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Since the Battalion arc is after the Praetorian arc, I guess we can assume that players should be 50 (+3) at that point to fight that new and greater menace. Hopefully it will reset the bar like at the beginning of the Praetorian arc and Battalion should be at the minimum level 54(+3). Naturally, I'm assuming the next Incarnate powers will grant level shifts to fill the gap between the players and Battalion.
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I confirm this. JUst happened to me. The Poison Arrow is on the ground and won't dissappear, so Alexis is still considered being held hostage and you cannot progress and finish the mission.
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Quote:yeah, I retract what I thought it was happening in my previous post, everything seems to be normal. I've just ran a few missions and everything looks fine.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
No. It just means you have to be a Hero or Villain already and then do ONE Hero or Villain Morality Mission.
If you've already been doing them and have earned Alignment Merits or the first time Reward Merit bonus, then you should be good to go.
Changing, Affirming, and Reinforcing your moralityis 3 different things. So it's like what Chad said here. That means for a new character, at level 20 he will have to run 10 tips, one morality to affirm, 10 tips, 1 morality to reinforce and then he will be able to get Alignment Merits from the SSAs.
Assuming you want to change Alignement, lets say Hero to Villain. It would be 10 Vig tips; 1 Vig Morality to change to Vigilante; 10 Vil tips; 1 Vil Morality to change to Villain; 10 Vil tips; 1 Vil Morality to affirm Villain (and getting 50 Reward Merits); 10 Vil tips; 1 Vil Morality to reinforce Villain (and getting 1 Villain Merit). At that point, you can start getting Villain Merit from SSAs -
Looks like everyone got reverted to "no alignment", and the first time you run a Morality it won't be to reinforce it. Heroes/Villains will get 50 Reward Merits instead of 1 A-Merit. Vigilantes/Rogues will get 30 Reward Merits instead of 60 Reward Merits. Basically, looks like everyone has to reaffirm their alignments no matter what when they implemented the change to get A-Merits from the SSAs.
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Agent Kwahu, a Longbow Spec-Ops, is next to the Hospital in Founders Falls.
Agent Kwahu is one of the numerous Spec-Ops agents within Longbow. He has been part of several important operations, including the original mapping of the tunnel systems beneath Grandville and creating a plan of operations for establishing a front in Nerva Archipelago. -
Got my points today too. Billing date is 28th.
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The Coming Storm is The Batallion. With a character that completed the Underground Trial, just pay a visit to Prometheus to read all the new info he gives.
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Quote:Looks like it's bugged. If you exit the mission right away before the Freedom Phalanx arrives, you don't have the 2 Reward Merits. BUT, if you stay in the mission till the timer reaches 0:00, you are awarded the 2 Reward Merits as the Reward Table pops up. Freedom Phalanx always spawn at the same spot in front of the Obelisk, so its easy to go elsewhereon the map while waiting for the timer to reaches 0.Originally Posted by Selina_H
Villain players do not appear to have been receiving the 2 merit end-of-arc reward. After petitioning about the lost redside merits (and rounds of back-and-forth emails), I've just been informed by Support that it's not that the v-side reward merits are missing, it's that the hero SSA should never have been awarding them in the first place.
So while the lack of reward parity between sides is not by design, only the devs can do something about it - whether that means adding the reward redside or removing it blueside. -
Quote:There's also the mystery of the hieroglyphs/symbols thing. Certainly not the Dinosaurs who carved them in the rocks, hehe.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
So the series is going to be a mix of family drama plus the whole "real reason for Terra Nova" and who sponsored the "Sixers".
Will give the show a chance and watch more episodes to see how it develops. Special FXs are indeed pretty good. -
Same here. I was on Virtue.
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Quote:Looks like it might go like this:Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
For those who have ... difficulties ... with the arc exemplaring you down to 20: I was looking through Ouroboros to find a mission to run when I came across the contact for the 4th part of the story (obviously not yet available), and she's in the 40s. So no, the entire story won't be as low as this part. This was just done so that the writers could, y'know, tell the story they wanted to tell using the enemy groups they wanted to use.
Part 1: level 20
Part 2: level 25
Part 3: level 30
Part 4: level 35
Part 5: level 40
Part 6: level 45
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Quote:Indeed new. I have all the Auras and that one was locked. Also, at the tailor, I selected it to see what it looked like, and it is indeed new. It's pretty neat. I guess that Aura was in theme with the new Signature Story Arcs.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
i can confirm that it is definitly new because i have basically all existing auras and this was the only one which was "locked" for me when i went to the tailor
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Quote:Headstart is only VIP players can login, and no Premium and Free players. It just means people with a monthly subscription will be able to play for a while, before the floodgates are opened to new players, and old players who haven't re-subbed yet.Originally Posted by Dal
I wonder what would the "head start" be?
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Quote:Wouldn't the problem as I understand it still be present? Your newly Beam Rifle/Time Manipulation Corruptor gets into a level pact with my Robotics/Sonic Mastermind during the headstart. Shortly after the headstart has ended, I stop my sub, going from VIP to Premium, and I'm not high enough in Paragon Rewards to unlock Mastermind without buying them. Do the Mastermind still get the XPs even if I can't play it? The level Pact goes kaboom?Originally Posted by Arcanaville
My guess: no one thought to write code to disable level pacting someone from VIP to Free and power leveling them with pacting or something similar, and launch is too close to commit code to change it. That's why we get pacts in head start then they go away after launch: they are fine with VIPs having them, but not so much with Premium and Free players being beneficiaries of them for some reason.
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Quote:I went back to the Midnight Club and clicked on it, to re-read the text, because I think you got that part right, hehe.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
As it's Numina holding it, and the Midnighters are invovled, it's very likely to be the skull of her father, Tommy, which is currently lying on the front desk of the club.
Midnight Mystery
The Skull of Tommy Arcanus
Once a member of the Midnight Squad... always a member of the Midnight Squad. Tommy Arcanus delved so deeply into the metaphysical arts that his very being was affected. Not only was his daughter born with magical powers, but even in death Tommy's spirit is unable to pass on. Now, all that remains of him is this skull and the spirit that haunts it. -
Quote:The question is, is it for that particular arc? Lets go into the future and the Who Will Die storyline has ended. Can we run the 7 arcs during a week to get 7 rewards, or it's only one reward table per week, no matter which signature arc you run?Originally Posted by Aggelakis
It says 4x reward merits. The comment made was that for an example, if the first arc awards 20 reward merits, then once per week it will award 80 merits.
Note that the award choice is only offered once per week per character; you can't run it and choose merits, then run it and choose an astral, then run it and choose threads. You run it and choose, then any other times you run it, you don't get the award choice window. -
Quote:Tier1 is free to everyone, you don't have to spend a token for it. So the first token spent is for the tier2 (which is equivalent to the 3 months vet badge).Originally Posted by Shadow State
Is this accurate? I keep hear conflicting information on whether or not tier one costs a token.
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Quote:Don't forget every gets one Paragon Token for each year of subscription. Under the present Veteran system, someone with 48 months would automatically advance to 60 months since they get 4 tokens for 4 years.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Basically it's three changes:
1. You get them once a month instead of once every 3
2. You can opt to advance more quickly by making purchases in the paragon store
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Quote:Once you have all the tier8 rewards, you can select from tier9 or tier9 VIP... but you need to have a sunbscription to select in tier9 VIP.Originally Posted by Darkonne
What are the qualifications for being a Tier 9 VIP? Presumably you have to be a current VIP, I get that. But do you need to have unlocked a Tier 9 VIP bonus, or is the mere potential to do so enough?
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Quote:I think in that case it will be powers like Ninja Run, Nemesis staff, Remote Auction House, and the like, and not actual powersets.Originally Posted by Michael Cullen
Well they did say exclusive new powers.
What infuriates me even more, is that if I was allowed to merge the veteran rewards I've had on the various accounts I've had over the years, I'd be tier 7 rather than tier 3.
I think most if not all new Powersets (like Time Manipulation) will be free for VIP. And most probably buyable at the Paragon Store for Free and Premium players. -
Quote:You can wait to get there too, with your monthly Paragon Token.Originally Posted by Shadow Wail
So we now get to summon signature heroes/villains to do our bidding because I paid an extra $105.00 USD to get to T9?
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About the maximum 29 tokens in the screenshot, I think they forgot to count the 1 token per year. 29 tokens is indeed 87 months which is the maximum you can have presently. but 87 months vet would also get 7 more tokens for 7 years of sub, for a total of 36 Veteran Tokens.
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Quote:You get more actually, and then you will get stuff faster.Originally Posted by Shadow Wail
I love the look of the energy wings... but there is no way in hell that I am going to pay for them.
Love the game but I am not going down that route. Whatever my free points give me is the extent of my purchasing power.
66 month vet... doesn't get me anything new just what I have? So lost, could have been worded user friendly not dev friendly!
I also doubt that the IO booster is going to work the way mentioned...Can I put 6 of them into my Lockdown:Chance for Mag 2 Hold that is slotted into Volcanic Gasses?
66 months vet is 27 tokens. 27 tokens under the actual system makes you a 81 months vet. So if Freedom would go live presently, you would make a big jump in the veteran rewards. And after that, you go up the veteran rewards tree each month, not every 3 months. So you will get to the tier9 sooner than you think. -
Quote:Normally it should. 87 months is 36 tokens. You spend 34 to unlock tier 1 to tier 8, leaving you with 2 tokens to spend in Tier9 and/or Tier9 VIP.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
84 month Vet... can I get Tier 9 yet?
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Quote:Must be a mistake, I'm getting my 87 months vet badge in a few days. I had a sub since the beginning and it never lapsed. That indded should be 36 Paragon Tokens if Freedom would start in August.Originally Posted by El__D
Gotta say, this new Rewards program? I was already happy about. These specifics? That much more awesome.
But, as a point of clarification -
This says you can start with up to 29 tokens. But by using this formula: N/3+((N/3)/4)=Reward Tokens, it says I should end up with 36 Reward tokens by the time this launches (87 month vet badge, if you want the variable).
Does this mean that I will only get 29 tokens when this launches, instead of the full 36? Or is the 29 tokens the amount spent to start unlocking Tier 9, with 34 tokens needed to fully unlock Tier 9?
Beyond that small wording issue, I see nothing but greatness in this ustream overview.
Edit: Misread the VIP aspect of the Rewards. Modified post accordingly.