Chad Gulzow-Man

Claws and Kinetic Melee each have one ranged attack, and Spines has one ranged attack and a wide-ish PBAoE power. They don't all have 3 ranged attacks doing moderate to high damage.

That shouldn't matter. Your ownership of the Steampunk gear is in absolutely NO way tied to the CoH installation on your hard drive.

So much win.

What do you expect him to do, walk over to NCSoft's headquarters and push the "let South America buy booster packs off our store" button?

The situation sucks, it really does. But all Z or Beastyle or anyone else employed by Paragon can do is relay the complaints to their parent company, who actually runs the store. They have no control over the store itself. It's like complaining to a guy who works at KFC that the grocery store by your house doesn't carry Pepsi products--Pepsi owns KFC, but the KFC worker can't exactly tell Pepsi how to run things... all he can do is tell his boss, who can tell his boss, until it either gets up to someone who can do something about the problem, or stops at a person who doesn't give two shakes.

And if the crappy service NCSoft contracted to sell their product in South America is still paying the cash for their end of the contract, what motivation does NCSoft have to break that contract for an unknown but unfortunately relatively small portion of the playerbase who would receive a benefit?

No, but apparently my eyes skipped back up and read the pre-beta info twice. But thanks for implying I'm an idiot after making a simple mistake. (Edit: Apology accepted. I probably over-reacted.)

Anyway, looks like everybody's going to be requesting that everyone slot Destiny heal for this one, much the same way everyone asks you to slot Lore Seers for MoLambda now.

Can't you just quick beat him up right before you finish saving the third reactor to get this badge?

I have to agree, this is how I read it as well.

Woot, as soon as that goes live, I'll buy the pack for my second account. Pot o' Brass, the Steampunk Leprechaun, thanks you for your hard work!

I had zero lag on the Victory surge, but on the Freedom one, I could bearly move across an unoccupied zone (Galaxy City). I stuck both my accounts in a mission so they could add to the concurrent users total and then took my girlfriend out to dinner.

(The restaurant screwed up her steak the first time and the waitress didn't come back for 20 full minutes, so the manager comped it--got another steak, and I only had to pay for her drink! S'been a good evening! )

Preeeetty sure they're more worried about them being able to use Fulcrum Shift at will (but I could be wrong).

--OR--

You could read this post from Black Scorpion that says they're adding a menu option to disable movement speed buffs from other players (but you still get, say, the recovery buff from Speed Boost).

Like Tech said, I agree with just about everything in your post except for two things.

1) You left out the Steampunk hats not having colorable hair. I think I have maybe two dudes with dark brown hair--the rest are either grey, blonde, light brown or black (or are unnaturally colored). This is my #1 problem with the Steampunk pack (and I'd really like to make a redheaded steampunk leprechaun with the new steampunk derby).

2) I personally DO like faces that show a bit of emotion. I think there's been a trend in the newer faces to look soulless (I've heard others describe them as "faces like dolls"), and I wish there were more options like the default male face introduced in CoV with the snarky smile. Having a face with some emotion to it can showcase things in the character's personality that either highlight other costume options or reveal things the rest of their costume might not show.

My main villain, dressed simply in a black tank top and grey cargo pants, uses the "snarky face" mentioned above to show that he means to cause mischief. My cowboy uses one of the scowling faces in conjunction with a wide-brimmed hat to show that he's a loner at heart. My goth demon uses the straight-eyebrowed frown (one of the mystic faces) as a complement to his other goth attire.

While I agree with the first paragraph of Sam's point #5 (the new faces certainly show more definition, especially around the nose, but generally look worse than those introduced in Issue 15), I would argue that they continue the trend of looking like soulless doll faces rather than those of a superpowered avatar of justice/malice.

I wouldn't doubt those will be coming in later issues once the rest of the Incarnate Slots have been released... but for now, they want people to keep working at the four newest ones.

Anyway, totally /signed on Ian's suggestion.

I want Energy Aura on Tankers (along with Broadsword) too... but then again, a Tanker slapped my mother in front of me when I was just a child.

I very much want Energy Melee/Energy Aura ported to Scrappers, though.

I'd also like to run a Plant Control/Poison Controller in as near a future as possible. It just sounds thematic and awesome.