EU_Damz

Mentioned this ealier on the MA channel but it seems the mender silos taskforce [still my favoured form of inf gaining] has had a few minor changes.

Just small touches to the npc dialog (which are now better so woo!) but changes non the less.

Anybody else found any hidden changes to issue 14 which werent announced?

On a MA arc i was running i got to the third mission where you have to rescue a hostage. Seemed like a normal rescue mission 2bh, i was sk'in up a low level showing him the ropes as such at the high levels.

Anyway everything was going smoothly when we got to the hostage, hostage fight was simple enough but as soon as we rescued him and turned around, what do we see? . . . .

MISSILES coming at us from the other side of the map!!! Was an ambush of malta zeus titans and they can fire from a LONG range away! Made both me and the new player go [censored]?!??!?! and leg it before both dying. I was just laughing nonstop for a good 10 minutes from just turning around and seeing missiles coming towards us and not knowing who fired them.

Good times! Good times!

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At least I can be a little bit more like myself rather than the despotic hammer-wielder you've had to endure as of late

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Can't you do both?

If you ever need to release some stress on the boards i'll be more than happy to create a "nooby thread", just say the word!

Ontopic: Yes this has seriously got me buzzing about the future of this game, the trailer really was THAT good!

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Bf's are a bit different, but controllers get holds to conpensate for low Hp and Low Dmg... So yeah if you pop a bf I would feel very put out.

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But control is only a small arsenal of the controllers pvp input. A good pvp controller will know that they will not out damage/out survive their enemy.

Their strength is that they make the opposition defeat themself. Now i only have pvp experience with 2 of my controllers, an ill/rad/fire and a mind/ta and the basic principle is always the same . . . . . . Make them come to you.

Can a blaster still bunnyhop with glue arrow on it? [Which is then followed by the quick assault resulting in blasters death]

Can a willpower tank really survive an ill/rad/fires onslaught with lingering radiation on it?

The point being is that a good controller will NEVER really rely on holds/immobs to pvp. Its just impossible to expect to win against a skilled enemy then.

Know i dont pvp with you lot (as its more of a now and then thing for me) but i do consider myself skilled in the controller pvper aspect and get a bit whenever someone says BFs are a controllers worst enemy. When in fact they're our best friend! If a player brings a LOT of breakfrees you know they dont have much else to raise health/to-hit/def/resis/attack which plays right into our hands!

I'll be quiet now, but that has made me want to play my ta/mind again

Edit: And before someone says it, its VERY easy to withstand a burst high damage from the start even as a controller, to get your tactics in.

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Sorry for hi-jacking your thread Marksmaid, but your questions and The Lost handing my [censored] to me again inspired me to head back into the Mission Editor and try and get my almost finished arc down from it's current position at 104%. While attempting to do that I discovered that I could not remove any of the members I originally entered from my custom group. Could anyone help me with this?

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Are any of them currently in use in another arc/mission of yours? If the problem continues i'ld just do the quick/easy solution of copying the ones you want to another group with the same name.

i like it

Oh and hes a magician . . . . . connect that to what hes saying

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Would you spend your marketeering time finding various IOs to craft and sell back for profit, or did you usually deal with the common IOs?

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Damzs get money quick tip of the day!

Check how much it is to craft a level 30 or level 35 standard IO (when most people start spending their money).

Secondly check how much people are paying for the enhancement versions.

HUGE profit yeah?

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I want the player character to summon the enemy boss in the last mission of the small arc. Is there a way to let a boss (or an Arch Villain in this case) appear after the player has interacted with an item? I could make an ambush but an ambush cannot contain a specific enemy, can it?

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First of all create both the glowie and the boss and fill in all the details. Now on the boss, at the top option (iirc) it has the option "this objective appears when . . ", simply open that dropdown box and select your glowie Now when the player clicks the glowie, your boss will spawn.


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Wouldn't that mean that only the mission text is upgraded after the item has been interacted with, but the boss is there before and might be fought against before you interact with the item? And... what would happen if things were completed in the wrong order..?

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Nope not at all

Basically by selecting the "when glowie objective is completed", the player HAS to click the glowie before the boss even spawns on the map. Once spawned, then the defeat boss text will appear also

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I want the player character to summon the enemy boss in the last mission of the small arc. Is there a way to let a boss (or an Arch Villain in this case) appear after the player has interacted with an item? I could make an ambush but an ambush cannot contain a specific enemy, can it?

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First of all create both the glowie and the boss and fill in all the details. Now on the boss, at the top option (iirc) it has the option "this objective appears when . . ", simply open that dropdown box and select your glowie Now when the player clicks the glowie, your boss will spawn.

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How do I refer to the player, fill in last name, first name, proper pronouns and such things in my texts?


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In the text field simply write $name

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I noticed the editor sometimes replacing line breaks with <br> tags. That looks like HTML to me. Can I use html to format my texts and, if so, to what extend?

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AFAIK you cant, it'll say the form is invalid if you try to do so. (Though you can highlight the text and right click which brings up options such as bold/colour etc)

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Are there any guidelines how to figure out easily whether my stuff is too hard or to easy? I tried to give players a fair chance, I added allies to help solo players with really tough enemies, but most of it seems pretty easy for my own character - then again everything's easy for a level 50 with high grade invention sets... I had one Circle of Thorns mage that was a really a pest to fight without "break free"s. It's an "Arch-Mage of Death" and considered a boss, but feels a lot like an elite boss to fight against.

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Custom mobs are indeed much harder than your standard one. This is due to them having the same damage multipliers as us players. The only way to truely find out what powersets are tough/easy is to ask on the forums/look it up or fight your own creations. Just remember to put the difficulty in the description.

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Is there a way to jump over missions testing your own story arcs? Currently I try to test the fifth mission, and doing the other four every time to get there is a holding me a little up

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The only way at the moment is to drag the fith mission to the first slot and then drag it back to the end before you publish.

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Is there a way to get inspis while you're testing your own stuff? It seems that defeated enemies don't drop anything. But the lack of inspis kinda makes it hard in some situations of the last missions.


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Only way is to buy/trade them, unfortunately they dont drop in test Much wanted feature for test mode though.

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Sometimes the text editor "flickers" when I try to edit texts longer than 700 characters or so. It just resizes the input box at a rate of about eight times per second. How can I stop it from doing so?


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This one i dont know sorry

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Is it OK to have your give your own prime character an appearance in the adventure or is that considered arrogant?

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If you can make it fit/looks feasable then go for it! Majority of players i'ld guess have done so already.

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Catching you trying to pull info out of our Producer's mouth huh!

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*placates*

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Ghost Falcon, you need a forum avatar

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I'm a Lover not a FIghter .

My current level of artistic talent involves MS Paint and stick figures.



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Couldnt resist ! While we got you here Ghosty, care to share any more hints?

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My apologies that this particular publish had not been communicated earlier or more visibly.

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Thanks for the post, does actually mean a lot to us when someone comments on it.

However this has happened a few times in the past few weeks with little [30 mins?] or no notice at all. Understand where you are coming from in that it needs to be done globally, just hope you can see it from our perspective

Some of us (namely me ) can only play either early morning or late afternoons so it cuts into my playtime though i know you look at the bigger picture, i wanna feel special!!!

[sorry! that turned from a good serious post to a post not worth reading]

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Oh you poor, poor, wretched soul... you don't know what you unleashed upon yourself!

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Just wait, in a few days you'll see a thread with the title of "i just teamed with damz as leader ", some people have mentally blocked out past experiences of my carnage teams

Its a beautiful day!!!

Happy birthday

The wheels on the bus go round and round!

Happy birthday!

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I remember you Newt! lol

As for the Sal encounter, was thinking that Union Hero's could be "recruited" by aiding / defeating them in missions leading up to a finale battle where they are allies

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Like mender silos taskforce?

Really think everyone should start pitching in for ideas about this now we know how the MA works and its limits.

Would have to be named something else. Very sensitive issue that command slash is.

Though my emp does it a LOT!

Please Would be interested in how people slot certain powers.

At the moment im 6 slotting all my attacks (mainly for sets) and because well i seem to have too many slots Sure im doing SOMETHING wrong but i got a few respecs on him so no biggie.

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So you think it was an accident? This leak? Interesting

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Nemesis would like us to think so, yes

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Nemesis is no longer the cool bad guy. That pistol dude is the new "plot".

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haha yeah. thanks guys erm if i add some one as a global friend and it says "Global request sent" and there offline what happens will they get it when they log on?

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Logged on earlier and got your request so yeah now your forever in this noobs sight! Beware!

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After seeing the new expansion box i can understand (now) why there was no architect over here to buy, so are we going to get this version?

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You've seen the Box Art?

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You havent?

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Well you know us, as players we wanted to make sure that there was SOMETHING to look forward too. Now we have we'll all be happy for the next few days

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Now see, that's where you and I are different. As a cynical old git, this doesn't make me happy. It's only got me on the edge of my seat praying that they bloody well get it right!!!!

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Oh you and me both. But if we talk gameplay wise and not marketing at the moment then i hope its at least as good as city of villains but only more shiny. That was the main drawback of going over there for the majority of players wasnt it?

They now have years of experience/feedback (both positive and a lot of negative) of both their games of what we liked/didnt like so at the moment my faith in this product is very high. It would have to take something major to mess this update up though if we're honest.

Thoguh i agree it is defo one of those things that could either cement this game as THE superhero game or just keep it afloat.

Well you know us, as players we wanted to make sure that there was SOMETHING to look forward too. Now we have we'll all be happy for the next few days

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Not really, if you remember about 2 months ago it was said the architect wasnt being released over in the EU because it wasnt deemed cost effective so it would be an automatic response to want to know whether this one (in their eyes) is worthy of being advertised/sold over here.

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IIRC, GR (GhostRaptor) dropped hints that they weren't releasing an Architect edidtion box over here because they were planning to release another box in the near future anyway.

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IIRC he stated or strongly hinted that the EU would see a boxed set this (calendar) year.

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The only post of his that shows any sort of hint was this one HERE [link] .

Though hmm speculative!

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First there are some telling questions, the most important one is: "Why have they announced this now?"

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THINK i read on the US forums that it was released a bit early which does explain the lack of redname comments on it so far. Though i suspect that will change in the next few days, we know they cant keep away from a "we love you devs!!!" thread.

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I'm betting they wanted to keep their powder dry a bit longer otherwise why let this out of the bag for a nothing occasion when it would have been fantastic breaking news for the anniversary. Strike One.


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Im a bit 50/50 on this if im honest (announcement wise). Sure it would have been awesome to have heard this last week but im looking at it from a different perspective now. The 5th was to look at the past, see our greatest events ingame in one big bang. Now we get to look to the future! Paragon/isles will never be the same again, that much is a fact.

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What have we actually seen and what do we know? Not a huge lot. Suddenly there's talk of new graphics. Horse Manure! There's not one single thing in that video to indicate that other than the video itself which is very similar to the original publicity trailer. That's FMV, not game graphics. Yes we can get all excited by it but we have no indication it's happening and in fact Positron's mentioned several times in the past that he doesn't want to leave older PCs behind so graphics tweak? Minor at best. Strike 2

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Positron has stated a graphics update is coming in a couple of interviews, they've even hired a few more staff to handle it over the past year so we know it was coming and this would seem the perfect chance to implement it. We could all be wrong but all signs [even if just speculation] does point to a graphics update to.

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New Zones? Well if it's a box and it's going to be in the shops, a whole new game, then there'll be plenty of zones. The game's been crying out for a reason to get into the shops for 2 years now. This is a good thing - if it happens pretty quickly after CO goes live. Timing is critical but with a whole new game to play in: Score!!!

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Agree with you 100% , they just need to make sure us EU players get a boxed version too! I need more for my collection of CoX!

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There's other stuff that I wouldn't expect to be addressed here: PVP, Story completion of other arcs, etc. That's not what the box set needs. It needs vibrancy and excitement - new power sets (surely not just 2?) and something else to set it apart from City of Heroes and City of Villains. It needs to be able to stand alone and my instinct tells me that's what will happen - but if it's a box with one new zone and two power sets and access to Atlas Park or Port Oakes at level 5 a few people might be disappointed.

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Personally im hoping you get to start off as a member of the praetorians in the boxed set. Though if you did, what heading would you come under? They arent exactly good or evil are they? Just our world flipped over. A new "world" is expected from me now though too, would also explain why we've been so light on content these last few issues. Ahhhhhhhh im excited!

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What we've seen is just a teaser to get the juices flowing and so far that's worked

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Its been a while since we had a good teaser like this hasnt it Love these kind of things! And then we all turn out to be completely wrong! *remembers the ouroboros hints*