Tanngrisnir

Not a huge bug, but this patch has changed the way that huge model shield characters run.

Prior to this patch, when your shield was active, you ran with the "normal" male body gait instead of the "Hulk have rash, hulk must hunch over and run with legs far appart" run that huge body characters normally use.
After the patch, even with shields active, you run in the "hulk have rash" mode, UNLESS you hold forward and right/left arrow, then you appear to switch to the "normal body male" run style.

I'll have to logon my katana scrapper later and see if the same applies to him.

So the Paragon Times article mentions it'd be disasterous if they reached a major city like Chicago or Empire City. I've been to Chicago, and it rates "major city" but never heard of an Empire City. Searching on the internet turns up a place in Oklahoma, which seems a bit away from RI. Also only showed a population of 734 for the 2000 census.

New fictional city?
Empire City = Nemesis Empire? All automaton population? FTW??

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Bah, this is the second or third time someone has mentioned Oblivion getting in trouble, apparently for some sort of ratings issue, and nobody's bothered to explain it. Do I HAVE to Google for it?

I have Oblivion, have in fact been playing it and CoV most every night. What juicy, scandalous material am I missing?

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There's a mod to show breastessess.
The ESRB is so screwed (or maybe it's just society.) You can have a game where you kill people all day, very bloodily and horribly I might add, and it's teen rated. But show any kind of semi sexual content and get slapped with an M rating.

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I figured that the Patron Power Pools might add some new powers instead of recoloring and boosting existing powers.

These are pretty much all of the patron powers:
AoE Ranged
AoE Immobolize
Ranged Attack
Ranged Snipe
Shield
Summon Pet
Hold
Ranged Cone?
Utility power (Power Sink)

There are no new powers. They are all recolors of existing ones, and they may be a bit more powerful than their powerset counterparts. Theyre not even good powers. Look at ones for heroes, like Focused Accuracy, and Force of Nature. Nothing the villains gets comes close to these powers. There are really only 9 or 10 new powers in the PPPs. They just do diferent, albeit useless, seccondary effects. Are the devs just lazy or are they inneficent?

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Um, Focused accuracy is relabled targetting drone and Force of Nature reads like a scrapper or tanker 38 power.

APP's and PPP's are both just relabel/recolors of existing powersets. Also, I don't think it is realistic to expect these to be powers that are better than what you get in your primary or secondary. The purpose of these is to give you something you don't get in your primary or secondary. Like AE immobilize or ranged attacks for brutes. Holds for stalkers and corrupters, etc.

Also I'm betting that the devs very much regret giving focused accuracy out in an APP. It was a stupid move in my opinion as it completely overwhelms the other tanker/scrapper APP's for just focused accuracy alone.

So a question on school of sharks.... Does it scourge? And if so, does it scourge on each tick?
One of the problems I have with tenebreous tentacles is it only scourges on the initial hit, secondary damage never scourges. Night fall scourges on each tick however and I'm hoping school of sharks scourges on each tick also.

Just did one in a group of 4 players, two brutes a dominator and my corrupter, all 40. We got the rob brickstown bank.
All went well until..... Malise showed up. He was same level as us, 40, and unkillable.
We beat on him for maybe 5 or 6 minutes, his health barely moved and when it did move he'd hit one of the brutes with transfusion. >.<
Needless to say, we all went to jail. Then we came out and trashed some more stuff but ultimately ended up failing it since we couldn't take down the hero.

All in all it was fun, but an unkillable hero takes a lot of the fun out of it.

Was hoping to play my corrupter tonight, but looks like test is down now. I'm on the second mission into Mako's storyline, could probably get 41 by Friday if the server was up.
I'm torn between the armor and the sharks though. Armor would be useful but may pick school of sharks first to see what it's like.

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I have been very much looking forward to the "red" electric shields.... I have to agree that the "holes" in the set that are only corrected by power pools is very problematic for Players

I think the thing that pisses me off the most is Red Lightning has a Very "Mu" Theme to it correct.... So I have to take the leaping pool for Acrobatics to keep from being knocked all over the place, But MU"S HOVER & FLY. How was this not thought of when the Set was Designed or Assigned abilities? How?

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Um, ya know, you can take hover and fly too.... And hover negates knockback about as well as acrobatics. You get hit, you do a flip, keep attacking.
I use hover on my fire/fire tanker (42 currently,) and never have problems with knockback. Hrmmmm, two powerpool powers to get travel and knockback protection vs. 3 from leaping.... hrmmmmm. Think I'll stay with hover/fly.

Yeah, can't pass up a tempting target. "Oh look, a boss. Hrm....... Can I take him out in one shot or will I need placate?"