Goliath Bird Eater
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Quote:There won't be anything left to hold back if people keep talking about and posting info about leaked stuff on beta.Originally Posted by Agent White
Clearly they're holding something back to reveal at the Pummit.
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Quote:Oh, I'm not saying that I'm 100% positive all betas from now on will just be VIP betas. I'm just going on how things have been thus far. I could absolutely be wrong. To be honest, I'd rather the beta be closed; things seem to be a bit more focused.Originally Posted by UberGuy
I wouldn't be so sure.
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Quote:If I22 and beta server access in general post-Freedom are any indication, there are no more closed betas; just VIP betas.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
All RIGHT! New stuff to film!
That's assuming I'm allowed in the closed beta, but we shall see.
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Really, this whole thread is just one big excuse to invoke Arthur C Clarke.
And going by both developer random comments and the general gist of in-game stuff, Incarnate content is supposed to be our equivalent to "Cosmic Marvel".
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Quote:Good question. It does kinda seem like some folks would rather see all things related to magic sort of cordoned off in their own little area, away from everything else.Originally Posted by Hopeling
So, is the problem that there's too much magic, or that magic and other themes are frequently mixed together? The game often treats all the various origins and themes as simply parts of the world, rather than "let's tell a magic story now" and "this is a tech story". Even a heavily sci-fi-focused zone like RWZ has Vanguard wizards and Rikti magi, and a heavily magic-focused zone like DA still has prominent non-magical elements, like appearances from Malta and the 5th column.
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Quote:Hell, if you want to split hairs even further, you can consider what Sister Psyche said during the Origin of Power Arc: That psionics might not be a mutation, but rather something else entirely.Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
The Carnival of Shadows? Well, the official backstory suggest that Giovianna's psi powers were more mutant themed (arising during puberty, as was common with Marvel's muties) rather than traditionally "learned and studied" spellcraft magic, but as with many things, personal definitions overlap a lot and I can see how people would find them "magic-y."
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Quote:Well, in the new trial, Black Swan can drain players of their Incarnate powers, and presumably of their level shifts. So that's one way of dealing with it.Originally Posted by Agent White
Yeah, no mention of it so far, and Devs have said they don't want to just keep handing out shifts with every slot.
.. Though, that still doesn't really explain how they intend to handle the rising levels in trials since we've effectively hit 'the cap' as far as how high enemies can be in relation to us. -
Quote:As someone who's been a roleplaying for a few decades across various forms of media, I say this with the utmost respect: Adapt. If your RP group is insistent upon declaring Praetoria a post-apocalyptic wasteland due to what happens during an instanced trial, then adapt it to your RP and roll with it.Originally Posted by Zortel
I'm upset that Nova Praetoria is getting nuked. Given proximity, blastwaves, heat, radiation and fallout, Imperial City's pretty much done for, and likely a huge swathe of Neutropolis at the very least.
My characters left Praetoria always hoping to go back home one day. In Maxi Pound's case, she -liked- her job there, liked protecting people from terrorists and nutters, and her parents lived in the city. Circumstances forced her to leave with her colleague, but she always hoped she'd be able to go home at one point, when saner minds liked Marchand, Washington and Kang could help change things for the better.
Zahir Rolando has plenty of painful memories of Praetoria after the restaurant he and his partner were in was bombed by Resistance terrorists. But it also held a lot of great memories for him, and the chance to maybe make some new ones.
Constance Svanhildr deserted the IDF. She joined to fight the Devouring Earth years ago, and Primal Earth was a stupid target in her view, one that distracted them from their main fight in her opinion. So she left, but she was never disloyal to Praetoria, not in her heart. Now, yet another mistake from the past will ruin thousands of lives.
It presents a problem for the Union RP community because of how RP developed on Union from its beginning back in 2005. The IC timeline for the vast majority of roleplayers that I know, is that a day in our reality is a day in theirs. Characters have aged over the past 7 years, and we've tried our hardest to incorporate things into our characters lives as they come up.
Someone mentioned Galaxy City earlier. The difference is that Galaxy City, when the meteors hit, was destroyed. Characters were caught up in it. Some lived, some died, some were changed forever. We had a fiction thread about it, there was roleplay, new ideas were born out of it.
This presents a different problem, in that if the three Praetorian starter zones don't change, then there's quite a gulf of disconnect, especially for people new to the Unionverse. You get people coming from non-nuked Praetoria when others think it is nuked, so on and so forth.
As such, it seems like it will have to be as it is with Statesman now. Until he's no longer in IP, he's still alive. Until Nova Praetoria and other areas show the effects of Tyrant's madness, it hasn't occurred. That'll lead to problems in the long run more than likely, but that's how it'll have to be. There's no chance of the devs changing what happens in the iTrial, so we just have to deal. We already were able to thrash things out regarding Mot and the storyline updates in Dark Astoria (A large coalition of heroes and villains did interfering action on Tuesday in Astoria, to buy the NPC's time to do what they had to.)
It may seem crazy to some people, but the Unionverse has been alive and breathing for years now, with characters and player plots and incidents from seven years ago and onwards still coming up, being referenced, and having shaped out characters to how they are this day.
I apologies for the ramble, but it's been a long day that seems to have ended with a bit of a kick.
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Quote:You DO realize that the in-game timeline is usually flexible with regard to character advancement, right? That you can start a Praetorian character right now and that the Praetoria you experience is pre-Incarnate trial? It's the same way that Blyde Square in Steel Canyon still exists despite it being destroyed by Battle Maiden during the Tin Mage(?) Task Force, and the Antimatter reactors in Keyes Island are still functional despite them being shut down during the KIR.Originally Posted by Night_Watcher
But from the RP standpoint, you you can't make a new Praetorian because the place is gone. You can't RP in there anything new, any character progress you had if you kept the character there for IC reasons. Maybe your character never aimed to elave Praetoria? Well, now they're dead, have fun. -_-
I'd be very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very surprised if the actual zone of Nova Praetoria is a smoking crater come I23. -
Quote:Two words: Dev Hackery.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Okay so after the mmorpg showing of the new itrial...
That new iTrial seems...really short.....
*shrugs*
Can't wait to look at it myself though
... Or, it is too short, and the devs buff it during beta, which starts later THIS WEEK, might I add.
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Television moved to Paragon's new project. This was stated by Zwillinger during the Ustream where new programmer/engineer Neon Walker was introduced to us.
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Quote:... And thus, Arcanaruu was born.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
On the other hand, if they let me design my own signature character... let's just say there's a lot about the powers system players would learn is possible when I started showing up in Pocket D and stomping on everything in sight.
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Quote:This, of course, assumes he's back in Warburg. All we know is that "a mysterious group" broke him out of custody and whisked him off to some unknown destination.Originally Posted by Zombieluvr
Hoping it continues the Marshall Blitz story some more. I always liked the back story about him and Warburg (even if I don't much care for Warburg), and was ecstatic to see him used and given a model in this arc. I also really enjoyed them fleshing out his story and the new battle mechanic with him, and still hope to see a Warburg TF some day.
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Quote:Rularuu: "Why do you hate my groin so much?!"Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Then again, given how crotch-fixated the playerbase is, perhaps that's not the best idea.
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Which mission was 3? Because I was able to finish the entire arc.
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Quote:And right on cue, here comes GG with a snarky "feminist" comment.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It seems to be insanse and power-crazed, so that'd make it male by default
Well, they are both bald ...Quote:Originally Posted by GlassGoblin
Oh, heavens. Is Sean McCann pulling a Morrison here?
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I use them. My main always has Envenomed Daggers, Med Kits, Recovery Serums, and a Jet Pack on-hand just in case I need 'em. I'll also craft Hand Grenades and Stun Grenades as needed for other characters of mine.
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Quote:Pitt's delivery is tremendous.Originally Posted by Party_Kake
*INTENSE HIGH FIVE*
Man I'm always making that joke when someone asks what's in the box and NOBODY ELSE GETS IT.
"WHAT'S IN THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOX?!" -
Quote:I see nothing wrong with the costume, personally.Originally Posted by Angelxman81
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Quote:This, plus the fact that some of the for-sale powersets have required additional resources outside of what most powersets require -- mechanics like Momentum for Titan Weapons, two-handed weapon animations for Staff Fighting, or an entirely new rig for Beast Mastery.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They're releasing power sets far more often than before - that extra time and effort needs to be paid for.
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That's odd.
I first encountered "Boss Name" during beta, but it wasn't there in place of Martin Henri; it was just an NPC standing outside the room where I fought Henri. And when I played through the arc when I22 hit live, the NPC had been removed. Soooo ... probably patch 1 re-introduced the bug? -
Quote:That's how it worked if you were leveling up organically and were below 25. If you were above those levels, you automatically got all three extra slots at once.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
From conversations I had, it was going to be extra slots at 25/27/29.
As for why it bugged out: I'm not privy to any sort of inside info, but given that level 50 characters had their purple IOs vanish when they got the new slots, I'm thinking maybe power and enhancement slot gain is REALLY hard-coded into a character's level, and that the game interpreted those extra slots as a character being level 51 (or something similar), thereby taking away the IOs that are only available at level 50. And from there, I can see how a bunch of other stuff could be affected. But again, this is just me taking a wild guess based off of one piece of anecdotal evidence. -
Quote:If I may be so bold as to speak for the man: During last night's impromptu Ustream, Zwil said that the converters would be going live as part of the first big post-I22 patch, which is tentatively still a couple of weeks away.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
While your in the thread active, any ETA on the patch for those converts? ^_^
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It's like Inception, but on a vastly smaller budget.
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The team knows about it, so go find something else to pass the time until this unexpected downtime ends.