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Quote:SWEET!Originally Posted by Phewmite
It is. They showed it during the Apex TF preview but said it was actually part of the Tin Mage TF, it just looked cool so they wanted to put it in the video.
Michelle
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Bah, who cares what they are? This is more awesomeness for vid making! And I'd LOVE to know if that portal from Primal to Praetorian shot is actually in the game...
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This was debuted at NYCC, but now here it is on the official Paragon Studios YouTube Channel for us to see in much better detail!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPNyLDfvx0U&feature=sub
Crossbows? Swords auras? WANTWANTWANT!
Michelle
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EDIT: Thanks for making sure this got uploaded, David!
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In our LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS game, a plague has struck Phoenix lands (I think the scenario is Midnight's Blood or somesuch), and off go the PCs to fix things. We get there, we find the villain responsible, who is hanging out in the deepest room of the darkest basement, etc. etc. etc. He is hanging in mid-air, a sickly green light swirling around him as the lifeforces of countless Phoenix are flowing into him due to the plague.
Being the good PCs we are, we're not gonna let THIS go on, so we attack. And cut the guy down in two rounds flat. Go us.
Then this ensues...
GM: As you drive your wakizashi into his body, you hear a thin, wailing scream, a loud 'crack!' as he's sucked back to Jigoku, and a final, brilliant green flash before the light dies, leaving you in total darkness.
Ujiro: Don't worry, I'll just cast Amaterasu's Bl... Oh, crap, never mind... *as Bill realizes it's now too dark to read the scroll*
The whole group degenerated into hysterical laughter. Bill later mastered the spell with the experience he got from that scenario so he would no longer need the scroll.
*****
From our CHAMPIONS game...
Some time ago, our team (The Dark Guardians) had attempted to shut down a casino that was actually a front for a local DEMON demonhame. Midnight (my mystic mentalist/martial artist) had gleefully tangled with the Morbane in charge, named Lolock, which resulted in him blasting her with a spell not unlike catching a frag grenade at point-blank range. Midnight survived, and took her revenge by emptying his safe, handing out all his REAL cash to the patrons, and turning over his HUGE supply of counterfeit money to the police. This time around, however, while Touchstone (our psion) and Kanathos (NPC immortal mage) went in the front door of Lolock's office, Midnight ran upstairs and used the emergency chute entrance to his office (after knocking one of his lackeys unconscious and dropping him down the chute first as a distraction). Just as Touchstone blew the doors off the office, and Kanathos threw a blinding spell inside, Midnight came down the chute feet first and slammed straight into the back of Lolock's chair, knocking it out from under him and bringing him (and her) down with a crash, allowing him to be rather easilly captured due to the hugely unexpected shock of being attacked from behind.
The Guardians march Lolock out front to where Primus (the superhero law enforcement agency) and the TV crews are, and unfortunately, due to a slight miscalculation, Lolock escapes on national TV by teleporting away. Qurria'al, our resident half-demon and magical tracker, finds out where he's gone, and tears open a hole in reality so we can go after him. Midnight is the first one through the hole, and decks Lolock across the face, breaking his concentration. Just as Lolock gets his wits back about him and makes a break for some UBER-POWERFUL-WEAPON-OR-SOMETHING-EQUALLY-NASTY, Midnight manages to teleport in front of him, grab him, pivot, and throw him BACK through the portal he'd escaped through to land at the feet of the rest of the Guardians, not even seconds after he'd escaped.
It also helped the Dark Guardians' PR image that Midnight comes teleporting back a few moments later wearing only a skintight black bodysuit (and she definitely has the body to carry it off) and a flat-brimmed black hat, as she is using her trenchcoat to carry the UBER-POWERFUL-WEAPON-OR-SOMETHING-EQUALLY-NASTY thing. Small wonder the camera crews of the local news stations adored her.
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Something like Chinatown would be nice. But yeah, chalk up another vote for "dip into the lore and revamp existing maps to make it all work."
*pause*
You know, not a separate zone, but something I'd really, really like to see added to either Atlas Park or Galaxy City? The 'hero' equivalent of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I don't know WHY I just thought of that, but something like the Eternal Flame on JFK's grave? I just think it'd be really nice to see there, and actually have Longbow or Vanguard or PPD SWAT or something standing guard there.
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1) Anything Mender
2) Anything Carnie
3) Anything Legacy Chain
4) The chest/arms/thighs rigs that the Sky Raiders wear (IIRC)
5) More Cimeroran stuff
And add another agreement to the "as close as we can get without being exact" to NPC looks - my SG on Justice is a Freedom Corps branch, and we've been complimented several times for resembling Longbow without being identical.
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Quote:Cool, thanks!Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Haven't heard the exact release date for this, but I'm sure a high quality version will be up soon.Quote:Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Hey, David, can you badger your coworkers into posting that I-19 teaser on your YouTube channel?
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Quote:So Black Pebble really does exist? Huh...Originally Posted by Venture
I couldn't find any devs. Except Black Pebble, who gave me a Rikti Costume card.
Hey, David, can you badger your coworkers into posting that I-19 teaser on your YouTube channel? While I really do appreciate all the folks that filmed the panel and shared it, a nice high quality version would be tres spiffy. Please?Quote:Originally Posted by Noble Savage
To reiterate what was said in the panel: we've redoubled efforts to take all newly-developed npc groups and make most of those options available for players. It's a pretty common request, so we're spending the time to make it happen. Will an IDF-themed set be available for players at some point? That's the hope, yes. But stay tuned--when and how is not something we've announced yet.
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*stares*
Oh, wow.
Where is this base again? I think I may have found a way to convey Anti-Matter's Orbital Lab, if I can get in here and film...
*plotplotplot*
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Quote:I could not help myself, I just cracked up laughing as I read this... mainly because it reminded me of the AE arc I wrote where Vernon von Grun inadvertently gave the Devouring Earth the intelligence of Dr. Aeon (reducing the good doctor to the sentience of a houseplant in the process). Would you mind terribly if I updated the arc and gave the DE boss part of this as a speech at the end? I'd be happy to credit you for the speech!Originally Posted by Gulanzon
You smug, self-satisfied, myopic fools! Idiots! Every last single one of you. Scuttering about like so many cockroaches. Writhing and feasting like maggots freshly hatched on the carcass of Mother Earth, who was all too willing to sustain and provide for you in her own power! Of her own volition!
And you have the AUDACITY to call me INSANE. To call me misguided. EVIL even! Oh the irony. The bitter, bitter irony. Can you not see that it is YOU who are mad!
As a species, you have failed my beloved planet! You have failed every absolute standard of decency, honesty, and goodwill! And for that, you must be punished.
You. must. be purged.
I will not stand to see this affront to everything I hold dear! I will not stand for this sacrilege and ****! This madness. This unchecked, rampant, wild decadence and degradation!
Pah! And you... you fools who would seek to stop me...
Come, if you will. If you dare. I will be waiting, with the righteous host of heaven at my back, and the providence of the Divine blazing within my soul. It would be a fool's headlong charge into the purifying flames of absolution.
Now. Quiver in fear. Cower in TERROR. Enjoy these final moments of sin and depravity. Unleash your true nature and revel in the lust and gluttony that lies at your roots, that taints your very essence.
You are all beyond redemption.
That's just wrong. Awesome, but wrong.Quote:Originally Posted by Kelenar
(Note to self: Lusty Maggots would make a good band name.)
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Had the idea for the name AND the powersets at the same time:
A fire/mental manipulation blaster called Psychic Hotline.
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Quote:Where was this?Originally Posted by _Cai_
Not to mention the roaring and huge tentacle that waves around just over the treetops outside of the sonic fence in Nova Praetoria. It startled me the first time I saw it heh.
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Quote:*sniffle*Originally Posted by james_joyce
Since the video is taking so long to upload (and it's even worse because part 1 is just fluff and review, so you really have to wait for parts 2-4), here are the slides (after the fluffy review slides):
I wish I could have had access to this when I made my Incarnate video. Ouro in ruins? A Mender sending you back? THAT would have been awesome.
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My bots/dark MM Soulsteel dinged 50 on a Mayhem just as she blew the doors off the vault (one of her bots had just shot a Longbow)...
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Quote:She is?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, Battle Maiden is the end boss of the Apex TF, so she needs a battle-themed signature power to make her less of a push-over
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Quote:I was totally expecting the scene in DIE HARD where Alan Rickman makes that exact statement before ordering his men to blow up the SWAT tank (or else the subsequent scene of Bruce Willis throwing a C4-laden chair down the elevator shaft with the remark of "Let's see you take this under advisement, jerkweed").Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Quote:*smirks* Coz I made it look GOOD in my I-17 video?Originally Posted by Zombie Man
At least, on Virtue, it is. Compared to the calls for other TFs, there is a constant stream of "Starting a Posi 1" or "Posi 2 lfm" in Virtue's global TF channels.
I like the revamped TFs, I've done them, but I don't see the attraction to do them... often.
Is there something I'm missing?
j/k
Seriously, it is good fun, and God I hope they take it as a cue to revamp the other FP TFs...
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Quote:Profanation is correct, btw.Originally Posted by Profanation
It is my understanding (and please someone correct me if I am wrong), but the servers are always displayed in your selection screen with your last visited server first, and then the rest of the servers in ascending order of population (meaning that the largest populated server is at the bottom of the list).
Have a great time!
And welcome to the game! Hope you're enjoying yourself, and trust me, there's PLENTY to do here. Folks have already pointed out some of the more helpful sites, and you can also find a lot of stuff here on the forums themselves, from suggestions about builds to how to configure sound/video cards.
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Re: the whole is-he-here-or-isn't-he, I know that in my own experience, companies can confirm/deny two things - 1) whether or not you worked there, and 2) whether you are eligible for rehire there (for example, certain firms cannot extend a contractor's work contract beyond X length - you may not be eligible to recontract there at all/a couple months/whatever). That's IT. No comments on work performance, compatability with other employees/managers, etc, nada.
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They already have the trailer? COOL! Thank you for posting it, James and Solar.
*watches it, then sighs*
Yeah... I gotta make one now. If they can do the whole melodramatic over-the-top, all-it's-missing-is-Don-LaFontaine-doing-the-voiceover thing, I can, too.
Michelle
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*wonders what she can sell to raise the money to head to the Bay Area M&G*
Michelle
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Woohoo, when can I get in... and... film...
... oh, wait. Drat. Um...
Damn it I'm never going to be able to stop making these things...
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I REALLY wish I could have been there.
Michelle
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Quote:Originally Posted by Obsidius
One thing I've noticed is how the RWZ is becoming less of a "War Zone" and more of a "generic co-op zone", simply because it's the only co-op zone in the game besides Cimerora and Pocket D. Heck, there's an Architect Entertainment there (not to beet a dead horse, just sayin').
IMPO devs, it's time to create a new co-op zone or re-purpose another existing zone into a co-op zone.Striga? Just a thought.Quote:Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Boomtown!
*grins*
How about Dark Astoria?
Michelle
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I'd make a quick vid for him as a sendoff, but I'm not sure what music to use - part of me wants to use Chris Isaak's "The End of Everything," while another part of me wants to use the Reprise of "Blue Blue Sky" by Alan Parsons.
Michelle
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