Paragon Times: Outbreak Plague Rampant for 4 Years
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Posted on: 2007-09-20 24:28 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Something tells me that this means, "Hope that you enjoy Issue 11... it'll be the last."
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Doubful.
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The only other option is that they are going to completely replace all of the contacts with new ones with new storylines, but that would take a ton of work coding-wise; a revamp that I don't see happening in this game, especially with MUO in the works.
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Or maybe, just maybe, they need to replace a writer.
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I'm afraid that this may be the signal to the start of the end times of CoH/CoV. It's the only explanation for such contradictory and complete revisionist storyline.
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It is called an in-joke.
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Yeah the more I think about it.....
Isolation zones in Steel Skyway and all of Talos? Huh?
Thats not right.
Well we know Recluse has dabbled in time travel and the "resets" on the anchors in RV.... what if someone tweeks the resets a little too far backwards....
Anyone remember the Story arc with the time traveler from the 5th Column circa 1940. Of cource it still leaves the question of Nemesis involvement as well... this scenario seems to remove him from the game.
They've been talking about a shake up, but this would be mind blowing.
One more thing... 4 years? Correct me if Im wrong, but wasn't 4 years ago the beginning of the CoH testing (Alpha or closed Beta)? I dont think open/public Beta testing started until Feb, but 4 years is an important clue.... (And arent all the fallen contacts that were introduced after the initial rollout)
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Okay, no one eascaped from the Zig, everyone who got in contact with a Contaminated may already be dead and several contacts have died from Outbreak?
So, this means... no player heroes can be sure if they're infected, no player villains escaped from the Zig, and a mysterious plague is killing off everyone else?
What's going on here?
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Agents from Crey Industries broke into the Umbrella Corporation's labs and stole the T-Virus. One of their trucks got robbed that had a shipment of the Crey altered Umbrella T-Virus. Now all the contacts are dying from this. Katie Hannon was strong enough to resist the virus but the strain of being quickied so much actually made the virus effects strong enough to kill her. The reason no one escapes from the zig is because the escapees get eaten alive in the sewers by the infected. So they just end up dead too.
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From what I gathered from it is:
1) It seems the contaminated will filter in small groups around select zones in both sides of CoX. Thus making the badge attainable for past heroes who did not have the opportunity for it and for villains to now attain it. (i.e. City Sewers, hanging out with Lost...and "heading to Sharkhead Isles")
2) Maybe the loss of contacts means there is an overhaul to the contact system in CoH to make it more streamlined, like CoV.
Oh BTW AS....there is a typo in the article:
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We must continue to be vigilante, Coyote said
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Maybe the editor is one more of the fallen ones 
(I am assuming you meant "vigilant")
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RIP, Katie, you've earned it.
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Quickied to death ? 
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if she is dead now then what is the next fastest tf that has a contact that is still alive?
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Eden though the Woodsman is technically dead anyway...
Being dead never stopped him, why let a little thing like that stop the other contacts. Even war witch is dead I mean and she can train you.
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1) It seems the contaminated will filter in small groups around select zones in both sides of CoX. Thus making the badge attainable for past heroes who did not have the opportunity for it and for villains to now attain it. (i.e. City Sewers, hanging out with Lost...and "heading to Sharkhead Isles")
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Oh, now that would tick a lot of people off. Which is, again, why I think that everyone is thinking too much of this.
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Yeah the more I think about it.....
Isolation zones in Steel Skyway and all of Talos? Huh?
Thats not right.
Well we know Recluse has dabbled in time travel and the "resets" on the anchors in RV.... what if someone tweeks the resets a little too far backwards....
Anyone remember the Story arc with the time traveler from the 5th Column circa 1940. Of cource it still leaves the question of Nemesis involvement as well... this scenario seems to remove him from the game.
They've been talking about a shake up, but this would be mind blowing.
One more thing... 4 years? Correct me if Im wrong, but wasn't 4 years ago the beginning of the CoH testing (Alpha or closed Beta)? I dont think open/public Beta testing started until Feb, but 4 years is an important clue.... (And arent all the fallen contacts that were introduced after the initial rollout)
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You're right! Taking these clues in conjunction with the wallpaper, it means, they're rolling back to I1 and starting over. Remember, positron promised something we've been asking for since the beginning...we're going back to the beginning....
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Even war witch is dead I mean and she can train you.
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Not to derail here, but Positron was supposedly working on getting her corporeal again in Issue 19 of the Top Cow comic. Did he even think to ask Dark Watcher to work that Howling Twilight on her after he used to it to not only rez Posi and crew, but to put Posi back into a body in Issue 20?
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So, the Heroes go back to stop the plaque (hijacking Nemesis tech?) and the Villains catch a ride to stop McGoohan and his gang. I don't think we even need Nemesis, cause ya, we've been doing some time travel already haven't we? But maybe he's behind it.
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I don't know why so many of you are confused. This seems like a pretty clear recap to me.
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methinks the teasers for issue 11 have begun!
Ladies and gentlemen, it has finally happened.
Nemesis Prime has destroyed the multiverse by punching holes in the walls of reality. Everybody who might have been able to oppose him has been undone before they even came to exist in the first place. The universe is being re-written as we watch!
We have to fight this.. er, what am I saying? All glory to Lord Nemesis!
Umm none of the contacts died... If you've read the article, it explains that once you are infected with Outbreak, there is no cure. Which means they have super powered AIDs. Not dead yet.
They is dead.
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As part of our continued coverage of the history of the Outbreak plague, the Times would like to remember this years fallen.
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People
This is Issue 11 right here.
Think about it. Matt Miller wore a Ouroboros shirtto PAX. Word spread that it represented a clue to Issue 11
The snake eating self indicates a cycle. Repetition from the beginning.
This article references Outbreak (the beginning of Heroside) and the Zig (the beginning of Villainside), with slight variations that make the current story impossible.
Issue 11 is going to have something to do with new beginnings. Beginnings like these.
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From what I gathered from it is:
1) It seems the contaminated will filter in small groups around select zones in both sides of CoX. Thus making the badge attainable for past heroes who did not have the opportunity for it and for villains to now attain it. (i.e. City Sewers, hanging out with Lost...and "heading to Sharkhead Isles")
2) Maybe the loss of contacts means there is an overhaul to the contact system in CoH to make it more streamlined, like CoV.
Oh BTW AS....there is a typo in the article:
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We must continue to be vigilante, Coyote said
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Maybe the editor is one more of the fallen ones (I am assuming you meant "vigilant")
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I agree with 1 and 2 as possibilities. If they are revamping contacts, perhaps it ties in with Flashback as well though. /em crosses fingers
And darn, you beat me to pointing out the typo. 
Also, the issue of the newspaper is Issue 11. Nice.
I am further venturing that there is something to taking a level 50 character and being able to play the game all over again with that character.
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They is dead.
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As part of our continued coverage of the history of the Outbreak plague, the Times would like to remember this years fallen.
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Fallen to THE OUTBREAK PLAGUE.
"Users of Outbreak experience a feeling of invincibility and a boost in physical strength, but there is also a corresponding increase in violent tendencies and aggression. A single dose causes physical addiction and will cause a rapid and unstoppable mental degradation resulting in clinical insanity. Doctors have been unable to reverse the loss of memory and personality associated with Outbreak madness."
Although there are some CoVs on there too... like Mikey the Ear, one of my favorite brokers. WTH?
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Also, the issue of the newspaper is Issue 11. Nice.
I am further venturing that there is something to taking a level 50 character and being able to play the game all over again with that character.
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huh... Certainly not unheard of in gaming... Start on easy mode, finish, unlock epic mode sort of thing...
Be well, people of CoH.
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And after checking, it isn't close to all of the contacts, but a very large group of them.
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Paco Sanchez lives!!
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Also, the issue of the newspaper is Issue 11. Nice.
I am further venturing that there is something to taking a level 50 character and being able to play the game all over again with that character.
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huh... Certainly not unheard of in gaming... Start on easy mode, finish, unlock epic mode sort of thing...
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Oh yeah. Maybe when you restart you dont get to use contacts cuz they all ded. Work with me, BillZ. Cmon!
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Okay, no one eascaped from the Zig, everyone who got in contact with a Contaminated may already be dead and several contacts have died from Outbreak?
So, this means... no player heroes can be sure if they're infected, no player villains escaped from the Zig, and a mysterious plague is killing off everyone else?
What's going on here?
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A giant case of misdirection. Look at these stories! They're shocking! Issue 11 is going to be a slaughter!
Then it gets on Test and we see that it sort of makes the stories true, in a really roundabout way. This is a grand comics tradition, folks. There's a whole site dedicated to the cover misdirection trend that was DC's staple back in the 50s and 60s.
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A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes."