Fleeting Whisper
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Quote:Probably what I'm thinking of. I haven't even attempted inspiration trades since the week Cimrerora came out.Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Which is why the devs mentioned GR will have inspiration trades on cross-faction teams enabled at one of the recent cons. -
Quote:It's not that simple. Before weapons customization, the game just told players 'Ashtoreth is a War Mace Tanker'. Now, the game has to tell everyone around you 'Ashtoreth is a War Mace Tanker who is using a bat'.Originally Posted by Ashtoreth_NA
Why not just open character costume creation for each variation of thug? Their animation stays same, they do the same thing, they just LOOK different.
That's what they did for Weapons customization. You might be swinging a Mace, but it looks like a shovel, etc.
Similarly, Mastermind pets send data saying 'I'm model #1682'. Making them fully customizable would require sending the same amount of data as a real player. And that's just scratching the surface of what's required for pet customization. -
I thought we could do inspirations now?
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But you also said '9'
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Quote:Don't forget Thugs and Mercenaries, which have an alternate model for their 3rd T1 pet.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Thats 9 just for each set as they are now.
Also: Demon Summoning can customize the colors of their Hellfire T1 and T2 pets. The Fire and Cold T1s and the Fire T2 can't be customized, and the T3 can't be customized. -
Quote:As well as "we want to do it, though".Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Not true at this time. I believe the official word is "it's harder than you'd think."
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Quote:I would argue that the AT is defined by 'as much damage as possible', not the location from where that damage is dealt. Most powers in most Blaster secondaries require you to take the risk of melee in order to deal more damage.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
an AT pretty much defined by trying to stay AWAY from Melee.
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Quote:Have you looked at the arrows you're firing with Trick Arrow? Those ain't broadhead arrows you're using. Not fowling or frog crotch arrows, either.Originally Posted by blueruckus
You can also take Trick Arrow without taking Archery as the 'offensive' powerset. The same argument could be made that a bow is an offensive tool. So how could you take the 'support' powerset of a bow without taking the offensive one?
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Quote:Neither of you are right. All powers have 0 or more attack vectors. If the power's attack vector corresponds to one of your defenses, then your defense can apply. People talk about 'typed' or 'positional' attacks, but it really means nothing. It's entirely possible to have a power which uses both Melee_Attack and Ranged_Attack vectors. You can have a power which uses the Energy_Attack vector, but deals fire damage.Originally Posted by Sunstormer
Also on an unrelated question, is psy fitting into ranged, melee or AoE damage now when it comes to defence?
I was argueing with someone earlier who was telling me that it does now but ever since i can remember ive been told its unpositional and only gets affected by psy defences, then he started telling me psy has a higher accuracy than any other attack...
Personally I think he was talking crap but just thought its better off checking in case I missed something.
The misconception that psionic powers don't have 'positional' types is because Mind Control powers (and the powers which derive from powers in Mind Control, such as Illusion Control's [Blind] and [Deceive]) are all typed as simply Psionic_Attack, with no other vectors. I mean, Fearsome Stare doesn't have AoE_Attack, it only uses Negative_Attack, so it's not limited to psionic powers. Psychic Blast and Psionic Assault powers do incorportate the 'positional' vectors, so it's not a universal truth for psionic powers. And for the converse, there are powers which have a positional vector, without having a typed vector. (Off the top of my head, I believe Siphon Speed fits in this category.) -
Quote:Elvis isn't dead, he just went home.Originally Posted by Gaming_Glen
Elvis still lives?
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I now have a burning desire to create a Rikti named L'viss... -
Quote:Stop thinking of Voltaic Sentinel as a pet, and start thinking of it as an attack you use ahead of time.Originally Posted by greencreek99
Can anyone give me a good answer of why sparky can't be permanent or at least on a 4 min timer? It's just stupid in my opinion!
I don't think there is anything else i hate so much in the game as resummoning constantly! -
Quote:/e golfclapOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I graduated applied mathematics. I'm well aware of ******** theoretical constructs of higher-dimension space. They're all about as boring as they sound.
So, given infinite variations, it's 'cheating' to say that an infinitesimal probability is guaranteed to happen? That's not cheating, that's dictionary definitions.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
When you have to say it's possible by cheating it's an admittance that it is might as well be impossible.
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an infinity of infinities... and when you get that low, you've lost any credibility to say that it is possible in any sense of the practical usage of the word.
One of the things I've learned about making games is maintaining self-referential consistency. Which is a fancy phrase which means exactly what you've said. So, since we're now talking about implausible things, anime, and poking holes in Durakken, let's add:Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
In fact, applying real-world physics to movies, stories and games is often counter-productive to the actual story, as most of anime is a pretty good example to. Little of what goes on in your typical fiction anime is in the slightest realistic, but as long as it doesn't contradict ITSELF, who cares?
This is an angel. Who is an assassin. From the future. Who bludgeons a 13-year old boy to death with a spiked bat. Then revives him. With the same bat. -
Quote:Strange reason? They are NPCs! I believe they've got a resistance power immobilizing them and making them immune to knockback and repel, and they've got 'object' AI. But they're still NPCsOriginally Posted by Zombie Man
For some strange reason, the dummies are programmed to spawn like NPCs...
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All of your links are broken. You're linking to /wiki/___, rather than paragonwiki.com/wiki/___.
Quote:These can be more like story arcs than task forces, especially since you can start them without a team. Lazarus is exactly the same between Heroes and Villains, and Silos is almost the same (same storyline, different sides of the story). Tesseract is not available to Heroes, and Twilight's Son is not available to Villains.Originally Posted by Residentx10
The Spider Weaves his Web, Mender Tesseract
The 5th Column Overthrow, Mender Lazarus
Trading Places, Mender Silos
Tessercat's arc poses no significant challenges that I can recall. Twilight's Son has an EB/AV at the end that can be a challenge for some people. Lazarus can be difficult without a team due to multiple simultaneous AVs at the end. I recommend against soloing Silos as a Villain, due to multiple simultaneous AVs at the end (you do get AV allies, though). The Hero version doesn't make them simultaneous.
Depending on your skill and other factors, I wouldn't expect any of the Menders' stories to take much more than 90 minutes.
I assume you're talking about Dr. Quaterfield's Task Force? It's the longest TF in the game, has multiple identical missions in a row, and has more than one simultaneous click objective in it. Even with everyone being on-the-ball are ready throughout the TF, it can take 4 hours.Quote:Originally Posted by Residentx10
Firebase Zulu Trial - I started this trial at 10pm and we played until sheer exhaustion until roughly 6am. We got to a mission were you had to activate 4 computers and the 4th user feel asleep at her terminal. We waited, and tried to activate the computer with 3 users, from 4:30am-7am for her to wake up.
Hamidon absolutely does not need 6 hours. But you definitely need multiple teams. The game won't let you throw more than 50 players at Hamidon, but you could probably get by with half that for a successful raid.Quote:Originally Posted by Residentx10
Hamidon Raid - Aborted Trial, I heard this requires 6 hours and is like the RWZ Raid but you really need teams to go at the target. I saw someone recruiting teams for this on one of the channels and decided to pass on this one.
There is no breaking into the ship. Once the shield comes down, you start planting bombs in top of the ship. After you've planted enough bombs (5? 10? Don't recall), U'Kon Gr'Ai spawns in the center of the dish. That's it. If you've beaten U'Kon Gr'Ai and you've gotten a bunch of Vanguard merits, you've successfully completed the RWZ raid.Quote:Originally Posted by Residentx10
Rikti Warzone Raid - This was another aborted Trial. I've done this in the past but I have never successfully completed it. I can get as far as the mothership but we fight and fight and fight and never break into ship. -
Quote:No, Tartarus is more akin to the sibling of Gaia and Uranus. In fact, Tartarus and Gaia together spawn the monster Typhon.Originally Posted by Durakken
Tartarus is a Titan and is the brother of Cronos... Gaia's his both of their's mother.
Yes, Tartarus is both an entity and a location, but he's not a titan like Cronus, Oceanus, Phoebe, Tethys, ... I don't remember the rest.
*now I'm looking things up*
Tartarus is one of the Protogenoi, from which all of the gods descend. This group includes Aether (light), Chaos (void), Chronos (time)*, Erebus (darkness), Eros (love), Gaia (earth), Hemera (day), Nyx (night), Ophion (serpent), Phanes (generation), Tartarus (hellpit), and Uranus (heaven).
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Quote:My Rad/Dark's alternate build is designed specifically to help with Dr. QuaterfieldOriginally Posted by Smurphy
Mentioning Dr. Quaterfield gets a Bad Team Bingo square solely because Chriffer and I find it amusing that the mere mention of it earns you a square.
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Definitely. If I were designing the site, I'd probably use the abbreviation in the URL, and maybe as a namespace in the wiki, but elsewhere I'd use the full form, at least for the first occurence on a page. (Or the page header/title)
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Quote:that's betterOriginally Posted by Durakken
Praetorian Earth: Killed because Marcus is a dick in the Well of Furies
Recluse is an incarnate of Tartarus. In Greek mythology, Tartarus is essentially hell (where souls go after death if they need to be punished). It's also 'historically' where various (still living) entities were locked away to protect the rulers of the earth at the time. For example, the titan Cronus locked the Cyclopes in Tartarus. Zeus released the Cyclopes, and locked most of the titans in Tartarus when he rose to power.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Likely caused by Thanatos? (I think that's his god's name)
While Tartarus is a place, it's also a force. Not quite a god or titan, but not inanimate, either. (And therefore, incarnates in CoH aren't necessarily granted power by gods specifically.)
Hesiod says that a hammer falling from heaven to Earth would taken 9 days. Homer asserts that Tartarus is as far below Earth as Earth is below heaven. Tartarus literally means "deep place".
So... the dead go to Hades. The dead who were wicked enough in life to deserve punishment go to Tartarus instead. The source of Recluse's power isn't necessarily evil, in the same sense that Time forcing you to grow older isn't "evil". It just is. But Recluse's incarnate patron is certainly closely tied with evil beings. -
Quote:Well, Statesman seems to be evil in nearly every dimension we come across, so I don't see why States has to be the only unique and pretty snowflake in our dimension. Why can't Recluse join in on the action of being nearly unique, too (by... being alive?Originally Posted by Shadowclone
We have seen plenty of alternate Statesman: Imperious, Reichsman, Tyrant ect. But as far as I know we have no knowledge of any alternate Recluses. It seems a little weird that Stefan Richter would die in all dimensions except primal earth.
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Marcus murdered Stefan before they even left the Well.Quote:Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
My guess is there's a homeless guy walking the streets of Praetoria named "Stefan".
I don't know if it's stated explicitly, but it's definitely implied. Pandora's Box is the source of mankind's surges of inspiration throughout history, as well as apparently the source of super powers.Quote:Originally Posted by Decorum
Isn't there lore claiming the Greek Gods were the result of a similar opening at one point, or is that just speculation? It's a possibility that they moved it there after they found it whereever.
('Aliens?' I hear you say. I respond: A wizard did it!) -
Quote:http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/FBSAOriginally Posted by Decorum
I have no clue what FBSA even means
The FBSA is... all 10 blueside starting contacts (edit: For non-EATs), basically. -
1: Actually, I think it looks nice. You should be able to customize anything you like with any of the skins, but the one you've got there looks good.
2: While the domain is largely irrelevant, I think you should name it just one thing, rather than FBSA and Vanguard. The Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs would probably make the most sense considering the content. Venguard are more concerned with Rikti than with superpowered being in general.
3: The logo size appears to be defined by this CSS:
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"Wormhole"? No love for Grav?
"Snipe"? I admit I don't usually like snipes myself, but my Rad/Dark actually uses Moonbeam in the middle of combat.
Devices Blaster?
Ruined Sleep?
Dr. Quaterfield?
Some are bad signs on bad teams, but great signs on great teams. Like Team Teleport, or "Watch This".
Also, spell check: Copyright, not Copyrite. The former is a type of intellectual property. The latter is... using someone else's wiccan ritual, I guess?
Also also: I got a good laugh out of "@Smurphy @Chriffer on team"
*theefs word list*
'"Im drnk"'
'afk'
'Catgirl'
'"How do I get there"'
'Inf Begger'
'"Lets Cyber"'
'"We need a ___"'
'"Bring wakies"'
'Wanders off and dies'
'Stays dead'
'Bad excuses for leaving'
'+4 or die trying'
'"Target thru tank"'
'Must pull'
'Generic 913 921 841'
'Copyrite violation'
'A Stalker'
'Must have full team'
'1337 sp34k'
'"who wants the star"'
'scouting'
'level 1 on level 50 team'
'"r u grl?"'
'suicidal scrapper'
'dual boxer'
'"Good heals"'
'Cant set mission'
'Mission fighting greys'
'Tank gets knocked down'
'"r u healer"'
'Doctor in name'
'Dark Lord of Darkness'
'"Stopping at Tailor"'
'Slow poke traveler'
'Medicine Pool on Emp'
'"TP pls"'
'@Smurphy @Chriffer on team'
'"Ive done this 1000 times"'
'"Ive got 20 Vet badges"'
'Dr. Quaterfield'
'"Is this AE?"'
'"Is there trainer here"'
'Random Generator Costume'
'Strange RPer'
'"Follow the Tank"'
'PvP'
'In the sewers'
'Hazard zone'
'Frostfire'
'Invasion Team'
'Mayhem Mission Massacre'
'Teammate in jail'
'Peacebringer'
'Martial Arts'
'Ninjas'
'Going Rouge'
'Another says Bingo'
'Outa control pets'
'"Pulling 2 here"'
'"Wait 4 ___"'
'AE Baby'
'[Rest] Break'
'Ruined Sleep'
'Must have Granite'
'Snipe'
'Caging'
'Flurry'
'Team Teleport'
'Group Fly'
'Whirlwind'
'Repulsion powers'
'Wormhole'
'[Walk]'
'"y u did it"'
'Lacks Fortitude'
'Lacks Shields'
'Lacks Mez Protection'
'Lacks Pure anything'
'Lacks Freezing Rain'
'Lacks Rad Debuffs'
'Lacks Dark Debuffs'
'Petless MM'
'"SB PLS"'
'"No SB PLS"'
'Doesnt have SB'
'Melee no armor'
'No [TT: Maneuvers]'
'Blaster area rug'
'Devices blaster'
'Bad Knockback spammer'
'Anchor killing'
'rawkin the aura'
'/Follow'
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Quote:And an extra sentry devoted entirely to checking for Hickmans.Originally Posted by Rick Astley
Triple, just to be certain.
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Updating an MMO's manual? What are you, crazy?!
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This is totally doable. After all, they're already doing it: most capes are either the 'standard cape' shape or the 'shoulder cape' shape. Differences like the rounded bottom of the Radioactive cape, or the shortness of the Fringe cape are generally due to the texture applied. Don't forget the CoH Collector's Edition "Cape of the Four Winds", which fades out towards the bottom:
