Scarlet Shocker

Why is this news?

The obvious answer is Devs hate Villains

But I suspect it's more about the fact they can't justify it so readily given the historical low numbers redside. How that has changed (if at all) since GR went live I don't know but I'm pretty sure they know there's a disparity. The real question would it be worth the time/effort?

With the new TFs we've gotten recently they've mostly been both sides... Kahn/Barracuda and Sutter/Kal are good examples.

It would be nice... but I'm not gonna sweat too much if it doesn't happen

Vorpal's a lot of fun

I find my target then once I'm facin them often run back a bit to line up. Also there's a Face Target keybind in the options menu I believe so try that

I loved all of this.

I want the Bee Bark for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thanks PS... you consistently raise a laugh in this part of the world with your April Foolery!

I ran this last night for the first time and I was like "wow"... the scenery and effects seemed gorgeous and actually the story was pretty good too.

However, I found that the whole "end-of-level-boss" was a real disappointment, even as an AV. I mean he just went down quicker than you could say Jack Anything... and although we had no issues with the AVs at the start of the arc, at least they resisted. It just seemed too easy in the end.

Ending was very funny though

I've been in touch with support and they suggested I run in Safe-Mode for a bit which I did and crashed during the Underground Trial too but this time I was able to C&P the error and fire it off to them, so hopefully they will be able to find some clues in that

It's sad for some players - and sad news generally but I get the reasons behind it.

There is, I guess, one small, upside in that those of us who are more linguistically challenged can team with our French and German colleagues - perhaps.

Let's hope this helps integrate the community rather than becoming an issue, but I would feel pretty low if I was a French or German player

there are so many holes in canon, and so many borked stories in the game - especially the incarnate content that it's often just easier to ignore the lore and play the game.

Bon voyage and best of luck for the future!

Definitely needed - and the shape from the phoenix tail works nicely as a template.

Also... Ray Charles

I would love to see dark auras... you know... like the black ichor oozing from a dark crupper's feet or seeping from joints and tumbling to the floor

there's a problem with the dark stuff in terms or costume parts and effects; if there's any transparency then dark makes it close to invisible. Black makes most effects near transparent.

What we need is a transparency slider for effects that are important - so that we can set their level as desired.

When entire teams and leagues crash - repeatedly - I know it's not me. It's not my PC, it's not my config. But when you cannot complete stuff because Cityofheroes.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close... and it happens to several people on the team if not the entire team/league. That's a massive problem for Paragon Studios and I'm tired of it.

I had that problem a few times, but it's fixed now. Whenever I create a new character I type the following:

/wdwload
/optionload
/chatload
/bindload

That then sets up the screens as I want for every character and if anything goes wrong, it's an easy fix.

Obviously before you do that, you'll need to make sure you've got an alt with everything set exactly the way you want using the corresponding save option (eg /wdwsave etc)

Hope that helps

Why do you crash the entire team several times every mission?

interesting. Yeah I'm thinking they are a nice to have... and as you say the damage is a nice bonus but I'm actually liking the character as she is. She's very new (created 16th March - 50 by the Monday night) so I'm still getting to know her as it were - I've built her a pretty ok build but I tend to mostly aim at the softcap, simply to give her some surviving....

Like Memphis Bill, I kind of object to the notion of "Gimping" but perhaps for a slightly different reason.

In simple terms I play the character I want to play and if I get into it then it goes a long way. If for whatever reason I cannot relate to it, whether or not it's technically good it gets consigned to the great hero dustbin in the sky. If however I enjoy it, whether or not it's good on paper, it sticks around and continues to be developed over time.

One thing that amazes me is the lack of realisation amongst a large proportion of the playerbase that there are at least 1001 ways to play this game, each as valid as each other, and none are bad per se, but it seems that if you do anything other than go for a min/max build and try to make your toon as uber as possible you will get laughed at by many.

I build almost all my characters for concept, rather than ability, and only a few turn out to be unworkable, so it's generally a case that if I like it, it'll do the job I want it to do - and I also have a quirk that makes me want to take on extra challenges within the game, just because. But to do that, the challenge has to be achievable, so I'll try and make a tough character to solo the ITF, for example - and I cannot ever imagine doing something like trying to solo the STF only using TO enhancers

So in a roundabout way I guess I've said "sort of"