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Leaving Katie plugged in bugged me too. Another thing that bugged me... Whose dad was that in the mission where Katie is hiding you from the seers? Signs point to it being Anna's dad, but then again it could just be some random civilian. I want to know!

Had already posted her over in the designs thread, but here's Short Work:

Her other costumes involve losing articles of clothing. To make fighting easier of course.

I should have taken a screenshot in beta; they had put the old faces back in briefly when they combined masks with hair and standard. The screenshots wouldn't actually show much difference because it's hard to catch what's (probably) going on in a still.

Now, there's not actually as much of a difference between them as some people think. What the difference is: The original faces were made as one side of the face so that they could be symmetried to make a whole face. They found that this caused issues with some of the masks/patterns introduced with CoV. Some of you may recall a brief period of time when some face were showing up on the side of the head and face patterns were acting funky.

The thing is, game engines are finicky with symmetry. The most common issue is shading issues. If you've got a keen/trained eye, you can see the difference in shading on symmetrical pieces that are in the game now. Some chest pieces are the worst offenders; go in to the tailor or creator and slowly rotate the character. If you watch for it you might be able to see the symmetry line and notice that the shading is slightly different on either side.

I have a feeling that what was happening with the old faces, with their symmetry, was that they were being "lit" from both sides. I don't know for certain, but I've seen similar things happen in other engines. This would cause the issues that some people are mentioning (that the "villain" faces are shaded more). The "villain" face textures aren't actually any different when you look at the texture I bet; which is why the devs say that there is no change (no, I don't have confirmation of this, but I remember it being said when it was brought up a long time ago). What can't be seen when looking at the texture is how it reacts to the in-game lighting.

So what's likely going on is that what is being seen is the details of the faces that were originally intended to be there but were washed out by the lighting; which means the "hero" faces could look smoother and brighter, while now the "villain" faces look darker and have more lines. It's not a huge difference, but it exists and if you are one to look closely at your characters face, you might have noticed it.

I love the interrobang!
Who else ******* loves the interrobang‽

If I'm full on a server, as I usually am on my home server, I just check names using /friend. If the character exists, they will be added to your friend list. If the character does not exist, it will give you the message "Soandso does not exist or is not online". The "or is not online" is a lie. If they aren't online, they'll still be added to the friend list. I have yet to have this not be the case, and I've made plenty of characters whose names were checked that way.

Well, there goes my AE mission. Goodbye Supa Dupa Trolls.

Have you tried using Shift+PrintScreen? Not sure what the distinction is between the two functions, but in the past Shift+PrintScreen has successfully put the screen to the clipboard when PrintScreen alone just gave me a black image.

I was encountering the same issue. What eventually worked for me was updating the Beta server and then copying over to the live install location. I forget which files exactly I had to get rid of (think it was checksum and something else). But what I copied over was the piggs folder and the game's executable.

Good luck.

I saw a few mentions of ill/time controller. I'm planning on one too. I've never played illusion beyond level 6 before though so I'm not sure about how much I'll like the combo. Any thoughts from anyone, or suggestions?

Also going to roll a Time defender or corrupter. Not sure on what to pair it with though. Both Dark and Sonic look good and have a good fit with the character, but I'm torn. Any thoughts on that would be welcome as well.

And like OP, I wish StJ was gonna be live right now. Really want to recreate the StJ/Regen brute I made in Beta. I got the chance to play her at level 50 with a mostly complete IO build and she was rockin'.

And then, I won't be rolling up new, but I'll actually try playing my SS/EA brute again since EA got the revamp.