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Did they say that the "Windfall" reward is? I saw it on a couple of slides, but not in any of the notes.

I remember noticing how emotionally invested I'd become in the story as I was first going through the Power line in Praetoria. It really hit me at the end of Transuter's arc "Letting Go". I really liked the characters I had been interacting with in the Powers stories, especially Warrent. He was so nice to my character in his story arc and Reese's arc. So the ending of "Letting Go" hit me hard that first time through.

EDIT: Thanks GG! Got mixed up.

What does the Nictus Shield look like? I can't find a picture of it on ParagonWiki.

It had to be during the week I'm in charge of VBS with no free time. Oh well, it'll make the following weekend that much better.

I20.5 has some outstanding shinies, so I'm very excited! I haven't done a lot of Incarnate stuff yet, but all those new Lore pets and new costumes give me something to strive for.

I remember one of the devs saying we wouldn't see new Incarnate slots for a little while, but they are focusing on expanding the current slots. So if 20.5 has the Lore expansion, I'm guessing I21 will see one or more of the other slots expand.

Looking at the most recent powersets the devs have made, they seem to be designing them to be unique playing experiences. I think they'll try to make it different from the other buff/debuff powersets so, while it'll probably have speed buffs and slows, I think they'll try to avoid stepping on Kinetics' toes.

I can see it having a hold and a "turn back the clock" rez power seems like a no brainer. They also seem to give all the new powersets a signature ability that makes it play differently than other sets (ex: Shield Charge, Swap Ammo, etc). Who knows what that could be for Time Manipulation?

A pet would seem overpowered... but I wonder about a Gang War-type power... nah, not if this will be a Mastermind secondary.

I'm planning on staying a VIP, but if I didn't I'd probably use one slot for my main and the other slot for a low level character I enjoy playing.

I'm excited about the Carnival of Light. It looks like regular Carnival (with some nice, new costume features) plus what looks like guys from the Legacy Chain (my favorite enemy group!). And I wonder if that floating mask is like the Banished masks?

I tried watching the recorded dev chat, but I kept running into issues. It seemed like one of the ads did something to the video. It shrank the video and the time bar at the bottom went back to 0:00 while the video continued to play. That kept going for several minutes until the video just stopped.

I'll try watching it again tomorrow. Thanks for the highlights until then!

It looks like they've put up some info on what's all in Issue 20.5.

Highlights:

1.) New Trial, of course.
2.) More Lore pets... a whole lot more! Nice!
3.) Great improvements to the Team-Up Teleporter.
4.) Account-wide items we can buy with Astral and Emp Merits.

Looks awesome!

[Hat tip to dvandom on the CoH Livejournal for spotting this]

Personally, I really hope they never do a CoH 2. I like this game and I don't want to see resources pulled from it to do a different game. And I don't see how splitting up our community would be a good thing.

I thought the UStream webcast was a lot of fun. The chat part kept slowing things up for me, but then I figured out we can watch the video on Facebook without the chat and the slowness disappeared.

It was fun getting to see so many different Devs throughout the day. And I was really glad that you guys recorded it so I could see the parts/Devs I missed. Thank you for doing this chat, everyone!

Did the Beta server ever get the most recent patch that the Test and Live servers recently got? That might be it.

The thing coming at the end of summer that you're probably thinking of is the server list merge.

Interesting. I wasn't expecting it to be tomorrow since the Dev Diary on the Interface slot suggested we'd see more diaries about the other three slots before I20 comes out.