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Barring the shoryuken for tier 9, I still feel that Kinetic Melee captures that a bit better.

Or make some fancy hand motions and add them across the board to the various assault, control and blasting sets.

Actually, now that I think about it, doesn't Ninjitsu for Stalkers have at least one fancy hand jive thing?

I could see that. Even swiped his color scheme.

I think the female ones look okay, but the male faces are very odd.

And thread won.

Says you.

I would rather have Street Justice sooner.

Honestly, that's how every server seems, when there's people around and actively talking on a channel.

That's the thing, you're "pretty sure".

The thing is, I'm not entirely sure either that the old CoH Face 1 is gone. If it is "gone", it's likely only "gone" in the sense that it appears that they tinted a number of faces adding a little more shading or tint to the coloration like they did with all the faces that came with City of Villains.

My fixation, such that it is, is that when I load up the costume creator to make a character, I have to look at that smug sneery smirk face, instead of a neutral one.

Honestly? Partly, it's a matter of personal preference. If I'm intent on rolling a new character, which I am wont to do as I'm a big altaholic, I'm constantly met with Villain Face 1. The other part of it is, that I had heard a handful of folks in my regular chat channel saying that faces were missing way back when they merged the two sets. I'm inclined to believe them, in that there there are a number of faces that seem to be slightly darker.

It's subtle, it's pervasive, but without a shot for shot comparison, I can't point out which ones have gotten the makeover.

That's the other end of the problem.

You can't see what faces are missing, because they are missing. In some cases, it's a really subtle shift in tint or shading, that orange/tan that shows through on the lighter colors. Since City of Villains was released, or shortly afterwards. Thing is, during the late stage of Open Beta I saw that they had access to all the faces and all the masks.

Then, there was a patch saying that they "fixed" the redundant pieces.

There's no real mystery or malice here. Just file replacement.

That's the thing, in a number of cases, it is just a subtle, very slight red/tan/orange tint difference. Most of the faces made the changeover, as far as I can tell, but in some cases, it's kind of obvious, specifically Face 1.

It's actually pretty easy to answer.

Why would the first face available in City of Heroes, Face 1, be a slightly sneering, smirking face? Sure, some heroes are smirk happy jerks. But, the reason is because that's Face 1 from City of Villains.

When City of Villains came out, the character creators were separate. At some point, they rolled the two character creators together.

And that's where the problems began. All the Faces 1 through whatever on both sides were named the same. The masks on the City of Heroes side were labeled Mask 1 through whatever, but City of Villains side they were all given Names like Demise and Ruin etc. But when they gave us access across the board to all the faces and all the masks, they just cut down one side and filled it in with the other. It wasn't much of a problem, a good number of the faces were still there, but things like Face 1 being the most obvious and big red pointer for what was wrong with the merge is kind of staring you in the face.

Face 1 was no longer a completely neutral heroic face, it is now, and has been for awhile, a sneery smirky git face.

It's not Glowing Eyes any more. Fortunately, that face got added into Supernatural faces. I believe it's Supernatural 13.

Rigel Kent has the right of it in this case. The point is not that there aren't neutral faces, the problem is that there were a bunch of faces that were summarily replaced when City of Villains got rolled in wholesale.

Problem is, they used the same sets of numbers face 1 through whatever. Rather than giving them a separate designation, what we ended up with now is just the CoV faces and only a handful of the original set of City of Heroes faces remade in the CoV slightly darker mold. In some cases, it's a subtle shift, in others it's fairly noticeable, the most obvious one being Face 1 City of Heroes style and Face 1 that currently shows up has the big smirk on his face.

And to top it off, for a short while the original faces were available during the later stage of Open Beta for Freedom. To pretty much no fanfare.

But then, a patch note came down claiming to "fix" the supposed "redundant" pieces. Problem is, they weren't redundant, they were the original faces. As a result, the hero faces fell back into the ether and now we're left with that terrible smirking face as Face 1. Again.

I hate that smug face.

This sold it for me already, I'll trust the man to make a decent series.

So much this, I really hope that there's an Enforcer piece to go along with the front armor. I'm not sure what it'd be, but it seems like the bits that branch off from the chest piece should be connected to something or at least line up with another bit. It just seems incomplete.

Though, now that we've seen the celestial armor, the chest armor actually has a front and front and back version. So, maybe there won't be an enforcer back piece.

Yes! I'd rather have the full range of options with legs rather than the really short shrift Monstrous legs version.

Are there any female boss or lieutenant Circle of Thorns in-game? I haven't seen any.

It's like a shield charging foot stomp. So, short teleport hop plus a foot stomp, then if you have foot stomp on the character already?

That's right, double foot stomp.

And yes, Charleston Chews are awesome.

Maybe they could add the pumpkin to the list of things propelled?

Nice, I like it a lot. Though, I kind of wish we had the option of the the skirt minus the side skirts.

Also, get out of my way cape. *push*