Coffee Talk Highlights, Jan 18: Crime Incarnate with Second "Redshirt" Measure and Bat-Aeon

Zwill has apparently defeated a raccoon in battle and is wearing its head as a hat.



His friend Adam is watching the Ustream for the first time.

TANGENT: Dress codes, or lack thereof.

TANGENT: Scotsman in the Paragon office.

TANGENT: Scottish, kilts, accents, and Z's bad Braveheart quote and accent.

TANGENT: Giant flaming cabors.

TANGENT: Sports in Scotland.

Chat: One of the contests for them is repelling the English.



Announcement of a new pummit!

Rather than have panels in multiple rooms and only streaming some, they will be streaming everything and having the day being a bit longer.

There will be another fan participation design a costume session.

It's likely that it will be at the exact same venue.

Z: "I'm not going to call it a Pummit. Dammit, I just did!"

Psychoti: "Plummit. Call it a plummit."

Guessing the date:

12:44 Rajani_Isa: 4/1/12
12:44 Samuraiko: yes it is!
12:44 SnowGlobeCoH: April 1
12:44 ArbiterFabulous: March 24th?
12:44 Mentalshock: March 27-28th
12:44 Kemli: April 5
12:44 psychoti: 4/20/12.

Z: "April 1, yeah."
Z: "4/20? No, there are other things happening in San Francisco on that day."

Pummit is scheduled for 4/28, the anniversary day!

Z shows the graphic again and apparently it slows down his PC because it's too big.

VK: It's not the size of the image, but what you do with the pixels.

Z: "That's what she said!"



PSA: ParagonWiki is offline today in support of the SOPA/PIPA protest.

TANGENT: Z likes saying SOPA PIPA.



Second Measure arrives and is jealous of Zwill's hat. His wife won't let him wear one in public.

Zwill does a squirrel impression.






TANGENT: Wizards of the Coast announcing DnD Next/5e and discussion of DnD

2M relates how he got into DnD and has never been to Gencon.

I'm actually a second generation DnD player.

More discussion of Zwill's hat.

psychoti: I still think you look like a freaky totem pole.

2M has a meeting in five minutes, so they get to the business of discussing Issue 22.

Nate: "We have two zones people never really go to. We were looking at using both of them, but Dark Astoria had more potential. It's kind of where gods go to die."

Z: "What were some of the challenges in changing DA?"

Nate: "When it start I talk to Positron and was like, "Why is there one corner of Peregrine Island or Grandville that I can do with my 50?" Even if we weren't doing the Incarnate System we'd want to give your 50 some things to do."

Z: "Well, the Shadow Shard is for level 50's. But it's not part of a city. We learned some lessons from that."

Nate: "I was a player for a long time before I joined the studio and got lost with a level 50 in the Shard."

Second Measure leaves and Dr. Aeon arrives.





Aeon: "So I'm replacing Second Measure. Am I third measure? Fourth measure?

Z: "You're... wait, I almost made a Mitt Romney joke."

They've been watching the beta and making changes to fine tune the content. There are a lot of Quality of Life changes going in.


Talking about the Team Up Teleporter changes. It can now be used in instanced missions.

They're added task forces to the TUT.

TANGENT: Missed this one while typing.

Aeon: "I can be the one who stops the tangents!"

He all of a sudden busts out a frighteningly accurate raspy Bale Batman voice.

TANGENT: Aeon's Batman voice.

Aeon: "I'm not the hero Ustream needs, I'm the one it deserves!"



Nate returns.

TANGENT: Second Measure does something to Zwill's chair.

The new Bloody Bay trial "Drowning in Blood."

Jokingly mentioning that they're going to make all trials have a D - (letter) - B abbreviation.

TANGENT: Men in Black 3.

Z: "Are we trying to make there be a trial for every level range to ease people into doing trials?"

2: "No promises."

Talk of the Dilemma Diabolique trial's difficulty. Aeon can't answer as it was Baryonyx that made DD.

TANGENT: Aeon does his Baryonyx impression.

Z: "He's going to come over here and punch you."

TANGENT: Staff members from New York.


Staff Melee on Beta soon.

Talk of Beast Mastery on beta.

Super teleporters for bases! They can take 6 beacons instead of the normal 2. Thank goodness.


Z: "So you worked on something yesterday."

Aeon: "Yes, I'm one step closer to killing off every major NPC in the game."

Z: "Will you be writing in new characters just to kill them off?

Aeon: "Of course!"

Talk of the cutscene with Aeon working with El Topo, Tunnel Rat, and Honey Badger.

"He's watching. He's going to come over and hit you."

Z: "I think Leo has accepted his role as the Honey Badger. Much like his namesake Honey Badger just don't give a damn."

Z: "OMG! Rain! It's rain!"

Aeon: "Don't get too excited. It's just in one instanced map. We won't be having weather."

psychoti: I like how you actually get back on topic the instant Second Measure gets back, then don't ask him anything.

Some talk about the first viewing of the scene in the studio.

Discussion of other question themed arcs.

"What's for Lunch? Where are my Keys?"

SnowGlobeCoH: Q: Can I have Statesman's stuff seeing that he's leaving for good?

Z: "Everything was bind on equip. He cleaned out the supergroup storage."

2: "Statesmen is a jerk."


Cathedral of Pain being added to the TUT?

2: "There are some issues with that, namely tying in the supergroup stuff with the TUT."

Adding the TF's aren't so simple as flipping a switch, they have to be individuall added.


No plans to run a Statesman funeral event like the in game wedding. Statesman isn't getting removed in Issue 22.

Z: "We'll have the funeral on the boat in IP... oh wait..."

Aeon: "Awkward."

2: "We'll have it in the southwest corner of IP. No one will attend."


psychoti: I vote that Doc Aeon answers all these questions in the Dark Knight voice.

Aeon: "You have to ask that in the form of a question."

Aeon did the cutscene at the end of Dilemma Diuabolique.

Z: "You're the Paragon Studios Scorsese, aren't you?"

Aeon: "Well, I don't like to brag."

2: "You're not that short."

Aeon: "And he has more hair than me."

Z: "So maybe you're the Michael Bay of Paragon Studios."

Aeon: "No, that's terrible!"

Z: "Lens flare! Explosion!"


Talk of Dimensional Warder and Mother Mayhem. No one knows if the MoM MM counts for it or not. The zone invasion one did not count.


Piyerus: q: did Darren Wade get State's weakness as well as his powers (ie being controlled by the Well)?

Z: "Is he being controlled by the well?"

Bat-Aeon: "We'll have to see."

2: "Does he know way too much about Greek mythology?"

Aeon: "He gets all his powers and then he's like..." Aeon grabs his temples and makes pained noises.

Bat-Zwillinger: "Only the future will tell!"

Z's Batman sounds more like a Dr. Claw.

Z: "Ow, that hurt my throat."

Bat-Aeon: "Leave it to the professionals!"

Bat-Aeon: "I'm the one who can do the job you can't!"

Z: "Wow. Samuraiko just called you the Paragon Studios Uwe Boll."

Aeon: "You're dead to me Samuraiko."


More arcs for the 35-45 story content.

2: "Many things are planned for the future."

Z: "We've looked at things for gaps like that, like we're adding the 20-30 Drowning in Blood and post-50 with the solo incarnate in DA."


Chat: "Can Dr. Aeon answer all the questions in the Dark Knight voice? I'd say please, but evil does not respond to please."

Bat-Aeon: "It's true."


Level for the new Steel Canyon story arcs?

Bat-Aeon: "Uh, those would be, uh 15-20."

Z: "You can stop that now."

Bat-Aeon: "But they asked the question."


Components will not drop from DA.

Bat-Aeon: "I don't believe so."

Z: "That's strictly the threads."

Bat-Aeon: "Only the threads."

Z: "If I'm not mistaken there's something else that drops from mobs in DA."

Bat-Aeon: "Regular salvage!"

Z: "Yes, but also..."

Bat-Aeon: (Interrupting) "Influence!"

Z: "Don't the enhancement catalysts drop from Incarnate level mobs? Very rare."

Aeon: "I'm not sure, that's a Baryonyx question."

Z: "I thought they did."

Aeon: "Can we cut out this part of the Ustream?"

Z: "Cut the live video? Sure!"

Chat confirms that they do indeed drop.

Aeon: "Of course they do!"


Talk of the ATIO's.

Z: "You can also get them from the merit vendors in..."

Zwill does several incorrect pronunciations.

Bat-Aeon: "Ouroburos."

Zwill: "Ugh! Now it's just getting creepy!"


Rajani_Isa: Q: What about giving us a 10-15 SF?

Z: "In general we're making a lot of both faction content, co-op where we can."

Aeon: "But we know players like their hero and villain stuff. Drowning in Blood has both a Hero and a Villain version."

Z: "Going forward we can expect a mix of the two."


They're investigating the possiblity of a global free, premium, and VIP pkayers.

Rajani_Isa: Q: What about giving us a 10-15 SF and revamp Synapse at the same time?

Aeon: "I can't do both."

2: "OF course you can! You have two hands! One computer on the left and one on the right."


Statesman will be physically removed from places entirely, not used with phasing or anything.

Aeon: "Once I23 comes out he's gone."

Bat-Aeon: "But only in physical form. He will always live on in our memories. And in our actions. It's not what you do that defines you. No, wait, that's wrong. It's what you do that defines you."

Awkward silence.

Aeon: "There's more questions right there."

Zwill just stares at Aeon for a good ten seconds before finally sighing.


Super Packs as part of Issue 22?

Z: "We're not ready to give out a release date."

Aeon: "That's not something I'm involved in."

Z: "We're generally pleased with the feedback we've gotten."

They are not going to launch with an alternate means of getting the Super Pack costume pieces. Tier 9 VIP's can use their Paragon Rewards tokens to get the packs.

Z: "We're comfortable with where the Super Pakcs are with the concessions and the adjustments we've made. We've settled on some bulk rate discount prices."


Title for Issue 23?

Z: "We don't have a working title yet. We call it 2300, internally."

Bat-Aeon: "Because it's the one that comes after 2200."

Z: "You can stop that."

Aeon: "No I can't. It just keeps coming. I didn't even mean to say it like that.

(Chat) billymailman: He doesn't do the voice, the voice simply uses him as a conduit.


Z: "Thank you for joining us on this week's coffee chalk..."

Zwill stumbles over saying coffee talk several times.

Bat-Aeon: "Coffee talk, with Andy and Sean McCann."

Zwill has his train of thought derailed as he was in mid gesture.

Z: "I don't even know what I was doing there."

Aeon holds up a hand, without the V in the fingers

Bat-Aeon: "Live long and prosper.

Z: "Wow."

Bat-Aeon: "Fight crime!"

Z: "Wow."

We start fading out.

Bat-Aeon: "It never sleeps!

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

The weekly lolCoffeeTalk image.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

No plans to have a Statesman funeral???

They put together a new mission map with custom glowie for Hero 1, but they have no plans to do anything for Statesman?

WOW


That or.. he will be coming back sooner rather than later?

Who knows anymore, for sure it seems odd to me, but then again... what do I know?

I really wish they would add weather to the rest of the game. I have lived in Paragon for over 7 years now, and it has not rained once. :/

HAPPY with the feedback on Super Packs?!

What, lots of people going "I am simply not buying these, this is a freaking rip off" ?

And no alternate means to get the costumes. Wow. Bum move guys. Real bum. Not impressed with that...

The rest is good.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Thanks for the write-up

I wish I hadn't missed this one. I think I would have enjoyed Bat-Aeon.

Liquid, go watch the recording of it. I was dying laughing when he busted out that Batman voice. HI-larious. Then Z tried to copy it and ended up sounding EXACTLY like Dr. Claw from the Inspector Gadget cartoons.

I have to say, just removing Statesman with no phasing tech is disappointing to me. I thought triggering his absence by playing the arc would be really stepping things up, big time. Now I'm all, "oh, that's all it is." Your character really is NOT changing the game world through actions at all.

Yay for Staff weapons though!

ALL the Badges! (I can get. 1396)

I was thinking Eden. It's pretty much nothing but the gateway to Hamidon and has the trial, otherwise it's a complete ghost town and I could see it becoming an Incarnate zone as an escalation of Hamidon and the Devouring Earth.