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Rarely will you hear of an exact launch date of something like a new issue more than a week or so before it actually happens. It certainly won't happen during closed beta because its still being developed and tested. All it takes is one game breaking bug to be found that is extremely hard to fix to push a date off the target. Then they have to deal with the fallout of people whining about 'but you said Septober 32nd and that was yesterday and its not out yet!?!?! OMG DOOOOM!!!1!!!!'.

Much easier to not announce a date until they know for sure. Even when they do announce it, its always with an asterisk and a disclaimer saying that can change at any moment up until the moment its is actually out (and even a bit afterwards) for any reason we see fit with or without explanation or warning.

As others have said, they have only publicly said that they are hoping for sometime this year. That means between now and whenever the end of the time period they define as a year is, which they didn't necessarily state which calendar they were following, if this year refers to a calendar year or within a year from the time of saying it, or that they were talking about earth years (Neptune has a LONG orbit).

Cool, about to move to a new place and the internet bandwidth issue came up last night with the new roommate, so I wanted to check. Was about what I thought.

At this point I might play 3-4 times a week for a couple hours on a heavy week, maybe a longer several hour session once a weekend a month, so I shouldn't have to be too concerned about the game being the major cause of an overage compared VPN/RDC into work and streaming Netflix/Hulu/Pandora, which is small change in comparison.

Does anyone know approximately how much bandwidth is used up playing the game? Should I be concerned with hitting the DSL data cap?

The details of Time Manipulation aren't out yet, but I would expect it to be on par for what other sets 'require' for slots. I wouldn't expect it to be too far out of balance in comparison.

Time Manipulation will be a buff set, meaning it will be available as a secondary for Controllers, Masterminds, and Corruptors, and a primary for Defenders. Direct offensive abilities of the set will be minimal if any at all, outside of buffs to your other powers.

Respec in relation to Time Manipulation will have no effect since its a new set and you can't change sets during respecs currently. If you don't enjoy your controller now, Time Manipulation will not have an effect on that, so it shouldn't hurt to delete them, however there's nothing stopping you from having more than one controller, so if you have slots open on the server you want, there's no reason to delete either.

The prestige sprint powers are identical to the regular sprint powers, just with a different animation/effect that goes with it. Especially if you're short on slots in the rest of your main powers, any of the sprint power is the LAST place I would place extra slots into. Even if you're not short on slots, there shouldn't be a need to put additional slots into them 99% of the time, and I personally would find another power from your primary, secondary, pool, fitness, or epic sets to put that slot into because it can almost always be of more use in there. I would put additional ones in swift or hurdle from the fitness pool before in sprint only because it will always be on and doesn't take endurance to begin with.

Personally, if I even claim them, which I don't most of the time to eliminate clutter powers I won't use, I usually put either an end redx in there, or a run speed boost in there and leave it until I can afford a stealth proc to put in there instead. If it still takes too much end, turn it off in fights. Speed shouldn't be an issue at higher levels once you get a travel power so more speed shouldn't be necessary either.

I thought I remember reading somewhere that the delay with backpacks had something to do with there only being so many nodes, or something, to attach costume pieces to, something like 32, and they were out of them or VERY low and had other things they wanted the nodes for before backpacks.

I don't think its any harder, it may be a little longer, but after a few more weeks, and certainly by the time issue 21 comes out, it will become as trivial as the BAF or Lamda.

The difficulty right now is because its new and not everyone is familiar with the strategies that go with the various phases, but that is quickly changing. It was the same with the BAF and Lamda before people figured out choke points for the prisoners on BAF, where the glowie locations were in Lamda, and improved on syncronizing the killing of NS and Seige.

Keyes can be done very quickly if you get everyone working together properly in grabbing glowies and knocking out the consoles. The final AM fight is easy if you're paying attention to the disintegration and the obliteration beam. Grab the glowies, charge the consoles, kill the warwoks fast, charge the consoles, raid the bunkers, charge the consoles, keep AM distracted and where he needs to be during the first few phases, and then beat him up as fast as possible. If everyone does their part and follows instructions its not difficult. Ran one last night that I swear we knocked out in less than 20 minutes. So fast it surprised me, and that was with several rookies, but just a couple good leaders that were very good at leading, and people who followed instructions, and I think we could have gone much faster still.

Before everyone knew the lamda well and how it worked it was hard as hell gathering the glowies and getting people to cooperate with the temp powers. BAF was also before people knew to kill the adds and how to knock out the prisoners efficiently.

Are you using male, huge, or female? Not sure if that makes a difference but try the other ones and see if that helps?

The first page to start, I guess, would be on the wiki:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Incarnate_System


There's more info at the link but quick version:
There are several ways to get the first slot (Alpha slot):
1. There are new league based (more than one team, up to 6) trials that can be run to earn incarnate XP.
2. There's also a story arc that can be run to do so.

After that, you collect components various ways and use them to craft your powers. Shards drop from nearly anything and Threads come from the trials mostly. Bigger components drop from various task forces and the trials as end of task rewards.

EDIT:

And welcome back! Not sure how long you were gone, but especially the last year or two there have been a lot of changes: new systems, TFs, zones, etc. It wouldn't hurt to give a read over the changes with the various issues to see what changed if you have the time.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Issues

At this point its closed beta, so unless you've been invited to it, you can't get to it. If you are, instructions should be in that email or at least point you to them.