Long time forum stalker but I just had surgery so I have about two weeks off from work and I had an itch to play this so I made myself an archer type character. I started running around and I got kind of bored soloing in this game so I just wanted to know if anybody around level 10 is running around Millenium City to team up with and kick some villainous butt.
Heh, so just when I was about to post the new version of the PTS patch notes, I read over them and spoted a bunch of stuff that has already contradicted and changed, within a day of being posted.
The devs have a near real-time conversation going on with the PTS denizens, and have been extremely responsive to feedback. The entire patch is still in a state of flux.
So again, I'm not going to post them here right now out of context.
The major thing happening is that forms are spreading out to fully encompass various playstyles (not just melee and ranged attackers who are willing to put up with the annoyance of enrage). Multiplicative buffs are becoming additive (Aggressor, Aspect of the Infernal etc). AoPM is getting a small nerf that people are still raging about like the sky has fallen. The other auras are getting buffed, and amazingly, people are bitching that AoRP will be "overpowered". The very same people complaining that AoPM was perfect and needed no nerf, so I don't trust a word they say.
There's many other things under consideration, but honestly, if you want to be a tester and have input, support the game; buy a subscription.
and amazingly, people are bitching that AoRP will be "overpowered". The very same people complaining that AoPM was perfect and needed no nerf, so I don't trust a word they say.
There's many other things under consideration, but honestly, if you want to be a tester and have input, support the game; buy a subscription.
I don't PvP enough to know for sure, but my adventures on the forums lead me to believe that this particular whining is due to some PvPers' perception that a powerful AoRP will break (or at least be a step towards breaking) their precious OHKO force cascade setups. For my PvE menagerie build, the buff is fantastic.
Our latest chance box has arrived, and we’ve loaded this box up with the best prize we could think of… A new Freeform Character Slot! Previously only available to Gold Members of Champions Online: Free for All, this character will allow silver players the ability to create a Free-Form Champion, which is not limited by the power selection of an Archetype Character! Act fast though! This grab bag has a shelf life, and before too long they’ll be long gone.
The GB's available both in the C-Store for those who have the points and as a reward for a new daily mission in Millennium City, granting Drifter Salvage as it's other (and more likely to get) prize. Subscribers still win out as they'll still get a free character slot out of it as well as being able to keep playing the character as Freeform if they ever go F2P.
I wonder if this is an indication of free-form slots coming to the store at some point. While I'd like a freeform character, I'm not interesting in grinding for another box just for the chance of getting one.
Well the daily to get one free isn't too bad. The regular enemies you have to face pop up in the same places that the ones from the Drifter's previous daily showed up at. The catch is that you also have to take down Mechasssassin and Steel Commando for the daily too and the former's Alert-self doesn't count. They pop up at certain places too. I caught them at the Harmon Labs in Downtown and the Dynamic Labs in the N/NW portion of M-City. You may have to wait there as they pop up in a few more places and only in a specific zone at a time.
Hrm, where do you get the daily mission?
I got a quest that directed me to the drifter, but nothing happened after I talked to him.
The Drifter should give you the quest for the daily grab bag + 500 ore, not sure about a min. lvl.
If you are looking for the 2k ore quest check your Crime Computer->Alerts, works at lvl 6....
Look for zone chat or "/Channel_Join MechaCommando" for Steel Commando/Mechassassin locations.
Well I do have like 1200 cryptic points collecting dust, its worth a shot. Or rather it would be if I had any idea of the chance.
I would buy the fuck out of a freeform slot though
If it's anything like the lockboxes in STO, then the chances are very tiny. Like, 1-in-200 tiny. Probably even smaller because freeform characters are basically the only reason to subscribe to the game.
Well I do have like 1200 cryptic points collecting dust, its worth a shot. Or rather it would be if I had any idea of the chance.
I would buy the fuck out of a freeform slot though
If it's anything like the lockboxes in STO, then the chances are very tiny. Like, 1-in-200 tiny. Probably even smaller because freeform characters are basically the only reason to subscribe to the game.
Yeah if the do the same %$§& like STO, what was the drop chance with the jem'hadar ship, 0.5%. :P
However at last the release soon™ the "new" Power Armor AT. Looks good so far, wish the would copy the powers for CoX.
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Power Set
01 Power Bolts (New energy builder)
01 Tactical Missiles (New power)
06 Minigun
08 Invulnerability
11 Micro Munitions OR Chest Beam
14 Energy Shield
17 Shoulder Launcher
22 Molecular Self Assembly
27 Unbreakable
32 Power Beam (new power) OR Energy Wave
40 Fire All Weapons (new power)
Stats
06 Super Stat: Intelligence
10 Secondary Super Stat: Constitution
15 Secondary Super Stat: Endurance
Power Armor "Slot" functionality updated. No longer puts powers on cooldown. Work in progress.
Cost penalty for using multiple Power Armor powers simultaneously reduced to 10% from 15%.
Eye Beam: Energy cost increased to ~15 (~10 per tick).
Eye Beam: Damage increased by ~78%.
Eye Beam: Now ticks every 0.5 seconds instead of every 1 second.
Tactical Missiles: New power. Charged single target crushing damage.
Power Beam: New power. Maintained non-targeted cylinder particle damage.
Fire All Weapons: New power. Toggled 120 degree cone particle damage.
Currently, costume is using placeholder art.
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Power Armor:
Overdrive: New power! Energy Unlock. Grants an energy over time buff when a maintain or toggle power is maintained for at least half of its max maintain time. Buff can stack up to 3 times.
Tactical Missiles: Energy cost slightly increased.
Tactical Missiles: Damage increased by ~14%.
Now has the Crippling Challenge advantage.
Concussor Beam: Will no longer repel targets who are farther than 45ft away.
Concussor Beam: Targeting Arc increased to 120 degrees.
Eye Beam: Targeting Arc increased to 120 degrees.
Mini Gun: Radius reduced from 4ft to 2ft.
Mini Gun: Damage no longer scales on number of targets.
Mini Gun: Cost slightly increased.
Mini Gun: Damage increased by ~16%
Mini Gun: Targeting Arc increased to 120 degrees.
Micro Munitions: Now has a small energy cost to activate.
Micro Munitions: Energy cost per tick increased by ~8.
Micro Munitions: Damage increased by ~35%.
Micro Munitions: Max periods increased from 4 to 6.
Micro Munitions: Targeting Arc increased to 120 degrees.
Micro Munitions: Radius increased from 10ft to 15ft.
Micro Munitions: Alpha Strike: Reworked damage scaling on number of targets hit. Previously, a single target would take 140% damage and 5 targets would take 28% damage. Now, a single target will take 140% damage and 5 targets will take 100% damage.
Chest Beam: Point Blank Blast: Increased damage bonus.
Power Armor: Power Beam: Now called Plasma Beam.
Plasma Beam: Now has the Challenging Strikes advantage.
Shoulder Launcher: Targeting Arc increased to 120 degrees.
Fire All Weapons: Now has a 90 second cooldown.
Fire All Weapons: Energy cost to activate reduced.
Fire All Weapons: Energy cost per tick slightly increased.
Fire All Weapons: Damage increased by ~50%.
Fire All Weapons: Now has the Challenging Strikes advantage.
Fire All Weapons: KNOW ISSUES: This power should be locking your movement and is currently not doing so.
Power Bolts: It Burns!: New advantage. Each attack now has a chance to apply Plasma Burn.
Tactical Missiles: Blast Radius: New advantage. Now deals its base damage in a 10ft radius.
Plasma Beam: Melta Cannon: New advantage. Now has a chance per tick to apply Plasma Burn.
Power Armor Archetype: The Invincible:
Now has Overdrive instead of Molecular Self Assembly.
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Power Armor:
•Tactical Missiles: Is now a Hand Slot power.
•Tactical Missiles: Ranking up this power now properly increases its damage.
•Tactical Missiles: KNOWN ISSUE - Missile is firing from wrong hand.
•Plasma Beam: Is now a Hand Slot power.
•Plasma Beam: KNOWN ISSUE - Beam shoots sideways.
•Overdrive: Will no longer work with Energy Builders or Travel Powers.
•Overdrive: Now correctly works with Epidemic and Venomous Breath. Please continue reporting powers that are not functioning with Overdrive!
•Fire All Weapons: Is now a Maintained power.
•Fire All Weapons: Now correctly restricts movement while in use.
•Minigun: Infrared Guidance System: New advantage. Increases radius to 5 feet.
•Energy Shield: Phalanx Defense System: New advantage. Using Power Armor Slot (Chest, Hand, or Shoulder) attacks will activate a small defensive buff for a few seconds.
•Reconstruction Circuits: New power. Self heal. Chest Slot toggle.
•Laser Edge: New power.
•Lightwave Slash: New power.
•Plasma Cutter: New power.
Power Armor Archetype: The Invincible
•The Invincible: Now gets Reconstruction Circuits at level 17 instead of Shoulder Launcher.
-All archetypes have had their power schedule adjusted. They all recieve an additional new power.
-Archetypes now recieve powers at 21,25,30,35, and 40 instead of 22,27,32, and 40.
-All Archetypes now get a Form at 14.
-All block replacer powers have been moved to 21.
Also, it looks like they're adding in something similar to STO's hourly Event Calender. This is what to expect so far from it.
-Questionite Ore Bonus: While this event is active, Questionite Ore has a chance to drop from every critter in the game.
-Questionite Story Bonus: While this event is active, Comic Series and Adventure Pack missions and critters reward additional Questionite.
-Experience Bonus: While this event is active, Heroes will earn Bonus XP from every critter in the game.
-Resource Bonus: While this event is active, Bonus Resources have a chance to drop from every critter in the game.
-Story Resources Bonus: While this event is active, Comic Series and Adventure Pack critters award additional Resources.
-Acclaim Bonus: While this event is active, double acclaim is awarded from PvP matches.
-Modification Bonus: While this event is active, Bonus Modifications have a chance to drop from Modification Nodes.
6/2 EDIT: It looks like a new lore-article will be going up now and then on the CO-site labeled News Of The World. Nothing exactly new except for the neat pic attached to the second part of the article that's labeled as 'Power Armor Sneak Peek'.
Scientists now confirm that the recent and extraordinary meteor showers seen around the globe were not only notable for their unusual volume and frequency. Researchers claim that these meteors have actually deposited on Earth new stores of one of the rarest minerals known to man – Questionite! Its very name a testament to its unusual properties and unknown potential, Questionite has long been a target of science and a source of intrigue and conflict.
Now governments, corporations and individuals are all scrambling to discover and extract ore from new deposits of this element and put its properties to the test. Already researchers are finding new uses for this wondrous ore – from new methods of power generation to uses as a structural component and more, who knows what the future will reveal? For now, one thing is certain – though more of this elusive element is now available, its relative rarity is still high, and that can only mean demand will follow!
Q-Powered Arms Race
As the world economy braces itself for the impending impact imposed by an influx of that rare space-born element, Questionite, technology titans around the globe are preparing for an epic arms-race. The question on everyone’s mind – who can make the most of this amazing new element?
Long since thought so rare as to be unavailable for study to any but the most powerful on the planet, a recent meteor shower seen across the globe has distributed a significant sum of the valuable ore in all manner of locations, many of which are yet to be discovered.
However, one thing is clear – study of the elements’ properties proceeds at an ever-increased pace, as scientists from all manner of organizations develop new tools and technologies with Questionite at the center of their innovations!
An announcement from mega-corporation Argent earlier this week communicated their intent to pioneer new, clean energy using Questionite. The company’s detractors, among them environment protection groups, were understandably skeptical, citing the company’s past record and suggested ties to mercenary groups and alleged illicit activity.
Harmon Labs, meanwhile, is rumored to be working on a top secret defense initiative utilizing Questionite as its primary power source. Given Harmon Labs’ long track record of producing cutting edge technology innovations and its ties to UNTIL and UNITY, speculation is understandably rampant. The most common theory revolves around a new, mobile weapons platform.
Steel Commando and Mechassassin Linked to Argent in Kidnapping Investigation
A recent spate of supervillain crime spilled over onto the streets of Millennium City when mercenaries Steel Commando and Mechassassin allegedly kidnapped investigators from the Questionite Exchange research division.
Luckily, heroes were on hand to stage a rescue planned and executed in cooperation with the city’s own MARS response teams. Early leads suggest that the goal behind the kidnappings was the acquisition of an innovative new technology pioneered by Exchange scientists, nicknamed the “Questionite Detector.” Though the technology itself is top-secret, these devices are rumored to allow researchers to find significantly more of the elusive Questionite ore.
Further, while investigations are ongoing, several sources have implicated the pair of power-armored mercenaries as being in the employ of the international mega-corporation, Argent. If true, these rumors would imply that the mega-corporation is flagging behind in the new technology race and is desperate to acquire more Questionite for their projects in development. Regardless, whoever did hire these mercenaries is willing to take drastic steps to appropriate cutting-edge technology to further their goals. Whatever the case may be, it is certain that the new pace of technology development sparked by the arrival of this ore from the stars will only be cause for more conflict in the future.
Sorry for double-posting but has anyone run the UNITY2 mission before? I wanna know if you have to beat Therakiel's Temple first to properly complete Quest Of The Elements. It's just that I've done the initial Element run and I did the Special Assignment but for some reason it's not registering with the person I have to turn it into and I heard that the UNITY2 missions also entail doing a run of the Temple as well.
Sorry for double-posting but has anyone run the UNITY2 mission before? I wanna know if you have to beat Therakiel's Temple first to properly complete Quest Of The Elements. It's just that I've done the initial Element run and I did the Special Assignment but for some reason it's not registering with the person I have to turn it into and I heard that the UNITY2 missions also entail doing a run of the Temple as well.
You do not have to have run TT.
Are you sure you're turning the Unity 2 special into the right person? Because the right person should be Whisper, not Buffy or Doc or whoever you turned the quest into when you did the original, real version of the quest.
So, the Power Armor pass went live today, along with a new AT that takes advantage of the new powers. You can actually build a toon using 100% PA powers and have it be fun and not gimped at the same time, which was really not true before. Eye Beams and Shoulder Launcher are still stinkers, but the new powers are awesome. The various changes introduced in On Alert also allow you to run 3 AoE slot powers at once, which gives some very impressive DPS even on single targets.
Also you can get a Fire All Weapons attack which turns you into a disco ball. A disco ball of bullets, lasers, missiles, and pain.
Yeah, wanted to post about it but I didn't want to do a double-posting again in the thread so soon let alone on the same page. I didn't expect them making the Power Armor AT, the Invincible, into a ranged tank. The new armor-based costume-pack is also pretty nice. I like how it's holographic pieces are separate from the actual armor, letting you use them for non-armor designs.
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Tried respeccing an old concept character into a beam-based Power Armor one after the latest pass.
WHOA, behold the power of a hot knife through butter. That secondary effect on the beams meshes awesomely with the various specialization tree resistance debuffs.
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"now I've got this mental image of caucuses as cafeteria tables in prison, and new congressmen having to beat someone up on inauguration day." - Raiden333
Tried respeccing an old concept character into a beam-based Power Armor one after the latest pass.
WHOA, behold the power of a hot knife through butter. That secondary effect on the beams meshes awesomely with the various specialization tree resistance debuffs.
Plasma Burn is fantastic. I just wish it procced off of more ranged powers. Unless they fixed it from PTS, the only way to build stacks of it reliably was to use your energy builder (with advantage), since Plasma Beam seemed to only refresh existing stacks when it triggered.
Tried respeccing an old concept character into a beam-based Power Armor one after the latest pass.
WHOA, behold the power of a hot knife through butter. That secondary effect on the beams meshes awesomely with the various specialization tree resistance debuffs.
Plasma Burn is fantastic. I just wish it procced off of more ranged powers. Unless they fixed it from PTS, the only way to build stacks of it reliably was to use your energy builder (with advantage), since Plasma Beam seemed to only refresh existing stacks when it triggered.
Na the fix it on live. Plasma Burn from Plasma Beam stacks to 5 without a problem, if mobs survive the first few ticks.
Wish I could switch the AT from tank role to hybrid but my first impression, plain simple awesome.
Tried respeccing an old concept character into a beam-based Power Armor one after the latest pass.
WHOA, behold the power of a hot knife through butter. That secondary effect on the beams meshes awesomely with the various specialization tree resistance debuffs.
Plasma Burn is fantastic. I just wish it procced off of more ranged powers. Unless they fixed it from PTS, the only way to build stacks of it reliably was to use your energy builder (with advantage), since Plasma Beam seemed to only refresh existing stacks when it triggered.
Na the fix it on live. Plasma Burn from Plasma Beam stacks to 5 without a problem, if mobs survive the first few ticks.
Wish I could switch the AT from tank role to hybrid but my first impression, plain simple awesome.
Hmm, so it does. Looks like none of the burn abilities actually refreshed the stacks, and that's a bit of a weakness. An extra 1-pt advantage for PB or the energy builder, to make it refresh the stacks on proc, would be nice.
We’ve received distress signals from Harmon Laboratories, they are under attack! ARGENT has bribed a member of the security team to provide Warlord, a power armored super villain, access to the labs. He’s taken over the area with a small army of mercenaries, and they’ve taken hostages in an effort to learn the access codes the new Harmon Holographic Hexfield Nan-armor Battle Suit Prototypes, which they have already acquired.
We need Champions to Respond to this Alert, take out the mercenaries, free the hostages, and subdue Warlord!
Completion of this Alert will result in an Alert Resource Reward, and Champions may also be able to acquire pieces of Warlord’s Armor, including his armored suits Depleted Uranium Core, a powerful Offensive Mod!
Also...
The Cyber-Augmented Suit has arrived in the Q-Store! This sleek new item set can be picked up in pieces for Questionite, and as you collect more of the pieces, you’ll get better stat bonuses. If you equip three pieces of the set, you’ll get +25% damage (non-physical), and at six pieces, you’ll get an additional 25% bonus to non-physical damage, and the Power Armor Costume Swap power.
This new item set brings a sleek new look to armor design, and can be bought for Questionite. Earn questionite from a number of daily events, including many Alerts and bosses!
So they're gonna keep up porting over STO stuff?
Time-sensitive alerts, item sets (with cosmetic change), more currencies that hinge upon C-points to a degree.
It's just that a lot of people complained about this in the past, about how all of Cryptic games feels too "samey". This probably won't help counter-arguments.
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So they're gonna keep up porting over STO stuff?
Time-sensitive alerts, item sets (with cosmetic change), more currencies that hinge upon C-points to a degree.
It's just that a lot of people complained about this in the past, about how all of Cryptic games feels too "samey". This probably won't help counter-arguments.
At this point, doing this is probably the best way of keeping Champions healthy. It's a bit like everyone pooling their blood transfusions to keep Mina Harker alive, but at this juncture its the best course of treatment for the patient in question.
"now I've got this mental image of caucuses as cafeteria tables in prison, and new congressmen having to beat someone up on inauguration day." - Raiden333
I can imagine that those new gears will be pretty popular among the min/max crowd. Not the primaries, of course, but a 25% damage boost from secondaries is nothing to sneeze at.
Having primaries with high-rank mods and actual inherent abilities is way better than getting the other three pieces of the set, and the transformation power is novel but not terribly effective when compared with a tuned build.
edit: apparently the damage boost is non-physical only. This makes it stupid because half the transformation powers won't even get any benefit from it. Better off going with the Dillo secondaries for min/maxing.
CO released a 'State Of The Game' report for June to go over what's happened and what's to come. Here's some of the highlights written by the new Executive Producer Brad Stokan.
-Besides a host of power-armor themed parts in the Drifter Store, we have even more related releases over the next week. For the less hi-tech inclined, look for a special become-critter enabling you to step inside a mighty suit of Lemurian Magi-Tech armor! This awesome item offers a slick variation on the power armor theme, with a mystical twist!
-Meanwhile, we’ve already begun development on a brand-new type of Alert, tentatively titled the “Rampage” Alert! These unique encounters will feature villains so daunting, so challenging that they’ll demand no fewer than 10 heroes, of level 35-40 no less! The team is hard at work on finishing work on the first of these epic showdowns, featuring the devious diva known as Gravitar! A hero’s worst nightmare, she represents what would happen if a famous heiress had the raw power to level a city block just to grab a front page headline! In combat, she’ll lay down a barrage of AOE attacks – special FX will telegraph for just a moment whether she will target an area or a specific player. Every attack will be hard-hitting, and players will need to work hard and stay sharp to avoid them.
-I’ve often dreamed of debuting in Champions Online my personal favorite IP character – Nighthawk! Now, that dream will soon become a reality. We are currently planning a brand-new Event featuring this enigmatic avenger, including a number of rewards that no self-respecting hero will want to do without. That list might even include the first in a potential fleet of personal, armed-to-the-teeth transportation devices some call “Vehicles”… but we’ll leave those details for another time!
We understand that grab bags aren't for everyone here. That's why we've released the Free Form Character Slot as a standalone purchase! You can now purchase a brand new Free Form Character Slot on your account for 4,000 Cryptic Points, and unlock the full potential of Champions Online's Free Form Character Progression today!
Note: This slot does not grant subscription permissions to the character. The character will have the appropriate access/restrictions based on account level with the exception of power selection.
Become Lemurian Power Armors
Become a magic-power armored Lemurian juggernaut! This toggle device temporarily but completely transforms the player (both costume and powers) into a purple or teal version of a Power Armored Lemurian! Show the world that Lemurian Technology is as strong as anything the surface dwellers can create with these new devices. You can find them both in the C-Store for 920 Cryptic Points.
Rampage Alerts!
This week’s release unveils the new “Rampage” Alert type! These unique encounters will feature villains so powerful that they’ll demand a team of 10 heroes of level 35-40! These fights are designed to give a bit more challenge to our long-standing and high-level players, primarily via mechanics which demand more teamwork and more dynamic engagement in the battle. Rewards include Questionite Ore as well as new costume pieces from the featured villains!
Gravitar has arrived for a night on the town in Millennium City! That dreadful diva’s idea of a good time is wreaking total havoc to grab a few headlines! We have managed to contain her to a city block, but we need 10 worthy heroes to go in and subdue her before she breaks free or causes more damage! Are you up to the challenge?
Below is a preview of Gravitar’s unique powers and what they do! You’ll need all the help you can get to take her down!
-Force Detonation - Gravitar focuses briefly on a nearby point in space and then unleashes a torrent of force that heavily damages heroes in the area.
-Force Eruption - Gravitar blasts away nearby heroes with heavy damage.
-Gravity Cascade - Gravitar picks a random target and unleashes a chain of gravity pulses in a line towards her target. She does this up to 3 times in a row depending on her current health.
-Gravity Well - After losing enough health Gravitar will begin to create powerful Gravity Wells that pull all heroes toward her before blasting them away for massive damage.
-Gravity Bubble - Gravitar suspends heroes in an area in a bubble of gravitational energies and begins channeling a powerful gravity burst which will instantly kill heroes in the area.
Lemurian Crisis
The UNTIL submarine Aegir is under attack by the villainous sorcerer Aphotha and his aquatic minions! Rendezvous with the Nautilus submarine in Monster Island to effect a heroic rescue of the Aegir and its crew. After completing this content once, players may access a special daily mission available from the Drifter in Renaissance Center for a Questionite Ore Reward!
Annnnd the other shoe has dropped. So much for all the great things that the merger was supposed to produce. Thus far, the only not-shitty thing that's a direct result of PWE's takeover is that the game hasn't been shut down (yet).
Really? They're just merging the accounts so everyone uses PWE's account system.
They're also getting rid of a bunch of community forum features. Oh, and if your @name happens to match an existing PWE account? Guess who has to get a new name.
I'd also gripe about the Zen->CP thing being forced on us, but they're actually just getting rid of CP entirely so it's still just a one-step process. Though there's no details on whether or not we'll be able to buy Zen in-game like we can with CP (i.e. without having to minimize the game and go to an account site).
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The devs have a near real-time conversation going on with the PTS denizens, and have been extremely responsive to feedback. The entire patch is still in a state of flux.
So again, I'm not going to post them here right now out of context.
The major thing happening is that forms are spreading out to fully encompass various playstyles (not just melee and ranged attackers who are willing to put up with the annoyance of enrage). Multiplicative buffs are becoming additive (Aggressor, Aspect of the Infernal etc). AoPM is getting a small nerf that people are still raging about like the sky has fallen. The other auras are getting buffed, and amazingly, people are bitching that AoRP will be "overpowered". The very same people complaining that AoPM was perfect and needed no nerf, so I don't trust a word they say.
There's many other things under consideration, but honestly, if you want to be a tester and have input, support the game; buy a subscription.
I don't PvP enough to know for sure, but my adventures on the forums lead me to believe that this particular whining is due to some PvPers' perception that a powerful AoRP will break (or at least be a step towards breaking) their precious OHKO force cascade setups. For my PvE menagerie build, the buff is fantastic.
The GB's available both in the C-Store for those who have the points and as a reward for a new daily mission in Millennium City, granting Drifter Salvage as it's other (and more likely to get) prize. Subscribers still win out as they'll still get a free character slot out of it as well as being able to keep playing the character as Freeform if they ever go F2P.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
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I got a quest that directed me to the drifter, but nothing happened after I talked to him.
I would buy the fuck out of a freeform slot though
The Drifter should give you the quest for the daily grab bag + 500 ore, not sure about a min. lvl.
If you are looking for the 2k ore quest check your Crime Computer->Alerts, works at lvl 6....
Look for zone chat or "/Channel_Join MechaCommando" for Steel Commando/Mechassassin locations.
If it's anything like the lockboxes in STO, then the chances are very tiny. Like, 1-in-200 tiny. Probably even smaller because freeform characters are basically the only reason to subscribe to the game.
Yeah if the do the same %$§& like STO, what was the drop chance with the jem'hadar ship, 0.5%. :P
However at last the release soon™ the "new" Power Armor AT. Looks good so far, wish the would copy the powers for CoX.
Video is from a first build 2 weaks ago.....plus this one with the new powers from the last patch.
So lets hope the build a good AT out of the powers
Also, it looks like they're adding in something similar to STO's hourly Event Calender. This is what to expect so far from it.
6/2 EDIT: It looks like a new lore-article will be going up now and then on the CO-site labeled News Of The World. Nothing exactly new except for the neat pic attached to the second part of the article that's labeled as 'Power Armor Sneak Peek'.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
You do not have to have run TT.
Are you sure you're turning the Unity 2 special into the right person? Because the right person should be Whisper, not Buffy or Doc or whoever you turned the quest into when you did the original, real version of the quest.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Also you can get a Fire All Weapons attack which turns you into a disco ball. A disco ball of bullets, lasers, missiles, and pain.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
WHOA, behold the power of a hot knife through butter. That secondary effect on the beams meshes awesomely with the various specialization tree resistance debuffs.
Plasma Burn is fantastic. I just wish it procced off of more ranged powers. Unless they fixed it from PTS, the only way to build stacks of it reliably was to use your energy builder (with advantage), since Plasma Beam seemed to only refresh existing stacks when it triggered.
Hmm, I've heard mention of people saying the Unity 2 There and Bat Again is bugged. Haven't gotten it myself so not sure.
Na the fix it on live. Plasma Burn from Plasma Beam stacks to 5 without a problem, if mobs survive the first few ticks.
Wish I could switch the AT from tank role to hybrid but my first impression, plain simple awesome.
Hmm, so it does. Looks like none of the burn abilities actually refreshed the stacks, and that's a bit of a weakness. An extra 1-pt advantage for PB or the energy builder, to make it refresh the stacks on proc, would be nice.
Also...
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Time-sensitive alerts, item sets (with cosmetic change), more currencies that hinge upon C-points to a degree.
why not pillage their own good ideas
At this point, doing this is probably the best way of keeping Champions healthy. It's a bit like everyone pooling their blood transfusions to keep Mina Harker alive, but at this juncture its the best course of treatment for the patient in question.
Having primaries with high-rank mods and actual inherent abilities is way better than getting the other three pieces of the set, and the transformation power is novel but not terribly effective when compared with a tuned build.
edit: apparently the damage boost is non-physical only. This makes it stupid because half the transformation powers won't even get any benefit from it. Better off going with the Dillo secondaries for min/maxing.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Kudos to them for putting it up at least, I might actually buy one.
I am playing both Agent characters.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
They're also getting rid of a bunch of community forum features. Oh, and if your @name happens to match an existing PWE account? Guess who has to get a new name.
I'd also gripe about the Zen->CP thing being forced on us, but they're actually just getting rid of CP entirely so it's still just a one-step process. Though there's no details on whether or not we'll be able to buy Zen in-game like we can with CP (i.e. without having to minimize the game and go to an account site).