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Just bringing this up since it was only mentioned once. I'd also be disappointed if monsterous legs are left without yet another fitting option as it's either pants or pantsless...and I never pick pantsless >_<

I also have a current female character that really needs something like the male fur pants or just a proper loincloth!! The skirt isn't doing anything for her

I recall somewhere there was some back end stuff they are still working on with it.

Street Justice? No, that set's good to go. It was pulled from beta because it's where Synapse wants it to be performance-wise, and because the devs want to try and keep the beta build as close to release-candidate condition as possible. Street Justice was always meant to be added to the store sometime after the I21 launch, so there's no reason to keep it available during this last phase of beta.

That kind of disappoints me, the general attitude I mean.

"New shiney, get new shiney, come on new shiney!"

"Erm...could you kind of...you know, take a breath, pause and make some of the legacy powersets up to snuff...I mean Forcefield just provides defense and more defense...which at high levels, especially with IOs and Incarnate buff powers, becomes rather useless..."

"No, don't care, look at the new shiney!"

Tweaking sets like Forcefield to be more relevant is low hanging fruit, not like they're making an entire new powerset.

I'm still on the fence about Freedom and this kind of fudges the deal towards not really liking, the attitude of 'new shiney!' has now really become the focus (it has been for quite some time, examples being the AE (developed, pushed and then given up on completely) and Cimerorea (promised more expansion beyond taskforce and the two contacts never showed up)) instead of tweaking, revamping and such alongside perhaps a slower push of everything shiney in peoples faces all the time to make a buck kind of attitude.

The Atlas park revamp only happened purely to rope in the Free2Play people, that's it. No other reason beyond that, despite complaints of the Atlas park/Galaxy/Mercy intro sucking for years, the only reason it got fixed was to draw in more punters.

From now on that's going to be the ONLY focus, drawing in more punters to pony up for things.

It's weird because I've actually begun playing a Free2Play model game most of the time now and...to be fair...I personally feel that they seem to be doing it a bit better than the CoH team will do.

However the free2play questing in that game is severly neutered compared to the Subscriber game (the number of quests available triples or even quadruples the moment you subscribe) which compared to CoH where all but the signature story arcs and First Ward will be unavailable is quite the contrast.

Funny when I actually suggested such a thing some folks in some parts of these forums looked at me like I was insane.

I'd honestly like to know what the difference is between what you posted above and simply WAITING if it were released in issue 21, till you had the appropriate amount of points.

Maybe it's my age showing, but I never got the whole "gotta have it now" thing that folks have nowadays with DLC or extra content that needs to be paid for.

You know, with the phasing tech in full swing, it doesn't have to be that way any more. The bad guys can have a victory that's more than a temporary setback for the good guys.

True. Great Lord Recluse costume.

Blue, you should have said "hi". I think we teamed once or twice on the Statesman TF.

I missed that. Thanks for adding!

Oh yeah? I'm pretty bad with names but now that you mention it, it does sound familiar. I was sitting next to your wife/girlfriend until Black Pebble showed up and decided he would rather do so. I really didn't recognize anyone else, but then again I didn't go around asking everyone's global.

I remember the Recluse guy from last year's Meet and Greet. At the time, he only had the helmet complete. Glad to see he finally got the rest of it done... was pretty neat.

*sigh*

Fixed that for you.

In all fairness, I highly doubt this would be true if we weren't using fake moniez.

Y'know, I've been complaining about this (well, moreso) since... when was it... Not long after War Witch took the helm and mentioned "We don't want to update old stuff, we want to keep giving you new."

Yeah... but what about areas like Dark Astoria that people have been *begging* to have content added to for years?

Or - well, my general impression STILL is one of a dog in a room full of Superballs, just bouncing, chasing, catching one then getting distracted by another. Do notice how much has been done with AE after it stopped being the new shiny. Or bases. Or... when's the last time we had IO sets added, or revised (see "Debt reduction?") Back when they tried to put in a carrot to get people back into the (broken) PVP that the also haven't revisited?

They mention their "strike teams" now. Yeah, great for throwing more new stuff out, I guess - stuff to pay extra for. But where's the "Strike team" for Dark Astoria, which is just *filled* with story possibility? Where's the Shard Strike Team? Where's the Strike Team to add more reason to go to Cimerora than the ITF? Where's the Strike Team to, I don't know, make Redside more appealing in general? Where's the Base Strike Team?

Honestly, I don't expect any of it to get revisited, other than, perhaps, a token mention ("We added a map to AE!") Why? It's not the "new shiny." And the zones that could use updating, or that are *begging* for story? I expect their next "revision" to be a set of meteors. Any bets on when we'll see new tip and/or newspaper/police band missions? (I know the latter are AdLib-ish - "The ____ stole the ____ and hid it in their _____! Go pull it out!" But still. Can't they be improved? Expanded?)

That's not the attitude I used to have toward the dev team, and it's not the attitude I *want* to have to the dev team. And yes, some of the new stuff is great, I'm not knocking it. (Except the lack of actual, appropriate, Incarnate-themed solo/small team content... but that drum's been beaten to a pulp already, and I don't expect to see it either.) But that attitude is where the dev team has, in general, led me to at this point. (Other than Tunnel Rat. When it comes to responsiveness to a serious issue... bam, right there. I have nothing bad to say about her. And to clarify, I have nothing bad to say about the devs *as people.* I'm sure Matt, Melissa, the whole crew are great people. It's "the dev team direction" I gripe about. Specifically the direction that seems to be "Run away from older content at high speed.")

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Personally, I've always wanted a story arc that allows us to restore all or part of Dark Astoria. I'm kind of hoping the combat phasing shenanigans they've got going gets applied to something of that nature.

My fiance and I were talking to John Hegner (Protean) at the Meet and Greet, and he distinctly skipped commenting about Dark Astoria's future...however, he was very quick to say that Boomtown didn't have any updates planned currently (barring random wishlist bits that haven't even gotten out of wishlist phase). Which can be read three different ways-

1. He was not mentioning updates to Dark Astoria because of the Halloween update, which may or may not take place in Astoria, and may or may not utilize the Astoria lore ***SPOILER***(they didn't talk much about the actual event other than saying you go to a mad scientist's mansion, battle into the mansion, through the mansion, underneath the mansion, and out into a graveyard where you meet the Abomination)***END SPOILER***
2. He was not mentioning updates to Dark Astoria because they're for a future update
3. There isn't anything planned for Dark Astoria

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

They actually specifically said that they fixed PVP and fixed PVP and fixed PVP and fixed PVP and fixed PVP, and it wasn't until very recently (which I take to be within the last month or two, maybe a little more) that they found anything that could satisfy all the issues they saw with PVP. Which I took away to mean "expect something with Issue 23 or so" (because Issue 22 is likely close to finishing touches before alpha testing).

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Recently, Second Measure said that the next zone to be revamped is one that's only been suggested a couple of times on the forums.

I must've slept through that part. Was that mentioned at the M&G or panel?

Panel.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

that makes me happy and sad at the same time

Hmm...Brickstown, Skyway or Crey's Folley...