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Quote:The character creator screen is being shown off, so I bet the idea was to show how many options are possible. Which is probably why they went with that shot for the video as opposed to a normal screen sans weapon options. Is that really so hard?Originally Posted by Bronze Knight
I just noticed somthing odd at 2:26 they are at a tailor if you look you can see the "Weapon" tab there to add guns and swords however.....
At 2:30 you can see the toon is mental blast.....
So what weapon is it?
Conversely, they could be playing an AR/Mind blaster, or some random hybrid that only the devs can play. Have you ever seen a Dev in-game? Some of their info boxes are very very long. -
Quote:I hadn't noticed that the first time I watched it, as I already have Electric Fences(Immob) and Tesla Cage(hold) on my storm/elec/elec. But, thanks to you pointing it out, went back and looked. And ooh,shiny and new, I'm assuming, toggle on the one throwing around the electricity.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Electric Control at :58
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Quote:What gets me, is that the Mutant SOs actually have a descriptor following the unique names. Why didn't they do this to all the rest of the origin SOs?Originally Posted by Aggelakis
I really don't want to homogenize the DOs/SOs. It makes the game lose flavor, which is not what anyone should want to happen.
The best solution is to add a description in the store and/or to fix the broken tooltip.
I've considered just limiting myself to Mutant origins just so that when I hit SOs I don't have to bother with right clicking. -
Quote:Look carefully at all the glove options that are allowable with Trenchcoats.Originally Posted by Conna
...buh? The ridged bits on the torso are selectable with the trenchcoat (nice clipping problem on the boobular area, by the by) but how would the hands interfere with the trench? Especially sleeveless?
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No love for the Poison secondary for Masterminds?
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Quote:It's the ridged bits.Originally Posted by Conna
I'm trying to combine a trenchcoat (sleeveless) with the thorny-less organic armor on the hands... but it won't let me select organic armor. It seems to be un-selectable in conjunction with the trench. Is this deliberate? because I can't see how it'd interfere, like with wings...
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Quote:I don't think this one is a bug. Or at least, I hope it isn't.Originally Posted by Coolio
And another 2 bugs already...
Female heads (May affect male/huge too)
1. Organic Armor - With no pattern (None) the eyes glow and the back of the head pattern has a few glowing stripes...
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Ooh, dev diary.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/24/de...s-mutant-pack/
Hey look, no scales or giant cat eyes on the concept art. What's up with that?
Or rather, why were they added? The concept/production looks so nice, cleaner design too. -
Quote:Okay, for another example: I have a fire/fire scrapper who I want to always be able to fight Tsoo. So, how do I get this? Turning off XP. Due to concept, he's perpetually stuck at 28, because that's the last level that Tsoo turn up in radio missions, except for bank robberies from the radio, and after that, there's only Tsoo in Talos Safeguards after which, they disappear. So, I can still team up with high levels, and be SSK'ed up, and keep at the "street level".Originally Posted by Nightphall
I have to disagree. Robin (like Batman and Nightwing before him) started off as a street-level hero (when he started soloing), but as time went on, he could technically be classified as city-level. Batman started on the streets, but eventually moved on to patrolling the entire city. Heck, some of Robin's story arcs have him going to other countries, and sometimes other planets. (When with the Titans).
Street-level should just be reserved to heroes who are just beginning their careers, as most of them do move past that.
I do however agree with Johnny Butane on the whole Mynx and the Vindicators are a little over powered. But, I also can see that this game is an MMO.
Thankfully, there's always the opportunity to present most of the Vindicators as they truly should be with the MA, just copy the costume and put them at whatever level/difficulty that you want. Granted, they won't all look exactly right as some of them have unique items/parts. But, at least, you can "fix" them so that they're consistent with the power level that they really should be.
And blah blah blah, the MA is as real as I say it is. -
Did you know that Wonderella has mouseover text too?
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Quote:I don't know about Recluse's minions being completely disloyal. They do seem to fall in the Destro, or a little under Starscream, type, where they'll do what he says, and every so often try to usurp his position.Originally Posted by ChaosExMachina
I'm talking about Recluse.
Alternatively, Nemesis is an awesome villain. He's proto Dr. Doom with more style, and steampunk is fun.
While it's weird that he has loyal minions, every group does, and that's villain cliche. What makes him better than Recluse, other than actually demonstrating mental power rather than being a brute cast as a mastermind, is that players aren't assumed to be among those minions, and neither are high level AVs, or tons of text in newspapers and such.
As for Nemesis? Which one? I mean, there's who knows how many Fakes running around and then there's the issue of Mender Silos. That seems a little too on the nose, right? Almost seems a Kang/Immortus situation there. -
Anyone here check out the seers headsets? Sure, they come with the mask/goggle bit, but the part around the ears is pretty sweet looking
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Is Mother Mayhem wearing a trenchcoat? Or is that some sort of cape?
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Outcasts need some more loving.
You have this multi-hued band of mutant misfits with actual super powers faction and they all dry up at 20. Look, I love fighting ninjas, paramilitary guys and wizards/cultists as much as the next guy, but what about actual super powered baddies. I mean, it's a super hero/comic book MMO for Pete's sake.
It's bad enough that the only super powered villains appear in the arcs and post 45 and the safeguards/mayhems. I need to see some Outcasts for the 20-50 game, expand their powersets to include the gamut of controllers and whatever else you can cobble together with the MA, though maybe make all the big name bosses do two different types of powers, a la Frostfire. Heck, you could even re-visualize them for the post 20 game, seeing as they have superpowers, why not give them some spandex too?
Toss them into the mix of infinite radios and newspapers and give them a new arc around 25-30 to showcase the new Outcasts.
I know, it'd be a lot of work to do this, but come on, give me a bit more costumed variety of criminals.
Either that, or bulk out the unique supervillain/heroes from Safeguard and Mayhem bosses' numbers, definitely more than the paltry 4 per 10 level band, maybe something like 6-8 per band, and proliferate them to colluding with other gangs and have them turn up in radios and paper missions. Heck, if you wanted to get really ambitious, tweak them out so that there's say 2 or 3 different costumed supervillain types that only work with set groups per level band. So, you'd have 2 or 3 brand spanking new supervillains that work specifically with Council or Circle of Thorns or Freakshow etc.
Barring the TWO tier 9 popping Elec armor jerks and the TWO AR/traps guys in the 25-39 range, they're all a nice bit of color/something different. Seriously, 30-50 is the longest stretch of the game, it'd be nice if there was a little more variety of supervillains in the safeguards and mayhems to fill the superhero/villain quotient of the game, without it having to be some life-threatening/world ending/city endangering going on. At the very least, drop one of each of the elec/elec brutes and ar/traps corruptors in the 25-39 range and give us something else. I know there's a psychic something or other and ninja/ninja not quite stalker in that range too, but thanks to the fact that there's two of both Elec/elec brutes and AR/traps running around in that band it kind of throws off the odds.
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Quote:I am also an avid soloer But, if I'm in one of my rare moods where I want to team with strangers, I'll find an active zone in my level range and then just start inviting anyone that says they're looking for a team. No concern for powersets/AT/level. Just taking whoever in broadcast that's lft.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
You know, as avid a soloer as I am, I suspect I might still make use of some kind of insta-team feature similar to what you get when you join servers in your average online FPS. One of my biggest problems with teaming in an MMO setting is that it's an inherently social setting, and if I'm going to interact with people in a social setting, it's going to be for the sake of interacting with people, NOT because I need more warm bodies.
In a counter-intuitive, roundabout way, a completely impersonal, anti-social means for building teams where people join the same way they ride on the bus would actually shift the nature of the setting and convince me to team more. I wouldn't give a crap about my team-mates, of course, just the same way I don't give a crap about my team-mates in, say, Battlefield 2142. If they die, tough. If I can resuscitate them, then I will. More points for me. If I can't, too bad so sad.
It'd get me to team more, but I fear what it will do to team spirit in general and team performance in particular. If online FPS games are any indication, most people are idiots who are useless to the team.
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Quote:I run all the way out into the lobby of Pocket D. Granted, it's less of a run for villains vs. heroes, but at least it's not all reddish or bluish tinted.Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
You can change the lighting by the little + and - marks next to the turning arrows now.
It doesn't provide a spotlight, but it does give you a better idea of how the colors will look against differently lit bgs. (Of course, mine doesn't work right now, something with my ultramode I suspect.) The lighting in Icon isn't worth diddly either, though. Best to just ... fiddle
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Quote:It could be both?Originally Posted by The_Killbot_5000
the question is, what's the story behind it? I'm firmly in the conspiracy camp, with those who fail Tyrant's Super programme being mulched into handy robot sized tin-cans. For the greater good. Of course alternately the story might be as simple as the male and female models are designed to be non-threatening or empathetic to the average good citizen, with the huge models for heavy lifting / fighting roles. From what's been seen it doesn't look as though those are the roles they take though.
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Quote:And more or less done. I think I started around 7-ish. I have way too many characters.Originally Posted by Tigra_Swipe
Add me to the list of those with power coloring issues. Powers were reset. It's not the money for me really, it's the time it'll take to fix it across all affected toons and costumes.
If I had known about this issue ahead of time, I would have parked all my characters in an icon/facemaker beforehand. Seriously, zone over to wherever, hope that I have the powers saved, reset costume slot. On the handful where the character's concept involved their powerset ramping up, or costume-based theme, it was more of a hassle, as I had to figure out the color combo that I had previously for each costume slot. -
Where are all the petless masterminds?
I started one before Dual pistols, which I still have to re-roll. I know at some point I want to do a no tier 1 demon summoner and Thugs MM, but that's for later.
I've more or less soloed my /dev Blapper. That's right, I said Devices blapping, because it's the only way to do gadget Batman in-game. He's only teamed once or twice with online friends. He has Assault rifle for his primary, which I'm tempted pick up ignite and maybe the grenade for. But, otherwise, I want to see what he can do with fighting pools and either leadership or presence for the fears and possibly stealth, but I might hold off for Going Rogue's collector's edition power to fill out the stealthy aspect. Also, uses the vet powers to fill out other attacks. Currently lvl 21, so close to SOs I'm looking forward to seeing how much he improves when SOs come into play. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
Serious question, where you do see any "wah" at all? There was info posted with no regard to opinion whatsoever, only facts.
Here is an opinion - you should show some degree of maturity on these boards, just a tad would be a marked improvement over your post above.What's this? I'm shocked that there's gambling in this establishment.Quote:Originally Posted by Terror1
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Can't seem to save any new power customizations too. So, have to reset some alts manually
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Quote:It's not available for players. I think it might be from the models in the fashion show that shows up in that one arc.Originally Posted by Caemgen
Quite possibly not available to players? I think I've seen similiar for us but the way that rides the hips it may be a custom bit for that npc...
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Quote:Oh, I know. I wouldn't expect a rocketbike ever. But, there's that part of me that still wants one.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Really don't get your hopes up on that one. The devs have said, multiple times, that vehicles are not within the limits of the game engine to do well.
I'd love to see something a bit more pulp sci-fi. Rocket belts/packs, bubble helmets, odd antennas and some sort of one-off ray gun power. Maybe a stun ray or something like it. Which, I think sort of matches up with somebody else's Alien booster upthread.
I'd also like some more Armored options, be they medieval or tech-based. But, I'd rather they put more of that in the regular options, than booster ones. -
Quote:I'd love a vehicle in-game, I'd even accept if you couldn't attack from them, or use them in instanced maps.Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
I'd like a vehicle-based booster pack. Why?
I want my Batmobile.
I want my A-Team Van.
I want a crazy motorcycle.
I want my Petercopter!
I don't want all of my characters teleporting, flying, leaping or superspeeding with rocket skates (I really want to get rid of those rocket skates, too). Some of them are more down-to-earth, and have to get by on the normal gifts they've got. It would be nice if they didn't have to rely on the Raptor Pack to get around. -
Quote:It might be a simple misunderstanding, but Samuel Tow usually makes sensible posts, which is why I'm surprised that he assumed the worst possible idea for it.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
I think this is just a simple misunderstanding. To interpret a "degree" as 1% makes no sense in this context.