Golden Girl

On one of the new DA arcs there's a rooftop fight at the Zig that also takes palce in the rain.

Statesman and Wade have a confrontation at night in the pouring rain in the Cimeroran temple from the 2nd misison of the ITF - it takes place in the present time, so the temple is all ruined and overgrown with weeds.
Wade taunts Statesman over Alexis' death, and asks if he's come to kill him - Statesman says he's come to arrest him - because he doesn't kill.
Wade says that's too bad, because he kills - and then drains Satesman's power for himself through a ritual he's been working on for 10 years, which is linked to Cimerora and Imperious. Statesman collapses, and Wade asks if he has any last words - Statesman just says that villains like him can't win, and Wade seems disappointed that there was no big speech.
He then kills Statesman in a sort of Force lightning kind of way, only it's not really lightning - more like raw power, and as Statesman dies, the cutscene jumps between him dying and memories and thoughts of his family, inlcuding Recluse, who he finally calls Stefan again, and refers to him as his best friend. He also sees Ms. Liberty as a child and an adult, with the quote about asking him if he can fly to heaven, and Monica Richter, who tells him that they've been waiting for him for a long time, and that's it's time for him to finally rest.
Then he falls forwards in the usual death animation, and the cutscene ends.
We then reach the temple, and confront Wade, who's now using Statesman's power, and says that he's going to kill Sister Psyche next.
He's surprised at how powerful we are, and he retreats, summoning an aspect of Rulardak the Strong to fight us instead and cover his escape - after Rulardak is defeated, the mission ends.

Wade's big plan is to release Rularuu, but only a little bit at a time, which he plans to absorb into himself, eventually making him Rularuu.

He's not being removed right away - it takes quite a bit of work, as he's also referenced several times in mission content even when he isn't seen.
The Statesman TF, the Lord Recluse SF and the Maria Jenkins arc all have to be rewritten/replaced, which isn't a small job. As there are still 2 parts of the story left, and the final part goes live in March, which is also a likely launch date for I22, it's quite possible that the changes won't happen until I22 is live - and with a name like "Death Incarnate", that'd be quite suitable

That's the way I said it'd have to go down when they first announced that one of them was going to die - there has to be an "official" killer for all future content that references the murder - it can't just be <player name> who killed him.

When we're talking about covering the breasts, we don't mean that it has to have a high neckline - it's the front that needs to be fixed, not the top parts - they can be totally open or totally covered, or have any other kind of neckline - it's just the front that has to be made to look more realistic.

Would it be possible to give us a rough idea of how many pieces and textures we'd get in the pack, so that we can try and narrow the requests down to the most basic stuff?

So does that mean that any new spandex tops would have more realistic geometry?

Not really - the Freedom Phalanx and the Vindciators go charging in, get into trouble, and we have to save them, and then they don't play a major role in the Trial after that - it's a new NPC that has the last word once Diabolique is defeated
Also, you can choose to fight against Positron on the Trial - even though they've all been captured, we only have time to rescue 4 of them, so we can choose to not save Positron, and save, say, Swan isntead - any ones who we don't save end up fighting us as puppets of Mot in the final fight.

So Mr. New Super Mary Sue ends his first leadership mission in failure, isn't even important enough to be a required rescue objective, and then either tags along with us as Fusionette-style support if we bothered to rescue him, or ends up as a minion to be swept aside by us as we fight the final boss.

The DD Trial suggests otherwise
Positron's first action as leader of the Freedom Phalanx doesn't go too well, and it's up to the more powerful Incarnates to step in and save the situation - and the world

That's also what happened during the second Rikti invasion - any time co-op content is added, Arachnos has to become "just another villain group" - and just like Arachnos got more development after the Rikti storyline, they're being set up for some pretty big changes now as the Praetorian storyline moves towards the climax.

The solo rewards will not be bumped up anywhere near the Trial rewards.

All the content that features Statesman will be removed or altered after he dies, except for the tutorial - it won't happen right away, so he'll still be there tomorrow, but it is going to be updated.

Which is what we get from Prometheus and Ramiel.

Here's an experiment that even the boys can do at home - take a couple of oranges, and push them into a sock - then see how the fabric doesn't hug the whole surface of each oranges, but instead stretches between them, always taking the straighest path from one point to the next - that's the way stretchy fabric really works with breasts.
Now take out one of the oranges, and put it in a separate sock, and then hold it together with the other one - that's how the current in-game spandex works - it acts as if the single piece of fabric used in the top is actually two separate pieces, one for each breast.

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