I've been looking forward to checking this out since I saw the new badge art.
And I even have the day off, so I can go play around on Test. Yay!
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Well...that sounds pretty awesome! Too bad I probably won't be out of work by then. 
I've got a 4-day weekend around Halloween though, so I'll get in on it then. 
I heard that there will be a special guest Zombie making an appearance this year...
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Grrrrrr...still without a home computer
Good luck & have fun testing, please give us an update as to what to expect.
Shard Warrior - 50 MA/Regen/BM Scrapper
Founding Member and Leader : Shadow-Force
Co-Leader: Council of Heroes
"Whatever evils come this way... we will be there to stop them."
I don't get off until 6:30 tonight (eastern), but I'll definitely seek y'all out when I get home.
Well, it was fun for a few minutes, anyway. Got mapserved in Atlas when we started attacking the Banner of Fiends. When I try to get back in on the same character, all I get is an error saying I'm still logging out. When I try a different character I get a DB connection timeout.
Guess I'll have to grab the info for the wiki later. 
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Managed to get back on shortly after my last post here. Turns out all of Atlas Park crashed. Cath was disappointed to find that there was no badge for that part of the event.
Got on Cath's team with Mod 8, St0n3y3, Azrhiaz, and Cherry and we proceeded to put the hurt on the new event spawns.
Got a lot of good info for Paragon Wiki. (Halloween Event 2009 at Paragon Wiki)
My personal observations:
1) Fantastic new badge art. Told Ocho that whoever designed the art work should be given serious kudos. I would also extend my opinion on this to the other various icons and textures (i.e. the banners) with related designs.
2) I love having options. The Halloween event now gives you four options if you wish to participate in the event. You can hunt Eochai and Jack, Trick-or-Treat, chase after Zombie hoards, or play capture the flag(s) to battle against the Deadly Apocalypse. And, of course, you still have the option of just blowing all of it off and running the same content you'd usually be running if that's your preference.
3) The new Deadly Apocalypse badges seem relatively easy to earn. That's a good thing. It should be possible to earn the Accolade within about four or fewer instances of the event with even a tiny bit of effort. This should be much easier than getting that Unseelie badge was the first year it was added. Badge fiends rejoice!
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I had my settings turned down, but this should be clear enough.
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Tell us Cath, what was he like in person? Did you get his autograph? Did he caress your face and tell you everything was going to be alright? Did he mention me at all? I hope he did.
LOL @Karl
While the event had some nice flavor to it, I was kinda disappointed they just recycled baddies already in the game, especially for the GM spawn. "Where is it? Where is it? Oh, it's HIM!? BOR-ing!"
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I should be around to help with this. Anyone else that heads over, let's team up and help test the new event. Just send a tell to @Cath whenever you're available. (Note: You might want to patch up tonight if you haven't patched Test in a while.)
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We will be hosting a targeted test of the 2009 Halloween event on the North American and European Training Room servers on Friday, October 2nd at 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern.
The event will last for approximately 6 hours and will end at approximately 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern.
If you are able to participate, please post your feedback in the following forum thread.
We would like to get your feedback on the following :
- Are objectives clear when the Event is running?
- Are rewards being handed out correctly?
- Are there any problems with the event occurring in any City Zone? (Note: The event will only be present In Paragon City or the Rogue Isles City Zones, and not in any PvP Zones, Hazard Zones, Trial Zones or Co-Op Zones)
- Are there any graphical effect bugs?
- Do banner icons appear correctly on the MiniMap when the event is running?
- Do waypoints correctly appear when the event is running? (Note: Navigation waypoints of active Missions orient players to the Halloween Event objectives when a players character is near one, and should disappear when they leave the area.)
- Are enemy NPCs appearing at the appropriate level? (i.e. a Level 50 should be able to fight side-by-side with a Level 5 character).
- Are all badges awarded correctly?
We have set up a Global Chat Channel on the Training Room called Halloween 2009. We encourage you to join that Global Chat channel to share your experiences with other players when the event is running on Friday, October 2.Dark Fiend - participate in defeat of Dark Fiend Banner
Hell Hath No Fury - participate in defeat of Women Scorned Banner
Terror - participate in defeat of the Transparent Terrors Banner
Monster Masher - participate in defeat of the Monster Mayhem Banner
Monstrous - participate in the defeat of the Aspect of the Sigil Giant Monster
Hell and Back (Accolade) - receive Dark Fiend, Hell Hath No Fury, Terror, Monster Masher, and Monstrous badges to earn this Accolade
Enjoy!
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