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OK Let's try an experiment.

Young Penelope:



Grown up Penelope:



There's actually a couple things that bother me about Penelope's new story now. One is how to explain my own toon's aging process to compare Yin's sudden growth development. She was a young kid... now she's an adult. My toon has got to be at least 5 years older now. Makes it hard for Us RPers out there to explain that one...

Then there's the portrayal of her in the SSA Arcs themselves. She shows up as a newbie heroine and a mission or two later, she's deflecting godlike beams of energy. For all your efforts you get a press conference. She gets into the Freedom Phalanx.

Now she's going to be respeccing I guess, switching powersets or what not, so she can be Psychic Melee, give her own TF and now is appearing on a load screen. I'm afraid people are just gonna get tired of her real fast. For all the efforts of making our toons the center of attention, having this NPC suddenly reach ultimate "bad assery" just makes it seems like going in the opposite direction.

And.... her costume needs work...

Maybe the devs can come up with a storyline for her though that involves the Clockwork King again. I'd like to see what he's been up to lately and what he thinks about his princess running around in skintight underoos.

Hey look. Another plug for the now almost godlike Penelope Yin. Like she hasn't been over hyped enough.

My question is why do those old contacts stand inside City Hall, when now all you get at the start of AP is Matthew Hashaby.

The Phalanx has a mascot now. It's Penelope Yin.

Offering some feedback on staff here:

It's got some nice animations. Scrapper wise it does a good bit of damage and is pretty quick. The powerset needs a better color to identify itself with because it looks too much like random grey powers everyone gets in game. The sound is kinda odd, it makes it sound like metal is hitting metal. Could use more staff types (( like a bladed medieval type staff)).

I'd be interested in seeing a dev respond to this thread, just to see what they might say about the issue.

Might be a good place for a civilian alternate version of toons.

I betcha you're all salivating as we speak.

Or... people will go nuts if they decide to delay it again.

No flutter would be fine, even though it would be cool for high kicks.

Hey, I know there are reasons why they might might not be able to do it, but all the same, that doesn't mean one can't ask.

It's Seong Mi-Na from SoulCaliber.

The thing is.... it's possible because I seen it done on many of the mobs and the Cimerorians.

Well they are technically not pants but I do kinda want something like this:

Gotcha. I won't do it again, however I heard through the grapevine that some DA Maps are gonna be released in the next Ish. Apparently though, this has been a highly requested map, but because of the way it's designed it might not be released. Which would be quite a bummer.

What's the irony? Asking them for stuff? Seriously if they did that stuff great, if not oh well, not a big deal. I'm not gonna cry every week.

yeah I know.... unfortunately.

New Zig Map in Max's Storyarc in DA. PLease Release. Will keep on asking till ya do.

Man people get so bent out of shape week after week just cause you can't fight crime with a staff. There's other things to use in the meantime folks. They'll release it when they damn well please.

Now see I will give them money for some extra character slots because as far as I'm concerned that's a service anyway. Hey Devs. Mind putting Costume slots on sale as well?

Also it'd be nice if you could announce the sales ahead of time.

Compare the current content with Brian Bendis's utter romp through the Marvel Universe. While the storylines of Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion, World War Hulk, were engaging, they so thoroughly messed up the Marvel world with one big thing after another happening, that it just started to become less compelling to read those comics. That's kinda what I feel like what's happening here.

Now see, I wasn't saying that the writing for the new content was bad.... far from. The way stories are told now is much more engrossing.

My point is though that we really don't need all this death, not for the writing to be good anyway. There is no need for CoH to turn into this dark, gritty mess for it to be a good game. I get that They are trying to change things up a little, but there are better ways to do it.

As an added note... I was really pissed off that Sister Psyche died, if not for after all that stuff I went through in SSA4, but the fact that she was actually one of my favorite and more interesting characters in the game. That definitely sits on the "WTF" shelf.

Well that's what I'd like to refer to the game recently as. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and quite frankly anyone is open to counter my opinion here with whatever argument you would like to make. But for the most part I will say that There has been too much death in the storytelling of this game recently. And it has made the job of playing a hero a daunting task as we wallow through storyarc after storyarc of very morbid material. Now maybe that's fitting for people who might play red side, but I can't say.

I just want to run through the list here of very recent storylines here and maybe folks might see what I'm talking about here.

A new Tutorial featuring the utter decimation of Galaxy City, Something us as heroes can't stop. The result is a zone that is utterly destroyed, leaving countless (( assumed)) to be dead.

The Signature Storyline Arcs that featured the original Miss Liberty, Malaise, Statesman and Sister Psyche all dying. As a hero we couldn't even save any of those people and it made me feel as if my toon's part in it all was pointless. We we're prepared for someone to die, but ALL of those characters just seemed a bit much.

Then if that isn't bad enough we get the ISolo Arcs of Dark Astoria, which feature you going against a virtual Dark God of Death itself. Now I will say that as far as storytelling goes, you guys did a band up job, I really did enjoy it. But That doesn't mean that we're getting away from the overall theme of these Arcs... which was watching one known character after another.... and another.... and another.... get freakin eaten up by the Dark God. Now, I know some of those folks actually make it out in the end (( the only people we know for sure who did make it was Ice Mistral )). But I think your catching my drift here.

This overall morbid theme also shows up in some of these lesser known character missions as well. Too many to name but I'm sure players could give us a few examples.

And now.... with some possible leaked info about i23, it's rumored that a new Itrial will have Tryant nuking downtown Praetoria and a new "Dark Ward" Zone released.

My question is, when is enough enough? There has been too much killing off of characters in the game, which in my opinion is really making playing through these storylines not all that enjoyable. Why try and be a hero when someone is always dying?

I honestly don't know why the game has gone in the direction it has, But I can't say I really enjoy it.

Wow... really milking the new four legged rig for all it's worth now. I'd be more interested in that lion though if I could use him for combat.

Man, I can't wait for these to go on sale.

Some folks still play That I lost touch with.

I'd very much like to talk to @ShockingBlu again, but.....Well I miss her alot.

There's some other Justicairs I miss as well, like American Gargoyle and Ms.Implosion. And definitely BlackFalcon.

Also @Bitteroldhag, Ernie Komodo, @Pengi (( I loved Pengi) and many others from the Shield coalition.

Yah there's alot of folks I seen come and gone.

EDIT: Oh and the Samurai Sushi Squad.... gosh where did THEY all go?!

Heya Devs. I know you probably don't read these forums anymore or could care less about the MA, but In the hope you do read this thread, I want to make a request. And that is to please release the new maps you put out for the DA missions, etc. whatever else might be out there that hasn't been updated from the game yet.

Specifically please release the new Zig map (( the one in the Malta DA arc)). Well that might be the only one I really want but I'm sure I could put some of the other ones to good use!

If it's any incentive for you to do this, I'd be willing to even use Market points to unlock some of those maps. (( Maybe I shouldn't mention that?))

Here's hoping you read this and like.... fulfill this humble VIP's request. Thank you.