McNum

This is pretty awesome. And cute. Also goes to show that some times kids can learn useful things from the strangest places. She sounds like a great player, too. I certainly wouldn't mind teaming with people playing as good as she does.

So yeah, what the poster before me said:

GO SISTER FLAME!

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We have a "life at level" stat in seconds. This is how long a character spent at a particular level, logged in. While not a perfect indicator of levelling speed, it's an excellent starting point.

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Part of me really wants to know those stats for my own characters. Since you've started giving out real numbers (Thank you!), could we get a page of useless (as in doesn't directly affect combat) info like this about our character? Or is that for the City Vault?

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Not to mention nonsensical quests that, while make sense in the instanced-world, is usually in the open field; like when I was using a WoW trial with an Orc Hunter, I had this quest to get some Troll guy's head from some other Troll people who were bad or whatever; while doing it, a Troll Priest joined me, we proceed to the Troll guy's grave and I grab his head, then the Priest goes and grab his head.....when it struck me like a Blaster in PvP from very far away using a snipe with BU+Aim+a bunch of reds: just HOW MANY heads does the Troll guy have????

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Don't Trolls get Regenerate as a special ability? The answer must then be any slain troll will have infinite haeds for you to loot. Handy.

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Heck, I remember some mech game in which failure to press the eject button before you get defeated means your game save is erased.

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Ah, the Nethack model.

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I think it is called Steel Battalion. You get a massive controller with it that lloks like a mech dashboard with all the approrpiate buttons (except the combined Megas XLR "Missiles!", "More Missiles!" and "Didn't you just press this button 10 seconds ago?" button). When the Eject button lights up, hit it. NOW! Or you're dead, save erased, welcome to level 1.

There's hardcore games, and there's Steel Battalion. It's not even a contest.

Hey, Positron has the Legendary Cat Helmet on the shelf. That's kind of cool. Is he a fan of Halo and/or cats?

The Insect Wings, at least on the Female model, have a transparency issue, or at least an inconsistency.

When looking through the left wing at the right wing everything looks fine.

When looking through the right wing at the left wing the right wing obscures the left wing, despite being transparent.

Another screenshot of the right wing obscuring the left wing.

Jay is sexy.

(Screenshots taken from the 16.20071128.3T Live version of CoH.)

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Probably a few stupid questions, but does this aquisition mean anything to us playing on the US servers from Europe? I'm guessing not, since I'm already sending my monthly $15 to the US NCSoft, but it'd still be nice to know.

Also, since the press release mentioned possible new expansions, will it be possible to get a US update code if you already play the US version of the game? I remember there being some problems with getting US codes from Europe with the GvE add-on pack.

Other than that I'm looking forward to seeing what NCSoft can do with the license. Sounds like you have interesting plans.

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McNum, this was a great question, and one of the focuses will be a more robust and user friendly upgrade system. This is mainly for trial accounts being transitioned to retail, but I can also see tech development to cover the example you just mentioned.

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Yay! It was a little tricky to get a Villains code in time for the CoV launch back then. I had a US friend mail me a CoV box, so any streamlining for us who just couldn't wait until the game got released here will be welcomed. I did get a Positron HeroClix from that, though.

Probably a few stupid questions, but does this aquisition mean anything to us playing on the US servers from Europe? I'm guessing not, since I'm already sending my monthly $15 to the US NCSoft, but it'd still be nice to know.

Also, since the press release mentioned possible new expansions, will it be possible to get a US update code if you already play the US version of the game? I remember there being some problems with getting US codes from Europe with the GvE add-on pack.

Other than that I'm looking forward to seeing what NCSoft can do with the license. Sounds like you have interesting plans.

How do you fight an eathquake, anyway?

I live in such a boring country, natrural disaster wise. The worst we get here in Denmark is a fierce blizzard every other winter and some flooded basements. Well... that's not completely true. We got a hurricane strength blizzard some years ago. That was a good one... the media still recalls that "December Hurricane" every year, even if it was only a small category 1.

Ah well, boring is good, disaster wise. It's a bit worrying how flat Denmark is and how the oceans are expected to rise. Now that has potential to break up the boredom.

Anyway, good to hear nothing bad happened. I'd probably freak out since I've never been in a real disater before.

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Lord Pumpkin

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I want to see that one lit up!

Happy second Evilversary!

Yup, you can. I did. Some of the weapons look awesome.

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Oh neat - so I could copy a toon over and then do weapon customization if I wanted to, even without a beta invite?

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No. You can't actually play any of your copied characters. You can, however, create a new character and access the costume creator that way. You won't be able to finish the character and enter the game, but you can see all the default weapons available... well... a few aren't showing up, but most of them.

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(NOT in cb, just did the character creator thing)
ok love the new weapons, particularly tech mace, didnt notice any new costume sets, but might have overlooked them. rapier is bad [censored].

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Don't forget the Fantasy Mace. Wow, that thing looks like something Sauron would put on his wishlist for Christmas. Full recolor ability, too. With all the options for Mace, I have a feeling Will/Mace might become a very popular Tanker build in I11.

It amuses me a little too much to repaint the Frankengun Assult Rifle to actually look like a Super Soaker. Just a splash of neon green and red and bingo. Instant Super Soaker.

Quick question:

Things anyone can log on to the Training Room to see like costume pices, weapons, and power names are they OK to discuss?

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With the weapon customization, I wonder if there going to be able to give us weapon auras, like the Praetorians have.

If thats already been asked I missed it somewhere in the 75 pages of posts.


Either way, it looks like fun stuff all around.


Maybe someday they can figure out a way to give us customizable animations too. I know they say its impossible now. But who knows. It would be nifty. Well, if we all last that long any how.

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Actually, Auras are a costume piece. So not really anyway to put an aura on another costume piece. It's pretty much the same thing that keeps us from being able to apply auras to wings.

However, there's no reason why we couldn't do weapons and FX, we just don't have a lot of them in atm. But flaming swords, glowing axes, electric hammers...that's all in the realm of possibilities for future weapons.


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Weapon auras are possible, but not in. Maybe later. Maybe not.

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XIXXI isn't a legal Roman Numeral. 59 is LIX.

If you split it up to XI XXI it's 11 21. I wonder... could that be a part of the solution?

Also, who is Silos? That might be a very important clue.

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If you'd read my post, you'd see where I got that number from.

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Yeah, I see now, Binary. That still doesn't make XIXXI a legal number, though. And if it's not a legal number, it doesn't convert into anything.

XIXXI isn't a legal Roman Numeral. 59 is LIX.

If you split it up to XI XXI it's 11 21. I wonder... could that be a part of the solution?

Also, who is Silos? That might be a very important clue.

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I was told last night that we would be able to get those cool looking lime green blades that the Vanguard have if you have either the Claws or Dual Blades powersets. Is this true?

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If by "get" you mean "pay for with Vanguard Merits", then yes. Level 35+, since you can't get Merits earlier.

Weapons Customization?

As in "pick a weapon model and color it"?

Cool! Issue 11 looks awesome already, and I'm not even thinking about the Ouroboros thing, which looks interesting, too. Are they going to be our version of the Time Police? Someone messed up time, we need someone good/evil enough to go back and do what needs to be done to correct it.

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Weapons Customization in Issue 11!

That is all.

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It's an alternate history. It's got to be.

Nobody's ever escaped from the Zig? LOADS of people have - there wouldn't be a CoV otherwise!

No, someone's been messing with the past. That'll be the theme of Issue 11.

And by the way, that's a very rivety iron ouroboros there. It reminds me of a certain villain group.

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A time traveling Nemesis? The same Nemesis who got defeated by the combined forces of Heroes and Villains in I10, leading not only to yet another busted up Nemesis suit, but being exposed as a villain publically?

Nah, he would never travel back in time and rewrite history so Heroes and Villains never happened. He's not the type to carry a grudge, then plot on if for decades to finally unleash a terrible revenge.

Crisis on Infinite Servers!

Rularuu the Ravager regains his power and threatens to destroy the Multiverse. Only the brave actions of heroes from every server can stop him!

In the end, Synapse and Miss Liberty die, and all servers become one... and DC prepares a lawsuit.

Okay, no one eascaped from the Zig, everyone who got in contact with a Contaminated may already be dead and several contacts have died from Outbreak?

So, this means... no player heroes can be sure if they're infected, no player villains escaped from the Zig, and a mysterious plague is killing off everyone else?

What's going on here?

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It is becoming a hbit. I sometimes wounder if Lemur doesn't have an irrational hatred of PC.

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Well, someone has to. It's pretty much a law here on the forum that no matter the suggestion, someone will hate it, some times for no reason at all. You get used to it after a while.

But on a more constructive note, what powersets do actually have a NPC only recolor/model in the game? There's a variety of guns and the like for Assault Rifle, but there's no other all-in-one rifle. The Commando even uses the Frankengun.

Energy Blast and Melee have a white and a blue respectively. Red Energy Blast is somewhat playable on a Dominator. The Knives use special swords, so do the CoT and various others like the BP. Well, the BP use clubs or axes. Malaise uses darker Illusion pets, and Silver Mantis has a metallic Spines set.

Then there's the "one side only" animations. Darker Dark Miasma, Dark Armor, Fire Amor and Invul, for instance. Red Electic attacks that arc out from the Mu. Ghost Widow has some recolored soul versions of Dark powers. Also the Stalker Claws look a lot more deadly than the Scrapper ones. We have a lot of recolors in the game already. They're just not available.

I can see why the Devs would hesitate in letting us use these. It's a Pandora's Box. Release White Energy Blasts only and the forums would go nuts. Everyone wants to see their favorite powerset get the love and a lot will scream about it until it happens.