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While I was adding to the OP, I remembered another point I wanted to mention:

In my personal opinion, it seems as if the forums (including important things like patch notes) seems like they're becoming less community-oriented and more like Marketing Tools. That's not necessarily a bad thing, when the balance is right, but I have to take into account two personal experiences that happened around the launch of Issue 18, which was obviously a big Marketing goal:

• The CHCV debacle - enough has been said on this subject to fill an entire book, but IMPO, there was a lot of cleanup in order to make the forums more presentable to the general public, as well as eliminating discussion of competing video game product, both of which obviously have huge Marketing implications.
  
  
• 3D Sound and Win Vista/ Win 7 - Support for DS3D was removed for these to OSs for Issue 18 (without an OpenAL replacement), but not documented anywhere on the official patch notes (Support directed me to Zombie Man's guide as the official documentation). Obviously, including things like this might take away form all the shine of Issue 18, so I have to wonder if this omission was intentional. Even weeks after I mentioned it to Support, the official I18 Patch Notes and Known Issues still do not mention this change.

I understand that Marketing is important to draw new blood into the game... but should it be at the cost of the contentment of existing players? It was this question that almost caused me to hang up my cape after six years as a loyal customer. It was guys like David Nakayama and Matt Miller who made me reconsider, fortunately.

Yeah, when I did this mission (maybe more than a year ago), Nosferatu wasn't easy to defeat. This can't be WAI.

It's come in quite handy for some of my low-level villains. There are a lot of early missions that involve Nerva spectres and Spectral Demon Lords. Some yellows and the Ghost Slaying Axe can go long way. Just wished it worked on Diabolique

Heh, the only way I was able to defeat him with my DP Corr was with a Jet Pack I picked up as a recipe.

Fortunately, you don't have to beat him all the way down.

Yeah, probably reading off of your "Likes" from your Facebook profile, nothing more.

In a lot of the Praetoria missions, the Reveal power will cause characters to loose connection in a map (presumably only the character that casts it).

This problem is more serious when solo, as the disconnection lasts quite some time without manually logging out to the login screen or desktop, and almost always causes the map to reset in the process. This means that a character will need to repeat the entire mission, even if they use the Reveal power near the end of the mission (to check for missing objectives, etc.).

In the grand scheme of things, it's not an urgent issue, but it is sort of irksome to have a vet reward power that cannot be used without risk of loosing mission progress.

I was just making a bad pun, but I see what you're talking about now

It will have jet pac...s..s.s..s.ssshahahahahaha!!!

I'm sorry, I couldn't say that with a straight face

Just remember, it's "down the road, not across the street."

YeeeeeaaaahhhhhhhH!!!!!!

Sounds like something in the STF in the Thorn Tree mission, but I support the idea to propagate it to more missions, especially finales or more epic encounters.

I want to attend because it will be a party...

... and I want to abstain because attendance would sort of imply that I support the new Party Pack, which I kind of don't...

... bugger.

... Wait, I won't be home in time anyhow (full-time worker on PDT). Guess that makes my decision fairly simple

Which gloves?

Come to think of it, you know who hasn't posted in a geological era? Sexy Jay. Obviously not OCR related, but still, that guy has only posted once since we migrated to the new forums over a year ago. Heck, it's been so long I can't even remember his forum handle any more. I miss Jay