Discussion: Shivan Lore
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Posted on: 2011-09-22 11:59 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Detective Ghaly's taunt aura is off the charts! 
Obligatory FPARN goes here.
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Didn't he exceed the aggro cap? H4x.
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LOL Dumpleberry I was just going to post on that. But I thought the cap was 16?
Not really lore.
That was a Paragon Studios fan fic.
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Ha! I especially like how he "kicks" open his trunk, and then Blue Steel has a cameo - in which he does absolutely nothing.|
Originally Posted by Oldeb
Not really lore.
That was a Paragon Studios fan fic. |
I would also like to see all these civilians trapped in buildings, and heroes flying around saving them, in the tutorial. Or maybe allow higher level heroes to go into another version of destroyed Galaxy City and do some sort of saving people type mission?
A good story all in all though. I hope one of the (non-player) heroes rescues him.
That was an awesome and moving story. Thank you.
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Official fiction, actually |
Originally Posted by Oldeb
Not really lore.
That was a Paragon Studios fan fic. |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Brickstown one of few hero city zones (Independence Port was another - and Croatoa, but that doesnt' count), that didn't have rikti ships flying in and dropping bombs and troops? Sounds like Ghaly wasn't where the worst battles were fought then...
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That was excellent, I wanna find out what happens next
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Actually, I believe the aggro cap is 17.
The good Detective seems to have learned a standard Blaster trick there - taunt with your AoEs.
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Awe man, from the topic I thought we were getting new Incarnate Lore pets! I was interested in what the "Shivan Buffer/Healer" would be like.
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
Actually, I believe the aggro cap is 17.
The good Detective seems to have learned a standard Blaster trick there - taunt with your AoEs. |
He must have been hanging around with the Awakened guys. I've known a few Peacebringers who were good at that.
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Ugh. I know, covered before in other conversations but it still really bothers me. You can use a clip to quickly reload a magazine or a revolver and if he was using a revolver he may have had a clip or two to quickly re-load it.| unloaded his entire clip |
Other than that I really enjoyed the story and hope that we have not read the last on Det. Ghaly.
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Kicking open the trunk of a car *is* impressive, but i'm far more impressed that he somehow loaded three shells into the chamber of a pump shotgun. Unless chamber for some reason is used to refer to magazines on Primal Earth.|
Originally Posted by Felderburg
Ha! I especially like how he "kicks" open his trunk, and then Blue Steel has a cameo - in which he does absolutely nothing.
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Between kicking open car trunks and loading multiple shells the good detective is definitely showing potential for out-badassing Blue Steel.
*ahem* "A pump gun is typically fed from a tubular magazine underneath the barrel, which also serves as a guide for the pump. The rounds are fed in one by one through a port in the receiver, where they are lifted by a lever called the elevator and pushed forward into the chamber by the bolt."
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Maybe the PPD is packing shotguns like this
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Originally Posted by Felderburg
Ha! I especially like how he "kicks" open his trunk, and then Blue Steel has a cameo - in which he does absolutely nothing.
I would also like to see all these civilians trapped in buildings, and heroes flying around saving them, in the tutorial. Or maybe allow higher level heroes to go into another version of destroyed Galaxy City and do some sort of saving people type mission? A good story all in all though. I hope one of the (non-player) heroes rescues him. |
Fellow deserves it!
Maybe we'll even see him in a mission at some point?
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Augh! What happens next?!
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I was going to post something similar, so I'm right there with you. |
Originally Posted by FallenValkyrja
Ugh. I know, covered before in other conversations but it still really bothers me. You can use a clip to quickly reload a magazine or a revolver and if he was using a revolver he may have had a clip or two to quickly re-load it.
Other than that I really enjoyed the story and hope that we have not read the last on Det. Ghaly. |
Also hate the "empty clips" power in DP, I wish it was "empty mags" but that will probably never happen.
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Originally Posted by Kinrad
Detective Ghaly's taunt aura is off the charts!
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He goes down fighting and no one ever knows the sacrifice he made so that others could escape.|
Originally Posted by Inazuma
Augh! What happens next?!
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Actually, in CoH his sacrifice could be witnessed after the fact through many different methods, so it's not unlikely his actions would be remembered.
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
There's no lore here.
This is a description of one NPC's encounter with the new Shivans, with some fine details not supported by the game engine. The only nod to actual lore is the acknowledgment that these are different - somehow - from the Shivans we've been fighting and sometimes using as debuffers since CoV went live, six years and fifteen issues ago. Notably absent, both from this description and the in-game models, is any indication that the new Shivans incorporate human remains.
How much of the original Shivan backstory is still canon?
Will there be any attempts to finally reconcile the events described therein - discovery of Shiva in 1989 and a UN-organized hero taskforce, variously known as "Operation Vishnu" and "the Preservers" - with the in-game description of the monsters (possibly left over from an earlier stage of CoV's development), which gives a date some 30-40 years earlier for Shiva's destruction ("the 1950s") and makes them the stuff of conspiracy theory? (I would think that the condition of Bloody Bay now and for the last 20 years makes that a rather open secret; but then again, time travel and the Malta Group are supposed to be similarly hush-hush, yet we have (tabloid?) newsies shouting about their existence on streetcorners.)
Do the Shivans still consist of alien protoplasm around a partial human skeleton, along with a meteor fragment? If not, are there any plausible theories in-game about why this has changed? (Out of game, is it at all connected to Chinese cultural issues regarding the depiction of human remains, and a desire to expand into that market?)
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"THE" Shivans? Obviously the green ones in Bloody Bay still do. Perhaps the question should be "Do ALL Shivans do that?" Perhaps they don't have to.
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Originally Posted by Megajoule
Do the Shivans still consist of alien protoplasm around a partial human skeleton, along with a meteor fragment? If not, are there any plausible theories in-game about why this has changed? (Out of game, is it at all connected to Chinese cultural issues regarding the depiction of human remains, and a desire to expand into that market?)
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Praetorian Shivans?
Well, of course they might be really smart fast weak and like to build stuff
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So... this is the official announcement of the Shotgun powerset, yes?
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Ten minutes ago, Detective Jonathan Ghaly's biggest concern was tracking down a suspect in a burglary in Galaxy City. That all changed once the meteors slammed into the city. How does an ordinary PPD detective handle an alien invasion? Read the new Shivan lore to find out!