I never knew that!!!

[KC4800]

On 8/20/2020 at 7:33 AM, huang3721 said:

I never knew Freedom Corps opens a store. 

 

 

Also, their computers need upgrading. Seriously. Those are ancient CRTs. Also, is that Windows 9x/Me?

 

 

 

 

That looks like an old Viewsonic.

Also, there is a Freedom Corp Store in Indy Port at the far north of the zone that you get a special badge for if you go there because it is so infrequently visited. 

Edited August 21, 2020 by KC4800

[TraumaTrain]

Did the Freedom Corps vendorfolk wear those costumes prior to issue 6 when Longbow was introduced? I don't remember.

[srmalloy]

That was the uniform they had at launch.

[huang3721]

On 8/20/2020 at 9:01 PM, KC4800 said:

Also, there is a Freedom Corp Store in Indy Port at the far north of the zone that you get a special badge for if you go there because it is so infrequently visited. 

At least they don't have to deal with customers.

[Techwright]

*Summons electrical controller*

⚡ZOT! ⚡

 

Okay, so I've resurrected the thread.  I did so because on a Synapse TF today, one of our teammates mentioned that the lore indicated the Clockwork King's inner court of Barons, Princes, and the like, were supposed to look almost human.  I did not know that.  I'm assuming that the developers just never got around to creating a unique look for these, but that would have been so cool to have as a final mission look.  Perhaps what was intended ended up as a prototype for the gold-side robots.

[oedipus_tex]

I didn't know until the TA updates that Special Resistance (e.g. Resistance to -ToHit, -Recharge, -RunSpeed, -Recovery etc) is recalculated every game pulse. What I mean is that if you have a bunch of -ToHit on you and, after the fact, acquire -ToHit Resistance, any existing -ToHit on you gets recaculated and lowered. Looking at how the stats show in game makes this obvious, but since few enemies had Resistance to debuff that changes turn to turn never put it together. Casting the new Acid Arrow does, indeed, recalculate all existing debuff and increase it, even debuff that hits prior to the arrow.    

[Darmian]

As a Necromancer MM if your guys drop when you enter a mission/zone, instantly cast Soul Extraction on your Lich!  For two mins roughly you now have two Liches! And the Soul Extracted one will hang about AFTER you die and may (depends on longevity plus if it is in combat etc) rez YOU, because it has Howling Twilight,

Edited February 25, 2021 by Darmian

[Snarky]

On 10/16/2019 at 3:44 AM, SaintD said:

I suspect they were added as absolutely perfect places for players to gather for things like costume contests and RP gatherings, but ultimately no-one noticed or cared. Probably a slightly disappointed dev involved in those dome gardens.

you have to advertise / educate.  one mission that sends people to the garden to pick a flower or talk to an npc in a commonly run chain would inform peeps it was there.

[Snarky]

On 11/26/2019 at 1:59 AM, Falsey said:

It's all a nemesis plot.

 

wait.... what?

[Hyperstrike]

19 minutes ago, Snarky said:

wait.... what?

No plots!  NOOOO PLOTS!

[Snarky]

On 12/12/2019 at 9:45 AM, Shred Monkey said:

Here's my lazy admission... on most of my toons I keep a Cimerora mission active so I can use my mission porter power to get there since there is no direct teleport to that zone.

you can use the Lfg imperious tf, solo, lock it.  it will port you right to Cim.  fast

[huang3721]

I am bored, so I decided to interview a few Praetorian citizens. I found several things:

• Citizens have about 10 - 11 lines of response. 
• Citizens change their replies every minute, which eventually loops to their initial line after 10 minutes.
• Each citizen may have a different set of answers. So far, I have found 18 arrays of replies.

 

Let's say you speak with a Praetorian, and the answer is, "There's a tunnel running under the whole city to keep everything running smoothly.".

If you keep pestering him, these are his answers:

• There's a tunnel running under the whole city to keep everything running smoothly.
• I read the tunnels under the city started out as a nuclear shelter. Good thing we don't have to worry about that anymore.
• The tunnels are pretty dangerous, authorized personnel only indeed.
• With The Resistance down there, the PPD can't guarantee the safety of citizens in the Underground.
• You don't talk about First Ward. Not Around anybody important.
• First Ward? Oh, we don't talk about First Ward.
• First Ward is Emperor Cole's Dirty Secret, but you didn't hear it from me.
• Oh, First Ward? Wasn't that lost with that massive Devouring Earth attack?
• I heard people still inhibit First Ward. Could you believe it?
• Neutropolis may look a little dirty, but it's solid and nothing a new coat of paint won't fix.

 

Complete list (so far) is here:

 

Edited February 28, 2021 by huang3721
Adding list

[srmalloy]

Necroing the thread... I was running the Clockwork Captive arc the other day, and in the final mission, where the shop has these decorative checkerboard bands on the walls, I happened to be up near the ceiling, and the tops of the light shades have a checkered pattern, too; something I'd never noticed until this week, despite having run the arc on dozens of characters.

[Glacier Peak]

44 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

Necroing the thread... I was running the Clockwork Captive arc the other day, and in the final mission, where the shop has these decorative checkerboard bands on the walls, I happened to be up near the ceiling, and the tops of the light shades have a checkered pattern, too; something I'd never noticed until this week, despite having run the arc on dozens of characters.

Always thought that was a chessboard motif, playing off the Clockwork 'King' and his court.

[srmalloy]

5 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

Always thought that was a chessboard motif, playing off the Clockwork 'King' and his court.

It was the surprise of seeing the checkerboard pattern carried over to the light fixtures; I'd seen that the 'stock' warehouse lights were a generic metal texture, but had never noticed that it was different in this one mission. Kind of like back on Live when the devs' attention to detail poked me -- noticing that all the footgear options had different sole patterns.

[LordXenophon]

  

On 8/7/2020 at 10:27 AM, Frostbiter said:

That just raises more questions. Like how did Penelope's mother meet Mr. Yin, a simple shopkeeper?

 

Simple shopkeepers meet everybody, because they keep a shop.

Edited December 25, 2022 by LordXenophon
Wrong quote

[JasperStone]

On 12/23/2022 at 2:19 PM, srmalloy said:

Necroing the thread... I was running the Clockwork Captive arc the other day, and in the final mission, where the shop has these decorative checkerboard bands on the walls, I happened to be up near the ceiling, and the tops of the light shades have a checkered pattern, too; something I'd never noticed until this week, despite having run the arc on dozens of characters.

I finally realized Babbage is named after Charles Babbage 

...

goodness I am slow sometimes

[Hyperstrike]

2 hours ago, LordXenophon said:

  

 

Simple shopkeepers meet everybody, because they keep a shop.

Been up way too long.  So I can't call the reference to mind at the moment.

But there's a joke line somewhere in the literature I've read where the person is nothing special...merely a mere/simple/SOMETHING.

 

[Glacier Peak]

1 hour ago, JasperStone said:

I finally realized Babbage is named after Charles Babbage 

...

goodness I am slow sometimes

Oh I wonder if there are other references to computational scientists in that enemy group.

[Ukase]

On 10/10/2019 at 6:08 PM, Redlynne said:

There's actually a badge for finding all of those inside the University ...

You lie. The truth is not in you. 

[RikOz]

On 12/23/2022 at 2:05 PM, Glacier Peak said:

Always thought that was a chessboard motif, playing off the Clockwork 'King' and his court.

More likely, given that the guy we're rescuing is an auto mechanic, and the warehouse is supposed to represent his shop, the checker motif is a reference to the "checkered flag" waved at the finish line in auto racing.

[Scarlet Shocker]

Not specifically game related but worthy of a "Things you didn't know you didn't know" tag:

 

If you use the Greek alphabet costume chest pieces it may be worth being aware that in that lexicon there is a very tiny o and a massively huge O

 

Omicron and Omega

 

And if you read it properly you realise it's not even a secret.

[Darmian]

On 2/25/2021 at 12:36 PM, Darmian said:

As a Necromancer MM if your guys drop when you enter a mission/zone, instantly cast Soul Extraction on your Lich!  For two mins roughly you now have two Liches! And the Soul Extracted one will hang about AFTER you die and may (depends on longevity plus if it is in combat etc) rez YOU, because it has Howling Twilight,

Yeah. That doesn't work anymore since Soul Extraction was changed.

[Doomguide2005]

On 12/25/2022 at 4:36 PM, Hyperstrike said:

Been up way too long.  So I can't call the reference to mind at the moment.

But there's a joke line somewhere in the literature I've read where the person is nothing special...merely a mere/simple/SOMETHING.

 

As long as they're not a cook.

[StrikerFox]

On 10/10/2019 at 1:24 PM, Coin said:

Only tonight discovered that you can get into the City Hall in Atlas via the back door!

 

Whaaat?! Can that door be used during the Positron TF?

 

Discovered the /cleartray option. Used to repeatedly, right click-R, over all the tray slots during live.