Zombie Man

Being first after BAB is like taking a ticket in a deli. Sooner or later everyone's number is called.

• I3 - Council takes over 5th Column. In a sloppy cut-and-paste frenzy, nearly all mentions of the 5th gets replaced in-game by Council. The 5th remain in the game's historical backstory, though, outside of the game.
• 2nd Anniversary (right before I7) - 5th Column Gladiator unlockable
• I11 - 5th Column in Ouroboros Pseudo-Strask Forces
• I12 - 5th Column in Imperious Strask Force
• I14 - 5th Column available for Architect missions
• I15 - 5th Column Task and Strike Forces
• I16 - 5th Column in the streets and outdoor zones

It's a meme going around because Virtue is hitting the Yellow status before Freedom.

But since the status buttons/colors are a result of *relative load* and not numbers, the new meme is fallacious. If they had recently upgraded the hardware of the Freedom server, then it can handle a larger load and will hit Yellow long after Virtue does.

Ah, the Arachnos maps. Where in every other mission I purposely tried to find a hole to get to the bottom of the instance to kill off all the NPCs that wound up down there -- I think they were having a rave. There are still some maps I can get out of rather easily. I bugged those holes often enough.

Note: Clockwork run on meth. Which means they are weak to.... sunlight!

paragonwiki.com/wiki/Known_issues#Help_Channel_and_Help_Chat_Tab

Look at the file names. They all have Halloween09. The extra appellations are:

DarkFiend
Monster
MonsterGM
Terror
WomanScorned
Accolade

Cleaned up.

Old system gave you a virtual teammate only at levels 2 and 4.

Old system upped the level of the mission by 1 at levels 3 and 4; and by 2 at level 5.

There is a 'floor' to the zone, mostly way down. You'll take falling damage if you hit it and don't hit fly or hover right away. It's no big deal... you'll be reduced to one hp... unless some NPCs have fallen through the same hole and start attacking you.

As mentioned above, /stuck will get you back into the map. If it doesn't, re-logging will. Or, you can fly/tp up to the map and try to get back through the hole or use tp to pop back into the map.

Because of the possibility of 'falling' through the map, most zone's floors now have an automatic warp that will auto-tp you back to the map. Jump off the Ouroboros platform to experience a warping floor. That also helps get the NPCs back into the map.

Interestingly, while zones have floors, they don't have walls. If you get outside the map, you can fly off in a direction literally for miles.

And that's somewhat normal for the first month after a new Issue. There will most likely be some 'stability' patches coming soon.

If a disconnect keeps happening often in the same way doing the same thing, then definitely report that. But random once-a-night d/c's aren't that out of the ordinary.

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You probably did and it's working it's way to Live.

The command to 'talk' in the Help Channel has changed. You can only do it with the /hc command.

/hc I can't find a mission door in Faultline. The waypoint point underground and I don't see any way to get there.

It's been posted above that Radar Room 1 and 2 are missing from the MA. It's more likely at this point that this is just a map bug than anyone intentionally changing those maps for the TF. Nothing Castle or BAB has said contradicts the premise of a corrupted map file.

Is it possible there's a rogue Dev changing TF maps without telling other Devs? Sure. It can happen. Is it likely? Is it worth assuming it is and ranting?

It could have started off noting there were obvious bugs and *asking* if they were undocumented intentional changes. But no. It wasn't. It started off in an angry tirade based on unfounded assumptions.

Feel free to accuse me of 'hall monitoring.' I'll use that same freedom to call out those who succumbed to the uninformed nerdrage in this thread.

Make him fall in love with you then break his heart?