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It's not terribly noticeable if you use the big gloves/boots like I've got on my luminous guy up there.

That's the Fire set... >_>

Well, 'Fire and Snow' doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but I think they were trying to fill the hole in terms of style for the latter.

So now we know who Dies For Real in WWD #7 instead of Statesman.

I lol'd.

I meant, blade in one hand, gun in the other, living the dream. That sort of thing.

I'm not entirely sure if the current engine couldn't handle it. First of all, you'd have to populate the map with stuff that can be picked up. Basically, the entire map would become a mayhem/safeguard. Maybe not terribad in terms of graphic slowdown, since you can't exactly see the whole map at the same time anyway.

Second, you'd either have to adjust current powers or make a completely new power for any power set that you wanted to pick up the stuff...but suppose you were to try and turn, say, Hurl into this sort of power. What kind of input would be needed to tell your character to pick up that semi instead of chunking a piece of concrete from the ground at said semi at point blank range? Some sort of mode change like Dual Pistols? Whatever the answer is, the issue seems like a tricky hurdle.

You'd then have to have animations specifically for picking up/carrying/throwing that particular item, and also the correct item if you don't want to be called lazy: they come in all different shapes and sizes. In any case, I don't think this could be done in the same way that, say, Gordon Freeman picks up stuff with the Gravity Gun in HL2.

Then you'd have to consider another hurdle if you don't want every object to do the same amount of damage or have the same effects...say, a thrown parking meter versus a thrown semi that might explode. How would the game store that attack information on the object you've picked up? What if you didn't have a target to hurl it at, and wanted to set it down instead? Which powers would you not have access to while carrying that object? Would your available powers change depending on the object you were carrying, say, that parking meter versus that semi?

All of these issues might be solvable with the current engine, but it would take diligence, care, and time, and the cumulative amount involved would have to be weighed against the amount of value that object-chucking would add to the game.

Man, I've been waiting for a Blade/Gun Dominator secondary forever.

Well, we've got Ninjutsu. Maybe the devs could work on something more gadgety and less ninja...ey...somewhere down the line.

I'm not sure why we couldn't just have this. Just fold the storylines and powers over from 1.0 to 2.0. I think this is what people are really wanting.

From what I can tell, Serene poked a hole between planes to get to the Apparitions to not only unleash them on First Ward and start making people miserable, but also to use them to bind Diabolique, who she would sacrifice so she could bind the Furies to her will.

EDIT: Although, I'm not really sure on that part where Serene just lets them loose on the citizens for whatever reason. Really, Serene just seems to hate everyone's guts.

Diabolique explicitly says that the Vortex is a portal into 'this' (Praetorian Earth's) spirit world, much like how the fairy circles in Croatoa lead to Primal Earth's spirit world. She may be nuts, but she's not smoking anything. You can even see the same yellow-gold haze associated with CoH's interpretation of those places when you see through the Apparition's memory as you do in Croatoa.

Versions of this guy have been around for over a couple of decades.

HD's appearances are not random.

In Phase 2, HD appears in the Main Building. That's the building in the center of the map.

Starting with Phase 3, HD appears in these buildings on the following cycle:

TPN Today (the building with purple lights) ==> Main Building ==> VisualCom (that third building)

I believe Phase 4 restarts the cycle. In any case, once you get booted out of a given building, you can immediately proceed to the next and wait for it to open up.

The person(s) responsible were able to send one or two messages across the entire server claiming that they warned development of the security flaws in the system. I believe someone challenged him or her to show off just how much control they claimed to have, and he or she proceeded to lock the server up, or something to the effect.

The database hasn't been hacked yet, but at least one server has. I believe the party responsible was arrested and charged, but we never heard anything more about it.

I had a feeling that's where this thread was heading and thought I'd save everyone some time.

What this says to me is that you shouldn't bother doing either, really.

Technically, he could, but his conclusion wouldn't be considered to be as reliable as a test done with a larger sample size. Say, n = 2.