Glacier Peak

The clouds above the city! Yes please!

I love it. I aged in this game with an SS/SJ only focus on legacy. I wanted to go the fastest. Since then, I've learned to love Fly on HC, with it's excellent vertical control and nimbleness. Teleport is great too if I'm actively playing, and the origin pools offer satisfactory niche adds to those traditional travel powers. Then you got your other movement powers, p2w has great selections, base temps, IO sets and bonuses, and Day Job temps allow me the freedom to build my characters without what used to be a MUST HAVE (looking at you Hollows at Level 4 with Hover 😅). That's on addition to the QoL improvements to the zone to zone and zone to mission travel. I've got an incredible amount of options (Long Range Teleport, Ouroboros portal, Base Teleporter, Supergroup Teleporter, day job base teleporters, Mission Teleporter, Team Mission Teleporter, Black Helicopter Line, PvP Free Fire Helicopters, Trams, TUNNEL portals, hub zones like Pocket D, a standing base portal in every(?) zone) to decrease my already fast journey time to any number of objectives. Of course, I had to earn them to use them, but they are easily worth the effort. And just for giggles, I created a character to run around Outbreak to remember the "good old days" of movement. All in all, these are great times to be playing a great game! Keep up the awesome work HC team.

I get shot by Snipers when I am within their level range. Even with +120ft of stealth from a distance. They got that mad perception to overcome it. When I am over their level range, they ignore me. I tend to get hit by them the most when I jump in to an Ouro mission that takes me to Founders Falls.

1,000 seems high to me, but I'm not against another shiny to collect!

Welcome to the world of badging! Where you'll do anything for a shiny! Edit: You're not going to be making a profit on those invention badges to be sure, but you can definitely make all of that back and more once you've learned what sells.

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1. No, there are souvenirs for Taskforces, Strikeforces, Trials, and Incarnate trials content that cannot be accessed through Ouroboros. 2. Yes, both Hero, Villain, Rogue, Vigilante, and Praetorian. 3. See below. 4. See below from @Burk

Wait, so what about the portal corp War Wolves map? Are they related to that failed experiment or are they part of Shadow Hunters dominion?

And Nosferatu is the one who created the Vampyri, based on a super soldier program I believe.

You may be thinking about the imposter Ajax.

I thought those exact same things reading the comics, I think everybody would've love to have seen Horus as a contact - perhaps a late game Peacebringer/Warshade mission giver.

Is the Croatoa 'Cabal' enemy faction at all related to War Witch's cabal? What about the Praetorian equivalent related in some way?

Oooh, I appreciate the added context @Greycat. Croatoa, for me at least, is a bit of an off-shoot from the main storyline. There isn't a lot that ties in to the rest of the game here, yet it is an entire zone with its own unique enemies, badges, contacts, and task force.

I think it is a nice metric to have. I don't support this suggestion.

Younger generation be like "Yo how'd you get your microwave to play video games" 😆

Absolutely agree with this aside. This is why I @'ed you! Sometimes story arcs in game aren't even in the traditional canon - looking at Pocket D mostly, but the stories still exist in the Co* universe.

!!! That's super helpful. I did the Abandoned Sewer Trial and got the Charmer badge, but that was the extent of my background knowledge of the faction. Thank you!

This can be alleviated in two ways; create the character you want to use on the live servers and just transfer over whenever there is a wipe -or- create a build Mids to upload, save a costume and setup for a character and then create them and autolevel/add all the IOs/etc once you log in on Brainstorm using the cool build importer:

What I have read from that post is that it comes down to interacting with other players. I think I play on the opposite side of the spectrum. I don't run a lot of trials or end game content in teams. I just participated in a Hamidon raid earlier today that was really well organized and I had only enough time to play for one iteration of the raid instead multiple. I built a character to solo content so that if I don't have time to play, I'm not short changing any potential team mates. It lets me roll through content at my own pace, sometimes I read the clues and mission dialog, other times I am grinding away at Issue 1 content that hasn't seen any new polish. At the end of the day, I get out of the game what I enjoy about it. It's relaxing and satisfying as my hobby. That's enough for me, perhaps identifying areas of the game that you enjoy that don't require other players would help alleviate the problems you described. Or at least placate some instances occurring too frequently.

It was my assumption that the novels, which I enjoyed a great deal, were not canon - am I mistaken on this? Or perhaps retconned later?

I like them the way they are. I'm going to vote no on this suggestion.

Is the topic title being asked rhetorically? It seems like this was a vent post, did you intend to have further discussion beyond what you said in the OP?

Thanks for all the screenshots!

Folks, I'd like to know more about the game and share various spoilers that exist after playing through the content of this great game in order to better understand its story and lore. I am looking to contain this discussion to anything found in game - if it's in the Lore AMAs, I don't consider it canon. It should go without saying, but it is highly likely that this thread will contain spoilers, so please use the spoiler button when discussing something other players may not have finished yet. That being said I have a few bullet points, but I would like your help adding others. If you have an interest and provide some spoilers, I will update this post and credit it to the original poster: After completing the Rikti War Zone story arcs and the final task force from Lady Grey, I understand the following: Croatoa is a magical destination. I played through all of the content, but I couldn't tell you what the zone or story was about besides the Sleepy Hollow vibe. The Ouroboros is pretty thick with story, but I haven't honestly dug too deep in to it. I know that... The Shivans are... The Faultline zone story arcs and background (Credit to @GastlyGibus again!) Kheldian Lore: The comics and literature contain canon themselves: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but my hope is to develop a good picture of the overall game story (laughs out loud). I know I could just as easily browse the Homecoming Wiki (which is an awesome resource!) but it would be quite a lot of reading I imagine. Anyways, I will make note of the greater discussion that has come before me in other sections of this forum. For others interested in this topic who have posted in other places, many thanks - posters like @VileTerror, @Darmian, @Latex and many many others. Here is what I could dig up on such discussion on the forums: