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  1. Gilgamesh was a godling king
    Of him the harpers sadly sing
    The fifth of Uruk ere its fall
    When Sargon's army breached its wall
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Do you think they don't know that there have been hundreds of threads that have been made suggesting this over the past 7 years?
    I wonder if it's as broached and shot down a topic as inherent fitness and customizable powers were for years?
  3. In my experience, the character creator/tailor only shows you the regular Kinetic Melee attacks NOT the attacks as they appear with the shield active.

    And I don't recall to what level I got with my Kinetic Melee/Shield character, but all of the attacks I saw (about four or so) were changed to one-handed animations with the shield. I was under the assumption that they all would be similarly altered.
  4. He was in that spawn when I recently did the mission. However, my Willpower Tanker with Heightened Senses and Focussed Accuracy had no trouble spotting him. Seeing him presented its own problems, however, as I kept accidentally targetting him and he was unaffected by all my attacks until I defeated the mob and he turned blue for conversation, and then hostile again after the conversation. So he's apparently not just invisible.
  5. Not quite on par with the Old Spice commercials it's parodying, but amusing nonetheless.
  6. "Not available in your area" - Ridiculous! My "area" is the planet Earth!
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    and the lack of ANY Inherent solo
    [Devil's Advocate]
    Unless you count the inherent travel power...
    [/Devil's Advocate]
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Steelclaw View Post
    * Canadians will be given access to special protest emote where the sign will read "It's the freaking NORTH AMERICAN server!! Not the US server go**ammit!"
    There is no Canada any more, it's now called North Montana.
  9. Tenzhi

    George RR Martin

    Just started the first book reread... aghast at the terrible things that occur right off even though (or perhaps because) I know it gets worse... and remembering just how much I like Tyrion.
  10. The psychic battle with Psimon wasn't bad. For a moment there, I was hopeful that Superboy was manifesting his telekinesis.

    The boom tube hints at a potential future appearance of an awesome villain.

    And it finally forced me to look up "whelm", which is apparently synonomous with "overwhelm"... so there's a kind of flammable/inflammable thing going on there.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
    Damn, they'll need at least three KB protection IOs for that.
    Too soon...
  12. I find that earth powers suffer from the same problem, particularly when you select Crystal.
  13. I haven't seen that, exactly, but I did run into a spawn of 6-8 of those Malta Lieutenant mechs (while soloing with my WP/SS Tanker, as I recall) that ultimately turned into 3 Zeus mechs.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    I find that hard to believe, unless your rig is on cyber-steroids
    Took me 42 seconds last time I timed it (as I said: almost the same amount of time), but that was with the old launcher and there was a slight lag on the game closing down. I've often had it tell me I was still logged in when I've exited and relaunched. I haven't timed it with the new launcher, but I suspect it would be even faster.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BackFire View Post
    Shouldn't some of those rangers have walkers by now?!?
    Why? Are they from Texas or something?
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Placta View Post
    Not every NC game makes you accept it every time; I know GuildWars doesn't.

    I don't really mind it, I can click past it just as fast in game as from the old launcher. Although it does make me even more grateful for the "quit to character select" feature.
    If the Quit to Character Select didn't have that 30 second countdown, I'd be grateful for it. As it is, it takes almost the same amount of time to immediately exit to desktop and relaunch the game.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Whats not to ridicule and be sarcastic about? You fail to point out whats so utterly terrible about this current setup when, previously, that one click was still present, just in a different place (namely the launcher).
    How about: It was silly before, and the increasing amount of time it's been left silly with no real change save to the aesthetics of it pushes it past silly into ridiculous?

    Could be that there is a ridiculous legal reason for it to be there, but surely you wouldn't be sarcastic based on pure supposition? Not *you* of all people.
  18. I've always hated the fervor with which enemies attack those pathetic pets, but that was pretty amusing.
  19. It doesn't particularly bother me - if anything the in-game version has a slicker and more aesthetically pleasing presentation than the previous launcher version - however, it really *should* remember that you've already agreed to it on a per account basis and thus not show it to you unless there's been a change.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ketch View Post
    Flying for the first time was very cool. In fact, as soon as I could get Hover I started chasing down the Atlas blimp.
    I still recall how disappointed I was the first time I discovered I couldn't ride on the blimp due to its slippery frictionless surface.
  21. This is pretty amazing in scope, dedication, and craftsmanship.
  22. My first character was my Invulnerability/Energy Tanker. Soon followed by a Martial Arts/Regen Scrapper.

    I occasionally still play that Tanker, but he's only level 36 IIRC.

    I'd probably still play my Scrapper, given that he's my namesake, but they took a powerset that I was enjoying as a rather passive set (and which makes more sense as such) and turned it into a click-intensive pain in the backside; then they released Willpower just to rub salt in the wound. Thus he sits at level 38 and I only log into him occasionally to remind myself that I abhor playing him.
  23. It'd be nice if they could integrate server status into the launcher rather than have it open the web page.
  24. I didn't have all of my serial codes to give them, but I submitted what I had along with the other info and after two days they responded that they'd reset my question for me. So at least I can access my account now.