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New Redside History, or pre-GR Badge, or Bug?

Kheldarn

By Kheldarn,
Posted on: 2010-05-15 06:31 in Badges and Gladiators

 

Posted

Just been running through doing the Midnighter history badge on my NW, when I noticed a 6th history badge availabe: screenshot

Is this a new badge, or a blueside/GR badge thats slipped into i17 by accident - or is it just a glitch? Its not listed on CIT or Badgehunters.

EDIT: Its the blueside Academic history badge, so only GR obtainable

http://www.scene-and-heard.com/cov/covsig.jpg

 

Posted

Good catch. It looks like it is for the Academic History badge which has a plaque in RWZ. Therefore, it looks like the game is already registering badges for both sides in preparation for GR. Might be possible to get the RV hero or villain badges by getting confused.

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Posted

This "years old bug" is an ironic precursor to Going Rogue mainly because the game's badges have been geared towards heroes and villains crossing over to the other side pretty much since the beginning. The Devs have been dropping hints that they've been working towards it for years now and clearly set their original badge system up to allow for it.

It doesn't really surprise me to hear of another history badge slip like this, especially since we're finally only a few months away from GR. This game is so huge that it's easy for things like that to accidentally slip into the live build.

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