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This is an extraordinarily OLD Screenshot. I think circa 2004-2005. And it shows that Nemesis (and the staff) used to be a combo of Brass and CHROME colors! Or maybe gold and silver? In any case - this is what the initial look for him was when the game first launched.
I don't know about any of you - but when I see this I realize I kinda miss this original look.-
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"Uh... Guys? GUYS? *sigh*-
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On 6/12/2021 at 4:15 PM, Player2 said:
Created a few alternates for Retro-Girl based on some vintage art...
You know what? This particular one makes me think - "This is what Samus from Metroid would've been like if she'd been designed in the 50s!"-
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You know how it goes. You've been playing level 50+ for a while. And you decide to level up another character who's in the late 30s level range, and you look at your costume slots and think - "Oh that's right. Need to get the extra slot from the Founders Falls Icon. So you fly over the "Gish" neighborhood to get there direct.
And get shot out of the sky from 5 different directions by those BLOODY CREY SNIPERS!
Rez in the hospital, head back and start going to town on those snipers cause DAMN you're pissed off at those wanktrumpeting knobgobblers!
And perhaps not for the first time you wish there was a BADGE for taking out snipers. Crey - Nemesis. Doesn't matter. SOMEBODY is going to pay. And you'd like a reward for it!
Well have I got the badge set for you!
10 Snipers - Polite
25 Snipers - Efficient
50 Snipers - Has a Plan
100 Snipers - Kills Everyone (He/She) Meets
200 Snipers - Professional with Standards
Some ideas for badge descriptions, with in progress and completed text.
Polite
This badge is for politely introducing ten snipers to the ground.
You took down Ten rooftop and balcony snipers. It was the polite thing to do.
Efficient
Efficiently exterminate Twenty-Five snipers to obtain this badge.
You've proven yourself more efficient than twenty-five snipers.
Has a Plan
Plan the defeat of Fifty snipers to get this badge.
... and it apparently involves throwing Fifty snipers out of their nests.
Kills Everyone (He/She) Meets
Put one-hundred snipers into graves to earn this badge.
Or at least every sniper, at any rate. Considering you've piled up one hundred defeated snipers, perhaps you're holding just a bit of a grudge?
Professional With Standards
Be a professional counter-sniper by taking down two-hundred snipers, and you'll earn this badge to prove it.
Counter-sniping is no longer just a hobby for you at this point. Two hundred snipers failed to meet your standards.
Badge Titles above obviously inspired by - well. You know. :D
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Got another angle on the above:
And... Uh oh... trouble brewing... :D
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4 hours ago, Vulpoid said:
My best effort in 2005...
This is one of those perfect moments to show how much the character creator and the costume options have expanded.
In 2005 - that WAS the best that anyone could do as an homage to Dr. Fate. And you did quite well back then!
But Mystic Fortune above shows what can be done NOW.
City of Heroes costume/character creator literally changed the way people saw MMO potential back at release and continued to raise the bar until Sunset. The only one that matches it for options and creativity is Champions Online. But you have to BUY with real money SO many unlocks on that game to GET to all the options - and play a substandard game anyway - why would you do that when you can get THIS for FREE? AND the best Superhero game of all time?MICROPHONE RELEASED TO GRAVITY'S SWEET EMBRACE.
BOOM!!
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I just wanted to say thank you - I've been using your Beam Rifle sound pack for my main:
(This guy - Dynamo Joe RX-90)
That heavy impact energy sound has become ESSENTIAL to the fun of playing my big Gundam style mecha! So much so that on a recent re-install of the game on a new computer - I booted up the game, brought Dynamo Joe up - took a shot at an enemy, then heard the old sound effect and shut down the game again to come back here and set up the Beam Rifle sound pack again before continuing play!
It's THAT good! I don't think even authentic Gundam Beam Rifle sounds would work so well - because the game power set does more than just shoot. There are strafes and snipes and "full auto" that your sound pack covers so well!So again - thanks a bunch!
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Well - a texture replacement via client side modification might be possible. You don't have to mod the pigg files at all.
However finding good clean versions of all those old load screens themselves might be a bit of an issue. Also - they were made back when 800x600 screens were the norm. That's one of the reasons they were replaced back on live.
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Well this hits a bit differently now, doesn't it? 😔 (Note for future reference - Daft Punk just broke up.)
Well - we'll always have the songs they did create. The Beatles themselves had less than 10 years as a group and look at that legacy!
I may make another version of this mix soon that's not as directly tied to the Tron movie.In any case - in addition to the link above - this mod is now a part of The City of Heroes Modder utility as outlined here in this post:
So you can just download that tool and the Daft Punk mix is listed and useable from there as well!-
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That did it! Thanks! Aaand now I'm a bit embarrassed... turns out I already HAD uploaded my Daft Punk mix and forgot I'd done it! Whoops! ^_^;;
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This is what I'm seeing.
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Been trying to install 7 zip and it's not working.
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I disagree. I enjoy mods myself. Both costume and sound mods. (The Beam Rifle sound mod has become a NECESSITY for me.) I think this forum is poorly laid out to make such things available. It is not in any way obvious where to look. You have to do some hunting. I truly believe that if we had a dedicated "Client Side Modifications" sub-forum that a LOT more people would download and mod.
In fact I came here today because I'm going to post a Daft Punk music replacement mix for Pocket D.
EDIT: OK - it would help things IMMENSELY if you would use something to compress your program OTHER than 7 Zip. Because apparently I can't use that on my computer. -
1 hour ago, Crimson621 said:
Okay as a relatively new (returned) player, I finally have to ask a dumb question.
Some of the graphics in this thread look closer to Champions Online than City of Heroes. At first, I thought people were posting costumes from both games. Is there a setting or something in CoH that makes it look more like CO, or am I just imagining visual differences?
Ok here's the deal - one of the things that SCORE apparently did in the 6 years in the wilderness was experiment with the graphics. (And untangling the game code as best they could. And removing all the pay-to-play elements etc.)
One of the more interesting things they've done is add a cel shader option!
Where is it? Well I'll show you. Below - see under "Experimental Graphics Settings" where it says "Cel Shader"?
Click on "Disabled" in order to Enable this area.So - let's check out the differences. Let me bring my namesake character out, which is a big anime styled robot. The following is without the cel shader.
And now - with the default settings for the Cel shader on:
Here's the open environment with the default cel shading elements going.
Now that's pretty extreme. But you can tone that WAY back. The following still has the cel shading and the outlines, but the over-saturated colors are removed.And here it is with everything BUT the actual cel shader back down to normal.
So as you can see, you can tailor this new set of options to your own personal taste.
Have fun!-
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On 12/6/2020 at 4:53 AM, Leetdeth said:
This idea struck me the other night. Here's my new Claws/EA scrapper Black Liger Crash
That's freakin' awesome!
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6 hours ago, Flashtoo said:
Wynton and Igor.
Or maybe it's pronounced Eye-Gore? :D
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9 hours ago, biostem said:
Proving the old adage "Any landing you can walk away from..." wrong, (plus the presence of an unusual energy field and weird minerals didn't help), I present to you "The Crashtronaut":
Don't know why - but this reminds me of this bit from The Venture Brothers. :D
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2 hours ago, Dreamboat said:
If I made the character I'd go Kin Melee to ape Cosmos' Tai Chi-esque style and I'd throw in an alt costume with red Color Timer and Beastly Rage aura on the chest for the flashing.
That's exactly the powerset I would go with for Ultraman! And the alt-costume slot idea is killer!For Jet Jaguar I thought Martial arts would be cool. But ultimately I went with Street Justice for the screen caps. And I think if I made him that's what I would go with. That massive T9 Uppercut is just the thing to send Megalon flying! :D
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The other recent request was related to Ultraman, at least by genre. See - there's this one Godzilla movie from the early 70s which obviously wanted an Ultraman of its own. There have even been rumours over the years that if the film had done better, they might've spun this character off into his own TV or movie series.
The movie was Godzilla vs Megalon - and the character request was an interpretation of this guy:
JET JAGUAR
I loved this guy! This was my childhood. Saturday afternoons one of the local independent stations in the area would play at least one or two Godzilla films. And so I saw Megalon multiple times before I was 8 yrs old.Sadly he just doesn't hold up on his own merits nearly as well as Ultraman. But there's always been POTENTIAL there! And he's still a fan favorite - appearing in multiple Godzilla videogames and the like.
But how to interpret him in COH? The rubber suit-mation look just doesn't look like a proper robot, really. And the Michilin Man inner tube legs and arms - no no no. That's GOT to GO.
Ultimately I got a lot of inspiration from the following image - a truly mecha version of Jet Jaguar that still encompasses the high points of the character and leaves no doubt of who it is, even while being so different.
So - here's my first attempt at a Jet Jaguar:
I might yet tweak this a bit, but for a first go, I think it's not too bad!
So what do you all think? Does that work?
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Homecoming Screenshots Thread
in Art & Multimedia
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It's really really difficult these days to find the original Cryptic Studios Logo. At least in a fairly reasonable size. This is the best I could do. But I draw your attention to the logo - and then to THIS PARTICULAR ANGLE on the Hell Forge in Sharkhead Isle.
Coincidence? I think NOT! :D