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Other things I recall from QA...

Someone asked about fly being slow. Posi said to get afterburner. Also asked about Kheldians sucking, Posi said it's bring addressed.

Someone asked about more alternate animations for current sets. Response was that the 'animation team' is 2 people and 'visual fx team' is 2 people. Basically, not enough resources to do a bunch of cool new stuff while also revamping all the old stuff.

Someone asked about full character respecs (Changing powersets). General answer was no. Funny thing about this one was that dude mentioned he had characters shelved at level 10 that he didn't want to have to remake. I guess getting to 10 is hard?

Someone asked about LFG tool sucking. Posi agreed and he says it's still buggy and being fixed.

Someone asked about force fields being antiquated and underperforming in comparison to what's available now. Posi said they'd like to revisit old sets but Freedom is the Future (not in those words but basically). He did however briefly address the issue of knockback being so hated by saying that things will change regarding that. He didn't say how exactly but it sounds like it's been discussed.

I asked about rifle models proliferated to all rifle sets. They said some wouldn't make sense, I said flamethrower out of sniper rifle doesn't make sense, Posi then said it's not as easy as just porting them over. I then asked about incarnate difficult TFs, Posi is on board but it won't be for a long time.

Shortly after, Lord Recluse showed up and everyone left.

Fin.

Teeko, your assessment is right on the money. When the "Questions/Answers" slide popped up at the end of the presentation I was a bit confused. I thought, surely, there would be more to it than that. Sadly, I thought wrong.

Not a whole lot of awesome info from the panel. Nothing that got me super excited. No release date, no mention of Titan Weapons/Staff Fighting. Haunted mansion looks nice but it's a shame it will be a seasonal thing. Backpack was a bit meh for being one of the surprise announcements and they only showed one. Dunno, just overall no real awesome info.

Also, I didn't really get a straight answer on my question about proliferating rifle weapon models to all rifle sets (could i please just get the vanguard rifle on my crab spider???) I guess the one happy news was Posi confirming that he does plan on making incarnate level settings on existing TFs but he said he wanted to wait for incarnates to be fleshed out a bit more.

Still, kudos to Paragon for being so great to their community.

Soooo, I wonder if anything will be announced at PAX.

Last year was pretty big with inherent fitness. Looking forward to being there on Saturday.

They're announcing the name of the VIP server. Also, I imagine they'll give us a Freedom release date. With booster/boxed copies and free trials retiring at the end if this month, I would speculate on a September release.

I agree that the effect looks similar to arcing electricity. You can change just the color but the effect can not be changed.

Lame that M&G is on Friday, lamer that it's at the same place. Hoping that the costume code will be available at the CoH booth and not exclusive to M&G.

Glad that I'll be able to attend the main panel on Saturday though.

I'm down in Kent saving lives working 911 for South King County.

Whatever it is you're all doing please be on Saturday.

Is Mercy being revamped to the extent of Atlas? I was under the impression that only mission trees were changing in Mercy whereas Atlas is receiving a complete graphical makeover in addition to the mission changes.

Blah, I was looking forward to the panel this year. Per what Posi said, it sounds like they'll at least be on the floor this year unlike last year. Also, I hope they found a better venue for the Meet and Greet than the little hole in the ground they used last year.

Personally, I never understand what all the fuss is all about with this request. On a 24-man BAF, I don't think I'd ever stop to admire the fact that I can see all my fingers.

"Stupid Sexy Energy Mage."

Yeah, looks weird. Miss the robes.

I was mouse shopping last year and picked up a Naga. I, personally, did not like it. It felt too small and the keys on the side were just too tiny. Of course, this would vary depending on your hand size (I'm 6'2" with long fingers). Also, the Naga integration on CoH was nothing groundbreaking.

The mouse I was replacing was a trusty Logitech MX518 so I decided to check out Logitech's offering and ended up with the G700 - http://www.logitech.com/en-us/gaming...s/devices/7244

It has a larger build like most Logitech gaming mice), 4 side buttons, 3 buttons on the left side of the left mouse button (seems odd at first but you get used to these easily), tilt scroll wheel, and all of these buttons are fully mappable. Also, it can be used as wired or wireless which is very handy. I very much enjoy this mouse and would recommend it to anyone who is considering an MMO gaming mouse.

Running an SoA with doubled up leadership will bring as much support as most defenders and all you'd have to do is stand around. Anything you do beyond that is icing on the cake.

If I had my way, it'd be the X-Men cartoon theme song in every zone.

Also amusing, pairing her with dual pistols. Piercing Rounds animation in melee range looks pretty neat.

Quadra Blades is pretty awesome, but it's too bad you're locked in to one single costume.

http://i.imgur.com/WhCni.jpg

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My friend is running a comic booth at SDCC this year and he mentioned that they were scanning people's passes before giving these out. I remember in past years during PAX it was just a matter of walking up and getting one. Considering these extra efforts they're making to make sure people don't get doubles, my guess will be that Paragon would still like to keep these exclusive and not put them up on the store.

Hopefully I'm wrong.