Shadow State

One of the first demonstrations of his powers in Web of Archnos is to snap the blade of a knife while stabbing it into his thigh, so I doubt a knife to the throat would do much of anything, maybe if it was made of the same Proto-steal that Lord Recluse used on his spider legs. Also, If you could injure him enough to force him to use the Hospital teleporters you'd be better of disabling his beacon and letting whatever did that damage finish him off.

And another thing, it seems the injury that took him out of action during WWII occurred during D-Day and isn't said to be a missile.

The Nuclear Missile that nearly killed him was in 1976, which may hint that Statesman's powers increase with age, so who knows if he'd be affected in the same way by another Nuclear strike.

following was cut and pasted from the overview page and are the ones that have an Astrix, I didn't add them. Oddly the Alpha slot and Access to Praetoria put it in the body of the description rather than the title like the others. Also the Tip Missions seems like it would be better to put it on alignment rather than missions.

Are you sure 5 is the max? You can get a 6th on a VEAT you just can't edit at a tailor.
edit: just checked on my rogue tank and he didn't unlock a 6th slot from the facemaker, don't know what would happen if you did like the VEATs and tried to unlock a 6th with Salvage, or if they can even still do that.

He's definitely in the Villain version of Mender Silo's arc (was the only EB my Elec/Elec brute couldn't take down) and I assume he's also in the Hero version.

Unless I'm mistaken extracting is when you take the files out of the zip and put them somewhere else. Seems to be right, no idea why it wouldn't work.

The complexity of a cape is that it's physics enable, turning it into a static item or even just giving it a simple animation should drop the performance hit it causes.

If you mean the i19 overview, it got edited and now says level 2.

Did you extract it to the right location?

What he probably meant by "For those of you who have already started using the new auras…enjoy your new looks," was that, like any other option removed from the costume creator, if its already on your character it will continue to be on it until you change your costume.

Why would we have to justify it? The description on the badge makes it pretty clear the badge is awarded to the player, not the character. Plus as I understand it the anniversary badges are character based only because before i14 they didn't have the tech to have in game actions award account based unlocks.

Actually, Deuces Wild unlocks it for villains.

It doesn't but here's a version that should work with the newest update.

As I recall, Positron said he would look into making anniversary badges global around the time of the 5th anniversary. At this point I kind of doubt it will happen.

It's not just Stamina going inherent, the whole fitness pool is. Characters without the pool selected will get it as inherents automatically while those that did will have to respec and no one will be able to take the non-inherent version of the Fitness Pool anymore.

While there are colorable and uncolorable versions of the guns, the same isn't true for the maces. All 4 of the maces should be colorable, if they aren't I have no idea why that would be. Might be helpful if we could see a screen shot of your tailor UI with the mace selected.

I went back to the last version of Mids that had the inherent fitness mod installed and copied the stamina, health, etc. over to the new version and it seems to work fine and display correctly. I have a zip of the files over here if you want them.

Do you have a Mids open? I got that error when i accidentally installed with the program still running.

You can also hide toggles using /optionset buffsettings.

It's a bug that anyone has it at this point, that female characters don't have it now shouldn't be taken as an indication that they wont have it come release.

Castle's bailiwick is power functionality, the fact that he only invokes the "Cottage Rule" for power functionality should not be taken to mean that the logic behind it (don't change things on players without a really good reason) can't be extended to other areas.

As far as I know the closest thing we've gotten to a "FX Cottage Rule" was Brawler's statement that animations wont be changed based on aesthetics.

Doesn't really matter how logical it is, if the Devs don't find a potential balance issues a compelling enough reason to re-order existing powers (Energize for Stalkers and Brutes) they aren't going to change the order over what amounts to a personal preferences.

There's more than just speculation, we did get actual information from PAX, some of which can be found here.

If anyone is interested I did a purple background for the Praetorian UI, which can be found in my signature.