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Now that I've had a chance to play about with the new costumes I'm very please (though disappointed that there is no monstrous legs option). The parts all work together very well (as they should) but more importantly also work well with the other costume pieces. This gos double for the the cyborg1 facepiece it can be used with the lower jaw cyborg piece to make a great Mask for all those Dr Doom, Man in the Iron mask, or simply horribly disfigured zombie lord hiding face inspired toons. Also if you have the samurai armour try it mixing in some of the cyborg bits for a tech samurai (the cyborg 1 piece and the samurai mouth guard are made for each other)

Aura's are ok only used the HUD on a live toon so far but will use the others eventually, it would have been nice if they had included a steam jet aura but that's just my personal wish (maybe well get a steam punk pack at some point). Also as a side note i hope the new HUD aura means well be seeing more 2 tone auras in the future

The emotes are fun and a nice little distraction while waiting for the team to gather (also any one know if its possible to use rest but do the shut down emote?).

As for the power which seems to be the majority's biggest problem with the pack its hardly game breaking yes it dose extreme damage but its not that extreme and the 10 second count down gives plenty of room for you to die first (I've yet to have it go off if I've died mid count down).

All in all I'm inprest it could have done with a we bit more polish to iron out the bugs some have had with it and missing out a cyborg legs monstrous upper piece is a big disappointment (tho they can make up for it by doing a upper and lower monstrous legs pieces ) also some more man/machine blended pieces would have been nice

so a 4 out of 5 from me

so whens the next one out and whats in it

Cya Rockjaw all the best in whatever you end up doing

Not sure what you mean if you want a god mode power as part of one of the Epic power sets you can pick at 41 then i think you have the wrong end of the stick. Epic powers represent powers that the AT would normally not be able to take eg holds and blast in the case of scrappers and tanks.

If your suggesting they change fires lvl 38 power into a power surge clone with fire replacing the elec FX, then you should also be aware fire would suffer and probably receive some form of resistance/heal/damage Nerf which is something i personally would be against.

Fire has its own strengths (good damage, fast recharging heal, and relatively good resistance) and doesn't need a God Mode power. (i would agree that Rise dose need some kind of tweak tho)

Yea I'm a little disappointed with the jet pack as well even if it had become a costume part after the 30 days that would have been better than it just disappearing

Dark blast all ways struck me as one of the lower damage corrupter primaries

what you cant pick the cyborg upper legs when using monstrous legs?

If so that's bloody stupid and i suspect just recked most of my planned costumes.

Please Dev's fix this

Going to a GW model of free to play would IMO kill COH. Its the regular issues that keep people coming back for more and also advance the over all story. If you were to make it free2play and cut the issue release down to one a year the game would become stagnant and only have any real level of activity when a new issue was up for sale.

If the dev's really wanted to take the game down the Free2play road, they would have to redesign the hole game and introduce a lot more post lvl 50 content. Most of which would have to revolve around some form of PvP encounters.

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Those who tried purchasing with Maestro and were unable to do so, you should be able to do so now.

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done and done now just have to wait 5 and a bit hours till i can play with the new shiny stuff (dam work)

Cant say i understand RP all that much surely playing the game is RP and surly the self destruct is a great RP tool for all those who want to sacrifice themselves for there team/friends/group etc

any one getting this error when they try and bye the pack

"Payment processing failed at the merchant account provider."

I'm using a Maestro card if that makes a difference

why not defender?

Don't corrupters get the defender versions (where they can) of the blast powers as it is?

it could be something like the targeting device temp power as it uses a similar FX over the face effect.

As i said in the other thread this is a great idea i would say make the change suggested by MarquandDance and have different ribbons for different charities

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Its also not scaled down that low so a lvl 50 mob could probably still dispatch a level 10 character with relative ease.

At worst we mite get returned to something like the days before there was the hole don't get XP from plus 5s and have mobs of low level characters descending on a higher lvl zones to have epic battles with lvl 25 outcasts

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I'd be interested to see what kind of a response NC would get, if they opened up a 'donation' section, and advertised some kind of charity event?

For instance - something really simple? How about a ribbon emblem? You can wear it on your chest, or on your jacket, and obviously colour it accordinly (pink for breast cancer, red for aids).

They could, say, ask for donations of £1 (GBP) from characters, and all who donate can access this tiny 'extra'. Then you can show your support online.

Development-wise, I'd imagine it would be a tiny thing, and a great gesture from the company. Then the proceeds (or 'most of them', if development will cost) can go to the charity in question, and suddenly, everyone wins:

1) NC come out as a caring developer
2) People can donate, and show their support in game
3) The charity is supported

I actually really think that this is a grand idea. One tiny emblem/logo, a small price (hell, I'd actually go as far as paying £5-10 but only because I feel so strongly for certain charities, so I'd certainly use it! - but £1-2 seems good enough) for something this 'small' in-game.

Opinions?

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That's a great idea go stick it in the suggestions section this instant

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When I’ve considered this before I even took it on step further and thought about having all content as level free, meaning that the mission was set to whatever level you are currently at. While this started to seem like a good idea and I did wonder if the major MMOGs had missed something by not having their games more free form, I thought about it again and realised that it would mean that all narrative in the game would be destroyed.


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They could, in one fell swoop, totally destroy PLing by giving ALL mobs GM/Rikti conning code. Make them ALL con equal to your character no matter the level, and just limit the number of powers available for their zone range.

But that also has problems too. Such as the uber powerful hero suddenly having problems with a couple of ordinary mugger types.

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I'd love if they gave all mobs GM code would make travelling thru a low lvl zone semi interesting again and as long as it was done in the same way as the rikti code so that to a low lvl (pre 20ish) a lieutenant was a challenge but not impossible but to a higher lvl (post 25 ish) groups of Lieutents could be take it would work ok.

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I'm just trying to think of an instance when a super-hero *had* more than one side-kick active at a time, and I just can't think of an example. Can anyone else?

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Batman in the curent "the batman" cartoon has both batgirl and robin though both being there at the same time is still rair.

It could also be argued that batman (comic) has 3 sidekicks (robin, Damien, and nightwing) but the 3 of them are all established heroes in there own right and can hold there own against most foes without the aid of the bat.

Oracle has her birds of prey but again i'm not entirely sure they count as side kicks she's more the MM and there the minions

/Unsigned as it stands.

While yes it is a pain when a Mentor leaves its hardly the end of the world.

If there was ever going to be changes to the SK system personally i would like to see them follow the cryptic method and allow the mentor to SC multiple side kicks but there should be a down side to SKing more than one sidekick so i would suggest

1 side kick -1 to your lvl
2 side kicks -2 to your lvl
3 side kicks -3 to your lvl

of course this wouldn't stop power leveling multiple toons at a time so it far from perfect

I allways thought some kind of swarm/mob/horde set would be cool where the power of the MM was more down to sheer wait of numbers but i never got round to righting anythin up.

Yes please

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it would be great if for the fiery epic power pool for tankers and scrappers would have a full fiery aura like the lvl 38 power for elctrical brute "POWER SURGE".

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This should really be its own suggestion

And personally i like Rise though it would be nice if it was usable when not dead

Less fiddly would be good some of the things it decides you cant do just don't make sense.

and a big YES to the undo button

This is like some weird car wreck it started of as a nice thread passing on our good wishes to those who have unfortunately lost there Jobs and has descended into some bizar discussion on population figures and who's in what group

Go forum team for complete thread derailment

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But you can rotate your camera? Forgive my bluntness, but this sounds like a suggestion for its own sake.

As an alternative I like the suggestion Mantodea had a while back: a feature allowing you to make any changes you wanted to a costume and pay when you leave Icon - in other words you get run around in Icon 'trying out a new costume' like you would a pair of shoes IRL to see if your costume has clipping issues before shelling out inf/tokens.

Plus you'd get the opportunity to ask, "Does my bum look big in this?"

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This i like nothin worse than changing your costuem then realiseing it dosent look quite right in the cold light of icon

Sounds good to me anything to stop my victims running of would be nice