EmperorSteele

*points at his avatar* Way back when i first started playing, I wasn't too enthused. I had tried an empathy defender, and I think a katana/dark scrapper, and neither of them impressed me too much. But one day I join a team, and I keep seeing dudes getting THROWN INTO THE AIR and I'm like "woah, what powerset is that?!" and the person said "Mind Control!" and I was all "oh damn, I gots to roll me one of those!" And so I did. What got me hooked is that I didn't have a backstory for her at first. I knew she was psychic, so I made sure her name, Patty-Sue Ivanova, accronym'd to "PSI" because I'm effin' clever like that =P So I decided that SHE didn't know her backstory either, just her name. And as I played through the game, I carefully read all the mission text and clues to see which character or enemy group she would most likely be tied to. The Skulls, Hellions or CoT? Nah, she wasn't magical. Outcasts? They were mutants (what I had put her origin as), but they were all elementalists, not, er, mentalists. Council? They had some good tech, buuut they seemed too focused on turning people into werewolves and vampires, not making them psychic. Just as I started to doubt I'd be able to tie PSI's origins to anything in the game, I started running the Crey arcs. And HO-LE crapoli, it all fell together! Brainwashing? Cloning supers? Their BOSS was a pale-skinned, dark-haired woman with Psychic powers?!?! It was PERFECT! i "discovered" that it would totally fit that PSI could be, not just another Crey project, but a clone of the countess herself! Like a body-double, in case anything ever happened to CC herself, and she needed a new body to put her mind into (like what Prof X wound up doing in both the comics and the movies, to a degree). I never quite figured out how Crey would have let this project slip through their fingers (it mostly revolves around the body double gaining sentience and murdering her way out of the lab), but I've gotten some good mileage out of the concept. And so even though she isn't my most fun or powerful character (devs plz buff MC k thnx), she still remains my favorite!

Man, these forums are the WORST sometimes... Dacy: "Here's a forum thread about bases!" Forum: "I'll make the preview picture a butt, lololol"

So, baddies have increased stats and new powers (surgeons, for instance, now teleport). This is because now they're ALL infused with nictus energy. Bosses and EBs have a chance to spawn a "Hostless Nictus" when they die. This entity will grab ahold of a nearby player and try to possess them, so you have to kill the nictus before this happens. Nictus crystal explosions are now a LOT stronger. The rommy fight has a few changes too, but I'll leave that for you to experience yourself 😃

So, you know the Aeon SF? The one made with Hard Mode in mind when they were designing it? And do you know how they PUT HOSPITALS IN HALF THE MISSIONS because they were COUNTING on people dying a lot and wanted to make sure they could return to the fight sooner without having to zone hundreds of times? Yeah, just... chew on that for a bit.

Any chance you can roll back the update to your PC? Or maybe find video drivers that support that version of your OS? Not a linux guy so I have no idea why it would suddenly stop displaying the font correctly, but, damn.

So not my MAIN main, but I have a character named Disgruntled Ex. While I imagine there are a LOT of songs that suite her (like Taylor Swift's entire discogrophy and half of Avril Lavigne's, just for starters), a more contemporary tune she'd enjoy would probably be A B C D E F U. Not linking it here because lol swear words. Like, a LOT of swear words. Like, how the hell did Kidz Bop manage to cover this song lot of swear words. But look it up, it's a banger!

I agree with the OP. There's a LOT of lore and fun Easter eggs going on here, and I had felt like it should have been a story arc instead of an SF. Especially given the length of it all. Still, I recall Cobalt saying something about how the devs were considering a "solo" mode for TFs, so something like that would be ideal for what OP wants.

I don't know you, but... I kinda hate you. Sorry. Jealousy is an awfully toxic thing! (But grats on everything else!)

I feel like adding Mag would have to cause the entire mez system to be revamped. I mean, if it were trivial to achieve 6+ mag hold with a single cast, then all the bosses in the game would be at... well, ANYONE with a hold's mercy in just one hit. The procs don't count, because A) the "game is not balanced around IOs", B) they only have a CHANCE to go off, and C) when they DO go off, their added mag is only 8 seconds anyway. Right now, with the exception of maybe wanting to solo-hold an AV (and, by design, those should be hard to hold), there's not much reason for a control character to want to enhance the magnitude on their mezzes. Non-control characters being able to do so would put Controllers and Dominators out of a job. So, yeah, things would have to change on both sides (power and foe stats) for this to be balanced.

Finally caught up!

...Not to double-post, but, I was sure others would have posted their milestones in the meantime? Ah well. Anyway, 1591, Booyaka!

Pull ALL the levers! =D ...I mean, assuming these are physical levers and not, like, changing a 0 to a 1 in a config file, because that's boring. I like levers, okay?!

Iirc, the files were pulled from the last patch that had gone to beta before sunset. You can see in the video what looks like a dev interface, with the player running around as Scirocco. I think that if one DL'd the i25 SCoRE package, they'd find a barely playable mess of mission files... Also, I remember Matt Miller (Posi) petitioning NCSoft to push what they had to Live so players could see it, but that got nixed as Ncsoft didn't want to deal with all the bug reports from unplayable missions. As for HC finishing/releasing it, well, I'd hope it's just a technical hurdle, but otherwise, yeah, why not, guys?! [EDIT] ok, i thought about it over breakfast, and came up with a plausible answer: the Scirocco arc would have been an SSA, which were usually like 5 mini story arcs, with a red side version and a blue side version, so you're talking basically 10 story arcs (with mostly copypasta'd missions). So, that's probably why!

Took some digging, but I found it. There's some buggyness and stand-in-models here and there (one hilarious one is when a dude just keels over dead for no reason), but, here:

On further mucking about, it's apparently ALL the assault rifle skins 😞

So I was trying to make an AE minion with the Mil Spec Assault rifle. But when i loaded the mission, or reload the characters, their gun changes back to the goofy ass default assault rifle. I tried to force load a costume file onto them, and i got an error, shown in the screenshot. Also, separate but related: the "Load Self" button activates on mouse-over instead of having to be clicked.

Because "f-k you", that's why! But, don't take it personally. And hey, look on the bright side: At least they're not armed with M32 Grenade Launchers. Because then it would be "Because f-k you and everyone around you", and that would just be rude!

I feel like an all-PB team would have a slightly easier time of it all compared to a lot of other "all one AT" runs, because the Fluffy Cupcakes can't target other Nictus for possession. Having to stop and save a teammate or two from instadeath is one thing that slows a lot of runs down, if just by a little.

There's not much stopping them, other than lack of interest, both from them and the players. According to the various Lore AMAs that came out in the years post sundown, the story would have continued on via incarnate content (cue cries of people who are sick of high level and raid missions), as a justification for continuing to make new incarnate abilities and new reward currency for said abilities (cue people sick of new currencies and the widening power gap). Reception of the story details was also mixed (bad guys were basically space vampires iirc?) and involved Cole being released from jail to be the new Statesman to help pull the player's bacon out of the fire. Though the next SSA would have seen Scirocco finally defect from Arachnos (there's already-finished extracted cutscenes on youtube) so that would be nice to see.

Update the "round the world" phase to just go to the sewers and then AE if you want player to re-experience their level up journey =P ...oh wait, Atlas AE got bought out by Longbow. Nevermind =(

Sounds buggy alright. What about the cutscene where Aeon describes the transdimensional doohickey? Was the whole team present in that cutscene? During the final mission itself, were players dying a lot or did they have anything odd happening? Anything you can think of that could be used to reproduce this? ... on second thought, if you CAN repro this, maybe don't spill the beans here, contact a dev or gm instead.

Me. + 7 actually good players to carry my worthless ass =P

I mean, you SAY that, but i PuG'd a 4-star speed run where the leader had us cycling Barrier, and while yes, deaths did happen, it was also the smoothest and fastest HM ITF run I've been on so far. It's efficacy as a tactic borders on OP.

I forget exactly when it was, but I remember someone had posted graphs of NCSoft's revenue streams. And I noticed that CoH was like, only 3% of their profit (whereas Guildwars or whatever was like, 40%). I dared to ask if this meant CoH was on the chopping block. Everyone assured me that profit was profit, and that the 3% still equaled millions of dollars, so everything would be fine. A few months later, the "Sundown" was announced. While we can only speculate NCSoft's motives, and only guess at the accuracy of various rumors, well, let's just say it never felt worse to "be right". =/ Also, 10 years already? Damn we're old!

I've seen tequila remove older versions of itself, and the new shortcut is somewhere else on my desktop. I don't know how clean or cluttered your desktop is, @Troo, but on the off chance you have dozens of icons floating in different spots, maybe double check everything and make sure Tequila didn't land itself next to Hello Kitty Adventure or something?