Zombie Man

There's at least four specific in-game references to BAB as a Phalanxer and many occasions where he's with them.

Ever since CoV, BAB has been written in as a Phalanxer.

Not to mention that his Praetorian counterpart is a Praetor.

So, too, then are the Menders.

This alone should be sufficient to establish that BAB is indeed and without question a member of the Freedom Phalanx. But there is also:

His comic book bio.

Or Crimson Revenant's arc.

Or Silos' arc where you have to rescue Phalanx and Vindicator members, and guess who's in that mix?

Close.

You mean the 5 minute window?

Traditional syndication used to require 100 shows to be picked up. And they keep stopping 80% of the way there. Idiots.

The only place you can shop shortened series for syndication are some two-bit cable channels like, you know, SciFi.

They're to replicate the full list of Live servers to test things like character transfers, global channels, and stuff.

And hopefully, one day, cross-server teaming.


For brand new installations, it will download in stages. The first files to download will be the character creator. Once they're d/l'd, you can make a character, and while you're doing that, the files needed for the tutorial will download in the background. Once they're d/l'd, you can do the tutorial and while you're doing the tutorial, the rest of the files will d/l in the background.

The file structure of FREEDOM is vastly different than pre-FREEDOM. Since they want the game to load in 3 stages (so that a brand new customer goes almost immediately into the costume creator while the tutorial is loading in the background; and so the rest of the game is loading in the background while you're in the tutorial), the files in the piggs have been reorganized.

Apparently, the updater/launcher isn't smart enough to simply move unchanged internal files, it will re-download them into the correct pigg file (a pigg file is basically a proprietary zip file).

So, if you haven't been updating Beta over the past few months (as I have ) you're looking at a nearly brand new install. And the copying over of Live files won't help.

This means when the FREEDOM pre-install happens... it will be epic, son.


They have never made closed beta forums accessible to the general public in the past except for that one 'clopen' beta <shudder>. They don't want old and settled debates to be redebated.

However, they freely allow closed beta participants to recopy anything from closed to open forums they think is germane.

So, you hear that, Close Beta folks? Start copying and pasting!

They're *magic* robes, silly!



Puts on Cryptoparagonian divining pointy hat:

Noble Savage has mentioned that newer costume sets are now likely to be made in two layers: An under layer of form fitting tights, and an outer layer of armor (Defense and IDF). Or an under layer of armor and an outer layer of glowy and drapey bits (Ascension and Ascension Radiance).

So, for the new CoT, you have the tights with the thorn pattern overlay as the under set, and the shoulder pads, leg flaps, backpack thorns as the over set.

I'm guessing all those bits were already in the system and the big overlays were going to be just for the main bosses.

What was seen at ComicCon were level 10 CoT in just the tights underlay. And yes, it was disturbing. As well as the lack of hoods and facial mufflers and blue men.

And so when we complained about that, it was relatively easy for them to extend the overlay to all the members of the CoT and no longer have low level tights-only guys. When Posi said that the Devs thought the new CoT were fantastic looking, they were right because they knew what the big bosses were wearing.

And the genius of using the player models for the NPCs is that they can easily mix and match pieces to cover up all the members of the faction, just like players can do in the MA. They didn't need the costume makers to fashion new pieces -- that would indeed have taken a few months.

No Test, Beta!

No guides for you. I wasn't in Closed Beta this time. Chew your own food!

It was already in the guide.

Like CoH 2?

1. Check.

2. Check.

3. Check.

4. Check.

5. Well, less exposed muscleniness. Check.

6. Check.

7. Check.

8. Point made moot by blanking out the facial features.


Oh, and this:

Breechcloths, floor length split butt capes, and floor length thigh capes!!

It's not a name. Ferries look like ferries. The Smuggler Ship looks like a non-passenger cargo ship. When they hooked up all the redside choppers and ferries, they didn't connect the ferries to the choppers. Getting on a ferry in Peregrine and winding up smuggled into Striga on a cargo ship doesn't make any sense.

I was one of the biggest pushers of a unified transportation redside, but I'm not on board (pun intended) to pretend a cargo ship is a ferry. I also tried real hard to get the Vanguard DPO to be in northern Peregrine, but that didn't happen.

Kill off Citadel and replace him with a portal that goes to Portal Corp square.