Fuzun

They've hardly ever remove thing from the game. The only things added and removed was the Calvin Scott TF to explain how Sister Psyche got put back into her real body. And all of the 5th Column story arcs were just rewritten to use the Council.

Mother Mayhem is still mind-riding in the Praetorian Aurora Borealis. There might be a story in Going Rogue where Mother Mayhem get's her body back.

That's an incredibly rare event. Only the Rikti Heavy Suits are level 50. The rest of the Rikti Forces are only level 30. And yes, underneath the Giant Monster coding, game critters have levels.

It's quite easy to create ultra-powerful characters and still have them be in the game as it exists. It's all in the writer. My name namesake character was a human boy from Paragon which was a class Omega mutant, but he hard a slight flaw in mutant powers (energy Maniipulator) in that he had no control. As his powers manifested, he begain to radiant energy. Small at first, but gradually increasing over time. Crey volunteers to help study his problem and research a cure. They call in favors by calling in heros with Energy powers to help wiht the problem and buy Crey more time. Crey being who they are did research Fuzun's problem, but they actually developed a treatment that would increase Fuzun's powers. (This was pre-Rikti War and pre-Paragon Proctector but Fuzun was the genesis for their creation. ). Crey applied the treatment and Fuzun's power out increase exponetially. Instead of a Paraon Creator being created, Fuzun just vanished in flash if intense light. Fuzun was transported to a dimension of energy being. Fuzun didn't explode he just evolved into the ultimate expression of his powers. He changed into an energy being himself. It took hundreds of thousand of yets to mostly master his form and powers. Fuzun did want to return to his Primal Earth, but his present would destroy much of the arm of the Mily Way Galaxy, So he turns his powers inward and creates a new human shell for himself, and returned to Primary Earth and Paragon City about 5 years after he vanished. Day -3 of Live server. And he has to master the ability to release small amouts of his energies (Energy Melee) with release his concentration on maintaining his invulnerable body (Invulnerabilty). With his family dead or mission after the Rikti War, Fuzun help to rebuild Paragon City. Thus you have a god-level of power existing with the limits of the game world.

And as for his Praetorian counterpart Lord Fuzun, Lord Fuzun wound up in a similar dimension, but with no energy beings, he was left totally along for that period of time. He's stark raving mad. The only reason for rebuilding a body was to have some fun with his play thing:, the entire planet. When he goes bored, he'll just go find another play thing. And from an published MA arc I created, the reason for Fuzun and Lord Fuzun being rivals is Fuzun is using his abilities to make sure Lord Fuzun's energies stay bottled up. (i.e. no more powerful then any other thread on the planet).

Given the apparent huge scope of Going Rogue, they probably will need a testing done then the usual free Issue updates. Going Rogue is the perfect vehicle for roll out new and updated tech. I think it's a good bet that new updates to the rendering engine are in the works. Testing for that sort of stuff they need a wide range of desktop computer to test this stuff out on. That scope of testing is way beyond their usual pool of free issue testers. Even if people don't actually leave feedback in the GR closed beta, the game client will provide information on why the game client crashes, and possibly other feedback paths.

But I imagine that the initial stages of Going Rogue close beta will be similar the free issue update beta. A small group of testing to begin with and then gradually expanding with more and biggest waves of testers. Although I suspect the first wave of closed beta testers might be all of hte usual suspects given how big it's going to be.

Hey, even Some of us old fogies have gotten flustered looking for mission entrances in our newbie days. Today's high level newbies is not anything new by any measure. As some 5+ year verteran about Winterlord Babies some time. They'll give you an earful.

The problem with the low merit reward is because the TF can be blitzed in under 30 minutes. It's unforunate that your team had difficulties with the first mission, but it happens sometimes. My first try at a Redside Respec was an utter disaster. After 3 teamwipes we all decided we won't be able to complete it and quit the TF. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever completed any Treespec...

Shhhh! Don't give the devs any idea. The Titans now are are current bad enough. I don't want to worry about a "Death from Above" from a Zeus Titan.

That's utter nonsense. The dialog said you could not get the Ham-O which is correct. If you selected the merit reward and got nothing, /petition it. The GM's can check the game logs, and reward you merits the merits you earned. If something is ever not working as you think it should be, /petition it. The problem is mostly a bug. That's why GMs are there so. To address bug when they are able, and to remove obstacles that arise in game play due to Murphy having a field day. Or if it's a misunderstanding on you part, a GM (should) be able to enlighten you.

I don't just one new zone. I want several more. Even with under used Hazard/Trial zones, they are places a hero can go for a change of scenery. The villain zones are getting a bit long in the tooth for me. I want some new stomping grounds for my Villains.

The devs has leaned a lot since the initial design of the game. The Hollows and especially Striga set the bar on the creation/revamping of zones. No more hazard/trail only zones. Any new zones will have have mixed city and hazard areas. Plenty of new contacts with lots of new story content which tell the story of the zone.

With the devs saying they heard the players wanting a new low level character experience from the ComicCon panel. I fully expect there to be 5 or 6 new zones along the lines of the CoV zones. 1 or 2 new starting zones, and then new zones for higher level band as the players level up. Except I see the level 35-50 bands to mix more than they in CoV. IF level 50 are getting some lateral leveling out of GR, we might have a level 50 ZOMG!!!111ithurtsomuch111mommy!!!! zone.

Now's a good time to do it. It's Double XP week-end. Start a few new character to make the low levels go a bit faster. Or work on getting towards the magical level of 22. It's a plateau in which you get had a change to get Stamina (which a lot of players like to get) and getting access to Single Origin enhancers. SO Enhancers giving you that next boost in power which make's playing a lot more fun.