Samuel_Tow

How about "Saint Justice?"

Finally, with Street Justice now a reality, the F Squad has finally arrive into our world I gave quite a bit of thought to their archetypes and personalities, and have made them as the following:

Commander Ren Tarara: Street Justice / Willpower Scrapper. Her extreme physical fitness and uncompromising tenacity have made her vicious fighter and hardy survivor.

Engineer Tillin Gax: Electric Melee / Energy Aura Scrapper. The extensive modifications that Gax has made to his body have given him practical control over several forms of energy, which he made use of both in the field of battle and his work as an engineer.

Heavy Weapons Expert Irina Seth and her combat mech "Gunny:" Energy Melee / Invulnerability Brute. Gunny is a heavily modified front line heavy assault super-mech equipped with a power plant potent enough to power an entire city, which can be focused into direct energy burst attacks, and its thick futuristic armour make this machine almost impossible to take down.

Ambassador Lexxy: Kinetic Melee / Super Reflexes Stalker. Her pacifist beliefs have led her to choose a type of combat specialisation which relies on avoiding unnecessary contact and achieving combat objectives with as little bloodshed as possible.

After having played with the Seismic Path aura for a bit, I have a suggestion:

Can we please turn the Seismic Aura into a "splat" instead of a separate 3D prop that only looks right on perfectly flat ground? I hadn't noticed this before, but as you run around with the Seismic Aura, it doesn't paint cracks on the ground, but rather it creates transparent sheets with cracks painted on them and places those about an inch off the ground. Again, it looks good on flat ground (somewhat, it's still an inch off and your boots sink below the cracks) but it immediately fails once you start climbing amps or stairs, or stand on cars.

As I recall, the things the art team of old called "splats" are basically effects that follow the contour of the ground, and I believe are actually drawn ONTO the actual ground texture, as opposed to on a separate, offset plane. An easy example for a "splat" is Triage Beacon, I believe. If you put that on an inclined surface or next to a wall or other props (crates, forklifts, static consoles), it will actually curve around and over the objects it passes through, instead of just clipping with them.

This REALLY needs to happen for the Seismic Path aura, because seeing cracks hanging in mid air is just about the most distracting, ungainly things I can imagine in a game. It just looks fake, unfinished and glitchy, when I know the aura itself is actually incredibly awesome and exactly what I need for my new giant robot. Please, make the Seismic Path aura conform to terrain. Pretty please?

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Oi, here's another big one! The large crack that shows up on the ground when your character lands or is just sitting there rotates to match your character's orientation? The crack itself is not set to persist as long as a character is standing, it constantly reapplies itself, with the old one fading away and the new one fading in to replace it, over and over again. When you stand still, you don't notice this. When you turn around, the new ground crack shows up in a different orientation and does not match the old one, so you get a crack on top of a crack and it looks really bad. The aura shouldn't be set to follow the character's orientation. It should be set to show up with the same orientation regardless, say always pointing North. The orientation doesn't matter so long as it's always the same, so that recurring cracks will always match each other.

I know this is possible. The game already does it. Powers like Shadow Fall and Hurricane spawn a prop which does not rotate, centred at my character. I can turn around in it, but the FX prop ignores me and keeps its own orientation. I can spin around inside my hurricane, but it will never swing around erratically, but will rather just stay with the same orientation, playing the same animation. It will only follow me if I move, but not when I turn. This needs to happen with the Seismic Aura, because it just looks bugged otherwise. Honestly, it does.

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Here's an actual BUG. I spoke with Annah, the Halloween costume slot contact, and the static part of my Seismic Path aura disappeared. I still leave cracks when I move, but I no longer leave large cracks when I stand still or land from a jump, and the screen no longer shakes when I do that. I'm not sure what to do to fix it, but I suspect zoning will do.

Here's the thing - speaking with contacts has caused animated costume pieces to reset their animation for a LONG time now. My Vanguard shield resets back to its folded in state and has to extend and spin, my cape and trenchcoat centre sharply, my body and eye auras shut down for moment and then play their "starting up" animations where the effects build up to an array and so on and so forth. This, however, is the first time I've ever seen where an aura has bugged itself by speaking with a contact, and I'm honestly not sure what caused this. I'll try zoning and sepaking with other contacts to see if it'll cause it, but this concerns me.

Also, no, I did not get a new costume from Annah. I'd forgotten to claim the Halloween salvage bits I e-mailed to myself and I have not, as of the time of writing this, claimed that slot still.

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Zoning did return my aura, and speaking with Annah WITH Halloween salvage in my inventory did not take away my aura this time. Then I went to Kings Row to speak with the detective to see if that won't make my aura disappear, but I didn't get to do that because my static large ground crack stopped playing as soon as I walked through the Kings Row PD front door. Leaving the PD did not make my aura return.

Next I went to Pocket D. Zoning in made the large crack part of my aura return, but travelling through the main elevator caused it to disappear again. It seems like every location transition that plays the "door" animation robs me of my aura until I zone. That's not good.

I did find out, however, that this loss of aura CAN be solved by swapping costumes instead of zoning, which should be easier to achieve in places where you can't get to from another zone without passing through a lift or door (such as the Pocket D interior), but that's still a pretty unpleasant bug.

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For reference, all of this I tried with the Huge model only, and I used no weapons at all in the process of trying the above.

It appears the SKU has been found and the set is now purchaseable. I'm so glad I didn't waste my money on the CoT set, since if I had, I wouldn't have been able to buy Saint Justice now. I guess sticking to my principles WASN'T its own reward

Ugh... I so wish I could have gone to work today, if my workplace wasn't undergoing renovations. I just hope someone actually knows we're missing a SKU and is doing something about it.

It's a little too late in the day for hints, I think. Street Justice is in the game, but the store is throwing error messages. This is not something you joke with. We need to know whether the set is going Live proper later in the day, or whether it's going to be pulled from the servers. And if it's a technical problem (like I know there is), we still need to know if there's anything to look forward or if they'll just roll back the store info to yesterday.

OK, here's something I don't get: Players who had kept a constant subscription since that started being counted were expected to have 1200 Paragon Points. When Freedom launched, I was given a whopping 1950 points. I don't know where that came from, I don't know where that came from, but I'm pretty sure it's not because I signed up for six months on September 1st. 6 months' worth of Paragon Points would have come up to an EXTRA 2400 points, if not an extra 3300 with my T9 VIP status. So... What caused this?

Furthermore, after purchasing a few things off the Market last month, I ended up with 870 Paragon Points. Then came what would have been my next bill date, had I been on a monthly billing cycle - October 1st, and I got no extra points. Then came October 2nd, and I didn't get anything then, either, so it's not a case of delays. It's October 4th today, and I still see no extra Paragon Points. So... What happened to them? I'm pre-paid for 6 months since September 1st, so when am I going to start seeing Paragon Points from that subscription? I certainly didn't see them all once at my initial bill date and I don't see them being doled out to me per month, so... When can I expect to see those points?

I don't mean to be a troll here, but I kind of sort of paid for these points and I'm not seeing them on my account. This concerns me.

More stances in the vein of the Going Rogue StanceHero and StanceVillain would be VERY welcome, yes. Right now, StanceVillain2 is the only stance... IN THE ENTIRE GAME that lets us stand with our legs together.

The funny thing is that this was done specifically to avoid people missing their Brokers, villain-side. Plenty, plenty, PLENTY of people would come to the forums and complain that Moongoose told them to go to Cap Au Diable, but once they got there, they had no missions to do. "What, are we supposed to street-hunt to 50? Seriously?" Somewhere along the line, Drea the Hook and Mikey the Ear were made to auto-select themselves as soon as you entered the zone so that people could never miss out on the Newspaper contact and thereby miss out on the entire zone.

As far as I'm concerned, the Kings Row detective should show up in your contact list as a pop-up self introduction, and THAT should be the only one that gives a police band radio. That way, people's missions won't be hijacked but they'll still be introduced to the detective in an overt way.

So, is something actually going to HAPPEN today? Because it's past regular maintenance time and I don't see maintenance, and the store still doesn't have my SKU.