Tom Fury

I felt I had finally created my best character on the Beta: Project ANTITHESIS, a Praetorian Dual Pistols/Martial Combat Blaster cyborg that had "Rogue" written all over her. Got her to 41 in three weeks, spent months getting her costume just so. I don't have a screen cap on hand, but I do have her 1,023 character bio:

Lenore Grayce was a promising freedom fighter with the Resistance until Calvin Scott ordered a raid to liberate her father Henry, a brilliant biochemist, from Cole's service. During the raid, Henry panicked and accidentally became exposed to the Hamidon sample they were studying. He was transmogrified into a monster, and although neutralized by Powers Division, he first decimated the Resistance forces and ripped his daughter, literally, limb from limb. Observing the tactical brilliance she had shown prior to her tragic end, Praetor Keyes reconstructed her as a potential solution for complex field operations requiring higher-order thinking than automatons could provide. Unfortunately, she remembered her death and was abandoned as a gibbering, pitiable catastrophe. Praetors Berry and Tillman salvaged the failed "Project ANTITHESIS" with extensive mental reconditioning and a fail-safe explosive device to ensure her loyalty.

Worst part is, I can't think of another game that I could feasibly create a similar character in. Dang.

Sent one as well.

I've been playing this game since it came out in 2004. I remember seeing a preview article about it, and my friends and I all decided then and there that we had to get it. We all played together, and I was the one who stuck around when everybody else moved on to other things, got married, had kids. I got my little brothers to play it, I street ground my way to level 36, I knew some zones better than I know the layout of my own home. In college, I had to unsub sometimes because I was poor, but I always managed to scrounge up some more dough (sometimes by selling my textbooks at the start of the school year and doing without) and this is what I spent it on. I remember messing up installing CoV and having to start a new account, but I didn't care, because it was awesome content. I made spread sheets at work last year to try to figure out my perfect Dominator build. I was so excited about the Dual Pistols changes and Martial Combat that I've played the Beta server every day after work and most weekends since it became available for testing. I never got a character to 50, and I never ran out of ideas for new ones.

For me, this isn't just the end of a game. It's the end of part of my life. To all the devs, past and present; and all the players, who I probably politely refused to team with so I could solo: I will miss you.

/also signed

I'd love some sort of upper leg piece that transitions the robot/cybernetic boot options to an intact human pelvis, i.e. legs are replaced from the hip socket down. The diamond blend in conjunction with Armored Wired legs is the best option we've got so far, but good luck getting any of the tops other than Armored Wire to match textures. I've been trying for six months to make a character that has cybernetic limbs, but wasn't ripped in half. What if my cyborg wants children one day?

I've been testing a stalker, since I prefer to play solo. Street Justice is pretty nice. I hope they swap out Heavy Blow for Ribcracker, though. I don't have the numbers, but they seem comparable, apart from the - res component. It'd be pleasing aesthetically, alternating a punch for a kick, as well. As an aside, EA is looking pretty nice with the changes.