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Weather is usually fairly good up until the last week of October, however things have been a bit odd for the last week. We should get a last blast of good weather (too hot for me unfortunately) and then we'll all be crossing our fingers for Hero-Con. Halloween is usually pretty dicey.|
Originally Posted by Amanita
I am hoping that the weather in SF this october will be nicer than it has been this month- I've been checking the Golden Gate Bridge webcam at www.goldengatebridge.org and the poor thing's been shrouded in fog all week. Ugh. September and October are supposed to be the nice months.
And to complicate things, I don't have a laptop that can run CoH..A good gaming laptop is tres expensive- not in the budget right now  |
The one saving grace is that weather is rarely that bad. No blizzards, no hurricanes, just kinda drab.
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In my version of the Halloween event, every door would spawn a completely random set of critters disguised as some other random set of critters that you would have to defeat to get your treat.|
Originally Posted by Neuronia
Arcanaville.
In a giant robot with laser beams. And fire. "I equate you with failure, EX-TER-MI-NATE!" "Your power choices do not add up, EX-TER-MI-NATE!" "This is a numbers game and you come out 0, EX-TER-MI-NATE!" And she'd spawn random mobs dependant on zones...rain o' Mitos anyone?  |
So you might get a Rikti Monkey wearing a Jurassik costume that you can easily put down. Then again if you find a Cog packing laser beam eyes and total focus with thirty thousand health you might want to consider an easier door.
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Originally Posted by TheOcho
No blizzards
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You can cause a zombie attack on a random zone by trading in the Halloween salvage for the 5th costume slot.
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Originally Posted by Gaspard
By the way, I just realized. Why has the zombie invasion been going on the entire year? I thought it was a halloween-only event, it has sort of lost its charm.
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Yes, yes they were. Not by me, mind you (I wouldn't post them). But PIGG diving is pretty much the only way one can harvest that type of info.
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Originally Posted by Seek_Trouble
So these were found diggin around in the code or what?
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They were still showing up in my quoted reply, so I removed them
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Heh, imagine how it feels to those of us for whom it never had any charm to begin with. |
Originally Posted by Gaspard
By the way, I just realized. Why has the zombie invasion been going on the entire year? I thought it was a halloween-only event, it has sort of lost its charm.
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I hope they fixed the spawning rate for this year for critters. I remember that last year I think we had a problem with ghosts and vamps, I think.
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I second this wish, the winter event especially gets dull with people running it all gray.
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Originally Posted by Obsidius
The only thing I know is that there will be updates; what they are I don't know. I hope that ToT door spawns start using invasion code, for example, so players can ToT regardless of zone. Ditto for the Winter Event.
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Originally Posted by TheOcho
Weather is usually fairly good up until the last week of October, however things have been a bit odd for the last week. We should get a last blast of good weather (too hot for me unfortunately) and then we'll all be crossing our fingers for Hero-Con. Halloween is usually pretty dicey.
The one saving grace is that weather is rarely that bad. No blizzards, no hurricanes, just kinda drab. |
We'ld literally kill for an afternoon of sun Seriously, the other day we had maybe 4/5 hours max of sun and people were starting to talk about a heatwave
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Originally Posted by Obsidius
The only thing I know is that there will be updates; what they are I don't know. I hope that ToT door spawns start using invasion code, for example, so players can ToT regardless of zone. Ditto for the Winter Event.
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Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
I second this wish, the winter event especially gets dull with people running it all gray.
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Don't give me that Damz, it's sunny right now, in North Wales, I know I can see it outside the window and it has been most of the week |
Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Come to wales
We'ld literally kill for an afternoon of sun Seriously, the other day we had maybe 4/5 hours max of sun and people were starting to talk about a heatwave |
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For Baby New Year, the invasion code won't be needed. The entire team will be adjusted to the level of the Mission Owner under the new SSK rules, meaning that you CAN'T run an all-grey mission for easy rewards.
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Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
I really hope they don't extend the use of the invasion code. It's fine for free for alls with dozens of heroes or villains in the same place, but if you've ever fought an invasion event rikti or zombie solo with a low level character you'll know they are 'even-con' in name only, being far more resistant to your damage than a genuine equivalent level enemy of the same rank.
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Well, not easily. You can take the mission, outlevel it and then do it with a team and they'll all be grey to everyone.
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Originally Posted by Roderick
For Baby New Year, the invasion code won't be needed. The entire team will be adjusted to the level of the Mission Owner under the new SSK rules, meaning that you CAN'T run an all-grey mission for easy rewards.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
In my version of the Halloween event, every door would spawn a completely random set of critters disguised as some other random set of critters that you would have to defeat to get your treat.
So you might get a Rikti Monkey wearing a Jurassik costume that you can easily put down. Then again if you find a Cog packing laser beam eyes and total focus with thirty thousand health you might want to consider an easier door. |
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It isn't that they resist damage, it's that they have a native level despite having no visible level. That code basically says that you do as much damage to it as you would do to an even-con of the same rank. Problem being that a level 5 doing the same numerical damage to something that has level 30 or level 50 hit points as they do to a level 5 is struggling to whittle it down. If they somehow made it so that you did the same proportion of the total hit points instead, the disparity would only be in how much enhancement the level 5 has compared to a level 30 or level 50. That would even out the offense side of the no level mob code to what the defensive side of it is, but I doubt it would be easy to do.
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Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
I really hope they don't extend the use of the invasion code. It's fine for free for alls with dozens of heroes or villains in the same place, but if you've ever fought an invasion event rikti or zombie solo with a low level character you'll know they are 'even-con' in name only, being far more resistant to your damage than a genuine equivalent level enemy of the same rank.
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I really hope it is something different. I can't stand that stuff anymore. If I stick around I am hoping X-Mas event is diff too!
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Originally Posted by TheJazMan
I really hope it is something different. I can't stand that stuff anymore. If I stick around I am hoping X-Mas event is diff too!
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I really feel sorry for new players.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
There'll be some new stuff, but all the content from the previous events will also be around - not every player has seen it all
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It seems every year they add more stuff... it's gotten to the point that unless you play a ton during the time of the event it will likely take more than that one year to achieve all of the different badges and such. My main redside badger is still in need of Ghosts and a few other things from last year... we shall see what exactly got added.
I'm always up for some new event stuff. It gives me a reason to dust off my 50 and actually play as him.
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Ghosts were scarce last year due to some glitch. Hopefully they've taken care of that for this year. The fact that they're going to be testing this event is already a good idea.
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Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven
It seems every year they add more stuff... it's gotten to the point that unless you play a ton during the time of the event it will likely take more than that one year to achieve all of the different badges and such. My main redside badger is still in need of Ghosts and a few other things from last year... we shall see what exactly got added.
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OTOH, I've never had problems defeating Zombies that use the same code in the Halloween events using my low level characters, besides their Toxic damage. Is there empirical data on this matter, or is this just based upon subjective observations? I tried looking up this topic in the Paragon Wiki, without much success.
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Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer
It isn't that they resist damage, it's that they have a native level despite having no visible level. That code basically says that you do as much damage to it as you would do to an even-con of the same rank. Problem being that a level 5 doing the same numerical damage to something that has level 30 or level 50 hit points as they do to a level 5 is struggling to whittle it down. If they somehow made it so that you did the same proportion of the total hit points instead, the disparity would only be in how much enhancement the level 5 has compared to a level 30 or level 50. That would even out the offense side of the no level mob code to what the defensive side of it is, but I doubt it would be easy to do.
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I will also point out that the zombie Halloween event from last year was unleashed by surprise by the devs at HeroCon, which is scheduled =this= year on Oct 24-25.
I tell you, it was a kick in the big computer room, all these people playing the zombiepocalypse, players going berserk about it in broadcast, and the devs standing around watching over our shoulders, grinning the biggest grins ever.
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Of course, generally speaking the weather in San Jose will be nicer than San Francisco (not as windy/foggy) but still, I wouldn't expect it to be warm. Pack layers.