chuckv3

It shows up with solid green skin!

you can install Ubuntu if you are willing to nuke the chrome O/S. I have run it on that using WINE. That's a bit drastic but I think it's possible.

For Eye of the Storm badge, use base computer as vigilante, security level 40, buy the tip "An Unstable Trigger" , choose Hero option, defeat Maelstrom as a Boss (solo), badge will be awarded. I just did it exactly this way. Happy Hunting!

it would be nice to have some kind of option somewhere on each character whether to miniaturize the head when in mini-me mode. TinkerBell looks pretty stupid with an enormous head, but she'd be just about perfect with a proportional one. Or maybe offer two costume options, one with large head and one with proportional head. If I had known it would be this goofy-looking I probably wouldn't have spent the 250 Aether on this.

Tahnks. You are Fabulous.

I've tried the tailor, and all the menu / options tabs -- cannot find where this is done. Thanks in advance!

Good to know. Thanks!

As for Malta, I found that re-running any mission from Indigo or Crimson works fine. I'm currently farming for sappers in Indigo's last mission from Ouro. I get about about 5 per run, which takes about 5 minutes per reset and run. I just quit back to the character select and log back in (soloing them). at x3 you find more sappers, but at x8 you get almost no sappers but lots of Hercules Class Titans. Adjust difficulty based on what you need more of. Regarding the Zeus Class Titans: Try not to kill those if there are 2 Hercules Class Titans in a group as they combine into a Zeus Class titan when they panic. THOSE are what the badge is for. I believe the boss level that spawn on the map do not count. The badge description says "combined".

This could be done so you can go back and do out-leveled contacts, or if you wish to do some level-specific content NOT available in Flashbacks (like bank protection missions)

For Toxic Tarantulas, fly around outside the center of Grandville and approach doors that look like this one

Where is this ledge??

OBDURATE - it's short, sweet, and cryptic. it will send folks heading for their dictionary

MY MISTAKE :) I thought this was a new badge

How about those of us who have BADGE HUNTER characters who want "Tipped Off", but already have ALL of the exploration badges in ALL of the zones?

some other suggestions here when going through this process: - Put an aspect of the flame in your base, and when you are defeated you can go to your base. clicking on the pillar allows you to return to the contact. clicking on the portal / entrance takes you back to the mission door. This also means you can use ye olde death taxi to get to your base. There are debt badges anyway, so why not? - Load up on inspirations for those "enhancements have no effect" runs. Put an enhancement dispenser in your base! Or if you do anything on any character where you never use inspirations, then put an inspiration collector in your base, and dump the high-end inspirations in there. Use the P2W vendor to refuse small inspirtations on those characters so you'll have medium or large when you go to empty the tray. Use them up when you are on these flashbacks. - They haven't disabled "Long Range Teleporter" for no-travel runs, so you can always go to Talos Island which puts you within (super-powered) spitting distance from a base portal and a tram. - You can use "Burden of the Past" as your level 50 mission, since in you probably already know these 4 missions if you've been grinding for incarnate components. I've run it hundreds of times and did it with no travel powers / enemies buffed in 20 minutes. I DID get the badges for level 46-50. - The Aura of Power is good for hero-side level 31-35 - The Ouroboros Initiation is good for level 36-40 (minimal travel involved) - I'm doing a level 45 flashbacks right now and my incarnate abilities are usable! I don't know what the cutoff is, but the REAL level for the badges is 41-45, so a level 45 might be easier than a 41 if the 45 lets you keep your incarnate abilities, right? - Be aware of the bad text in the badges. The real levels are 1-14, 15-20, 21-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-45, 46-50. Each mission from the Aspect Pillar tells you exactly the level you will be capped to for the flashback. - If you use sprint for a cheap stealth, temporarily put a run speed there instead, since you will be "jogging" through lots of the no-travel content. And maybe finally put a run speed IO into swift and a jump IO into hurdle if you haven't bothered yet. - If your AT or build sucks for any of these challenges, consider a secondary build for the low levels, and maybe even pick different pools for this case too. - If you ever dual box, you can have another toon (not on the team) run around and drop ouro portals and/or base portals for your handicapped toon doing traveling the hard way, or things like fortitude, speed boost, etc.

So "BADGER" has the ranges as 1-15, 16-20, 21-25, etc. and notes that the in-game text is incorrect. I think that explains why "I lost my daddy" shows up in level 20-24 in the pillar menus (it's level 20), and why it supposedly gives the 15-19 badge (because really it's the 16-20 badge and the in-game descriptions are wrong). Unless you can adjust for all that stay away from anything that's right on the border (20, 25, 30, etc).

[original mistaken correction removed!] Thanks for your dedication Blondeshell!

I'm supposed to play as Praetor Duncan when doing this, but I see a combination of my character and Praetor Duncan.

I couldn't get Lutris working -- it bombed with some kind of file not found error. But I did install WINE 5.0.x on Ubuntu 20.04 (64 bit), then downloaded the HC Launcher onto wine's drive_c, then right clicked on it and selected "open" (to run it with WINE). Everything works great. I'm pretty happy to not have to boot into windows for this (since on my desktop windows is way slower to be ready to actually run anything). BTW, I have a GTX 960 video card and I'm using the latest proprietary non-beta drivers. WINE did side-load MONO (for dot net functions) and GECKO (for GUI maybe?) the first time.

I had tequila working using WINETRICKS before... I tried to follow the Lutris instructions here, but Lutris fails on startup. When I start it from the command line I get this (with the middle junk removed for clarity). I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling Lutris. Same thing... Maybe something else needs to be updated?? There is nothing in the directory noted... but why not? Is it supposed to be installed, or maybe created on first run but doesn't have permissions? Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/games/lutris", line 54, in <module> from lutris.gui.application import Application # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/application.py", line 53, in <module> from .lutriswindow import LutrisWindow File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/lutriswindow.py", line 26, in <module> from lutris.gui.widgets.sidebar import LutrisSidebar File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/widgets/sidebar.py", line 6, in <module> from lutris import platforms, runners, services File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/platforms.py", line 19, in <module> _init_platforms() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/platforms.py", line 14, in _init_platforms runner = runners.import_runner(runner_name)() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/runners/wine.py", line 229, in __init__ "default": dxvk.DXVKManager().version, File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/wine/dxvk.py", line 56, in version return self.versions[0] File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/wine/dxvk.py", line 45, in versions self._versions = self.load_dxvk_versions() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/wine/dxvk.py", line 65, in load_dxvk_versions with open(versions_path, "r") as dxvk_version_file: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/chuck/.local/share/lutris/runtime/dxvk/dxvk_versions.json' I tried just downloading hclauncher.exe, and right clicking on that... so far it has installed some other things like MONO (which allows for dot net stuff to run), and then something about Gecko, and now the HomeComing launcher is running and downloading files. I'm not sure if it will allow me to LAUNCH or not. I guess we will see!

I'm having the same issue. Three of my favorite names from live have been taken by others, and they are not reachable via forums (not taking private messages), and are NEVER online. These folks are obviously just name squatters, not active players. Please do your ACTIVE player base a favor and enact the expiration policy. Don't favor a bunch of inactive people over your active player base. We don't need any of the work-arounds suggested above, we just need you to enact the proposed releases of names.

everything worked in steel canyon once I switched to hero, so that would be my advice to others having the issue. Once I changed alignment back to rogue it stayed...

No fanfare, but I see the badge under Invention

for others having this issue it seems to be something about switching alignments. switch to hero and do the steel canyon version, then switch back.

I tried to start this at level 49 as a villain who has switched to rogue and then back to villain via Null the Gull. Dean John Yu basically scolds me and doesn't offer the mission. Is there any way to do this mission? I did everything else needed for the master crafter badge and spent 30m infamy doing that, so I am not too happy about not being able to get the badge.