Nalrok_AthZim

Dink, can you give any info on the current shaders on Celestial Armor?

The best way I can explain this is with a picture.



That applies to several of the new costume sets, especially Steampunk. Us players don't like our colors limited. Any word on whether or not this 'baked in' color will be removed to allow true color?

Well I wish I'd known! I live right near the NCsoft offices.

I sure hope so.

Hoo boy. The things I could write could fill a book...

Nalrok Ath'Zim: Nalrok is not your typical royal demon. Most of this genre of devilry stomps around in the 'arrogant jerkbag' fields, Nalrok stays far away from that in every way I can allow it. Not once has he ever uttered the words 'foolish' or 'mortal' in the same sentence. In fact, I don't think he's ever said either word at all.

Now, he does have a few roots in stereotypical demon land:

-He likes to kill things just to kill things.
It's really just in his blood. When you're as strong as he is, and as smart as he is, and as bloodthirsty as he is, you kill stuff.

-He has a set of tomes.
These were given to him by his father, of course. These six tomes aren't the source of his power, but rather just keepsakes, memoirs of his parents. The tomes, when read aloud, will imbue the reader with power so overwhelming it often drives them mad enough to kill themselves. Those that live almost always try to start a cult.

-He devours souls.
This is something he has limited control over. With the help of an engraved mask, he can tone down the vortex in his throat to only devour the souls of those he's defeated. Should he take the mask off, anything in his field of vision gets its soul ripped out in a very painful manner.

He works to his own ends. He's spent too much time trying to wipe out the human race, and grew VERY bored of that. Yes, eventually he'll shred open the material between our realm and his own and let the horrible eldritch things living there crawl onto Earth, but until he decides to do so he's in the process of experiencing everything the modern CoX world has to offer. More often than not, he'll be seen at operas, performances, demonstrations and large-scale events. He's both inquisitive and brutal, both malevolent and understanding.

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Deathgrind: Deathgrind is another story as far as my villains are concerned. Nalrok was my second character ever, and I strayed away from the stereotypes. Deathgrind was an attempt to fit into those stereotypes without seeming stereotypical.

Deathgrind is nigh-invincible, strong enough to hurl battleships across great distances, smart enough to invent new elements and new forms of energy production, and perceptive enough to size up any person or analyze all possible outcomes of any situation. He has an absurd amount of money, never shows his face, owns at least six orbital ion cannon arrays, and a base under Nerva Archipelago that would make the JLA wish they had more money. He has legions of soldiers who are loyal to a fault, hundreds of the most brilliant scientists in the world, and an engineering team who could probably figure out a way to turn the moon into a giant spherical space station using just steel and old laptops. He has his own multi-level multi-national company named The Illuminate.

He also has a Formspring.

Now, with all this at his disposal, he simply sits back in his throne underground and calls shots, right? Mm, nope. Deathgrind prefers to do things himself. The soldiers, the scientists, the engineers are all just assistants to him. If he's not the one cutting folks in half, or inventing the next super-strong metal, or designing the latest weaponry he's just not satisfied. He appears at countless political rallies, backing one candidate or the other (sometimes supporting Paragon politicians). He makes speeches at events, he gives press releases, and he even collaborates with some of the greatest minds in the Isles (have you seen the news article on the Kaison Corp/Illuminate venture? Interesting partnership, that). He openly embraces the public's view, allowing the common man or woman to question him personally.

But for every ounce of likable goodness in Deathgrind there is, of course, a side of him that keeps the people of the world at a great distance. He gleefully tests his new weapons, serums and inventions on other villains and innocents alike. He purchases big name startup companies, drains them financially, and after he fortifies his own research with that ill-gotten cash he runs them into the ground. Should someone raise their weapons or fists to him (be they hero, innocent, villain, vigilante, or anyone at all) he has no qualms with ripping them in half.

He is very much a coin; there is the side interested in the world and it's future, and there is the side only concerned with keeping that world under his heel.

I'm going to go with one of the following (feel free to choose with me):

1. This new policy is inefficient, inconsistent and impractical and needs to be changed.
2. The GM's need a better understanding of the game and/or better training.

Bump. This really needs to be fixed.

This is even less impressive now that I see he's AE farming on Beta.

Mr. Badger: Is there any chance some of the old Legacy auras could be tweaked? The best thing I can think of to mention that will sum the issue up: For all legacy auras (fiery, electricity, gaseous, smoky, etc.), the color red is actually pink. It feels like the alpha channels on those textures could be changed to better reflect the actual colors. I know that Bio Plasma and Omega can be made red, but not Fiery?

I'm afraid to ask anything else because Honey Badger sometimes don't give a ****.

Proving for the FIFTH time this month, from forum posts alone, that the GM's are absolutely clueless.

Thats one conveniently hidden buff bar.

This post made me smile.

I want new powersets so I can both buy them and fund a great dev team, and play them with new character ideas.