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[SPOILERS] Issue 23-New iTrial!

Acemace

By Acemace,
Posted on: 2012-04-04 16:04 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Available on the test servers now?
Available on the Beta server right now. Though it's still closed at the moment... but should be opening up to VIP subscribers sometime today.

 

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Available on the Beta server right now. Though it's still closed at the moment... but should be opening up to VIP subscribers sometime today.
Yuppers they will be open soon™.

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Available on the Beta server right now. Though it's still closed at the moment... but should be opening up to VIP subscribers sometime today.
I hope so.
Would be really great.

 

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There's a beta patch downloading right now
Huh. I'm not getting anything, my last update is still from a few days ago. What version is it?

 

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Huh. I'm not getting anything, my last update is still from a few days ago. What version is it?
Maybe it's just redownloading the earlier one then

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As a follow up, all the people apprently fled Nova Paretoria when Mother Mayhem was destroyed, and the Seers were no longer there to monitor them - without the loyalist though police, it seems that the people weren't quite so happy with the shining "utopia" after all

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As a follow up, all the people apprently fled Nova Paretoria when Mother Mayhem was destroyed, and the Seers were no longer there to monitor them - without the loyalist though police, it seems that the people weren't quite so happy with the shining "utopia" after all
Well, given the whole of Praetoria is only like an hour walk from one end to the other, probably not the wisest idea to be hanging about when you've got cosmic powered supers brawling down the street.

 

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without the loyalist though police, it seems that the people weren't quite so happy with the shining "utopia" after all
I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling in this establishment.

 

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Belladona Vetrano has a new Incarnate story arc, followed by a Tyrant personal story mission, both of which are used to set up the Trial and explain why the 3 AVs are there with Tyrant during his last stand - and there are also several PPD and named loyalist NPCs who change to the right side during the arc.

EDIT: The bagde for completing the Tyrant Trial is called "Enemy of the State" - which sound suitably heroic

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Oooh, and Imperial City is still standing at the end.

...Granted, it may be filled with toxic dust. But the rest of Praetoria still stands.

Until the Devouring Earth pour in through the broken sonic barriers, BUT STILL.

 

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Until the Devouring Earth pour in through the broken sonic barriers, BUT STILL.
Which broken sonic barriers? The undamaged ones on the far side of the water from Nova Praetoria that are powered by the undamaged reactors in Neutropolis that we control?

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Which broken sonic barriers? The undamaged ones on the far side of the water from Nova Praetoria that are powered by the undamaged reactors in Neutropolis that we control?
Oh, I'm sure they're still POWERED.

...But I'm talking about the ones behind Cole's Tower.

...Also, honestly, it's not as if they can actually stop the Devouring Earth anyway. That's up to US!

 

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Do we whack cole at the end of this trial?

 

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Do we whack cole at the end of this trial?
By the end, the last of his loyalist followers are either defeated or have finally changed to the right side, and he himself is depowered and crush, right in the ruined heart of his evil empire - the Resistance have won, and the loyalists have been routed and humiliated - Praetoria is finally free again, thanks to us.

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I think G_Savior meant did we kill Tyrant or just "arrest" him?

Chimera is definitively mentioned as being dead by the Red Floating Text of fourth-wallness, but I don't recall for sure about the rest of them.

 

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Which broken sonic barriers? The undamaged ones on the far side of the water from Nova Praetoria that are powered by the undamaged reactors in Neutropolis that we control?
The sonic barriers that never actually protected the city from the Devouring Earth anyway because Cole struck his deal with the Hamidon. While they do repel living things, they're more for show and to keep the populace -in- than to keep the Devouring Earth -out-. First Ward illustrates exactly why this is the case (hint: The barriers don't protect from underneath)

 

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I think G_Savior meant did we kill Tyrant or just "arrest" him?
Going by the way his level collapses at the end, it's possible that we've not only removed him as the champion of the Well, but that we've also totally removed all his powers - like we've reduced him to being a normal human again.

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Going by the way his level collapses at the end, it's possible that we've not only removed him as the champion of the Well, but that we've also totally removed all his powers - like we've reduced him to being a normal human again.
Well, considering his powers came from the Well in the first place, cutting him off from the well would take all of his powers.

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Chimera is definitively mentioned as being dead by the Red Floating Text of fourth-wallness, but I don't recall for sure about the rest of them.
IIRC, all it says is his "dead man's switch" has been activated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch

It doesn't necessarily mean he's literally dead, just incapacitated.



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Going by the way his level collapses at the end, it's possible that we've not only removed him as the champion of the Well, but that we've also totally removed all his powers - like we've reduced him to being a normal human again.
No, if he had been turned back into a civilian, he would have been truly invincible.

As a random note: I'd say the situation doesn't look too bad for Praetoria. After a trial run I looked around passed the blue barriers and all the other buildings outside of Nova seem intact and okay.

Neuron's tower was definitely still up.

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IIRC, all it says is his "dead man's switch" has been activated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch

It doesn't necessarily mean he's literally dead, just incapacitated.
No, it wasn't the switch I was referring to, I know how a deadman's switch works.

Here it is, just checked the archive of the live stream to be sure. The exact phrase is "Chimera's death triggers a dead man's switch!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlN9...ilpage#t=1754s
(29:14 if the link to the timestamp doesn't work)

 

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Statesman is dead, yet we will still have storied Like MJ that feature him. People can still RP a Preatorian, for them that even just hasn't happened yet. The beauty of RP is just about anything can be explained away.
Forget causality. Time is a big ball of timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly....stuff.



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