Tyger

Two things:

It's for Live and part of the agreement is clear; they can do whatever they want.

This doesn't stop you playing your hardware; it stops you taking it online.


And unless you're a PC owner running something besides Windows; you're in exactly the same boat as the 360 users.

It's not a bug. All costume drops count including duplicates HOWEVER when recieving duplicates they do not appear as a "Temp Power Awarded".

So you've got 50 but you had 27 duplicate outfits.

Should be added to the FAQ thread if true since they are a oft-requested feature

Upgraded that for you.

I can vouch for this. Arcane and Tech versions.

On a side-note: ^.^

Have you seen the stuff she keeps in her Atlas office? One of them is a jar with water from the Well of the Furies... yes, that one! Go check, it's got its own plaque.



And two from Rooster Teeth? I haven't felt a great need to watch anything of theirs since they sedimented on RvB. I haven't watched the Captain Dynamic series either for that very reason.


I don't know who Bill Willingham is either so that's two I don't have any particular revelance for. In this case it's one of those cultural things since comics aren't such hot stuff over here.


The PVP guy, Scott Kurtz, is the only one I actually DO know and that's only because I got the Deluxe edition with the little comic in it so it's the only one I have any inclination to try (although the title is something I'd avoid if I was looking).

Power Cutomisation 1.5 - all the other stuff they missed out for the i16 deadline, perhaps just EATs so they can save pool powers and ancillaries for i18.

You're really asking a bigger question with:
Optimising, revamping, creating anew.

Like with the raid events in each zone (GMs, Troll Rave party, Steel Canyon fires, Ghost Ship) they went largely un-noticed, one was bugged (Troll Rave) and it was up to players to report findings of any of these events. So they optimised it after the complaints of the Vanguard Red Alert text and events got their own channels; one for heroes, one for villains and with their own color too. Optimising.

Faultline, Rikti Crash Site, Hollows; players avoided them and they were changed to better suit the state of play. Faultline got rebuilt, partially, and its own set of story arcs digging into the forgotten history of the zone. The Crash Site, a zone largely unused due to over-estimation of the playerbase who preffered the instanced content. Got its own arcs and a rather fun zone raid event. Hollows got a touch-up too when players started avoiding the zone for its merciless door placements so it got revamped (well, more optimised but Frosty got a new cutscene out of it).

Cimerora, Ouroboros, Praetoria (soon™); new ventures. A zone with possibilities for time-travel arcs, a zone in the past with similar and different potentials and the main focus of GR. New ventures. Flashback in one, the multi-faceted time-travel elements of another and of course the alternate universe which is the setting for the GR system.

So there's always more possibilities (including the dreaded but inevitable shutdown one day).

And of course; EUROPE. You know; the cousins across the Atlantic who formed Vanguard to help co-ordinate the world's forces into stopping the conflict?

I mean they've got to have their own problems with Hero One gone and all...

Simple; 'offered' and 'partaken' are two different states. Some people don't want to try a beta no matter how long they've been here.


I think the 'false info' answer might be a good position to adopt.

I've done it forgetting about the field myself. One charge lost, supression so I can't use another for 15 minutes.

What I wouldn't mind seeing is full power supression like in the quiet room of the AE building. It would certainly fit better than the current system both for power-spammers and the in-game explanation of 'DJ Zero only permits it when asked'

Except:

Highlighted the point; mixed teams have no way outside the relatively expensive accolade.

Since the Midnighter's is supposed to be a supergroup; why don't they have one? Or better yet; a mystic variant of the invention table with arcane light instead of the tech table? Hell, even the Cimerorans could have an apothecary table acting as the crafting table for that zone.

Hmm, I wonder if this is related to the STF quick-fix to stop AVs spawning at 49?

Sorted for now; undid their revisions. They seem to be focusing on four pages and making numerous additions to each one.

EDIT: Damn, they're still at it

Not to worry; they're talking about a client merge (all 15 servers on one list instead of the 11-4 US-EU split we have now).

The Shadow Shards or "why no-one cares about Rularuu".

As I have a lot of alts that I wanted to get the day jobs for I get them the out of the way places first (the places with no cell reception like Dark Astoria or PvP zones) so I can log in, check progress, maybe drop a mission and then log on to the nezt one. My scrapper had been spending his time in the Shards. I nabbed a 'Rescue the patrol' mission off one of the male scientists (Boyd, IIRC) and dropped it. "That's 3 men who'd never have seen light again thanks to you" was the return dialog (assumption; a 3 person hostage mission).I thought nothing more of it till I logged in several days later, grabbed a near identical mission with a slightly different location and was given the exact same return dialogue. Word for word. Having retained the mission brief I checked what the next mission on offer was; a 'patrol Point X' and ... rescue a patrol... with the near-identical mission brief with a slightly different location.

Yeah, the very definition of filler and DESPERATELY in need of revamping.


Something extended out as I thought about this; 'Remember'. It's something that we take from each mission we do and while we might not remember the specifics; we take the feel of the mission and story arcs with us.

I cite the Hollows and the Shards as prime examples of this. The number of players using the Hollows dropped so much it prompted a revamp. Why? Because people were sick of playing 'run the gauntlet' to try and get to a mission door a mile away that some sadistic piece of code decided to put there. And with Kings Row one tram ride away with its own hospital, paper missions and safeguards giving low level players a temporary travel power it became a more popular alternative. Things were changed because they needed to be and they were changed for the better. You still get the odd crazy door that has you run a gauntlet but it's a significantly shorter run, there's a hospital (okay, triage) inside the zone so no more waiting for returning players from Atlas or Skyway, repeatable missions from Meg Mason (not a lot but they are endless) and Frostfire, one fo the first E-Bs I ever faced got his own cutscene! And it's good. There's new allies in the south along with a few new enemies to keep things interesting. I have to say that I was one of the people who played the old Hollows a couple of times and then steered well clear but I have actually worked through the arcs recently to gain the souveneir for the CoT Trial. It was fun and (as I said on another post) there was some nice UNIQUE scenary popping up. Frostfire's place was suitably iced and one of the Troll caves, despite being cave eleventy-billion, had wrecked cars, barrels, a greenish hue and was much darker than all the others. It felt worn in and left me with a wish to go back and see it again.

I tried a few of the Shadow Shards and they are so bland and boring. Filler after filler in huge zones means you can spend more time travelling than actual fighting (I do take flight though so it may be a factor of avoidance). But it leaves a taste of bitterness. While the enemies are fairly interesting, overseers being freaky-awesome, there just isn't enough to justify spending ANY time there, not with the RWZ, Cimerora and even Peregrine (Crimson's arc anyone?) providing a more galvanised experience. The TFs are long and arduous and I don't know of anyone who prefers to do them unless it's for a) Merits and/or b) badges. In my own list of preferences I'd prefer the burst appeal of ITFs, STFs and the LGTF to doing a shards TF. The only good thing to come out of the Shards is a couple of interesting maps and the Rularuu weaponary which I've not heard a bad word for yet.

Well I wasn't going to say anything but:

Since someone asked so nicely...


AE has taken up so much time since it's insertion; time that could've been spent better elsewhere and now it turns out that it was because the regular game has been borked for drops since i9.

Power Customisation is not something to ride home about. It's still quite limited and has only brought City up to an even level as Champions. Maybe when it's finished...

We haven't had any decent story movement since i10 outside of TFs, i12 if we do count TFs not to mention the 5th TF is incredibly boring once you reach Bison in the last mission.


And finally; I'm sick of risk:reward. It's a pedantic buzz-word used to justify whatever nerfs come along in the name of 'balance'. The risk is different for every AT and every combination of powersets that comes along so it's a self-defeating term.

1; possibly, depending on how they set up the costume powers.

2; I don't see this happening this year, not a month away from the event with testing beginning soon. BUT to further the suggestion; why not simply make the Witches have this reward table by default? People turn in the salvage and get the choice of an extra slot or one cossie power.

A few clever skins wouldn't go amiss either. I remember running the starter hero arc years ago and the only one I ever saw 'unique' scenary for was the Skulls' Suparadine lab (the small warehouse with the bubbling green vats). Since replaying them I've seen the Dance Party warehouse, the Council Warehouse and even the Burned Office Block. But once out of there it's generic warehouses and offices for about ten levels till you can see the Faultline stuff.

I also remember being regailed about someone who was going to face Carnies in an Opera house and was confronted with GenericWarehouse215 and a pop-up saying 'This warehouse has great accoutstics...'.


On the subject of AE nerfs working; no, they didn't for me. All I did was swap out my custom mob for a regular one. The only thing I lost out on is the bridging that allowed me to work 1-20 in a couple of hours instead of a few sittings.

In a way though they did work. I've hardly stepped into an AE building since the i16 launch but I'm increasingly dismayed about the state of the game as well as being exceptionally belligerent on the new forums.

So long as they add the back details and the second belt option then I'd go for the second but I'd still prefer to pick and choose for other alts so the first would be better.