Discussion: Prepare for the Praetorian Invasion on the live servers!
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Posted on: 2011-04-28 11:49 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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So the people to fight off the alien invaders are the Plumbers? No, wait, that's from someplace else....
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Originally Posted by flipside
And that drawn line, for whatever reason, seems to always lead them into our sewers.
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Originally Posted by ThugOne
So the people to fight off the alien invaders are the Plumbers? No, wait, that's from someplace else....
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Originally Posted by ThugOne
So the people to fight off the alien invaders are the Plumbers? No, wait, that's from someplace else....
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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Too bad all the heroes and villains will be in Pocket D running Incarnate Trials when they invade... ZOMG someone secure the portal between Pocket D and Studio 55 before it's too late!!!
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Not if there is a badge involved.
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Originally Posted by ZLightning
Too bad all the heroes and villains will be in Pocket D running Incarnate Trials when they invade... ZOMG someone secure the portal between Pocket D and Studio 55 before it's too late!!!
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Indeed.
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Originally Posted by TsumijuZero
Let them come, we have shown dimensional invaders that we will draw the line wherever they cross and we will do so again.
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Seems unlikely. Positron specifically refers to the person he's contacting as a "colleague" and the email that Colston gets is addressed to "My Colleague."|
Originally Posted by Irish Fury
Am I the only one that assumed it was Anti-Matter and not Positron who sent the message to Dr Colston, and that Dr Colston is a Preatorian spy turned anti-Tyrant and now Anti-Matter is making a similar turn?
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Conversely, Anti-Matter didn't seem to imply he was sending an email to someone familiar enough to be a colleague. The message also specifically instructed Colston to use the information to protect The Rogue Isles by name, implying that Paragon City was already taken care of. That also doesn't sound like something Anti-Matter would do: he would be warning his recipient about a threat to all of Primal Earth, not just the Rogue Isles. Anti-matter's message would have said, in effect "pass this on to the heroes of Paragon by whatever means at your disposal."
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Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing
No offense, but...the amount of effort that went into ignoring the first post, typing tl;dr version please, then waiting for replies...you certainly could have gleaned this information by glancing through. Right?
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Not really...I'm at work so....
And I'm one of those that "don't care" about story per se....just tell me what is happening/when/etc...and I'm good
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lol ok, fair enough.
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Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Not really...I'm at work so....
And I'm one of those that "don't care" about story per se....just tell me what is happening/when/etc...and I'm good |
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Originally Posted by Anaku
Duh.... You know he is sending it to Golden Girl
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See, my first thought is that we've already seen other crossovers... like, say, from a world full of monsters that resemble a lot of our Halloween-related iconography.
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Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
I'm more interested in the further weakening of this dimensional barrier when Praetorian magical AT's cross into Primal... and if this will bring these dimensions ever closer together... and what else might cross over.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
No AT/powerset, AFAIC, is "undesirable." Give me a halfway competent player - or at least one willing to listen and go with the rest of the team - and we're good.
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Ok, Isn't Numina dead, a ghost?
If so, that means Posi likes dead people.
Necrophilia?
Posi, how could you?
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Originally Posted by Icerose
Ok, Isn't Numina dead, a ghost?
If so, that means Posi likes dead people. Necrophilia? Posi, how could you? |
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Seriously? With all the drooling that goes on in relation to Ghost Widow? Posi is, at worst, late to the party.
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Originally Posted by Icerose
Ok, Isn't Numina dead, a ghost?
If so, that means Posi likes dead people. Necrophilia? Posi, how could you? |
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Was it just a Ben10 reference though? Because if you include the movie, the Mario Bros. have done cross-dimensional invasions as well.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
A Ben 10 joke on the CoH boards? You DO realize that reference isn't going to go over the target audience's heads; it's going to scoot between their legs.
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I'm thinking Lady Gray, Dark Watcher or Steve Sheridan or someone else high up with vanguard. after all Anti matter shows up as a contact in the Responsibility loyalist arc
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So does Mother Mayhem |
Originally Posted by Desi_Nova
after all Anti matter shows up as a contact in the Responsibility loyalist arc
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Originally Posted by Avatea
"I'll just send her a friendly message... she'll get the word out," he thought to himself as he fired up an email program and started to establish a dimensional uplink to Primal Earth.
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Originally Posted by Avatea
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 "I'll just send her a friendly message... she'll get the word out," he thought to himself as he fired up an email program and started to establish a dimensional uplink to Primal Earth. |
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Dangling Participle...
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
The grammar nazi in me looked at the first sentence,
and thought, "That's a dangling participle." It should be, Still, a nice story with some interesting hints. |
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Invasions would be great, if the servers and game client could actually handle the number of players enemies they throw about. Instead it becomes a frustrating lag fest with powers pretending to be recharged, 10 second delays on everything and enemies popping in and out of existance thanks to the 100 entity rule.
Mind you I could also say the same thing about trials.
My Plant/Emps contribution to any Invasion event.
1) Stick Healing Aura on auto.
2) Summon Carrion Creepers & Fly Trap.
3) Run off for 5 minutes and do something else instead.
4) Come back and resummon creepers
Repeat 3 and 4 until it ends.
If the game is fixed between now and then so it can actually handle this sort of event I'll be there. Otherwise I'll be doing something actually worthwhile which isn't a frustrating lag-fest.
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No kidding we were promised that years ago.
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Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie
Yeah baby
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True, but remember Colston's intro:|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Seems unlikely. Positron specifically refers to the person he's contacting as a "colleague" and the email that Colston gets is addressed to "My Colleague."
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| She'd been undercover for nearly five years now |
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| The message also specifically instructed Colston to use the information to protect The Rogue Isles by name, implying that Paragon City was already taken care of. That also doesn't sound like something Anti-Matter would do: he would be warning his recipient about a threat to all of Primal Earth, not just the Rogue Isles. Anti-matter's message would have said, in effect "pass this on to the heroes of Paragon by whatever means at your disposal." |
I can see why AM using his villain sleeper agent would word it exactly the way he did:
He did because he knew her well enough to know what she'd do with the information: Pass it on to someone else who would take all the credit. If you give spoiler information like that to a hero, that hero's going to be a lot less likely to be subtle about how that info gets out, and subtlety is explicitly what Antimatter was aiming for.
Realistically, though, that letter was written to paint either one of them as likely senders. Why else would it have used both "Emperor Cole" and "Tyrant"?
TL;DR version:
There will be Praetorian invasions similar to the Rikti ones we already have and ignore. Maybe something spiffy like AVs thrown into the mix that get nicely stomped flat by the amount of heroes in the zone. Probably no meaningful rewards. Maybe some shinny new badges.
In shorter words, "Meh."
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