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Okay, I tried out the jump pack. Mechanically, it's identical to the GvE pack (30 ft/sec climb rate for 30 sec) except that it has a 30 second cooldown rather than 150 seconds. You CAN chain the two if you absolutely must get that one exploration badge in Nova Praetoria prior to L6, and you can use the jump pack simultaneously with Ninja Run (the steam pack animation overrides the Ninja Run animation during the jump). In a pinch, you can get a minute and a half of enhanced Ninja Run/Beast Run by going Steam Pack/Jump Pack/Steam Pack.

---Dave

The 30 second kick-off does let it join the GvE jumper as a Suicide Pack(t). Can you jump high enough in 30 seconds to be reduced to 1 HP on landing? Heh.

Of course, with both it and the GvE pack, you can cycle and get 90 seconds of jump before having to do any cooldown.

---Dave

I'm surprised there's any support for XP at all, to be honest. Of course, it *is* considered by some to be the last WinOS that's non-crap. (FWIW, I'm a MacOS player, so I have a whole different set of problems.)

---Dave

There's the flea aura mentioned elsewhere, and that breathing wolf effect is probably an aura too. Presumably a fixed aura like the Cyborg pack ones, rather than letting you breathe out of your hands or something.

---Dave

Sadly, I'm in the wrong Manhattan and wasn't able to attend. But I've heard that some crafty Paragon person managed to lure some of the comics pros over to it, including the ever-controversial Gail Simone (hmm, Birds of Prey in AE?). Anyone spot any other pros there?

---Dave

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Soon, very soon, this "lift and separate" technology would belong to the Resistance.

---Dave

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"Why won't Will Smith take my calls anymore? I'm the same robot I was when we worked together...just more true to myself."

---Dave

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"I hear that in Issue 19, we get to have coffee and donuts at the same time." "Hail Dev Cole!"

---Dave

"Honest <klik> lady, this is <bzz> just a gun, not a freudian metaphor <whirr>. This is <klak> only a mugging, so stop <vree> freaking out!"

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---Dave

Seconds later, in the alligator pit, she wondered why they even HAD that lever.

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---Dave

Annnnd we've pretty much passed the "lock thread because of massive topic drift onto one of the Usual Flamewars" point.

---Dave

Next technical challenge: squirrel tail!

---Dave

Quick crosslink: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=2953508

Wolf tails to be added to the Mutant Booster. On-topic to this thread, Friday's build will include the missing pieces of the Mutant Booster (i.e. the swords) as well as woofietail.

---Dave

A bestial default pose would probably have to be part of a new power, like the prestige sprints. It's certainly more complex than I can see them whipping together during beta of this pack. Perhaps the theoretical beastie pack would have alternative sprint and walk powers that do what you want.

---Dave

I think a "subdued" version of each set (like how you can get Witch parts with or without all the wings tacked on) might help with some of the blending issues. That way you could do the subdued version (aka "with skin" I guess) for costume 0, and then mutate further with the full version when you get cc 1.

For instance, my kaiju anthro would look good with the organic armor tail and a toned down version of the chest piece (mainly to get back spines) in her at-rest mode, but I wouldn't want the full-on armor for that. She could hyper up to a full armor later, though.

---Dave

That's some nasty eczema on her legs there.

Setting aside the costume parts for a moment, the feeling I'm getting off the new CC emotes is that I'd like to make a bind that chains them after whatever emote I can find that looks most like smacking the Omnitrix.

---Dave

When I made Kawaiiju I wasn't trying to anthropomorphize a specific kaiju, I just made the best K-girl I could come up with using the costume generator. Of course, having done so, I had to devise the kaiju she could have been based on, so here he is, Kentromachus!



I figure later on, Kawaiiju will adopt the "real name" Kendra Marcus.

---Dave

TheOcho demonstrates that he does, indeed, Know Jack.

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TheOcho fears no giant Devouring Earth, he sneers at Nictus horrors, guffaws at flaming pumpkinheads. But when Jack in Irons had a wardrobe malfunction (thankfully hidden by the composition of this documentary photo), it took all his willpower to not simply point and laugh.

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---Dave

When DJ Zero said his new disco would be the coolest place in Paragon City, he wasn't kidding around!

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---Dave

Well, I was beaten to the good Domo captions, so I instead used a spare costume slot on one of my characters to make this:



---Dave, known as "Domo" in grade school, albeit pronounced differently

A fairly quick job, I was doing it in part as a testbed for trying out AlClad and the use of Pledge Future as a panel line filler.



---Dave

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TheOcho realized he should have expected something like that when Adamaster shouted, "MOVE THAT BUS!"

---Dave

The bar was silent for a long moment as the bartender fixed the stranger with an icy glare. An ominous hum started to build as patrons turned on their defensive powers in anticipation of an epic conflict. Finally, the stranger shrugged, and replied, "I guess if you don't know how to make a Shirley Temple I'll have a Diet Coke."

---Dave

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Drawing of Doctor Dave, my Grav/Rad troller. Doctor Dave is my "self insertion" character, ripping off Freakazoid's origin in the process. So this is a self-portrait run through two filters.



---Dave