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Be well and enjoy your time off.

Last break I had, a friend pointed me in the direction of a little indie game that is getting a big update on the 31st. Totally different from CoX. And it balanced out and filled some gaming needs and wants, refreshing CoX for me.

If you'd like I'll PM you the name. I'd consider it "recommended reading" for any avid PC gamer.

Either way have a great birthday tomorrow!

Hey Noble Savage, if you're still reading, will any of these auras trail physics particles? Thinking about the leaves aura in particular.

Also just realized, upon looking at them a second time, that the leaves being birch leaf shaped (as opposed to the maple leaves that already drop from trees in the game), they may be abstract enough to pass as flower petals if recolored.

If this is a combat aura, I think I just found a new favorite for one of my stalker.

Think about it... flower petals blowing through the air just before the strike. A nice bit of melodrama methinks!

Something that I've noticed is different this year:

In years past, duplicate costume power drops would cause an empty Treat drop--you get the Treat notice and no visible treat. Or, in the case of hybrid Treats (which don't appear to happen anymore), you'd get just an inspiration where you otherwise would have gotten an inspiration AND a unique costume temp power.

This year, instead, you get a Trick with baddies spawning whilst still getting credit towards the costume badges the second you click the door.

Took me a while to work through my alts to some that still did not have any or all of the costume drop badges from years prior.

I stand by my prior suggestion (this thread or elsewhere) for future halloween events to include a means to "buy our way" past mission gating with a set or three of halloween salvage. Something like the mission Tip drop--which seems to be scaled well for new characters with none of the event badges--can be frustrating when working through and badging old characters. Personally, I find this speed bump is part of what can contribute to the "event fatigue" described on another thread. Especially since the mission itself takes a few minutes per run in most cases. I would have loved to have whizzed through all my five and six year old characters in one night and then focused on other aspects of the event with new characters.

Yes, yes I know it was my CHOICE to spend the first three days of the event just badging old 50's. Either way, the speed bump to these missions for old characters seemed quite superfluous IMO. Should not have taken several hours per old 50 to get these five quick mission runs.

That being said, on a newer character, with lots to do, the event has been fun and relatively well balanced thus far. My only secondary beef is that the halloween mobs may have been buffed a bit too much for lowbies. Not sure if there is a way to scale them down when they spawn for teams levels 25 and under.

If the current rate of Tip drops that many are reporting seeing is WAI, please consider an additional means to get tips next year. This year is resulting in an abundance of costume salvage for me. More than I'll ever actually use at this point. Perhaps we could turn in 4 or 8 bits of costume salvage for the mission tip as well?

The tip drop rate is a tad low IMO. There is clearly no cool down as I did get a tip on my first knock right after completing a Halloween tip mission. So it is definitely a random rate thing happening.

Working on a well-oiled team of 4-5 heroes, where folks would shout "TIP" the second they got one and all door knocking would cease AND we wouldn't let ourselves get distracted with any of the other invasion events, it still was taking 1.5+ hours to get all five badges on any given character.

Finished the night on a team of four heroes where we knocked from 12:10 am till 1:30 am till we collectively saw our first tip.

Random may be random. But for folks like myself hoping to badge on dozens of characters, this rate is a bit too low for enjoyment. I've now completed the tip accolade on four different heroes on live, all level 50 and each one has taken longer than 1.5 hours a piece. The one I did solo for three of the five badges took nearly 3 hours total.

So yeah, based on my experiences thus far, something feels pretty off. Similar to how off the ghost spawns were a couple Halloweens ago.

Enjoying the new tip mission. My one beef is that the drop rate seems a bit on the low side if someone (like myself) feels the compulsion to badge an entire stable of characters. Did some timed tests today.

On a full to near full team, took about 1.5 hours to get all the badges on one character. Solo it's taking about 2-2.5 hours and this is with playing knock-knock-runaway. The speed bump in both cases is the odd drop rate. And I can confirm no invisible cool down as on my solo run I got lucky with a tip on the first knock AFTER completing a Halloween tip mission.

On the plus side, Halloween salvage dropping from defeating tricks. The spawn curve makes more sense. As does spawn consolidation with multiple nearby doors all coming out of one door instead of six different doors. All very nice bits of polish. Costume and salvage rate seems quite good too! (Though I've not gotten nor seen any of the rumored "new" costumes added to this years bevy of temporary costume powers.)

All in all, B+ from me devs. I'm enjoying myself thoroughly this far. Though in six days I may loathe the tip mission as much as I do Snaptooth!

As far as the halloween event goes this year, anyone know if you need to have an open tip slot to receive the tip? Or did they have foresight when designing the tip system to allow a special slot for event tips?

I was wondering if this might be halloween going live. Do we have any confirmation? Or like in some years previous, we'll just need to log in and see if the eternal night of halloween is in effect?

I'm on board for this one. It's got several auras I've long wanted and requested. And best of all, they look good to boot!

Thanks in advance already for the:

• Leaves
• Toxic Vapors
• Steam Jets
• Atomic Aura
• Tarot Cards

The first four I've oft requested. The fifth is something I'd never thought to request but can absolutely use on a new villain I finally was able to roll up post GR: Midnight Gambler, my DP/Dark haunted gunslinger character. Camped that name for years after being inspired by the original Tarot Card power way way back.

And I really like the Science, Nature and Tech capes. Need to see the Magic and Mutant ones in game to decide on those.

Good work on this pack. I'm pleased and even a little bit excited.

I'm having some trouble getting screenshots while in the CC. If anyone is able to take some screenies, I'm looking for six shots, two of each model (male, female and huge) in plain white tights, white bald head on a medium toned CC background, a front facing and a backside image. I want to use these to create some mockups of suggestions for new skins for the CC.

Short story long, I've compressed my physical desktop down to one monitor, mouse and keyboard and am using a KBM to toggle between a PC for entertainment/writing/bookkeeping and a Mac for editing/graphics production. I'm using a mac keyboard. And the F13 button for some reason does not register as a print screen button. Additionally, other than PC paint, I currently have no graphics software on this Win 7 machine. So I'll be doing all my work on the mac.

So anyways, turning to you folks out here in the community to see if anyone would be willing to help me out and shoot the six screens as described above. I'm just after the character models in a neutral setting from head to toe so I can do some masking and play with some ideas. Linking to the images or embedding them in your post should be sufficient enough as I will just grab the jpegs that way.

I promise to post results when ready! Thanks in advance to whomever can help!