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Originally Posted by Le Blanc
Ok, I have been out for a WHILE (been in a place that rhymes with Spytim, hee hee hee) and of course as soon as I get back I want to try the new SSA's. Ok, coolin. But after the last one I jot on over to Indep. Port and who is standing right there in front of me on the deck of that ship?? Has there been a Dev post on what is up with that? I thought they had the tech in place to make NPC's disappear depending on where you were in the storyline? Just curious.
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(Either that, or a future storyline episode will bring him back to life. After all, he's been dead before. Last time, Manticore killed himself to go drag him back to life )
I think the phasing technology is only available in Atlas Park and Mercy Island.
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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
(Either that, or a future storyline episode will bring him back to life. After all, he's been dead before. Last time, Manticore killed himself to go drag him back to life
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Development wise, without a ressurection, the easiest thing to do would be to replace Statesman with a new, non Marcus Cole, Statesman but I hope that the development will follow the narrative rather than the other way around.
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If you check the Dev Digest, you should be able to find a post or two from Posi a couple weeks ago confirming this.
Statesman will remain in the game as-is for the time being. Phasing technology will NOT be used on him; he will remain there for everyone, and then will be removed for everyone. He will be removed from all missions, task forces, and the game world, with someone replacing him where needed (most people assume Hero One or Ms. Liberty will be replacing him). All badges related to him (such as for fighting him in Recluse's Victory) will have their requirements updated. The changes will all go live with the release of Issue 23.
@Roderick
Yes, the devs will be retconning Statesman out of existence, until he manages to break the dimensional barrier by punching it really hard.
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Not exactly. The devs aren't making it so he never existed at all. He's just going to be dead and no longer active in the game world. |
Originally Posted by Frost Warden
Yes, the devs will be retconning Statesman out of existence, until he manages to break the dimensional barrier by punching it really hard.
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He will be mentioned quite frequently by people, and will probably get a statue somewhere.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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I still believe this was a terrible decision. I understand it's a lot of work to get everything changed over, but do it all at the same time so it at least makes sense in the game world. If that has to wait while you make all those changes, then it has to wait. Quality sometimes is better than quantity.
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Originally Posted by Roderick
If you check the Dev Digest, you should be able to find a post or two from Posi a couple weeks ago confirming this.
Statesman will remain in the game as-is for the time being. Phasing technology will NOT be used on him; he will remain there for everyone, and then will be removed for everyone. He will be removed from all missions, task forces, and the game world, with someone replacing him where needed (most people assume Hero One or Ms. Liberty will be replacing him). All badges related to him (such as for fighting him in Recluse's Victory) will have their requirements updated. The changes will all go live with the release of Issue 23. |
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The impression I've gotten is that removing Statesman isn't going to be the only significant change to the world, we just haven't had the reveal on the other stuff yet. They want to roll out all of the story-related changes at once, I suspect primarily for version control and reduction of maintenance downtime.
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I believe they've said that he'll be removed in issue 23, so he'll be around a while. After that all references to him being active are supposed to be changed to past tense. I assume that you'll still be able to see him in Ouro for those arcs where he actually appears.
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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
I expect he'll be gone come I22, though I haven't checked the beta server to be sure. Presumably they'll replace him with someone else to offer the same task force content.
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@Inquisitor
It's a Statesman robot. Just like Superman used to use robots to sub in for him when he would be gone for a while.
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Originally Posted by Mandu
It's a Statesman robot. Just like Superman used to use robots to sub in for him when he would be gone for a while.
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The big problem is that when Statespooch is the contact all he says to you is Bark! Bark bark bark! And you have to try and figure out what you're supposed to do from there.
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Ok, I have been out for a WHILE (been in a place that rhymes with Spytim, hee hee hee) and of course as soon as I get back I want to try the new SSA's. Ok, coolin. But after the last one I jot on over to Indep. Port and who is standing right there in front of me on the deck of that ship?? Has there been a Dev post on what is up with that? I thought they had the tech in place to make NPC's disappear depending on where you were in the storyline? Just curious.
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