Schismatrix

Gerund adverb.

That's actually fairly relevant and somewhat clever.
Who are you and does the real graystar_blaster know you're using his account?

Nope, no chance at all. It will be a chilly day in Heck before we get things like tights with colored patterns, a variety of capes, boots and gloves with assorted styles like tight and folded over, Chest logos, mask patterns for faces or anything else that's iconic of the gold and silver age comic book superheroes. i would expect that all that would've been in the game almost at launch if there was ever any intention having a superheroic theme to the game and that ship has long since sailed.

And they're certainly not going to have 21st century superhero comic stuff like metallic and shiny costumes with glowing accents and details. Nope, never going to happen.

Someone forgot to let the original Devs know that Western superheroes have never drawn on mythology or worn hats or had glowy stuff, ever. Maybe if there's a CoH2 they'll correct all that.

Incidentally, why post a rant about a desire for playable solo Incarnate content in the section titled "Archetypes & Powers General Discussion" when there's a section clearly labeled "City Life - CoH & CoV General Discussions"? Then again, if you'd bothered to look there you would've seen several threads discussing the upcoming solo additions.
Yes, sometimes other people actually pay attention to section titles and post in the logical sections, which i guess makes it hard to find for people who expect every single bit of info to be posted in a rather specific subforum regardless of relevance. Or something. Also, the Dev Digest and Community Digest are good places to look.

Oh yeah, there's also those places as well.

There are clear mechanical issues with having two weapons attached to the same node and it would take some rather extensive alterations to the character models to change this; the Devs have been clear on this in the past.

Honestly it doesn't matter since Santorican wants what he wants and no reason against it is acceptable. The inanity of the thread's premise that Shield Defense is broken simply because he's not getting what he wants and every response made since then has made that much apparent. *shrug* Maybe some day the Devs might reconsider and alter the basic character models to accommodate this wish. If Santorican wants to hold his breath until it happens i will support his efforts 100%.

Fix hole in roof septic tank you must.
If you do not the golden shower shall upon your head be.

Set it to close after launching the game and see how it does then.
It sounds like leaving it running in the background might at least be contributing to the crashes.
In my case it takes the launcher about four seconds to load, so it hardly seems useful to leave it running anyway. Of course having a different system YMMV.

So, wait, if we tech the tech it will fix the tech that teched up the tech and then the tech will once again tech properly? Make it so!

"Fixed." That word, i do not think it means what you think it means.
The reason it cannot be used with two handed weapons is that it is not broken. Setting aside the technical issues with implementing this, from a real world and fiction standpoint shields of the type used in the powerset are almost never compatible with wielding two other weapons at once without having more than two arms or indulging the whims/whinges of 12 year old munchkins/Mary Sues. "Throkdormontraaaaal is a quadruple classed Barbarian/Barbarian/Ranger/Ranger who can wield a great sword and kite shield in each hand and use two bows at the same time using his Bracers of Spectral Limbs. He's also half dragon, half elf, half troll and two thirds Celestial." "Hey, where are you going? You haven't heard about his Armor of t3h Awesomez that he won by nut-punching Odin and Zeus at the same time."

i've had the launcher set to close after launching CoH since it was implemented, and in every way it performs better than the old launcher did for me. It does what i need it to without fuss or difficulty and apparently i lack the relevant experience with other game launchers (other than the old CoH launcher, which was definitely worse) to compare it to in order to realize it's a "turd".

i certainly hope so.
Especially since we're also getting more free (for VIPs at least)powersets.
Also, while i expect new buff/debuff sets will continue to be propagated to MMs i also expect at least one new MM primary in the next couple of issues, and that it will be free.

Catgirls versus apes? Interesting.

Yes!

Okay, i had never seen that before and it made me laugh. (Not very loud since it's late here, but still.)

*sighs*
Next time.


Is this one of those situations where someone wrote custom code to link the forum software to the account verification system and then moved on leaving the code largely uncommented and undocumented, and now the people dealing with it have to figure what the original coder did?

The Battalion of the Rikti Earth attacked them about a century ago and the Rikti drove them off.

Overall Rikti Earth is a relatively peaceful place as long as they're not attacked. Which is probably because the Rikti are one of the most powerful known species in the CoH universe. Consider that until the magical barier was erected, and some dialogue with their leaders occurred, the Rikti were sending attack ships the size of city blocks through enormous portals to Earth. It took one of the most powerful metahumans on Primal Earth to down one ship. And that's after only taking a year or so to tool up to a war footing after having had very small military for over half a century.

Hell, i have a Night Widow who will never have the PPPs for concept reasons (she was originally made to go hero ASAP and was about level 23 when side switching went live), and since VEATs have no access to APPs that means she will only ever have access to the standard powersets. Yet i'm okay with that. i also have a hero who went redside a couple months ago to unlock PPP access. While there i also picked up a bunch of badges, but forgot Invader. That's okay since it just means i'll do it again sometime. The only reason i went back to blueside so quickly is to finish off some the late game arcs, especially the Praetorian stuff.

She's as responsible for losing things as the recruiter at a security company would be. Gregor watched over the vault at a facility in a different part of the city. Azuria's the one tapped as the MAGI rep at city hall to find people to recover the stuff after it goes missing under Gregor's watch.

i have a feeling it's related to them now having those tunnels under Atlas Park. They come up through a secret basement door hoping to steal some magic artifacts and realize too late that the vault with all the portable, powerful artifacts was actually in Galaxy City under Gregor's watch. That's when they realize that the secret entrance only opens from the tunnel side and all the corridors are crawling with heroes. "FFFFFFFFFFfffffffffff~!"

Occasionally. i've seen several reports of Hellions who have apparently managed to sneak into city hall.

That was my question as well. i was not aware of Tar Patch having a mez component.

You always have to wonder how that works. Obviously he's not absorbing much visible light or Cyclops would have black, or at least very dark, skin. Which makes me wonder if he appears to be a black silhouette in ultraviolet and infrared views.

It's riffing on the conceit that cars, motorcycles, and scooters/hover bikes are somehow more "natural" than jetpacks, jump packs, piston boots, or rocket boots and thus more acceptable for natural origins.

Truly natural characters should be required to run everywhere and no turning on Sprint; no natural human can run at Sprint's speed for any length of time. Well, maybe if Sprint's endurance cost was multiplied by ten for natural origins.