Biidi

Yay! A booster with non-sword weapons! Now my little cold/dp steam powered robot can have appropriate pistols! Exclamation points!

I'm unfortunately not gonna be available, but if they have a Q&A at the end, would someone mind asking if there'll be any weapons for the Steampunk pack and if so, anything other than ANOTHER sword?

Edit: wait, saw the above about a rifle, that's a start! But still...more pistols/bows/bots laser rifle plx!

I'm running a GTX260, 4 gig ram on an E6320 and can set everything to max except Ambient Occlusion. Got that a couple notches down if I remember right.

Define 'max out'. What resolution and fps are you wanting to get? I run the above at 1280x1024 with between 15-30 fps, with drops down to below 10 during stuff like Hami and mothership raids.

Seeing how most of the performance of CoX does not seem to be tied to video card (ran "max" settings (pre-ultra)on my old 8600 GTX before it died with the above resolution and performance), a second 260 or even an upgrade wouldn't do a whole lot, maybe just let you run at a higher resolution.

Lightning Rod. Nearly deleted my elec/elec brute at 31 because I was getting bored with the rather average looking powers. I figured I'd at least go to 32 and check out this 'Lightning Rod'. *ding!* *KER-BLAMMO!* O_O I still giggle maniacally when I fire it off.

Also, Short Circuit. My first REAL experience with it was on a ff/elec defender during the Faultline arcs. I tell ya, an elite boss can't do jack when they have no endurance.

Another would be Rain of Arrows. Sure it's not as powerful as other tier 9s but I can fire it 3x more often with NO END CRASH. It turns Carnies into wonderful pincushions too!

The rest of my favorites are combos. Rain of Fire + Freezing Rain. Love that one, almost makes entire spawns go away. Same with Rain of Fire + Tar Patch.

As Ultimate Ruler of Paragon Studios for a day, I'd do...nothing. Let them all keep going about their normal business getting i20/21 ready. While they're doing that, I'd go sneak a peek at the 12-month white board and see what's REALLY on the other side.

Oh, and also have a me NPC put into the game who's warning new heroes/villains about the dangers of hoarding xp.

We're in a crisis people! How can you think about more teaming when we're running low on XP? This is gonna do nothing more than make the problem worse! You should all go sit in Atlas Park and RP about what you've done here.

Can I offer you all some Expea? It's far less costly than XP since it's made on an assembly line by child robots. The conversion rate is reasonable as well. 0.8 Expeas for every 1 XP. Act now while the rates are low!

*Side effects of using Expea may include character progression, elimination of debt, feelings of self-worth, bad breath, itchy watery eyes, gas, and the sudden inability to RP or PVP.

I liked their very unsubtle insinuations that Nemesis could be the letter writer.

And then there was the part about the *crackle*nd the *sputters* pow*static*. Totally awesome huh!

The new launcher seems to do pre-downloads and automatic patching since I have yet to need to patch the Beta or Test servers.

I remember back when, there was a downloadable offline costume editor. It was VERY incomplete, but that's not the point. What I liked about it was after creating your costume you could flip through a range of emotes, stances and animations so you can get a really good idea of how the costume looks in motion. Sure you can do that on the power customization screen, but then you also have to deal with the particles/effects/etc from your powers.

I often find that I'll make a costume that looks great in the editor, but once I get out and start doing missions and such, somehow it just doesn't look as good anymore.

Plus there's the seeming missing camera zoom to anywhere but head and upper torso. Used to be able to zoom to focus on gloves/legs/boots when you were working on those parts.

I'll also third (4th/5th?) the asymetrical parts.

Allowing non barfy colors for dark and ice powersets would be nice too. It's hard to make dark armor/blast/melee/miasma look good as anything other than black since everything STILL has a heavy black 'fuzz' at the core of the particle animation. Ice colors are just kinda dull. Haven't you guys ever seen a popsicle?

Went to remake my old mind/fire dom on Virtue and found that her old name was taken. Kudos to whoever now has Mother's Wrath, but I now have Maternal Instinct.

Can't believe that Genepool Lifeguard wasn't taken, but it's mine now! Mine all mine! There's also my fire/storm corruptor, Helen Erth. Yes it's misspelled but it's slightly less obvious to its true meaning. And lastly got Charlie Foxtrot last night.

I play "at work" all the time. And by "at work", I mean that I'm a courier who's on call nearly 24/7. I call in and take a few hours off if I wanna do some TFs, otherwise I make sure to tell the team that I'm on call and might have to leave with little warning.

There are other populated cities, a couple of the Praetorian missions mention sending people and/or supplies out. Makes ya wonder. If it took Cole to stop Hamidon, what's stopping Hamidon from stomping these other cities into the ground? Who's protecting THEM?