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I'm not sure this news means people should stop earning Incarnate salvage. If anything this news means we should start hording any salvage we do get to be ready to spend it wisely once we know what the new options are.

No you didn't. I'm just indirectly pointing out that there will probably -always- be some things in this game that will be "limited" within the confines of the holiday event system. I guess it's worth trying to see if they'll make it so that there's NO reason to play the game during the events to get all the holiday specific rewards, but I wouldn't count on it.

There are going to be a whole bunch of people re-raising the issue of being able to "respec" or "reassign" currently crafted Incarnate powers. I'll bet there are a lot of people in your relative position who won't want to have to build up to get the other new options. It'll be interesting to see how whiny people get about it this time.

I'd expect something like your "Extremely Rare" 5th tier before another Incarnate slot.
Like you said if this was "opening one of the last 5 Incarnate slots" they would have said that more plainly.

Personally I'm still expecting the Omega Incarnate power to be a "I win MoKeyes" button.

It's interesting that they are expanding the Incarnate slots we already have instead of opening up the top 5 we don't have yet. I guess they are really taking a very long view of the future of the game.

I would consider the fact that the Bats aura is purchasable in the Paragon Market a friendly compromise between the two. Believe it or not there really is no law against the Devs providing us rewards that can only be gained during limited holiday events. *shrugs*

This is leading me to believe that the zombies in this show are not 100% mindless and may have a tiny bit of "instinct" leftover from when they were alive. For instance the zombies in the church may have been super devout people when they were alive and went to that church often. So once they became zombies they may still go through the motions of sitting in church because the surroundings were so familiar to them when they were alive.

I guess we'll see if that kind of thing gets established in the show.

Of course there's the other point that most of these people are straightforward civilians who've probably never had NBC and/or hazmat training. Rick and Shane (as law enforcement officers) -might- have had that kind of training. But they don't have any of that kind of equipment to use regardless.

I'd rather just use a bit of "Hollywood suspension of disbelief" and just assume the Zombie virus in this show is not spread just by getting zombie blood on exposed skin.

You obviously didn't bother to read the next post I wrote directly after this post you're commenting on. No big deal.

Anyway like I've said I have not read the comic. Sure a TV show that was "panel for panel" identical to a comic might be boring to the relatively few people who've read it already. But trust me when I say there are far more people out there like me who have not read the comic yet and are experiencing this story for the first time via the TV show. I'm not saying this show should or must be "panel for panel" identical to the comic - I'm just saying there are a lot of people out there who wouldn't know the difference if it was.

I honestly don't think they'll get too religious/philosophical about it. I'm still guessing what we'll find out is that someone was hunting the deer and shot at it from a long distance away. From the angle we saw it basically looked like Carl was at the uniquely bad position of being directly opposite from where the shooter was. The idea that the shooter would have, on purpose, wanted to hit both the deer and the boy at the same time seems fairly unlikely all things considered. I'm almost sure we'll find out the shooter had no clue the boy was even there.

I don't think Rick is going to be shaking his fist up to the sky and shouting to God, "Was my boy getting shot my sign?!?". I still believe this will lead toward finding Sophia and ultimately be a pivotal moment, but it's not going to be an obvious one like a Burning Bush.

That's what happens when the latest updates of an online MMO gets shackled to the needs of an outdated print-based media.

Sounds like they might be doing the same kind of thing here that they did with True Blood on HBO. During the four seasons that show has been on they've cherry picked various bits and pieces of the novels it's based on and re-arranged the plot points (with new material) to reformulate a new version of the story. What this means for Walking Dead is that there'll be side stories from the comics that aren't covered in the TV show and/or other parts that are revealed much earlier in the TV show than they were in the comic books.

It looks like either way they're going to make an interesting show no matter how it turns out.

TSR had plenty of problems from a business point of view and probably should have failed years before it actually did. But as I implied earlier the fact that D&D could apparently only survive under the control of the likes of WotC was a bittersweet outcome at best. *shrugs*

Besides nothing stops me from playing 2nd Ed games today so the -need- for WotC to produce anything newer is questionable at best.

All I would say to this is that your collective definitions of "getting a character to look right" must be extremely limited if you're going to keep letting the fact that a tiny handful of costume items (out of the thousands that are available by default) are locked to starting characters bother you. Mountain, meet molehill.

Just as I don't want to "spoil" myself with anything the comics have in common with the TV show I likewise don't want to get bogged down with details that don't or can't match up either.

Like I said before I'll probably eventually read the comics to enjoy the differences. But since the TV show is my first experience with the story I'd rather watch it standalone for a while until I get curious enough to want to read the comics.

That's exactly why I said earlier in this thread the Devs don't have to give us full-blown powersets or full costume sets every week to satisfy their claim of being able to give us "something new every week".

Sure we might get a few full sets here and there but most likely we'll get something simple like the firefighter helmet we got last week. Remember a "new item every week" could mean as little as a single new costume item per week.

I'm aware enough of the comics this show was based on to know that the plot of this show is so far "fairly similar" to what took place in the comics. That's exactly why I'm avoiding them for the time being so that I don't get spoiled too much.

Are you referring to what I said? I've never read the comics this TV show is based on and I've actually actively avoided learning any more about them for now. I'll probably eventually read them, but for now anything I "guess" about the story here will be based on pure TV show knowledge without any inside info.

I'll admit seeing a zombified Sophia jump out of the trees to attack the deer would have been a pretty cool scene.

But clearly the deer being in the right place at the right time put Rick in direct contact with whoever shot the deer so in that regard it was the "sign" that he prayed for. Obviously his son getting shot was a bad thing, but that event will likely lead them towards the next step in their journey of survival, the least of which will be finding Sophia unharmed.

That's good. I just know a lot of people have been wanting this kind of pet for a long time for all sorts of character concepts. I personally never -needed- a pet like this, but I suspect I might end up retrofitting a few of my characters to use it if it's cool enough.

The thing that bothered me about Andrea's gun was that you'd think she'd know at least a little bit about how it worked and how to put it back together already. Sure I don't expect her to be super-SWAT trained solider, but still if her father gave her that gun you'd think at some point she would have learned the absolute basics about it. It just struck me as odd that she'd be completely clueless when it was already established that she and her sister spent a lot of time with their father camping, fishing and doing other outdoorsy things. Of course they did establish that she didn't even know about the safety on that gun in the first season so it seems like the writers can't decide if she's completely clueless in this area or not.

I can accept the idea that it'd be a good idea for Rick/Shane to properly familiarize everyone with how to use different types of guns. But I do think they labored the whole "Andrea shouldn't get to have a gun" point a bit too much just to stress the whole attempted CDC suicide thing.

Apparently the zombie virus doesn't work to make every dead body a zombie. Even as early as the first episode we saw a whole bunch of dead people who weren't zombies. I imagine they'll start explaining it more as time goes on. It's probably even related to that "super secret" thing that Dr. Jenner whispered to Rick at the end of the first season.

Likewise the virus apparently doesn't affect you unless it gets into the bloodstream so having zombie blood splash on you is just simply icky, not necessarily fatal.

They might kill off the kids at some point. But like I implied before I'll bet they both pull through out of this episode. Sophia will turn up with whoever shot the deer and I'll bet they be able to save Carl with some medical drama in the next episode.

Yeah threads like these usually become unavoidably spolier filled. Comes with the territory.

Anyway I think we'll find that whoever shot the deer (and apparently by accident Carl as well) managed to find Sophia in the woods and she'll still be alive. Whether the shooter turns out to be friendly or not remains to be seen.

As far as the helicopters in the "upcoming scenes" goes we already know Rick saw a helicopter flying over Atlanta in the first season so there's been a hint that some kind of civilization survived for a while now.

And basically when Andrea decided to commit suicide at the CDC Dale sat down with her and claimed he would not leave without her. In the last few seconds she decided she didn't want to be the reason Dale killed himself too so she ran out. Obviously she's still mad at him for "tricking" her like that.