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Post by Warp Factor on Sept 9, 2012 11:54:37 GMT -5
All that said, it's worth noting that Neil Gaiman has retweeted info about trying to save the game, and that a few professional authors have stepped up, most notably Mercedes Lackey, who has publically offered to promote and advertise the game for free. Seriously, she outright offered a 5-10 year contract with NCSoft to basically be a spokesperson for the game, free of charge. Pretty fucking awesome.
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Post by evilbenfranklin on Sept 11, 2012 15:20:57 GMT -5
Well, I'll keep playing until the lights go off or we get the word that The Great Ghu (or Elder God of your choice) has defeated the creeping black swarm Whose Name is Shutdown. In the meantime, I've been playing STO and CO again on F2P status, and have been enjoying them, STO especially.
As for moving a couple of heroes over to CO, well...
Moira awoke in a crater. This was the first thing she noticed that was a little unusual. Her body fairly hissed with pain as curls of steam and smoke rose around her from the glass-smooth 'bowl' of the depression she found herself in. Squinting against the bright light and wincing at the sound of nearby explosions and weapons fire, she looked over to see a similar glowing crater with her teammate Natalya "The People's Flame" Shilovna only just returning to consciousness, the tall blonde's uniform in barely-modest tatters.
Sitting up, Stern Impact looked around her. This wasn't Paragon City, not even close. A tall cylindrical glass and steel building was perched on a nearby hill, a massive defense cannon aimed at an alien vessel hovering over the city. The glow in the air around her wasn't the usual eerie comfort of the War Walls, but a containment field being projected from the otherworldly mothership overhead.
She only vaguely remembered what had happened. The Storm had Come at last, and she and the Flame had been frantically holding off assailants as civilians evacuated in the path of the Storm, which looked precisely like its namesake. A wall of roiling impenetrable black Nothing, shot through with eldritch fire and lightning, spreading over the entirety of Paragon City from ground to... well, wherever the sky ended. As it had closed in, she'd grabbed Natalya and focused all her remaining strength into a kinetic shift, attempting to teleport them to safety...
...Except nowhere was safe, not from that semi-sentient cloud of oblivion. Frowning against her throbbing migraine, she tentatively tested her powers, and found them... different. She could still manifest telekinetic force, but it seemed more focused now, her scientist's mind touching briefly on the idea of gravitic manipulation rather than sheer force of will. Looking over at her companion, she saw that Flame was having similar issues, her body intermittently wreathed in flames as her own abilities started to stabilize.
The most disturbing thing was, reality itself felt different, as if the rules governing the universe themselves had been altered. It was a sensation that she hadn't felt since she had first awoken in the embarkation room at Portal Corp eight years ago, and that by itself brought her to an even more troubling conclusion.
"Well," she thought to herself, "S'not like I 'aven't jumped dimensions before... Let's 'ave a lookabout an' see wot's wot."
Getting to her feet, Dr. Moira Stern steadied herself, her body finally beginning to obey her commands. Seeing figures flitting across the skies and running through the streets in a myriad of colors, she knew what was called for.
Helping her companion and friend to her feet, Stern Impact and The People's Flame turned to face this brave new world, that had such heroes in it.
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Post by evilbenfranklin on Sept 11, 2012 16:09:43 GMT -5
Or I could stick with the usual Earth-1/Earth-2/Earth-ZZ/Earth-Pony solution, where there are an infinite number of Moira Sterns wielding an infinite number of hammers, telekinetic or hydrospanner-ish.
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Post by Warp Factor on Sept 11, 2012 17:18:22 GMT -5
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Post by The Bobby Llama on Sept 12, 2012 1:12:36 GMT -5
As for moving a couple of heroes over to CO... I play Champs on and off, and if you're looking to transition there, make sure you get involved with CORP (Champions Online Role Play)! Forum postHome pageI'm not super active there, but there have been a lot of familiar names popping up lately... |
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Post by The Cheshire Cat on Sept 12, 2012 17:58:29 GMT -5
If people move over to CO I might get more active there. I reinstalled it but haven't bothered to reactivate my subscription (which I'd probably do if I started playing - the F2P levelling options are rather limited).
I do kind of miss Pariah. If CoH had managed to get psi melee in I would have remade her there!
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Post by evilbenfranklin on Sept 12, 2012 20:08:12 GMT -5
Lately I've been in STO more than CO, but I do plan on giving CO a good run-through this weekend, assuming I can avoid the dreaded SNR problems.
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Post by evilbenfranklin on Sept 12, 2012 20:09:11 GMT -5
Plus, after a few surveys and whatnot, I've got almost a thousand of those Zen thingers burning a hole in my pocket, so I think I know what I'm going to do with them.
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Post by Warp Factor on Sept 12, 2012 22:20:58 GMT -5
You can get zen by doing surveys now? I may have to look into that.
Also, a friend of mine wants to play but keeps crashing as soon as she starts the game up. Anybody had a similar problem?
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Post by The Bobby Llama on Sept 13, 2012 12:25:55 GMT -5
Also, a friend of mine wants to play but keeps crashing as soon as she starts the game up. Anybody had a similar problem? Well, there's always the possibility of a video driver problem, but I'm sure you've already thought of that... I scanned CO's Technical Issues board and there are a few threads about the game dying on the Cryptic screen when you first get in. Don't know if that's what you're referring to, but there were a couple of fixes that people used. These are both in the launcher options. - Start the game in safe mode. If it works like this, she can exit and turn safe mode off.
- Disable on-demand patching (and prepare for a big download).
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Post by evilbenfranklin on Sept 13, 2012 12:29:52 GMT -5
The only problem I've really had so far is the dreaded "Server Not Responding" messages. That's nothing Cryptic's doing, it's their server host Cogent, who has a well-earned reputation for having excellent service in some areas, and abysmal service in others. In this case, anyone on TWC in TX or SoCal seems to be afflicted at least intermittently.
Last night, I couldn't even get out of f'ing Spacedock
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Post by Warp Factor on Sept 19, 2012 17:40:37 GMT -5
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