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Note the face o nthe left is Jacob, a fellow marine

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May take me some time <^_^> but I'll try to get to you all in order! One person PMed me immediately after I started the thread <@_@>; so they'll be first; and then I'll just run down the line <^_^>m my *goal* is to have 1 pic a day >.< knowing my drawing speed? Prolly a pic every other day; but I'll do my best to keep it up. Tonight however! I've just been informed <o.o> is gaming night! Tomorrow; hopefully by this time <^_^> I shall have the first pic ready! <^,^>m (wish me luck >< I don't wanna maul any of you guys; you all look so nice!)

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Magical Fur suit
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Tech Armor
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xtreme close up of human face
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Still here.

Yes, I was busy adding flavor spawns to Atlas Park, Kings Row, and Galaxy City.

I've seen some posts on the changes and additions and dialogue so thanks for the great feedback.

It was kind of interesting going back with the new animations and having some fun. Kings Row wasn't my zone, but Atlas Park and Galaxy City were so it was pretty weird going back to them again after a long absence. But a good weird.

I did not have the opportunity to go into The Hollows and Perez Park like I would have liked, but I did manage to get some time in to at least pull spawns out front of mission doors and remove some of the nastier mission doors in the HEART of the Perez Park maze. (not sure if anyone noticed that change)

The Hollows, just a few spawns removed around contacts or mission doors and extra mission doors added for variety, if applicable.

That was all I had time for, unfortunately, but I'm glad you guys like what you see.

WW

See? I'm still here!

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It would be nice to get the lowbie missions away from the deep red zones. I'm tired of needing 5 tries for the newbs in my group to huff it out to a mission door deep in the hollows.

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while we got her ear...

WW can you please revamp the keldian startin mission doors. Nothing is more anoying then a lvl 1 warshade or peecbringer getin a door mision in the lvl 6 park area right by a Vahz spawn.

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This is simply Awesome !!!

I found about this a while back but lost the info before I could utilize it.

This will come in quite handy when I'm looking for frikken glowies while I have the music blasting

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Thewirs music in CoH? Oh right...no sound card.

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maybe for a scrapper they're better since you can get 3 of them, but for a stalker 2 isnt enough, esp. since our HP are a fair bit lower

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Good point.

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Wait stalkers have hit points? I though they only had the one

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I haven't had time to get on test, but I was wondering what people are reporting about the changes to hurricane. Anyone have any stories?

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This is as good a place to put this, as any:

I checked in a few Hurricane changes today that QA is going to look at. In Theory, these changes should mean that for PvE, Hurricane acts Exactly as it did before the previous change, while in PvP, it should act exactly as it does currently. Hopefully this change will get a green light from QA -- I've spent quite a bit of time on it over the last few days.

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I hope very much to see this get "green lighted" and happen. I personally give a rat's [censored] about the PvP aspect of the game (yes, even as somsone with both CoV as well as CoH), and things like this that change something fundamental about a core power in a set I dearly love that remove FUN from it due to PvP concerns for PvE play just quite frankly piss me off.

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I don't give a rat's [censored] about pve. Why should they change hurricane only for pvp? If it's fair in pve, then it's fair in pvp.

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Thems fighting words
Ok so by your logic that would mean pve needs to be equivilnt ot pvp.

Do you get hurdle at level 1?
Is flight a detoggle proof click power imune to disorients?
can you form a team consisting of 16-20 players?
does your range greatly exceed the range of any sniper sloted with HOs?
doyou have infintent endurage far exceding 100?
do you have several thousand hp (on a blaster)
do your defeenders an blasters have elemental armor to complment their powers with fire resistance for say a fire blaster on par with a tank or scrapper?
Can you mix and match powers to your liking. Ie can you make a sr/regen/spines paragon protector?
Does your pvp mele classes gain acess to ranged guns just as powqewerful as their melle weapons?

by your logic then all thepvp beneifs shoud be in pve
Blasters doing unresistable dammage
controlers containign for 3x not 2x
and so on.

PvP and PvE are vastly different. But hey if your so into pvp pick a time,. i'll get my knife. And we'l ahve soem real Player Vs Player.

the sad thing is on my 42/ma sr when i nthose knive maps when the drop the caltrop i start acting lie ka blaster "go in there? You go in there. I'm spamming (dark) torent"

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holy freaking crap dude. This is so very true. My main is a level 28 Katana/regen scrapper and I'm a domesticated scrapper. I was unfortanely raised in captivity but I like it. With more people there is more baddies, and with more baddies there is more for me to kill, and as the kill count rises, the chaos grows. So i've learned to love it but as domesticated as I am, I completely agree with the kill stealing part. Nothing aggravates me more when I'm working on a guy (I don't care that he's a purple and can complete over power me!) and there's plenty of other baddies to kill and some blaster or fellow scrapper decides to "help" me. I'm a scrapper, I need no help. If you're my teammates, don't "help" me with my target; keep the other baddies off me and heal me. The enemy I'm fighting is mine, and mine alone, and thats how you should treat all scrappers.

As for the scrappers being psychotic, yea we are, but i don't like to call it psychosis as much as I like to call it the "scrapper bloodlust". As a scrapper you devolop a state of mind where you must take on every enemy for the sake of doing it. The higher up the monster, the more you want them dead. If your scrapper says "Lets kill Lusca", you better haul over to IP or you're either gonna lose a scrapper or you're onna have one angry scrapper on your hands. Trust me, you don't want an angry scrapper. The OP didn't call us a"living blender" for nothing. Have a nice day!

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Amen! I said it earier today "if blasters are suicidal scrapers are CrAzY. I dont care if its +4, +40, 1,2,4,5,15, 02 22 mobs. I'll jumping in there and taking SOMETHING down with me damn it! And kep your fithy hands off my prey your filty Archery/EM blaper and ma/sr scraper. That Champion is mine! Back off! ::growl, hiss::"

their a difference between publishing

"Level times 30% multiplried by a factor of Y Rand (1, 100)" = the resist valuse of Temporary invunerability and

"temporary invunerability has a base 30% of the s/l defense cap for tank"

Whe nthe enhacment screen says that a so add "33%" to my TI resist just what is that 33% of?

is th base defense 10% thus meaning the SO gives 3% increase or 100% giveing a 33% increase in effective ness?

a casual player sloting their shieds forexampel has no way to tell that Resist physical Dammange and Temporary invunrerability, both S/L resist powers have different valuses.

al lthey see is 33%

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I agree completely. I actually think partial or incomplete explanations are just as problematic as the "blue moon" visits.

I not hard to see the confusion in the community regarding things just by reading posts and debates about things. It would be nice to see a complete and official response regarding such issues.

And things like:

Working as intended.
Overall this change should have little impact

And things along those lines do not address the confusion in any which way. I would even venture to say they spark more confusion then before the post in many instances.

Personally I would see the community as a bonus to fixing issues. By simply sharing information and keeping them informed I think the development team would be surprised at some of the effert people put into things, and that they discover things that have gone unoticed. Unless ofcourse the staffs goal is secrecy as to exact mechanics for fear that of what may be discovered. To which is an idea I frown upon.


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in the 2 instences where the devs released numbers the comunity proved that their ingame numbers were different from their planed numbers. the msot recent ecxampel being invincibilit being 1.5 permob but in game it was 4 as it was triple stiack with itself. All this does is reinforce the fact we need FULL DISCLOSIRE cause the devs cant even get thei powers WORKING AS INTENDED when they say its..."working as intended"

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I agree that we should relax.

However, since states is a historian and not a mathmatition it would be nice if when he did post on the math that he posted the entire math so that who ever edits or overlooks his statements (which I would think someone does) catches these over sights.

It would also be nice to have it all posted too so we all can get a better understanding of what is going on. After all if one is confident in the changes, one should have no fear in allowing them to be viewed.

Maybe its just the way I grew up but if when I told my father about whatever ordeal was going on and simply left out the parts that reflected bad on me, it would be viewed as me lieing even though everything I stated may have been truth. Like the first post stating this change was for SO's or the math that did not factor things, or if it did then the posts past saying these things were part of the game.





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i am relaxed, and agree with you 100%, but the fact is by statman own action hes either as you put it "a lier" or if he just donesn't know about the things he miss posts hes "incompetent"

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So that means what either Statsman is a lying cheething whhezel, incompentent boob, or cant do math? Not exactly a stellar reputation when he cant even get HIS OWN NUMBERS right.

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Good grief, Neko. The guys not a mathematician, he's got history degrees.

Somebody give this guy some proziac or something before he bursts a blood vessel.

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im not the guy who tries to expain something and fails to get his own explination right

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LOL was looking at States post and just noted this little tid bit added in the "before"

Even Con
Minion .5 (Base to Hit) -0.5187 (Radiation Infection To Hit Debuff) = -0.0187 or 5% chance to hit (minimum before Accuracy modifications)
Lieutenant 5.66%
Boss 13.13%

This would explain my confusion actually.

The two examples compare old but not factoring in acc modifier for level and maybe rank, to new factoring in everything.

Silly me I was expecting a "even or fair" comparision. Where we comapare the final with everything factored before to the final with everything factored after.


So actually if the "old" factored everything (and it was double hit) I would assume the +1 would actaully be this:

+1 Level
Minion (.5 * 1.1 <lvl modifier> ) - (0.5187 * .9 <lvl red. effectiveness modifier> ) = .08317
Lieutenant (.575 * 1.1 ) - (0.5187 * .9 * .9 <rank red. effectiveness modifier> ) = .212
Boss (.65 * 1.1 ) - (0.5187 * .9 * .8) = .3415


Dev post

+1 Level
Minion 8.32%
Lieutenant 15.85%
Boss 23.32%



Again the math could work out with rounding if in the past a double hit was not done for rank on effectiveess of THDB's

So either the reduced effectiveness for THDB in regards to rank was added with the Type B change or I7 or this was not factored in the original post.




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So that means what either Statsman is a lying cheething whhezel, incompentent boob, or cant do math? Not exactly a stellar reputation when he cant even get HIS OWN NUMBERS right.

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medium prority, your own words, and yet they let it leave test

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Medium means fixing it as soon as they can reasonably track it down and fix it, not "stop the world and fix it over everything else".

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so you think its also lagitimate for some to be baned from chating for inforing a PuG how their powers work? It was tested and Up-
Enter is two slow for it to stop spaming only MACROS can get you chat baned. So guess i haven to stop informing folk how my 4 kenitcs power work?

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Yes, *SLOW DOWN* your macros that explain things. Or make them bigger explanantions. For something that is to keep people from *incessantly* spamming public channels, I think this is a good thing.

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Team is a public channel? Local is a public channel ge i though only the people in your PRIVATE TEAM could hear you on team. I thought only people near you heard you in local. You mean the genrl public can hear me when im talkign to my PuG?

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and when peope get baned for talking in team withtheir macro how many peopel you think will contine to play this game?

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They can not spam chats and still play. Spamming chats is perfectly within reason for the developers to "control". And they did and are. If your enjoyment of the game *requires* you to spam chats, that is not the developers fault.

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So basicly if a CRITICAL GAME BREAKING BUG (crashign to desktop is by definiton game break, it haping ever other mision is prety damn critical) doen't happend to YOU its a low prority?

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If it happens about 1% of the time or to 1% of the people, its a fairly medium priority (as all crash bugs should be) if it happens to 25% all the time, it's a rollback the patch (which has happened.)

Your histronics are just the bleating of someone that is angry and has to take their anger out on a very professional company that at least *really* converses with their playerbase.

Most companies just say "this is how it is!" and don't even have conversations about it. Jack could have taken the easy way out and published his thoughts on the web page with *no* ability for people to "officially" talk about it where it might be heard by himself.

It's a very gutsy thing.

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medium prority, your own words, and yet they let it leave test

so you think its also lagitimate for some to be baned from chating for inforing a PuG how their powers work? It was tested and Up-
Enter is two slow for it to stop spaming only MACROS can get you chat baned. So guess i haven to stop informing folk how my 4 kenitcs power work?

How about being so INCOMPETNET when your TESTER reort that enervating fiend is underperforming you CLAIM to look into it and post on the patch notes "enervating field reported as changed, still not true" baslcy call al the peopl who did the TESTING for you and providing screenshot and log EVIDENCE bold face layers only to come out a few months later to say "Actually we did change it with issue 5."

that means one of 2 thing either their INCOMPETNET and cant even tract their OWN internaioal changes or
LYING SCHEEMING Wheezels...

so which is it, are the bold face lying cheets or incompeent idiots.

they have PROVEN by their own action tiehr one or the other.

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you mean liek pushing a patch to live with a known reported bug in the new escort missiosn that mad some poepl crash to desk top.

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Bugs happen. Depending on the severity will tell them where the "priorities" are. This is normal in any MMO.

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You know until the safemode patch i got a escore on eveyr other mission, ireguardess of character and level. And i have to PETETION teh GMS 3 times a NIGHT to clear them or i woudl crash to desk top.

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So, because you had some problems makes it 1000% worse? I don't even *remember* this bug and the problems it gave other than "it happened" vaguely.

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How abouit coding in a chat spam filter to issue 7 then pushing it to test, and tey cant FIX it until issue 7 hit, that will ban people using macros or typing to fast with
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local
team
broadcast
request
etc

you mean massive game breaking bugs like those that the players wil have to suffer for /a month/ with on live?

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*Only* the emote thing is being adjusted. And that is because the developers are nice enough to say "break dancing is cool. We'll change our code so you can still break dance."

All of the other "spamming" chats are not being changed, as people can abuse them.

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and when peope get baned for talking in team withtheir macro how many peopel you think will contine to play this game?

So basicly if a CRITICAL GAME BREAKING BUG (crashign to desktop is by definiton game break, it haping ever other mision is prety damn critical) doen't happend to YOU its a low prority?

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I think they do compare, a job is a job. If you worked at burger king and you always messed up orders, then you would be FIRED after enough people complained. If you were a mechanic and you mucked up people's engine's time and time again you would be fired.

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you mean liek pushing a patch to live with a known reported bug in the new escort missiosn that mad some poepl crash to desk top. You know until the safemode patch i got a escore on eveyr other mission, ireguardess of character and level. And i have to PETETION teh GMS 3 times a NIGHT to clear them or i woudl crash to desk top.

How abouit coding in a chat spam filter to issue 7 then pushing it to test, and tey cant FIX it until issue 7 hit, that will ban people using macros or typing to fast with
emotes
local
team
broadcast
request
etc

you mean massive game breaking bugs like those that the players wil have to suffer for /a month/ with on live?

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If you cant deliver on a promised service posted in your public forums, a promis to your custoimer, you will get berated, you have absolty no justification for FAILING to do what you said to do.

FACT: Jack said they deplorable patch notes would end
FACT: he had months
FACT: he FAILED
OPINION: HE SHOULD BE FIRED FOR INCOMPETENCE

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I think the "fact" that the *live* notes are deplorable is highly subjective. Most of the missed notes on patches have been to test, which I find as acceptable as that's part of the test process.

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you find it Acceptable that the Tester have to test the game to find out whats changed.
You find it acceptable that the staff is so imcomplent they cant even tell the peopel who volenter to test things what their testing "Bob i want you to test this microwave" "for what" "uh boss ive got cancer" "oh ya that one of the ting we wanted you to test, see our new mictrowaves cause cancer, is the cancer reacting as we expected" "how is it expected to react" "....."

3 days later "its supose to grow at a exponetial rate of 3 inches a day"

if Jack was working at my Job he be FIRED

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Because I'm sure that none of your co-workers have any failures following your orders, every single time?

The Test Server is *just* that, to all the players to test the upcoming build up. I'd say that we are doing a bang up job, as we caught a few big bugs before they could go liver (KO Blow AOE? I *WISH* that had gone live for just a week!)

There were some missing patch notes (or omitted, which is not the same thing) on the test server. Their ratio for missing these sort of things on the live server is much, much lower.

So please, get off your high horse and out of your glass house.

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when i mad a big mistake i DID get fired, actually suspeneded for about 2 months before i got my job back so Yes i expcet jack to loose his job for beinmg totally imcompenent...because in the Real World I have

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If you cant deliver on a promised service posted in your public forums, a promis to your custoimer, you will get berated, you have absolty no justification for FAILING to do what you said to do.

FACT: Jack said they deplorable patch notes would end
FACT: he had months
FACT: he FAILED
OPINION: HE SHOULD BE FIRED FOR INCOMPETENCE

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I think the "fact" that the *live* notes are deplorable is highly subjective. Most of the missed notes on patches have been to test, which I find as acceptable as that's part of the test process.

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you find it Acceptable that the Tester have to test the game to find out whats changed.
You find it acceptable that the staff is so imcomplent they cant even tell the peopel who volenter to test things what their testing "Bob i want you to test this microwave" "for what" "uh boss ive got cancer" "oh ya that one of the ting we wanted you to test, see our new mictrowaves cause cancer, is the cancer reacting as we expected" "how is it expected to react" "....."

3 days later "its supose to grow at a exponetial rate of 3 inches a day"


if Jack was working at my Job he be FIRED

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It's time for Cryptic and NCsoft to make clear, accurate, number-based patch notes a business commitment to its clients. Because it saves time and effort, fosters good relations, and it's the heroic thing to do.

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It's not always easy when you have only a few minutes to grab what you hope are the right numbers and create your post before having to run off to do all the other important things, all while scarfing down the last of your sandwich and drinking the last of your cold coffee. Mistakes happen when things get busy.

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DONT BS FOR THEM
STATESMAN said himself they would make clearer patches, their hasent been a patch in MONTHS aside from fixing the /cov bug.

Jack has NO justification for not having good patch notes on the FIRST chance to make a patch note in MONTHS since he promised to inprove.

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From everything I've learned about Cryptic, they seem to me to be currently understaffed. This means that a lot of people working on this game are pulling more than their fair share. It also means that a lot more mistakes are bound to crawl into the woodwork that with a fully staffed team. The effort these guys are putting forth it's a wonder that the game has turned out to be as good as it has. You really should be praising them instead of berating them. Sure, call them on their mistakes and keep them focused, but stop ripping into them when something slip by them that would have slipped by anyone working in their situation.

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If you cant deliver on a promised service posted in your public forums, a promis to your custoimer, you will get berated, you have absolty no justification for FAILING to do what you said to do.

FACT: Jack said they deplorable patch notes would end
FACT: he had months
FACT: he FAILED
OPINION: HE SHOULD BE FIRED FOR INCOMPETENCE

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It's time for Cryptic and NCsoft to make clear, accurate, number-based patch notes a business commitment to its clients. Because it saves time and effort, fosters good relations, and it's the heroic thing to do.

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It's not always easy when you have only a few minutes to grab what you hope are the right numbers and create your post before having to run off to do all the other important things, all while scarfing down the last of your sandwich and drinking the last of your cold coffee. Mistakes happen when things get busy.

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DONT BS FOR THEM
STATESMAN said himself they would make clearer patches, their hasent been a patch in MONTHS aside from fixing the /cov bug.

Jack has NO justification for not having good patch notes on the FIRST chance to make a patch note in MONTHS since he promised to inprove.

My Srcrapper says one thing frequently

"what is this debt you speak of...all i see is my dark purple and light purple exp bar"

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The radius is smaller than is used to be, since the targets were limited to 5.

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Yes i can see how hit taunt at the 7 guys punching me withtheir fists woulkd be to far to hit with my ranged taunt

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Okay I'm done with Ice. E The first is the version for your son to color, and the other is my finished version. This was so much fun I have decided to do one of your sons characters everymorning as a warm up. Starting this tuesday because this weekend is our 6 year wedding anniversary


Ice E Inked

Ice E Colored

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That's just way too amazing. How I wish I had any sort of skill at all. Even if it was just being able to draw something similar to a line. Stupid brain. Kick in, left side!! (that's right, isn't it? Left is "artsy", right is "fartsey"? )

I'm sad Everytime I come to this forum I feel depressed 'cause I can't draw. But I just can't stay away from such incredible art. It's not fair! *cries*

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PRatice makes Not Crappy....you know maybe i shoud psot my "Evolutiuon of a saber tooth tiger girl" to show just how paratice pays of in goign from crapy to Less crapy maybe it will inspire you