Agent White

Yeah, I'll agree there. It's not really important who you find attractive when you're beating up robots and demons bent on destroying the world.

Well, nothing says those characters can't be bi, but yeah they're probably not 'the one' to be outed.

And it'll be Dark Seid. For only one creature in the known universe could capture his heart, the last son of Krypton.

I think it's a little presumptuous to call the story telling hamfisted til we actually see how they present the story.

Though yeah, total publicity stunt.

Hopefully it's go better than Marvel's Rawhide Kid... ugh.

I'm definitely for more gay characters, but most of the latest comic attempts at bringing them into the forefront tends to be... well, 'gay' tends to become their defining trait and that's just.. y'know, silly. It should be more "I'M A SUPERHERO! Oh and I like guys" rather than "WHEEEE GUYS IN TIGHTS, EEEEE. Oh, and I guess I'll beat up evil too". Which.. it tends to become :P


Actually, are there any gay characters in CoX? >>

yeah a level shift is nice but far from required so long as you've got a mix of shifts from others. But even so a full league of 50+0s can pull them off as long as they don't try for badges like keep em separated or the no acids/grenades.

The higher trials though, yeah, expect to faceplant often. Like, a MoM trial is nooo place for a +0.

Then just make another?

You've got to realize, the incarnate system is the end game system. The more things like that they implement the less reason people have to do it. The game already has little to do when you hit 50. More trials and DA have helped, but it's still not a ton to do. I mean you can do all the trials in pretty short order and if you can +3, DA is a cakewalk (even being +1 helps tremendously). And once you beat it, well, you can just repeat arcs ad nauseum.

Letting people share stuff even with themselves means you really only have to do Incarnate stuff with 1 character and then you're done and when you have more to do you pull out that -one- character and then get everything done again in short order. That's pretty contrary to what the end game tries to do for people.

And how big a curveball can it be? When you've got someone at +3 almost everything you get is extra. I've got my main toon with stacks of common, uncommon and rare salvage I haven't used. By the time I get Hybrid unlocked I'll probably be able to hop to at least a T3 and till have leftover to craft more stuff. Being able to trade stuff would mean I could cap out all my characters a lot faster and thus be shelving them that much sooner til the next bits of content come out.

why would it be nerf'ed?

And I think it's Unai Kemen that gives it out.

One other thing:

Burn astrals into threads. you get them by the bucketful doing trials and each one is worth 4 threads, so, 5 astrals is a common component. Unless you're -really- into the unlockable costume pieces, wait til after your abilities are filled.

And don't be shy burning threads for iXP. It's a really fast way to unlock slots. Both judgment and interface cost a total of 30 a piece, while lore/destiny will cost 50 (and that's in a vacuum, you'll earn iXP doing trials and running in Dark Astoria so it can be less).

It also helps to do the SSAs for a weekly 10 threads and an astral, and the Daily repeatable in Dark Astoria for 10 threads.

30 to 60 is a general guide. Most leaning toward the 30 mark. Underground is the only one that's almost a guaranteed 60 every run, though I've heard groups doing it in less time (and much more). It's a very dungeon crawly raid.

The rest though? for like Lambda and BAF they can be whittled down to like 20 minutes or so with a practiced team. They just don't take that long

Victory definitely runs everything via Dark Astoria now.

All of those you named are global 'procs', just slotting them gives you the benefit and they're always on.

Similarly, any knockback protection procs do the same. You don't have to have the power on, it'll just work.

Aren't they changing up some of the lower tier benefits come Issue 23? Not rewardmerits, but I thought tier 1/2/3 were getting some new benefits in regards to the chat channels and.. super groups?

Yeah have to agree with Aracanaville. All they said was a free goodie every friday. They said it wouldn't necessarily be a consumable every time, but that's it. This otherwise lives up to everything they said about the program. Free goodie, on 'friday'.

And as it's a test pilot program, no one should be surprised an inspiration has shown up for it. They're trying to gauge customer reaction, because the forums sure as heck are not the only dipstick to measure with (though it is the only one that comes off with a thick black oily substance like one). If more people bit for the free XP than they do for the insp then that's a data point they'll use for future marketing strategy (at no cost to the players either way).

Another thing to consider is that nothing in the market is set in stone, generally. Power sets and costume set prices are fairly well fixed. Everything else? Well they've shown they're willing to put stuff on sale and if it improves sales considerably it can become a new price point.

Much more like the Praetorian zone events and waaay less like the steel canyon fire. Trying to use the extinguisher is waaaay too tedious. So if you don't have ice powers, don't bother.

but yah, zone events can be pretty fun. nice place to stick temps and badges

It really shines later on when you've got all your tools set up. Hail of Bullets makes the set pull a complete 180 in terms of performance because it's up every other spawn and with a minor damage boost it can wipe out big spawns.

It's actually got some nice AoE effects but on their own it's not really enough.

I've got a DP/traps corruptor and I'll be honest it was kind of a pain leveling but now that I've built his defenses he can burn down spawns. One of my fav tricks to date has been to pop a purple to put me at the defense cap, dive into the middle of a spawn with soul drain and let off hail of bullets. Usually not much standing afterward.

I wouldn't mind a boost, certainly. It totally doesn't feel worthwhile using anything but fire ammo because the minor slows and minor -dmg don't mean a whole lot. -dmg is only really good if you can stack it with more -dmg or +resist, which very few ATs that use blast sets can do. And it's been proven on paper that even though fewer things in the game resist toxic damage, it still does more damage to use incendiary when its resisted.

Simple fix would be to either replace the -dmg with -Regen on toxic or tack on -regen as an additional effect. Couldn't tell you what to add to ice. Maybe -recharge? As I recall it only does -speed.

It's when they replace zwillinger with a sock puppet on a broom handle that we know the game is in trouble.

The ustreams will at least be less tangent-y though.

Bronies? No.

Furries? Oh yeah. Ohhh yeah.