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Discussion: The Rikti Return!

1_800_Spines

By 1_800_Spines,
Posted on: 2008-03-06 10:55 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Can we maybe get a zone where it spawns like it did on test before it was nerfed to be way to easy...
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Maybe its just me but I kinda liked the desperation of the invasions on test, surrounded by scores of Rikti, flocking around you, swarming the hospital.
Now THAT felt like a invasion by a hostile force bent on destroying us.

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Here's the thing: . . .

The invasions can still get pretty darn crazy now...
But what it requires to have the mega battles,
is to have mega numbers of players in the zone.

The more of us there are, the crazier it gets!
Bring all your buddies!

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I have a big paper due next week so if figures there would be something cool going on this weekend. Oh Devs, why do you distract me so?

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Remember, recent studies show that it is very important to take an one hour break for every 20 minutes of studying...Or is it the other way? Oh well, just play, papers write themselves

 

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I've been hoping they would bring back the invasions on a regualr schedule.

Does anyone know if there is a utility that can monitor the chat log for the invasion alerts? I keep missing the LGTF ones.

 

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Sweet! I love the rikti...they are about my favorite mob set to fight in CoV/H.

Woohoo! The rikti are coming, the rikti are coming!

 

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YAY - didn't know about the no debt thing... that's kewl...

 

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Any word on when its suppose to start? 6am or 12am the pacific?

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The event should start shortly after the servers come up from Maintenance (which should end around 8 AM Pacific / 11 AM Eastern).

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I've been hoping they would bring back the invasions on a regualr schedule.

Does anyone know if there is a utility that can monitor the chat log for the invasion alerts? I keep missing the LGTF ones.

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Yes. It's called the Mark I Model 0 Eyeball. It works like this:

You open a brandnew chat window, create a new tab, label it whatever you want, and put only one thing in this new tab. The channel called System. That is the channel that Invasion Alerts are announced in. Very little else uses this channel.

Good hunting!

 

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The looming threat of the Rikti Invasion Force still hangs like a dark pall over Earth. Despite the best efforts of humanity, aggressive Rikti incursions still plague the planet.

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You know what would be really cool?

Global requests for aid with custom co-op map zones filled with dynamic structures.

I know, I know, this is a HUGE amount of work, but how neat would it be to get a call for help from a major city and teleport there with co-op teams of Heroes and Villains just in time to...

... save London, keeping Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament from being destroyed?

... defend Moscow, driving Rikti assaults back from the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral?

... keep Tokyo, or Buenos Aires, or Beijing, or Sydney, or Paris, or Cairo, the Pyramids and Sphinx(!) from being destroyed by Rikti?

... and of course, save San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!

This of course is total blue-sky wishful thinking, but it would so rock...!

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... and of course, save San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!


Dasher

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I would SO do that! /Signed 1000x over!
Golden Gate Bridge is one of my favourite things in the world right now- I have a rivet from it, even

Heck, I would make a Golden Gate Bridge toon and have a friend help PL him for something like this- the GGB gets its butt kicked in enough disaster movies, how about getting its own back?

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I notice a lot of folks are referencing Issue 12 in this thread, which is cool, I just want to weigh in on that subject.

I have no idea, notion, inkling or even concern for what, if anything, I-12 will be all about; apparently it's some Orobouros "Storm"-related thingy, based on what I gather from references in other peoples' posts.

Cool, great, wonderful, bring it on.

But...

I would be ECSTATIC if the ONLY THING Issue 12 did was to get the Cathedral of Pain Trial up and running.

I am sick unto death of waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the CoP Trial and Items of Power.

Please, Devs, please, please, PLEASE fix this!!!

Please, stop throwing distracting shiny-pretties in front of us, hoping the lack of the CoP Trial will make the problem go away.

It won't; it will just antagonize people further.

Just Make It Work.

Please.

Dasher

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sounds great - need some more rikti badges on my new 50s

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I am sick unto death of waiting...

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Waiting for what?

Do you seriously believe that the Cathedral of Pain Trial will ever see the light of day? I mean seriously. There are things in this game that have been broken for 2+ or 3+ YEARS and they've been ignored while the devs spent time fixing one power in one of the strongest ATs, nerfing a power that's already been nerfed how many times, refusing to fix Devices, heck refusing to even fix the incorrect power descriptions in devices. They continue to pile more broken stuff onto more broken stuff onto other stuff that's been broken for longer than my youngest son has been alive.

Do you seriously believe that the Cathedral of Pain Trial will ever make it to a live server?

Because if you do you're more of an optimist than I'll ever be.

 

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I've been hoping they would bring back the invasions on a regualr schedule.

Does anyone know if there is a utility that can monitor the chat log for the invasion alerts? I keep missing the LGTF ones.

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Yes. It's called the Mark I Model 0 Eyeball. It works like this:

You open a brandnew chat window, create a new tab, label it whatever you want, and put only one thing in this new tab. The channel called System. That is the channel that Invasion Alerts are announced in. Very little else uses this channel.

Good hunting!

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Every time you move to a different part of a zone or defeat an enemy or complete a mission or find a clue, it goes to System channel. So, unless you are literally standing around doing nothing, System is virtually useless for invasion announcements as it is going to be constantly spammed.

Yes, they still need to fix that whole "not enough channels" thing so they can add a real Vanguard channel

 

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Every time you move to a different part of a zone or defeat an enemy or complete a mission or find a clue, it goes to System channel. So, unless you are literally standing around doing nothing, System is virtually useless for invasion announcements as it is going to be constantly spammed.

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Yes, but in my experience it's really not a problem. It usually looks something like this:

You have entered Dark Astoria
You have defeated Bone Daddy
Your friend Flirty Superheroine is online
You have defeated Gravedigger Slammer
You have defeated Freakshow ******
WARNING! RIKTI SHIPS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED
HEADING FOR TALOS ISLAND!
ALL NON-COMBATANTS ARE URGED TO SEEK
COVER! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

So yeah, like I said it really isn't a problem. YMMV.

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Yes, they still need to fix that whole "not enough channels" thing so they can add a real Vanguard channel

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Yeah well, I'm sure it's on the list right behind "fix the Robo-Surgery" and "give the NPCs in the Shadow Shards actual names." This means you've probably only got 3 or 4 more years to wait.

 

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Sweet are the servers coming back up soon so we can play.

 

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You have entered Dark Astoria
You have defeated Bone Daddy
Your friend Flirty Superheroine is online
You have defeated Gravedigger Slammer
You have defeated Freakshow ******
WARNING! RIKTI SHIPS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED
HEADING FOR TALOS ISLAND!
ALL NON-COMBATANTS ARE URGED TO SEEK
COVER! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

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Where do the Bone Daddies spawn inside Dark Astoria? (You know you wanted someone to ask)

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Yes, but in my experience it's really not a problem. It usually looks something like this:

You have entered Dark Astoria
You have defeated Bone Daddy
Your friend Flirty Superheroine is online
You have defeated Gravedigger Slammer
You have defeated Freakshow ******
WARNING! RIKTI SHIPS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED
HEADING FOR TALOS ISLAND!
ALL NON-COMBATANTS ARE URGED TO SEEK
COVER! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

So yeah, like I said it really isn't a problem. YMMV.



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The issue here is that I really can't leave an entire chat tab open all the time and devoted entirely to System channel. Any attempt on my part to relegate all of my player chat channels to a single half of the window results in a rather impenetrable wall of free-flowing text that vaguely resembles the Matrix. I blame PinnBadges, really.

Even then, I'm typically slashing my way through enemies fast enough that the invasion message wouldn't be on the screen for more than 3 seconds or so at any given point, during which time I'm generally looking at the critters who are trying to slaughter me mercilessly

 

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Where do the Bone Daddies spawn inside Dark Astoria? (You know you wanted someone to ask)

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That's the one you wanted to ask me about?!? Cause I threw a much better one in there than that!

C'mon man. All this work I did to set up a perfectly good joke and you're asking me about that one?

 

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I have only a limited time today to get on and play (and film) because hubby needs the computer, so I am waiting for the servers to come back up! And we're now 40 minutes past the usual time and they're STILL DOWN!

I swear, the devs are doing this DELIBERATELY!

The Rikti are invading! Why are you worrying about updating servers over there? Let us save the world first, THEN you can update the servers!

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Can we maybe get a zone where it spawns like it did on test before it was nerfed to be way to easy...
>.>
Maybe its just me but I kinda liked the desperation of the invasions on test, surrounded by scores of Rikti, flocking around you, swarming the hospital.
Now THAT felt like a invasion by a hostile force bent on destroying us.

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Here's the thing: . . .

The invasions can still get pretty darn crazy now...
But what it requires to have the mega battles,
is to have mega numbers of players in the zone.

The more of us there are, the crazier it gets!
Bring all your buddies!

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I'm on Virtue, I've been in insanely populated zones with the invasions, its totally not anywhere near as hard or awesome as it was originally on test.

Point in fact, my defender can be alone in a raided zone, even a packed one, and fight the mobs spawning on her even if she's in an 8 man team but by herself on the other side of the map.

On test? This wasn't easy for a squishy toon, it was a WAR ZONE, you died alot, you ran around, you stayed with your team and fought desperately to survive. And don't think hospitally will save you or running, they would swarm the hospital, you'd exit to 4 or 5 heavies or more, if you ran they would chase you across the map nevermind the ships sniping you from the sky. I mean the Rikti are able to take down the war walls, they decimated almost all heroes in the 1st war, the invasions in their current form? Not threatening, I actually laugh and think, "Man heroes prior to the first war were chumps." But now the hospitals are offlimits to the spawns, they don't really chase, and not nearly as many spawn. I still remember seeing what had to be 40 of them swarming around my invuln tank and a stone tank, and we were barely holding our own, only with support of our whole team did we survive.

Am I saying we need something that insane in normal zones at all levels? No a lowbie couldn't hope to survive it and it'd be frustrating. But maybe a spawnable event in its own zone, maybe somewhere the Rikti are trying to get to something. Maybe in a PVP zone where its already high risk, or maybe even a raid event on the vanguard holdings in the war zone, they have to be mightly angry after we've bombed their ship how many times? Who knows but I want a High Risk invasion, I want to see the Rikti being as insanely awesome as they are, I want to feel like its a desperate fight with only slim odds of winning. I want it to be a challenge and a war.

I want to experience Rikti on the level of the 1st Rikti War event. The invasion on test really felt that way before they nerfed it down, I remember thinking, "WOW! So this is why they ruined us!". Ship raids are a bit like this because everything is lvl 53, but raiding their ship isn't the same as defending a city zone from an invasion by a hostile force while there are drop ships flying in over head and carpet bombing..

As it stands, I don't even question winning invasions, I go, I know we'll win, I know the Rikti don't stand a chance, which is not fun, or challenging. But maybe thats just me, I mean there isn't any debt, but some people can't cope with that sort of set of odds stacked against them, or dying constantly. I just want some more challenges that aren't a LRSF/STF or a ship raid.

 

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Given how tough the lag has made the raids I've been in so far (and I've got a pretty high-end system and connection), I don't think what you're describing would work, especially taking place later in the day when even more people are going to be on. What you're describing sounds awesome, but, I don't think it's practical. Personally, I didn't find it easy, but, then again, the no debt thing made me fight to the death then just SS back to the fight from the hospital.

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Yay. Thanks for the heads up LH.

Now to convince my brother to change his wedding date in August....

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lol, How funny...I thought I was the only one who would do something like that...I ditched going to the movies last week to play this game.

On another note: WOO HOO I LOVE INVASIONS!!!!!
*thinks to self, oops was that out loud*

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Thanks InfamousBrad. I read about the Rikti War just now on P-wiki, but I didn't find anything specific on the invasions. That's OK though, you've given me enough to go on, and thus I shall cause the rivers to run deep with their blood.

Do they have blood?

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I would assume that they do, considering the major story spoilers you get from the Dark Watcher. You do have Omega level security clearance, right?

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