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Only from vendors to declutter them. They're still very much around.

Going out on a limb, I would hazard a guess that the new portal isn't aware of who its owner is. I think you're summoning in a separate entity rather than a pet as before (it no longer appears in the pet menu on beta). Otherwise, I think that's not a bad idea. As you say though, might be complex.

I think it's because every placed Ouroboros portal will always last 90 seconds rather than disappear when the owner enters it. Say a team of 8 players all leave a mission and they each place their own Ouro portals, you'd end up with a whole bunch of them hanging around. It's maybe best that they don't linger for as long as previously.

I never knew about /customwindow. That's so good! For a visual on how that looks, to reduce power tray clutter: Can these menus be exported and shared across characters?

I'd keep it for now until the new launcher is out of beta, just in case. Deleting tequila won't remove the CoH install, I think. I'm not sure what the best way to uninstall the tequila CoH installation would be.

Just finished my casual run of it. It went really smoothly. I'll do another this week and try to explore and read more thoroughly.

Sad news, but thank you for it being something you looked at and for sharing. ❤️

Good AoE is bound to do better than good ST in those tests. Chewing through large groups all at once just isn't EM's schtick. The mid/low times are on brand.

I'm unsure what you mean by those. Could you explain for my dumb lizard brain? It might be possible, whatever it is! The parameter in /powexeclocation <parameter> is really versatile.

I'm unclear what you're advocating, Blackbird. Do you think the portal should return to being more inconvenient to get? But you're also saying it should be on the P2W vendor. P2W was a quick fix so that features that were locked behind transactions on live can still be obtained. Its stock doesn't need to be expanded any more (and I personally think it should be phased out and have its contents more organically placed in the game, but that's another discussion). I don't think chat spam is much to worry about. It's an MMO and it's great when people help each other out. An Ouro portal dropped next to ms lib will last 90 seconds (and ALWAYS 90 seconds, whereas currently it vanishes when the caster zones), which means the spam would usually only reoccur that often at most. If it somehow becomes a problem, maybe the portal could sustain for longer, but I really don't see that becoming an issue.

You can macro exactly that with /powexeclocation target combat teleport. Since the recharge is so fast, you could take the power off your tray and exclusively use the macro for this.

Part way through but need to go to bed. Overall, this is easily one of the best arcs in the game. I've had a clean run of it so far (but I spotted some things I want to try to see if I can break it). Doc Buzzsaw's dialogue is absolutely ace and she now stands higher than ever as the best character in the game. Couple of teeny tiny typos: Pierce behaved a bit strangely here. She was aligned correctly when she spawned in but rotated twice. As a final note for now.

I think the idea is it still has to be earned, but it now doesn't matter when it's earned. So it's not that level 1s should be able to use the portal, it's that they can.

I think you left out the Mercy Island placement from the patch notes: Dunno if I love the placement - it doesn't feel like a natural corner to me. Would a small platform tucked into the dead end up ahead with it on be possible at this point?

Evil Epaulets on the right shoulder shows both. The left shoulder shows just the one correctly.

The late-life development of quality over quantity was starting to show as the legacy servers came to an end. But the game is still dragging around a lot of content with the opposite mindset. It's pretty clear that HC are following suit. The new blueside arc on beta is full of surprises (yet to try the redside one, but it's the one thing that has me most excited). I'd love to see every arc given its own flair. It's just a huge undertaking.

They're gone from world vendors but can still be purchased in SG bases. I don't remember the last time I slotted a TO, though. Certainly wasn't in the last decade.

I'm not sure what you mean. Nothing has been removed, the update only makes lower level SOs more accessible. To my knowledge, nothing has changed in terms of pricing. If they're unaffordable, TOs and DOs are still available for the short term, just as before.

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Just tried this. It works.

I don't suppose you could put some paragraphs in that post at all? It's very hard to read as one big text but your thoughts and feedback sound interesting.

No. I've tried a lot. The proc rate should be 11% (according to Bopper, who I trust with numbers), but it never fired off at all as far as I could tell.

Overriding both of those worked for me.

In the new launcher structure? Have you checked in the i24 folder? I don't know the names of the energy melee sounds specifically (because nobody knew how to name things back in 2004) but I think they'll be in there.

Have you given it a go, ThunderCAP? You can easily ignore the TF>ET combo and still be very effective - more than on live from what I gather. The mechanic doesn't have to affect you if you don't want it to, and you'll still be buffed.