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Quote:I'll be at the Rikti War Zone MA Building so both Heroes and Villains can join in. I think I'll ask everybody trivia questions to make the teaming up fairer, instead of randomly choosing people.
YayTrivia im not so good at but i'll give it my best
Advanced warning though, i have to bring Noob Buster, so bring your A game or i will bust ya
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Dibs on union!!!!
Av, how do we contact you ingame to get invite? Turn up at a certain place + certain time?
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Quote:Or at least thats what the report says . . . . . . .
And we've also been told that Gerhardt Eisenstadt died a happy old man on Praetorian Earth around 100 years ago. -
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*sighs*
LFT flagged people gets first /tell invites, 'nuff said -
WW's first headache
Welcome to the job
Edit: I really should sleep, 24 hours awake now, 9 hours in work in 3 hours followed by an hour car journey to mums place to spend the day! I miss my bed . . . . . -
When i log in, i click english, check to see if any new announcements and if not then i go straight to the "for fun" section.
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Quote:Speak for yourself
hence why they're so much more powerful than most superheroes/supervillains. I'ld take them both on!
Edit: And plan too when this goes live! -
New maps which i dont know the spawn + ambush points of every possible angle, and i'll be happy
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Quote:Really people there is nothing to get excited about yet! a couple of icons and a screenshot. Costumes dont make this game. Infact some of my 50s dint even get a new costume until they were 50. Lots of my toons have upwards of 73 free tailor sessions I really doubt adding more costumes is going to make me more inclined to make more costumes.
I realize its not done yet but it looks to me as if there is nothing much to do in that passage way it will be just another place you superspeed through and take no notice of.
Theres plenty to be excited about! The sheer quality of the screenshots/bio of GR compared to what we have live currently is reason alone to believe that the future is VERY bright [one might say its even orange hehe bad jokes].
Its not so much the fact that we're getting overexcited about a new costume set. Its just that its opened our eyes to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, a lot of the current costume sets are upgraded too [would greatly explain why theres been a large lack of costumes lately].
Even if it is just a place you'ld superspeed past, thats fine by me! If an area that doesnt hold any real value looks that good, imagine what the areas we would be in more would look like?
These are the pieces of information which i would want to see though within the next few weeks.
- An explanation into what the new low level zone is like [or possibly the tutorial]
- A sample of one of the missions
- Will praetoria hold the 3rd party for pvp?
- Any new game mechanics being implemented into this game apart from GR?
- New emotions?
- Will praetoria have its own market? If so, is it linked to heroes/villains or set on its own?
- A screenshot of one of the new mission maps.
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Quote:Thus far, unless I am just looking in the wrong place, I've seen one bio for one character associated with the Praetorians. Tyrant himself. And it was posted yesterday. Considering the even if you consider Hero-Con to be the point at which GR was to have been announced, you're still talking about a period of months to produce about 2-3 pages worth of text.
There are also 2 bios for characters completely unassociated with any Praetorian content in the past. That means they had the luxury of creating their bios from whole cloth. So basically, thus far, after months of lead time, the 'revamp' of the Praetorians consists solely of a rather sketchily detailed historical biography of Tyrant himself.
That sort of output doesn't exactly inspire confidence in me.
you've seen only the information that they want us to seeThink its safe to say that they wont leave the entire expansion lore/bios/mission txts etc to the very last minute
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Quote:Have you READ the new bios for them?
We can hope they will eventually achieve what you suggest, but they are in no way near there yet. They are clearly THERE now! We're just waiting for it go to live/beta!
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Quote:making sg's global would be a nice way to increase your sg rep between servers, instead of having top 100 lists for each server, they would consolidate into 1 list.
on the other hand, im one of those who would never leave victory, so it would be kind of pointless to implement something as that.
Apart from seeing where your supergroup actually ranks on a global basis
The more global things we have ingame, the better imo! I dont want to become just the best on a single server, i want to become the best in the worldWell everybody has a goal right?
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Quote:Its a tricky one because from what we gather, both of their end goals are completely different. One wants to rule the human population while the other wants to wipe them out.
I'm leaning towards the idea that the Devouring Earth and our dear emperor are not the true adversaries they appear to be.
One thing we can be certain of though, is that there is a LOT of betrayel going on in praetoria. So far, all 3 of the main characters have been betrayed in some form or another, so think its safe to say that there will be plenty more betrayels yet to come.
Quick lore question. Is it possible for parts of the hami to "fuse" with a human host? ala romulus style? -
Quote:I hope people noted War Witch's post on Friday, where she showed a screenshot of a resistance member from GR. New costume options and a new map and map tileset, all shown in that little picture. There's obviously stuff in the works, and we only know so much about it all. That's all I'm arguing for- they have stuff in the works, and we have little peeks at it. No need to get overly rampant with the speculation from there (though I have to say again that little updates every week would keep people focused on what is coming for sure, rather than all of this speculating peole have been resorting to. Get cracking, marketing!).
To be honest, they must have most of what they want in GR in it already and just polishing it upI like speculation on these boards, it keeps things fresh until we get new information which 9 times out of 10 blows us out of the water.
Like if you look at it really, all we had was Tyrants profile and a snapshot of a costume piece but we're all giddy just over thatMust be nice to see so many people so enthusiastic about your product
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Quote:Cant we all just agree to Hope that we will get all new content from 1 to 50. No matter how big of a fan you are of this game... the current content is old, and has been done by alot of people - to the point - that they dont want to do it again.
Most people I know, are currently thinking they will not be forced to do all the old content again, nor do they want to.
Their plans for the future not withstanding, this is what most people are hoping for in the circle I travel in. They are not trying to even hear that they will have an AWESOME new 1 to 20 expierience, and then be kicked out to the same carp we have now. They just do not want it.
I wont mind if there is a SMALL level gap of no content, but would expect there to be a lot of content of the majority of levels to make me want to create multiple new alts to level up again.
I am like you, im not expecting to have to do much current content on my GR alts for quite a while [though i accept i'll have to do a bit]. The most exciting for me about this expansion is the prospect of all that content waiting to be played.
Graphics updates, costume pieces and new maps [everything cosmetic basically] are nice very features obviously, but i would get bored very quickly if i had to spend the large majority of time on my new alts doing content i've done for nearly 5 years. Cov content was and still is the superior of the two brands in quality of the arcs, however the surroundings over there was too dark for me to really get into it. So i am very excited about the prospect of having a lot of good, quality content for myselfI really want to be challenged in this game!
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Quote:Just before you have to leave Praetoria, you're given a final choice if you really want to continuen with the moral path you've been on since level 1, so even if you've been helping Tyrant 1 through 20, you still get a chance to switch to the right side before you leave.
They way that would probably play out would be that you'd learn more and more of the truth behind the Praetorian lore, so if you were a Resistance supporter, you'd gradually learn about how bad the world was before Tyrant "fixed" it, and if you were helping Tyrant, you'd gradually learn more and more about the evil behind the "utopia" he's made - so your first impressions and loyalties from the tutorial would be challenged as your career in Praetoria progressed.
I always thought it'ld start off with you as a neutral before you chose PC/RI then when you came back you get to chose either resistance or loyalist. Think they'ld make you chose a side [loyalist or resistance] at level 1?
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Quote:Thats what made laugh in all the GR threads. Content wise we have next to no information regarding about whats going to happen or be in the expansion. The only thing that was fact was that we have to leave Praetoria at some point in our career, but really that was understandable and acceptable.
But anyways, Please dont speak like you know everything about this expansion. You dont. You only know as much as they have said, and with all the hush hush about this expansion, what they have said to-date is not ALL that we are getting. It's just as bad as straight up lying, to just bot responce what you think is fact. When its not the entire truth, or fact.
To state actual facts here.
100% new starting zone which you start in Praetoria
All current praetorian missions get the graphics/cosmestic upgrades
At some point in our praetorian career, we have to leave there and chose either RI OR PC, how long we have to stay there in those cities is unknown. However it cant be for a long period of time.
Can chose to be part of two factions within praetoria [their version of good v evil]
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Quote:So far there have been four runs: Virtue, Justice, Freedom, and Union. I don't know about European times, but the US runs have all been during the workday.
This is the one case wheres its good for the EU players, the timezone differenceWhen they're in work and can organise these kind of things, we are all mostly at home
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*smacks you all*
I think at some point [level wise] you HAVE to leave praetoria and chose your side before advancing in levels any further! Level 20 would be a great time to force people to do thatYou have gained enough experience by that point to decide where your loyalties lie then!
Chose your side, do an arc or something there [i suppose] and then can head straight back! -
Quote:I think the very fact that this supposed 'Hamidon' has such a different physical form compared to the one we are familiar with is more than just a cosmetic factor.
Indeed, its similarity to a Devoured and Cole (rather conveniently) managing learn a great deal about the Devouring Earth in that little psionic exchange makes me suspect the Hamidon Pasilima of Praetorian Earth may well be pursuing someone else's agenda....or dead.
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Quote:So your answer is that if you are in the "in crowd" that you should get to participate, but anyone outside of "the in crowd" knowing about it would ruin your experience?
Another reason for me not to like players that feel that they are L337.
To be fair, sals channel is the most widely used channel on union and i'ld say the large majority of players on union do use it. So mentioning the channel isnt really saying a small minority have access to the information, just the players that are online at given moment, too many players [myself included] use sals for it to be a cliche. -
Wasnt able to join in unfortunately since i can only play 1 - 2 hours per day atm before work.
However if there was at least 24 hours notice, then i more than likely could have logged on to join in with the fun. Just something along the lines of "rikti message intercepted, invasion coming, ETA 19:00 hours". Something simple like that
Though from players responses to those who did join in, it did sound like it was a blast and full of carnage [which is what i love]
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Quote:That makes a heck of a lot of sense. Claws, tentacles, lumbering... all there.
Sooo, the Praetorian Hamidon is a giant Devoured who also has psychic powers. Is it me or does that sound like something we'll be facing in the game some time?
Well since they have it in capture, you can almost guarantee it'll make an appearance in an arc or a taskforce.
Bit like LGTF i'ld expect, but a lot more challenging [since that mission is far too easy, even for a weakened hami].