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Quote:Maybe the Devs are just trying to drive home what a poor job the Heroes are doing and what a crappy place Paragon is?Originally Posted by ThePill
I'm pretty sure it's only a blue/hero side issue.
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Actually, a funny property of infinity is that even if you subtract infinity from it, you still have infinity.
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I still see many civilians wandering around Aeon City in Cap.
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Quote:Actually, no, you can't. Please don't tell people otherwise, because it's not true.Originally Posted by Noxilicious
Also note that you can basically spy on both sides at the same time. The only requirement for the "undercover" options is that you have your faction-leader's phone number, so if you pick one side at the tutorial and the other in your first morality mission, you get to call both Calvin Scott and Provost Marchand and get their respective undercover options.
You can have both their phone numbers simultaneously, and have them introduce you to all four tracks at once, but they will only give undercover options when called at the appropriate time if you chose their side in the tutorial. If you did not pick them in the tutorial, when you call them as the mission prompts, they will only give you the "introduce to new contacts" dialogue, and not the side dialogue for the undercover options.
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If you choose to spoof Old Spice in that video, I've got a character already made up to be the Old Spice Guy (I named him "Monocle Smile") on Virtue. I can only do pose work, though; I don't really have the voice to go with it.
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Paragon Wiki's finally gotten the text posted, so I don't have to wait until I get a Crusader back up to the right point to copy it, so I'm now going to point this out, and post the proof of it:
The State did not create the Ghouls.
Ghouls were created by a man, much like Dr. Hetzfeld, that desperately wanted to prove he was smarter and better than Praetor Berry. From Helix's mission chain, upon curing the Ghoul King so he can think clearly, he tells you the whole story.
Quote:(emphasis mine)Demetrios Vasilikos is the famous geneticist who disappeared over a year ago! He was working with Neuron and had apparently grown embittered by Neuron's superior capabilities and so he quit, at least, that's how the story went.
Vasilikos has a slightly different story. He had indeed become embittered, but it didn't lead him to quit, it lead him to use the genetic resequencing serum on himself.
He was so certain he had perfected the formula before Neuron did that he wanted to prove it. Unfortunately he was wrong and he mutated into the first of the Ghouls.
The State did not create the Ghouls; one man's jealousy did. Which really amazed me when I learned it back in the beta, because I was really surprised to find some horrible twisted experiment that could not be laid at Neuron's feet.
The arc even indicates that the Ghouls created after Vasilikos aren't even innocent victims - they're clones. Depending on your feeling about the sanctity and humanity of clones, they might not even be people at all. -
I think she'll still want to run another arc to switch back to undercover, because I doubt she'll want to follow the Loyalist or Resistance options in the (respectively) Power or Crusader arcs if she's really playing undercover. An undercover agent's going to take the chance presented in those missions and break cover to accomplish a great goal for their side.
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Virtue is generally the RP server, though I know at least one other has a reputation for having a small RP contingient (I just don't remember which).
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So long as you picked Loyalist in the Tutorial and currently belong to the Resistance faction (with the symbol beside your health bar), you can do Crusader arcs in IC and Neu and have options to call Provost Marchand.
The important points are that you made the appropriate choice in the tutorial (undercover is only available for the side you choose there) and currently have affiliation with the side you're spying on. Power and Crusader arcs are only available if you are currently factioned with that side, regardless of where the contacts are.
It does not matter on which side's missions you made the morality choice. You can do Power, Responsibility, or Warden in NP, choose Resistance, and go undercover on the Crusaders in IC. -
Nova Praetoria's Power and Crusader arcs are not set up with any undercover options. However, if you started as the one side and then switched in Nova Praetoria, the opposite side's extremes (Power and Crusader) are available to you in Imperial City and Neutropolis, and do have prompts to call a contact for undercover options (my undercover Crusader got a "what the hell?" from Calvin Scott after bringing in Ricochet, followed by a "Well, you got a bunch of Powers killed, so it's cool").
But you have to pick the opposite side in the Morality mission and be currently flagged as Loyalist or Resistance to do Power or Crusader, respectively. -
Quote:Which is a real shame, because he's the one person on the Power arc who's out at least as much to save people as he is to make a name for himself, if not more so for the people (which is probably why Reese hates him so much.)Originally Posted by Steampunkette
Don't forget Warrant! He dies in one of the power arcs, too!
-Rachel-
Incidentally and interestingly, I just finished that arc with an undercover Crusader that let Reese kill the team and went after Ricochet. They actually give you different dialogue (Reese, who's Reese?) before the arc and Reese's speech when you beat on him is different (he's no longer fighting for the second chance "she" gave him, but instead just trying to be Top Dog again. There's no mention of the mystery woman that helps him if you're pure Power.) -
Sadly, Venture is mostly right, Steampunkette. The Initiates bio states that all Syndicate have some degree of psychic potential.
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Quote:If I could still take Fitness as a Power Pool choice as normal, I'd be totally on board with this idea.Originally Posted by BrandX
Next they come up with something like...Tough Inherent.
Passive Resist (S/L)
Passive Resist (F/C/E/N)
Passive Defense (All)
Passive Mez Protection (Mag 3-6 to Hold, Immobilize, Stun, maybe KB)
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Quote:I just saw Wizards the other day, and this reminds me of it. "Fritz! Those fairy bastards just killed Fritz!"Originally Posted by ResidentBaka
"OH GOD CARL NOOOO"
"WE WILL AVENGE YOU"
"Hey guys, I'm back."
"Oh hey Carl."
"INCOMING AMBUSH"
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Quote:Pfft. I constantly declare the Star Wars prequels to be non-canon. I can declare whatever I want.Originally Posted by Shadow State
Don't get me wrong, I think its stupid to treat the new arcs as sequels rather then retcons, but we don't get to decide what is or isn't canon.
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Quote:I'm pretty certain the Circle isn't around, because Praetorian Oranbega got destroyed the same time as Shroud City, Praetorian Paragon.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
It does make one wonder what the Circle of Thorns are up too. They were dead before the Hamidon wars and should still be down in Orenbega doing whatever ghosts do. And what about the Carnival of Light? (Or did the retconn them?)
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Quote:Strictly speaking, Cole is God. The only one Praetoria ... ... has...Originally Posted by EvilGeko
the second he decided that he gets to be god.
Holy crap. I just realised why there's so little magic in Praetoria! (Seriously, I just realised that as I was writing this.) -
Quote:Devs say lots of things. Until it's down in the game, I wouldn't consider it canon. Especially since we're dealing with a comic book universe, where canon is pretty flimsy to begin with.Originally Posted by Shadow State
Except that according to one of the Devs (Positron I think) the new Praetorian arcs are squeals to, rather then retcons of, the old arcs which are still considered canon.
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I talk back to NPCs a lot. Sometimes I even bother typing it into the chat box.
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It generally breaks down the cost for you piece-by-piece. If there's a cost listed next to a piece you don't remember changing, try hitting the "Reset" button and see if it reverts and removes the charge; that should keep it from changing when you save the costume.
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Quote:Loyalist -> Hero is not actually the Responsibility path, and choosing "Hero" is not choosing "Loyalist". If you listen to what Marchand tells you before you make that choice, choosing to go to Paragon City is choosing to oppose the Emperor's invasion and support the people of Primal Earth (by standing as an example that not all Praetorians are evil).Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
My Responsibility Loyalist (who went Loyalist at every decision point, including the Warden arcs she ran undercover) was very disappointed with her interview with Cole, for what it's worth. To be called a traitor, after sacrificing personal friendships and emotional attachments for the greater good? Too cruel, sir. Too cruel.
The speech you get from Cole when you step out of the Rift Enclosure into Paragon City is not the speech the OP is talking about. Throughout the Responsibility path, you have been expressing your loyalty to Praetoria and to Provost Marchand, not to Emperor Cole (the penultimate Responsibility mission, when you and Kang gang up on Arachnos to save Neutropolis, is expressly against the orders of the Emperor). After that, even if you put down Kang because he has snapped and wants to join the anarchists now, choosing to follow Marchand's path over the Emperor's is most definitely being a traitor to the Emperor. Whether that makes you a traitor to what matters to you is up to you.
The speech the OP is referring to is at the end of the Power arc, when the moral choice is literally between "do what the Emperor commanded to protect the people from Neuron's insanity" and "blow it all up for the lolz and impress the Resistance". When you call the Emperor and do as he asked, you see the hero that Emperor Cole once truly was shining through.
I suppose if you then went to Paragon City, you would probably still get the traitor speech, though. -
Quote:And RO is the other 8/9th, am I right?Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Masterminds and their pets are probably about 1/9 of the problems in this game, after all
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Quote:Am I wrong in my impression that this is also the case with the spawner Nictus at the end of the Imperious Task Force?Originally Posted by Castle
Will of the Earth
Evil, evil object.
Basically, it has a chance of spawning enemies based on the number of enemies hit by an auto-hit pulse. Difficulty settings don't much matter, since they are spawned via the powers system rather than the standard spawn system.
There are tactics you can use to minimize its effects, and, due to the nature of it's powers, Masterminds, Dominators and Controllers are at a bit of a disadvantage. -
Hey Zombie, just noticed you erroneously list Larsen as a Responsiblity contact (rather than Warden) in possible conflict item #5.
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I think my greatest strength is slipping into character; each character has their own voice, and I like to think I'm pretty good at conveying them. But this is also a weakness, because if I'm not in the mood to slip into a particular character, they don't get played.
A big weakness I have is the whole "RP Post" thing. I've done online roleplaying, but never of the sort I've seen done on MMOs; to me, what goes on around here is mostly fiction, perhaps a bit interactive, but giant text walls of information. "Roleplaying", to me, doesn't generally involve paragraphs, but a back-and-forth between people. I've been online for a long time (20 years), and been through a lot of different kinds of games, but I'd never seen the forum-post version of "Roleplay" before I played WoW. It's just not something I can really do.