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Originally Posted by Weatherby Goode

In other words:

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Not off hand. I read it in the really big herocon GR thread.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

And yet BaBs has flat out said the animations and VFX would take years to do and the end result will look stupid, you refuse to accept it.

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

I believe this would be a VFX problem, and not an animation.

For Sonic Powers, the VFX of the attack will sometimes linger. For instance, if I use Scream on a target, the circular energy "beam" will sometimes linger around my hero's head repeatedly, rather than tracking to the target as it normally does. I can try to get a screenshot if you need more info than that.

Other Sonic users have had the same problem, and someone suggested that this happens when the target dies, but the VFX/animation is still going (which can happen easily with Scream, as it's a longer animation and VFX trail). When the target dies, the VFX has nowhere to go, so it hangs out near the caster, vibrating, until the animation time is up.

This probably can't happen running solo, as it seems to take your target being defeated while you are attacking it (unless you used Scream, than another attack, and Scream caused the target to be defeated). But if the problem is not with the target being defeated as you attack, you might be able to make it work while solo.

Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic

I'm sure they would of taken care of it a long time ago because I've noticed blasters and defenders do the same thing with their animation. Me personally its just another tactic I employ. besides, even if it did root you, just at the start of the firing animation sequence you can shut off fly and drop down from the sky behind a fence or something as well creating the same effect.
Personally I see it better off left in the game because it adds some extra thought and herding ability before you nuke the lot of em.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

I hope he enjoyed the Margarita during Sunday's closing panel. He looked like he was enjoying it at least.

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

As for videogames being an artform: Videogames haven't even existed for a century. It took a long time for cinema to be considered an art form, and that's a lot closer to theater than videogames ever were; unless someone's trying to make "Hamlet" or "The Importance of being Earnest" into some epic scale RPG that I'm not aware of.

It's very much debateable whether or not videogames are an artform, so please don't speak in such absolutes. They may very well be eventually, but I'm not convinced that they are now. Certainly most games out there right now would not count, and they are not recognized as such by any art academy or instition that I know of (is there an equivalent of the Oscar or Tony award for them? I'd certainly like to know!).

Originally Posted by Lady_Sadako

So if a Villain became a Rogue and went to Paragon City and entered Siren's Call from the Hero end, would they be flagged as a villain and be vaporized by the sentry drones?

Originally Posted by Frosticus

That is good news that you can become a full hero/villain and become a part of that society. Sorry I was just going off of the powerpoint in the youtube video that said things like WW is for heroes only, but didn't indicate that a villain could become a "full hero".

Thanks for the link to Posi's clarification.

Sorry, false alarm based on misinformation. Sounds like Sideswitching is about as good as they can do given the decision to keep the markets and games segregated.

I have a new question though. Where do rogues and vigilantes fit into lolpvp?

Originally Posted by LtZerge

Hmmm


Pretty similar indeed. Not exactly the same, but very similar in concept. Darn identical stance with raw fleshy bodies, spike protrusions, and a skull for a head.

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

Ok so people have been wanting whips, people have been asking for whips, and they give them to Masterminds. *Sigh.*

Originally Posted by QuiJon

It would be easy enough to use the DPs from the new set, mix in a couple martial arts attacks and make an assualt set it would seem to me.

Originally Posted by EU_Damz

LOVE that video! Sooooo pumped for GR now

Best bit was between 14:30 - 15 mins . . . .

"we can fly?!!?" lmao

Edit: Ok i dont know who that guy is who kept shouting out during that video but i love him!

"turn it back onnnnnn" lmao

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Ooh, I need to write a book so I can finally document that surfing shark attack I was involved in.

Originally Posted by Lyrik

Is it bad that I'm so prepared to expect people to only be negative about the devs or the game that when someone says nice job I assume it's meant sarcastically...?


Anyway yes! I like the new Halloween event! Great fun.

Originally Posted by JoeNormal

Hiyas Justice! Some of you may remember the stories I have posted in the past relating humerous tales of my real-life job. A key character in those stories was the Police K9 I called "Rommel". Most of you know that those stories were loosely based on actual events. "Rommel" was based on our Real-Life K9 Axel.

I recieved this mesage a few days ago from Axels Handler...

"I am sending you this update as to Axel's condition. I picked him up from Univ. of Penn Saturday morning. They elected not to perform surgery on him. He has been diagnosed with malignant pancreatic and colon cancer. It has also invaded his lymph nodes in those areas as well. due to the type of cancer he has they informed me that it is not survivable nor treatable. They said that I could try chemotherapy but that with his current condition they could not even guarantee it extending his life much less curing him. I elected not to put Axel through that and chose instead to bring him home where he can be around family and be loved until it is time for him to go. Please understand this was not a decision I made lightly. If there was any chance whatsoever of his recovery believe me I would take it. However Axel's attending doctors do not feel there is anything that could be done but were willing to provide an oncology consult if I so desired.
Axel currently weighs 68 pounds, has no appetite and still has a great deal of difficulty having bowel movements. That would be due to the mass that has almost closed off his colon. The doctor has put him on a fentanyl (sp?) patch that should keep him comfortable for the next 5 days. They said he may have a couple weeks left possibly. They also did not know which would ultimately take him, his colon being closed off or the cancer taking over the rest of his organs. I wish, more than you could possibly imagine, that I was able to send you a much different email. Unfortunately, I cannot.

Respectfully,
Sgt. John Hill
Allentown Police K-9"

This is also the link to the Channel 69 news article...

http://wfmz.com/view/?id=1283104

Axel is a dear friend and a Pal, and I can't even begin to relay my thought and emotions about this.

Those of you who have read my stories know how much I Love Axel, and I could tell y'all numerous stories about working with Axel on Night Shift. I just wanted to share this with my Justician Friends and pay homage to a Friend and Partner.

See ya in the Streets!

Joe

Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal

Dual Pistols will be available in GR but only for certain sets and we've still been told (though I don't know whether it's true) that they'll "never" be available for heroes. Now... not sure. I thought there was a redname post somewhere about that.

Originally Posted by macskull

I was referring more to bugged powers rather than animations, but the mez animation bug is kind of annoying.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

Can you guys change it so the spawn point is just below the ceiling? >.>

If it ends up with them looking like they're floating in air, just add geometry to the ceiling right where the spawn point is to close the gap!

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

BaBs, can we be allowed to actually shoot at the shooting range targets, please?
It's really really annoying to have them there, be targetable and in range, and then it says 'Not in Range' when trying to shoot at them.
I mean, this is with a sniper power. What?!

Originally Posted by macskull

That's nice and all (yes, it was annoying for them to not be working quite right), but where are all the useful fixes?

Originally Posted by Vanden

Will all destroyable objects play hit FX from every power now?

Originally Posted by Arnabas

I've been thinking about this for a while.

I had a blaster and I gave him fire powers simply because I thought they looked cool. But it caused problems for me, because to keep my interst, I have to have a good "feel" for the character, often semi-roleplaying them in my head. Given that this blaster was a teenager and a kind of Peter Parker personality, I really didn't think it fit him to go around burning people to death. I came up with some really lame excuse that he was burning off the oxygen around his opponents, causing them to black out without any lasting harm done. Weak.

I remade him as an energy blaster, figuring he could control the concussive force, not doing to much harm to weaker opponents. This was an old character who I recently started playing again.

Anyhow, the whole situation got me thinking about the powersets and thinking about the newer sets and the upcoming ones. They added things like dual-blades and are adding pistols. I'd love to see more non-lethal options. We can currently burn people, shoot them full of holes, slice them into pieces and just otherwise arrest them to death (yeah, I know I can use "the flat of the blade", but come on...)

I would have liked to have bokken under katana options, or escrima sticks under dual blades, but I am told the devs said they would never do that. I'm not sure why. I think dual blades would be great with non-lethal weapons. A staff set would be nice too, but I have seen that asked for a number of times and it seems that a majority of people have no interest in it.

Does anyone else think it might be nice to have new powersets that allow us to not kill opponents? Or am I in the minority, thinking that heroes don't need to kill?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Well, its not necessary to know how to solve a problem to point out that a problem exists. But I think the author of the article suffers from a more fundamental problem: he's willing to state there's a problem without even any notion of whether there even *exists* an option.

A separate problem is that he didn't even try; specifically with regards to #4 (Aggro). Lots of people have come up with ways to replace the aggro mechanism in teaming. I did myself when I came up with my "reverse bodyguard" mechanism for tankers - which actually predates the (mastermind) bodyguard mechanism by a significant amount of time and worked somewhat differently, but I renamed to "reverse-bodyguard" after the mastermind mechanism was introduced. Basically, rather than creating an aggro mechanism where the tanker has to take aggro, allow players to block, deflect, and absorb damage directed at other players, to protect them. The critters can still attack whichever target they want: its up to the protectors to protect those targets with the mechanisms they have to do that.

I said I could replace the aggro mechanism for teams. I don't what the heck the author means when he suggests that the actual act of aggroing a critter at all should be replaced. He suggests that non-MMOs don't have this problem: oh really? There's a game that has a mechanism for NPCs initiating combat with the player that don't involve the NPC noticing the player? Heck: I'd like to see that game. I think its here that the author demonstrates their true colors in trying to be more clever than thought-provoking.