Darmian

The ink is barely dry on the license making us legal, and this old nonsense crops up again. I am sure this will get some adverse reaction, but I sincerely ask, to every person who wants to be Arachnoboy or whoever, is your imagination not better than that? Sure, you love Arachnoboy, read his comics, watch his movies, maybe even play his licensed game on a machine/console of your choice, but here, in COH, where you can play anything you like, you can't do something uniquely yours? Again with the caveat concerning genuine homage characters.

If anyone WANTS to look at (IMO) great inspired homages to Marvel/DC, and ones that work, then read Astro City.

On a very silly analysis, this isn't the Marvel Universe or the DC Universe, or any other external comic book derived universe. So why the hell do you want to play any of those characters here? COH has, for a game that only ran live for less than a decade, a fairly interesting world of its own. Delve into that! Yes, homages are different. I get that. And maybe somewhere Manticore is reading a Batman comic and grinning, who knows!

Slightly off topic, but it's been an age since I saw a character called "Higgs Boatswain". LOL.

Maybe a HC pop up on logging in reminding everyone gently that this is against the TOS and so on.

No, Source is singular. Otherwise it would be sources. Source here being read as a mass noun, like the sea. The sea is, not the sea are.

Welp... maybe. I WAS a kid, and the box is probably long gone.

OMG. Somewhere in a box I MAY...MAY have the ROM "action" figure from waaaay back. Forgot about it until now.

Watching Scrapyard attempt to leap from a roof on to a Rikti Drop Ship that blasted him during the invasion was kinda funny. I think he even did it some damage before it flew off.

Scrapyard? Then again you did say off the top of your head.

Oh, it's not just caltrops. Give an enemy Time Manipulation and if they get a time field up and then die, well, you're waiting for the mission to end. Found that out in my very first mission of my very first AE! Tested it over and over before I spotted what was happening.

Absolutely! Throughout the whole of the Rogue Isles every single tram will be on time, all the time. Not one will be late, and neither will it leave just before you reach it! It'll both wait for you to arrive while simultaneously being on time at your station AND making it safely on time to your destination! SCIENCE! Dr. Aeon has ensured it!

Ah. Snag being that the "body" will get up then.

Maybe police investigating the body or something?

There's a dead slab choice, however there's a catch. You have to set the body as a friendly boss and have friendlies around them, or else they GET UP when you get to them. And obviously set them to not follow, just in case.

That Victory and Paragon won't need their own License with NCSOFT?

I find that the story shapes level design. Then again "story" might be "Farm this area for smashing", so that gets nuanced.

Congrats to all! Loved the turn out on Reunion. I also didn't expect to see myself caught in mid run in one of the pics! Had to go chat to a fellow Praetorian, who placed! Well done Citizen Praetoria!

Is that a thing now?

Use the search bar when editing your base. Look for Pillar and you'll get three or four options. The one you want is clearly visible. Saves trying to scroll through everything to find it.

ROFL. Ah, not quite! But if there aren't any ambushes in a Gold side mission then you haven't played a Gold side mission!

At some point I'll have my final Gold AE trilogy done. I've done one for Resistance Warden and one for Resistance Crusader, and one for Loyalist Power. Only Loyalist Responsibility still to go. As that was/is my favourite throughline I'm taking a lot longer because I really want to write the best story I can. These are all 20- 25 by the way.

Mostly you can't, but when doing them through Ouro when the option is presented to report in to your handler, it's worth trying to go see them in person, either in the Underground or the Loyalist Lounge, because SOMETIMES that works! Although if you "qualify" as a Resistance member and then later want to Ouro the Loyalist missions, you won't be able to enter the Loyalist Lounge at all, and vice versa. Worth keeping in mind though.

It's possible. Tricky but possible. Follow the guide (somewhere on here!) and turn off XP at certain points. Don't immediately follow up on Marchand or Scott's missions because you may get a plot hole where it conflicts. There's a few missions where if you take a particular course of action and are attempting to do everything then a contact/person you need to speak to in a different mission is simply not there! But you can get the majority of it done without the guide. You really can, you just can't get ALL of it because you're not meant to from a story POV. I had to get a GM to complete a single mission for me at one point in my flashbacks because the contact was gone. It happens.

It's possible with careful observation and strictly following a guide, to do all of them. However, you were never meant to. The journey is what it is based on the choices you make at the time. Everything else is for Ouro flashbacks, although the undercover Loyalty thing is hell to pull off in those. It's possible in some of them by reporting in person to Marchand or Scott, but not all the time. Calling in won't work. After that you'll be pressured at the end of the Neutropolis arcs to go to Paragon or the Rogue Isles. You DON'T have to (yet). You can go to First Ward via Imperial Underground and continue doing Praetoria related missions, and on into Night Ward. (If you want a set of missions that slot in between Neutropolis and First Ward check out the Praetorian arcs in my AEs below.) And as a Goldsider you will need a base with an Ouro crystal to do Flashbacks since prior to heading to Paragon Goldsiders can't go to Ouroborous. I know this is all possible. My avatar there is my Goldside Main, a level 50 that's STILL Gold.