Warscythe

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To be fair - after scrolling through the pages here there are plenty of great names, especially those who seem to have put thought into the background around it.

But just to remind you

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Ive decided to leave it until the last minute to just say - It's been a real pleasure watching you all go nuts over the last few years, i've had a ball guys.

So all is left to say is - see you on the other side.

- As an addition I place a tenner bet that Fulcrum will log on 2 minutes before the changeover as he does online for TF's and such. Gawd bless ya Fulcy you old fart.

As Liz stated before, matching energy blasts/melee together finally.

As for the rest:
- Toning down rad on my corr to a darker shade
- Changing dark powers, either see if they can be brought in line with GW's soul powers, or apply a blue-ish shade to it
- Any and all psionic powers to no-longer-have-pinkness
- A whiter tint to my fire blaster powers.
- A whole week of being unable to decide if all my powers need recolouring

Has an unnatural obsession with Dominators and Pie ( the latter is an unfounded rumour and in no way shape or form related to fact... other than the pastry crumbs at the bottom of his 30ft robotic torso )

Under the unique maps option is the freakshow warehouse from the "Freakalympic" arc, complete with multi tiered room and podium.

Probably a lifetime of smiley remarks on their birthday cards led them to it, not that i'm saying you use them a lot . . . not at all.

>.>

<.<

So thats why you got thrown in the pool, because you didnt do your job?

Shame on you, you deserve it for leaving the kitchen

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Ahh well could be the fact that the US guys *do* celebrate heavily on 4th July so could have an effect on it


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The girls celebrate it too

Although this year, I was thrown into the pool by three of my evil brothers - but apart from that, the party was awesome

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Oh of course girls can celebrate it, just from the kitchen handing the men their beer


( just for GG knowing her stance on this, sorry mate just couldnt help myself *hides this post from the missus* )

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Absolutely awesome fail on my part.

After a weekend of heavy drink and lack of sleep i've spent the last two days getting grumpy over the lack of release to something I misread

After double checking I re-read the parts connected to when it was on test server, where it stated the line to be put on the store when it goes live *me reading up and seeing i15 saw that and made the connection* when I should have seen the fact that it was referring to the pack only

Now can I please have an applause for my first fail on the forums, I think I deserve it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAKFlpdcfc
here you go

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Love it

Absolutely awesome fail on my part.

After a weekend of heavy drink and lack of sleep i've spent the last two days getting grumpy over the lack of release to something I misread

After double checking I re-read the parts connected to when it was on test server, where it stated the line to be put on the store when it goes live *me reading up and seeing i15 saw that and made the connection* when I should have seen the fact that it was referring to the pack only

Now can I please have an applause for my first fail on the forums, I think I deserve it.

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Thanks to my good buddy Stryke hes made me realy anxious for this booster. So I say let the devs do what they do best...

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I do try

Although if I remember correctly they did say that it would be released alongside i15, then after the german/french servers broke that it would be once they were back online.

Now unless i'm going ker-ay-zee both those situations have occurred and the delay is for what? I wouldnt mind if there is a genuine reason but the typical lack of update is irksome.

Ahh well could be the fact that the US guys *do* celebrate heavily on 4th July so could have an effect on it

Bah, you have to think away from the usual flight/invis combo

Mine would have to be -
Confuse - "Oh yes I would love to purchase this house Mr Estate Agent, i'll give you a tenner for it *slaps confuse* . . . yeees thats Mr Estate Agent, you are a banana, now if you will kindly sign here with your peel"
Teleportation - Way way more fun than flight " Going to the shops for some beers love" *blink* "done"
Summon HVAS - Do I really need to explain this one?

I like Carnie's use of wormhole, though on a side note I think choices for powers IRL could be disastrous as this - LINKY

Well the only one I knew for sure was SGT, he popped on the AoW forums not long back to let us know he would be giving CO a try *not sure if this has changed* but said he had taken a lil' break from CoX. Then again since i've never stepped foot on the US servers you'll know infinately more than me my bouncing bosomed friend (seriously that avatar is distracting . . . damn you globey )

Since I15 we have, most enemy factions can be recoloured in mission architect now. As far as my testing has gone most of the AV's cannot be but most others can.

A few odd exceptions such as longbow heavies where everything but the back cannon can be coloured etc.

Stryker is still around but under the name @enervator (i heard his name got retconned due to infringement, dunno if thats true as my global ironically is similar)
Just like Globey and "Heals like Jesus on crack" - Rooks, i think his time is sporadic, but its best to ask those guys as they run the Vindi SG now.

Zak went across the pond with SGT if my memory serves right.

But if you are wanting in AoW again just PM me ingame, im on most nights from 7pm.

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2. Is Art of War still around?



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Yeah, we are still kicking although I joined just after you took your break. A lot of the old school moved on, half formed Vindicate, and old schoolers such as SGT and co went over to the US - they still keep in contact but havnt seen them this side of the pond for a good while.

Fulcrum/Eros/Mighty Rex are still around amongst a few others who pop back from time to time. And our roster has significantly increased in the last 2 years (now sitting back in 9/8th on the SG tables)

As for PvP, the consensus is it hit it's peak around i12 then got *foobar'd* post i13. Its not dead by a longshot thanks to the adaptability of the best players we have to offer *the vindicate chaps etc*, however long gone are the mass SC/Warburg gankathons as most PvP is done in RV.

Proof is in the pudding as to the mistake of some of the changes when they essentially retcon the messups by giving options to remove them in the arena (go figure )

PM me ingame @stryke if you want to contact any old member who may still be around.

See that ^^ (Shadowe and JD I mean) is the difference between dealing with a genuine and intelligent request, than just spewing bile and hatred because some version of how people think *their* game should be has been rudely interrupted *rolls eyes*.

And thats the point, rather than acting like a normal person and ascertaining the root of a problem and just discussing it and moving on, some people decide to take it upon themselves to shove their smallminded opinions on others. The thing that makes me laugh more is the attitude that some people have that this is *their* game, its not, you pay for time in a public domain where other people also have paid for their deserved time. But then I guess expecting civility off people with the social skills of a coffee table is a lot to ask.

Thankfully though in my tenure here the people who make this game great far far outweigh the ones that bring the rep down, as FFM correctly stated it *is* a minority.

I hope these few days havn't sullied anyone's view of the community as a whole, just hang around Damz for a while and
get busted - UK style, *he is a n00b but I forgive him*

As good ol' Berty Einstein quoted "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

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There seems to be some confusion as to the use of the dimensional ground ray in the final fight of the Task Force. Before Reichsman’s hit by the ray, he is in a phased state and is running a rather nasty debuffing aura. When he is hit by the ray, it “grounds out” some of his power and he returns to a normal state and his aura is shut down. This will persist for the duration of the fight. The dimensional grounding ray isn’t intended to be used at specific points in the fight; it should be used early on, and one hit will do.


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Thats all well and good, but the questions on everyones lips over the last two nights have been:

# Is it bad decorum to crack jokes about 'not crossing the streams' mid-fight..

# Why does the sfx for the grounding ray sound like you have a bad case of The Trots.

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Bad decorum? hell no, I would say its actually a requirement - even more so, more lines must be quoted such as when entering the room, all rifles unloaded and quoted " Doh - Ray - EGON!" "This b***h is TOAST!" etc etc.

Remember ML its more a sin to *not* quote classic movie references, you of all should know that.

Read up fella, if you had a MM on your team then yes, there are a few bugs on this, one being the fact the MM debuff temps powers dont currently work. But I did lol when I saw his health 250k + that guy has more health than jesus.

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You're welcome

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Ninja'd

Maybe its all the dreaming of animated hair or anger at the world not being fair to females that clouded your search-fu

Getting slow in your old age

Specific Dev update from a thread on the US forums

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Hi, I’m Bruce Harlick, aka Horatio, the guy who was in charge of the Reichsman Task Force and Strike Force. Thank you for the comments and feedback on the TF & SF. I’d like to take the opportunity to respond to some of them and let you know our some of our intended responses.

To start, there is a difference in the challenge of the final fight in the SF and TF. The TF fight is much trickier and takes longer. We didn’t address that when assigning the initial merit values for the SF. We will be increasing the merit award for the Strike Force to 30 merits later this week. As time goes by and we collect more data on how long it takes groups to complete these arcs, we’ll likely be adjusting the merit rewards further.

There seems to be some confusion as to the use of the dimensional ground ray in the final fight of the Task Force. Before Reichsman’s hit by the ray, he is in a phased state and is running a rather nasty debuffing aura. When he is hit by the ray, it “grounds out” some of his power and he returns to a normal state and his aura is shut down. This will persist for the duration of the fight. The dimensional grounding ray isn’t intended to be used at specific points in the fight; it should be used early on, and one hit will do.

On the villain side of things, our intent was to try to do something a bit different for the end fight. As has been previously stated, we wanted to do a “gadget” fight; something that was more than just hit the bad guy until he fell over. And we wanted to encourage teams to include different ATs, to help shake up some standard team compositions. Certainly, the end fight is more difficult without having each of the appropriate ATs on the team, but it is still doable. Each of the temp powers is intended to make stages of the fight easier. There is no one “golden solution” to solving the fight; by including some or all of the ATs that can take advantage of the various temp powers, you can approach this battle using different tactics.

The Mastermind temp power is not working at this time; Castle has fixed that, but his fix did not go out with the release due to some build issues. This power should be working in a patch this week.

Switching voices, I am aware of the canon issues with the story. The problems are purely my fault; when I came up with the original flow for the story I was under some mistaken impressions on some events in the game’s history. While I did make some adjustments to the story due to the feedback from the training room, I didn’t get all the details nailed down as best I could. Due to a tight translation deadline, I was unable to get final text passes into the build that was going to the Live servers, but rest assured I’ll be doing my best to address them over the next week or so to bring the story of Reichsman’s return in line with the existing history of the 5th Column.

I’ll certainly be reading this (and the other) threads for any other comments you have on the issue. Please feel free to PM me with your comments and concerns if you’d like. I’ll do my best to respond to them in a timely fashion.


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So the MM is bugged and fixed, hopefully should see the patch applied soon, although I imagine the time is currently fixated on sorting the french/german servers.

Nice to see some kind of reply from the devs, and I do appreciate the merit increase.

linky to US thread

Whilst I do see the point in bringing attention the light that some folks do spam inane rubbish in the aim of bringing a pointless post count up, maybe anger isnt the way?

As craggy posted the thread itself seemed to be made for the purpose which you stated your ire against, if that wasnt the case then fairymuff.

But dont let folks get to you Sing, you seem like an articulate and intelligent chap until the anger imps start typing on your keyboard.

I always chill in the basking glow of this quote from good old *crazy hair* Albert Einstein Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

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Avatea has announced an issue with Vigilance/Zukunft:

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Attention French and German players,

we have identified a problem with the French and German client of City of Heroes that prevents us from opening access to Vigilance and Zukunft. We hope to have the problem resolved within the next day or so.

We apologise for the inconvenience. The English servers, Union and Defiant, will remain accessible while we work towards resolving that issue.



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I wonder if this has been delaying them going live for the other servers.

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Gah!!

I bet THEY get the double ice cream w/e!!

GAH!!! I say!!

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I'd quite like that - I have 4 or 5 characters on Zukunft and Vigilance - but I need added motivation to play them since I'm English and so can only communicate with the French/German speakers by typing very slowly in capitals.

I said T-Y-P-I-N-G V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y A-N-D I-N C-A-P-I-T-A-L-S... gahh... Sprachen Sie English bitte? Parlez vous Anglais?

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You forgot the wavy hand signs that in no way mean anything other than to emphasise your excellent multi lingual translation capabilities as an englishman

I'll tell you who's name i've always liked @Commander Beets fire scrapper *Baked Potato* it just works awesomely with his one man SG, *the oven* the whole title when looked at just brings a smile to my face every time.