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Issue 3 & changes:
Fire Shield gets Disorient protection, making it even more essential.

Healing Flames loses Disorient protection, this improves the power as you can now use it to heal and not waste it for the Disorient protection if at full hp.

Plasma Shield takes the Hold/Sleep protection from Burn and improves it. It's a very good power to pick during the teen levels now, and getting it at 12 is not a bad idea at all.

Burn loses the Hold/Sleep protection but retains the Immobilize protection. Highest dps slotting is 3 Dam/3 Recharge (No perma-Hasten) or 4 Dam/2 Recharge (perma-Hasten), this is true in both I2 & I3.

The common slotting for Burn (6 Dam) gives tripple damage/patch at normal recharge (compared to unslotted) while 3/3 will give double dam at twice the recharge speed (4 times normal damage when considering stacking). 4 Dam/2 Recharge + perma-Hasten will yield more damage/patch than 3/3 and it will recharge faster too.

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Try not to forget that if you're european there was absolutely no way you could join the CoH beta

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All they said (at the beginning of the closed beta) was that the first wave(s) would have to fax a signed NDA to Cryptic/NCSoft. Several Europeans were in the closed beta and more came with the open.

The only people who restricted access to the beta were those retailers who didn't want to sell pre-orders to non-US residents, thus closing (among others) Europeans off from the pre-order beta (if they didn't look for another retailer that is).

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OK, applied.

Although I wonder what exactly needs beta testing.... The game itself will be the same, right? Just the servers will be different?

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They need to test the translations and hardware.

And they're attempting to run Issue 3 for the beta too

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Spriga isn't north (well, north-ish) of Talos? I seem to recall that it was when I looked on the city map, but it's been awhile since I did.

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While there may be Spriga Isle north of Talos Island it isn't featured in Issue 3.

Instead we're being offered Striga Isle which is somewhere off the coast and only shown in an insert on the map (top right corner of the ingame city map).

The demo file doesn't contain any information on what graphics setting you're using.

That was the way my level 5 or 6 Tanker solo'ed a level 5 Eochai during the Halloween event.

Spent more inf than I earned but the badge and xp was great for the level.

A thought on separate boards for US/Euro subscription:

Due to the nature of message boards and the internet in general you could easily start a war or two between the communities based on percieved dev favoritism in regards to attention.

If we're going to keep the high level of communication between the devs and the community, which I personally think is great, then you run the risk of making players jealous if a question is answered on one board. Cries of "We asked that first" will be heard every time an answer is posted (we even have something similar already with the cries for attention to a specific powerset or AT). If you intend to copy dev posts between the boards you'll end up with a lot of stuff that stands without context and will be taken at face value without any concern for the original meaning. And if you copy then you also have to consider whether the post should be translated to French/German (or English if the original post wasn't).

A special dev post board could be a solution, but it'd have to be read only or it would be spammed to death by anyone with a question whether or not that question could easily be answered by other players. That would mean dropping the (IMO) most valuable thing with the dev communication we have here though, devs directly responding to a post and those little teases States throws around.

I hope you have considered the potential problem and have a better solution than me.

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WingedKagouti asked a few things:

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I did try to limit myself a bit
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How do you intend to launch CoH in Europe? Starting with a beta/test or just plunk down some live servers and go from there?

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We're going to start with a beta to test the hardware and the translations. We're working out the details right now, and as soon as the sign-up starts we'll be screaming about it all over the place. Including here.

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Sounds like a good plan.
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What do you see as the main differences between a US community and a Euro community?

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The European community stands a better chance of getting my jokes?

Actually, I'm more interested in hearing what all of you think about this one. What do you feel are the differences between the US community and the European one?

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Well us Euros are ahead of them Americans, by several hours at least

...As long as we aren't talking about game/movie releases
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What differences, if any, have been planned?

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I'm not sure if you mean between the two versions of the game or the two communities... The major and most obvious difference between the US and European versions is that the European one will allow you to play in English, French or German (and yes, we'll have servers for each language). This is obviously also going to be one of the biggest differences between the communities, and how we help support them.

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What I meant was what differences in the Client (answered), Content & Character Creation had been planned compared to the US version.

I'll try to ask in a different way:
Would it be fair to assume no difference in Content (villains & zones) or Character Creation (costume & powers) compared to US?

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Will there be a Euro specific test server?

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Again, the details are still being worked out, but almost certainly yes.

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To help with the localisation stuff and probably required if you have to keep the US & Euro versions different. Not unexpected, but as far as I can see it'll just slow down Euro patches compared to US.
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Will any changes to the Euro version compared to the US be handled by Cryptic or a different dev team?

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The European version is being developed by Cryptic. The translations are being coordinated between Cryptic and our localisation team here at NCsoft Europe.

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Good to hear that you aren't bringing in a new team that hasn't seen the code before, could have introduced some weird bugs.


It looks like I'll be sticking to the US servers unless it will be 100% free for me to switch to the Euro servers, no extra charge to move characters or get the Euro client.

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Can we also get some numbers on the following Endurance Recovery boosting powers (someone correct me if I am missing something... Stamina and QR, and base regeneration have already been calculated it seems):
General: Rest
Kinetics: Speed Boost
Electricity: Power Sink
Fire Manipulation: Consume (Tanker and Blaster)
Empathy: Recovery Aura
Empathy: Adrenalin Boost
Radiation: Mutation (any volunteers?!)
Invulnerability: Unstoppable
Ice Armor: Hibernate

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Power Sink and Consume are click one-time recovery powers, and, as such, extremely difficult or impossible to fully graph out. Unslotted, Power Sink draws close to 40 end per even-con foe in melee range, while Consume does around 30 from just outside of melee range. Both are autohit powers.

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I'm not sure about Power Sink since I don't have any chars with it but Consume is definately not an auto-hit power.

First of all, gratz to Bridgers on the position.

Now for some questions:
How do you intend to launch CoH in Europe? Starting with a beta/test or just plunk down some live servers and go from there?
What do you see as the main differences between a US community and a Euro community?
What differences, if any, have been planned?
Will there be a Euro specific test server?
Will the Euro release be compatible with the US servers (and the other way around)?
Will any changes to the Euro version compared to the US be handled by Cryptic or a different dev team?
Will paying for the US version grant access to the Euro version (and the other way around)?

I realise that you may not have all the answers now, but I hope you'll answer as much as you can.

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My friend told me in game that his sister read on the boards that the VIP badge gives 50% resistance to untyped and psionic damage. Did any of you hear this?

Sorry I didn't have time to read this thread and have to get back in game so I can spread the word!

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Your friends sister read wrong, it's 75% Psionic and 90% Untyped resist, at least that's what my cousins friends daughter told my brother.

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This is a stickied thread... Why the need to bump?

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I think that was a bump_postcount_self() post

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To make the lists easier to read and find, why dont you just edit your first post and put the lists of stats in there? Or is there a time limit involved in when you can edit a post?

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There is indeed a time limit to editing posts.
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Sweet. Thanks for the numbers Complexity. Interesting how Choking cloud end cost is so low. Even lower than EF?

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The reason CC seems like a huge drain is that the drain is 6 end / 5 sec pause / 6 end / 5 sec pause / etc. Still a respectable drain.

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I'm more worried about Lead Scorchers or Shockers who also cast Heal on their minions.... What the heck kind of power set is THAT? That's utterly unfair, since not one of us can create a character who can zapp AND heal.

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Yea, there are definately no Storm/Elec Defenders in the game at all, that combo just doesn't fit thematically and Defenders can't pick any blasts since they're all just a bunch of whining healers.

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Once again if you have the Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member accolade please post the badges required to get it, I have compared lists from several sites and have them all("required badges") yet still no accolade. I know it is possible to get it becuase i saw a player with it. Any help is appriciated.

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What level are those who have gotten FPRM and what is the level of those who haven't? Just considering the possibility that level 50 is needed.

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do you have to receive xp to get the badges for killing 100 mobs for each of the mob badges?

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No.

The Conspiracy Theorist requires "Bird Watcher", my level 37 Tanker got the Accolade upon getting that Exploration badge. No History badges are required (that Tanker has none) but it's likely that the exploration badges with Crey and "The Doctor's Ally" (Crey, level 35-39, not level 30-34) are also required.

Redeemer - You negotiated the surrender of Alexander, a warrior boss.
A level 25-29 multi-task mission where your contact sends you to talk with Alexander.


Infiltrator - You have learned that the Paragon Protectors are an arm of Crey, and not simply an independent group hired by them.
Either 100 or 200 PPs are needed. A 4 person team going through the PP HQ mission in the level 35-39 Crey arc went from 0% to completed badge (badge completed almost at the end).

Manticore's Associate - Manticore was proud to present you with this medal, in recognition of the valor and honor you showed while helping him.

Recieved the Stalwart Medallion (used version if that matters) - Your battle in the reactor of Terra Volta altered your powers in a permanent way.

And yes, Numina is in FF.

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Just curious, but the list I have has "Unveiler" for Nemesis and "Legionnaire" for Warriors. Is this correct?

The picture I have associated with those two seem swapped. Legionnaire would make more sense for Nemesis guys (and the picture is of a trojan-looking headdress).

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Warriors are based on old roman/greek culture so Legionaire fits them much better than it does Nemesis who is using plans within plans and is generally much more devious than most of the other factions, thus you Unveil his hidden plans.

Looks good from the quick glance I gave it.

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? Strip all other effects off of AM, and let us buff the Endurance regeneration of our party, all the time (at low levels).

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When Empathy Defenders/Controllers can't do that with Recovery Aura except possibly by using Hasten and a total of 12 S/O Recharge at +3 levels? I can't remember if it has a 120 or 90 seconds duration, you can reduce the recharge to about 120 seconds (if I'm using the correct formula and geko has given the correct numbers).

Besides the part of AM that will keep you alive when solo at the higher levels isn't so much the endurance regeneration as the status effect resistance. I wouldn't complain if AM lost the recharge bonus and had it's base timer lowered to 500 seconds (same as Recovery Aura) though.

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? Don?t make powers, even really good powers, dependant on 6 of the best enhancements that game can offer just to use them frequently.

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If it's the only enhancement that power takes it should take 6 +3 S/O to reach maximum efficiency, otherwise it's possible to waste slots/enhancements. Hasten can be used frequently, but not kept always on, with 6 S/O even level Recharge.

Red, Blue and Green can also refer to the con of an encountered mob, infact I've never encountered anyone using it to talk about inspirations.

PP is also used when talking about power pools, this is rare however.

Main, the character most commonly played by a player. Almost always the highest level character on an account but some people max a character and then stow them away to play another aka Switching Main.

BF - boyfriend.

CF is another name for Crey's Folly.