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I've been running my WS exclusively through redside, bar the odd blue TF, and forgot how much I loved the writing/ the arcs/ how it feels impactful. So many blue arcs culminate in "Go across the city and beat up this other <BOSS RANKED ENEMY WHICH ADDS NO MORE CHALLENGE THAN THE LAST THREE>" and then you'll get a badge. Redside tends to go out with a bang... "go to a door in this city and beat up <ATLEAST EB RANKED NAMED BOSS>". Feels quite satisfying. I've just done Ambassador Kuhr'Rekt's arc and had completely forgotten that Posi turned up in the Valk mission. Just wish there was a few more achievement badges for some of the missions.

I feel the same except it is "the time difference between being a UK player on the US (most populated) server means it starts getting busy when I am getting tired"

I rejoined in 2019, before the Corona madness and I think I was starting to drift off before it hit. If I’m very honest, I don’t know if I would still be if it hadn’t been for lockdowns? I knew I’d need something to do, something to empty my mind like it did when I was a teenager. And it couldn’t just be “bright lights, capes, bangs” cos my brain is older. I tried out every alt I could under the sun, I really got into builds, making friends on the server, I tried out content I’d missed, I made a badge toon… and I fell back in love with it. I got why there were 30 year olds playing when I was a teenager. I take more breaks now from it than I did before. I’ve still only got five 50s. What keeps me around is still pushing myself to enjoy stuff I hated before, there’s still content I’ve not played, team set ups that are new, taking people through content they’ve never tried, and because I pop into the forums to DM people I’ve met in the game. the game went dead when I was at uni so it was an odd sadness. I missed the shared ‘grief’ of shutdown. Tbh it is probably a good thing. I am a more rounded person for not being addicted to the game when it closed. It helped me out when I was low as a teenager and it helped me during a very low period when covid happened.

I had one of these on live - haven't rebuilt on HC cos I don't wanna sour my memory of it ❤️ happy burning!

I think this might be one of the top 10 costumes (and concepts) I've seen on here, bravo

The go go go thing is definitely there and people saying it isn’t are lying to themselves. @MoonSheep and I have been doing slow missions, higher diff, no TFs, on toons that require teamplay much more (a sonic def and a WS) and I can really tell the difference. More chat, less rush, and my gFriend list is growing. I think gogogo comes from repetition and knowing the easier content back to front. I’m sure you’ve tried all this before, but running stuff off the beaten track really helps I find. For example, I’ve turned off XP atm on my WS and am just doing loads of redside content and the play style over there is so different. Atm, I’ve been doing the Wailers arcs in St Martial. Three of the eight in the team had never fought them before, didn’t expect all the -res and the Zerg mentality caused their deaths. After that they slowed down and had fun. Mayhem missions also, they’re a completely different beast to Blue. If you fight the way to the bank and don’t stick together than the ambushes are hell. I lead these teams with the rule of “we’re sticking together” and luckily the difficulty of Longbow mobs makes that happen. To echo his sentiment, if you’re ever on Excel then drop me a line. Happy to go at whatever pace. Also nice to team with people I see from the forums, quite often they play and chat very differently to how they present themselves here. Moon being a great example 😉

I love those two in particular. That red is great. And I’m gonna alter the bottom one to make a new WS costume. Love em.

Thanks for your testing! 5/6s of us were in Nerva, one in D, and it didn’t work. However the one in D then told me he’d joined as a hero and then swapped when set. Suspect it was just a funny one and the hero switching after the arc was set then didn’t register.

this has been a real struggle on my PB (my main toon) and now my WS. I think I’ve got the juggle right. They really shine as exemp toons that Swiss-army knife, more than before. However, it has been part of the reason I’ve been less keen on hitting 50 with my WS. Partly because I’ve been doing redside arcs and want to do the ones I’ve not done in ages. But also because I have every power I want? My last few are gonna be mules, so i kind of have no excitement to get the others. It’s exaggerated the “kheldians are finished by about the mid 30s” feeling.

Was trying to run this through ouro on a team with my Rogue https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Bobby_Curtin It kept saying the mixed alignment thing and wouldn’t set. All of us were vigil/rogue. For clarification: for an arc that you can only run when a rogue (or vigil) do you ALL have to be that SPECIFIC alignment?

Welcome home! Which server did you choose? I'm sure some of us would be happy to help you re-learn the ropes!

Mostly I'm a Vigilante, but have been playing my WS as a redside toon and I've been enjoying it a lot. I wish when they'd implemented the system they'd added the morality options to other things or outcomes depending on your alignment... For example, vigilantes get a temp power to summon PPD cops after Posi 2 for handing him over to the police, and rogues get a revive temp power because we've stolen his tech for ourselves.

Just been doing some Freak missions redside and I have changed my opinion of them: freaks are rubbish. Stunners can get in the DUMPSTER (where they will be burnt by one fire tank and a fire blaster). Their end drain is maaaaaaad.

How does mini-mode interact with the shapeshifting forms? I imagine it doesn't, but I'd find a bobble headed Dwarf form very pleasing

if you check out the AT section there are some great guides for builds to help get your head around any changes that might have changed.

welcome home! Which server etc? I’m sure we can find people keen to team with ya!

What made CoV special for me was the Mayhem Missions. Something completely new when it launched. The first time we charged through Atlas and Kings, smashing cars and post boxes, it felt amazing. I’d love an 8-15 SF that used that feature. Story-wise you’re taking advantage of ‘The Heroes’ being distracted by the events of the Posi TFs, to do a heist from Posi’s lab to steal gear. I’d also love a 30-34 SF in Nerva, based around the Longbow/Wyvern outpost, that acts at a P2 for Moonfire. The Council hire you to steal a Shadow Cyst so they can continue working in the Rogue Isles, turns out LB have been experimenting and it’s gone amok and there’s a Nictus/LB scientist group to beat. Re-costume the new mobs in the Valeria arc. Sunstorm or Moonfire is the boss at the end.

I do miss the excitement of the DXP weekends and the constant teams. But in the 2009/10 one I didn’t sleep and only ate bread and jam. I’m 31 now, I think I’d die.

this costume is really ace. Love the shoulder piece, is it meant to be AS’s helmet?

Aaaah, did you select it at like lvl 10? The +5 thing might have kicked in. Did you go PB or WS @Snarky?

Tap the Bright/Dark nova icon? (I can’t tell if I’m being punk’d) I have a bind that swaps trays to one that only had my squid powers. So it doesn’t fill up one tray.

Out of interest, what would constitute ‘active’ in terms of time spent testing per month in the Gold channel? Like one a month/week? I wonder if some people are less likely to consider signing up out of fear they wouldn’t have enough time. I tried to do beta testing this time round (after a faff getting the HC launcher working) and didn’t know what was enough/too little/too much time spent. I’d be interested but am also aware than I’m UK based (so time zones won’t match) and can go a couple of weeks without playing cos of work/life and would worry about being a dead weight.

Fine! We’ll make an Ill/time and an Ill/cold pairing.

Sorry to ask this @KingCeddd03... Are you a newer player? Or have you just not explored it so much? I've noticed a few times that some of your suggestions almost go against the stories already written in the game. If so, I'm sure we could point you in the right direction for those really lore-important arcs. Wouldn't want you to keep suggesting things and feeling miffed at the reaction.

Fair play to OP. It’s quite nice chatting about the lore.