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Another odd one for the list. In First Ward, entering the door behind Diabolique on top of the Westerman Building used to make you exit from the same door within Night Ward but now it drops you in front of the Midnighters house in The Arcane Quarter. If it was actually changed and not a bug, dunno why, it was cool to exit in the same door in Night Ward!

From the intro to the exploration badge mission in The Chantry, "Own the consequences of your choices", think it should read "weigh" instead of "weighs", cause it's referring to "echoes" in plural? From the exploration badge mission in the First Ward, Find the heart of Sunken City, the sendoff dialogue seems to have the word "this" that shouldn't be there.

Similar as the odd rendering issue in the previous post, this time in Cascade Archipelago (Shadow Shard) at [-171.4 585.8 515.5] where it seems the nearby hill is too tall internally and forces de-rendering of map items behind it (if that's how it works), changing your camera angle from around that spot causes flickering of rocks/plants/enemies in your view.

There seems to be some strange rendering issue in Eden around [2108.1 210.6 4263.7] (specifically mid-air). When passing through in that spot, looking around can cause many of the nearby rocks to flicker in and out of existence Also, looking in the South direction from [2123.9 216.5 4248.4] which is slightly above ground-level, can cause patches of the ground nearby to de-render.

Cimerora exploration mission "Survey the hills wreathed in shadows", first paragraph part that reads "primal malevolence that are is". Also a Cimerora exploration mission, intro text to "Scout the depths of Castellum Quarter", has "Romulus Augustu" missing his last "s". Another exploration badge mission, Rikti War Zone this time, "Participate in Rikti mothership raid" mission for the Unabashed badge has Vanguard in plural. Exploration badge mission in Croatoa, "Survey damages caused by Jack In Irons" for the Jack's Wrath badge, think that word in the second line is supposed to read "dire", because then it'd rhyme and make sense?

As per title, since the recent release of Page 2, and the change to how the AoE hold power works, Gravity Distortion Field now uses the same power icon as Gravity Distortion instead of its old and proper icon .

As an addendum, Gang War from the Thugs powerset is in the same boat as the underlings that the power spawns every 1-2 seconds, I think up to 10 underlings, only spawn so long as the target you used the power on remains alive, which may often be a challenge even for bosses. If the target dies before the power goes through the full list of its summon targets, you're stuck with however few pets it spawned, until they despawn shortly after.

Those two powers have been troublesome since live, so for a quick rundown; Haunt is a summon power which is activated on a live enemy target, which after a brief animation spawns two pets which deal good damage and offer CC before disappearing after a while, the active part of the power also forces the summoned pets to haunt the chosen target as priority before swapping to other enemies upon its defeat. Dark Extraction is a summon power which is activated on a defeated enemy target, which after a brief animation spawns a single pet to follow its owner and provide with ranged attacks. Both powers fail to summon their respective pets if the target enemy dies between clicking the power and the animation's conclusion (Haunt) or if the defeated enemy despawns before the animation concludes (Dark Extraction). Being target-state-reliant causes easy instances of the power being wasted, going on cooldown with no effect and feeling bad and anxious to use. So without knowing how either are coded and if it would be simple or a mess to change it, I'd like to suggest a fix to both in that the trigger for summoning the pets happens at the moment when the player hits the powers' buttons and the pets are queued up to spawn, even if they may be invisible and their AI inactive until the proper spawn animations activate in accordance with current animation time. At least if it would be as simple as that, then the instances when you hit a button and it does nothing while also going on a long cooldown would no longer happen.

The (minor but very annoying for zone exploration) bug is still around where as you enter a new district of a neighborhood, it does not switch to that new district's zone track and instead continues playing the track of the area you were just in until the track completes. It's a long-running bug from back on live that kept popping up, small but annoying.

The unenhancableness of some parts of some powers seems a bit worrying, but would require proper testing, as with the changes to Tanker cones it might result in slightly better numbers, or it might not. As much as I hated the repeated nerfing Regen got on live from its early days, and how Willpower replaced it when it came out, I wouldn't call for nerfs to Willpower. I'd rather see Regen be buffed even more to be this unstoppably regenerating powerhouse that the set can be. Yeah, that's a miscommunication then, which happens. "Popup option to revive" would be another clearer distinction. Would it also be possible to have the window pop up but not be time-limited to simulate the way Revive works, as in getting up when you decide to? Even with Ailment Resistance giving a 20% recharge debuff resistance, I still think that number should be way higher at a glance. You get hit with recharge debuffs as early as Outcasts in Hollows, Circle ice mages in Kings Row, or Council web grenades in Steel Canyon, and it gets more commonn through the levels. Meanwhile -regen debuffs don't seem that common, Circle mages with Twilight Grasp, then Carnies at 40+, I think Praetorian Clockwork might also have some of it in their energy blast AoEs? I still think that Resilience/Ailment Resistance could do with being slottable with defense enhancements to make IOing out the set easier.

What does the new Second Wind power mean exactly by "a chance to get back up and keep fighting"? Is it a percentage chance based proc and unreliable? If you can't rez on command like with current Revive, then that's not great as the set should have a reliable self-rez. Recharge increases from all kinds of slow attacks are generally the bane of Regen, I'd still suggest giving the whole set a cumulative hardcapped recharge debuff resistance throughout its passives to make it feel better, particularly with how much more common -recharge effects are compared to -heal ones, akin to how Super Reflexes has a hardcapped defense debuff resistance. Adding even a tiny 2-5% defense buff into Resilience and/or Ailment Resistance would also go a long way into helping out IO builds as the set is notoriously difficult to build up for defense and resistance.

The Hazard Zone gate in Rikti War Zone which leads back to Crey's Folly seems to have a copy of the fence-and-booth model area that is right outside of it, but this one is mirrored and stuck within the gate area, causing the fences to collide and clip through one another and the booth being clipped partway into the back gate of it, roughly at [-576.2 0.6 -445.7]. For comparison: screenshot of the repeated fence-and-booth area within the gate in Rikti War Zone, and then what a normal Hazard Zone gate looks like: Gate in question (RWZ): Normal gate:

The bridge toll booths in Kallisti Wharf have one of their sides' windows not affected by the day-night cycle. That is the case for both booths either side of the raised bridge at [2700.5 72.0 2516.1] and [2300.7 71.5 2562.9], then also again at [1615.4 50.5 4846.3]. It seems to be a bug with this specific type of booth as a model rather than individual errors.

More options are always good, especially as all the models and animations are already in and would just need to be tied to a power.

Community titles and roleplay tend not to go down well together.

There are two large rectangular bases of buildings that seem to have sunken down too far below street level geometry and are clipping through into the car park tunnel underneath Port Oakes at [-573.3 143.9 198.2] and [-555.5 145.3 329.0]. Checking the building above, it seems the two square platforms are the ones to blame as they match the texture and run down through the height of the building they're clipped into to stick out down below. Strangely the two platforms are also the ones with all the props on the roof, so hopefully the props are attached to them to make height adjustment easier. 😶 Pictured the left and right building clipping, both as seen from outside the tunnel, and the building above whose parts appear to be clipping through down below.

One of the doors/door frames to a short building under an awning is slightly misaligned/rotated to stick out, Kings Row at [-296.5 -41.8 297.9]

A set for a Dominator secondary, mainly based on the Beam Rifle set Beam Assault Single Shot - Ranged, Moderate DMG(Energy), Foe Knockdown Pummel - Melee, Minor DMG(Smash) Cutting Beam - Ranged (Cone), Moderate DMG(Energy), Foe -Def(All) Charged Prod (Bayonet with Energy Damage) - Power Up - Self +Special, +Dmg(All) Refractor Beam - Chain, Moderate DMG(Energy) Targetting Drone - Toggle: Self +To-Hit, +Damage, +Perception, +Resistance(To-Hit Debuff) Penetrating Ray - Sniper, Extreme Dmg(Energy), Foe Knockdown Lancer Shot - Superior DMG(Energy), Foe Stun

I have no idea what could possibly be causing this one type of enemy to aggro. A dark-gray-conning enemy should not even be ale to perceive a much higher level player unless attacked first and this is not a mechanic in any other part of the game. The only part I can think of is perhaps this one specific enemy type got accidentally tagged as a zone-event AI, since zone event enemies used to have levels long ago before they were changed to be level-less and scale to the player. Or it could be something completely unrelated... 😕

Seems like a really cool powerset mechanically and conceptually, with plenty variety in its set on its own, it'd be lots of fun to play 😁

Zone: Steel Canyon Location: [-3552.9 -61.8 762.1] This specific sign in Steel Canyon seems to lose its physics after a few seconds of swinging. Interacting with the sign makes it swing, but it will shortly get stuck mid-swing instead of continuing to sway until rest like the other physics-having signs. It doesn't even seem an issue of it clipping into the building it's attached to because it's not close enough, neither is it clipping with the metal parts that it's attached to the pole with.

TODO: Add Bug Report In Night Ward at [886.5 31.8 -3052.3], at a random NPC spawn point, one of the optional spawns that is a lone Recently Deceased Resistance NPC which uses the looking-around animation, has placeholder text

The part of the animation of getting up from the floor that plays in the Stone Spears (Earth Assault) power after the earth effect triggers plays a second time for some reason, and it also sometime plays the sound of domination running out a few moments later when you have domination running despite domination still being fully active, although that might just be a general Dominator audio issue.

Would it be possible to make a high-res version of some badge icons as well? The Atlas Medallion specifically as badge icon files are also predictably tiny. Thanks!

Question for everyone: How difficult was it working with the spaghetti code that is City of Heroes and what were some unusual ways you overcame those difficulties to make it do what you wanted? Question for Melissa "War Witch" Bianco, John "Protean" Hegner, Hero 1 and Manticore: Regarding the incarnate lore and plans for future character development, from other AMAs it seems the idea was that after defeating Battalion our characters would become an Ascended in a way, take in those stolen Wells of other species to become one themselves. I was always curious, how would that have been balanced in story? Would the character be bound to watch over their chosen species as a Well, offering most of that Ascended power back to the people of their chosen planet while retaining only a fraction for themselves for gameplay balance? Visiting and influencing a world your character would be the guardian of would've been all kinds of cool. How far was the cosmic story set up to go? Bonus question for everyone: Would it be possible to get the most recent up-to-date version of the CoH lore bible? It would be amazing to have a look into all the lore ever as it was at the time of the game's sunset!