Shadow State

Originally Posted by LostHalo

I seem to recall this book is pretty much hated for the fact that everybody is relegated to a single origin again. Much like the Origin of Powers arc saying everybody is Magic typically being treated as "ignore it" when someone complains/asks.

Alien, hell, Kheldian? Pandora's Box or Magic.
Trans-dimensional being or again, Kheldian? Still the Box and/or Magic.
You built a frankengun or some sort of armored suit? Still the Box or Magic, because you weren't smart enough without it.
Rikti Magus? Well, they scientifically studied their weakness, reverse-engineered it, then proceeded to master using it...but it's still Pandora's Box or Magic somehow doing it itself! Asinine.

That said, I try to interpret the Pandora's Box thing as being either a catalyst (as though it massively influences chaotic circumstance..whatever) or just acts as a source of people like Statesman.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

We're getting into speculative territory, now, but I rather thought the implication was that the box was "lost until the next age of gods" and not necessarily destroyed.

Originally Posted by Kierthos

Anyone who drinks from the Fountain of Zeus at the Well of the Furies would become an Incarnate.

There's just a couple problems with that, though.

1) No one's sure where it is, except for Statesman and Lord Recluse, and they aren't telling. (Statesman for ostensibly altruistic reasons, and Lord Recluse because he doesn't want to have to deal with anyone else on potentially the same power level as him.)

2) The cave that the fountain was in collapsed after Stefan and Marcus drank from the well. So, probably a bit hard to get to, even if someone knows where it is (see point 1).

Originally Posted by Echonis

And I was so hoping for something like this. Similar in function to the prestige sprints, but a motorcycle or some vehicle that a 'natural' hero would be likely to use. I guess a motorcycle could be ninja in a Spike Lee sort of way. I also thought the in-game temp power flight and jump packs would be cool for a natural booster pack. Strictly as a costume piece of course. A lot I could do with a raptor pack or Goldbricker pack. Oh well.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

In that case, my guess that her mother rejected Tyrant after he killed Recluse, and married someone else, which produced Domi, and then Tyrant got into a relationship with her as a way of getting back at her mother, and being with the likeness of her mother at the same time probably won't happen - looks like the devs want to keep it as gross as possible

Originally Posted by BlueBattler

You know, ideally, they should make Statesman a blond, Tyrant a redhead, and Reichsman a brunette...

Just seems to fit if you ask me...

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

In the original video of CoH, with Statesman's first incarnation, he had dark hair. In some of the comics where he had a ripped costume, iirc, he had dark hair.

Reich's has brown hair, Emperor Cole has dark hair...
It looks MUCH better that way. Blonde doesn't really work with that sort of build, character or with the costumes.

Originally Posted by Melancton

My pitiful Search Fu efforts could not yield the thread that talked about Marcus Cole being blond. It was then said that he used shoe polish in his initial Statesman costume to help conceal his identity.

Or I could have taken one too many boulders from Warwolves, but I thought Marcus Cole was supposed to be blond.

Not that an Eeeeeeeeevil Marcus Cole could not dye his hair to match his heart (evil laugh.)

Anyone else remember anything to that effect? It is no biggie, but that is what I thought.

Originally Posted by Rodoan

Despite owning them, I've not worked with the cyborg pieces all that much. One thing that did catch my attention was the "gloves" in the demo appeared to have mini-jets active as he flew. There was a blue-white glow with exhaust trail emitting from the palms of the character's hands. Is that indeed what happens with cyborg gloves, or is it something new or that I've misinterpreted?

Originally Posted by Oliin

Hmmm. Possible. I haven't used those pieces much.

Originally Posted by Oliin

And was it just me or were those new glove and boot pieces on the blaster they were playing around with? I recognized everything else in the costume except them.

Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer

Rikti would be the same since they are from an entirely different dimension. Unless there's a second Rikti dimension that's the Praetorian version of the normal Rikti dimension.

Originally Posted by Archon099

2) You would NEED to have a shield for it to work. :-/ So either the only people with Shield Offense have Shield Defense as well, or they have a shield sitting on their arm doing NOTHING to protect them...

Originally Posted by Vincent Morse

I think the main issue is that the content of the packs are different.

Cyborg and Magic are somewhat similar. They're mostly costume sets, with some emotes, and an inherent power. (And by the way, I find SD very useful as a Ghetto Base Teleporter.)

Superscience has a costume set and some new emotes, but it's main "feature" is the Super Tailor. The costumes and emotes take a back seat to that.

Originally Posted by IanTheM1

I seem to recall that the reason given for why they can't be changed to toggles is that it's just plain impossible to do. Capture or phase sets the enemy to "Only Affecting Self"...which means they can't be affected by the toggle after the initial effect duration passes.

Originally Posted by Dispari

Can Statesman withstand the impact of an anti-tank missile?

Originally Posted by Novastorm

Tested and works.

Thanks for that info, Shadow. I looked through the binds and macros post, but it hasn't been updated. I've been wracking my brain in futility trying to figure out how to do that, too.

On a side note to others: Make sure you run multiple emote words together, like "drinkformula".

Originally Posted by Nyvek

Basically, what I want to do is bind my Shift+1 to do a costume change to my first slot with the Spin emote.

Originally Posted by CB_GB

Having just tried several of these methods, I highly recommend going to Grandville and buying a pack.

If you get the one from an early bank mission, great. I did that mission and didn't receive it (though others on my team did - our only guess was that I had outleveled the reward?), so wanted to try another way. For a newcomer without Fly, the Redside maps can be extremely frustrating, as there are many places that require skirting vertical obstacles.