THIS IS A PARAGON CITY EMERGENCY BROADCAST.

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THIS IS A PARAGON CITY EMERGENCY BROADCAST. PLEASE STAY TUNED.

“The Paragon City authorities have detected numerous dimensional disturbances in the area. Heroes are asked to be on alert for any strange occurrences in the city.”

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*yawn*

... and?

We all know by the time us "Third Watch" heroes get on it'll all be over. So there is nothing for us to worry about.

Back to our patrols as usual...

Nothing to see here...

Move along.

It's not so much an invasion as much as it is just a couple more spawn points in zones. Sure, they're there, but they're not doing any kind of invading. hehe

20 minutes and counting. sigh...

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Damn it, wait till office hours to be finished before you guys do this. Think about the people at EST time zones!!!! Dont start the invation anytime soon plz, do it when more people are online. I dont wanna miss a thing.

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EST? no, think about PST, that's pacific standard time. eastern standard time is several hours ahead on the west cost.

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GRR!!! Stupid school!!!

I won't be on till later!!

Virtue just went down...

Where is MMO radio?

Fought aliens for 5 hours this afternoon, got myself 100k debt for the trouble, but it was AWESOME. Two teams of 8 roving around Bricks taking down 35+ invaders and the portals (there are at least 3 portal spawn points in bricks, 1 I saw in Skyway, and likely others all around). Definitely the most fun teaming I've had in the game so far. And I think we're just getting started...

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20 minutes and counting. sigh...

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1 more hour before I can leave....GRRRRRR......

This day has been EXCRUCIATINGLY loooooooooooooooooooooooooong!

And then, I have to stop off at a couple stores before I get home....so we're now looking at 2 hours before I can get home!

I now realize how I was able to catch up on reading this entire thread.... you all got off work and went home to play but I SARTED work at 4:00PM, thats PM central time!!! Midnight is my release but I am "supposed" to be back at 8:00 AM, yes that's AM in the morning!!! Sheesh! What's a super hero to do!? If only I had that new fitness pool power "Sleepless" then I'd be set!

I pray this is only a scouting party in advance of the "real" threat... or do I?

HOLD the line all! Sleet Devil and U S Eagle will stand and deliver at the witching hour!!!

Oh, Goody!

We on the test server have been reporting crashes per hour, not crashes per day. So they go live with it, AND add new material that has not been tested on the test eserver. And we who live on test know their in-house testing is ludicrous at best. I REALLY hope none of the dev's MANAGEMENT team ever get to work in a critical industry like medical devices, weapons controls, banking, or pharmaceuticals. Issue 2 wasn't released, it escaped.

Lovely new material, though. Kudos to the artists, sound shapers, story writers, and code grunts.

You think you guys have it bad? I live in Japan. I was gonna log back in again last night at 12:30, I guess 10 am server time, guess it still wouldn't have been out yet . . . and I play on Guardian! And when I do get home my wifey won't be happy about me playing. Oh she's let me, but she'll keep asking for stuff . . . as it's not a major invasion I hope it lasts at least 24 hrs! We really need regonal servers . . . is it true Korea has a server? I wanna play on there! The daily downtime is my prime time!

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*yawn*

... and?

We all know by the time us "Third Watch" heroes get on it'll all be over. So there is nothing for us to worry about.

Back to our patrols as usual...

Nothing to see here...

Move along.

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Yeah i know what you mean Ripperjack (Sydney-sider here). On the bright side of things they might have the problems fixed by the time i can get home and log on.

I suppose this begs the question how long does (did) the event last. How did you know it was over?

Well, I've been playing for much of the evening since I got home from work. And I play on Guardian, so I hoped I'd catch something since the server is based in California and I'm on the East Coast.

Unfortunately, I've only seen one spawn in Kings Row and I was told of a second.

I don't know if this means they invasion was thwarted earlier in the day. I'm hoping this is just leading up to something big tomorrow or Saturday. Thats what I'm betting on for now, because what I've seen in the game doesn't seem to justify the alert that has been posted.

I've not long logged off and the invasion is still going on.. not much happening in KR mind you....

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Sounds like the first Rikti invasion. Could that mean someone will have to do as Hero 1 did and venture to their homeworld to cut off the portal connections?

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Na-hah, I don't think so, these guys are form the Shard, at least one portal is staying open! Glad to see announcements it's gonna be a long fight! Oven in Japan we are ahead in the real world, but apperantly last shift in Paragon, guess us ninjas will have to finish off all the invaders you guys couldn't handle!

Ki ni shinakute ee wa. Kono hen shite ageru wa.

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Issue 2 wasn't released, it escaped.

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Will you be my hero?

I swear that was one of the funniest things I've read here.

I saw one or two spawns in Skyway City, Steel Canyon, and King's Row, but I have to say it was overall rather a letdown.

The even-con Rularuu killed me in about 2 hits. I took some debt and got over the thrill of being killed by the Rularuu pretty quickly.

They are rather cool-looking though.

As has been hinted, this is only the first wave of Ralaruu scouts.

I mean come on, do you really think Cryptic would launch the invasion full scale on a Thursday morning when most of the Western Hemisphere is at work/school?

If things havne't picked up massivly by Saturday night CST (Cryptic is in Texas), then I think you have reason to call the invasion lame and I will join you in that cry...

Give it time people, give it time...

Boy do I hope that this is only the first wave...

I was at work most of the day, reading up on the "invasion" and how awesome looking these new rularuu guys were and counting down the minutes until I got home (getting nothing done, of course). When I got home, I immidiatley logged and started hunting around, and looking for these guys.

I wasn't expecting to find much, since I had heard they were rare and tended to hide.

To my surprise though, I did find them, and for the brief moments I was alive, the new Baddies were off the chizzle (as you youngsters say). After dying numerous times, I got bored.

"Weren't these guys just supposed to be scouts?"
"Wasn't the invasion supposed to happen tonight, on an end-of-beta-rikti-scale?"
"WHY AREN'T I DROWNING IN A POOL OF MY OWN DEBT??"

Needless to say, I was disappointed.

I was expecting portals to be popping up left and right, heroes falling all over the place, me wetting myself out of excitement.

I'm hoping this invasion will go on for a few days, and my fantasy will come true.

Every portal I saw had such low lvl mobs, after I got close to admire thier art it was boring, and my Hero is only 28.
I hope the invasion has a bit more umph later, or maybe they want me to play a new low level alt to enjoy it?

The spawns in Brickstown seemed to be mostly level 30-35.

In Kings Row, they seemed to be mostly level 10's

In Steel Canyon I saw mostly 16's.

I don;t remember what level the ones in skyway were...

OK, firstly there's still portals appearing NOW, I just killed 2, also the people that say there weren't enough portals are crazy, in IP at about 10pm EastAmerica there were portals appearing every few minutes around the zone, we just worked in groups and with the Justice radio to shut them down. Thanks DJ Merc =) In one spot a portal would spawn within 5 min of being shut down without fail, at one point there were about 7 groups of Rularru around it and they started moving out into the rest of the area. Then it practicly was a full invasion. Also the guys scale difficulty to zone, in Atlas Park you won't be challenged at lv28 =P , go find the lv50 portals in Peregrine

all i want to know is:
is everyone prepared to meet their...moosey fate?
its late, forgive me

Yea the ones I saw were definitely scouting. They were looking at Outcasts, group by group, then moving on. Very cool stuff.

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Yea the ones I saw were definitely scouting. They were looking at Outcasts, group by group, then moving on. Very cool stuff.

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Yes, very cool. In King's Row I saw them methodically going over to the tenaments and then going up the walls looking in all the windows. Very creepy. Peeping Tom aliens.


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The spawns in Brickstown seemed to be mostly level 30-35.

In Kings Row, they seemed to be mostly level 10's

In Steel Canyon I saw mostly 16's.

I don;t remember what level the ones in skyway were...

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Paradine Island has lvls 43-47 that I have seen