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    Post your best costume designs here!

    in Art & Multimedia

    Posted · Edited by RikOz

    I had this name pop into my head at work a couple weeks ago, and I finally got around to making the character:

     

    Bad Madison (Psionic Melee/Psionic Armor scrapper. villain)

     

    She's a psychologist who's had enough of your !@#$% :D

     

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    I usually reduce the chest size on my female characters, but I made this girl "short and stacked".

     

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    Dev Diary - Blackwing Industries: On Wings of Hexagons & Chrome

    in Developer's Corner

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    I just fought these guys in a mission for the first time, and enjoyed some of the unexpected behaviors. In particular, while fighting on a map I'm quite familiar with (in which that familiarity means that I have habitual patterns in how I proceed), I found myself drawing unexpected aggro from mobs in spawn locations that, with other enemy groups, would not have aggro'd on me.

     

    Thoroughly enjoyed the visuals as well, particularly the brief flash of hexagonal aura when I first hit certain enemies.

     

    Overall, a nice change of pace.

    Post your best costume designs here!

    in Art & Multimedia

    Posted · Edited by RikOz

    Tonya Toronto is my 49th level 50! (Ice Blast/Ice Armor sentinel)

     

    This completes leveling my little SG, "The Extracurriculars" to 50. Well, nine of them, anyway. The 10th is Dahlia Danger, who was their teacher at the Galaxy City International School for Superpowered Girls. Dahlia was, in reality, an undercover Arachnos agent whose task it was to subvert the students at the school. Alas, the Shivan meteor incident destroyed the school and completely disrupted Dahlia's mission. She escaped back to the Rogue Isles, where she remains stuck at level 25 because she's a Dual Pistols corruptor and I've discovered I really dislike Dual Pistols. So canon-wise, Dahlia was imprisoned for her failure and hasn't leveled any further. Her students think she died in the meteor disaster, and decided to form their own super group.

     

    Anyway, as with my previous Extracurricular to reach 50, I designed Tonya's level 50 costume quite some time ago, and now that she's there, I don't like it any more. So, as hitting 50 occurred a couple days after the opening of the new Kallisti Wharf (and she did the last half of her trip from 49 to 50 there), I decided to avail myself of the new Blackwing costume pieces. I kept the original Metal top and bottom, but changed the pattern and replaced everything else. I like it.

     

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    EDIT: Tonya is the only member of the group for whom I have not written a bio. She is meant to be Canadian First Nations (i.e. indigenous Canadian), but I had no luck in trying to find a culturally-appropriate surname for her.

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    Hmong music! (for Tsoo fans)

    in Art & Multimedia

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    6 hours ago, Healix said:

    I especially liked the first one!

    That was the very first one I found. I thought the melody was really catchy.

     

    I wasn't certain that the music/language was Hmong at first; I was checking the comments to see what language most of them were in, and found, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodian, Russian (or a Russian-adjacent language that also uses the Cyrillic alphabet), Spanish, and English, as well as what turned out to be Hmong. I noticed that most of the video titles included the word "hmoob", so I just typed that into Wikipedia and it redirected me to the Hmong article.

    The magical ward around Moth Cemetery (erm, spoiler alert?)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    7 hours ago, tidge said:

    Are the characters from different HC game eras such that you may have different world visualization options set between the characters?

     

    Not sure I understand you on "eras", but I don't have any graphics settings on an individual character basis.

     

     

    6 hours ago, Frozen Burn said:

     

    Did the characters who see it complete the Dilemma Diabolique iTrial while the others did not?  Mot really isn't contained until after the trial.  

     

    Nope, haven't done that on any of them.

    The magical ward around Moth Cemetery (erm, spoiler alert?)

    in General Discussion

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    I don't believe any of my characters have that, though I'd have to double check. I don't recall ever seeing that one.

     

    To clarify about the characters that aren't seeing it, I didn't mean that they could see it, and then they couldn't. So it didn't "go away", it was just never there. Basically, I have now 15 alts that have completed the storyline, and I simply didn't happen to notice the ward until I had several completions. I first noticed it on 2-3 characters, and thought, "Well that's cool". But then when I later logged in other characters that had completed the storyline, it was, "wait, why isn't this guy seeing it?" And that's when I realized that some were seeing it, and others weren't, with no apparent rhyme or reason.

    The magical ward around Moth Cemetery (erm, spoiler alert?)

    in General Discussion

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    I noticed a while back that my characters who have completed the Dark Astoria storyline can see the magical ward erected to contain Mot.

     

    And then, some time later, I noticed that some of them cannot see it.

     

    As a result, I'm curious as to whether this is just an odd glitch, or if each character needs to have earned a particular badge in order for the ward to become visible.

    Homecoming Screenshots Thread

    in Art & Multimedia

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    On 4/20/2025 at 10:31 AM, Healix said:

    it's named "Invisible War Walls"

    And I'll note that it only works on the blue walls. It doesn't affect the red ones in DA.

     

    Of course, removing the blue forcefields reveals mostly a lot of "dummy" skyscrapers that are "good enough" to show there's something on the other side of the walls. But there are a number of places where there is actually something to see.

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    Homecoming Screenshots Thread

    in Art & Multimedia

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    I use a mod that turns off the war wall visual effect, and it sometimes allows me to see interesting things just outside of the zones.

     

    This shot was taken looking over the north war wall in The Hollows. According to the "Bicentennial" plaque just below, this is showing the damage in the part of the city where the "Outbreak" occurred.

     

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    Favorite in-game quotes

    in General Discussion

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    A Rikti Negotiator I rescued from Nemesis in one of the RWZ arcs:

     

    "Profound realization: Difficult occupation chosen: Massive compensation request: In near future."

     

    Which I realized was his way of saying, "I'm not getting paid enough for this !@#$."

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    Post your best costume designs here!

    in Art & Multimedia

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    On 3/12/2025 at 2:49 PM, Oubliette_Red said:

    The HC forums has a limit cap on posts of just under 100MB

     

    Heh. I ran into that a couple of years ago. My screenshot software writes to PNG format with no apparent way to change that, and I was just cropping and uploading the PNGs. I ended up having to go through my entire upload history, download everything, convert everything to JPEG, and then reupload. Pain in the ass, but it sure recovered a lot of space.

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