Schismatrix

In my view you pay $10 for the costume pieces and the power and emotes are free. The costume pieces were definitely emphasized more in the promotion of the pack. Or you could look at it as being a less than $1 power if you divided the cost of the pack by the number of costume pieces and powers it gave you and counted the emotes as being freebies.

i tend to pop a yellow or two right before triggering the power anyway. i rarely use it past the early teens, and at that level it easily decimates even con minions and lieutenants, and will even take out bosses if you soften them up a bit first. If you can lay out a bit of AoE before exploding it's easy to wipe out most +1 or +2 enemies in the early levels. After that i generally only use it for the occasional amusing moment. Like right before i'm about to level. Dingrezzing from Self Destruct xp is very amusing to me.

Hell, they could release a completely unrelated to Mutants booster pack next, much like the Valkyrie pack had nothing to do with the origins booster series.

Blurgh?

Like the kerfuffle over the revamp of the Gladiator shoulders a few months back?

*heh*
This was also discussed (much) earlier the same day you posted this in a thread created in the Player Questions section. Has a few more pieces of info/insights that might be of interest regarding the name change.

i have an Invuln/SS Tanker named Scrapyard Joe on two servers who has Self Destruct set to auto. He's a robot(?) that was put together by the owner of a junkyard where a lot of destroyed hero and villain gear gets dumped. Sort of resembles a mass of battered, mismatched robotic and cybernetic parts. Thoroughly nice fellow even if he is a bit glitchy and prone to exploding.

Well... said?

Anyway, one of my most disturbing villains is Eidolon of Agony, a mind/spines Dominator. His bio mentions the procedures that altered his body and mind, allowing him, among other things, to share his pain with others and his ultimate goal of achieving transcendence by reaching the bliss on the other side of infinite pain. Actually the bio describes it a little better than that, but i can't currently access the game or the original text right now since my computer wouldn't POST when i got home last night.

i have several other disturbing characters, either for the concept, the squick or both, but i'd have to look them up, which is a bit difficult at the moment.

On a related note, most of the technology SO's are described as being cybernetic augmentations, not bits of strapped-on tech.

Regarding the Superman portion of the discussion: As for Superman being natural, not sure if it is/was canon, but i recall reading somewhere years ago that Kryptonian metabolism is partially fueled by solar radiation, and exposure to the light of more energetic stars supercharged their metabolism granting them capabilities far greater than normal. i think that might have been part of the Byrne interpretation of Superman, but i'm not sure. As for the spectrum of a red sun instantly suppressing their powers... i have no idea how that was rationalized in comic book science. But then consider the whole thing about the various colors of Kryptonite. Um, a wizard did it?

Exactly my point.

Very nice. When i saw the new helmet pieces one of my first thoughts was (oddly enough) "Sylph Knight has probably been waiting for a helmet like this for years."

EU=European
NA=North America

Previously there were separate forums and server sites for European and American players. The forums were merged several months ago and now only the server sites are separated.

One of the few contexts where this can be said.

i just spent a little while browsing the revived R. Talsorian site. Owning many of their games, and having enjoyed much of the design of Cyberpunk 2020, Mekton Zeta and Cybergeneration, i wonder if those currently running things have any connection with the original people. Much of the site has the mid-90's high school student's Geocities page look and feel, with similar design and loading speeds, and the promotional/introductory materials have typos along the lines of spelling character 'charcter'. No animated .gifs of dripping blood or spinning skulls as section breaks, so i guess it wasn't quite that bad. Still, it made me a little sad.

Edit: *heh* They spell Falkenstein 'Falkenstien' directly opposite an image of the game's cover that shows the correct spelling...

Edit 2: Actually, the more i browse the site the sadder i feel. Wow, it's... not good.

"whelp, I've got both those genes."

And no icing on the bathroom walls here. Any roleplay is of a single type, not both at once.

On that note, i'm not surprised i saw posts about 'variant' applications of the new booster's pushup emote within hours of it being released. The instant i saw the video in the release i expected as much.

Excellent! /e thumbsup

Ah, in any event, i wanted to post the list of buggy face shape settings for the record.

Sapphire7 was referring to the Shape (preset geometry) setting for the faces, not the Face (texture) setting.

The shape settings are:
Average 1
Average 2
Average 3
Average 4
Youthful
Strong
Intellectual
Thin
Square

Bold settings do not cause bald spots for Braided Buns, underlined settings do. So 5 out of 9 settings cause female pattern baldness. My guess is that the buns are being pulled a little too tight.

When i said better i was referring to how the powers work, not their appearance. CJ is better numerically in that you gain far more advantages running CJ than NR when in combat. That is not relative. NR looks cool, but is mechanically inferior in combat. And that's even ignoring CJ's defense buff. Now when traveling i consider NR to be clearly superior to CJ, both in function and looks.

Actually, -res and +dam are more important than -regen in most AV fights. There are only a couple AV's where -regen is more significant. Madame of Mystery comes to mind. Also most GM fights benefit more from -regen IIRC.

Yes, it works, but honestly almost any combination of AT's and powersets works in the hands of skilled players. The fact that people have done "all [AT name here]" STF's and RSF's demontrates that.

Based on the Nick Fury and His Howling Commandos comics and all the other titles he's appeared in since then it's a pretty good bet that Nick Fury has martial arts training. And by that i mean extensive training in hand to hand combat techniques. Even if someone takes martial arts to only refer to combat techniques developed in Asian countries (sorry, rest of the world, but none of your melee combat styles count), all modern hand to hand combat schools involve some techniques of Asian origin in their styles.

And the warrior helmet pieces have given me some bad-*** armor designs that have nothing to do with ninja or samurai.

Mine: 3+ Corruptors, Defenders Controllers or VEATS and whoever else wants to join.

Because an answer that is not the answer you want is the same as no answer at all?

Besides, there must be dozens of players intimately familiar with the coding and interaction of all the various systems that make up the game who aren't giving the OP a detailed rundown on the exact capabilities and potential of the client and server architecture and potential extensions thereof that aren't telling him just to be mean. i guess.

Or maybe he expects someone in charge at Paragon Studios to drop everything and give him an extensive analysis of the potentials and limitations of the game's systems. After all, it's called "Player Questions" not "Player Questions and Answers". You'd have to read the slightly smaller print to know that both the questions and answers in this forum are provided by the playerbase.

Also, doing your own research is hard. i'd provide links proving this, but i don't want to do the research to find them.