White Hot Flash

Now see, if people are wary of putting heroes/villains in spandex, this Captain America look is what they should have gone for. The colors and markings look pretty much like they should look, but it's more regular looking clothing, rather than the tights. X-Men should have gone for something like this, rather than the matching black leather. At least give everyone their unique colors and markings.

To address the costume choices:

This game is always adding more costume bits. Specifically, there is an animal themed booster pack coming up next, which should hopefully address some of your concerns about the lack of heads.

Also, try mixing and matching parts more. The objects you can layer, like a helmet with it's various additions, can be simple or very complex, depending on how you use it. It's not perfect, but this costume editor is far and away the best in the business.

To address the immersion problem:

As others have said, some servers are more geared for that than others. However, I suspect that if you're looking for the type of immersion a PnP game gives you, you'd be better off playing a PnP, which lends itself to that type of role-play better than a computer game that is limited by the mechanics of having to be a game first and a role-playing experience second.

If you're running into level 50 characters, chances are these are people that have been playing this game for years, and when you've done the same content for years, you tend to ignore the game world and focus on mechanics. It happens in every game.

Saw an advanced screening tonight. It was decent enough. Took a while to get going, though, but the last third had plenty of action.

It's a Seth Rogen movie, and all that that implies, so if you're not a fan of his work, this probably won't change your mind about him. If you are a fan, go see it. There were several moments that had the whole theater laughing.

I've not seen any of the old Green Hornet TV shows, but I know that Rogen's portrayal is probably different than you're used to, so be warned.

It also has a good amount of language in it, so if you're thinking of taking younger kids, you may want to see it first yourself and decide if it's appropriate. I saw it in 3D, and there's not a lot that's worth the extra money, so hit the 2D.

Happy Birthday, Celestial Lord

I really don't understand why so many folks are wielding the "If it's not content I or my friends like, you shouldn't spend time working on it" kludge. There is no content that will make everyone happy. If they work on giving us a thousand costume items, the people that just throw something together real fast just to get into the game and start playing won't be happy. If they devote an entire Issue to PvP (which they pretty much already did, adding in Arenas), those that don't care for it will complain. If they add more low or middle level content, those that want end game will complain. What makes their complaints about not getting what they want any less valid than your complaints? Why are the needs of you and your kind more important than the needs of the majority?

The Dev team is making decisions about what to focus on, which is entirely within their right to do. If you don't like the Incarnate content, for example, don't pass off that dislike for it as it being something inherently broken, or some "change in the direction of the game." Just don't participate in it, and wait for something new that you do like. If it's been a while since PvP was addressed, it doesn't mean it never will, though with what they did to it the last pass, it's kind of ironic people are wanting more attention for it (*invokes the "Be careful what you wish for" mantra).

It's perfectly fine if you don't like 100% of the content. No one, even the Devs, expect you or anyone else to. If there were a way to make everyone love their game 100%, they'd be printing their own money and sitting on golden toilets.

Living a cynical life is no way to go, folks. I used to think that way, and it's gotten me nowhere. Enjoy the small things. If you expect bad things, that's all you'll see, despite the evidence to the contrary.

I enjoyed it as well (though I had to fight through weather maps, scrolling text, and bad weather closings the whole time that made the screen half it's normal size....stupid snow in the South).

Really loved her car.

Keith David makes everything better.

Thank you, Ocho, for hanging out with us crazy peoples. Your sense of humor will be missed. Who will make special Threads in the server forums when you're gone?

No game becomes "free" willingly, and those games aren't really free at all. They just switch where the revenue comes from. Instead of subs, they make everything you do in the game a micro-transaction, which quickly adds up.

If this one does, the DOOOM won't be far behind.

I think if you're expecting specifics, especially about bugs or QoL features, you'll be disappointed. That's never been what the State of the Game has been about.

The longer this game goes, the more these addresses will shift toward "Thank you for continuing to play this game."

My first character I (tried) to make was a Stone/Stone tank on a different server, but I had a weird screen glitch while trying to play him in the tutorial, and for some reason creating a different character got rid of it, so White Hot Flash (Energy/Elec blaster) was actually my first character that I played, and played almost exclusively to 50 before I made another.

So by chance I ended up playing on Champion instead of whatever server I made the tank the first time. I eventually rerolled him on Champ, but I don't play him much cause A)tanks are the most fun for me, and b) stone/stone is even worse, but I keep him for nostalgia as much as anything.

That's a pretty good Christmas tree, there.


Stay safe and have fun tonight, gang. It IS possible to do both.

If the weather allows here, I'll be blowing up fireworks and eating too much smoked meat, and then watching copious amounts of bowl games tomorrow, most importantly the Rose Bowl. GO FROGS!

Reading through the complaint threads, there's a lot of folks that are confusing "difficult" with "tedious and/or gimmicky." They also don't understand that these two TFs are supposed to be harder than what they've done before, and it might actually take some planning ahead to do it like they're used to.

You should post this in the threads where everyone's whining about how hard the TFs are.

Nice job.