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Quote:You mean the bit they said last month about there being no new Incarnate powers in I21?Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
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Quote:Possibly whatever the Arcosians were destroyed by.Originally Posted by Scythus
Yep. Ouroboros, Pilgrim arc, task given by Mender Silos/Future Nemesis; Shivans arrive from a meteorite bombardment as SCOUTS for whoever the Coming Storm is.
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Quote:Compete with what?Originally Posted by DarkGob
Wow, a lot of the stuff mentioned in that article sounds incredibly familiar, like another game that tried to compete and failed...
Really worried now.
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Quote:I'm actually in the middle of working on a follow up to my first one, which might not need too much tweaking - I've actually planned out several more to expand the intro to the game world, and feature some info on some of the bigger plot elements like the Paretorians and the Coming Storm - so technically, the intro comic is set before the Praetorian invasion and zone revamps anywayOriginally Posted by Myrdinn
So? Just imagine the new one. Just remember to warn the kid scout about the new magic Praetorian Loincloths.
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Quote:So do I - I think it's quite possibly made a lot of my comic for new players kinda outdatedOriginally Posted by EmperorSteele
Wharz?! I wanna see shiney Lag-inducing Atlas!
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"Slytherin".
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Quote:Go here and be amazed:Originally Posted by Nightphall
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What in the world is this all about?
Someone please give me a link?
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=263587
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By the way, is that giant Shivan dead, or is it using some kind of Beast Run to move?
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Quote:And nothing says change quite like being hit by a meteorite - just ask the dinosaursOriginally Posted by CasualX
Isn't this just a chance to role play change in the character's life? Change is meat for stories isn't it?
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"No U".
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As it's a co-op zone, it might have separate good and evil content, as well as co-op content, like Cimerora.
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Quote:Well, it's hinted that Atlas Park might also look a little different tooOriginally Posted by EmperorSteele
Man, Galaxy city gets all new buildings only to get trashed. How sad!
So looking forward to this!
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Quote:And the Banished Pantheon too - only the floating masks are Carnie masksOriginally Posted by That_Ninja
It appears that the Carnival of Light also has aspects of the Legacy Chain.
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They said they wanted to reduce the number of pets and potential lag that comes with them, so the pet ATs will not be available to free players.
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How about "Ragequit"?
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This is kinda easy for me
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Quote:Will he express his annoyance at all these Shivans in his zone?Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
I hear they're also planning for voice acting. Sammy L Jackson will be voicing BAB's new dialogue, though it will result in the ESRB age rating to go from T to M.*
*M is for Manly
And life sometimes throws bad things at youQuote:On another note: I am saddened they decided to just trash GalaxyCity completely and use it for a new Tutorial Zone... I mean I have characters that live there in their RP life.
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I'm asusming Diabolique lives in that central tower, as she's one of the few magical origin Praetorian AVs.
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Quote:You can still do that in Galaxy City - that's where a lot of the new people will be showing upOriginally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Good riddance, I say. I'll be waiting on Union to welcome the next batch of RPers.
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Quote:Only 36 will be able to escape to the paradise of the new VIP server - you'll have to abandon the rest to the sub-human hordeOriginally Posted by Memphis_Bill
/this.
If I want to get away, where do I put my 300+ characters? That's not even getting started on name conflicts for different versions of the same character.
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Quote:Yup - you won't notice any change if you keep paying your monthly sub.Originally Posted by Teeko
im still confused about this whole thing...
Basically if i continue paying my subscription then i keep everything i have, thats the incentive right?
This is instead of booster packs - extras on top of your sub.Quote:Meanwhile i earn points to redeem new content in i21 and going forward? As a paying player i shouldnt have to redeem any new content going forward. -
Maybe "Leet"?
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Quote:Depends on how much defense they provide.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Depends...do tentacles count as a fence?
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Quote:Here's the Shivan enemy info:Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Wasn't it already explicitly stated somewhere in the lore that the whole skull-and-bones Shivans thing is the result of the meteor landing in a cemetery, not just because it was their environment but because those were, y'know, the actual remains of people, integrated into the Shivans' bodies? I coulda sworn this was something "we already knew". But maybe it wasn't as explicit as I thought.
And here's the info n the Shivan enemy group:Quote:"These horrible things are an amalgamation of human corpses and some sort of weird sentient goo from beyond the stars. Some claim a mysterious interplanetary intelligence thought destroyed in the 1950s is the source of the Shivans, but if such a creature existed, "Shiva", the Hindu name for the "Destroyer of Worlds" was kept secret by the governments of Earth."
Quote:"As their world collapsed around them, desperate scientists fired thousands of probes into space warning of a massive entity poised to devour their very world. The Arcosians knew that this scourge would eventually reach other solar systems and hoped the tiny blue planet called Earth could avoid the same catastrophic fate.
Hundreds of years later, Australian Kurrin Wirake set out on a traditional pilgrimage along his ancestral songline, a dreaming trek connecting the landscape of his aboriginal people to the mythic episodes that occurred at specific locations during the ancient dreamtime. According to his people, the Earth retains a memory of its own origin. This memory echoes across the modern world and often manifests as a guruwari, or “seed of life.” It was during his search for this vibratory echo of the Earth’s creation that Kurrin instead found warning of its possible destruction. In the shadow of the famous rock, Ularu, Kurrin uncovered one of the pods launched over 800 hundred years before by the doomed Arcosians.
The pod might have remained in Kurrin’s remote village forever if an Australian AWACS plane had not flown directly over it. Performing a simple test flight, the Airborne Warning and Control System surveillance equipment picked up an unusual signal emanating from Kurrin’s village. The Australian military investigated and confiscated the pod from the angry villagers, then called on allies from NASA to help decode its alien signal.
The lead cryptologist, an Indian woman named Seetha Neremanu, deciphered the code in a matter of hours. Dr. Neremanu immediately alerted the UN Security Council that a gigantic planetary devourer was heading our way. The thing’s name was unpronounceable in human speech, so Dr. Neremanu named it Shiva, after the Hindu deity “Destroyer of Worlds”. Shiva, Seetha added, would reach earth within a year.
With the help of secret alien technology owned by the Russian government, the UN gathered a multi-national force of superheroes to confront this imminent danger. Dr. Neremanu called this band of heroes Operation Vishnu, the “Preservers”, which consisted of Russian, American, Chinese, and French volunteers. Set to annihilate Shiva with a nuclear strike, Operation Vishnu launched late in the summer of 1989.
A blast was detected and Shiva disappeared from deep space detection system, but the heroes who guided the rocket to its final target were never heard from again.
That same summer, the infamous meteor shower of Bloody Bay began. It wreaked havoc on the island, causing not only direct damage but radiation sickness and other, more sinister maladies as well. Perhaps strangest of all, weird energy from the meteor formed around the corpses of the dead and created protoplasmic entities filled with Shiva’s destructive rage. Those few who know of Shiva wonder if these new creatures, the “Shivans”, are somehow trying to reassemble the pieces and resurrect the Destroyer of Worlds.
Even more amazing, some of those who have investigated the Shivans and their meteors claim that tendrils of the fragments reach for miles across the island. There is some evidence that a giant tree near the nexus of these tendrils might somehow be absorbing the energy, though what this means none yet know.
In the wake of such destruction, Arachnos evacuated those they could, then abandoned the rest. The island lay in ruins for many years, a stepchild left to rot by an uncaring Lord Recluse and an international community too timid to enter his domain.
But recently, it was discovered that the meteor granted amazing properties. Some who were exposed to it even gained phenomenal superpowers. Arachnos quickly returned in force, as did scores of desperate explorers and excavators. Longbow could not allow Lord Recluse to have exclusive control over such a powerful resource, and also sent in a team to cordon off the island as a “humanitarian effort” to save those Arachnos had abandoned.
Now heroes and villains fight over the meteor shards, collecting samples as freelance agents to avoid direct conflict between Longbow and Arachnos that could touch off World War III. Unfortunately, this limited engagement is dramatically slowing down research that might reveal if the meteors are indeed pieces of Shiva, and why they are seemingly connecting to the ancient tree at the isle’s center.
These mysteries must be solved, for if Shiva does indeed reconstitute herself, she will certainly feed first on her host—Earth." -
The thing is, the GR storyline is kinda firm about having to exit at 20 - plus, as First Ward is a co-op zone, it's quite possible it'll be 35-50, like the previous co-op zones have been.
It might be easier for them to set it up as a return/entry zone for everyone.