Official Discussion: Issue 12: Midnight Hour
By
Agent_of_Kronos,
Posted on: 2008-05-20 13:40 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Love it.
Just wish it had been next week. Seriously, you guys need to coordinate these releases better with my other commitments. 
Please try MA arc ID 351455, "Shard Stories: Scavenger's Hunt." Originally created for the Dr. Aeon contest, it explores the wild potential of one of the City's most concept-rich but content-poor settings: the Shadow Shard.
Got on this morning and rolled my Psionic/Mental Blaster named Psyhavoc and I am LOVIN' IT! Only got to level 5 before I had to leave for work, can't wait to get home and have some more blasterific fun!
isn't doing ANY Shadowshard arc supposed to award you Rularuu weapons? Because my Brute has done all of NAylor's arcs and doesn't have acess to Rularuu Dual Blades...
What part of phnglui mglw'nafl Cthulhu r'lyeh w'gah nagl fhtagn don't you understand?
It's a minor point I suppose, but the whole drag and drop to reorganize characters on the login screen is not working. Oh, you can drag them alright, but the new arrangement is NOT retained regardless of whether the "Remember Account Name" box is checked or not. I just wasted an hour trying to rearrange the lists on the three servers I play, and no combination of logging in/launching character/logging off/quit client/reboot will force the client to retain the new order. Also, there is insufficient documentation to explain what this "redeemable slot" thing is all about. Are they time limited? How much time? Are there three total, or three per server? If an enhancement category for a power was nerfed, why are the nerfed enhancements still in those slots? Why can't we get them back, or at least get their trade value ala a respec (without actually having to burn a respec...I'm not wasting one just to get one enhancement back, no matter how expensive it was)? If this is any indication of how the rest of this is going (and I'm not happy that you've nerfed my main regarding PvP), you should have kept it in beta a while longer. Three weeks obviously wasn't long enough.
This is the first time I think I've ever seen people complaining about an issue coming out too soon! Whatever bugs remain can always be fixed later. Way too much awesomeness in this patch to gripe about the little things.
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Pets should no longer become terrified and run in terror when their ownerÂ’s Oil Slick power fades.
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Have to say that made me laugh. Wish I had seen it happen even once.
Thank the Gods that the size of the friends list has been increased.
From Patch Notes:
"Character Origin Missions (Hero and Villain)
Where did Origins come from? How are they connected? How long have they existed? "
This is the first I've heard of this, anybody know what's up here? Are we getting more advanced origin-oriented storylines from our original contacts?
Thrythlind's Deviant Art Page
"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math
Live already???
By the gods, don't you folks ever take a break?
Anyway, great job!
Cal2
What do the "Fire Alarm" messages mean?
"No boom *today*. Boom tomorrow. There's always boom tomorrow."
--Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
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What do the "Fire Alarm" messages mean?
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Steel Canyon building fire-
Go talk to the guy out front- he'll give you a temp power fire extinguisher- Go. Hunt. Kills fires. 
50/100/200 (?) all count for badges.
Getting Hellions standing around and burning the fire count to a badges as well.
DON"T be near the building when it explodes- it does like a billion points of damage or something....instant one-shot.
I hope this helps.
"I'm not scared of anyone or anything Angie. Isn't that the way life should be?"
Jack Hawksmoor, The Authority.
I just have to take a moment to tear myself away from revelling in Issue 12 and say:
FANTASTIC JOB!
Beyond the usual teething problems - and these are fewer and fewer with every new issue - and the usual annoying typos - really, gang, you have GOT to learn to spell! :-) - the game just gets better and Better and BETTER with every new expansion.
JOB
WELL
DONE!!!!
Now just get rid of that silly, stupid Travel Power Suppression and it will be on the way to being perfect.
Dasher
HELP SAVE THIS GAME!
If we can save this game, I promise I will never complain about Travel Power Suppression again! You have my word on it!
"The customer is always right."
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Steel Canyon building fire-
Go talk to the guy out front- he'll give you a temp power fire extinguisher- Go. Hunt. Kills fires. 50/100/200 (?) all count for badges.
Getting Hellions standing around and burning the fire count to a badges as well.
DON"T be near the building when it explodes- it does like a billion points of damage or something....instant one-shot.
I hope this helps.
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Thanks! That sounds like fun--I'll have to try it. Is it obvious where the fire is?
"No boom *today*. Boom tomorrow. There's always boom tomorrow."
--Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
Not quite right on the badges though:
Volunteer Firefighter = 10 helions during the fire defeated
Firefighter = 50 fires and 50 helions defeated during a fire
Fire Chief = 100 fires and 100 helions defeated during a fire
Helions defeated have to be spawning from the fire event, like the trolls for the rave.
The one thing I would of liked to see is some type of auto-notification for access to Issue 12 content. Detectives, University and even Meg in the hollows are easy to find as they are auto given when you enter the zone for the first time or by another contact when you complete their missions. Someone slipped IMO about adding that as myself and tons of others in game see broadcasts all the time about how to find ther midnight club and Cimeroa.
Other than that Issue 12 smells good, lets see if it stays that way or ends up like Ouroboros, little more than a convenient teleport spot to hasten movement to the next mish.
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And stop whining about your event, the 5 hour downtime should have been your clue. And noone, not even NCSoft is perfect.
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There's a difference between trying to read between the lines, and being told that Yes, it's being released. If we were told it was today, then I'd have planned my day a bit differently.
No one is perfect, but they really should know that some people get a bit grumpy when they have surprises thrust onto them.
And the freespec thing is a bigger deal. With all the new sets, it would have been a really nice perk to have them available for the people (like me) that are going to pick some bad power combinations because the sets are new :P