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you're probably right, but since there are supposed to be interactions between player villians and player heroes, I'm pretty sure there will be an intermediate area where both can go into. Since Striga Isle is supposed to be way out there, I wouldn't be surprised if that ended up as a PvP area between player villians and heroes, but since that place has too much importance in it story-wise, I doubt that will happen.

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The city/buildings screenshots to me looked like Gotham city, Gothic and evil looking. I loved it. If they thought they were being pushed for I4 to come out faster, oi! The CoV push/draw is gonna make I4 look like no one wanted it at all. I so cant wait for it to come out or even go beta.

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I agree with you on the look of the city from the screenshots, looks like Batmans Gotham city.

I'm not sure how they are going to 'integrate' it into CoH, like will it be a different city off somewhere or is it a niegboring area (like a NYC burough) that is older/more run down/poorer or something.

Also, the pics that show the city seem to have an atmosphere shared by brickstown and kings row (look on the map, they are catually right next to each other), so it could work like that, bieng a 'red light' district.

you guys are all wrong! you are missing teh obvious, killer mines= evil phantom army and evil phantasms and the like.

I'm pretty sure there will be at LEAST 5 ATs in CoV he just didn't say which kinds

I think the part about bieng no Icon in CoV territory is a lie of course there will be one, just an evil version thats only accessable by going into a dark alley, popping into the sewers until you get to a set of stairs that leads to an abandoned warehouse door where there is a dim light flickering above it and a diffuse white light comes out of the bottom

sounds like grav got a pretty good boost here

what the heck is a shoulder kitten?

you guys shoulda made a chat transcript for those hard of hearing or deaf players :P :P

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It's not down because of the patch. We found a crash that only happens for certain kinds of messages, made a fix, and hope to have it up again soon once QA signs off on it.

You may be wondering, "If it's beta, why does it need to be QA'd?"
QA almost always checks even the most minor fixes to make sure we didn't do something stupid like make every member of the "kill skuls" forum an admin or something.

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lol, at least we know now why it was pulled

same goes for my SG collective, which we call Doom Supremacy as a whole. While yes it was a little clunky to use and not perfect, it actually did its purpose 100% of the time, which was act as a common chat so that all the separate groups can comminicate more effectively

Yes we knew coalition chat was going to come out and that it was likely to be a whole lot better than this and probably different in several ways, but Global Chat worked well enough to do what we wanted it to do....

not functioning on Freedom either...

yea, it stopped working like 20-30 minutes ago, it just suddendly stopped working and it has seemingly lunctuated on and off since then but not actually working. It was flunctuating like it was trying to work properly but couldn't.....

what about alliance chat? or is that the same thing as global, just a diff channel?... ALOT of SGs got dissapointed when it didn't come out.... I mean yea we understand that you had to fix some bugs and all, but ppl anticipated it to go live at the same time as issue 3...

Edit: wrong thread I think.

another little idea would be to have the snowballs exert a small inertial force in the direction of throw when the victim is on ice. Although I don't know how they would manage to do this with the physics of the game, this might become a form of griefing, but could be used in fun ways...

well, ok, no status affects then, but I guess there could easily be a notification like something over your head, just some text or a symbol that appears to everybody. Although this could cause some lag problems if theres a large number of ppl, as in PI, AP or GC.

They also should have the same range as the typical throwable stuff like the grenades of the device lines and a couple temp powers, although a sniper range would be more fun

your idea is good too Kendal. As far as the Hollows, which has a pretty huge lake, its possible to remove the spawns or at least lessen thier number in the area cause those trolls will be freezing if they are in the lake. Since they already have a sort of spawn change between night and day in the SE area of Talos where the BP spawn, so its entirely possible.

a snowball would be easy to do, just have the rock renamed snowball and be useable on players just have it no damage, a small knockdown to it (like if you got whacked in the head by a good sized snowball ). It should be a limited amount of throws per minute OR have some sort of end drain to prevent ppl from whacking someone endlessly and griefing. Or maybe have it be a recharge that isn't affected by haste, about the time someone could make a snowball, 10-30 seconds would be reasonable. That way it should stay fun

That way it would stay fun I bet the one he grants is SNOW and perhaps some ice in places where its not inconvenient (in alleyways perhaps) and some snowmen

your thought about TI and IP is a cool, but not completely reasonable as saltwater freezes at a lower temp than freshwater does. Although the lakes and rivers around paragon should freeze over

Perhaps some New Englanders could confirm that or perhaps give some suggestions as well, Rhode Island is a New England state.

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I'm going with the Axis invasion theory, the only issue I have is why would the 5th be "grateful" for being arrested if their counterparts are coming, I though they all craved Axis Amerika.

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I'm pretty sure it was only that rogue Oberst (forget his name) and his followers that wanted to go there. It seems like the 5th col is a pretty diverse group, despite its facist ways, there was even a mission where some ubermench actually wanted to let crey study him and his comrades didn't like it.

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Not to be an @$$ (well, maybe) But I downloaded this patch, and come to find this 16 page thread that I'm too lazy to look through, what exactly did this "event patch" do? I've been all over the lowbie zones, all the way up to Bricks, but I don't see anything worth noting. What's going on?

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then you should have looked at the updates page :P http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/updates.html

Its just a patch from test center thats all, the event hasn't actually happened yet.

I've had the robot mission repeatedly like during last month, I really don't think the repeat missions have anything to do with this.

I support the halloween event idea, it should be very fun Even though the CoH community is international (mostly USA, some Brits, Canadians, Mexicans?, French, and other places, met one person who was in Japan), I'm sure those who don't actually celebrate Halloween will enjoy the occasion

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Oh my God, I know what's happened!

The Fifth Column have found the Ark of the Covenant!


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And I did hid it so well all those missions ago. Damn I guess I got to get it back from them. LOL


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Just call Relic Knight, he can get the job done!

Anyway, my guess is either this has to do with Issue 3, (though I'm suprised it's coming so soon after Issue 2), or else this is leading into a Halloween event with armies of werewolves and vampires stalking the streets of Paragon. Personally, I'd like it to be the latter, I got plenty of wooden stakes and silver bullets to use up.

Dynamite - Lvl 49 AR/Dev Blaster
Relic Knight - Lvl 35 BS/Regen Scrapper
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Actually, youre probably right, this is MUCH more likely to be a Halloween event, even though the holiday is only done in the US and Britan as far as I know.

They should have the BP masks floating arpund and have other spooky stuff.

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I use a 5th Column Ubermensch helmet to piddle in when on long missions, looks like it's time to get a complete set. Bring on the Nazi's, It's Ge-Stompo Time!

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rofl!

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Oh my God, I know what's happened!

The Fifth Column have found the Ark of the Covenant!

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And I did hid it so well all those missions ago. Damn I guess I got to get it back from them. LOL

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lol, that idea HAD to be outta Indiana Jones and the 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'.

How the hell would they do a time control powerset? this means that whenever someone activated a power EVERYTHING in the ENTIRE zone would have to be affected and thats easier done in a single player game than a MMPPORG because everybody has to feel the effects too, and what happens if more than one person uses the same power?

Something like degeneration or self regeneration (regressing or accelerating (age) mobs/heroes locally) for a single target could work, or maybe a bubble of time where time is effectively stopped, but the detention bubble for FF does the same thing.

I can only imagine gun wielding women heroes from manga cartoons wearing rabbit ears :P

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that depends on whether the 2 new power stuff are going to be a powerset (having sonic or archery as a primary or secondary power) or a power pool and I bet that it'll be a power set.

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I'm pretty sure that one of the Devs said Archery was going to be a Blaster/Defender powerset. I can't remember where, it might have been in an interview.

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you don't need a dev comment to know that archery is GOING to be a blaster/dev powerset, if anybody has watched or read anything about archery will know that archery is ranged. Geez, read the history books :P, especially ones on warfare or hunting.

that depends on whether the 2 new power stuff are going to be a powerset (having sonic or archery as a primary or secondary power) or a power pool and I bet that it'll be a power set.

One thing that is possible in issue 3... winter weather

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Oh yea, there was that villian in Batman Returns (not sure if thats the right one, its the one with the new batman in the year 2050 or so) that used sonics, lasted only one episode though.

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I belive you are referring to "Batman Beyond" on the 'ol WB. Yep, that'd be "Shriek" I belive. He had a robotic glove/helm combo (technology) that granted him the ability to channel sound waves in a sort of blaster/controller way.

It was purely an offensive power, with good controller abilities. Generally, you could have single target sonic blasts, cone sonic blasts, the "annoying screech in ear" mez, if a blaster a PBAoE "Sonic Boom" is possible.. I don't see being able to be a blaster who has the ability to mez, but perhaps switching it to a disorient..? *shrug*

Oh, and I do remember at least one more episode with him in it. Perhaps two, but I cannot remember if the two scenes I remember are not from the same ep...

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yea thats the one I meant and yea it was a purely offensive power (think controller/defender).

A sonic type powerset would have to be pretty powerful because ANYTHING with ears wouldn't be able to resist it. Although foes with helmets (5th col, nemesis, crey) could be able to resist it with sound padding and all. Not sure how robots/mechanical stuff would be resist to it cause bieng computerized, they might be able to filter out the sound, unless its the kind of sonics that can damage material.

Not even sure if it'll work on DE cause it doesn't look like they have ears of any sort, although the devoured bosses would have ears of some kind.

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I know what's in Update 3....



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I know too!

...and for 500k of influence I'll tell you!

influence first

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lol

..hands up 500k in a dark alley