Mental_Giant

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  1. So do we know when it's going Public? I read the announcement, and I think it's a week after... but the Invasions continue past a week into the Head Start, so I'm confused.
  2. Mental_Giant

    Here we go!

    Freedom Headstart on 9/13!

    w00t!

    I still have no idea when the general public can get in, though.
  3. Mental_Giant

    OMG I need help!

    Easy Peasy. Corruptor and Scrapper.

    Corruptor because you'll never regret doing more damage.

    Scrapper because I don't really like Brutes.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quasadu View Post
    You are dead to me.

    That's my favorite movie.
    I'll second this. While it's not my favorite, Joe doesn't get half the credit it deserves.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Brickwall3 View Post
    what is isolators? just everyone running toons through the levels together?
    Correct, but you're only supposed to play the toons with the group. To play outside the group with an Isos toon is known as cheating.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
    the avg speculated time for release is between october and november

    the earliest ive seen speculated is "before the halloween event"

    as MG says were not open beta yet so very unlikely it will be ready in the next 4 weeks
    With all the recent events (Sales of Costume Boosters stopping next Monday, downtime for hardware upgrade) I'm thinking we might be looking at early September... like maybe the Devs announce at PAX that I21: Freedom will launch on Tuesday, September 6th!

    Who's with me?
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    Meta-Changes

    The idea that a costume contest would be considered rude because not everyone has the same options and/or cannot accept payment is incomprehensible to me. I'm reminded of the Vonnegut short Harrison Bergeron.

    Should everyone go around in monochromatic unitards and not use /tells to communicate since not everyone can do that?

    This is not Sparta... this is madness.
  8. Looks like WoW in Space, but maybe that's all I ever wanted in the first place.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Draugadan View Post
    I can't believe we got this far into the thread without someone mentioning Narsil.
    Rodoan mentioned it before me on Page 3, but I agree, it should have been brought up in the first comment.
  10. Narsil and/or Glamdring should be on there.

    For some new school flavor, I can't think of a cooler blade than Uther Doul's Probability Sword from China Mieville's The Scar.
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    Beam Rifle?

    In the pen n' paper RPGs, I've read numerous "explanations" for beam weapon recoil for those games that included it. Lasers would have no recoil whatsoever, but if you're talking about something that shoots a quanta of energy that has mass, then maybe you'd have some. Or hell, you could just make it a side effect of the weapon heating up or whatever.

    Long story short, beam weapons have recoil because recoil LOOKS COOL.
  12. Mental_Giant

    Beam Rifle?

    It not a "Laser Rifle", it's a "Beam Rifle". All lasers are beams, but not all beams are lasers.
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    Double XP Tally!

    I know it's still going on, but I'm done for the weekend. Here's my tally:

    TA/Archery Defender 42 -> 50
    Emp/Sonic Defender 40 -> 43
    AR/Pain Corruptor 41 -> 42

    How did everyone else do this weekend?
  14. Three power slots, or three enhancement slots?
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Elegost View Post
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=268558

    Also staves for more lulz ~ which seems to be a hybrid between DP and StJ mechanically.
    So Staves have been confirmed by the devs in Beta?

    Ooooooo!
  16. I demand another DXP weekend to make up for this one hour downtime!
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nos482 View Post
    there´s an easy way to find out if 2x XP has started.
    Run the tutorial... if you´re lvl 2 halfway through, then it´s on
    Another way: check to see if your Patrol XP is going down. If it isn't... it's ON!
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by OmniNogard View Post
    Think he's talking about the time, they said 12Pm est, its 11:30am est
    Correct. It shouldn't be Live yet, but my limited experience says it might be, and I didn't hear of any downtime prior to going live if it did in fact, go live already.
  19. I was on around 9AM Eastern this morning and XP looked doubled (7k and 32 prestige for a lvl 42 LT). They also didn't take the servers down like they usually do.

    Are we experiencing Double XP as I type this?
  20. I was only talking about the publicly available information. I don't see why there would be an NDA since all subscribers are now in Open Beta, but I do get that these forums are public.

    It looks like a good mix of buff, debuffs, and heals. I'm curious to see how well the Heal Over Time mechanic goes over in this game.
  21. So no comment on the Time Manipulation details? The set looks pretty dope so far.
  22. I leave you guys alone for a few days and everything goes to Hell.

    Sorry, Chad, and I'm also sorry to hear about Viv's issues.
  23. They already have the "uniform" slot. Currently, they can have 4 extra slots that let them use normal costume pieces (plus the Spider Arms for Crabs). After Freedom, I assume they will have 9 extra slots they can use normal costume pieces with.