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Quote:If it is, then that would explain his uniform color - it's too bright to be PPD blue, or anything from our military - but it's about the right shade to be from the UN.Originally Posted by White_Warlock
If I recall correctly (and I would need to go play through the arc again to confirm) he is mentioned in Laura Lockhart's story arc (one of the new I22 mid level arcs). Though she refers to her superior officer in a mission brief as Colonel Taggard (as opposed to Captain Taggard).
Given the resolution of the arc I imagine he was either intended to be the contact you talk with to end the arc, or a contact for a sequel arc.
Alos, with the newer style of joined up story telling, it's quite possible that he could be an SSA2 contact who was referenced in Laura's arc. -
It seems to be insane and power-crazed, so that'd make it male by default
But Prometheus also mentions that he thinks that it's being controlled/guided in some way. -
Unlocking the Alpha slot in DA is a massive waste of IXP - just run Ramiel's arc, and use the WSTs to fill it up
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Quote:The launch of Freedom has really kicked up the pace of development and there are changes being made everywhere in the game.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Doesn't seem like I was gone long enough for all these changes I'm seeing to have happened.
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It could be Schrödinger's catgirl.
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This guy seems to have shown up pretty recently in Steel Canyon:
He's close to Positron and Valkyrie, but hasn't got any bio or other info at all:
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One of them holds the lore bible, the other one contains the rest of the log-in screen.
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Quote:Life-giving waters are available for 50 cents a day.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
which is like being able to see the oasis, but not drink from it.
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Welcome to the game
One important thing to remember with the current state of the storyline of the game is that it's basically being rewritten 1-50 - it's been been moved forwards with a lot of new events, with older content being replaced with newer stuff that ties together a lot more stuff.
When the game first game out, there was only the Hero side, with a less detailed version of the Paretorians appearing as high level enemies.
Then City of Villains came out, and added all the Rogue Isles stuff - but while that made references to the Paragon City stuff, the older Hero content didn't really get rewritten to tie in with Arachnos and the rest of the Villain content.
When they released the Going Rogue expansion with the new version of Praetoria, that also led to the older hero and villain content not making any reference to it - but since Issue 21, they've been rewriting large parts of the game to tie all the 3 factions together in a much more unified way.
For example, the older low level hero content never mentioned ARachnos, as they were added to the game later on - but now they feature in the tutorial, the new Atlas Park content, and Twinshot's arcs, so right form the start, players cna see what a major threat they are.
And Twinshot's arcs also bring in the Praetorians at an early stage, instead of them only appearing in the 45-50 content.
The old hero tutorial also had zero links to the old Atlas Park content, but now the destruction of Galaxy City shapes the entire new content in Atlas Park, and is reference by all the new contacts there and their missions - even the sewer Trial is linked to it.
And in Issue 22 they've added another low level Trial that builds on the story of the Shivans, explaining why the ones who attacked Galaxy City are different form the ones who appeared in the game in 2005, as well as giving a lot of hints about the future.
The new Dark Astoria content also references the Shivans and the Coming Storm sotryline they're a part of, as well as tying in with Praetorian and events in First Ward.
I'm not sure if you've played the Signature Story Arcs yet but they move the story on in a major way too, which will lead to more new content to replace older content in Issue 23, bringing the storyline even closer together. -
Quote:Costume sets with Issues are free - costume sets between Issues aren'tOriginally Posted by Xenophage
can't help but wonder if they have a month in which they think this might be released to us and more importantly is it gonna cost points or since it was fan conceived/ inspired and what not might we get it for free?
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Quote:Well, there are actually a couple of changes based on important plot points from the 1-20 GR content.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Before Lambda is completed we waltzed right in to the BAF and Neutropolis with no issue, and after Lambda it doesn't stop the thousands of IDF that show up in the trials following it. So, no, it really didn't give us any more freedom to operate from what I see.
As for portals, the Tin Mage TF sees players trash the one in Neutropolis and there's no further incursions after that.
With no portals, power or military hub, Cole's forces operate as strong as ever, if not stronger for the inclusion the the Olympian Guard.
The first is the disappearance of the War Walkers - in GR, these were going to be the centerpiece of Tyrant's strategy to exterminate both the heroes of Primal Earth and the Resistance - and they show up as bosses in normal mobs on the Admiral Sutter, Tin Mage and Apex TFs, and in the BAF and Lambda - but after we strike against the loyalist military at Lambda Sector, there's a big drop in the amount of War Walkers we run into - in the following Keyes Trial, they only appear in one phase as part of Anti-Matter's recovery strategy, and then after that, there are only 2 of them on the UG Trial as major bosses, followed by none at all on TPN or MoM - with TPN and MoM also showing a big drop in the amount of rank and file warworks too, which would be logical, as those come after the Keyes Trial, where the loyalists lose control of the site where the portable generators that power the Clockwork are made.
The second plot point from GR is Tyrant's reverse regarding Project: Olympian - he wasn't happy with it during Neuron's arc, and the Olympian Guard aren't seen on the earlier Trials - they only seem to turn up as the number of War Walkers decline, which appears to show that Tyrant has either changed his mind about Project: Olympian, or that we've forced his hand because of the loss of the War Walkers as the centerpiece of his strategy, which the loyalist invasion plans estimated would end the war within a week.
While Tyrant might have kept some warworks in resevre for an emergency or for some kind of last stand, the story progress of the TFs and Trials dealing with the Praetorian war seem to show a pretty clear decline and then almost total collapse of the robot section of the loyalist army, based on our actions and achievments during our fight to liberate Praetoria. -
Quote:It's a brand new TrialOriginally Posted by Neuronia
Are you sure?
I read that as "Come hang out with us and we will run a trial."
They've also said that there'll be a new slot for at least one of the remaining Praetorian Trials. -
You'll need to wear the Stone of Shame for a while
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Quote:SSA2 is the place for thatOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I want to know what happend to Clamor
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Quote:I think that's possible one dayOriginally Posted by ImpactHound
Mothership? Gimme a portal into the HOMEWORLD.
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Quote:Maybe a transformation AT, with things like werewolf and mech power sets?Originally Posted by Vexen777
What of an AT that has a whole new area for powersets? Just like Masterminds have the Pet one and Dominators their assault sets. What if a new type of sets came?
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Quote:Hitting the military facility at Lambda Sector weakens the loyalist forces eniough to let us operate more freely in Paretoria, adn opens the way for the following Trials, inlcuding the Keyes Island Trial, where we capture the reactors to prevent the loyalists from having a power source for their invasion portals.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Lambda: We shut down Cole's big military hub. This had ZERO EFFECT on IDF that still show up by the thousands in trials that happen AFTER that (and show up better equipped than ever). It should have crippled his forces, and that's why it should have been one of the last trials, storyline-wise.
Keyes: No effect on anything.
Both of those are very important to the Incarnate storyline - discovering Tyrant's secret and exposing the lies of the loyalists to the people are major plot points.Quote:The Underground: A long pointless adventure to find out a "secret" everyone already knew and pointlessly kill off someone who's death didn't really matter.
TPN: This trial accomplishing nothing was at least justified by the storyline, but still made it pointless. -
More voice stuff would be awesome - it'd be great on the Trials, to go with the captions.
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The last time I ran it was September 13th.
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It's Tyrant in disguise.
Are you sure that your friend didn't use a tier 9 VIP signature character summon? -
Quote:Dr. Aeon's already working on SSA2 - and was the mainw riter for DA - I don't think he's quitting anytime soonOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I hope whoever came up with that damn depressing storyline gets dragged away from the writing table and is never allowed to write for City of Heroes again.
IncorrectQuote:There may have been a time when City of Heroes players might have had the same passion about the game's story, but not any more. 
The entire WWD storyline is built from the history of the game, including the comics and novels - it's one of the most lore-heavy arcs in the game, and it's shaped by the 7 years of content that came before it.Quote:And apparently, we're back to Jack Emmert's vision of what the game should be, as expressed by a concentrated effort to destroy everything that came before and replace it with the pet project of whoever is doing this. And Matt Miller is all too happy to let it go because what kind of boss would he be if his game had any integrity, consistency or history? Forget that, old stuff is old. It's not like the old stuff is what made the game popular. -
Quote:It's an MMO - no player will ever be the strongest force in the game world - there'll always be tougher NPCsOriginally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Except we're not. This is the Incarnate system, not the Ascension system. That's the point. They baited and switched us. Incarnates used to mean godhood. Now, it doesn't. Now it means having some ghost robots and being able to lob a large fireball every couple minutes and you and 23 others fighting a palette swap of Luminary that I used to solo before I became an Incarnate.
This is the "slow path" to godhood in the sense that driving is the "slow path" to Easter Island.
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A new Trial is getting previewed at the Player Summit at the end of April, where I23 will also be talked about - right now, it's not clear if this new Trial is going to be part of I23, or if it's going to be in an I22.5.
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Quote:There's a radio mission to rescue a Paragon Times reporter called Peter Kent, and another one to rescue Lois Watson, the girlfriend of Unbelievable-ManOriginally Posted by Lothic
Sure I'm not suggesting that the "sci-fi skull cap with bubble helmet" look was invented with Buzz Lightyear. All I was suggesting is that it doesn't really take much to make Devs who are generally worried about IP infringement to think twice about things like this. For example ever wondered why we don't have a "Reporter" Day Job?
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This whole bulgegate scandal is kinda weird coming right after the flatgate scandal over the new log-in screen.