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Caliburn was just another Latinized variant of Caledfwlch (after Latinization, the name was adjusted and altered for another ~200 years, Caliburn, Calibore, Calibourn, Escalibur, before it settled on Excalibur). Different nationalities and lack of linguistic standardization resulted in changes over time. The sword in the stone (actually in an anvil on a stone) was identified as Excalibur in Boron's Merlin, original written in the late 12th century/early 13th century (Vulgate Cycle). But later revisions to Merlin (Post-Vulgate Cycle) don't name that sword Excalibur, instead Arthur acquires Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake. This is just one example of the problem of figuring out what's what in Arthurian legend. The story was rewritten... almost before the ink was dry. Historia regum Britanniae has proven to be more fiction than fact, so that's unreliable as a source. And that's as far back as I care to go in pursuit of whatever truth there might be in the legend, because everything prior to Historia is Welsh. I'd rather french kiss my chainsaw, while it's running, than try to read Welsh. So I neither accept nor refute the two sword theory, nor am I in possession of sufficient information to say which might have been Excalibur, if there were two swords.

The name is derived from Old Welsh, Caledbulch (Caledfwlch in Middle/Modern Welsh (fucking Welsh. BUY A VOWEL, DAMNIT!)). It's translated as Hard Cleft or Hard Breach, implying a weapon capable of cutting through enemy shields. The name was alliteratively Latinized in the first half of the 12th century, to Caliburnus, or Caliburc (French), "calibs" being the Latin derivative of Greek "chalybs", meaning "steel".

You can imagine other swords made of anything you like. Excalibur was steel in Arthurian legend, it's steel in the game. Deal with it.

George Lucas sent a C&D back in time when he read about swords made of crystals and light, so they had to change Excalibur to metal. Merlin was pissed. Or, the scholarly answer: tracing Arthurian legend back crosses multiple cultures and more than 1500 years, to a time and place when steel was still so rare as to be considered as having mystical properties. Iron was already viewed as a magical metal (re: folklore surrounding cold iron and faerie creatures), and the properties of steel, being everything iron was and wasn't, was nearly godlike. Good steel could take an edge and hold it, whereas iron dulled quickly. When a steel weapon bent, it didn't shatter, and ofttimes, it didn't even stay bent, unlike iron (wrought iron bent easily, cast iron broke easily). Steel weapons were lighter, too, making them easier to wield. And steel, unlike bronzes and brasses, sometimes came from the heavens (meteoric iron), further strengthening the perceived link to the gods. Steel was, in the foundational roots of Arthurian legend, as magical as anything.

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I never watch reviews for anything, but pasting Emmert's face under Statesman's helm convinced me to give it a shot. I like this guy's style. Ballbag. 😁

If you're going to create something new with Assault sets, create something new. This is just sentinels with extra melee attacks, or scrappers with extra ranged attacks, and we already have that with *PPs.

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Info panel is wrong (which is definitely a bug). Blood Frenzy adds global +Recharge, not +Damage.

The graphics engine was improved, either with CoV or Going Rogue, and higher resolution textures were added. Existing textures weren't replaced wholesale, nor were higher res versions made for all existing textures. I remember it being touted as a feature of the Issue when it was released, but I can't recall which Issue. It's been a long time.

It's not a typo. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=boosts.attuned_launch_a.attuned_launch_a All +Jump enhancements boost both attribs, but they don't all say that. The originals, TOs, DOs and SOs, all use the same basic nomenclature, referring to "distance" and height rather than speed and height. When IOs were added, the terminology was changed to "jumping ability". The new(ish) Launch enhancements are more precisely worded, stating that they improve speed and height. The other one to which you referred in your first post, https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=boosts.attuned_launch_d.attuned_launch_d , denotes "Increased Jump Height" in the name because it has a third attrib on it, +level_variable% Maximum Jump Height. It's the Launch set's special enhancement, like Hypersonic's +Fly Protection. It doesn't just boost Jump Speed and Jump Height, it boosts those and bumps up the ceiling for Jump Height. On my Staff/Willpower brute (+Movement Speed set bonuses, Combat Jumping and Athletic Run, no classic travel power), it increases Jump Height from 56.82' (without) to 69.59' (with). If I were to replace it with Springfoot: Jump/End, which has the same 26.5% boost to Jump Height but no +MaxJumpHeight, I'd top out at only 58.94'.

Correct. Once the character has hit his/her maximum Jump Height, the game stops applying Jump Speed. The Jump Speed that you had at that maximum height carries your character forward faster than a direct fall, but diminishes with every increment of distance moved. After falling X distance, all of the Jump Speed is bled off and your forward movement is limited to only what Movement Control, Friction Control and a base movement stat allows (there's a minimum Run Speed, it stands to reason that there'd also be a minimum Jump Speed). The second half of a jump is like exiting an airplane in flight. You're still moving forward when you step out, but not at the rate the airplane was traveling at, and you lose acceleration the farther you fall, until your only forward movement is whatever you achieve from gliding. Movement Control and Movement Friction equate to the glide. It doesn't. Speed and Height are independent mechanics. It's entirely possible for a power with only Jump Speed to be created, and there are already powers with only Jump Height (Steam Jump, Jump Pack, all Sprints). How quickly your character moves when jumping has no impact on how high your character jumps... BUT, how high your character jumps does have an impact on your overall movement speed, because it increases the ceiling before Jump Speed is cut off.

Yes and no. They're two separate mechanics, usually used simultaneously, but not always. Sprint, for example, increases Jump Height by 10%, but it has no Jump Speed at all. The connection is the gravity mechanic. At the apex of a leap, the engine switches to gravity (you're not jumping any more, you're falling). Fall speed is independent of Jump Speed (a character with Super Jump/Might Leap toggled on and a character with no +Jump powers (other than Hurdle) fall at exactly the same speed). Movement Friction and Movement Control determine the speed and responsiveness of lateral movement during a fall, but Jump Speed is no longer applied to movement. +Jump Speed isn't arbitrarily set to 0 the instant you reach the apex of a jump, though. There's also a momentum mechanic at play, which "bleeds off" forward movement, in concert with the movement control and friction control mechanics, so your character doesn't instantly start plummeting down. That's what makes jumps graceful curves, rather than precipitous parabolas. Did that answer your question sufficiently?

I still don't understand why bait requires a nerf. Did the fish complain?

Spongy dildos start appearing?

Huh. I didn't know Hasbro was using the porn industry for design inspiration.

It was around June, 2019. I was becoming frustrated with mobile games, the portable HDD with all of my films and television shows had died, I'd read every book I owned, and I didn't have a television or an Internet connection suitable for streaming. I had jack shit to do in the evenings, essentially, and was bored out of my mind. I went poking around in the Wayback Machine, looking at the old CoH forums, and decided to see if there were any other archives. Found the MassivelyOP articles instead.

What about form ID-10T?

Maybe the PUG team stopped at an ATM machine with a bad NIC card and couldn't enter the PIN number correctly.