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Wish you'd got a screeny of them...
Apparently, the only Raptor agent in-game is a named Wyvern character.
If they ARE spawning in game, its either A) an old bug that pops up once in a blue moon B) leaked content or C) ???

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thus it is wise to throw the tank in first

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Shield tanker, lvl 10 or just below. Running in first, check. Hitting, check. Explain why a mob STILL runs away?

My main Hero and my only blueside 50 was a tanker. I remember with him that, until taunt, aggro was not as guarenteed as you claim it to be.

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I think that rather than spend taxpayers' money on policing thousands upon thousands of forums in the country and making sure that the moderators of those forums have no criminal record (innocent! Or just very good at hiding the evidence!), it would be better if the taxpayers' money was spent teaching parents about the web, the possible dangers, the likelihood of said dangers without media bias that says IT HAPPENS EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY and the ways that the parents can ensure their kids are safe.

For example:

"Dad, Mum, I'm going out to meet someone I met on the Internet."

"Okay dear, just make sure you're back before it gets dark."

is not the best way, but I'll be damned if I agree that it's the forums' fault for this happening.

And disagreeing with the way that legislation is put in place doesn't automatically make someone a paedophile's friend. Just the same as someone calling for this legislation to be put in place doesn't automatically make them a Daily Mail reader (sorry Stasis, I'll stay away from that stereotype now).

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This is my point.
You can throw as MUCH money at you want at things, whiffle on about problems as much as you like, but nothing will change if problems are not actually confronted and SOLVED.

The issue should not be 'Stop Sex offenders from getting at our children'.
The issue should be 'Why the hell are these people even out of jail, or more realistically a mental ward?'

Wow, Im getting riled about politics...dear oh lor

Also, honestly, some of the attitudes displayed are really sad. Do people behave like that in reality, when not shielded by the net?
Humanity? Y'can keep it.

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to be honst i dont really care if villians get more TFs or not my point was that those percived gaps arent empity and theres easily plenty to do in those percived gaps

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What exactly is percieved about the fact that there are gaps in the villain side SF's?

A gap is a gap, if you dont see a problem with a gap then thats great.

But something missing is not percieved, its missing.

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Um all SF doable by villians here pls point out the gap

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This is not including Ouroborous or Co-op zone SFs. There is no 10 -15 SF (Heroes have Cavern). There is no Villains only at 40-45 and 30 -35. Again, not counting Ouro SFs, which are more arcs than anything else.

Also, forgot that Mantis' SF requires you have a SG. That sucks for those that don't.

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... this is all very well, but does that fact that most defense sets have an "except Psi damage" caveat next to their toggles not give you a clue as to how overpowered this might be in PvP?

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With people blathering on about how BAD PvP is and how they'll NEVER touch it again, why oh why does it keep cropping up?
Hello? Psi blast blasters? /Mental secondary? psionics on Dominators? Already there, already beating you to death with your own skull...

The nosebleed had already stopped, and Vix's pulse had steadied from the frantic hammering it had been. For a moment she opened her eyes, casting an orange glow around the darkened room. She managed to murmur a single word, before slumping back against the foot of the bed;
"..Sarah..."

Paragon City, Three years ago, Atlas Park

"No, turn it off, you know I hate their songs!"
"Aww, come on, just this one? No, get OFF, I'm the driver, I say what goes!"

The girl stuck her tongue out at her older friend, but couldnt help grinning, then smiling as her companion burst out laughing.
The two were on there way home. Sarah's car wasnt new or even that good, but it seemed like a luxury to be able to drive rather than walk all the way home, or catch the crowded Monorail.
"Hey, did you hear that?"
Sarah looked at her.
"No...girl, you're hearing things again, right?"
"No, it sounded like...sirens and stuff..."

The brakes squealed as Sarah looked back, to find two figures bursting out into the road. One raised an arm, and a second later the windscreen shattered, and Sarah was slumped back in her seat, blood pouring from her left shoulder.
The car slewed across the road, the two robbers having to dive aside as it piled up the pavement and into a tree.

"Sarah! Sarah! Ohgod...ohmygod...!"
The girl managed to get the door open, falling out onto the grass and scrambling round to the other side of the car,
"Hold it right there, you little runt! Try and run us over, wouldja?"

The Hellions stopped dead, weapons lowering as the girl turned. Her eyes burned even brigher than the upper echilons of their gang, and the look on her face was enough to make one of them whimper "Oh, mother...!"
The pair were hurled clean across the other side of the road, even as a PPD car pulled around the corner. One officer leapt out to slap cuffs on the unconcious thugs, while the other moved slowly over to the scene on the grass.

Sarah was on her back, and she was bleeding heavily from both her arm and legs. Bits of metal were stuck in her shins, and she had an unhealthy palour about her.
"Lord...Come on, miss, give her some room..." the Officer murmured quietly, then stopped as the girl, with desperate eyes, rested her hands on her friends stomach.

At first, nothing happened. Then a sort of glow seemed to ripple out under Sarah's skin. The Officer gasped as the flecks and chunks of metal were seemingly forced out of her body, then watched in awe as the gaping shoulder wound seemed to knit itself back-up. Eventually, aside from ripped clothes, there was no sign the girl had even been touched.

The girl slumped to the floor, head swimming. She saw her friend opene her eyes dazedly, then wider in amazement.
"Sarah..." she managed, before she hit the grss, the darkness claiming her...

Saying that Villains have a lot of alternate stuff to fill the big SF gaps is also twaddle. A lot of the contacts with the interesting stuff to do need unlocking, and some of the badges redside are frankly murder. I think I realise now WHY people do paper missions all the time. Because they dont have to go through the hassle of unlocking all the contacts to actually get missions =/

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I'm sure the governent can find better things to do than police internet forums to make sure that the moderators are registered...

if this is what they are spanking my tax money on, I want it back!

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Welcome to Reality. This is what people we elect do with our money.
Now, when I get the New British Empire started, we'll see a slight change in THAT, ho yes sah...All politicians will be hung until dead from the neck up AND down, not just one way...

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First of all it should never be about the rewards TF's....reward, although the fact that you get hardly any merits for most if not all TF's, seems pointless unless your willing to do TF's all day every day untill ur red or blue in the face. It's just the simple fact of fairness in regards to the amount of TF's availble for all (mainly redside in this case). Take the Shadow Shard for instance. That should be availble to redside, if only to run about an explore, and could easily grant the TF's redside, allbe it with a tad editing. (not done em so don't know the stories).

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^ This
Quantity, Options, I'll say them till I'm red/blue in the face Kplzthnx?

/Signed

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One thing that bothers me like crazy is that they're see-through between the joint that connects the foot to the rest of the boot.

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Speaking of that, has anyone actually noticed the fact that you CANT decapitate PC Bane and Crab Spiders? They have no necks, only floating helmets

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And the whole praetorian vs project destiny comment isn't remotely relevant to the argument of TFs. Just because something is a minute amount better doesn't make it relevant. Heroes have more content globally - compare number of Tfs and GMs alone and you see theres a vast hole. How about contacts and zones too. Pound for pound no game is better, but one sure as hell has a lot less equivalent content when directly compared and that is villains.

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^ This
Villains feels a lot smaller than Heroes does. Even though people might not go to all the zones Hero side, theres still a feel of a bigger place, things you havent done yet, which you might get around to one day.
Villains basically runs thus;
Outdoor hunt through Mercy till around lvl 8. The starting missions just arent worth it, with all the too-and-fro stupidity they put you through.
Port Oakes for Paper missions.
Move on to Cap for some slightly more interesting stuff.
Hit stuff in Sharks then go to either Martial or Nerva for a spell.
Wind up in GV hitting things until 50.

Whereas Heroes have a whole tract of ways they can meander about, before eventually winding up in Peregrine for the end-game. This isnt even about levelling fast, its just the scale of stuff to do. Personally, Id love to try out some of the SS stuff, were my main Hero anything other than a Tanker (not great for soloing )

Tanker inherent is either useless or way under-powered. Even if you wade into a mob first and start cracking heads before the teams has moved in, enemies will STILL rip off after that nice squishy blaster and normally pulp them all across the floor. This is low level, before taunt. Once you HAVE taunt, why in the name of all that invulnerable do you NEED the inherent?
Giving tankers something that encourages taunting and such-not would be nice, like a bonus to something the more enemies are nearby.
I agree that vigilance is also rahter useless. My Empath never seems to have end problems, its true, but I doubt very much thats to do with the inherent.

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"Hello Skipper LeGrange, got any missions for me?"
"Thank Goodness you're here Hero! The Fir Bolg are performing a ritual that will ultimately push Salamanca into the ghost world. I need you to stand around, bored to tears for half a damn hour, swatting little groups of Fir Bolg that spawn and try to run into a doorway I need you to protect!"
"I've already done that mission."
"You've already done that mission."
"And these aren't the droids you're looking for."
"Those aren't the droids I'm looking for."
"And you're an idiot."
"I'm an idiot."

Pretty much how I use the 'drop mission' option. Bugs? Nah.

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Hehehehe.... Alpha approves.

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I'd be surprised (and delighted) if they let you create more than one "big boss" per map to be honest.

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I think one of the reports from someone who saw it ar Hero Hon said something about being attacked by a number of clockwork kings.

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Your probably thinking of NWN again, never mind.

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No Positron said in his interview on MA that, although certain scenarios wont be possible, you WILL be able to place a number of high-rank Boss targets. Unless of course they have now gone back on that..? Dont think so though.

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If you're playing on Maximum graphics, I swear I'll kneecap you
Or use [Gnome Toss] -nods-

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Same as Praf about the No problems thing. I generally just hold down Start as I click the Logout option, then let go and browse the forum for 30 seconds (- an hour, depending on subject) or so until I'm back at the login screen.

As for the graphics thing.... *looks around innocently*

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-Rips out your skull and beats you to death with it-
-nods- Yes. Yes that is possible.

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I don't think the soft controls are overpowered, but it would be a very poor blaster set without without Aim (or similar power). And it would have to be ajusted for defiance anyway.

-Acc scales automatically with AT.

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AR has no Aim. AR/Devices has no Aim OR BU, but does I suppose get targetting drone.

To clear this up; the Devs have said that NO player missions will become Canon. Not unless they go back on that at a later date. They WILL rank the best made missions as Dev choice, though, which means they are treated as normal missions for the sakes of badges, exp, drops and other rewards. NOT Canon. A slight shame, but hey

How about they make the normal boots actually look sort of decent. Nearly anything with a bit more size to it looks lik the wearer has deformed feet. Honestly, I mean...

((For members of the UV and NV mostly, as they are the ones who know Kitsune Vixen and will be around the Unity Vigil Tower. Anyone who is regular friend of the UV/NV who might happen to run in is welcome too I guess =] ))

Unity Tower, Around Midnight

Kitsune Vixen. Doctor at Chiron Medical centre in Atlas Park. Ex-student at Steel Canyon University. Field Medic and part-time Heroine. Aged eighteen. Capable, calm, collected...

Vix lay back on her bed, an icepack on her head. She hadnt even been able to get undressed. She felt terrible. Worse than she had felt in a long time. She didn't even know what was wrong, which for someone who was a psychic and an empath was both irritating and mind-numbingly worrying.

Vix winced, pressing the ice even tighter against her forehead. Only one lamp was on, keeping the room dimly lit. Occasionally, and so faintly as to be beyond notice, it seemed to flicker slightly.
"Why fight it?" a voice purred in her head, like a ruby sawblade. "Theres nothing wrong with you...you just don't want to admit it..."
"Get OUT of my head..." Vix snarled, and she could feel her teeth itch as she said it.
"You know as well as I do that's not possible" the voice said quietly, "Besides, you think I'm just going to abandon you? You clearly can't cope with all this y-"

The lamp fizzed out as the small psionic wave rebounded off the walls, the air humming and bending as Vixen's mental scream echoed silently around the room.
I can cope! Just not with you, Shadow! I like Flash, she's a really good friend! But I shouldn't have done what I did! I don't have time for a relationship yet, and why should she have to put up with someone like me? I don't know whats right yet! I get moody about it, I know, but thats normal. Now I'm stuck, stuck with that, stuck with you, stuck with feeling like my mind is burrrnnniiinng...!

The ice-pack exploded in a cloud of steam. Vix fell to the floor, clutching her head, a psionic shockwave rippling outwardsm beyonf the walls of her room. Even as it died down, she collapsed against the bed, a slow trickle of blood creeping down from her nose as a cluster of blood vessels burst, closing her eyes as she slipped into unconsciousness.

I hope you all burn in Dantes seventh circle for this ¬¬
At least until I get a new, powerful desktop...then all this shininess will be mine. MINE!
-grumblegrrgrumblegrrr-

So? The Heroes already have a lot of things that Villains dont. They can hammer all they want. 'Oh lookit thats not fair'..Yes. Yes it is. Really, people that take that mind set should grow up...its a game. And its a game where variety and options lead to happiness.

-Cuts off to avoid bad-mood reply-

If you're playing on Maximum graphics, I swear I'll kneecap you
Or use [Gnome Toss] -nods-

Thats a really, reall poor answer.
Now that CoX is one game anyway, the WHOLE playerbase has access to them. Its not a case of 'Only people who bought CoV can do them'. EVERYONE has the option of doing them.

Besides, am I the only one getting sick of all the co-op stuff here? This is becoming City of Neutral WITHOUT a going rogue feature. While I agree its good to have some co-op stuff to add variety, and the RWZ was a great example IMO, Cimerora, although good, makes much less sense. Alright, Heroes want to save the people and Villains would happily loot Rommies stuff anyway...but still.

More Factions specific stuff is fine, it gives people more reason to try out all the sides.

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I don't understand why people make such a fuss over a 60 second delay myself.

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60 seconds not counting the ton of things that can trawl along. Sometimes the login throws a hissy fit, etc. Also, while I understand preventing using it as an 'Escape Death' button, theres really little other point to it.