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Submissions open on Mondays only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between January 11, 2010 and July 26, 2010).

Welcome to our "Search the words, save the world" forum mission!


A super computer turned evil codenamed Ebil-o is attempting to take over our most powerful nations' computer systems and exterminate us puny human beings (how original, huh?). However, every week, a short window of opportunity allows us to break into Ebil-o's matrix and reset the timer leading to our undoubtedly apocalyptic end!

How do we do that, I hear you ask? Well, we happen to have an anonymous little helper and each week, he or she snail mails us a word search puzzle containing anywhere between 10 to 15 words related to City of Heroes related theme (Ebil-o likes City of Heroes; apparently, it helps him unwind after a long day hard at work planning to get rid of humanity).

Each week a new theme will be passed along and you will need to find the exact number of words you’re being told exists within the block of letters you are given.

Your opportunity to save us all is through a word block located at the bottom of this post.

The goal is to be the first one to find the words based on the theme (without being told what they are), circle them in the word block (using Paint or an equivalent program) and then list them below it.

If you are the first one to answer with the correct words, you win and only then will we be able to input the words into Ebil-o's matrix, thus delaying our impending doom. As a token of our gratitude, we'll give you the "Ebil-o FTL [date]" forum title as well as 1 (one) costume code amongst the following ones:

• Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
• Freakshow Tank Boss
• Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
• Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
• Knives of Artemis Lt.
• Praetorian Clockwork

Have fun…but not too much as each week we’re counting on you to save the world!

Rules

1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly " Search the words, save the world Contest” with your submission.

2) Your reply must contain a number of words or names that will be defined every time this contest is run. Please refrain from posting more than the number of words indicated in every contest post. Only post the correct number of words or names, even if you notice duplicates..

3) Your reply must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 11, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.

5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count! Also, once you have posted your entry, do NOT edit it as any edit will disqualify you from that day's forum game.

6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines and to the Contest Official Rules and Conditions.

7) [COLOR=White][I] If you win the City of Heroes® Search the words, save the world Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.

If there is not a winner by the end of the day, I will post the solution.

This week's word list consists of 13 Names related to people who can be found in Cimerora. PLEASE NOTE: only last names have been used!



Monday, June 21st, 2010 - Word Block






Good luck all, and don't forget that the fate of the world is in your hands!

Patch notes for build 1800.201006040036.3T

COMBINED

Mutant Pack Updates

• Fixed some issues with the new Mutant Pack, and added a few more goodies.
  • Added Organic Swords (Dual Blades and Broadsword).
  • Added Organic, Bioluminescence, and Wolf tails.
  • Secondary Mutation: Acute Senses perception buff now working correctly
  • Secondary Mutation: Acute Senses defense buff reduced.
  • Secondary Mutation: Quick Reflexes recharge buff now working correctly
  • Secondary Mutation: Tough Hide defense buff reduced.
  • Secondary Mutation: Looping animations are now fixed.

Tasks

• Ouroboros – Fixed a bug in Flashback missions that caused Badges to be awarded only to the mission owner.

Tailor

• Put back the Warrior lower body option from the Martial Arts pack, which had temporarily gone missing.

Global Email

• Increased the time before stored emails are deleted from 30 days to 60 days. There is now a column after the date that indicates how much longer an email will be stored.

Arenas

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from issuing commands to Gladiators.

Options

• Fixed sound FX not playing properly when in flight and on Female and Huge models for various Costume Changes associated with the Mutant Pack.

CITY OF HEROES

• None

CITY OF VILLAINS

Powers

General

• Arachnos Heavy Blasters will no longer immediately run out of endurance.

For technical reasons, we are unable to go ahead with this contest at this time. For more information, please refer to this post.

Thank you for your understanding.

*********************************On Wednesday, June 30th, Razer™ will be sponsoring a Going Rogue Developer Q&A!

As with our previous formspring Q&A instalment, the City of Heroes Going Rogue Dev Team will be accepting Goihttp://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=226393&nojs=1#goto_threadtoolsng Rogue related questions before the actual Q&A takes place, namely between 8:00am (CST) on June 21st and 8:00am (CST), June 28th. There is no registration required or service to sign up for.

The answers will be then posted live on formspring on Wednesday, June 30th and the highlights will also be posted on our City of Heroes Facebook page for all our fans to see!

And as if this wasn't enough, up to three lucky players will also will win a free Razer Naga™ Gaming Mouse simply by submitting a question!

For more information on the contest, the Razer™ City of Heroes Going Rogue™ Q+A Giveaway Official Rules and Conditions are now available for your reading pleasures!

So don't forget to head over to our formspring page next week to ask your questions and good luck to all!

Are you ready for the "pop culture" explosion known as San Diego Comic-Con? Well, we are! From July 21st to July 25th City of Heroes® will be back at the San Diego Comic-Con, and we look forward to seeing you there.

We have some great things going on during the convention and it's time to tell you all about them!

Booth Activities!

We're at booth #5345 this year, so come by to get a hands-on sneak peek at City of Heroes Going Rogue and meet the members of the Development and Community Relations Teams.

Giveaways

Everyone who visits the booth this year will receive a cool lenticular Heroes/Villain button (while supplies last), but if you're a currently subscribed player you can also get the brand new "Ghoul" Costume Code that we're producing especially for Comic-Con San Diego this year. Check it out:



Again, you must have an active account in order to score this bad boy. One per account only!

Character Sketches

Our incredibly talented Art Lead (and well known comic book artist), David Nakayama will be back this year to offer character sketches to those who are lucky enough to get randomly picked! David will be drawing Thursday through Sunday during Comic-Con week (exact times still to be announced), but you can come by the CoH section of the NCsoft booth anytime and drop off a quality color screenshot of your hero or villain. We'll have you fill out a little bit of information to accompany your print-out and then we'll put it in a ballot box with all the others submitted at the show. If David reaches in and picks out yours, you can either watch him sketch your character or stop back at the end of the day and pick up your beautiful drawing!
Here are 2 examples of in-game characters sketched by David Nakayama at previous conventions:





Pictures with Desdemona!

This Comic-Con we're celebrating the impending release of City of Heroes Going Rogue, so it only makes sense to have our very own Desdemona on hand Thursday through Sunday to greet and take pictures with you! Come by the booth to meet her in person.

Booth Raffle

Come to our booth, get your badge scanned and get the chance to win amazing prizes, courtesy of our partners, Razer and AMD! The Official Booth Raffle Rules and Conditions are now available here.


Going Rogue Panel!

City of Heroes® Going Rogue - Reinventing a Supeheroic MMO

When: Thursday, July 22nd, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: Room 24 ABC

Find out how the world's most popular super-powered MMO is redefining the on-line gaming experience with City of Heroes® Going Rogue. New content and features will allow players to enter a new world with true moral challenges. Fans have been reading stories about heroes dangling on the edge of evil, or villains seeking redemption. Now they can live those adventures.

Jesse "Ghost Falcon" Caceres, (Development Producer), Melissa "War Witch" Bianco (Design Lead), Matt "Positron" Miller (Lead Systems Designer) and David Nakayama (Art Lead), will establish for you the innovations that will allow your hero or villain to experience the ultimate adventure.

Be sure to attend to find out the latest, juiciest information on Going Rogue and to ask the Dev Team your questions!


Player Meet and Greet/Going Rogue Preview Event!



Meet and Greet

We're combining our second player Meet and Greet of the year with a Going Rogue Preview Event and celebrating in style at the Hard Rock Café in downtown San Diego! Here's your chance to get in on the action even if you aren't able to attend the convention itself!

Preview Going Rogue, hang out with the Developers and the Community Teams, enjoy some refreshments and party down! Here are the details:

Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego
207 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Friday, July 23rd
7:30pm - 11pm, Edge Room

Please Note: You must be 21 years of age or older to attend!

Space is limited and once we hit capacity at 300 individuals, no one will be granted entrance into the Hard Rock! We strongly suggest that you RSVP and arrive towards the very beginning of the event in order to guarantee that you get in. Please RSVP by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Thursday, July 22nd. RSVPs submitted after that time will not be accepted.

RSVP by sending an email to rsvp@paragonstudios.com with the subject header "Comic-Con Meet and Greet RSVP." You must include in your email the real world names (first and last) of each person in your party who will be attending. Those on the RSVP list will get priority access into the event over those who show up without having done so! PLEASE check with the people you are RSVPing for before you do so to make sure they are not RSVPing for themselves! Duplicates and triplicates of the same names make us grumpy!

Twitter and Facebook Fun

We're going to be running some activities during the event that could win you a memento! But you'll only know about them if you become a "Fan" of ours on Facebook or if you "Follow" us on Twitter and then link your smart phone to receive notifications from our pages during the event! Don't miss out...do it now!

Meet and Greet Raffles

There won't be one but two raffles at the Meet and Greet! Upon registering at the entrance you will be handed a raffle ticket and you will want to keep hold of it until we draw the winners towards the end of the evening to win great prizes! Head over to our forums for the Meet and Greet Raffle Official Rules and Conditions.

We'd also like to encourage those of you planning on wearing a costume during the convention to wear it to our event! Everyone who comes to the party in their Comic-Con Costume will receive a special raffle ticket that will go into a ballot box.Three lucky individuals will then be randomly picked to have a custom made drawing of themselves in their costumes sketched by our Art Lead and Comic Book Artist, David Nakayama!


It's going to be a fun, activity-filled Comic-Con for City of Heroes® and we look forward to sharing it with you. So whether it's coming by the booth (#5345), attending our panel session on Thursday afternoon or helping us celebrate the upcoming release of Going Rogue at the Friday night Meet and Greet, we really look forward to seeing you!

Join in the Community discussion here!

Are you ready for the "pop culture" explosion known as <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_reg.php">San Diego Comic-Con</a>? Well, we are! From July 21st to July 25th City of Heroes® will be back at the San Diego Comic-Con, and we look forward to seeing you there.

We have some great things going on during the convention and it's time to tell you all about them!

Booth Activities!

We're at booth #5345 this year, so come by to get a hands-on sneak peek at City of Heroes Going Rogue and meet the members of the Development and Community Relations Teams.

Giveaways

Everyone who visits the booth this year will receive a cool lenticular Heroes/Villain button (while supplies last), but if you're a currently subscribed player you can also get the brand new "Ghoul" Costume Code that we're producing especially for Comic-Con San Diego this year. Check it out:



Again, you must have an active account in order to score this bad boy. One per account only!

Character Sketches

Our incredibly talented Art Lead (and well known comic book artist), David Nakayama will be back this year to offer character sketches to those who are lucky enough to get randomly picked! David will be drawing Thursday through Sunday during Comic-Con week (exact times still to be announced), but you can come by the CoH section of the NCsoft booth anytime and drop off a quality color screenshot of your hero or villain. We'll have you fill out a little bit of information to accompany your print-out and then we'll put it in a ballot box with all the others submitted at the show. If David reaches in and picks out yours, you can either watch him sketch your character or stop back at the end of the day and pick up your beautiful drawing!
Here are 2 examples of in-game characters sketched by David Nakayama at previous conventions:





Pictures with Desdemona!

This Comic-Con we're celebrating the impending release of City of Heroes Going Rogue, so it only makes sense to have our very own Desdemona on hand Thursday through Sunday to greet and take pictures with you! Come by the booth to meet her in person.

Booth Raffle

Come to our booth, get your badge scanned and get the chance to win amazing prizes, courtesy of our partners, Razer and AMD! The Official Booth Raffle Rules and Conditions are now available here.


Going Rogue Panel!

City of Heroes® Going Rogue - Reinventing a Supeheroic MMO

When: Thursday, July 22nd, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: Room 24 ABC

Find out how the world's most popular super-powered MMO is redefining the on-line gaming experience with City of Heroes® Going Rogue. New content and features will allow players to enter a new world with true moral challenges. Fans have been reading stories about heroes dangling on the edge of evil, or villains seeking redemption. Now they can live those adventures.

Jesse "Ghost Falcon" Caceres, (Development Producer), Melissa "War Witch" Bianco (Design Lead), Matt "Positron" Miller (Lead Systems Designer) and David Nakayama (Art Lead), will establish for you the innovations that will allow your hero or villain to experience the ultimate adventure.

Be sure to attend to find out the latest, juiciest information on Going Rogue and to ask the Dev Team your questions!


Player Meet and Greet/Going Rogue Preview Event!



Meet and Greet

We're combining our second player Meet and Greet of the year with a Going Rogue Preview Event and celebrating in style at the Hard Rock Café in downtown San Diego! Here's your chance to get in on the action even if you aren't able to attend the convention itself!

Preview Going Rogue, hang out with the Developers and the Community Teams, enjoy some refreshments and party down! Here are the details:

Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego
207 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Friday, July 23rd
7:30pm - 11pm, Edge Room

Please Note: You must be 21 years of age or older to attend!

Space is limited and once we hit capacity at 300 individuals, no one will be granted entrance into the Hard Rock! We strongly suggest that you RSVP and arrive towards the very beginning of the event in order to guarantee that you get in. Please RSVP by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Thursday, July 22nd. RSVPs submitted after that time will not be accepted.

RSVP by sending an email to rsvp@paragonstudios.com with the subject header "Comic-Con Meet and Greet RSVP." You must include in your email the real world names (first and last) of each person in your party who will be attending. Those on the RSVP list will get priority access into the event over those who show up without having done so! PLEASE check with the people you are RSVPing for before you do so to make sure they are not RSVPing for themselves! Duplicates and triplicates of the same names make us grumpy!

Twitter and Facebook Fun

We're going to be running some activities during the event that could win you a memento! But you'll only know about them if you become a "Fan" of ours on Facebook or if you "Follow" us on Twitter and then link your smart phone to receive notifications from our pages during the event! Don't miss out...do it now!

Meet and Greet Raffles

There won't be one but two raffles at the Meet and Greet! Upon registering at the entrance you will be handed a raffle ticket and you will want to keep hold of it until we draw the winners towards the end of the evening to win great prizes! Head over to our forums for the Meet and Greet Raffle Official Rules and Conditions.

We'd also like to encourage those of you planning on wearing a costume during the convention to wear it to our event! Everyone who comes to the party in their Comic-Con Costume will receive a special raffle ticket that will go into a ballot box.Three lucky individuals will then be randomly picked to have a custom made drawing of themselves in their costumes sketched by our Art Lead and Comic Book Artist, David Nakayama!


It's going to be a fun, activity-filled Comic-Con for City of Heroes® and we look forward to sharing it with you. So whether it's coming by the booth (#5345), attending our panel session on Thursday afternoon or helping us celebrate the upcoming release of Going Rogue at the Friday night Meet and Greet, we really look forward to seeing you!

City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant goes on sale at the NCsoft store on June 24th. But you could have it for free, BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!

On Wednesday, June 23rd, we're giving away 10 free North American codes and 10 free European codes that you can use to unlock City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant on your account, before it even goes on sale!

It's not too complicated...just keep your eyes on one of the following City of Heroes® communication channels: Message Boards (City Life - CoH & CoV General Discussion for U.S. players and The European Lounge for European players), Facebook and Twitter. We will randomly release two codes an hour (anytime within that hour) on those channels. Even we won't know which channel each code will go up on until we randomly pick it out of the hat, so be on the ball! Both codes for the hour could go out on the same channel or different ones...we'll all find out on the 23rd! Its first come, first served... so when you see a code simply be the first one to claim it by applying it to your account and it's yours! You will be the envy of everyone in-game as you run around adorned with all the Mutant-tastic goodies that no one else can get their hands until the next day!

Here's how to try and claim a Super Booster V: Mutant code once we start releasing them:

Please note: You MUST have an active City of Heroes game account in order to apply a code!

• Go to https://secure.ncsoft.com
• Log in to your account
• Click Use a Serial Code
• Enter the serial code in question.

We will begin with our European friends and will start releasing Super Booster V: Mutant codes, two per hour on the Message Board, Twitter or Facebook, starting at 5:00 p.m. British Time (18:00 Central European Time) until around 10:00 p.m. British Time (23:00 Central European Time). Then, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time (4:00 p.m. Eastern Time), we'll start giving away North American codes every hour until about 5 p.m. Pacific (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time). Please remember that US and EU codes are not interchangeable!

Good luck! We hope you end up being among the first to own City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant!

Join in the Community discussion here!

City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant goes on sale at the NCsoft store on June 24th. But you could have it for free, BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!

On Wednesday, June 23rd, we're giving away 10 free North American codes and 10 free European codes that you can use to unlock City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant on your account, before it even goes on sale!

It's not too complicated...just keep your eyes on one of the following City of Heroes® communication channels: Message Boards (City Life - CoH & CoV General Discussion for U.S. players and The European Lounge for European players), Facebook and Twitter. We will randomly release two codes an hour (anytime within that hour) on those channels. Even we won't know which channel each code will go up on until we randomly pick it out of the hat, so be on the ball! Both codes for the hour could go out on the same channel or different ones...we'll all find out on the 23rd! Its first come, first served... so when you see a code simply be the first one to claim it by applying it to your account and it's yours! You will be the envy of everyone in-game as you run around adorned with all the Mutant-tastic goodies that no one else can get their hands until the next day!

Here's how to try and claim a Super Booster V: Mutant code once we start releasing them:

Please note: You MUST have an active City of Heroes game account in order to apply a code!

• Go to https://secure.ncsoft.com
• Log in to your account
• Click Use a Serial Code
• Enter the serial code in question.

We will begin with our European friends and will start releasing Super Booster V: Mutant codes, two per hour on the Message Board, Twitter or Facebook, starting at 5:00 p.m. British Time (18:00 Central European Time) until around 10:00 p.m. British Time (23:00 Central European Time). Then, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time (4:00 p.m. Eastern Time), we'll start giving away North American codes every hour until about 5 p.m. Pacific (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time). Please remember that US and EU codes are not interchangeable!

Good luck! We hope you end up being among the first to own City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant!

Heroes, Villains,

A group of Circle of Thorns followers was again spotted around the Ziggurat in Brickstown and Vitto's lounge in St. Martial. Intel suggests that if something happens, it will happen on Thursday, June 17th, 2010 between 3PM Pacific Time (6PM Eastern Time) and 4PM Pacific Time (7PM Eastern Time).

Report to those areas come Thursday and be vigilant! Make sure you team up with level 50s, the Circle of Thorns followers that were spotted were all level 54!

---End of transmission---

Heroes, Villains,

A group of Circle of Thorns followers was again spotted around the Ziggurat in Brickstown and Vitto's lounge in St. Martial. Intel suggests that if something happens, it will happen on Thursday, 17th June 2010 between 6PM British Time (19:00 Central European Time) and 7PM British Time (20:00 Central European Time).

Report to those areas come Thursday and be vigilant! Make sure you team up with level 50s, the Circle of Thorns followers that were spotted were all level 54!

---End of transmission---

The North American Live Servers will be offline for a maintenance on Tuesday, 15th June 2010.

Start Time: 4AM Pacific Time (7AM Eastern Time)
Expected Duration: 3 hours
Expected Finish Time: 7AM Pacific Time (10AM Eastern Time)

There won't be any patch notes for this downtime.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!

It took a little while this time but we do indeed have our winner. Congratulations Yessu! Your title is set and all you need to do now is PM me your choice of costume code

Submissions open on Mondays only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between January 11, 2010 and July 26, 2010).

Welcome to our "Search the words, save the world" forum mission!


A super computer turned evil codenamed Ebil-o is attempting to take over our most powerful nations' computer systems and exterminate us puny human beings (how original, huh?). However, every week, a short window of opportunity allows us to break into Ebil-o's matrix and reset the timer leading to our undoubtedly apocalyptic end!

How do we do that, I hear you ask? Well, we happen to have an anonymous little helper and each week, he or she snail mails us a word search puzzle containing anywhere between 10 to 15 words related to City of Heroes related theme (Ebil-o likes City of Heroes; apparently, it helps him unwind after a long day hard at work planning to get rid of humanity).

Each week a new theme will be passed along and you will need to find the exact number of words you’re being told exists within the block of letters you are given.

Your opportunity to save us all is through a word block located at the bottom of this post.

The goal is to be the first one to find the words based on the theme (without being told what they are), circle them in the word block (using Paint or an equivalent program) and then list them below it.

If you are the first one to answer with the correct words, you win and only then will we be able to input the words into Ebil-o's matrix, thus delaying our impending doom. As a token of our gratitude, we'll give you the "Ebil-o FTL [date]" forum title as well as 1 (one) costume code amongst the following ones:

• Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
• Freakshow Tank Boss
• Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
• Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
• Knives of Artemis Lt.
• Praetorian Clockwork

Have fun…but not too much as each week we’re counting on you to save the world!

Rules

1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly " Search the words, save the world Contest” with your submission.

2) Your reply must contain a number of words or names that will be defined every time this contest is run. Please refrain from posting more than the number of words indicated in every contest post. Only post the correct number of words or names, even if you notice duplicates..

3) Your reply must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 11, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.

5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count! Also, once you have posted your entry, do NOT edit it as any edit will disqualify you from that day's forum game.

6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines and to the Contest Official Rules and Conditions.

7) [I] If you win the City of Heroes® Search the words, save the world Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.

-After reading the feedback from previous "Search the Words, Save the World" puzzles, I have made a few changes to how this will work and removed the failsafe.

- Note that if a word includes more than 1 word, they will run together in the puzzle. Example - Envoy of Shadows would be found in the puzzle as ENVOYOFSHADOWS

If there is not a winner by the end of the day, I will post the solution.

This week's word list consists of 12 Names related to people or items that can be found in Atlas Park.



Monday, June 14th, 2010 - Word Block






Good luck all, and don't forget that the fate of the world is in your hands!

Tap into the incredible potential locked within your DNA. Secondary Mutation allows your character to mutate itself for amazing, unexpected results. Charge into battle with new abilities. Be careful, they may help your foes more than you.

Character Emotes

• Showoff
• Growl

Costume Change Emotes

Activate the following mutant-themed costume change emotes using the costume change interface, selectable from the main Menu.

• Energy Morph
• Rapid Boil
• Dimensional Shift

The Mutant theme costume sets unlock all-new heads, armor, sleeves, shoulders, gloves, tails, wings, pants and boots.

• Organic Armor
• Bioluminescent

Both costume sets include tintable costume pieces, a new feature that allows you to create unique glows for individual costume pieces.

Character Emotes

• Showoff
• Growl

Costume Change Emotes

Activate the following mutant-themed costume change emotes using the costume change interface, selectable from the main Menu.

• Energy Morph
• Rapid Boil
• Dimensional Shift

Tap into the incredible potential locked within your DNA. Secondary Mutation allows your character to mutate itself for amazing, unexpected results. Charge into battle with new abilities. Be careful, they may help your foes more than you.

The Mutant theme costume sets unlock all-new heads, armor, sleeves, shoulders, gloves, tails, wings, pants and boots.

• Organic Armor
• Bioluminescent

Both costume sets include tintable costume pieces, a new feature that allows you to create unique glows for individual costume pieces.

We are releasing City of Heroes Super Booster V: Mutant on the Training Room for testing, so please help us test out this great new booster pack now by transferring a character over to The Training Room.

The patch notes are available here but make sure to post your feedback and bug reports in the corresponding threads!

The City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant release is up for testing on the Training Room for a limited time! This booster pack features will be available for all player characters on the Training Room. The costume change emotes** listed below require unlocking at least one additional costume slot.

Mutant Theme Costume Sets

The Mutant theme costume sets unlock all-new heads, armor, sleeves, shoulders, gloves, tails, wings, pants and boots.

• Organic Armor
• Bioluminescent

Both costume sets include tintable costume pieces, a new feature that allows you to create unique glows for individual costume pieces.

Secondary Mutation Power

Tap into the incredible potential locked within your DNA. Secondary Mutation allows your character to mutate itself for amazing, unexpected results. Charge into battle with new abilities. Be careful, they may help your foes more than you.

Character Emotes

• Showoff
• Growl

Costume Change Emotes

Activate the following mutant-themed costume change emotes using the costume change interface, selectable from the main Menu.

• Energy Morph
• Rapid Boil
• Dimensional Shift

**By default characters only have one costume slot, and must unlock additional costume slots through activities in the game. This can be accomplished by completing costume slot missions at levels 20, 30, and 40, and by using Halloween Event salvage (which can also be bought and sold via the in-game Consignment Houses).

COMBINED

Tasks

• Fixed a bug in all Police Band/Broker ‘rescue’ missions, where the boss guarding the rescue NPC would be named 'BOSS_DISPLAYNAME’

Tailor

• Fixed a bug that made the left hand gun of female Thugs Masterminds (except the Legacy Semi-Auto) invisible.
• Fixed a bug for Male and Huge characters where the legacy tails still showed up in the Belt category if the upper body was set to Armored or Baggy.

CITY OF HEROES

• None

CITY OF VILLAINS

• None

I've forwarded the issue to our web team, it must all stem from the same root. I'll keep you posted.

I really wish I could convey the fact that there is no active effort to increase the gap between our North American and European communities. On the contrary, in the background, you have no idea how much we'd like to do to improve things but we have hurdles along the way that don't help achieve that. I can't give you explanations as to the type of hurdle we have to overcome and that's probably not going to please some of you, but I guarantee you that they are not the type that can be resolved with a bit of coding.

About the newsletter links, no, it wasn't an effort to drive you towards the North American site, the automatic geo-IP redirect is simply not functioning well but our web team is now aware of the issue. Thank you for alerting us.

All, it wasn't so much a mistake as it is the automatic redirection that doesn't seem to be functioning properly. The NCsoft site should recognise your IP and redirect you to the relevant site. Apologies for the inconvenience, I'll get someone to look into that.