ZorkNemesis

February 23

Praetoria Mission "Arrest Resistance in Holon Technologies" from Investigator Whitworth: named boss Tire Iron has the "BOSS_DISPLAYINFO" placeholder for a description.

February 22

Lethal is pretty resisted by most everything late game but it's not gamebreakingly resisted. I have two Archery Blasters at 50 and neither of them have much trouble knocking down bad guys and good guys alike.

The two Archery Blasters I built, one is /Energy, the other is /Plant. /Energy is nice for Boost Range and the fairly fast animations of Archery let me shoot things from another time zone. /Plant gives me a strong control option with Vines to prevent things from escaping Rain of Arrows, plus Toxins helps the Lethal damage issue by adding Toxic damage (however the bonus damage can't be boosted giving more power to Build Up in general and due to how RoA works Toxins does nothing for RoA).

I hear /TacArrow is a strong secondary for Archery and I imagine /Devices is pretty good too if you want to keep your distance.

February 21

7 hours ago, Lockely said:

Rookie used to be there for years until they re-did Atlas Park. All HC did was move it back (and swap Silent Sentinel off to Echo for balance) to ensure that no matter where a new player starts, they get an exploration badge within 15ft of their first trainer.

Rookie was never there. Rookie wasn't an exploration badge at all before at least Score; it was the first badge you got for spending a token in the Paragon Rewards program.

February 21

2 hours ago, High_Beam said:

And Blackjack.

And hookers!

You know what, forget about Oranbega and the Blackjack.

Eh, screw the whole thing...

February 21

10 minutes ago, SSR said:

Was this change intentional? I use window scaling to change the size of my windows but now I cannot apply them after changing it to a different size.

The "Apply Now" button was altered so that it only pops up if something actually has to be applied and isn't occuring automatically as you adjust it. Is that slider changing something as you move it?

February 21

15 minutes ago, Judasace said:

IDK what out of date wiki you've been reading or other server you've been on, but on HC this is not the case.

That's news to me, which probably shows how much I care about PvP to not notice when that happened.

February 21

2 minutes ago, mechahamham said:

So tip drops are pretty hilariously bugged.

Steps to reproduce:

Be level 20

Have a full compliment of tips. (This works with either Valentines or regular tips)

Note which tips you have

Fight enemies that are eligible to drop tips.

Note that you continue to get tip drops

Compare your tips after the drop to before. The tips you have will be replaced with new ones.

Tested with Starcki on Excelsior

This is an intentional change. As per the notes:

Tip System

When a tip drops and you are at the maximum number of tips, under certain conditions your oldest tip will be automatically dismissed to make room for the new tip.
- This currently only applies to alignment tips, exploration tips, and spring fling valentines tips.
- Morality tips will never be dismissed automatically, nor will Halloween or special mission-related tips such as Wizard's Weakness.
- Alignment tips can be dismissed to make room for a morality tip, otherwise only tips of the same type that dropped can be dismissed.
- Any tips for which you have begun investigation and obtained a mission from will not be automatically dismissed.

February 21

3 minutes ago, Skyhawke said:

Side note: if you go through the portal to Recluse's Victory (tech contact room down the stairs of City Hall), you get the badge and Oro portal because that counts as time travel.

Going into RV requires being level 40. The post was made in relation to the character being fresh-off-the-bus needing a quick buck.

February 21

2 minutes ago, Wavicle said:

What is "the Pocket D unlock method is still present" referring to?

You can unlock Long Range Teleporter by getting the Pocket D VIP Gold Club Member badge, which involves standing around in Pocket D for an hour. This is how you used to get the Pocket D Teleport before it got folded into LRT.

EDIT: Damn, beat to the punch.

February 20

If you're referring to getting the Atlas Tour Guide accolade for Merits, the Rookie Badge should count for that now instead of Silent Sentinel. Unless they forgot to change that, you shouldn't need to go to Echo: Atlas Park to get the accolade and merits.

February 20

I skimmed the notes quickly, but i'm curious, are there any changes in the live build that weren't in RC3.5?

February 20

4 hours ago, ApocalypsePlease said:

Having poked around with this as an arse/arse dom vs vanguard mobs at x4, the only real complaints I have are that occasionally I was noticed through my stealth and smoke can which resulted in my getting attacked, since the confuse requires damage being done, and that I wish the pet had some manner of AoE to help it taunt things better. Regardless I am looking forward to playing this set on live! I’ve wanted a grenade based set for some time and this makes me very happy.

Worth pointing out, Vanguard Shield/Sword have exceptionally high perception. They can aggro Stalkers through Hide. Cloaking Device and Smoke Bombs usually aren't enough to completely blind them.

February 20

0. Mess with the settings. Hopefully some of the new changes aimed at modernizing the game won't screw me up too much but if they do I gotta fix them.

1. Illusion/Arsenal Dom. Need a new Dominator to play and this sounds like it might be a good new experience.

2. Holstered weapons across the board. I got a bunch of characters with Bows, Pistols, and Beam Rifles that are looking to be holstered on character.

3. Respec my Cold/Beam Defender. The new Ice Mastery looks better for both concept and effectiveness. I might also look at Ice Mastery for my Spines/Ice Scrapper but I like Water Spout and Hibernate already.

February 19

I've got a few civillian outfits for a couple of my guys and gals.

My Thugs/Sonic MM, Garage Band, has her look styled after that of a punk rocker.

A Ninja Blade/Super Reflexes Stalker, Disco Ninja, who is heavily inspired by disco stereotypes.

Bar Maiden, a Water/Poison Corrupter where I was trying for something Oktoberfest themed.

Shotgun Surgeon, Assault Rifle/Pain Domination Corrupter, who's outfit is basically bloodied medical scrubs.

February 17

On 2/15/2024 at 1:12 PM, FFFF said:

I'd love to see the Petrovich brothers fleshed out. The Back Alley Brawler personal story left me curious as to who they are. They're also mentioned in a mission with Provost Marchand where one of the reformed Praetorians stop one of their plots. And I know Captain Petrovich is a villain contact, perhaps one of the brothers?

The Petrovich Brothers are the Lords of Death you fought during the two King's Row arcs, Veles and Chernobog. Also Morana who escaped the lab before you arrived.

February 15

I'm sure the live writers had plans for him, but whatever happened to Deadlock? He shows up, whoops Back Alley Brawler's ass and leaves without a word. I assume there was going to be a longer story with the whole new Superdine rings what with Veles showing Atta his lab but the shutdown really left a hell of an unresolved plotline behind.

February 14

1 hour ago, Super Atom said:

Idk if this is the place to ask or not or if its too late, but a rocket launcher weapon customization for LRM rocket would be really cool. I don't think the council or 5th ones have any markings on their rocket launcher model.

😭

I think there would be issues with that one since LRM Rocket and Arsenal Mastery use the same Assault Rifle as, well, Assault Rifle. The rocket launchers used by the Council/5th/Destroyers have their own set of animations due to being shoulder mounted and not held like LRM's Sniper Rifle animations.

February 13

On 2/8/2024 at 10:38 AM, Oubliette_Red said:

I resemble this remark!

February 13

I can't check now, but what do these rollbacks enatil? I played a couple hours on Indom before this went down, does this mean I have to take my Defender through the Talons and Monsters in Cimerora again?

February 12

I know many of us suffer from altitis, and 1,000 slots is a lot of characters. What about the times when you don't have any creative ideas for new characters and just want to play, but you have 30+ level 50 characters to choose from and maybe another 15 or so in-progress. How do you decide who you want to take to the streets with when there's so many options? Sometimes I scroll through my list and wonder who I should bring out sometimes, like trying to decide what other game to play when i'm not playing CoX.

February 12

A thought occured after seeing the screenshots on Reddit. Are the renovated Vanguard compounds going to be applied to mission map variants as well? I know at least three missions in RWZ that take place in the compound itself, along with the one in Dark Astoria. There's also a bunch of outdoor missions in RWZ, will the Architect building also be visible or gone from those too?

February 12

Valentine Tips drop at any point after you're level 20 I think, you don't have to talk to anyone to get them to drop, they drop from anything as long as the event is active. The bigger issue with those tips is that they don't take your allignment into account and you might get tips for zones you can't access (for example, a pure villain can't deliver U'kon Gra'i's letter since both Positron and Blue Steel are in hero zones). Can be an issue if you're stubborn and don't want to flip sides with Null every so often.

February 10

I've seen this one before! I had a random book in the university grow to epic proportions as well. Couldn't tell you what caused it though.

February 10

I don't think such a mission exists. What you might be thinking of is Bobcat who is part of the Power storyline and she's chilling in the strip club side of Studio 55. And yes, it's a strip club, the dancers aren't wearing much of anything.

February 9

The train in the small side room where you get off isn't interractable, go into the main station to get on. If you can't click the main train, wait for the doors to close and try again.

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