Discussion: Introducing The Release Of Issue 19: Alpha Strike!
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Posted on: 2010-11-30 10:56 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
Ah, thank you so much for releasing this when I have no time to play it when the original release date would've been perfect for me and a whole lot of other people too, thank you!
(Yes that may have come off as ungratfull, but that's my opinion so screw it, but I am happy that i19 has gone live regardless so I hope I'll have time this Christmas Season to play it as much as I'd like.) |
You never actually got a release date. They said that they would LIKE to release it around the 16th if possible PROVIDING there were no major bugs.. Well apparently there were at least a FEW like the Dominator bug and the Kheldian bug...
You set your expectations to a date they NEVER promised and it was NEVER officially announced by NCSoft on the website. It was a HOPEFUL date from the Meet and Greet. The only thing we got OFFICIALLY was originally that it would be THIS year and then War Witch said AFTER Thanksgiving.
I am an in retail so I have to work through the ENTIRE Holiday season.
The hard things I can do--- The impossible just take a little bit longer.
If numbers are so much more important than a teammate who is fun to play with, forget about the game altogether and go play with a calculator instead. -Claws and Effect-
Noooooo! I just ordered my new gaming rig and it doesn't get here til Thu! Oh well, still no ultra mode for me for 2 more days. 
Time to start respeccing away on all 31 of my alts (yes, w/modified Mids' only...).
An Offensive Guide to Ice Melee
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I did mine simply by removing the fitness pool and not using the slots I applied to it.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Pierce
CRAP! Where's my Mid's Update!? How am I going to do all these respecs without a pre-build?? And don't even bring up the whole modified mids thing. I want my official release.
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The hard things I can do--- The impossible just take a little bit longer.
If numbers are so much more important than a teammate who is fun to play with, forget about the game altogether and go play with a calculator instead. -Claws and Effect-
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Could also be the mechanism for shifting us up a level might not be quite ready yet, either. I remember for the i20 closed beta they said (was it the meet and greet?) that i20 would have a number of new systems that needed testing - whatever makes the level shift happen could be one of them. I'd say a combination of the two, plus data-mining how long it takes us players to earn the Alpha Slot then everything else (shards, Common Boosts and Uncommon Boosts). I don't think it was revealed exactly how the Rare and Very Rares are made, so that might be pending. After all, in the MMO industry "end game" is developer-ese for "time sink." They won't want us to get it too quickly or too slowly but at what they consider an appropriate pace.
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Originally Posted by Soul_Stormer
i bet the reason we are only getting the common and uncommon boosts is the same as why the alpha slot was delayed in the first place: lack of content. the rare and very rare boosts will shift us up a lvl (hence why so many of you want it), but there isn't anything that would require it or be difficult enough for it.
i realize it would make a lot of TFs easier - but maybe they don't want to trivialize them yet either. |
You know im not even focused on what we ARENT getting... I mean they are GOING to release it at some point. Ill be too bust focusing on respecs and reoutfitting first and THEN figuring out what toon gets what Alpha Slot.
The hard things I can do--- The impossible just take a little bit longer.
If numbers are so much more important than a teammate who is fun to play with, forget about the game altogether and go play with a calculator instead. -Claws and Effect-
Time to take part in the badge-hunter invasion of Praetoria
@Golden Girl
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Thanks Devs , no complaints from me . Took 12/1 12/2 12/3 12/6 12/7 and 12/8 off ( had a week left of vacation anyways , better to use it than lose it ) .
Plenty of time to get some of my other toons to close to 50 . 
Man I wish I was at home right now just watching the patch update and looking forward to the new issue 
The day is now officially dragging.
read the patch notes.
nothing about the supposed fix for AE farm(monkey) missions... any word on that?
Gah ! We need warning so we can schedule time off ! I demand fair warning before I20 comes out so I can schedule a vacation day ! (or not, whatever)
--->player speculation and rumor-mongering does not count as fair warning<---
Meantime Ill suffer 5 more hours before I can fully begin to enjoy I19
Thanks !
Virtue Server Forever !
Pure White Lightning - Level 50 Electric Brute
Purple Drop - work in progress Axe/Shield brute
Blue Icefall - Level 50 Ice Tank
@Blue Lava
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Yes it's fixed. Why would they mention it?
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Originally Posted by Longboard
The day is now officially dragging.
read the patch notes. nothing about the supposed fix for AE farm(monkey) missions... any word on that? |
Now if the Ferries would make a stop in Northern Nerva and the trams ran to Souther IP I would be a happy traveler. 
Issue Nineteen. Wreyy! I've actually managed to forget half of the additions, so I'll be scouring the patchnotes in a second. 
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I would say that the reasoning and fairness of the matter is down to perception, communication, and expectation. I think it's a pretty solid statement that we're getting half of the slot with i19, however.|
Originally Posted by Psyte
"Full Alpha slot?"
I'd say its just overall a perception, communication and expectation issue. |
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
Ah, thank you so much for releasing this when I have no time to play it when the original release date would've been perfect for me and a whole lot of other people too, thank you!
(Yes that may have come off as ungratfull, but that's my opinion so screw it, but I am happy that i19 has gone live regardless so I hope I'll have time this Christmas Season to play it as much as I'd like.) |
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Originally Posted by Longboard
nothing about the supposed fix for AE farm(monkey) missions... any word on that?
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Actually, it's not too bad to get to southern IP via train right now - go to Brickstown and pop over a zone. Yeah, not as good as being there directly, but still...
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Originally Posted by Czar_Bal
Now if the Ferries would make a stop in Northern Nerva and the trams ran to Souther IP I would be a happy traveler.
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See, and people wondered what Prime's response to the Praetorian Invasion would be. They sent giant war stompers, we sent badge hunters in response...
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Time to take part in the badge-hunter invasion of Praetoria
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Originally Posted by Funwrecker
See, and people wondered what Prime's response to the Praetorian Invasion would be. They sent giant war stompers, we sent badge hunters in response...
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"Badges badges badges, badges..."
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70 toons across 11 servers.
Top hero -All-American Teen lvl 50 eng/invul Tanker (01:10 EST; 1/24/09)
Top villian -Poisoned Plum lvl 30 robots/devices Mastermind
Alpha Strike is very impressive thus far!
Broke my graphics. The entire game is a blue/gray wasteland.
Yay, I-19 is here...
*collapses in exhaustion from work*
... must wait til weekend.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
I have tried 4 characters, all are fine until I try to enter my base. The loading screen shows a progress bar to about 20-25%, then freezes. Forever.
This has been observed on Justice 3 times and Triumph once, with most of them in Talos and one in Pocket D.
Arrrrgh!
I'll be bugging it in-game, but wanted to put this out there. Anyone else?
Things I tried:
Shutting down completely
Rebooting
Verifying files
So far, the only thing that helped was grabbing a beer, and that'll eventually wear off! Any ideas?
-CK7
The robot revolt begins!
Hey all,
Really liking the new release, it mostly seems great and all. But I usually play quite late at night due to work, could we please, please have have some way of getting Incarnate drops for solo players (cause it's late). None of the TF's can be done solo and wading through hordes of 50+ rikti for hours seems like a real drag.
I enjoy teaming when I can but it would be great if there was an alternative for those of us who aren't around at good times for joining groups.
Despite that, still love the game. Keep up the good work!
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The Incarnate shards can be earned by any level 50 content. The drop rate isn't the fastest, but that's the trade-off between soloability/convenience versus required teaming/speed (just like Merits). So that's newspaper missions, tip missions, normal story arcs, etc.
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Originally Posted by excimer
Really liking the new release, it mostly seems great and all. But I usually play quite late at night due to work, could we please, please have have some way of getting Incarnate drops for solo players (cause it's late). None of the TF's can be done solo and wading through hordes of 50+ rikti for hours seems like a real drag.
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So far, I've respecced 2 alts (one high level, one low) to account for inherent Fitness (great on low-level characters!!!), got my Alpha Slot unlocked on another character, and hooked up my brand new wide-screen monitor! woo-hoo! Even the Rogue Isles look bright and spiffy with this thing!
Please try my arcs:
Arc# 63910 "Why Do Bad Girls Like Bad Boys?" (length=Long, levels 40+)
Arc# 401500 "How to Be a Successful Professional Criminal" (length=Very Long, levels 1-10)
I LOVE the health/stamina inherent fitness!
I LOVE that the trains go everywhere now!
I LOVE that my 6 year old toons can enter Praetoria!
I LOVE the choice on the logout screen!
This issue is tops in my book! Thanks for all the hard work devs...you guys rock!!!
�Many things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.�
(In response to previous message)
I have to say that there have been a couple things that have irked me for almost 6 years now... and every time I encounter them I go "How freakin' long is it going to take them to fix/improve this?".
I can now say that all but one of those items have been fixed. (The last one is the inability to hit ANY key - even Alt-Tab or the Windows key - while logging out)
Thank you devs, for not only providing a great (free!) update, but also for listing and fixing some of those persistent QoL issues for us.
Hugs and happy Alpha-Striking to all!
Too many alts to list
Every server but Pinnacle
Black Belt in Altoholism, Master of Indeterminancy
(although how it got in nancy I've no idea...)
Perfect!
Anyone on Champion going to start an ITF/LGTF/BaracuddaSF run? I'll be home at 8:00pmEST and will be running content to unlock my Incarnate!
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