Demobot

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I'm interested to see how we can get up to 3,000,000. 20,000(75) = 1,500,000.

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I wanted to make this comment but you beat me to it. Either this is some kind of new math or there is more to the announcement than they are telling us.

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It's called 'upping the SG limit to 150'.

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Full Access to City of Heroes and City of Villains®
All players with City of Heroes retail* accounts will now have access to City of Villains, and all City of Villains retail* accounts will now have access to City of Heroes. Players that didn't previously have access to "the other side" will find that they do now. Just log in to check it out!



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Hmm, I have an issue with this.. Where do I submit my ANGST?

I have on my acct, CoH, CoV Preorder, CoV special edition to get the cape and helmet, Good V Evil.
My husband has neerly the same..

Now people get it for Free?

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They get CoH and CoV. Based on that blurb I don't think they get the GvE goodies, much less any beta or special edition items.

Tripling the size of the development team? Wow. Maybe we'll see power customization within a reasonable time-frame (i.e., keeping with the 3 issues a year formula) after all.

At the moment I'm pretty stunned by this announcement. "A major reinvestment" sounds pretty good, but I know I'm not the only one who has concerns over what this really means.

Great guide, Vox. I used it when Havok's guide became obsolete and I'm using your updated I9 info to pimp out my Tank. I may not be flying (SJer here) but I'm already salivating at the prospect of 311% regen.

45 seconds a door and a 30 second personal timer would encourage actual movement. How many houses have you been to that let you get candy over and over again, just by sitting at the door?

Finally got around to watching it after downloading. Looks absolutely fantastic. I can't wait for this to go live!

Downloading now. I went for the high-def clip, natch.

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'He told me that once a character was exposed to time travel, they receive a temporary power that allows them to open a door to a new area, the Oroboros Citadel.'

THE DOOR COMES TO THOSE WHO HAVE TRAVELED.

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And so the mystery has been solved. The question is, how we time travel in the first place to get the Temp Power. Recluse's Victory? The Statesman Task Force? The Lord Recluse Strike Force? All involve time travel if memory serves, but that's all high-level stuff.

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This is cool and all but.....WHERE ARE THE VILLIAN EPIC ATs!!!!!!!!!?!!!???!!!!!?
What do I want? Villian Epic ATs!
When do I want 'em? Now!

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Fixed it for ya.

Holy [censored]. No, seriously HOLY [censored]. This is quite possibly the most awesomest thing ever in the history of ever. If Issue 11 doesn't get declared the best issue in history, I'll eat my robotic hat.

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For those who are "less than happy" with the look of the Dual Blade screenshots released, please keep in mind that it's still early in the release process with time to polish up features and you don't know all the features included in Issue 11 yet. As we move into October more details will be coming out so hang on to your hats (or blades, or whatever )

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How about passing on the concept of being able to chose your blades? Future, Relic, Mystical, Sammy, ect from the option menu? I bet that would quell alot of problems. I know Posi once said that the powers origin for blasts points and colors were "hard baked" but why not rework the new sets? Then see if you can backwards engineer it

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I liked what you've done here. You went from "how about Power Customization?" when we've been told time and time again why we won't see that in the near future, to equating changing the colors of blasts (which is the easiest part of the thing that will take dev-years to do) to changing weapon models, which I imagine is even more complicated.

Suffice it to say this is not going to happen. I agree with the poster above that what we see now is pretty much what we're going to get.

You don't have to like it, but realize that the workaround suggested is not going to happen for I11.

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And if/when it does happen, I will be glad to make a post asking all of the nay sayers how crow tastes. (best I could do.)

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I imagine you'll be waiting a very long time then.

I would love to see some video footage of the new powersets, especially Dual Blades. I wasn't (and still aren't) expecting anything fancy out of Willpower, but do hope the effects get toned down as BaB implied. A low-key Tanker set would be great.

An interesting excerpt from the article about Recluse and Manticore:

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“Who were the rebels?” Fish repeated this reporter’s question with a wry smile. “Why, simple drug-traffickers
and freedom fighters. What else would they be?” His shark-like smile and mirrored sunglasses belied his story.

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Anyone who has read Mark Bowden's "Killing Pablo" knows that Colombia is one of the most violent and wild countries on earth. Natives joke that God made Colombia so naturally beautiful that he populated it with the most bloodthirsty men on earth to balance it out. There is a lot of wild territory outside of government and police control, making the jungles a safe haven for drug-traffickers and paramilitary groups. I can't imagine what Recluse and Manticore are searching for or who the mystery "rebels" they're fighting really are, but I have a feeling it's really bad news.

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If I close my eyes and concentrate really hard, I can almost hope the this is the Blood of the Black Stream.

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I know how you feel man. I've been waiting for some playable Coralax stuff and/or the blood of the black stream forEVER. At first I was like "whoah, leviathan." Then I came here and I'm like "... or not."

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I've been hoping for the Blood of the Black Stream EAT ever since they posted that list of possible future EATs years ago. But since they've told us that when villains do get an EAT it will a re-worked rehash of the space squids instead of actually something new and different I doubt it'll ever happen.

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To quote Posi from the latest City Scoop:

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I really wish we could have done more with Epic Archetypes. I think we put in Kheldians “too soon” because we didn’t have a solid plan on following them up with more EATs, which is now painfully obvious to the playerbase.

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We have radiation, fire, pure energy, bullets, poison spikes, katana, broadswords and a bunch of other quite lethal stuff. If those aren't killing the bad guys, I seriously doubt Dual Blades will.

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Did anyone else notic the article also said the whole of talos island was lost to the outbreak virus.

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Alternate reality. Basically, imagine if everyone skipped the tutorial on both sides. The Outbreak virus never gets cured and Jenkins never gets rescued. The breakout gets stopped and Outbreak breaks out.

PvP is the dregs of the internet given the anonymity to indulge their immature tendencies in an environment that rewards them.

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i agree with the ops..

we could put alittle friggin effort in this game and do something but better


not to mention the animation will be ripped from the exsisting powersets making it not even close to being new.


i look at it as a iron blade temp power gone wild..it wont be flashy,neat or cool..it'll be simple im sure



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The powerset will have completely new animations. Don't knock it 'til you try it.

Also, to the OP, calling people morons for not agreeing with your limited viewpoint isn't what one would call the best foundation for an argument. Yeah, I know, you're pissed 'cause the devs did something you didn't like. Guess what? You're not the first to complain and you certainly didn't do the world a favor by starting an entirely new thread to voice your displeasure.

The wallpapers look great, and adding 16:9 resolutions is cool. I just wish there were 16:10. Ah well. Still fantastic.

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You all know the Vanguard are the Fifth Column in disguise right?

The "V" for Vanguard translates to 5. V is the Roamn numeral for 5. 5 is the Fifth number in the acension of numbers (not counting zero). V = 5!!!

THE VANGUARD ARE THE FIFTH COULMN!!!!!

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Nah. Vanguard came about during the first Rikti war. Though it's entirely possible that 5th Column spies or sleepers or what have you exist within Vanguard, I don't think they run the show. Besides, the 5th are too busy digging up Reichsmann in Boomtown to worry about fighting aliens. After all, the only guys in Boomtown at all these days are Clocks, Trolls, Council (for whatever reason, probably just 'cause the 5th used to hang out there) and, if I remember correctly, Outcasts. Plus they cap at 19 in that zone, so I'm sure the lvl 54 AV they dig up will be more than a match for anything in the zone except for Babbage, a fight which I predict would end in stalemate, much like the legendary Hamidon Duel during I9 closed beta.

I'm seriously hoping this doesn't result in more gold farmer solicitations.

Nice. Very nice. Thank you very much for bringing it back. How about, in the future, invasions once a month or so, depending on popular demand?

EDIT: Pown, Lighthouse says the invasions will be 24 hours.

Thanks for the response!

This may be a lot to ask, but can we get widescreen aspect ratio (16:9 and 16:10) wallpapers sometime?