Golden Girl

Both of those example,as well as another very recent release, have major problems with pre-painted shading - it can help to enhance details, but it also gets messed up with dynamic lighting.
Because the shading is baked into the costume parts, and is veyr often overdone too, that means that they have a permanent set of shading that only looks good in one light, and is too noticable to be hidden by different lighting - so when they move into a birghter or dimmer light, the shadows from the lighting clash with the painted shades, making them look either too strong or too weak, which leads to a slightly detatched effect between the avatars and the environment, as if the two aren't really together in the same space.

I wonder what they'll do with Maria Jenkins' third arc? It'll probably still focus on the Praetorians, but it might have more personal stuff in it too, as she was a former hero who worked closely with Statesman before she retired.

The bio you quoted is her old pre-GR one - her new one says:

She's so perverted, I think that she'd do it more as a "hobby" and a form of sick entertianment.

The old Positron TF was removed to Ouroboros, so it's quite likely that the STF will also end up there.

She's mentioned in-game as being Tyrant's granddaughter.

I think that's Chimera's job - he's the head of the secret police.

Yeah, they've been kinda doing a stealth sequel for quite a while now - but there's room for a lot more changes

I think that "personal assistant" covers it pretty well.

That's for non-meta-story stuff - all the phasing events don't affect the meta-story at all - for example, siding with Cleopatra or Washington has zero effect on the meta-story, just like the Arachnos attack on Atlas Park - the content that follows both those phasing events isn't affected by them.
Statesman's death will have a major impact on the meta-story, which would require two realities to follow on from it if it wasn't a game wide event - like when the Battalion arrives, there'd have to be content where Statesman wasn't around to fight them, and then the same content, only with him him still alive and leading the Freedom Phalanx.
All meta-story changes happen to everyone, even if players don't take part in the events that lead to the changes.

That would require a branching world situation - there'd be one reality where Statsman dies, and one where he doesn't - so double the amount of any future content that might possibly invovle him

It depends if it's going to be a "progressive" change or a "level zero" change - a progressive change is something like the Praetorian war, where the in-game situation changes as you progress through the levels - the event happens during your career in Paragon City - a level zero change is something like the return of the 5th Column, where the in-game situation changes for the entire game right from the start - it becomes an event that's happened at some point before you start your career in Paragon City.

If Statesman's death is going to be a progressive change, then there's no need to rewrite the tutorial comic - but if it's a level zero change, then it'll need to be rewritten.

Heroes come to Paragon City from all over the world, time and the multiverse - flying carpets are fine

Will the tutorial comic also get redrawn?

It's coming on January 17th.

But then you took a nuke to the knee?

Probably 8 at the most

Because we like it

Yes

The official CoV guide says:



He's up to something

What censorship?

So there's zero chance that someone like Recluse would put on a show for the international community that he was taking action?

It's one the Primal Marcus Cole has refused - because he's a hero