News from PAX

Let the issue go, Sam.

There are reasons GG got banned in the past, and why a lot of people (not just you) have issues with her. Best to /ignore (as you have done) and move on. Don't let someone else draw you in about her.

I'd rather talk about the PAX news. I'm hoping that we get some Dev comments at some point on the Barbarian outfits.

Also, Positron's reported comment of "Imminent" on I21 fits with what a lot of people have been thinking.

Edit - thanks for the comments about the mesh! Works great for chain mail as shown in the wonderful screenshot.

True that.

The nice thing about new costume pieces, is that they often go in ways that the devs never intend. Enkidu - very nice!

I should double-check the cost of new slots. We're going up to a max of 48 on a server as a VIP, right?

If I might suggest - turning the thread into a personal attack thread is a good way to get it moderated and/or locked.

As for the barbarian costumes, I really just don't get the obsession with thigh-high boots any more than I get the obsession with suits of armor. Whatever a barbarian woman should look like, I can say that something she might have worn while walking a runway in Milan is not it.

Arguments about the historical validity or lack thereof being relatively pointless, IMO.

Even Red Sonja, Mistress of the Chainmail Bikini, wasn't above dressing to fit the occasion:

In fact, I don't see why "barbarian" doesn't mean something more like this:

or this:

Would Xena or Gabrielle let themselves be seen in gear like that? I sincerely doubt it, though they'd have a good laugh at the expense of the "barbarian" who equipped themselves in furry high-heeled hip boots and what-not to oppose them.

I am very curious about those special arcs. Looks as if they put quite some work in them. Considering how they keep on improving the arcs and the tech about them, I hope to be blown away by them.

About the costume pieces. Nice!
Yes, I like them, I like the male and female version. I don't care if they are not realistic. This is a world where you can fly and shoot lasers from your eye. Where roman warriors fight with succes against modern weaonry.

To be honest, I like being able to play people who are better then life. Including gravity defying chests. Sure in reality, one would get backaches and running, jumping, kicking in high heels is a feat that not many real woman could do with that much succes. But I don't want to play a normal human, I want to be better then the real deal. Trust me, a game about Gunbunny would be boring compared to this.

But if they bring out some of the other excellent barbarian suggestions? I would be even more happy. You never can have enough clothes after all (Well at least when you have an unlimited space like we have here).

I'm hoping that they're showing off a different female set here, just top show off variety... but that there will also be the fur loin cloth (and a fur/animal-skin top would be excellent!)...

While the past certainly doesn't point to that being a likely scenario...
1) I'm not going to assume anything
2) With the new business model, they don't have to concern themselves with balancing the male/female ratio of costume pieces. By all means... make fancy, tailored mock-barbarian costume bits right along with variants of exactly what the males got! No one needs to buy them all, so they don't need to complain (I know... that never stopped anybody, but shush!).

I'm not crazy about the female's top, skirt and boots shown here... but we'll see!
I mean, I'm sure those pieces will be put to some good use... but yeah, they don't appear to fill in any holes that I felt were missing for female barbarian concepts.

That's just my personal take!


Also... about the Sig Arc rewards (yeah, first off, they're not even in beta yet), I just think it's tiny extra goodies thrown in.
I mean... I thought that running the content was the real reward.
If anything... maybe the Alignment Merit reward is too much! (Not that I am complaining... I can just agree that the balance between that option [only for heroes and villains]).
Honestly, I just wish the achievement of rewards wasn't so heavily focused on in this game these days...
Enjoy the fun!
And that's just my imaginary friend George's opinion.

Thanks for sharing photos and information. Did anyone made a vid, like the last Pax?

Plz, Positron, share this awesome presentation with us again. Plz.

One last thing about the female barbarian outfit shown...

They will not look quite so "Santa's Sexy Helper" with more subtle coloring.
The white fur trim on the blue leather puts it a little over the top.
Those pieces with brown on brown will look a lot more rugged and befitting a rough and tumble woman warrior of the wilderness.
Not the boots so much... I hope females do get those boots the male gets.
I've also used the rough leather boots to represent a fur trimmed boot, but the fur details look really nice on these pieces!


Thanks again for the pics and for the continued information, Doughboy!!

Oooh! OK, I looked at the original pics yet again, and it turns out I was missing the elephant in the room - the full-size pic of the female Barbarian set. Doh! Yeah, looking at it, it's a nice set... It just doesn't look like what I thought a Barbarian woman would look like, which was more Red Sonja, Xena or even Marvel's Torunn (man is that one obscure...). If that's all there is to it, then Brutticus is definitely not getting any new threads because the gloves are small, the boots are *urk* high heel and the corset is low-cut. This honestly does look like a santa-themed booth girl, to be quite honest. There's a difference between fur clothes (or in this case, animal hide clothes) and contemporary clothes with a fur trim, you know.

I'm not saying the actual female set shown here is bad, by the way. I mean, the boots don't have ten miles of pointed toe, that alone is worth the price of admission. Hell, I could think of at least a couple of characters that can use parts of this set. Hell, see her?



This is Grimwall. She's an empress of flame from another world and she's a thousand years old, but still with a very strong sense of aesthetic taste. That's actually a somewhat oldish picture of Grimwall, at that. She'll probably be using some of that set. I think it's fare to say, though, that Grimwall has nothing at all to do with "barbarians" of any kind.

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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.

Did anyone record the panel?