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I did not check to see if this was already reported. However, I made a brand new level 1 character and used a convenient Ouroboros portal to access Ouroboros and all my powers disappeared.

You won't be sent to any of the Echo zones from any of the tutorials because as far as the game is concerned, those versions of the zones simply do not exist any more. I don't remember why the old maps were retained, but because they had to be retained (for not remembered reasons), they were made available to players at our request. I'm surprised to hear Echo: Atlas Park has any working contacts, because to the best of my knowledge, none of the Echo zones are supposed to have working contacts. Players can go to the Echo zones and level up in them via street sweeping, but to the best of my knowledge, they are not supposed to have any active missions in them.

Here's a fun but draining thought: Super Speed: You move so fast, enemies don't even notice you. Speed of Sound: You move super fast and can accelerate for very brief periods of time so that it seems like teleportation (so you get a teleport). Super Speed + Speed of Sound: You move faster than any other super speed character, so fast enemies don't even notice you, and can accelerate for brief periods of time as if teleported. (Edit: And no, Flurry was always a single target attack. [Edit again: And my best guess other than game balance for early access powers is because in comics every time I see the ability used, even when up against multiple foes, it is a barrage of punches at a single target. So against groups of enemies, the speedster usually does Move By attacks with a single attack at each target as (s)he passes by, or flurries one target, then moves to the next and flurries, then moves to the next and....])

What are you talking about? A bug has absolutely nothing to do with the intent of the developer. A bug is some sort of error in the coding. I even linked definitions and classes of bugs. The code is set up to notify the mobs the character is present. The actual effect is the mobs are aware the character is present. So the code is working. No errors, flaws, defects, or imperfections in the code are present causing the game to behave in an incorrect manner. If you want the power to be changed, then submit a suggestion to change it, because it is not a bug and is correctly working. Edit: I'm going to make this simple and then I am done with this thread. Are you the person that designed and created the power in question? Yes: Then you can safely argue what the developer's intent was because you are that person. And if you say you meant for it to not flag, then it might be a bug. No: Then you can not safely argue what the developer's intent was because you are not that person. Then all you can do is look at the code, treat it as written as intended, and see how it functions within those parameters. Is the code functioning correctly and not causing incorrect behavior in the game as written without consideration for whether you agree with it or not*? Yes: The power is functioning as coded and does not have a bug. No: The power is not functioning as coded and likely has a bug. Are you asking for the power that is working correctly within the program as it is currently written to work in a way it is not currently coded to work?* Yes: You are making a suggestion.* No: Continue enjoying the game. (Edit: * - If you have to justify a bug report as "I believe something should work differently", "I think a person whom I have never met and know absolutely nothing about could not have intended something because I think it should not be that way", or any other variations of said comments, then you are not reporting a bug.) And with that, consider me no longer part of this conversation. I'm not willing to keep arguing this because it will get me hit with another abusive behavior notice.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/definition/bug https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bug For the Merriam-Webster one, it is definition 2. Note that none of the definitions says it is not the intent of the developer, but that rather it is an unexpected defect, flaw, or other error in the code. Not the intent behind the code.

The power is coded to work a set way and it does. It does not matter that you think it should not work that way, it is working the way it is coded. What other argument can possibly be made about it? And as far as I know, the only way for the game to count enemies in range of an aura in this game is for said aura to interact with them.

You should really report this on the Report Costume Issues Here thread pinned 3 down at the top of the list.

The simple answer is because the devs coded it to do so. Because the devs coded it to do so and it does in fact do so, it is working as intended. So you aren't reporting a bug. So if you would like it changed, then you need to submit a request to have it changed.

Yeah, the mission cited for the bug is the very first mission Crow gives the player in his Honor the Fallen arc. Meaning Crow disappears as a contact for some reason in his own arc he gives the player. That is something new for Crow disappearing as an available contact as far as I know.

Currently the game only has 2 means of auto-exemplaring your character. The first is to join a team with a team leader of lower level. The second is to join a TF or SF like when you do an Ouroboros Flashback mission. The last thing I heard, mind you I can't say if it is true or not, is that the game cannot handle exemplaring characters without something to lock them too. The previously mentioned two methods of auto-exemplaring. As for the OP? I don't care. If the level restrictions were removed for when we could access contacts' missions, we would wind up with a lot of grey missions from said contacts. Not really a problem other than it would reduce those missions to complete non-threats to the characters. (As evidenced by the current ability to complete started arcs no matter how much you out-leveled the contact. So we wind up with no mob rewards.)

I'm just posting what City of Data says. It says Up To The Challenge has the always notifies mobs flag. (Edit: What would keep Up To The Challenge from notifying mobs despite the flag is that it has no radius of effect because it is a flat buff to the character. As opposed to Melee Core Embodiment's 10 feet radius aura to track the number of enemies in range.) I'm not following your statement here. The one saying it doesn't make sense is you, so I fail to understand how or why you are countering it. My only point on the matter is that as @Frozen Burn stated, it is not a bug and is working as intended. So if you want it changed? Then you need to make a suggestion/request to have it changed.

We fight the same enemies red side and blue side, so the rewards from that is the same. Red side does lack the extremely long arcs blue side has, so you won't find arcs that reward the same merits as the long arcs on blue side. And typically, I pretty much never see any red side SFs forming, so you likely see a lack from that as well. However, this last point can be addressed by forming SF runs yourself.

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=incarnate.hybrid.melee_genome_8 Per City of Data, it does actually interact with the enemies. It counts them for determining the strength of the provided regeneration. damage resistance, and status protection buffs. So it flags the mobs as notified to your presence. (Edit: Even the passive boost from the power interacts with enemies to determine the strength of the passive regeneration boost. So yes, it notifies mobs of your presence.) (Edit again: @TesTiculon, define the power however you want. The power does not state that it is consuming the essence of your enemies. It states that it uses the enemies around you to determine how much of a buff it grants you. Think of it this way. In comics, anime/cartoons, and movies, characters don't need to see an enemy, be taunted by an enemy, be debuffed by an enemy, or be harmed by an enemy to go "Oh crap. (S)he is right behind me, isn't (s)he?".) Edit yet again: Also, @TesTiculon, there is a self-buff power that does not deal damage or taunt enemies and still notifies them you are there. Up To The Challenge from the Sentinel's version of Willpower. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=sentinel_defense.willpower.up_to_the_challenge&at=sentinel

The problem you run into is the color limit. Top hats already use both available colors. One for the hat itself and the other for the hair. The game does not support a third color and adding patterns to the top hat would require a third color. This has been addressed on a few threads already. We can't have full dresses because of clipping and animation issues. It was actually demonstrated by a dev in a response where (s)he showed how bad clipping gets on characters using the already in game long skirts. The issue with this, which has been requested before, is that not all the hair models work with all the hats. Different hair models have different heights and widths, and each hat is assigned to a specific height on the character model. Because the hats don't work with the hairs without severe clipping issues, each hat gets a specific hair type that works with it. (You can actually see this when you go through the raised glasses options. They don't have to contend with different widths on the hair models, but you can still see how they clip in awkward ways through several hair model options.)

@VioLight isn't talking about anyone being forced to play red side. All (s)he is saying is that it doesn't matter what the incentive is, (s)he has no interest in playing red side.

You make a very good point. However, if the badges were all the same badges with just different names based on origin, then maybe players could be given the option to change the badge names by changing our origin powers to the correlating origin. So basically, the OP's request fro 2 new badges could be based on the possessed origin power rather than the specific origin, just for the names because they would still be all the same badge(s).

Yeah, sounds like you did. I'd say congrats, but it is probably too frustrating for you. So instead I will say my condolences.

I can get that part, but the game is completely filling in the entire zone when I log back on. For instance, I was running around Cap au Diable on a villain character after havign leveled up through Mercy Island and Port Oakes. I logged off the character. Not even a full week later I logged back on the character and my character was sitting in the middle of Cap au Diable (because I had logged off at the training Arbiter) with absolutely none of Cap au Diable explored. Pop over to PO? Map is completely darkened as if I had never been there. Same with Mercy Island. So it isn't the map adjusting for where fog of war blocks may or may not have been clipped. It is the entire zone fills back up with the fog of war.

Not to be mean, but no. You want origin badges? Fine. Simplest way to me is to make 2 badges for your 2 tiers and just have the name change based on origin. That way badgers can still collect their badges and get the badge name version they want when they choose their origin, without having to concern themselves with 8 more badges they can never get on their character. Accolade powers for those badges though? No. Especially since with the powers you are choosing, that makes specific origins better for specific ATs or power sets than others.

No, you can't. Once you start an arc, you can finish it even if it was somehow locked at level 1 and you got to level 50 before you finished it. As long as you start the arc, which you can tell by whether or not the book icon is assigned to the contact or not, the game lets you finish it no matter what level you are. (Edit: And if you are for some reason referring to the filler missions? Well, you can't do those through Ouroboros anyway.) That's a dev's prerogative to do or not. I'm not following your rebuke here. It is the player's choice how they play, and there are consequences for those choices. Player wants to level lock to do something? Consequence is not progressing in levels. Player wants to run at double XP? Consequence is a lot of content gets missed unless the player does Flashbacks to do them. Player plays at normal XP gain? Consequence is having to be mindful to get the arcs the player wants. Then it would need to be level 10 since all contacts in the starter range are 1-9 in Oruoboros.

Why do they have to have powers attached to them?

Crow is removed when you do the mission with the 2 Blood Widows where the one asks you to kill Crow if she can't. The other missions with Crow, he chooses to leave you. (Edit: To the best of my knowledge, he can't really be killed in the other missions.)

You mean like how Flurry can choose from 11 different procs including knockdown and hold? At higher base damage, less than 1 second difference in animation time, less END cost, and less than half the recharge?? 6 of 1 or half dozen of the other. Just like Gale, Flurry is what you make of it. That would be where I am getting that from. Agreed. However, that is up to the individual player to work out. If they want their lower level powers, including pool powers, to be of use at high levels? They make them so. I use Flurry, Boxing, and Kick on multiple characters. Even at *gasp* level 50! (Which you are surprised about for some reason and apparently trying to tell me to stop and grab other powers.) Now, you see? I vastly prefer Flurry over Whirlwind. For starters, Flurry doesn't lock me out of every one of my other attacks at a base 0.98 END per second for absolutely no damage unless I make it a proc bomb. (Edit: And Whirlwind only has 1 damaging proc it can slot.) And it still has the 7 feet range of every other melee attack. (And if you try and use it on most teams without slotting a KB to KD proc? Watch the team draw their knives and butcher you.) I don't take Flurry for RP reasons. I don't even normally take it for fun, though it is a fun power. I take it because it gives me an attack that does good damage and has a chance to stun the target with a fairly fast recharge. And those 3 reasons fall under "mechanical". Or are you telling me I don't understand the limits or other options? Because I can assure you that I am not a new player. No one is arguing the Flurry should be worse than Brawl. In fact, I distinctly remember challenging that opinion. Because that is all that statement is, an opinion. And my opinion is that Flurry is a good power. It may not be the power for you, but that does not make it a bad power. There are players that leverage Flurry to their advantage. Apparently you are not one of them. So choose powers you want to leverage to your advantage. Just because you think a power does not suit you though, does not mean it needs to be changed, buffed, or replaced. (In this case, buffed.)

First? Hence, my request for the explanation how Gale is better than flurry. Second? No, you are asking for Flurry to be as good as AT's primary/secondary attacks. (Edit: Even worse, you want it to be competitive with late game powers despite being available as early as level 4. You know, the level at which high end players get the powers they abandon for the mid to late game?) (And in @PancakeGnome's case? Using Judgements as a reference for Flurry needing to be improved.) No power pool attack is going to be competitive against any AT's actual attacks from their own power sets. That is by design. (And the complaint that Flurry can be compared to Brawl after all the complaining that Brawl needed to be buffed and so got buffed? Especially if the player also takes Boxing, Kick, and Cross Punch to further enhance Brawl? Yeah.) Flurry does not need to be made any stronger.

Feel free to stop insulting everyone please.