Soul Storm

As some of you might know I'm doing a CoH Tribute Poster. As part of this I'm planning to do a version of the poster where the 'credits' are the game's dev's actual titles and names. Can anyone here point me in the right direction of how I would get this list of names?

I've tried PMing the red names in the past but I've honestly never gotten a reply in the history of this game so I thought I'd ask the community as some of you are bound to know how to point me to the right info.

Thanks guys!

Hey all as promised I thought I'd stop by and show you a bit of an update. Had the chance to work further into the picture a little this week and I've managed to do another face more or less. Still got a little bit of work on it before I move to the hair tomorrow. Let me know if anyone's actually interested in seeing how I go through my hair process in Photoshop!

I think there's a general consensus of opinion that NCSoft shouldn't have a logo on the page. I put Cryptics on there (their modern logo) because they basically came up with the engine and the game, no matter who was behind it *cough* jack *cough* the game wouldn't have been possible without them. I'm also thinking of changing the bottom strapline to "Heroes never give up". Let me know if you think that works better. PM me if you'd like a copy of this poster on your wall .

Without further ado this is the latest progress shot for the face of the girl with her backside turned to the viewer:

Hey guys sorry I've not posted in here yet, I've had to finish a project etc - life. I should have most of the day tomorrow and pretty much all this coming week on the poster so I'll be posted more in here very soon.

Fun fact 22: A full size JPEG is over 400MB in size.

I can't offer you a t-shirt but I can offer you a poster.

Well I never expected to even get a single reply let alone any interest! This is amazing! I will contact anyone that shows an interest in getting a copy directly via pm.

Funny you should say about a bum shot, because as you can see there is one and i'll be getting to that soon enough! As you can see at the bottom of the image I've put in the Cryptic, CoH and Paragon logo's. I have been debating for a heck of a long time whether or not I should stick the NCSoft logo in there too. Any thoughts?

As I progress on this I'll post a few more shots.

Fun fact #2: It takes over 20 minutes to save this image.

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, I didn't quite know where to post it.

Back in May when the future of City of Heroes was still bright, I entered the competition to do a Movie Poster for the City of Heroes world. It was a runner up and I liked it so at the end of June I decided it would be a good portfolio piece to try to up-scale to full movie poster size: 27” x 40”. That's 8084 x 12000 pixels in total, with the 300 dpi file weighing in at over 4.5GB. In upscaling it I quickly realised I would have to completely repaint every aspect again so I took it as a summer project. Well I've literally spent well over 200 hours just on repainting all the faces in this poster to be as lifelike as I can paint them.

So why am I telling all of you this?

Well along came the big announcement that City of Heroes would be closing and I decided to repurpose the painting to be my tribute to my time in City of Heroes. As I am getting closer to completing the poster, I figure that it features a group of superheroes uniting to fight whatever they come up against and that it could be something that a wider group of people could look at up on their wall and remember their time in City of Heroes – the good, the bad and even the ugly times. So I am starting up this thread to show you what the poster looks like currently in the game (you can see it at any of the in-game movie theatres, called Ascension) and opening this up to the wider City of Heroes community.

If you would like your own 27” x 40” copy it will cost me £15 to print the poster for you and then delivery will vary depending where you live. The method of payment will be Paypal. If you are interested either leave your name in this thread and I will get back to you via PM or you can PM me. I want to make it clear I will not be making a profit from this in any way.

Currently the credits at the bottom of the image relate to the Union server, but I am thinking of changing them to the names of the developers instead.

Below are a couple of crops of the image. None are at 100% zoom.

The Ascension poster that is in the game from the facebook page:



A 75% crop of one of the character's faces (this is the guy on the poster with glowing eyes' face):



This is a very small res (4-8% magnification) of the poster in its current form:



I want to be clear here, I'm not trying to make a profit from my favourite game going under. Far from it. I will be asking a small charge to get the poster to you and to cover the cost of printing it but that is all. I thought that a poster reminding me of my time in City of Heroes would occasionally help me to remember the times I spent in the game and I thought I'd offer up that opportunity to all of you. If there's no interest that's fine, but I felt I had to at least share this with you all.

Note: If I get any interest I'll update the pictures as I get closer to finishing. Also if the current images are too big let me know and I'll reduce the size further.

Okay you're going to have to suspend disbelief here for a second, but imagine that City of Heroes gets bought by another company and is set to continue running...

IF this were the case in the future, I'm curious what would be your ultimate wishlist of things to be added to/revamped into the game. Even things that wouldn't have even ever been possible before.

I'll give you an example. If there was chance for the game to go down and come back up again I'd love to see high polygon characters that actually have fingers rather than mittens. I'd love to see textures that look good on a 1080p display and a graphical overhaul.

These are huge changes that would have far reaching consequences but let's suspend that for the purposes of this thread. If you had the opportunity of seeing CoH live on to fight another day, what changes would you make to the game as it is now if you could suggest anything and wouldn't need to compromise anywhere?

Just completed another successful Hami raid! I'll see if another day than Sunday is better next run... it takes too long to form these things at the moment.

We had another success and people seemed to really enjoy themselves once we got into the swing of things so I'm gonna lead another run this next Sunday (1st July) and see if we can speed up getting people into the zone so we can start.

Updated the OP to reflect the new Raid time: This coming Sunday at 7pm BST.

I relaly enjoy itrials most of the time but I think it's a brilliant idea and indeed sometimes necessary to have a break from them. I'm doing the same. Let me know in-game if you want to team redside sometime I have a mid-twenties corr I need to level and I'd love some company doing it

We did it!

I've run this trial LOTs tonight and I'm really pleased with the difficulty now. I thought that it was too easy to fit with how much they built this fight up and as it is he's not a pushover and you feel like you've accomplished something when he goes down. You need good leadership to succeed but once everyone's got the tactics down in say a week or two it won't be a problem, imo.

Pleased to say that the Hami run was a success! I'll try to run these more often. We didn't take very long to put Hami down at all!

Just a reminder the next raid will be tomorrow at 7pm BST. Sharp.

This badge has just started awarding on Union so I presume everywhere else too.

Just curious here but how would this proc work in a Dark / Storms powers. Would it be better to slot it in Lightning Storm (would it proc on the storm's attacks or when casted?) or a quicker attack like gloom or Dark Blast?

I enjoyed this whole arc overall but it was just little things in the 7th arc that really niggled me. The action and overall plot were alright but I'm one of those players that appreciates it when the Devs have gone all out to flesh out the back-story so I always right click>info and try to read a Bio or text about an object etc. When I check the Tanks the text that came up was: "This mainframe computer needs to be destroyed." Um... but its a tank?

Then in the next mission with Rula-Wade I checked his bio during the fight to be greeted with "INSERT BIO HERE" and on the artifacts "TEXT" which was not only lazy but I'm astonished that QA didn't pick up on those things. They just take some of the immersion and believability away from the whole thing.

I'm disappointed I had a harder time taking down AV Ghost widow than I did Rula-Wade. I think he absolutely needed to be an AV (maybe even a 53 AV?) if your option was set to allow AVs. I'm also really disappointed I didn't see him using States or Psyche's powers - wasn't that the entire justification or killing those two? And if he didn't use them and doesn't have them after the event... where the heck are they now? No explanation at all there.

Having said that I really enjoyed the mind-blowing events like floating battleships and going into spaaaaaaaaaace and I think there's a metric TONNE of potential for the future there.

Well we were a little slower to get going that I hoped, but in the end we got SO CLOSE - within 10% of victory but the third bloom took us out. We're gonna regroup and try again next Sunday but with everyone getting Warburg nukes, Shivans and taking the first wave down before we rush him.

Is it possible to allow ATO's to be put in Fire tanker blazing aura? They changed it in the patch but I can't do it in Mids.

Updated the OP to include a signup sheet for the next Hami Raid with new and experimental tactics.

*Confused* So overall for my fire/ss tanker, which power out of KO Blow, Haymaker, Burn or Blazing Aura should I slot the ATIO Proc in to get it to work properly and stack. Does the game count the Taunt Aura's base recharge as 10s or 2s or whatever the aura's actual reacharge is? I was thinking that the taunt aura I wouldn't have to think about it, but I am not sure now that it would ever proc more than once?

Help?

I respecced into the above build and im quite happy with it so far it's proven quite successful at keeping me alive in the itrials. I've been experimenting with missions and so far i've been able to run through missions up to x4 and x6 with no trouble. I agree with the point that even though its capped to s/l you will have some gaps there that will be noticable but I'm thinking about rebirth +regen to help with that.