Scarlet Shocker

That's not always a bad thing...




But to address the OPs concern - whilst I understand what he's saying, I think we just have to accept that time doesn't work in game the way it does in the real world. Hell, how many times have you run the ITF on the same character? Have you done it on different characters?

It's generally accepted that there are fewer metahumans in the CoHiverse than exist in game and missions only get run once despite Ouroboros - and yet we often repeat them many times. That's a paradox we happily accept - in the same way that we accept that in the fifty years of the Fantastic Four, they haven't really aged nor has Franklyn grown up and Sue Richards isn't pushing 70ish...

Penny was a teenager when we first encountered her - now she's grown up. That's ok. I know Praetorian Vanessa De Vore is dead because I saw her body and watched Desmond Moaner take her mask. But I'll meet her again in Praetoria on a lowbie sometime soon.

If that were the case surely they'd be back more frequently... Sure they have big nasties... but they aren't so nasty now we're Incarnates. Metahumans have increased exponentially since the Rikti first arrived.

Hell they don't even try invading any more cuz we kick their arses to kingdom come.

That's a very interesting point - we become the greatest we can be... and then there needs to be something we must fight against.

Somebody above also said the Rikti have fought the Battalion off - which is interesting because as the game stands, we're pretty well stalemated with the Rikti at present. That could lead one to suspect the Battalion would be somewhat circumspect in their initial contact with us... plenty of fifth columnists (lower case variety) etc... The idea being if the Rikti and the Humans have fought each other to a standstill and the Rikti can beat the Battalion... then when the Rikti and Humans join forces to take on the Battalion...

Maybe with Statesman out of the way we can now be a bit more pro-active in making our world safe.

As for influences on the game they draw from many many sources but there's a lot of Squadron Supreme that just screams "City of Heroes" from its pages.

I like the sentiment but that's not what I understand the Well to be - were it to be so it'd be much more pleasing. However my understanding is that the Well is a separate and distinct entity that's little more than a lunatic psychotic witha lot of power - however it's not humanity. Conclusion; either I've missed something or it's written so poorly the meaning is lost in delivery.


Well we asked for the Galactus event and we seem to finally be getting it... and although I'm going to retain a healthy level of scepticism, I'm hoping that the writing for the Battalion will be a whole lot better than it's been for the Incarnate story so far. I'm not sure it will be but I won't damn it to death until I've proven the pudding so to speak.

Obviously - we know we cannot lose the fight against the Coming Storm, whatever entity it is - because if we do, then it's literally Game Over... so I don't envy the challenge the Devs have to meet, especially the writers.

In my opinion, the game has come on in leaps and bounds since GR arrived in terms of graphics, shiny and the new powersets are a lot of fun. Many of the mechanics are great too... but the writing hasn't reached the same level of awesome. Let's hope that the Coming Storm addresses that.

I still have the Arachnos cape I won in the "badge" hunt tied to the back of my chair.

Much fun was had. I still got the interviews with War Witch, Ghost Raptor, Kerensky and Rockjaw too... and Ms Liberty and Ghost Widow's breakers.

To be fair, what you've described sounds rather like the plot of Marvel's Annihilation series, so if they retained exactly that concept it's probably a game killer.

I've gone to visit Prometheus and spent a good hour or more reading and rereading his sordid little tail. [sic - good enough for Carroll, good enough for me]

I'm convinced that he is "The Well" that we are dealing with and he's giving Cole his power, whilst setting us against him because he's scared by the Battalion and that's meant his tale's between his legs [I did it again, sorry.]

He's clearly having a loose bowel moment over this, and is essentially arranging an arena fight between us and Tyrant, and the winner gets to be his champion and fight the Battalion and stop him being eaten. He's doing it remotely because he knows if we suss him out, then he's got nothing left - and so he's gone to the end of time and is trying to manipulate us from the base of the (not very) Grand Schemer Nemesis - and if we find out we'd just tell him to GTFO. So he has to manipulate us from a distance - almost as though we're his Champions Online [ Ok, I'll stop now, I promise]

Two other things I noticed from speaking wtih him: No mention of the TPN or MoM trials - which seems to be a curious oversight. More importantly - he's scared of us. I'm undecided about the writing - some of it's pretty ham fisted, but I'm not going to open that can of worms here - but some is subtle as though he's saying: "I can control Tyrant, but I don't think he's up to the job of saving me, but I can't control a whole bunch of heroes to that extent, so I must give them free will and beg them to save me." He needs us, but once we've gotten that power the genie's out of the bottle and there's no going back. It could be that by saving him, we emasculate him - which is a subtle take on Cronus and his castrating Uranus.

There are other wells out there, and Prometheus has told us that Zeus was one of the first Incarnates - but just a man. The Titans could well be the other Wells, the original Incarnates - there are clearly others around - we've just not met them.

Maybe that's for the future - we save Prometheus from Battalion, and then he summons his brother Titans to save himself from us.

The specific wording there is: "Some see their discovery of Primal Earth's dimension as inevitable; a "coming storm" which could rival the Rikti Invasion in destructive potential."

That is "A coming storm...." rather than The Coming Storm

It's not necessarily the definitive version... and there do seem to be some false leads and/or blind alleys. Let's remember the Devs have form in this, and take great pleasure in misleading us indirectly - which I generally believe is a good thing and fun for them to do. Gets the speculative juices flowing and all that.

One of the big hints that there could be "Titan Involvement" is the fact that all the major names are taken, and yet I've never seen a titan name in game. That seems to be on all servers - and Prometheus clearly has some agenda here that's more than his stated aim.

I know... but it was too good an opportunity to pass up... and there's no reason why he couldn't have been playing at being a mortal... in a Christian Walkeresque way maybe.

That comes later, if we humans lose!

Likewise! Us Old 'uns gotta keep the young 'uns in shape right?

I agree. There's a major disconnect between the Customer Service team and the main Customer Facing representative - however my gut instinct tells me this is a communication and quality issue - probably because the GMs cover all NCSoft games and Zwill has a much narrower focus on CoH. But, I'll bet anything you want that's a technical issue and relatively easily resolved. Questions is, how easily do they want to resolve it?