the way to villain and maybe back again; he's a renegade Freakshow looking for faces to smash and cool tech to weld to himself.
The One From Outside my Dark/Storm is an extra dimensional alien and incomprehensible; it will wander across the moral spectrum as it pleases, to no humanly comprehensible pattern.
Shatterqueen my SS/Shield will likely go to Rogue or full hero; she's mainly big and bad tempered but not truly evil.
Apostle of Agony the Merc/Pain will likely go Rogue just so he can travel to Paragon and preach the Way of Pain to the masses.
Divine Wrath the Fire/Shield will likely go Vigilante; she's a merciless punisher of the wicked, and not really all that heroic.
Agent of Midnight will likely go Vigilante; he's a "do what is necessary to accomplish the mission" type.
Weaver of Sorrows the Fortunata may recover from her brainwashing and go Rogue or Hero.
Steel Spider the Crab/Bane may go Rogue due to her dissatisfaction with Arachnos.
I have some mercenary-minded villains I'm considered having choose Rogue or Hero with the explanation that Manticore simply paid them to do it. -
Quote:Well, sure. They have to convert all that money allocated to Going Rogue into beer and drink it up. That takes time.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Am I the only one who keeps scratching his head at all the doom and thinking "They announced this for release in Q2 2010. They probably have something else to make in the next 6-8 months." I mean, seriously, do you people expect the developers to spend months on end twiddling their thumbs, just delaying the release of what they already showed to be ready for no good reason?
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Quote:Magic? Praetoria seems tech oriented, and might not be able to duplicate such. Or perhaps some sort of natural rifts between worlds.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
If Portal tech is something they just discovered in Praetoria, then how did Tyrant hook up with all these goatee-counterparts from various dimensions?
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Quote:*Waits for doomsayers to completely ignore this*Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
It will be possible for a Hero to become a Villain and a Villain to become a Hero. Rogue and Vigilante are the grey areas between those two extremes. They have the flexibility to move between both sides, but can only use the market on their side until they complete the transition.
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Quote:Several people have said that. It would make thematic sense; on Primal Earth, the Freakshow are anarchist lunatics fighting against a benevolent government; in Praetoria they could be freedom fighters against a tyranny. A similar pattern of behavior, but differently placed on the moral compass.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Is it just me, or do the Resistance look like heroic Freakshow?
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In range, and within line of sight. Getting a crate or wall between you and them cuts Bodyguard. One reason why I usually take Fly on Masterminds, I can just hover over the battlefield and my minions can all feel my eyes upon them.
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Quote:Ha; people were moaning "DOOM" pretty much as news first came out of Going Rogue. Even this little preview has already gone beyond those early DOOM cries; such as the claim that Praetoria would just be a single small zone like Ouroboros, and the claim that we wouldn't be able to reach the real Rogue Isles/Paragon with side switching, only instanced missions, and the claim that Dual Pistols would just be a reskinned Assault Rifle.Originally Posted by Bright Shadow
Are we starting the doom threads early this time?
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Quote:Of course they do; it's futile.Originally Posted by Ethric
There you go, the Devs hate Resistance!
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Quote:It's a ranged set, not a scrapper set. Blasters, Corruptors, Defenders; not scrappers.Originally Posted by MageX
I love it and I don`t. Looks amazing but feels stupid. To be honest to me it feels (like most other scrapper sets) like an action oriented set.
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Quote:But Castle has been working on that; at one point on Test the Giant Mekman was available in AE because he was fiddling with targeting. Hopefully at some point we can get Really Big baddies.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
No, but big models (really big, as in Rularuu the Ravager or the giant Council mekman) causes some trouble with the targeting system.
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Quote:It's probably a personal attack as pointed out; the "Hellfire Whip" that BaB mentioned some time ago. I seem to recall it being mentioned that it was used for upgrading too...Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I think this is just a single attack that the demon pets can use.
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That seems to be a close to universal opinion, which is why it is usually recommended to be skipped. I have heard that some Merc/Pain MMs take it because the Pain buffs can supposedly negate the crash.
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I also noticed a Family guy in IP fighting a 5th Column guy and calling him a fascist pig.
Quote:Hey, this is Paragon. Where they sell Enriched Plutonium at Wentworths - cheap. Weapons restrictions clearly aren't a big priority for local law enforcement. They probably just borrow a rocket launcher from the neighbors before heading out for their latest world conquest scheme.Originally Posted by KaliMagdalene
I kinda wish this musing would at least acknowledge that when these groups see you, they attack on sight, with lethal force. I also doubt that most of the Council or 5th Column have permits for chain guns, assault rifles, rocket launchers, grenades, heavily armed robots...
"Could I have some milk? I'm out. Oh, and I need the rocket launcher again." -
Quote:There's a mission from a Skyway contact that always makes me think that; where you are sent to go beat up Lost to make joining them frightening to the homeless. Isn't that terrorism?Originally Posted by Heraclea
At least now, they're committing assault, which is an actual crime. Not sure if standing on a soapbox making a speech in a public street is probable cause to "arrest" anybody.
I've wondered elsewhere what kind of offenders we were going after. The mission that always made me wonder was the one where the Cabal have imprisoned ghosts in a warehouse that you must free. What's the statute that covers that one? How would you fill out the police report? -
Quote:And they seem more likely to have Bosses too.Originally Posted by Basilisk
If they do, it's probably a very rare occurence. Seems to me that the 5th Column tend to spawn +1 relative to the council, and usually in larger groups.
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Quote:I know of at least two forum posters ( names withheld ) whose names I recognized from erotica sites; both with at least some CoX themed stuff. And on one such site I did run across a picture titled "Recluse's Victory" that had a quite unusual take on the meaning of the phrase.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I was quite amazed when I was browsing a hentai site and I came across a pic that I could SWEAR was right out of City of Heroes, right down to an almost perfect recreation of several costume items. I first caught the little Bat wings, and then it went from there. It was a nice pic, too.
I'm nor sure if I should be impressed or concerned that my first thought upon seeing an erotic picture was "Wait! I recognise those wings! Could it be?!?"
Browsing through the artist's gallery revealed that he was drawing his character from City of Heroes, complete with an... Interesting "Gratz on 50" pic. I wish I'd kept the link...