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Aren't all three of those bases variants on the brain-in-a-jar base?

Marking one as glowing is kind of cheating. You know players are going to jump on glowing over not-glowing. It's almost a false choice.

I vote suit A, with optional glowy lights.

Just finished the first two arcs for Dr. Graves and...

Good gravy my villain is an idiot. A stupefying, mouth-breathing idiot. Never mind the whole little fish in a big pond bit, it's unbelievable that he'll ever be a scheming mastermind on the same level as Doctor Doom when he's dumber than a bag of hammers. Hurr durr, Dean Yu isn't jerking me around at all, I'll go shoot the Luddites and the obviously fake mind bomb will be disarmed!

And what's with this "cooperate under pain of death" crap from Scirocco? Where's the option to betray this clown at the first possible opportunity? Oh right, thirty levels away, woo. He could have struck a deal, help cheat my way to victory in exchange for my spying services. That's some classic villainy. But that would put too much agency in my villain's hands, I guess. I'm not seeing much to convince John Q. Newbie that being evil is going to be very fun.

Also, after clearing Omnicore's death trap, what does Scirocco mean by her using "forbidden tech"? Exactly what tech is forbidden? The whole reason Crey has so many offices in the Rogue Isles is the lack of oversight. And even if the tech is forbidden, villain. Breaking the law is what villains DO.

All this makes me wonder why my villain is in the Rogue Isles in the first place. If I constantly have The Man breathing down my neck, drafting me into government work and making sure I obey the law, I'm not really a villain any more, am I? Might as well go back to Paragon City, where I'll only have Longbow gunning for me, and the super dudes just throw you in jail instead of carrying out on-the-spot executions.

I discovered another issue, too. Female/Jacket/Sleeves/Classic Steampunk 01 ignores the chest pattern, and just uses bare skin for the rest of the arm. Why is this a problem? Observe:



Don't tell me to just use the other sleeves, this should totally be a valid option.

The parts all look neat, but you're going to have to revisit the necks on these heads at some point. There's entirely too much clipping going on. The bird head is especially ugly about the clipping, which drastically limits costume options.

What is a Zombie Man? A miserable little pile of secrets!

Ninjitsu's Danger Sense has a buggy flying animation on female (all?) body types. When you activate Danger Sense in flight, instead of the normal animation, it plays the Dragon Tail roundhouse kick animation from Martial Arts instead. This has the annoying side effect of rooting the character during activation.

So, at this point you pretty much have to rewire all the AI scripts to attack stalkers absolutely last on the list, huh?

I have to wonder why stalkers can't have more AoE, though. Letting them throw out The Lotus Drops would help team contribution a lot, I'd think.

I wonder if these Incarnate slots are all going to apply a level shift? This looks suspiciously like World of Warcraft's gear-based advancement at the level cap.

The Judgement slot amuses me, though. So that why Statesman gets to have that stupidly overpowered lightning attack.

Masterminds these days. Back in MY day, we had to resummon and reupgrade our henchmen every single time we entered a mission. Had to pop back outside for something? Bam, they're all dead, and you have to call them up all over again. New mission? Resummon. Street sweeping? Resummon again. And we LIKED it!

Fixing the in-game keybinds didn't work, so it looks like a driver issue. Even though it's a Microsoft mouse, and I thought I just installed the most up-to-date drivers. And here I was starting to warm up to Windows again, too.

I recently changed over to Windows 7. After getting everything reinstalled, I'm finding that I'm no longer able to use the mouse scroll wheel to change the camera distance from my character. I used to be able to scroll back and forth from 1st person view out to maximum camera distance, but now it's not doing anything other than scrolling the chat windows.

The mouse in question is a Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000. I got the Intellipoint software reinstalled, but it didn't help. Am I missing some drivers, or is there a setting in CoX I need to set up again?

It's an oversight. Ranged attacks from the Stalker PPPs crit, and there doesn't seem to be any real reason the Stalker APPs shouldn't get crits, either. Seems to be low priority, sadly.

Well, everyone's wishing for the moon anyway. But if it was up to me, here's my preferences:

PPD Hard Suit pieces. I know they're not all going to work on a player model, but that's still some sweet power armor. I can't ever get enough mech bits for my characters.

Freedom Corp/Longbow chest logo and tights pattern. If there was a way I could get the Stealth chest piece and the logo together to fully recreate a Longbow suit, that'd be rad.

Wyvern helmet, gloves, and boots. I've seen some of these parts recycled elsewhere, so really it's just the bows and drab coloration that's signature for them.

The Crey Armor shoulders/backpack seen on Crey Juggernauts and others. I think the in-game enemies use the mysterious "backpack" slot for those, but surely they could occupy the shoulder slot as well? Maybe the helmet too, but you can pretty much reconstruct it using existing parts.

Pieces off the Imperial Defense Force guy you showed off at the New York Comic Con. Specifically, the gloves. I want those gloves.

It looks like the Sky Raiders are just wearing the Patent Leather top and Baggy Pants bottom, with some extra harness bits added to the texture. Would those be too much to ask for?

EDIT: Oh yeah, and the Resistance guns. Assault Rifle/Dual Pistols/Mercs/Thugs totally need in on that action, even if you have to unlock them with a badge.

I'm going to go with option 1, myself. The older parts are ugly, and the costume editor is a mite cluttered as it is. We don't need to double the options with all those old legacy textures. All the faces were altered slightly for City of Villains, and although people complained, in practice I just have not seen a practical difference.

Really, the only problem with some of the revisions have been when the new costume piece is significantly different than the old version. The old suit jackets had a different "build" to the body than the new jackets, and people still miss the old thigh-high boots. If the textures are going to look exactly the same, just with higher resolution, by all means, replace.

We need some matte versions of the new reflective textures, though, especially the ones that are extremely reflective. I had at least one costume go wierd on me, because Tech Sleek went from mildly metallic-looking to ZOMG SHINY. That would be an example of the new pieces being noticeably different from the old ones.

Enemies with no melee attacks feel "helpless" a lot faster than more balanced foes, it seems. Hellion Buckshots and Mook Hitmen fall into this category (especially Mook Hitmen), and Praetorian Clockwork likewise have very low morale. Presumably, enemies also look at their "real numbers" when deciding if they're helpless, since debuffs do indeed break their morale faster. Bad guys hate being the Darkest Night anchor.

Also, you might want to look into Praetorian Clockwork defending destructible objects. I believe it was Neuron's "Steal the Brain" mission; I had an easy time blowing away some guarded objectives because the Clocks would take off running all over the place after one ranged attack. They just straight out refused to come fight me.

Huh, when did that get changed? At one point in beta, it was impossible to die in the tutorial. You'd hover around 1 HP, but never actually expire. Self Destruct couldn't kill you, either. I thought it was a good idea, myself.