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Well one reward for long time play will be first picks for the CoV beta testing.

Does this mean Burn will be altered to be activatable while in those states? The description for the power implies that it can be used to break free of those status effects which of course isn't true, though if you are put in one of those states while burn is active you will snap back out of them (though it doesn't make you immune to them and a couple times I've had it knock out toggles).

Since things are being looked at and I haven't spotted any dev comments on this. Will Vahz zombie vomit ever be typed damage? Right now at low levels the Vahz are the nastiest enemy group because of the large amounts of untyped damage the zombies do combined with the slow darts of reapers and morts.

Well States said it isn't an exploit. And a group sitting at one door can be fun. We joked around about candy and the NPCs going into this monster infested building. With one group we did end up moving because higher levels came along to one shot the baddies that we were getting from the door.

My question is will there be new badges tied to the skill system or will the existing badges affect any of the skills? (locating exploration badges giving points towards detective, history plaques/badges towards scholarship, etc.)

Also any chance of getting a more complete list of skills to have an idea what to expect, noticed they only talked about a couple of detective subgroups but many of my heroes would be more likely to go after communication or scholarship.

Not sure, they may have fixed it now and be datamining. If not you should be able to just redo the mission, take a non-respec reward and get the trial badge.

It is currently bugged and a fix is in test to take care of it. It should award retroactively for those who did the trial.

As of this time any badges broken on live seem to be fixed on test.

The only thing left up in the air is the level of datamining completion for retroactive badges.

Notes:

1) They did track non-leaders (I was never a leader on Positron's TF with my main but he got the badge)

2) Datamining still seems incomplete and all I can say is petition it and hopefully your character gets flagged for a closer check to see if they were somehow overlooked.

3) On test currently is the ability to exemplar down and join or start a task force.

It is currently bugged and the fix is working its way through internal testing. As far as I know the fix hasn't even hit the testing server yet.

The mez badge doesn't show a progress bar. You just recieve it once you've been held/stunned/sleeping long enough. Also note that immobilize does not count (any time you can't move but can attack and leave up toggles).

The emenators are the quan (or something like that), the cairns, the fungus, and the tree of life. This is like the Illusionist badge where you get credit off the pets and not the summoner.

Rock Prison doesn't count as it only does immobilize. The status effect comes from stun, hold, and sleep only. Immobilize doesn't work because you could then earn the badge from using Unyielding Stance and Rest (which people on test were doing).

Embalmed - its either the Embalmed Cadavers or Embalmed Abominations, the ones that like to explode, the non-exploding (the ones who spit vomit) don't count, that's why the badge says the Embalmed ones.

As for Gearsmasher you have to take out the gears that spawn from Clockwork bosses and the Praetorian and Psychic Clockwork versions don't count as they are a different faction. Faultline is a good place to find Clockwork Princes to get gears. The Praetorian badges are from AVs for one and not sure on the other one.

Nimble Mynx (Exploration) is also needed. This has been confirmed by at least 3 people who didn't get the accolade until they picked up this badge.

The 'Head of the Hydra' exploration badge is broken on live. It has been fixed on test so should make it to live this coming week. Also the Babbage spawn for Boomtown is fixed on test so should show up on live soon.

I think you get this one by getting all the other badges in the game and only if you're under level 20 when you do

Cool, that's one badge issue fix on the way. Now only if I could get a response from Positron on the other often talked about problems with badges and if they're actually broken or not

Which file did you find those in? I had seen a location in one of them that appeared to have around 10 accolades (and some seemed to be for all exploration and such) but the actual text file that's readable without a hex reader didn't list that many badges. I'm thinking those badges may be like the TV trial, partially coded but the final badge wasn't put in so they don't get awarded even if you met the intended requirements.

Incorrect. I've gotten credit and had the bar move with the large model/abominations. If anything theres a bug in the display and perhaps a bug with the defeat system in general that's preventing certain enemies from crediting proper for some people.

Not sure the best way other than through an SG or friends. Also the Adamastor in the portal mission isn't awarding the badge, only Adamastor in Dark Astoria gives the badge. Babbage in the portal mission doesn't give the Clockstopper badge, only the one on the Synapse TF for now until they fix Babbage's Boomtown spawning.

gah bad typist misspelled my own domain!.

Here's the correct link

There's a thread on hte forums and a few sites.

My site is here

The thread is here

There is supposedly one AV not on that mission that also has to be taken out. I think it was Storm something... (my highest is only 24 so I've not seen any of them yet).

There's a bug on some of the badges where the bar doesn't always update. This usually occurs on badges where more than one enemy type will work (embalmed cadavers and embalmed abominations are two types technically). The defeats count but the bar isn't udpating properly to reflect this. You will still get the badge when you are supposed to (some have had the bar as low as 1/3 full when getting the badge).

Just read in another thread, the Praetorian badges don't show progress like most villain badges do. You just suddnely receive it and apparently the person who said its the AVs had to take out ALL of the AVs (except Tyrant).