Recommended Story Arc?

[Darmian]

Just now, ImperialZombie7 said:

Ohhhh are AE’s the player made architect missions?! I saw one of those consoles when I decided to go to pocket d just to se what it was and I was like: “uhhh looks like stuff I should figure out later “ lol. And yea every creative improves over time, but that only makes the earlier work more valuable, it’s what gets you to the better stuff 🙂 

Yep, player created missions.  You'll find everything from stories that try to fit into the world (most of mine are like that) to ones that are just straight out crazy. There's a lot of farms in there, things that are mechanically well designed but are just to gain XP/influence. 

 

(If you do try mine I'd avoid the ones marked Praetorian if you haven't taken at least one character through the Praetorian starting levels, which you can only do by choosing that when creating a new character)

[ImperialZombie7]

Just now, Darmian said:

Yep, player created missions.  You'll find everything from stories that try to fit into the world (most of mine are like that) to ones that are just straight out crazy. There's a lot of farms in there, things that are mechanically well designed but are just to gain XP/influence. 

 

(If you do try mine I'd avoid the ones marked Praetorian if you haven't taken at least one character through the Praetorian starting levels, which you can only do by choosing that when creating a new character)

Oh is that like a separate character path to go down? Like how only villains get certain quests? Cause yea I saw that when I was doing character creation but avoided it cause I wanted to start with the regular hero stuff 🙂 praetorian stuff would be interesting to go do after I get my character maxed out 😆

[Darmian]

9 minutes ago, ImperialZombie7 said:

Oh is that like a separate character path to go down? Like how only villains get certain quests? Cause yea I saw that when I was doing character creation but avoided it cause I wanted to start with the regular hero stuff 🙂 praetorian stuff would be interesting to go do after I get my character maxed out 😆

A separate character path?  It is indeed. In fact you start on Praetorian Earth, which is a parallel to Primal Earth where Heroes and Villains live.  It can be a bit brutal at low levels compared to Paragon/Rogue Isles so I recommend going to the START Lady as soon as possible and buy Hand Grenades, which I refer to as the "Get the hell off me!" power.  Praetoria likes ambushes!  But don't worry about that now.  If you do intend to do a Praetorian then have a look on here for a guide to getting the most out of the zones since it is possible to outlevel contacts fast.

 

I'll just put these here for now:

 

 

 

Edited August 8 by Darmian

[tatmia]

50 minutes ago, ImperialZombie7 said:

You mean I coulda done who will die already? And yea I’m familiar with the games history, and cool I guess I can start the pandora arc since I’m 37 so should be fine then by the time I finish I might be able to do the others 

The SSAs also give very good rewards for completing each story.   My characters eventually run them all, and the first Pandoras Box and 2nd Who will Die are regularly repeated for the rewards (repeats are on a 1 week timer per reward).  

I think the final episode of Who Will Die is probably my favorite story arc wrap up in the game.  

 

[ImperialZombie7]

8 minutes ago, Darmian said:

A separate character path?  It is indeed. In fact you start on Praetorian Earth, which is a parallel to Primal Earth where Heroes and Villains live.  It can be a bit brutal at low levels compared to Paragon/Rogue Isles so I recommend going to the START Lady as soon as possible and buy Hand Grenades, which I refer to as the "Get the hell off me!" power.  Praetoria likes ambushes!  But don't worry about that now.  If you do intend to do a Praetorian then have a look on here for a guide to getting the most out of the zones since it is possible to outlevel contacts fast.

 

I'll just put these here for now:

 

 

 

Wow thanks for helping, glad to know what that is ahead of time now, and yes I’m familiar with what the location is lore wise and all but I hadn’t known that it was one of the character specific locations/stories. If I understand correctly if one treats that masters x masters game as canon the alternate Marcus from praetorian earth becomes statesman after his death as a way of explaining his playability in that game lol. As far as lore goes I’m pretty knowledgeable lol, been dreaming of playing this game ever since nerdslayers death of a game on it so I got really into the lore and world building. Even more so after playing it. 

[ImperialZombie7]

1 minute ago, tatmia said:

The SSAs also give very good rewards for completing each story.   My characters eventually run them all, and the first Pandoras Box and 2nd Who will Die are regularly repeated for the rewards (repeats are on a 1 week timer per reward).  

I think the final episode of Who Will Die is probably my favorite story arc wrap up in the game.  

 

Yea, I mean it’s hard to beat the death of the games literal on the cover mascot as far as stories go. I am so hyped to do them. 

[Darmian]

Just now, ImperialZombie7 said:

Wow thanks for helping, glad to know what that is ahead of time now, and yes I’m familiar with what the location is lore wise and all but I hadn’t known that it was one of the character specific locations/stories. If I understand correctly if one treats that masters x masters game as canon the alternate Marcus from praetorian earth becomes statesman after his death as a way of explaining his playability in that game lol. As far as lore goes I’m pretty knowledgeable lol, been dreaming of playing this game ever since nerdslayers death of a game on it so I got really into the lore and world building. Even more so after playing it. 

Ugh. The less said about the MxM game the better!  But yes, that's what they were going for.  Storywise I'm firmly of the belief (because I bloody love Praetoria) that Emperor Cole would never do that once you know enough about him.

[ImperialZombie7]

Just now, Darmian said:

Ugh. The less said about the MxM game the better!  But yes, that's what they were going for.  Storywise I'm firmly of the belief (because I bloody love Praetoria) that Emperor Cole would never do that once you know enough about him.

I mean I always found it confusing that that’s the story of it because praetorian Marcus Cole is meant to be the “evil” version of our marcus, so I was a bit confused as to why what appears to be an evil him would suddenly want to turn a new leaf and basically suddenly become just regular Marcus Cole. Like narrative wise it’s a bit confusing. Also I love emperor Cole’s design. It’s so neat 

[Darmian]

5 minutes ago, ImperialZombie7 said:

I mean I always found it confusing that that’s the story of it because praetorian Marcus Cole is meant to be the “evil” version of our marcus, so I was a bit confused as to why what appears to be an evil him would suddenly want to turn a new leaf and basically suddenly become just regular Marcus Cole. Like narrative wise it’s a bit confusing. Also I love emperor Cole’s design. It’s so neat 

I know I'm biased about this, but Emperor Cole isn't actually evil. The entirety of the stories in Praetoria, both Loyalist (working for the state) and Resistance (against the state) are shaded with layers of grey. So you have a spectrum of people who are working for what they believe is the betterment of their world (on both sides) to those who are willing to do anything to win (again on both sides). So, not evil. Just not any sort of hero as recognised on Primal Earth.

[ImperialZombie7]

10 minutes ago, Darmian said:

Ugh. The less said about the MxM game the better!  But yes, that's what they were going for.  Storywise I'm firmly of the belief (because I bloody love Praetoria) that Emperor Cole would never do that once you know enough about him.

And my favorite part of the story I experienced so far was an alternate evil version of me tried to invade our universe and another another version of me teamed up with me to stop him, only perish so heartbreakingly, it also was the first cinematic cutscene I have encountered in game so far. It was so sad, good alternate me even went out with this hype as hell: “it’s up to you now, you have to universes to protect.” line. It was the most exciting story thing I’ve have happen as of now lol. It was also cool that the game even had the alternate me’s in my costume.

[ImperialZombie7]

2 minutes ago, Darmian said:

I know I'm biased about this, but Emperor Cole isn't actually evil. The entirety of the stories in Praetoria, both Loyalist (working for the state) and Resistance (against the state) are shaded with layers of grey. So you have a spectrum of people who are working for what they believe is the betterment of their world (on both sides) to those who are willing to do anything to win (again on both sides). So, not evil. Just not any sort of hero as recognised on Primal Earth.

Ah so it’s more of a both have points and arnt just evil thing! Thats neat! 

[Darmian]

1 minute ago, ImperialZombie7 said:

And my favorite part of the story I experienced so far was an alternate evil version of me tried to invade our universe and another another version of me teamed up with me to stop him, only perish so heartbreakingly, it also was the first cinematic cutscene I have encountered in game so far. It was so sad, good alternate me even went out with this hype as hell: “it’s up to you now, you have to universes to protect.” line. It was the most exciting story thing I’ve have happen as of now lol. It was also cool that the game even had the alternate me’s in my costume.

That's a damn good story!

[ImperialZombie7]

22 minutes ago, Darmian said:

That's a damn good story!

You have no idea! It was like having his own movie bro like my god I had to fly up and just sit on a roof and collect myself after it was so intense and exciting and emotionally devastating I’ll have to tell you about it sometime. You should have seen how I jumped out of my seat at the start of the quest line when I confronted evil me and It ACTUALLY WAS MY CHARACTER TALKING TO ME AND FIGHTING ME! that first fight was some man of steel final battle level stuff bro, we had the same powers and so we could barely hurt eachother the same amount so we were both within an inch of death before evil me ran away. And then omg when the good alt me joined me and it wasn’t just the npc saying he did but he actually did I was blown away, and then in order to close the portal to stop evil me’s army he sacrificed himself and I was so sad 😭

Edited August 8 by ImperialZombie7

[Snarky]

On 8/2/2024 at 10:31 AM, GM_GooglyMoogly said:

I just hid two posts.  Let's roll back the vitriol and not insult each other.

 

 

spoilsport

[Snarky]

here is a spreadsheet i made a couple years ago.  it is not perfect, but (not including arcs added since) is about 99%  mult means contact has multiple level ranges.

 

one thing to remember is bluside has a LOT of "duplicate mission givers"  Red/Gold none.  What this means is if you get one contact that makes 3-5 automatically not available, because they are the same contact/content with a different name.

 

here is an example  you will only get one contact from each origin.  so 5 not 13

 

Category:Hero Contacts Level 5-14 - Unofficial Homecoming Wiki

 

contacts CoH CoV.xlsx

Edited August 8 by Snarky

[UltraAlt]

On 8/8/2024 at 8:38 AM, ImperialZombie7 said:

Literally the only thing I wanted to know was how I could do signature story arcs so I can go see the missions where the crazy stuff like statesman’s death happened and not one of you can stop to listen when I say what I want long enough to give me a proper answer and it’s ridiculous, I am not going to delete 7 months of character leveling and story experiences and badges. Either answer my actual question which I have asked like 7 times at this point or don’t even now you are just ragging on me instead of answering the question 

 

On 8/8/2024 at 6:28 AM, UltraAlt said:

I'm willing to give you another chance, but not in this thread.

 

You apparently don't want help from me ... and it seem like you don't want it from others either.

 

You already responded to the post that you are replying to.

I gave you the "Finland". I read it.

I already told you I was done replying to you in the post before you send that first reply to my post.

 

Okay. I'm done.

Have a good day.

You won't be getting any more help from me in the forums.

[ImperialZombie7]

6 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:

 

 

You already responded to the post that you are replying to.

I gave you the "Finland". I read it.

I already told you I was done replying to you in the post before you send that first reply to my post.

 

Okay. I'm done.

Have a good day.

You won't be getting any more help from me in the forums.

you werent helping to beegin with so thats fine, I already got reliable answers from other and am doing the arcs already no thanks to you

[ImperialZombie7]

On 8/8/2024 at 8:58 AM, Snarky said:

here is a spreadsheet i made a couple years ago.  it is not perfect, but (not including arcs added since) is about 99%  mult means contact has multiple level ranges.

 

one thing to remember is bluside has a LOT of "duplicate mission givers"  Red/Gold none.  What this means is if you get one contact that makes 3-5 automatically not available, because they are the same contact/content with a different name.

 

here is an example  you will only get one contact from each origin.  so 5 not 13

 

Category:Hero Contacts Level 5-14 - Unofficial Homecoming Wiki

 

contacts CoH CoV.xlsx 24.87 kB · 5 downloads

Makes sense, that way you arnt just doing the exact same thing every ccharacter

[Snarky]

6 hours ago, ImperialZombie7 said:

Makes sense, that way you arnt just doing the exact same thing every ccharacter

Yes,  ut makes it following spaghetti trails on a completionist run lol

[Without_Pause]

Something which stands out to me doing arcs is finding unique maps. I found one recently. It was Council style cave base filled in a way I hadn't seen. Maybe my most memorable one was an Arachnos map where it looked like a cave huge spiders lived in. Arachnos bases have been a long standing rant for me. I went into that map and was like, "Dude. Why am I finally seeing this?" Oh to have that style of cave maps for Arachnos cave missions.