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These new costumes are incredible!

Airhammer

By Airhammer,
Posted on: 2010-12-31 04:16 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Melancton View Post
While I understand the notion that there should be a carrot motivating players, after the first hero to hit 35, it does get extremely old having to unlock pieces for each with only 15 levels to go until 50 for each successive player. Same problem with auras at 30... I have a number of characters who looked "wrong" until they could get their auras, and it was just lame.

Same problem with capes back in the day, although now you can get shoulder capes as a Vet, and buy some capes... which sort of obliterates the ol' "Honor Hero 1" business now, doesn't it?

Unlocks are problematic, for sure.
Capes from level 1: Valkyrie (Mac Pack), One Shoulder (Vet Reward), Origin Pack Capes (5 in total)
Auras from Level 1: Combat Auras (Cyborg Pack), Alpha/Omega (GR Complete Collection pack/upgrade), Origin Pack Auras (Forgotten how many)

The Aura mission in itself is rather stupid lorewise (Mages, power up with... uh... alien-plant-cybertech implant? Robots, power up with likewise?)

Not to mention military epaulettes that don't have spikes being locked behind the Task Force Commander badge.

I'm just one of these people that hates the game where customization is king, having options placed behind barriers restricting what you can make.

 

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Originally Posted by Zortel View Post
The Aura mission in itself is rather stupid lorewise (Mages, power up with... uh... alien-plant-cybertech implant? Robots, power up with likewise?)
The Aura mission lore villainside seems to hint at future power, ie Incarnate. At least that's what I thought.
I have to admit I don't even run those missions on most characters and when I do it tends to be redside.

 

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Melancton: While I understand the notion that there should be a carrot motivating players, after the first hero to hit 35, it does get extremely old having to unlock pieces for each with only 15 levels to go until 50 for each successive player. Same problem with auras at 30... I have a number of characters who looked "wrong" until they could get their auras, and it was just lame.
As soon as I saw the Fireflies aura, a beautiful character popped into my head, costume and name all intact. I waited until i19 to roll her, so she could have her aura.

Imagine my chagrin to realize that yep, she has to wait till level 30 to get her beautiful little glowy creatures of the night. , and once again I say:

 

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The Shock Trooper and Elite Rangers have leg accessories! We needs more leg accessories in the game! ...cause we have none right now!
I've been saying for at least a few years now that we need a thigh slot for upper leg accessories, such as holsters, pouches, armor etc..

Costume creator needs an overhaul as it's one of the biggest draws to this game and is getting long in the tooth.

  • neck slot
  • thigh slot
  • detail 3 slot (both lower & upper face/helmet items in one category)
  • more costume proliferation. Stop the costume segregation in sections & body type (all baron, tattoos for females etc..)
  • back items (backpacks, jetpacks that turn on/off as you hover/fly/jump, particle accelerators etc..)
I do hope that this isn't a case of npc's getting cool items that the players, yet again, don't get access to. So Tired of the npc's getting all the great looking parts.

The current mutant pack had some great looking player parts, lets keep that trend going and also some that are just ingame to get instead of more not-so-micro-payments, which ncsoft is fond of. Art department did a superbly fantastic job on that pack, outside of organic armor not having a tops with skins option, it's amazing!

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Originally Posted by Bad_Influence View Post
As soon as I saw the Fireflies aura, a beautiful character popped into my head, costume and name all intact. I waited until i19 to roll her, so she could have her aura.

Imagine my chagrin to realize that yep, she has to wait till level 30 to get her beautiful little glowy creatures of the night. , and once again I say:
I feel your .

If there HAS to be an unlock (and there is considerable unrest over THAT), it should be an Account unlock. One and done. Having your 43rd character still have to wait to level 30 to get a defining aura is simply lame.

Mandatory reference to purported "solution": PL MEH!

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yeah having costume pieces be account based would be wonderful. Including capes and auras since there's tons of perk ones that are open from lvl 1. Just make the fifth costume unlocked by doing both the cape and aura missions so there's still a point in having them around for players who already have them as an alternative to having to score halloween salvage.

Otherwise give me a check list for my entire account so I can just run down the list and get all the bell and whistles. I don't mind doing the work I just don't feel I should need run all of it for every single alt or have wait for most my career lvling up to look entirely as planned. Heck make it a perk pack if you have to. Find a way to get this done.


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i was doing some missions from Tina's arc earlier and was having great fun fighting the IDF troops. The only downside to the assorted Freedom Phalanx members who come along is that with Tactics' +perception running they go aggro-happy like fusionette on a quad latte. Keeping Posi alive was especially difficult except that he (and the others?) seems to have scaling resistances or invulnerability when low on hp. While running around switching targets at random he quickly got down to about 10% hp, but it never went lower despite him constantly trying to hit the aggro cap. (i was running solo with team size setting in the 4 to 6 range.)

Anyway, i finally saw the Heavy Trooper weapons backpack in action. It's one of the coolest pieces i've seen in game for a long time. The cannons and missile pods simply look badass. The IDF armor by itself is nicely designed, and i'm really hoping we'll be getting tintable version of the gauntlets, boots and torso pieces in the near future, but that weapons pack is fantastic.

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I bet we're not going to get them. And you know why? Because they only exist for the Male skeleton. Have you seen any Female or Huge IDF shock troopers? No, because they don't exist. They haven't made the pieces for those models, and so nobody gets them.

Issue 16 made me feel like this.
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Have you seen any Female or Huge IDF shock troopers? No, because they don't exist .
That's because Tyrant's attitude to most women is to either enslave them, or if they're a member of his family, sleep with them.

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What, you think there're no male Seers? They exist. You just don't see them because the uniforms aren't as flattering on them.

And what, Dominatrix and Cole? That's gross, get your head out of the gutter.

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Anyway, i finally saw the Heavy Trooper weapons backpack in action. It's one of the coolest pieces i've seen in game for a long time. The cannons and missile pods simply look badass. The IDF armor by itself is nicely designed, and i'm really hoping we'll be getting tintable version of the gauntlets, boots and torso pieces in the near future, but that weapons pack is fantastic.
Which is why Crab spiders should be able to replace there claws with it on alternate costumes.

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Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
What, you think there're no male Seers? They exist. You just don't see them because the uniforms aren't as flattering on them.
I'm pretty sure someone would have mentioned them if they did exist - and we'd see them when we were liberating victims from the BAF

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And what, Dominatrix and Cole? That's gross, get your head out of the gutter.
And I suggest you get your head out of the Enrich vat and open your peepers

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Oh wow, these are great. I wanted more tech and more glow, and these are both!

A game is not supposed to be some kind of... place where people enjoy themselves!

 

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What, you think there're no male Seers? They exist. You just don't see them because the uniforms aren't as flattering on them.
isn't it stated somewhere the Tilman favors women (NOT LIKE THAT!) for seers because they're more

*SPOILER!*

Appetizing? (Still not like that, pervert...)

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And what, Dominatrix and Cole? That's gross, get your head out of the gutter.
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And I suggest you get your head out of the Enrich vat and open your peepers
The devs have said that relationship is no longer canon so you should really stop acting like it still is.

 

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The devs have said that relationship is no longer canon so you should really stop acting like it still is.
The comcis are still cannon

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Which is why Crab spiders should be able to replace there claws with it on alternate costumes.
The only problem with that idea is that the arms are also used for melee attacks. Not to mention that Crab Spiders are Crab Spiders because they have the leg unit cybernetically grafted on by Arachnos.

Maybe a Praetorian EAT could use the pack, but not a VEAT.

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The comcis are still cannon
The comics are secondary canon superseded by official dev posts and the comic only goes as far as establishing that Neuron thinks they have an odd relationship and nothing more. It hinted at a relationship that no longer ever existed.

 

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Some thing's can never be washed away - like Keith Nance's ninjas

Plus, I'm not sure if the old MJ arc has had the AV bios updated or not

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The comics are secondary canon superseded by official dev posts and the comic only goes as far as establishing that Neuron thinks they have an odd relationship and nothing more. It hinted at a relationship that no longer ever existed.
You're wasting your breath. It's GG. She can't even spell canon, much less understand how it works. Yes, most fictional universes represented in multiple formats have the various versions of events assigned different weights by the owners/authors when deciding which version of events takes precedence when there is a conflict. Most people can understand how that works.

GG might possibly be able to understand, but she doesn't care since the only version that matters to her is whichever she likes more. For example, she could decide that Harry Potter snapped Snape's neck and threw him down a well in the third book. If that's what she wants to be true not even the books or a direct statement from the author will change her mind. She'll still insist her version is true no matter what anyone else says.

There's a reason she wasn't posting in the old US forums for years.

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The devs have said that relationship is no longer canon so you should really stop acting like it still is.
Not like it ever was in the first place! If you read the original bios in question, it never states anything explicitly... it's just that dirty sex-deprived gamers read into it and it became the way things were since the bios were never changed.

At least that is how I saw it.


 

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Originally Posted by Inazuma View Post
I think the IDF pieces should be for sale for Vanguard Merits, since Vanguard is the organization responsible for dealing with Praetorian invasions.

By that coin, praetorian enemies should drop VMs, too, like Rikti (once you're a member of vanguard, of course).
I'm sorry, but;

HELL NO!

They should be instant unlocks for people with GR. End. The Hell. Of.
Arbitary costume unlock limits can go to Hell in a burning handbasket.

Anyway, when do these come out? And how are they viewable atm?

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