Marine X

You might also see what you can do at a trainer, there is a set your badge title there, Sadly I always set my title from the badge menu, so I have no idea what is there, but worth a look.

I think there is a setting in the Menu under options, seems it might have been same place where you can customize your text color. Can't log in from work or I would check on it for you, but I think it's somewhere in that menu.

Started a Villain last week, Xeniram, ( Marine X backwards )Bio Armor/Titan Weopon Tank on Reunion. Instead of using Kalinda or Burke I did a " Find Contact " and started from an entirely new place for me, no snake hunts etc. Has actually been pretty cool so far, and already to 12, like this Defensive set and Titan going well. Have yet to see more than a handful of players and none were social. Trying to play him as not so Villainish but more just trying to survive in a very Lawless hostile place, missions are giving me Morality choices so I have been taking the high road when possible.

Overguard Armor with the Mecha Armor head in Blue and White would be a good starting point then tweak from there.

Ok.....from looking at the Paragon Wiki the only way to start Dilemma Diabolique is from the LFG Tab, so I have to form the group first, they join the Queue? Is the LFG Incarnate Trial Tab been just abandoned or does it just not work? What about the regular LFG? Played from Issue 1 thru Sunset and always did my own for Task Forces and Trials but the Instructions from Dream Doctors mission were pretty specific, Is that just not how it's done here. I live in Ohio and play on Reunion ( Halcyon Originally ) and tend to play before work, 4:00am to 6:00am weekdays, and here and there on weekends. Anyone around to join up sometime, not having much luck in game finding teammates.

I must need a shower or have bad breath because I just can't seem to ever find a way to do the Incarnate Trials. Have sat in the Queue for hours and nothing. Is there a better way to do this? Getting a little discouraged, Had a 3 day weekend with 1 goal, do the Dilemma Diabolique Trial, and now the weekend is almost over and NADA. I figured if I was available more, even on Reunion, I could get this done.

I think it used to last longer. I played this Arc on the Original Marine X, which he would have been in the level range of this in late 2004 at the latest, and I remember it was really a grind to do. Paragon Wiki has it that Dr Anne-Marie Engles introduces you to Jim Tembler in Faultline which would have taken place after the Faultline Redo in Issue 8. I think Mansome is correct, they Nerfed it at some point because It was Quite a Pain In the AXS, I think there were a couple large street hunts you had to do while Infected and it was the Only time I ever died a bunch. On the subject of things that got changed....I remember doing missions with my brother, Delphon, and wondering why it was always such a tough fight when we did his missions, nothing but Purples and Reds everywhere. Then one day someone explained to me that if you change " How people in the City view you" at the Hero Corps Field Analyst to, oh say, " INVINCIBLE ", it MAXES the difficulty of your Missions. No SXXT! um....Del...................we need to have a talk.............. The new system is a lot more self explanatory, to say the least.

Crap, I was looking forward to the suffering, only time I ever recall a debuff lasting even when out of the Missions. I could barely survive street hunting till I cleared that Arc. Oh well, Guess it's time to roll that Petless Mastermind.

Does anyone recall this mission Arc and who the contact is to get it. I remember going through this on Live and actively avoiding running the arc ever again, but now in my older, more Sadist days wouldn't mind doing it again. It wasn't just the "swarm of flies" buzzing around me constantly but the almost complete lack of endurance and health recovery that drove me nuts, like going to work with the flu. Mission after Mission gimping along, sounds like fun, lol.

I think we have already seen the beginnings of this. It is almost a daily thing where I see questions being posted by people who had never played on Live and are enjoying COH for the first time. Ran into 2 people in Game that I met when on Paragon Chat ( thank you Codewalker ) that had never played the game, but loved using PC for role play and were now in Awe of the game. I really think that word of mouth and the gaming community are already creating a bit of passive advertising otherwise it would only be Veterans here for the most part. Most of the comments from these new players is how much they are loving the game and community. We saw a huge surge in players at the beginning, then it slowed a bit, now it is building back up, albeit much more slowly. I think time will tell, but I foresee it getting back closer to peak population over time. Plus I think a lot of that initial surge was a lot of Multi-boxing and Power leveling by those that didn't realize that a lot of the best parts of the game are not at the end.

There is this thing you can pull up called Game time but it is not in a convention time keeping format. I'll check it against regular time and post it later.

Not a Skilled AE Mission Crafter, but was wondering if Anyone had ever created a Mission Arc to Cover the 7Year Gap in COH Lore. It could be something say where The Freedom Phallanx were in Cimerora or Ouroborus for a Meeting when Rularu broke free of the Shadow Shard and consumed the Universe. This left them and whatever Heroes or Villains were there to put things right, somehow. It could be done as a Contest with the winner getting his or her Mission assigned to a NPC to dispense outside AE ( if that is Possible ). If we are here for the long haul it would be great to be able to add content through the AE system and the truly outstanding ones that fit with existing Lore could become permanent content. Just a thought, I know I had on Live Played through some Outstanding Player Created content, and believe some of it could clearly be integrated into the Game. Any thoughts?

Just wondering what Time Zone the Forums are in, since this is all very Multi-National. When something is initially posted it starts with " minutes ago ", then " hours ago ", then after so long goes to " day and time ". Also curious about in game time, it seems to be it's own form of time keeping, someone once explained it to me on Live but can't recall the discussion. In Closing, have went Solo a lot since the bulk of my playtime seems to be at weird times to find a group. I play most at from about 4:00am (GMT4) to 6:00am (GMT4). The shift will soon be here when that becomes GMT5 till spring and would like to find a few regular players on Reunion that are on at that time to do 50+ content. My Global is @Marine X.

I updated and then got on for a while with no issues, then It dawned on me that I did not specify which version to run, so I don't know if it was 32bit or 64bit. Will log in later tonight and see how the 64bit Version of City of Heroes goes. Thanks for your time and effort on this. It was a necessary change for the newer Mac Users, but also a Huge step toward future-proofing the Game. It was going to have to happen at some point and can't wait to see the Processing Benefits in action.

Oh Really, is there a list somewhere I missed showing future XXX of the week? Don't want to do anything stupid, lol.

On a related Note, I was wondering if anything is planned to make Unattainable Badges Attainable. These would be all the Veteran Badges, VIP Badges, Purchase Badges, Badges for events from early in the games History, Anniversary Badges. I was looking at Paragon Wiki and there are a bunch of badges that will never be available on Homecoming unless how they are awarded is reworked. Some could easily be placed in Kallisti Wharf as exploration badges, which would help bring some traffic there in the form of badge hunters, or as Accomplishment Badges for things only Possible on Homecoming, such as some applied to Base Building. As far as Global Badges, I don't know how I feel about that, certainly would make sense to award Anniversary Badges to all Toons on an Account since that is how it was done on Live, but the Accolade, Accomplishment and Achievement Badges, I don't think that would be good because those are tied to personal stats, but maybe Exploration badges because it takes a lot of time to get them all and gets boring if you feel you need to do it over and over.

Strangely I hardly ever even notice the Crash. Marine is Invulnerable / Super Strength and the amount of Set bonuses and Resists that he has makes it difficult to detect. Invul is almost all Resists with a Little Defense thrown in. A lot of the talk here makes it sound like the "Unstoppable" Crash, ( I hide that particular power where it never gets clicked by mistake, right beside Walk ( also known as the Suicide Button) ), I just have not felt it to be that Impactful. Shoring up the Psionic Hole in Invulnerability has been a much bigger concern. I still run PermaRage and IF I look at Power Attributes I can see the Crash but like I said, for me, it hasn't effected Gameplay. I understand that it may be a LOT worse with other Tanker/Brute sets that are heavy on Defense.

Have had this happen several times lately, where the "Mission Complete" appears, but I had not completed all the Objectives. In the Most recent case it was the 2nd Mission for Mu'Vorkan, I still had 2 hostages to rescue and when I Defeated the last Leader, the Mission Completed. I searched areas of the Map I had not yet explored and found the 2 hostages, each being guarded by a Mob. On a side note: In the 1st Mission where you are to rescue Scirrocco and Ice Mistrel, I have come to believe that both of them are possessed by the Spirit of Leroy Jenkins. Scirrocco would run out of the room past an entire crowd of villians and aggro enemies in multiple mobs until he had an unmanageable Mob and they killed him, then I had to clean up the mess. Ice Mistrel would leave the Mob we were fighting and Snipe at targets in another Room. C'mon Leroy gimme a break, I thought Fussionette was Crazy, lol. I usually enjoy Pet Missions since because of when and where I play there are not a lot of team options, but that was irritating.

A bit Cluttered but requires less mouse traffic and keeps me from accidently clicking say, walk...

I played on Virtue from about a month after launch ( had to wait for broadband install ) and had a Paid Account till shutdown and never considered a penny of it wasted. I had a Good Job, had been married about 5 Years, and had just had to retire from Playing Music after 25 Years due to shoulder issues from a car accident I was in way back in 1990. ( It is not good to play Drums in a Rock band for 12 years with no Rotator Cuff ). I needed something to do, and City of Heroes became my "Golf". I played a lot. I was a member and contributor to Game Amp and a member of the Game Amp Super Group on Triumph. I had 8 Level 50s, 2 Fully Incarnate, and a ton of Alts everywhere in the leveling tree. Then the news came in August of 2012.......didn't even know what to say. I took all the prestige that our Supergroup had and remodeled the base, and it was big, into a Giant Maze, except the TP and Crafting rooms. and we invited people to visit and try it out. I was on the ledge of the AE Building in Atlas Park when the Server Shut down, watching the crowds under Atlas and on the City Hall steps. It was a profound feeling of loss. You have given me back my "Golf". I am now 56, have my original Main back to Incarnate and appreciate everything you have and may do to keep this going. This is really a lot more than a game. It is my Home away from Home, and I don't want to lose it again if there is a way to avoid it. Cheers to Homecoming.

One other aspect of this that I haven't heard mentioned much. The MARVEL Cinematic Universe and the BILLIONS they have made for Marvel/Disney. If you don't think NCSoft has thought, " Marvel's really Raking it in, Hey we used to have a Superhero MMORG that we didn't understand the appeal of that we shut down. Super Heroes are now the hottest thing in Media and hey, what did we do with that Old thing, oh.....there it is....... over there.......and those people are fiddling with it. Wow, are there really that many people still interested in that old thing, We still don't get it.....maybe if we watch them for a while we'll learn something.........." Never Know, but maybe their trying to figure out how to jump on the coattails of all that. If CoX had come out 5 Years ago instead of 15 Years ago can you imagine how different this all might have turned out.

I would like to send out a Heartfelt Apology to any Family I may have Offended, and Once I finish picking Asphalt Chunks out of my teeth I will do so in Person, with an Actual 8 Member Team along for the event, lol.

Was doing some Missions Solo +4/+8 from Unai Kemen and got the " Get Readings from the Last Dimension " mission. Came thru the Portal and saw it was Family as the Villain Group Packing Energy Guns and thought, " oh this will be a chance to get that Family Bosses Badge.......DEAD ". The Mob about 8 shot me. I have Resist Damage Capped and Defense about the same, Multiple PSI resists, and Resist Elements/Resist Energies on a Invulnerable/SS Tank level 50 ( 1 level shift ) at Vet 10 and 5 Incarnate Slots filled to Tier 2 to 3. What in the heck do those Energy Guns they had fire? Nuclear Waste? Contaminated Poison Ivy? Nictus Droppings? Looked at the combat log and nothing looked that powerful. Went to Hospital, came back, Same thing....DEAD. Finally lowered the mission to +2/8 and reset, Dead again. I must have a gaping Hole in my build but have never had this happen and the build I used for Marine is almost spot on to what I used before shutdown, only with better sets and Incarnates. I want one of those Guns, or was it something else in the Crowd I didn't spot, never really had trouble with Family before. Pretty Much breezed thru the Knives of Artemis and Freakshow missions before this one so was a bit stunned.

Pretty Much it in a nutshell. Once you have Contaminated aTarget, any Single Target attack can Spread the Contamination to other Targets. AoE Powers do not seem to be able to trigger the effect. From Titan Network Paragon Wiki: Contaminated Strike You charge your fist with harmful radioactive particles and quickly strike your foe dealing Light Energy and Smashing damage as well as reducing their defense. Affected enemies have a small chance to be affected by the Contaminated effect. Hitting Contaminated foes with single target Radiation Melee powers cause a small burst of damage to foes near the target. Bubba Burns is a Radiation Melee / Fiery Aura Brute ( 43 ) and it's the most fun I've had with a Brute. With Irradiated Ground, Blazing Aura and Burn it is amazing, for a guy who usually plays Tanks, how fast you can go through a Mob.

It's a little different on Homecoming. When I Hit 50 I began earning toward unlocking my Alpha Immediately from regular content and I've never done his missions. Do a mission from one of your contacts, then click Powers, Incarnate Abilities, and check it, you should be showing progress toward unlocking the Alpha. When it is complete it will then begin earning toward your other slots in order. You will also begin collecting Incarnate Shards and Threads to make your powers.