Scarlet Shocker

In a way I can understand the creative urge to remove Statesman as the big hero, to make the others stand up and be counted without their great leader. That could have been a great story but was handled poorly. What was utterly reprehensible was killing off Sister Psyche - there was no reason behind it, and so poorly executed (pun intended) that it defies logic. It was as though the Devs sat down around a table and said "ok the fans know we're gonna kill of Statesman and they mostly hate him anyhow, so let's throw them through a loop and kill somebody they like off too" Even at a basic level, we already knew Sister P could mind-ride - she'd done it with Aurora for some years I believe, so why she couldn't do that again is very unclear. As Ambassador KuiRehkt might put it: Plot:atrocious, writing: shoddy, outcome: unnecessary, conclusion: stupid Statesman did not have to die, it was a political decision but perhaps it was guided by the notion that had he remained alive the game might have degraded into the Statesman vs Himself show with Emperor Cole about to loom over the horizon as Tyrant in Going Rogue. Hard to think they could have done with Praetoria what they wanted to do if somebody approaching Coles equal in raw power remained on the scene.

Stop duping rares

I have dropped a little bit of spare cash on it, but not huge amounts and not often. You could spend a fortune on that particular game and many other app games I think, they do encourage you to be gouged. But if you're selective and patient you improve progress without spending a fortune

All in good time

I read this in the voice of Zardu Hasselfrau for some reason It sounded better than I expected. Some think that the power set is 'kin good

I'm not bloody married to it!

Getting this a lot when I try to read/respond/search posts

Steam tells me that Civilization V would get me my 747 pilot certificate and everything else needed to achieve it, with No Man's sky a long way behind but a close runner up Bloons TD6. Not to mention the whole Total War thing but that's spread over a few iterations. None of those compare to the hours I've spent in CoH - although the above games (excluding TW) were a single one-shot purchase and I did spend a few £££ on CoH when live and occasionally donated post-sunset. I should also give an honourable mention to AFK Arena on mobile which is expensive to progress in, very P2W but fun all the same if you can be patient, so deffo excluded from VFM I also neglected to mention The Secret World (aka Secret World Legends after it's "relaunch") which did take a lot of my time after sunset but that wasn't so cheap. although highly underrated.

I did think about this after posting. I think we can consider Warshade powers to be the darker shade of Nictus energy so it would be logical to presume that they are "Dark" even if it's not the same "dark" that we understand it!

Well thanks chaps. At least I know about it now 🙂

I'm badging in Port Oakes. I'm looking for the Hidden Getaway badge (8 on the Vidiotmaps overlay) and I realise that when I use a thumbtack on the marked badge location itself the compas directs me to the abandoned lab. Almost opposite quadrants of the zone. Not game breaking but funkeh all the same. Is it Vidiotmaps or is it something else?

Nighthunters is a mission/light RP Rogue VG based out of the Rogue Isles. Emphasis on two aspects here: At least one of your main powers must be darkness, and we much prefer Rogues, not Vigilantes, Heroes or Villains. In non-RP terms it means we can do pretty well all content, without restriction but still maintain our less than glorious roots, while also being able to save the world when needed, and even occasionally "do the right thing" just because. We're brand new, so I'm working on our base - it's got most of what we need but is mostly function over form - but I'd welcome new players. I'm in the UK so EST+5, PST+8 but wherever you are in the world you're welcome. Global is @Riff so feel free to hit me up and get an invite. I'd hope we can be a bit active, with some light RP - nothing too heavy but lots of content runs.

that's... not a light sabre. I'm thinking you're not very good on Leprechaun anatomy... but there's a reason they're always chasing the rainbow...

I really like the notion of a Dark/Rad something... stop them hitting you and wreck their defence... I'd rather view it as the PC being "lucky" - working on the assumption that until that point the NPC lt/boss/EB/AV probably wouldn't have gotten to where they were in game lore with such an awful run of luck. Maybe somebody highly mobile and bouncy able to confuse and confound their opponents. A Dark/Rad controller sounds like it could be serious fun but equally a Rad/Dark crupper seems to offer a very good option too. Perhaps that would make the most perfect duo in the game. Just thinking aloud

I thought the game began with the Rikti invasion, though that was before my time, so I may have been misinformed but something on the grand scale would be highly appropriate.

Also MURDERER

I'm puzzled why this wouldn't be a stalker song. It's Catwoman, after all! Have you never been stalked by your pussy? U2's biggest claim to fame is providinng the worst ever Satnav. The streets have no name and I still haven't found what I'm looking for

There is only Saint

Excelsior is fine. It just doesn't fancy you enough to get turned on!

the thing about this toon and trying to best Trapdoor was that I've done it many times in the past on other alts and rarely ever had such difficulty, and none of those were tricked out with IOs or procs. I often go for the Incarnate arc right after dinging 50 just to get it done and make sure I'm qualifying for all the rewards, whever my next path takes me. This is one of those times when I had great difficulty - and yes, just with trapdoor - (Symphony has a couple of solid holds which are good for Warwolves, and Council generally are no biggie) I did get it done but I came away feeling very underwhelmed.

I do love how as a community we have remembered players, even if they were not well known to us all personally. That's special and reminds us that however dispersed we are, we remain a family with a very very specal bond, that is unique.

2 decades is 1/3 of my life, but a tiny tiny fraction of @Snarky's unlife But yes, I agree something special would be required.

If you're asking have I got a bunch of Invention IOs, then the answer is no. I have a combination of stock IOs and SOs.

I totally misread this as "hoover" and wondered why you'd play in a vacuum

No Santa Barbara for old Vampires... sounds like a Cohen brothers movie