Techwright

Welcome to the game! One thing to realize is that gold side (going rogue) does move you into contact with the red and blue sides in your 20s. So you'll be able to gain access to all the Trials, Task Forces, and Strike Forces eventually. And once you've gained that access, if you've not been told previously, you can either do alignment tip missons (long but interesting way around) or visit Null the Gull in Pocket D (short way) to change alignment and experience what the other side has to offer.

I'm in "wait and see" mode. I've not seen Shang Chi yet (hopefully this weekend), but Phase 4 has a lot of things that either I don't know (Eternals, Shang Chi, Moon Knight, Iron Heart) or have no interest in (Ms. Marvel, Thor: Love and Thunder). That said, there are several projects I'm looking forward to and a few that I'm on the fence about, liking some bits and disliking others. What I'm really interested in at this point is in seeing the Fantastic Four done correctly, and a new take on the X-Men. But these feel like years off at this point, like, "will I be retired by then" kind of stuff. Beyond that, I'm not really sure where MCU is going, and I think that can create a waning interest. I know their roster is very deep, and they've not even tapped creations like Submariner. What I really miss at this point is a bonifide team. Duos (with others along for the fun) seems to be the theme at the moment, but I really liked the idea of whipping out a team movie every two years. They've been strongly hinting at a new team through the appearance of several from the New (Young?) Avengers team in the comics, but there's been nothing beyond that to suggest that these are pulling together towards a team movie. So in summary: I'm not out, and there's enough to keep my interest for the time being, but Phase 4 feels less cohesive than phases 1-3, and that, if ongoing, has the potential to decrease my interest.

So more like wait for the second half of season 1, then subscribe to see it all?

Just learned about the Victorian Britain superhero (and steampunk?) Show called The Nevers. Question: is it worth plunking down the money for the HBO web channel to see this?

Forgot to add, there's a great easter egg in this one that reactors I have viewed so far haven't picked up on. There's a visual gag reference to the logo of Mutant Enemy Productions, Joss Whedon's film production company. Joss, of course, directed the first two Avengers movies, and Mutant Enemy produced the "Agents of SHIELD" TV show.

Glad you liked it. For me...

I don't think that's what the hospital was recommending when they said have a detox shower in the base.

I've never seen bacon in any of the DA stuff, so yeah, needs more bacon!

I've considered this often, in fact, I go into big buildings looking around to decide whether that building's design is feasible as an entertaining CoH arena. I think my answer would be "it depends". The hospital where I work would make a superb game environment. This is because it has everything: wide open rooms like the cafeterias and the Emergency Room, hallways with most double-wide to accommodate 2-way mobile bed traffic, outdoor areas like the covered freight dock, maintenance accessible roofs at differing heights, hospital gardens, and parking garage, destroy-able/savable target areas like the power generation annex and the tech networking areas, many, many elevators and some in weird areas ( I can even think of one that goes...yes...1 floor up), etc. I could probably think of more if I put my mind to it. The other thing that make the hospital ideal is that it was constructed in stages over 100 years (this month actually!) and the stages are kind of a pastiche, so there's a wide variety of rooms and corridors. It's not just a box with a blah layout. I think that a possible key point in selecting interesting buildings. Those that have been modified over a long time will likely have a lot of variables. Even our headquarters would make an interesting CoH fighting area. It's a salvaged and converted 120-year old textile factory, with wide-open work areas and spacious central hallways that serve as party/event areas, and it's only a couple of stories tall, with elevators and stairways in several spots. The layout of rooms and hallways is definitely not standardized, and height is generous given that the chambers were built back when air conditioning in the Deep South was not available, and the higher the ceiling the cooler the floor area. Buildings with cookie-cutter layouts might not need to be entirely boring either. Consider, for example if a high-rise still stood in Boomtown, but the damage to it changed the cookie-cutter layout. Elevators would be offline, stairs would be the necessary means, and fallen, unstable debris would have blocked access between certain floors forcing you to exit and work your way across the floor to another set of stairs. The vanilla floor would be awash with destruction (add-able/modifiable partially-fallen ceilings, broken up floors, strewn furniture, etc.) creating a unique obstacle course to fight through each floor. I guess the answer is to assume that the buildings we enter are not the cookie-cutter blocks kind, or that we only enter a few of those. One thing I would push for, however, is matching interiors to exteriors. Not necessarily perfectly, mind you, but I don't want to go into a door of a 1-story warehouse and have a 6-story interior. So somehow coding doors to only use something reasonably compatible would be a concept I could get behind. Especially when we still might open a warehouse door and get a cave. Ugh.

It should have been the Time melee set, but I heard they lost track of it.

This might make a great suggestion. There's got to be some bit somewhere that toggles to let the computer know a WST has been done. I'd like to think that could be referenced to build a visible display to help the user.

Yeah that happens to me out in YouTube land. I'll see a video, maybe I'm a tad familiar with it, maybe not, and I'll like to read the comments section. I've had several times when I'll speed read comments, find one that strikes my fancy, and glance over to the name and its one of my aliases and the comment was posted years ago. What really freaks me is that, even realizing I wrote it, I don't recognize my own style of writing.

Responding:

possibly. Though what you refer to seems merely a standard garden feature.

Or maybe...

Cross between a Twilight Zone (or perhaps more accurately an Outer Limits) episode and some Dr. Who thematics. Definitely a very different tone from the other three we've seen so far. Also...

Uh, oh. Anybody got an Apple laptop handy? We may need it.

You do that, though, and the plant people are going to want a floating terrarium for their healing tree. Not that I'd mind, but I can just see the petitions coming.

On a task force the other evening, one of the NPCs called out "Task Force 'X'? We don't have time for this!" I immediately wanted to spout some sort of Spider-Man-worthy snarky response. All I could think of, however, was "Well make time!" Clearly, I need to work on my dialog. But how about you? Post any NPC dialog you find just itching for a rejoinder, reposte, or repartee, and then deliver. The rest of us can add or join in as well. (I'm guessing @Snarky will make an appearance.) Feel free to make a better rebuttal to "Task Force 'X'? We don't have time for this!" than I did.

Heh...the gang over at Icon warned me putting in a chest outlet for my light powers would be a magnet. I just thought they meant for bad guys, I guess I never realized they might be referring to Annie Liebovitz-type photographers. 😁

Is it 30 for the set IOs? Because with our fairly recent addition of the upgrade button, I find I prefer to just pay the upgrade fee, as non-set IOs don't perform better than maxed out SOs until security level 37 (enhancement level 40). The pic below is of a 40 SO held up next to a slotted 40 IO at level 37. I just achieved that level tonight on my archer. At SL-36 (Enhancement level 39), the SO was still slightly more powerful.

FYI...Disney+ has added the "All Hail The King" Marvel One Shot to it's roster. I'm assuming this is due to the upcoming Shang Chi movie, to which it is related.

I was unaware of the 10 minute timer rewards. Hmm, might have to pay more attention to Lusca team recruiting.

A good listing. I'd just add a few points. 1. SO & DO are based on your origin (science, tech, natural, mutation, magic), so what you get in a fight drop might not be usable if it doesn't match your character's origin. You could, however, email it to your global self and use it on a character that that does match the origin. Likewise, not all vendors sell your origin. In the mid levels (Talos Island, Independence Point, Brickstown, Founders Falls) there are vendors that are origin specific. Don't worry, though as there are also generic vendors, which are tuned to sell to whatever the character needs. 2. Lef to right from least powerful up: TO < DO < SO < IO It's been a while since I worked with HO and SHO, but I think those are on par with set IO, but are used in spots where a set IO enhancement might not be a great fit. (Someone else might be better able to comment on that.) 3. TO's are not really needed in Homecoming anymore. However, should you experiment with one of the other CoH emulations out there, they'll probably still be in effect.

Portal jockeying is all fun and games until you run into the Axis dimension. There's always an Axis dimension in multiverses. Webb should have realized this.