The Amazing Origin of the Calvin Scott TF
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Posted on: 2010-10-11 03:23 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Very interesting. Side note, I love Donna Troy.
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Originally Posted by Silver Gale
From the Massivel article on the CoH panel at NYCC...
I never knew that! And this in turn influenced the design of Praetor Tilman and the choice of Calvin Scott as leader of the Resistance. We're only a few continuity reboots short of a Donna Troy situation.  |
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But this is the most important part of that article!
| Baumtown, a zone that many players would like to see updated, is on the table for a remake. |
Winner of Players' Choice Best Villainous Arc 2010: Fear and Loathing on Striga; ID #350522
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I think that's a slight misunderstanding - they were asked about zone revamps for places like Boomtown, and War Witch said that they were aware of player requests for it to happen - which is more of a "maybe" than a "yes" |
Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
But this is the most important part of that article!
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@Golden Girl
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It's a trap! Baumtown is a temporal flux between Baumton and Boomtown!
Boomtown could be what some of the 5th Column street mobs are talking about when they taunt the Council about Striga not being as good as their hidden base "in the heart of the city" - although Boomtown is more on the edge than the heart 
@Golden Girl
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I want my incarnate slot NOW! 
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You'll get it soon |
Originally Posted by EU_Damz
I want my incarnate slot NOW!
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Although you'll also need to craft things to put in it
@Golden Girl
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
You'll get it soon
Although you'll also need to craft things to put in it |
I will be darned if i dont get my incarnate slot fully up and running as soon as super hero possible!
It's official, i now have the pre-issue blues where i physically cant create any new characters because i have new characters in mind for i19.
Fitness has made me want to create a brand new warshade a mastermind.
Alternative animations want me to create a new blaster though i am not sure what type yet.
I want!
@Damz Find me on the global channel Union Chat. One of the best "chat channels" ingame!
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From what they said on the I19 panel, they'll be using the same crafting system that was in the GR closed beta - or something very similar to it - so we'll need to get Incarnate shards or the specific Incarnate salvage from the high level TFs and raids to craft the enhancements for the slot.
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
I will be darned if i dont get my incarnate slot fully up and running as soon as super hero possible!
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@Golden Girl
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i saw this isn the panel video and have to admit being slightly flabbergasted at the thought of 'OMG, the hair is the wrong colour! we must now create an alternate universe, incorporate it into the paradigm, and hope no one fires us!' rather than, 'hey charlie, tweak the hair colour for the next update, we've been getting a few bug reports we did this wrong or something'.
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Originally Posted by Silver Gale
From the Massivel article on the CoH panel at NYCC...
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Kittens give Morbo gas.
I've heard that Jack was a very big on the idea that everything in the game had to be explained with an in-game reason
@Golden Girl
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Well, not quite. It just influenced Sister Psyche's backstory, so it would only have been a little bit of text that got added. Praetoria wasn't required to explain it. When they wrote up the Praetorian analogs (for Issue 2, I believe), however, it only made sense to use it. Then when Going Rogue came along, they had a ready-made springboard for the Resistance. This is one of the good things about fleshing out backstory and having canon explanations for things. |
Originally Posted by spice_weasel
i saw this isn the panel video and have to admit being slightly flabbergasted at the thought of 'OMG, the hair is the wrong colour! we must now create an alternate universe, incorporate it into the paradigm, and hope no one fires us!' rather than, 'hey charlie, tweak the hair colour for the next update, we've been getting a few bug reports we did this wrong or something'.
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Story things, anyway--some of the canon explanations for game mechanics have been painful.
The Way of the Corruptor (Arc ID 49834): Hey villains! Do something for yourself for a change--like twisting the elements to your will. All that's standing in your way are a few secret societies...and Champions of the four elements.
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Hm, well that's something I can definitely agree with.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I've heard that Jack was a very big on the idea that everything in the game had to be explained with an in-game reason
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Ha. They really should let people who know /anything/ about the game write the articles >.>
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Originally Posted by Article
Of course, the team mentioned the move of Fitness to an inherent set, but with everything else changing, it seemed almost lackluster.
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Fitness becoming Inherent is lackluster. I rarely selected any powers from the pool (since there is rarely a need), and all the other stuff in Issue 19 is orders of magnitude more interesting than the yawn-fest of some unjustifiably popular power pool being granted to all characters.
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I fully blame my laziness for my need/want for the power pool. So, as an inherent, yay. But, I'm with the article writer as to it being not terribly interesting.
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Fitness becoming Inherent is lackluster. I rarely selected any powers from the pool (since there is rarely a need), and all the other stuff in Issue 19 is orders of magnitude more interesting than the yawn-fest of some unjustifiably popular power pool being granted to all characters.
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From the Massivel article on the CoH panel at NYCC...
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