Lady_Sadako

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"Heroes and Villains also use the Ouroboros System to return to story arcs that they may have missed

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That they MAY have missed.

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Please tell me that this does not disqualify her from using flashbacks and collecting the new badges?

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Why should it? Flashback doesn't limit you to those missions that you DID miss. It allows you to do old missions, including ones that you MAY HAVE missed.

And here's the clincher:

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and replay hundreds of missions from earlier in the game

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You can't replay a mission unless you've already played it.

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Doubtful beacuse of the international launch.

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The Fifth have been on the cards to come back for ages. Posi last confirmed it during open beta for Issue 10.

Believe it or not, there's no international issue at all.

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Hey, I was looking at the list of weapons that are customizable and the battle axe was not on it, but the mace was. They are pretty much the same thing, why can't the battle axe be customized.

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Axe can be customised, a redname said so.

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HELLS YES!!!! FLASHBACK!!!!

HELLS YES!!!!

WIN!!! AWESOME SAUCE!!!

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Oh THERE you are! I was beginning to worry!

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Does it include the Tutorials so heros can go back for isolator and villains for jailbird?

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The first newspaper articles were specifically about the tutorials, Outbreak and Breakout. This may be a Good Sign.

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The only things not mentioned were Spines and Ax in the list.

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Axes ARE customisable. Spines aren't. Should be in the Dev Digest by now...

omg, Weapon Customization isn't just for Dual Blades.

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Sometimes an assault rifle just isn’t the right tool for the job, or character, especially when he or she should be using a sniper rifle instead. Players can now change their weapons in the same way that they change their costume parts! From within the costume creator and tailor screen players select the new “Weapons” region. A number of new options are now available for appropriate power sets. Current power sets that benefit from this upgrade include Assault Rifle, Mercenaries/Assault Rifle, Bow, Broadsword, Claws, Villain Claws, Dual Blades (see below), Katana, Ninja Blade, Mace, Robotics/Pulse Rifle, and Thugs/Dual Pistols.

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they did it. they actually [censored] did it.

Flashback is IN. And they even called it Flashback.

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Heroes and Villains also use the Ouroboros System to return to story arcs that they may have missed and replay hundreds of missions from earlier in the game. Players will even get to set mission parameters for these missions to earn special badges. Heroes and Villains will be auto-exemplared to the appropriate level for each story arc to ensure the challenge level remains constant.

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Weapon.. Customization.

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Cool. Unique. Mechanic.

http://uk.cityofheroes.com/game-guid...titch_in_time/

A Stitch In Time!

EDIT by Lighthouse:

We'll have the same info up on the US site shortly, we were just making some final edits with our piece.

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And the Council, which is who they're opposed to now in continuity.

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As Manticore's background states, 'A coat of whitewash can't disguise his true enemies.'

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Perhaps they just aren't important enough to be worth naming?

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Don't be facetious. If their identity wasn't significant, Arctic Sun wouldn't have made an issue of it. He did. If they hadn't been important, then no details at all need have been given.

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Given what the devs have said in the past, if the 5th return (which they will not, at least not in anything like their old selves),

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'It's Venture. He's never met an unsupported, definitive statement he didn't like.'

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it will not be as a side effect of something else. It will be with trumpets blaring and banners waving.

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Are you so uncreative that you can't see how it could be both? We aren't finished with the shuffling timelines yet.

Positron only said that he wanted the return of the Fifth to be 'spectacular'. Do you really think that means another 'Invasion' setup?

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The "compelling argument" for their involvement in i11 is a joke -- at least the Bigfoot advocates have pictures.

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We'll see, won't we?

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I can't imagine what Recluse and Manticore are searching for or who the mystery "rebels" they're fighting really are, but I have a feeling it's really bad news.

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The 'foreign terrorists' are almost certainly the Fifth Column.

<ul type="square">[*]They aren't South American; they're foreign terrorists who fled to South America, which is what Nazis do. [*]The mysterious foreign terrorists were driven out of America. The Fifth were driven out of America, by the Council coup. [*]Manticore and Swan (Cisne) were fighting this group jointly. The ONLY group that Manticore and Swan both had a special interest in fighting is the Fith Column. Both Manticore and Swan lost parents to the Fifth.[*]Everybody hates them. The Columbians do, Manticore does, even Recluse does. That's about right for a Nazi group. Even the villains hate you. [*]Meta: The very fact that the writer of the article makes a mystery out of the group is good enough reason to suspect. Why not just name them? [/list]

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I mean, the whole reason that the 5th column were taken out of the game was because in order to succesfully market co* in Europe, the nazi references had to be taken out.

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Dude, where have you been? That's been debunked a thousand times over.

Jesse went out on a truly high note, didn't he?

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Last qustion: WHAT'S IN SOUTH AMERICA? Aztec mystics?

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As someone else pointed out, South America is a classic haven for fleeing Nazis.

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If the Rikti war had not happened in the timeline depicted, it would have been explicitly mentioned, not implied.

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Things that didn't happen in a given reality don't tend to get mentioned in newspapers. I've not seen a single newspaper mention the Great Scimitar-Wielding Haddock Assault of 1993, because it didn't actually happen.

That said, it's only speculation, and I think we can draw a line under that particular flight of fancy.

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The Rikti created the Lost. Please consult the Lost background page...there was no "homeless sewer people gang problem" until after the war.

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Or, in this world, the plague. All I'm suggesting is that the phenomenon of a homeless army called 'the Lost' could happen without the Rikti. Call it memetic resonance if you like.

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Because events couldn't take place the way that they do in the various Rikti arcs if time wasn't moving at the same rate on each world.

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I don't remember saying anything about the rate at which time moves. All that's required is for the worlds to be out of synch, each moving at the same pace, but one several hundred years ahead of the other.

And I did say this was a far-out theory to start with.

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It mentions the Lost. The Lost only exist because they are created by Rikti stranded on Primal Earth after the first war.

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The Rikti didn't create homeless people. The mutated Lost are obviously Rikti-influenced, but the rag-tag sewer dwellers aren't mutated yet.

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in order for it to be true time between Rikti Earth and Primal Earth would have to be out of synch, and we know for certain that is not the case.

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I'm not doubting you, but how do we 'know for certain'?

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I dont think it happened this way, the Outbreak happened after the first Rikti war so there is really no need to even mention the war because it was after the fact, if anything the only thing we would have heard is about the clean up efforts post Rikti War I.

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But doesn't it strike you as odd that the Outbreak Plague over there seems to fill the same gap as the Rikti War did in our world? Thousands dead, speeches in Atlas and so on.

And their article doesn't mention the Rikti at all, not even the recent re-invasion. That just doesn't make sense.

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Paragonwiki spoilerz about the mutations and the Rikti War.

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'What drove (spoilery things to happen) is unknown.'

Hmmmm....

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But then how do you get from the only physical effects being the glowing green eyes, to full on mutation into the rikti we know?

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Many years of evolution? I always got the impression the Rikti world was several hundred years ahead of ours.

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And this is just me remembering here, but didn't some alien invaders turn the rikti into what they are today? Then thety got mad and tried to do it to us. (just going off of memory here)

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Gah, I don't know. My Rikti Mythos knowledge isn't up to that challenge. Anyone?

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^^ new favorite theory

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and and and and!

In OUR world, it was the Rikti War that led to tens of thousands dying and memorial speeches in Atlas Park and so on. But in THEIR world, it was the Outbreak Plague, doing exactly the same thing!

Every role that the Rikti War played here, from cordoning off sections of city to wiping out countless ordinary people and heroes, seems to have been played by the Outbreak Plague over there.

And eventually, they lost...

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This makes alot of sense, but what would it mean in terms of new features in I11?

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Rikti Homeworld!

With the newspaper story being how it all began!

OK, here's an insane thought.

**spoilarz**



The Outbreak Virus contains primitive 'Rikti genes', right?

But the newspaper article doesn't mention the Rikti ONCE. It's as if the Rikti didn't even exist in that world.

So maybe, just maybe... it was the Outbreak virus, on this parallel world, that ultimately led to the mutation of all of humanity into the Rikti! And that's where the Rikti came from!

Ouroboros isn't just a symbol of infinity, it's a symbol of the eternal loop, of something creating itself.

So what if the newspaper report is actually from the distant past of the Rikti dimension? And it was not just the Rikti that created Outbreak, but Outbreak that created the Rikti?

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Or maybe Doctor Miller died because you never cured the plauge and it got so bad it eventually killed him.

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Good point. That works.