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They never give release dates before issues go live.

Issue 13 is still in closed beta, it may hit open beta next week, and could go live around end of Nov or early Dec.

Afaik the Valkirie costume isn't being given to beta testers, it's only for people who buy the Mac version.

Just about every published edition of CoX has come with it's own "special features".

CoX Delux: VIP badge, cape, Pretige power slide
CoV Collectors: Arachnos logo, cape
GvE edition: Jump Pack, Pocket D TP, Justice and Sinister costumes
Korean edition, and another edition, only released in the US: 30 rocket pack
GvE Mac edition: Mission TP, Valkirie costume

I think you will find that is because they are part of issue 13 - which hasn't been released yet.

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Yet we have the flight pack

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Which lasts 30 days, or you can pick up a functionaly identical pack for nothing at level 5. Takes less than 2 hours of play on a new character. The only reason to take it is because you like the way it looks, and the only reason it was made available is because players asked (nay, demended) it.

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and soon the even more handy tp to mission.

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Don't judge how handy it will be until you know what the recharge is.

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That could change however if the Dev's decide that they like to earn more money by making the buyable pack a neccesity instead of a fun little thing.

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The devs know that anything that unbalanced the game in such a way would loose them subscribers. Therefore, as I said, you question is "What would happen if the devs all simultaniously went insane?"

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A ranged attack that does high damage
A ranged attack that does extreme damage
A ranged AOE effect?
A melee attack that does high damage
A power that gives you esentially stamina
A Fly power faster then a fully slotted Flight
A power that makes you more 'resistant' to damage like the paragon protector for 1 minute.
A power that gives you a nice pet that not only looks nice but is actually usefull in combat? Say a single MM minion?

Where would you say stop?

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It's a pointless question, since the devs wouldn't add a power that would unbalance combat. Take the self distruct power. This doesn't really have a significant effect on gameplay because of it's extremly long recharge time. Anything else they added would be balanced by similar downside.


It would be as meaningful to ask "would you continue to play if all the dev went insane and coverted all the villain mobs into pink fluffy bunnies". It's something that simply isn't going to happen, so it is stupid to get in a flap over it.

I'm wondering if Against All Odds might use the new diminishing returns code from new PvP.

This would fool the real numbers display:

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It is important to note that the Real Numbers tool will not always report the results of diminishing returns accurately, at least initially. This is specifically true of Damage Buffs, which always display the Pre-Diminished value.

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That's the idea. The Mac goodies are instead of the PC GvE goodies.

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others i feel are a waste of money.


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Doesn't matter. If you/I feel it is a waste of money we don't have to buy it, and we can be happy that someone else will, and they are subsidising our game.

Quite.

In 25 years we have gone from magnetic tape, to 5 3/4" floppies, to 3 1/2" floppies, to CD to DVD. That's an avarage of a new format every 5 years, and we have been on DVDs for a few years now.

/bug it in game so the GMs know thier mass necromancy spell has failed again.

Thing about the mission TPer, and this isn't clear, technically, its easier to have it TP you into the mission, rather than to the mission door.

I expect it has a longish recharge timer anyway.

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well cpmuter programes are getting quiet smmal

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The TP suppression has nothing to do with griefing.

Running Nightfall (or any othe power) is not griefing. If it causes you problems, you are trying to run the game with your graphics settings to high.

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am I going to have to succumb to Stamina on my PB?

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Short answer: yes, if you intend to use human form at all.

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damage output from a PB compare? Is it really as good?

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No, it's not as good if you are fighting team sized spawns. However, Castle is sharpening his nerf bat for double mire.

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Demented brainless balls of light

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Photon Seeker AI has been fixed.

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How do you guys cope with Quants and Voids?


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Quite easily. PB has as much, if not more KB and hold as WS. They don't have the immob, and thier stun is not as good. However single target melee damage is better, so they can kill quickly.

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what do I have to look forward to?

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Light Form. Self healing that doesn't depend on the proximity of mobs to work. +max hp, which can be used in conjunction with nova and dwarf form.

Overall, WS are better damage dealers, but PBs are more durable.

It makes far more sense that this was the original intent, and the wording of the earlier day job article was misleading.

One thing appears clarified here: what he says strongly implies you are only "On Patrol" if you aren't logged out in a location that qualifies for a different job. So if DXP is tied directly to "On Patrol" status, it should be avoidable.

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Teams traveling to the Rikti War Zone (the initial destination of the second mission of the arcs) would break when they left Cimerora and have to reform upon arriving in RWZ. So these missions became faction-limited, even though they were given out in a co-op zone. That, of course, required some technical magic from programmer Vince D’Amelio. So much for the “no new assets or code” thing.



Like writing a novel, mission arcs in CoX constantly evolve and spawn even more arcs.

Once the missions became hero- or villain-only missions, there was no real need to send the characters to a place as far away as the RWZ.

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I wonder how they are going to handle "faction only" missions in co-op zones then? If a villain player has Ghost Sybil mission 1 (mission door in Cimerora), then teams wih a hero player in zone, will the hero player be auto-kicked for the team the instant that becomes the active mission? Or will they just be unable to enter the door?

Personally, I would have liked to see a direct link between co-op zones, so mixed teams could travel form one to the other without disbanding.

The NPCs have a walk animation. However, the NPCs are all the same hight, and don't use combat animations.

CJ also takes def sets, and travel sets, and therefore takes a +stealth IO. And it costs virtually nothing to run.

All in all, its a mutch better choice, unless you are desperate to avoid SJ and Acro.

Midnight Club and RWZ doesn't need any such mechanism to prevent heroes and villains entering the wrong zone.

I assume the new PvP travel power supression doesn't interupt, and blocks TP, so the original suggestion aught to be possible.

My guess: Open beta next Monday (i.e. after Halloween).

Live: November 25th

It's nothing to do with griefing. It's so you can't TP into the Tiki bar without a VIP Gold Card.

Yeah, I get that a lot when I post from work too.

I't may well be true. This power summons several pesudo-pets. One of which generates the damage, as an aura. This should cause any procs from a damage set to fire every 10 seconds, as is normal.

However, the hold is generated by additional pesudopets, that appear to be summoned every 10 seconds, and last for 15 seconds (so you will often have several active together). The hold is a click power firing every 6 seconds, and the proc (from a hold set) could potentially trigger each time.

Missed the to hit debuff. That is certainly worth having and enhancing. I would stuff the fear though!