Discussion: Announcing Issue 21: Media Blitz!
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Posted on: 2011-10-18 10:59 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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/bets they forgot to mention new "Upper Incarnate" salvage types.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
I'm not sure this news means people should stop earning Incarnate salvage. If anything this news means we should start hording any salvage we do get to be ready to spend it wisely once we know what the new options are.
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I'd expect new salvage to come with new slots, rather than for the current slots |
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
/bets they forgot to mention new "Upper Incarnate" salvage types.
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Current incarnate currencies should work for new options in existing slots at least.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
/bets they forgot to mention new "Upper Incarnate" salvage types.
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Wait, so the plan is to take the information about Hamidon, and broadcast it to the public?! Won't this cause mass hysteria and significant civilian casualties? Or do we not care because this is war and them's the breaks? lol
That idea about getting gun based Judgements for non powered heroes sounds awesome, if we could get that though. Good one, liquid.
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They're Praetorians. We don't give a **** as long as we can make the Well stop loving Tyrant. Everyone is fodder in the attempt to win the multiverse's most important popularity contest.
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Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing
Wait, so the plan is to take the information about Hamidon, and broadcast it to the public?! Won't this cause mass hysteria and significant civilian casualties? Or do we not care because this is war and them's the breaks? lol
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Trying to think of what bonuses a new alpha slot would give and so far . . . not much comes to mind that would keep it in line with the other four.
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The information will help to undermine the hold Tyrant and the loyalists have on the people of Praetoria, which will help the Resistance, both with recruite from the normal population, and from loyalists who'll switch to the right side.
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Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing
Wait, so the plan is to take the information about Hamidon, and broadcast it to the public?! Won't this cause mass hysteria and significant civilian casualties? Or do we not care because this is war and them's the breaks?
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No, but they did start working on a badge for having all the Lore pets.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Black Scorpion and Arbiter Hawk got together and fast-tracked that when I PM'd them that I had finished all 36 Alpha abilities on live, huh?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
No, but they did start working on a badge for having all the Lore pets.
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Oh that is cruel lol
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Well, some might see that as preferable to getting blindsided by a full-on Hamidon assault while their insane leader faffs about with a secret, unprovoked invasion of another dimension. Breaking Cole's power might at least allow some people (including the heavily-armed law enforcement and army) to mount some sort of defense against the real enemy.
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Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing
Wait, so the plan is to take the information about Hamidon, and broadcast it to the public?! Won't this cause mass hysteria and significant civilian casualties? Or do we not care because this is war and them's the breaks? lol
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They could be remixes. Damage/Range for blasters, say, or Resistance/Heal, or Endurance/Recharge.|
Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Trying to think of what bonuses a new alpha slot would give and so far . . . not much comes to mind that would keep it in line with the other four.
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Also, I would be cautious about getting too excited about "become even more powerful and ascend even higher" because while the incarnate powers might get significantly stronger, they might also get only nominally so and that phrase is subject to a lot of interpretation.
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Since the current 4 cover all enhancements I was thinking along the lines of different mixes; say damage with defense secondary or recharge with resistance secondary, etc.
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Trying to think of what bonuses a new alpha slot would give and so far . . . not much comes to mind that would keep it in line with the other four.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
No, but they did start working on a badge for having all the Lore pets.
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Oh that is cruel lol
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Oh, I certainly understand WHY we're doing it. That's logical. I'm just wondering if the COST is even a consideration at all, or if we're just kinda glossing over it.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The information will help to undermine the hold Tyrant and the loyalists have on the people of Praetoria, which will help the Resistance, both with recruite from the normal population, and from loyalists who'll switch to the right side.
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For an additional cost, consider the final Responsibility Loyalist choice mission. If they stayed Loyalist the whole way through, then that character killed Kang to prevent him from doing exactly what we're supposing the Trial entails.
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Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing
Oh, I certainly understand WHY we're doing it. That's logical. I'm just wondering if the COST is even a consideration at all, or if we're just kinda glossing over it.
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My expectation would be that some of the traits that are only available as secondary effects in current Alphas, like Defense and Resistance, will be the main trait of the new Alphas.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
They could be remixes. Damage/Range for blasters, say, or Resistance/Heal, or Endurance/Recharge.
Also, I would be cautious about getting too excited about "become even more powerful and ascend even higher" because while the incarnate powers might get significantly stronger, they might also get only nominally so and that phrase is subject to a lot of interpretation. |
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Mass Hysteria about what? That Hamidon is still alive? I don't think that would cause panic: the sonic fences are still up for a reason, and I don't see people running around in the streets: there's nowhere to go.|
Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing
Wait, so the plan is to take the information about Hamidon, and broadcast it to the public?! Won't this cause mass hysteria and significant civilian casualties?
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Not to mention the enriche-pickled brains of the populace are in general going to have their reactions dampened a bit. More likely the revelation of Cole's specific actions during the Hamidon war would cause anger and mistrust of Cole's regime, and that would start creating cracks in his control moreso than shattering it completely. There would still be a lot of people who would say "and?"
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the way I read this was : We are releasing some of the slots above lore and destiny...Wishful thinking?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Also, I would be cautious about getting too excited about "become even more powerful and ascend even higher" because while the incarnate powers might get significantly stronger, they might also get only nominally so and that phrase is subject to a lot of interpretation.
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Of course - that's because staying as a loyalist is the wrong choice - as the Incarnate content has shown us |
Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
For an additional cost, consider the final Responsibility Loyalist choice mission. If they stayed Loyalist the whole way through, then that character killed Kang to prevent him from doing exactly what we're supposing the Trial entails.
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Yes I think that'd be wishful thinking at this point. It seems pretty clear that all we are getting are more options in the slots we already have. If this Issue was unlocking any of the last 5 slots I think that would have been made pretty obvious.|
Originally Posted by Nebulhym
the way I read this was : We are releasing some of the slots above lore and destiny...Wishful thinking?
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The last incarnate slots are apparently being saved for later.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
No, but they did start working on a badge for having all the Lore pets.
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Not that he is still alive. That the only reason the people are still alive is because he felt like not killing them during the truce. And now it is over. And that sonic fences have, by the way, been tried before and failed. I might be a little nervous.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Mass Hysteria about what? That Hamidon is still alive? I don't think that would cause panic: the sonic fences are still up for a reason, and I don't see people running around in the streets: there's nowhere to go.
Not to mention the enriche-pickled brains of the populace are in general going to have their reactions dampened a bit. More likely the revelation of Cole's specific actions during the Hamidon war would cause anger and mistrust of Cole's regime, and that would start creating cracks in his control moreso than shattering it completely. There would still be a lot of people who would say "and?" |
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I guess so. Looks like I should have signed up with Calvin Scott from the get go.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Of course - that's because staying as a loyalist is the wrong choice - as the Incarnate content has shown us
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I'm not expecting one, but I'm hoping for it.
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