Vanden

You can do it yourself, with enhancement catalysts.

What if we made it targetable like Tar Patch and we could set it off on purpose?

The salvage issue has already been solved, since the market has been seeded with millions of salvage at fairly reasonable prices.

As long as the Foot Stomp is the one with the default coloration, because you can never quite match the default colors with a customized power.

I just can’t fathom the mindset of someone who is playing the game post-level curve adjustment AND with permanent 150% XP and still thinks soloing is slow.

At some point on Live, the Peacebringer Power Solar Flare was changed from using the Foot Stomp animation to the Hand Clap animation, I think so the power would be usable in the air. However, for whatever reason, an aerial version of the Foot Stomp animation exists; you can see it if you use Foot Stomp while flying close to the ground. So would it be possible to revert Solar Flare to use this animation, too? The power simply looks better that way; it’s what the FX were intended to play alongside after all.

Nobody’s farming 50s in 2 hours with AE XP cut in half.

But Psi Mastery already has a targeted AoE knockup power in Psionic Tornado.

Pulling out at 75% was probably the right call; it looked like we were noticeably losing momentum on the last few % of Hami's health after the double bloom.

When put in an auto power, Regenerative Tissue will always be active, while Panacea and Performance Shifter will have a chance to trigger every 10 seconds.

And we seem to be randomly getting small amounts of patrol XP even while logged on. Don't worry, losing patrol XP due to debt will count for the debt badges. Can confirm, I earned the last three debt badges in about an hour during Torchbearer's inaugural Hami raid yesterday.

Well, we done gone and did it. Wasn't the smoothest, but it was the first!

I've been spending a lot of time in my old screenshots, getting nostalgic, and I thought some of these would be worth sharing, especially ones from the earlier days of the game. Let's see! Herding the last room of the Eden trial! This was the first time I'd ever seen herding done. Needless to say, I was impressed. These old launch contacts can be really bad. You earned your spot in MMO hell that day, Tyler French. Also, that old character of mine! I'm still not good at coming up with names, but at least I've stopped simply stealing characters wholesale... My to-be-main Invul/SS Tanker was looking mighty shiny after getting Forted, so I decided to take a screenshot. I didn't even have Rage yet! How adorable! These wolves aren't gray or anything. Issue 3 Invincibility was crazy strong, you guys. This was a weird bug! Having the Undead Slaying Axe out and activating Unyielding would make your character do the Council Ascendant shield animation instead of the right one. As I understand it, the game's animation system doesn't just go "play animation X!", it's more like the power will say "Hey, play that one animation, you know, where the character does this woo woo p'shew thing," and the client will go "you mean this one?" and sometimes the client doesn't get the right animation. Found a bit of a celebrity working as a cop in Paragon City. Check out that old-ass Atlas Medallion icon in my status bar! AFAIK you can still do this in the game. If you rescue citizens being mugged, while flying up high so they can't reach you to thank you, you can eventually amass quite the fan club. The end of the City of Villains beta! We're currently waiting for the expected Dev invasion... Dogpile on Statesman! Look at that cheater, he somehow took his primary and secondary powers in reverse order. Positron and Sister Psyche are next! What are those powers in my status bar? Cathedral of Pain buffs, maybe? This was when I finally beat the Dr. Quaterfield TF! The timestamp on the screenshot says I stayed up past 3:30 am for that bastard. Witches in fiction are often ugly, but this was unexpected... Found Sally in an unusual spot... The last mission of the Sara Moore TF! With the exception of Dr. Quaterfield, I love everything about the Shadow Shard. It's a crying shame we never got more content related to it. This Fake Nemesis looks very surprised to have been defeated. With Rage and Fort, my Tanker has finally achieved maximum glow! I'm pretty sure I was just trying to take a screenshot of my jetpack here. I wasn't expecting my teammate to make a guest appearance! This is the only screenshot I have of the Rikti pre-i10, in the middle of the OG sewer trial. Check out the surfboard swords! This was a fun day on the test server. For a little while Gauntlet was bugged to make every Tanker melee attack have a 5-target AoE, so I thought I'd send some Hellions skydiving with Knockout Blow. A bug and a misspelling in one newspaper, a twofer! The Parallel Illusions. They seem to be pretty well known, but this was somehow my first and only encounter with them. I'm sure they had members at Hami raids that I somehow missed. This Toxic Tarantula fell off the walkways in Grandville and its AI broke, making it stand still long enough for this picture! This is the kind of quality content you miss out on playing exclusively blue side. POWDERED TOAST MAAAAN This is the building that used to be in Talos where the Wentworth's is now. I have more of these, but I have decided to refrain from posting nine more screenshots of buildings. When they changed the FX for Brute Invulnerability to make them more villainous, I decided to make a costume for my Energy/Invul Brute to take advantage of it. Of course, it would be quite a while before i16 would let me turn the pom-poms black as well. Hitting 50 on my Mind/Psi Dominator! This was the first time I hit 50 by dropping a newspaper mission in front of the statues in Portal Court or Grandville, something I would do for the rest of my characters to hit 50, but I had several 50s already when I started this tradition. Hopefully I get the chance to get those screenshots for them in Homecoming! The "Matrix" room in Peregrine! Anyone know if you can still get there? I'm sure the original hole in the map that allowed it has long been filled. Those force fields in outdoor instances are like flypaper, man. This was another weird bug; you could get the ghost ship to follow you by going into a specific spot in the bow. I'm not sure the bug really comes across in the screenshots I took of it, though. This level of panic seems a bit much for a fight with a single Crey scientist. Finding a genuine GM in the wild! My buddy and I were quite awestruck. This Tsoo wanted me to paint him like one of my French girls, but instead I arrested him. The 3-year anniversary dance party! Synapse was kind enough to give me a custom yellow title after much nagging, and you might even spot a familiar face from the official forums to my left. I'm playing my Emp/Psi Defender here, which is not a build that lacks knockback, but I'm still a little stumped as to how that guy got up there. Rikti invasion! Everyone panic! Waiting to get into Ouroboros for Sister Psyche and Manticore's wedding! I think that blonde guy in the center is Castle. We were so badly behaved; everyone wanted to get in and crowded around, and he tried using Force Bubble to keep us from doing that, but everyone just ran into it anyway. In Ouroboros for the wedding itself. You can just barely see Positron in his armor and tuxedo jacket. The lag here was so bad. Streakbreaker, you failed me! It's not supposed to be possible to miss twice in a row with capped ToHit. Another bug; for a while, mobs with unique weapons were holding them in a reverse grip. I think for Scirocco it actually kind of worked. Poor cyclops just wants a hug. My successful Master of Statesman's Task Force team! This took almost a month of attempts to get. A crazy bug. This mission spawned a bunch of Longbow Wardens from minion to EB-class, all with no powers. I assume it had to do with some Mission Architect wires getting crossed, since issue 14 was on the horizon at this point, and they probably had laid some groundwork behind the scenes. This is something you could see if you used the /architect command inside an AE arc you were testing. Of course, you can't do that any more (possibly for the same reason you can't use the Auction House in missions or bases?). Sometimes these random missions will produce objectives that don't... entirely make logical sense. (For those who don't get the joke, Baron Zoria is the founder of the Circle of Thorn.) An homage I made to a classic piece of forum history. An incredible bounty, dropped off a single lieutenant. Also, I'm finally playing on a widescreen monitor. Trying out the new Ionic Judgement on the test server, and finding a potential issue. The real interesting part is the conversation I'm having about it with a familiar name. A bit of dual-boxing fun in the new tutorial. Did you guys know that Kick from the Fighting pool lets you become Dhalsim? Lastly, a new one! Like I said in the picture of my Mind/Psi, I missed the chance to get a screenshot of hitting 50 with my older characters, but here's my second chance, hitting 50 with my remade main on Torchbearer. I hope I have the chance to get these screenshots with every character I missed the first time. Do you guys have any good old screenshots you want to share? I crave that nostalgia, so if you've got pictures of old stuff, like for example the Rikti pre-revamp, the old load screens, or the old accolade powers, share 'em up!.

Actually, no! Earning the Villain Disruptor/Hero Slayer badges will unlock a contact that will freely give you whatever safeguard/mayhem missions you choose.

Well they're only on at night.

I don't think EATs need an unlock condition, probably just a notice that they're ATs for advanced players on the AT selection screen.

Earn the Villain Disruptor badge, and you’ll unlock a contact who will give you any, and as many, safeguard missions as you want.

I’m not sure my home server of Triumph ever successfully did a nu-Hami raid, but those old Hami raids before issue 9 are some of my fondest memories of the game. We should get them going again!

They aren't gone, though?

The cost is less Influence from kills. 50% + less influence after 40 is a pretty big deal, as you can routinely pull in several hundred thousand per mission. Even more if you're on a farm team etc (which most people who use these buffs will be, lets be honest) That's a cost for the character getting powerleveled. The character doing the powerleveling would still make inf while farming, and that's where the inf cost of the bonus came from

Personally I'm not a fan of the free XP boosts; even on the secret server they were priced so that they cost more than a character power-leveling a boosted character would earn getting them from 1-50. I think there should be a price involved, maybe a merit cost or something? I'm glad to hear the chat log is coming back for the purpose of preventing harassment; that was exactly the concern I had about removing it in the first place.

The reduced merit prices should keep recipe prices down across the board (especially if they'd revert the reward for reinforcing as a Hero or Villain >:(). And the level you buy IOs at still matters, because that determines whether you keep set bonuses when you exemplar, and it's important for players to be able to bid on IOs before they can actually use them, or for use on other characters.

No, you can't buy from yourself.

Yeah, moving the badges to the echoes makes no sense.

That seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through to avoid using the /get_global_name command or just clicking their name in the chat box and hitting that option on the menu that appears.