Rajani Isa

What would be nice is if they let the holiday badges have progress bars (where appropriate) and then at the end of the event, patch it away.

Probably - I was in SG mode while hunting.

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I got the Toy Collector badge immediately after opening my 200th present, which happened to be a Naughty one. I got exactly 58 "You recieved Present." lines of chat (i.e. Nice presents)

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There are four different things you can recieve in "nice" gifts:

Snoball
Snowbeast
Present
250 prestiage.

Sometimes you get the presitge with the present, but I have gotten it without.

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Am I the only one who can't resist clicking on the gift inspirations as soon as you get them? I just can't wait to see what it is.
The few minutes I was actually on and able to play I found 3 naughtys and 2 nice. The gifts were both gift of power.
I'll save some eventually......I hope. Still haven't turned on my jingle jet yet.

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I'm pretty sure the 30 day counter on the jingle jet starts the day you log in and receive it. It doesn't matter if you use it or not, it will still vanish in 30 days. And if you don't log on to receive it by January 2nd or so, I don't think you'll be able to get it at all.

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Yep

Anyone able to check to see if teaming helps with getting the presents? Like how mobs defeated count for everyone's badges in the same zone on the same team?

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Then why am I tied up?

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Because you look so delieceous and naughty wrapped up.

Toymaker?? So I am going to have to get this one three toons?
(2 badge alts, and a villain named Toymaker...)

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There is no "Healer" Archetype n00b!

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Except that was obviously a name, not a cry for an AT.

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I generally play a En/Rad Corruptor.

CoH characters include an AR/Fire Blaster and a Claws/Invul Scrapper.

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Ya mean he doesn't play a Special Soldiers/Glowy Red Fists Mastermind??!!!

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SS/GRF isn't in the game yet

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Ice/Cold ftw

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Ditto. Hello mister Elite boss, what's a matter, attacks not cycling fast enough?

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Wanna hear something funny? Heroes are making an all-too similar point about arachnos troops in this post.

Coincidence? I think not. I'd wager both groups are functioning exactly as intended.

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But that is just them complaining about accuracy - if you can take them down fast, they don't do much to you. Longbow always seems to do alot of pain to you.

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But a rad/rad defender IS a melee char!

Right??

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Rad / Rad is the useful radioactive tank I always dreamed I could be.. Only without a mop. I wish there was a mop ancilliary powerset. ._.

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Ah, the mop. the most worthless secret weapon in an RPG ever - In ChronoTrigger, you are roughly about level 30-40 when you can get it, and the only thing is it has less damage than your starting sword. Although rumor does say some special somethign required the mob, but got disabled.

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Aren't you overlooking the possibility that the TP-ed person might actually kill you instead of the other way around? Then you'd be in the hospital and s/he would still be stuck there. A tactic which assumes that one party can only leave an area by dying or the intervention of a third party is broken.


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Specifically - if you need a third party or to take/buy a specific power, then it is broken.

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Hey guys,

Manticore funded *and* founded Wyvern. The rest of the Phalanx are not aware of that however.

Carry on...

[/ QUOTE ] You mean there's a big army of guys in brown leather with helmets similar to Manti's who use bows, are called Wyvern and the Phalanx don't even suspect there's a connection to Manticore???
Man, they're more oblivious than I thought...

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Ummm, copycats, anyone? Murderers do it, why not vigilanties?

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Umm, how does Longbow flout international law? It is a private force, not part of any governement, so isn't bound by most of them.

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Psst, international law applies to everyone, that's how individuals get charged with war crimes.

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Notice I said most - the majority of internation law is generally ment to bind countires, not indiviuals.

Plus, the majority of people that do get charged with war crimes, as far as I recall, have either a) been part of the government (military, etc) or the head of a government.

Umm, how does Longbow flout international law? It is a private force, not part of any governement, so isn't bound by most of them.

I believe somewhere they talk about how Miss Lib. named it Longbow for something along the line of them being out on the front lines, or something...

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Streak Breaker (I just talked to Poz about it
If you miss three times in a row, then your next attack will always hit.

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Now that can't possibly be true at all.

I was fighting riktis today, and I can't hit the improved drones. At all. I was actually paying attention after the first two or three, and yup. We killed everything but the improved drones, just to see, and I'm missing white conned improved drones up to 12+ times in a row. I can't even hit yellow conned ones. The only way I was able to damage them was with rain of fire. My team mate had to kill them for the most part, because I just couldn't hit them.


edit: lol Oops, I didn't notice this was the stalker forum, I got to this thread via the dev tracker. Is that a stalker only trait?

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IIRC, if the Rain hits, that counts as a hit for the streakbreaker.

And it is for all heroes, not just stalkers.

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Why do I get streaks of 10 misses against blue cons? I should not have streaks like that more than once a year, but I get them 3 and 4 times a day. I feel that the issue is with the Streakbreaker code as well, not necessarily with accuracy overall.

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Apologies if this has been brought up earlier in this thread, but there's a psychological factor at work here, too: we're much, much more likely to notice streaks of 10 misses than equally unlikely streaks of hits.

Of course, assuming accuracy is 75% (I know it's higher vs. blue minions, but I forget how much and I'm lazy), the probability of 10 misses in a row is 9.5367x10^(-7), which is approximately the same as getting 48 hits in a row. This is so unlikely that you'd have to execute something on the order of one million attacks before you'd expect to see it happen even once. If you're seeing this consistently, then something is seriously broken -- but to such a degree that I'd be inclined to discount your claims as hyperbole without further evidence (demorecords, logs, etc.) if I were Castle or Geko.

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Actually, IIRC, it is impossible - doesn't the game have a streak-breaker? So that on an even con without defense powers on it, your 75% base accuracy turns into something like a max streak of misses of 3-4 attacks, the next being made to auto-hit?

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Fairly certain they always critted.. just the word "CRITICAL!" and the double damage numbers didn't fly above the enemies head till I2 or I3.. but... it was viewable in the combat log before then..

and yea -- in I3 the chance on bosses and LT's was upped.

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No, scrapper attacks did not ALL have a base crit chance above 0 before I2 - but most sets had one or two powers with a chance to crit. Those ones still have an added chance to crit.

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I had an amusing one because of context. Two Hellions sparring and one said to the other "Man you got to work on your anticipation" right before I came up behind and smacked him one

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I love life's little ironies.

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I like it when they say something along the lines of "I am going to kill you!", then turn and fire on their spawn mates cause I hit confuse. Goes along with my MC/PA domintors line of "I think. You die. Got that?"

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aAnd anyway, continual modding leads to some really interesting results. Incorporation is what I'm thinking of. For example, CS started as just a mod to halflife (if I'm remembering correctly, it's been ages) And then valve basically took the idea, since it was not protected and it was partly theirs to begin with.

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Just a side note...Valve actually hired the guys who made CS and now they're still making the mod...they're just doing it in house and getting paid for it.

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On top of that, they gave out a mod kit... Cryptic hasn't.

On the flip side, halflife doesn't require a monthlyfee or certain servers.

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Really, they either need to do something about the looping sounds or let the players take care of it themselves. I was trying to play a dark armor brute today and Dark Embrace is driving me crazy, not to mention giving me a headache.

But I suppose someone will just say I don't really need smashing/lethal damage resistance so I should just leave the power off.

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One of the reps thought it was going to go live with the mudpots sound patch, but it didn't.

He is looking into all of the Dark armor / WS powers with loop sounds.

Sweet tooth fixed!

-218.0, -0.5, -2151.1 Exploration icon shows up behind the truck.

Just got a boomer saying "Midas gave us cell phones for whenever we get pinched. If we are quick about it, our lawyers can spring us before we even see the inside of a cell."

Then, when agro'd "Call my lawyer. I'm about to get myself in trouble."