Issue 19.5

What! No Opossum heads? RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!

If the parts can be modified with color and the sliders, then they can serve multiple variations on a theme. A canine head that can be substantially altered can serve any number of animals from a fox to coyote to wolf to dog. Throw on the panda ears and add some cheetah spots and you've got a hyena.

Some parts can be used more than others, true, but I have a dog character and I want him to have a proper Akita-like head and a furry dog tail, so an anthro pack works for me.

There better be cuttlefish or I'll be outraged.

At least give me mouth tentacles.

There really isn't much to do with animal parts other than make characters with animal parts. To expect more from them would be akin to expecting horns to be useful for more than just Mr. Guy With Horns. Look at Hooves, for instance - right now they have no use other than just what they are - creating a character with hooves. It's the rest of the costume that pulls the concept together.

Personally, I hope an animal parts pack is indeed JUST animal parts, because there's a whole lot of them that the game can use, and trying to fit other themes into them would just cut into breadth of such a pack. I'd love to see Frozen-Fire's idea of adding snouts and eyes to regular heads, and I would love to see animal feet integrated into normal legs IN ADDITION to Monster legs, which should open up a few more concepts, but above and beyond all else I just want actually useful animal heads that don't look like roadkill and more monster legs that don't look six years old. Anything else, I can put off for another pack or another Issue.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Yeah but you can use the martial arts pieces in a ton of ways that don't say "Martial arts". You can use the magic pieces in ways that don't say "I'm a wizard!" The wedding bits are good for more than playing bride & groom. Even the mutant pieces I've seen used to represent coral, stone, bone, tree roots, vines, fire, ice... stuff that's not just "I have some weird mutant pointy bits".

I don't see that versatility coming from an animal parts booster (maybe I'll be wrong). I'm legitimately happy for those who'll get the parts they've wanted for 5+ years and, hey, after this the team will move on to the next theme. I'm just musing more than anything else.

In 19.5 we'll be unleashing the Rare and Very Rare tiers of the Alpha Slot. Specific details will follow once we have patch notes verified.

Edit: wysiwyg editor is wysiwyg.

Ew, blue on blue.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

OMG please change the color there is no way to read that without highlighting it.

Well, you could copy-paste it and change it yourself:

It says "Jesus loves you." Of course he does. Duh.

I mean, I pay him good money to do my lawn and even arranged for him to marry one of the girls at the office so he can get his Green Card and not have to move back to Guadalajara.

So, scratch the "Shards 4 Pay" theory

It's unreadable in red too. Just awful! But I do appreciate him stopping by in the thread .

Some of my characters

Heartache on heartache!

Well spotted

more specific than this?

http://goingrogue.na.cityofheroes.co...lpha-slot.html

I think he meant in terms of what's included. We've known what those slots will do mechanically for a long time now, but we haven't known when we'd get them. Presumably, other stuff might also be included in the mid-issue release, which would also be detail that could be included.

The key info I (and probably a few thousand other people want to know) is how many shards the Rare and Very Rare Alphas are going to cost to craft. There's still many things we DON'T know about it yet.