Illum

Thanks for the update

If I could ask a dumb question, is there a 'dual build' option in there that I'm missing ?

I've been creating new build files instead, but just wanted to see if I'm missing something

A reactivation weekend and busy servers - who would have thought it

Soooo many shield weilding heroes and villains around too !

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Ah yes! I think I just about recall now. I'll be sending Desperation Sane down there a little later on to smash the doors down.

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Just remember - hands of me rarez (or at least don't laugh at the lack thereof)

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Now, does anyone know what the hell happened to my Supergroup - The Regulaters? Are they all dead now?

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Of the original members - there's just little old me.

Out of sheer bl**dy mindedness I kept it going, if only to see just how big the 'last on' days go up to.

I got a little stir crazy, so as Standoff said I (ahem) coerced some easily swayed people to join

Oh lordy - we're all doomed !

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I like the abandoned labs - very atmospheric

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Where are they? I can't find them

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Port Oakes and St. Martial. - luckily for us, even though they are abandoned they are marked on the map

I like the abandoned labs - very atmospheric

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Yes but my point revolved around the fact that this issue was devoted primarily to PvP.

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I hardly ever post, but I have to disagree with this. This issue is not devoted primarily to PVP.

There has been a lot of discussion about the changes by those who choose to PVP, which is fine, however for those like myself who choose not to PVP, the new powers, missions, auras and the miriad of QOL changes (like the grouped badge display's) are far far more important.

I read the forums a lot and have never seen a post by a redname to indicate that the primary feature of this issue are the PVP changes.

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Where *are* the patch notes? I didn't think they'd been released yet?

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In Announcements as usual

Patch notes

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How are Dual-Builds going to be encouraged on veterans? - Anyone?.


Yours slightly peeved off, at a now-defunct feature that I was actually looking forward too.

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To be fair it does say this in the patch notes

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Enhancements are not shared between builds. The second build is slotted with enhancements separately from your first build.

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I suppose giving a duplication of our enhancements could be exploited in some way *shrug*

Happy Birthday Dear

Power this time 'innit ?

(no I'm not daft enough to reveal her age..... the pain inflicted would be enormous )

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[EDIT]: actually, what I would really like (and what I have been noticing more and more recently for some bizarre reason)... is this ambient humming drone as background noise in all zones, its like a constant bass drone, a plateau for all the other ambient noises to sit upon i think is its supposed basis... whatever it is, it is really annoying and in my opinion unnecessary, anyone else notice this noise?

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i do, i hear it all the time around atlas park when i have the IG sound at full, maybe it's a sound bug in the system.

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Just a random thought (and probably entirely wrong) but - warwall's ?

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Another question, if you'd be so kind... can you slot Noxious Gas to increase the chance of vomiting? I'd love to see Statesman chucking up his dinner all over the floor..

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I don't think you can. It can only be slotted for recharge, end red & range.

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you dont understand ,champions online its COX 2 ,same company ,more expirence ,more budget ,and alot of improvemnt ,

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To the OP:

Could I point out that most of the developers left cryptic to join NCNorCal when the IP was bought. Essentially it is not the same company and they don't have the experience.

oh and just to be one with the crowd -

*points* There's my cow !

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Another example: I've already mentioned I intend to run a contest for the community to build a costume for my redname character

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I'd be careful if I were you. The last redname that did that vanished soon after......

Coincidence ? - I think not !

(Hidden teleporter packs to the dungeon of you choice now available at villains-R-us)

I think you meant to post this in suggestions

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I 've seen the Halo re-used somewhere else in the game, I'm sure of it, but I cannot for the life of me remember where.

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Wisp (oppressors ?) in the shadow shard

Rockjaws Blog has a link to some penny arcade video's an attendee filmed.

I know the text has been transcribed earlier, but as you get a very brief shot of a mockup of the mission creator that hero1 has done, I thought it might be of interest. It's towards the end of *This* Video segment.

With regard to the Dev's rating the missions. I can't see how this would work on a practical level, there would just be too many to go through.

Also I would not want too much of their time taken up with rating player missions, I'd rather they concentrate on their own day jobs

If the only way of achieving the unlockables was for the dev's to rate it, then we are not going to see too many player missions with unlocked content in them are we ?

There must be other ways that content will get unlocked, we just haven't been told yet *hopes*

Well I wouldn't mind seeing it anyway, outdated or not

Happy Birthday Stasis

I believe it's bugged atm

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You don't get XP for defeating enemies in the Mission Creator though, do you?

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The general consensus seems to be that there will be XP of some level. Although of course to be sure we'll just have to wait and see

From Positron

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To that end, the Rewards in the Mission Architect are something we, ahem, discussed with raised voices time and time again. How much was too much? How little was too little? What limits needed to be put into place to stop farming? Should we even have such limits? Etc. In the end, we made a system that we believe is best suited for what the Mission Architect was made for, and made sure it cannot be abused. Time and testing will tell if that is really the case though. Like the Invention System, there will be many iterations on the Mission Architect to make sure we get it right before it goes to the Live servers.

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aye a stone/shovel tank and no he's not 50 yet

His blog is Here

I think he only plays this toon when he's in the mood, he has chronic altitis

What I'd like to see and since it's used in game already we may get access to is the ability to 'tweak' the map we choose from the list to block or open up certain parts of it.

So for example we choose to use the standard 'office' map, but then we could choose to place a 'wall' item to block off access to some of the map, letting us vary the length of the mission map.

Just think - we could force players to have to do the multi-story room in the cave map (or maybe not if we want to get good ratings )


Oh and the other 'trick' that's used that we should be able to do is select the start point of the map, so following the example above we may start at one end of the office map or we may choose to reverse the map.