SilverAgeFan

Yup. Yasi is one of the largest storms to ever make landfall in modern history. Been watching this one from afar.

Godspeed to all you northern Queenslanders.

Update to my situation: Got brave and opened the contact menu of all my other villains. Only those that are level 25+ are freezing out. They have all the contacts at that level range in Sharkshead unlocked, including the hidden ones.

Also can confirm that the texture on the bulldozers is not registering for me redside. This seems to coincide with when I got hit by this driver related freeze on the contact menu.

Re: [Beast Run]

Awesome. Very happy. Very very very happy. Sold on this pack already.

yay. makes me want to *poke marketing* more often!

*pokes NC marketing*

A new teaser image for the weekend?







Pretty please?

I've been thinking a lot about the coming Incarnate Lore Slot.

My Fears: A part of me fears it is going to be executed pretty much as was leaked back during GoRo closed beta (but leaked briefly to the open test server)--essentially a praetorian faction based pet that gets modified along the lines of the six Lore enhancements already found in game. (i.e. get your very own Praetorian Clockwork pet and buff it via your incarnate slot.) Sadly, a Shivan by any other name...

My Hopes: I'm hoping that this system has been seriously rethought by the current super sekrit endgame team. IMO, all our incarnate powers should be highly customizable when they impact our character in any way that is visible. This is THE penultimate stage of development for our MOST POWERFUL characters, right? IMO, going from highly individualized and customized powers to uber endgame powers that have at best a half dozen cookie cutter appearances feels like a step backwards.

Pet Customization: I have deep hopes that the Lore pet (from here on out to be called a Sidekick (not to be confused with SSK, but more in line with the classic comic book concept of a sidekick)) will be fully customizable in appearance, power appearance and even movement style.

I'd be fine if their powers all did the same damage type if need be for balance. But I'd love to be able to choose whether it looked like my sidekick was wielding fire or ice or conventional weapons. I'd love to be able to choose the body type and size of my sidekick, taking full advantage of our extensive costume creator to dress him/her/it in a fitting manner that complements my character's look and concept. (Giant companion protector robot, girl-wonder, pouncing cat boy, a shadow of the main character, etc.)

Though, like MM pets any sidekick should have some version of super jump running that allows them to always keep up, one more pull down should be added to the character creator allowing us to declare the movement style our sidekick will use: standard, hover, ninja-run (if you have the martial arts pack), or beastly run (if as some of us are hoping that comes with the next booster).

Lastly, we should be able to name our sidekick just as any MM pet can be named. And maybe be able to provide them with a brief bio description.

Additionally, all this tech would likely also then permit some significant degree of MM pet customization and hopefully both could be released at the same time or near the same time.

Unlocking the Sidekick: Though our sidekick may become a force to be reckoned with once we slot third and fourth tier Lore enhancements, the sidekick itself IMO should be unlocked via an arc available at level 40. Over the last 10 levels of advancement, the duration would increase by one minute and the cool down for calling the sidekick would halve each level. So perhaps at level 40, you can call your new side kick once every 24 hours for 1 minute. At 41, once every 12 hours for 2 minutes, etc. Unlocking the Lore slot would basically perma your sidekick. And the Lore enhancements would then buff it according to the information that has already leaked.

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So, much like Moo's thread outlining his wild and crazy fantasies for the animal booster pack, the above are mine in rough for how the Lore slot would ideally work into the game. Sadly, my more realistic expectations are much lower. But I really am not that excited about another cookie cutter recycled mob pet for this endgame power.

So I've tried reducing my graphics settings and tried several resolutions. None of these options get the characters to work.

The two characters in question crashed when I opened the contacts menu. They are now logged in the servers as having their contact menus open, so when I log in, they are still open--so these two characters have become effectively unplayable until a fix is available. (As stated in my prior post, I will not be rolling back my drivers as they were needed for other software related issues.)

The two characters in question are level 25+. As I now play with xp off at each level interval to do all the legacy content, they have ALL the contacts in their list between their inactive and active, including ones requiring badges to unlock. So can't provide a list that narrows down if it is any specific contact.

I've not opened the contact list now on any of my other villains for fear of making them effectively unplayable now too.

This stinks. I hope a fix is forthcoming and soon.

This is happening now to me as well. Redside characters, level 25+. Won't be rolling back my drivers as that is also not an option for me due to other software.

Edit to add: textures on bulldozers redside seem to have gone missing as well. not sure if this is at all related.