Wow, beautiful. Where'd you get these, GG?
I'd bet money that that hospital is one of the next trials. 
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Originally Posted by Inazuma
Wow, beautiful. Where'd you get these, GG?
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This...
Were these from the ustream chat?
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I'm really not big on this whole Neo-Shivans thing, but the First Ward shots look pretty awesome.
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Given that CoD shows power lists for Mother and Malaise, I'd say that's a safe bet. I do hope that they don't do what they did with the BAF and hide it behind a Sonic Barrier, though.
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Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
I'd bet money that that hospital is one of the next trials.
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Images are being directly linked from pcgamer.com, so my guess is, from a PC Gamer article.
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Originally Posted by Inazuma
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Also, apart from the giant Shivan looking so totally badass and unlike anything else we've seen in the game so far, did anyone else see what appears to be an atmospheric effect behind it in the sky of a falling meteorite?
I'm wondering if parts of Galaxy City will actually be struck by them from time to time as a constant zone effect? Maybe even a screen-shake if you're standing close to it?
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Holy moley. I feel sorry for any newbies to this game. It's grown quite complex and even moreso looking at these new features.
That's not a Shivan, that's an Igneous ... souped up (so to speak) from what we encounter in The Hollows.
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Gotta wonder why Mother has set up shop outside the confines of Praetoria. If you were turning people into psychic police you'd think you would want to do it somewhere where you won't be disturbed by blood-hungry mutant creature things.
And by the looks of that Neo-Shivan, its 'face' is made of a weird looking rock. What if the meteors ARE the invasion force?
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Also, apart from the giant Shivan looking so totally badass and unlike anything else we've seen in the game so far, <snip>
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Originally Posted by Redlynne
That's not a Shivan, that's an Igneous ... souped up (so to speak) from what we encounter in The Hollows.
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Have you played other MMOs lately? City of Villains has always been one of the easier games to grasp. And it still is, I'd say.
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Holy moley. I feel sorry for any newbies to this game. It's grown quite complex and even moreso looking at these new features.
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Have you played other MMOs lately? City of Villains has always been one of the easier games to grasp. And it still is, I'd say.
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My point still stands.
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Maybe the energy/goo adapts their look to wherever they show up? Like in Bloody Bay they used the skeletons of the people killed there for their shape, but in Galaxy City they seme to be using the rubble of the ruined buildings to give them their shape?
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Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
I wonder if these are going to be a new type of Shivan, or if we are looking at an across the board revamp like they did with the formerly nude Rikti?
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Maybe the energy/goo adapts their look to wherever they show up? Like in Bloody Bay they used the skeletons of the people killed there for their shape, but in Galaxy City they seme to be using the rubble of the ruined buildings to give them their shape?
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I'm more inclined to go with this theory in regards to the shivan look. Reminds of the Dark Horse Comic Virus, were materials on hand were used to create host bodies for the virus.
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Wasn't it already explicitly stated somewhere in the lore that the whole skull-and-bones Shivans thing is the result of the meteor landing in a cemetery, not just because it was their environment but because those were, y'know, the actual remains of people, integrated into the Shivans' bodies? I coulda sworn this was something "we already knew". But maybe it wasn't as explicit as I thought.
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Maybe the energy/goo adapts their look to wherever they show up? Like in Bloody Bay they used the skeletons of the people killed there for their shape, but in Galaxy City they seme to be using the rubble of the ruined buildings to give them their shape?
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IIRC it's in the info box when you look at the description while targeting a shivan.
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Wasn't it already explicitly stated somewhere in the lore that the whole skull-and-bones Shivans thing is the result of the meteor landing in a cemetery, not just because it was their environment but because those were, y'know, the actual remains of people, integrated into the Shivans' bodies? I coulda sworn this was something "we already knew". But maybe it wasn't as explicit as I thought.
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I like that idea.
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Maybe the energy/goo adapts their look to wherever they show up? Like in Bloody Bay they used the skeletons of the people killed there for their shape, but in Galaxy City they seme to be using the rubble of the ruined buildings to give them their shape?
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Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Wasn't it already explicitly stated somewhere in the lore that the whole skull-and-bones Shivans thing is the result of the meteor landing in a cemetery, not just because it was their environment but because those were, y'know, the actual remains of people, integrated into the Shivans' bodies? I coulda sworn this was something "we already knew". But maybe it wasn't as explicit as I thought.
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"As their world collapsed around them, desperate scientists fired thousands of probes into space warning of a massive entity poised to devour their very world. The Arcosians knew that this scourge would eventually reach other solar systems and hoped the tiny blue planet called Earth could avoid the same catastrophic fate. Hundreds of years later, Australian Kurrin Wirake set out on a traditional pilgrimage along his ancestral songline, a dreaming trek connecting the landscape of his aboriginal people to the mythic episodes that occurred at specific locations during the ancient dreamtime. According to his people, the Earth retains a memory of its own origin. This memory echoes across the modern world and often manifests as a guruwari, or “seed of life.” It was during his search for this vibratory echo of the Earth’s creation that Kurrin instead found warning of its possible destruction. In the shadow of the famous rock, Ularu, Kurrin uncovered one of the pods launched over 800 hundred years before by the doomed Arcosians. The pod might have remained in Kurrin’s remote village forever if an Australian AWACS plane had not flown directly over it. Performing a simple test flight, the Airborne Warning and Control System surveillance equipment picked up an unusual signal emanating from Kurrin’s village. The Australian military investigated and confiscated the pod from the angry villagers, then called on allies from NASA to help decode its alien signal. The lead cryptologist, an Indian woman named Seetha Neremanu, deciphered the code in a matter of hours. Dr. Neremanu immediately alerted the UN Security Council that a gigantic planetary devourer was heading our way. The thing’s name was unpronounceable in human speech, so Dr. Neremanu named it Shiva, after the Hindu deity “Destroyer of Worlds”. Shiva, Seetha added, would reach earth within a year. With the help of secret alien technology owned by the Russian government, the UN gathered a multi-national force of superheroes to confront this imminent danger. Dr. Neremanu called this band of heroes Operation Vishnu, the “Preservers”, which consisted of Russian, American, Chinese, and French volunteers. Set to annihilate Shiva with a nuclear strike, Operation Vishnu launched late in the summer of 1989. A blast was detected and Shiva disappeared from deep space detection system, but the heroes who guided the rocket to its final target were never heard from again. That same summer, the infamous meteor shower of Bloody Bay began. It wreaked havoc on the island, causing not only direct damage but radiation sickness and other, more sinister maladies as well. Perhaps strangest of all, weird energy from the meteor formed around the corpses of the dead and created protoplasmic entities filled with Shiva’s destructive rage. Those few who know of Shiva wonder if these new creatures, the “Shivans”, are somehow trying to reassemble the pieces and resurrect the Destroyer of Worlds. Even more amazing, some of those who have investigated the Shivans and their meteors claim that tendrils of the fragments reach for miles across the island. There is some evidence that a giant tree near the nexus of these tendrils might somehow be absorbing the energy, though what this means none yet know. In the wake of such destruction, Arachnos evacuated those they could, then abandoned the rest. The island lay in ruins for many years, a stepchild left to rot by an uncaring Lord Recluse and an international community too timid to enter his domain. But recently, it was discovered that the meteor granted amazing properties. Some who were exposed to it even gained phenomenal superpowers. Arachnos quickly returned in force, as did scores of desperate explorers and excavators. Longbow could not allow Lord Recluse to have exclusive control over such a powerful resource, and also sent in a team to cordon off the island as a “humanitarian effort” to save those Arachnos had abandoned. Now heroes and villains fight over the meteor shards, collecting samples as freelance agents to avoid direct conflict between Longbow and Arachnos that could touch off World War III. Unfortunately, this limited engagement is dramatically slowing down research that might reveal if the meteors are indeed pieces of Shiva, and why they are seemingly connecting to the ancient tree at the isle’s center. These mysteries must be solved, for if Shiva does indeed reconstitute herself, she will certainly feed first on her host—Earth." |
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Sound Like the start of the Coming Storm.
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From a website called PCGamer.
Also, apart from the giant Shivan looking so totally badass and unlike anything else we've seen in the game so far, did anyone else see what appears to be an atmospheric effect behind it in the sky of a falling meteorite? I'm wondering if parts of Galaxy City will actually be struck by them from time to time as a constant zone effect? Maybe even a screen-shake if you're standing close to it? |
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If you look closely you can see a protective forcefield around MoM (totally called that, by the way). And besides, what better place to train the backbone of Cole's regime by subjecting them to the horrors of the Devouring Earth? Either they become a good little Seer like Mother wants, or, well, accidents happen...
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Originally Posted by The Hound
Gotta wonder why Mother has set up shop outside the confines of Praetoria. If you were turning people into psychic police you'd think you would want to do it somewhere where you won't be disturbed by blood-hungry mutant creature things.
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FINALLY. They been teasing it for what? Five years?
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Sound Like the start of the Coming Storm.
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Diabolique tower in the First Ward:
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Mother Mayhem's "hospital", also in the First Ward:
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