Zooty's not waisting time with the new Hamidon...



Already been Who's yo' Daddied!

Hami facepalmed you about 45 seconds after that right?

Phazer

Actually, no. I just flew away

In other news, I'm currently attempting the Statesman TF... We're in the 2nd mission. We were bringing down the 2nd AV in it when a red message flashed, telling us that we had 20 minutes before a server shutdown...

Naturally we were NOT amused.

We managed to beat the 2nd mission with about 1 minute to spare O_o... When Test gets back up we;ll jump right in to see the rest


EDIT: Well, we got back in... Got some nice surprises in the following missions, such as...


[spoiler]The mission after that is set in the Thorn Tree map of the CoV respec trial, even has a team of villains respecing![/spoiler]

We went on, but when we reached the mission with all the villain's aides (Ice Mistral, Barracuda, Wretch and Silver Mantis) we couln't beat Aeon. Most of the team blamed the player in control of the needed temp power for that, 'cause we had a good strategy. Highlight of that mission though: Zooty "Who's yo; daddied" EVERY AV on the map, and got kill credits for 3 of the 4! (All but Ice Mistral got Zooted)

All in all, good times despite the failure.

Optimus Prime is no more

He's been replaced by Diaclone Ultra Magnus...

Buh.

:-/

Well, I'd love to test out I9, but Vista doesn't think I should have permission to install the test files. AWESOME.

P.S. That is the truck parked behind Wentworth's.

The villain Black Market truck is still red.

I don't know... the background of that pic seems very "Aeon City"-ish (Cap au Diable) so there wouldn't be any Wentworth's there. (Jumps on test to have a look-see)

I'm confirming that it *is* the black market, screenshot (with UI) attached showing it's indeed villain side

The other day I saw a red OP truck behind Wentworth's in Talos. But after the lastest patch, all the trucks on both sides seem to be blue.

Nope, took that pic in Cap. They're all blue now.

I was reading over on the CoH boards, and apparently someone over there complained enough to make Cryptic change the truck. Don't know the whole story, but it sounds pretty lame. It's like Orson's World all over again...

Oh yeah. That person who turned it into such a huge bitchfest that she hounded the digital artist on another board and had to have the mods there tell her to shut up. Boo hiss.

fortuantly i saw this before i logged on and was able to extract the old optimus textures from the pigg files before they were patched. So now that truck is staying prime for mees.

Hm... good idea. Just verified he's still red on live. Time for some pigg diving...

Its in the pigg file that ends in SW under streets,parked cars,semi I think.

Found it in texWorld.pigg, under texture_library/WORLD/organizations/AuctionHouse/BlackMarket_Cab*

Extracted it and put it under /data in CoHTest directory, worked like a charm

bizzare. I rechecked and I found it in texWorldSW.pigg under

texture_librarly/WORLD/streets/elements/Parked_Cars/Parked_Semi/

I only tested it with the truck behind the wentworths in Steel Canyon on the test server tho.. I wonder if theres two different trucks?

Yep there is. Thats odd. The blue test server version is also a higher res texture

Well, that sucks that they did change it in Villains. I noticed the blue cab in Steel as well, but figured it was unique to Steel. The photo earlier (I didn't enlarge it) looked at first glance like the Talos setting.

Did you extract the entire contents of that "folder" or just the texture file BlackMarket_Cab.texture?

I noticed there's a lot of other info in there, too, such as the building's doors, etc.

And, has anyone verified which PIGG file? The texWorld or texWorldSW?

Geeze, am I the *only* one who never looks at those PIGG files?

it appears that theres two different trucks, but both use the same texture and look the same. I dont know wh they would do this as its kinda ineffecient but.. I can confirm the onein SW is for the truck in Steelcanyon at the least because i tested it. I dont know where the villian truck is so i couldnt go check. I just imagine its texture is the one in the blackmarket directory tho.

You'll need these files for the Black Market truck (or, at least, these are the ones I extracted) from texWorld.pigg:
BlackMarket_Cab.texture
BlackMarket_Cab_mask.texture
BlackMarket_Cab_normal.texture
BlackMarket_Trailer.texture
BlackMarket_Trailer_normal.texture

Extract these to the data directory under your CoH/CoV (or CoH/CoV Test) installation directory. This will create this path structure (assuming default installation):

C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\data\texture_library\WORLD\organizations\AuctionHouse

The *.texture files will appear under AuctionHouse, and the truck will be red in-game, with the blue stripe back on the trailer.

For the other truck, extract the files that Murry mentioned into the data directory.

That should put Prime back in place everywhere this truck is used.

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Addendum


Just figured out how to make custom colors on in-game objects

Nemesis Prime/Motormaster has invaded the Rogue Islands!



I'm thinking of changing the trailer up some, it just doesn't go well with the new look

edit: I can't spell...

Awesomes! CoH modding

By the way, anyone ever fought Freak Tanks and had them get back up and fight you with no arms?

I have, plenty of times. I believe that glitch is fixed in I9.

Heh heh heh...

Change of subject: Pinstripe is now starting his 2nd Patron arc, being the "Black Scorpion plots against Ghost Widow" arc. I'm ***seriously*** considering doing a full fictionnal write-up (acompanied by screenshots, a-la (Mis)adventures of Zoot-Suit Riot) of the arc, like a bigger version of the "Whatever you Say" piece I did a while back.

And I mean a BIG one. Add dialogue between the characters, more motivation for the plots that lead from point A to point B, pretty much ending with the reveal of the WarStripe 2.0 (It's already done, but I purposely haven't used it yet 'cause I'm saving it for the showdown with Scorpy himself).

Guess I'll see if I do it or not.

I've deleted all my characters off of the Test server. I'm just going to sit and wait for I9 now.

Okay, so I had to go back just to see what this "Monster Island" place is like. Turns out it's a lot like the islands north of Peregrine Island in CoH. Almost an exact copy, in fact. You can even see the Portal Corp and the Arena to the south.

While I was there, I decided that since I was on Test, might as well play around with some of the temp powers I've been hoarding...



FIRE IN THE HOLE!

Are those Rikti monkeys? So villains will finally have a good place to hunt for them and Zookeeper?

Okay, I decided to go ahead and to it. It was a slow day at work and I wrote what I decided should be the 1st of 2 prologues taking part before the actual arc (This is an actual Newspaper mission being retold here, did when Stripes was level 39, and I thought "wow, that would be a good idea for the origin of the Warstripe 2.0 "). Yeah, I'll admit the last of the 3 screenshots was heavily doctored, but I don't know how to make convincing flames in CoH

Link in a handy PDF, attached to this post. Lemme know what y'all think

Note that as opposed to "Whatever you say", I took *no* effort to make Pinstripe look sympathetic here. This is him as his true villainous side, so yes, he'll look more sadistic and more dangerous than the 1st time I wrote a piece of fiction with him in the 1st person. This is basically how I truly envision Pinstripe, and remember that game's not called "City of Villains" for nothing

Yes indeed.

Although I already got the badge the hard way... *grumble*

About the most modding I've done is change music for neighborhoods. I still can't stand Devil's Coat Tails or Hellforged, so I replaced them with something more pleasing.

However, changing textures.... This intrigues me. I'd be interested to know how you got the Decepticon insignia on there.

2nd prologue written up...

Basically the ending of the last mission of Black Scorpion's 1st Story Arc, "Armor Wars".

Unfortunately I forgot to record a demo of it, so I couldn't extract what model they used for Dr Quatrexin, and I looked all over and couldn't find a resource site with the name of the model they used :-/ So I used Black Scorpion instead, and put him at an angle where you don't see his face

Next will be chapter 1 in which we really look at the arc itself.

(Note: THis PDF contains BOTH prologues, and as I post these it will be "cumulative")

EDIT: Caught a few typos upon re-read, they'll be fixed in the next version

PIGG View allows you to extract textures to BMP files. I then pulled that in to Paint Shop Pro, did my stuff, them use PIGG Viewer again to create a new texture, which gets placed in the data directory for CoH.

Ack, the Test Server's annoying me.

Or rather the "Copy Character" function.

I copied Pinstripe last night over there to make sure everyting will work fine for the last 2 missions of the arc (I remember the Silver Mantis mission being bugged), so I want to try them there before I do so on live. I used the copy tool last night at around 9:00

Well it's 10:40 in the morning and he's STILL not copied.

Didn't they fix that problem? :-(

EDIT: Back on the story arc-fiction: apparently I type too much: the combined 2 prologues and 1st 2 chapters are too big for me to attach them here, and even Chapter 1 by itself is too large a file O_o

I have always wanted to do this.

I HAVE to do that with Nekrosys and his bazillion pets. That pet window'll be too huge for the screen

In other news, tired of waiting after the copy tool, I decided to go ahead and finish the arc, bug be damned.

Well I amlost regretted it. In the Silver Mantis mission (the one I mentionned a possible bug with), with I rescued Doc Aeon, he actually stood there for a full minute after I defeated his guards (among them Silver Mantis). I was about ready to petition it when he started moving, and followed me out of the map O_o

I've written a bit of Chapter 3, but as I said individual chapters are too big top post as attachments... Any suggeston on how I should proceed when I'm done with the thing (that is if you want to see it)?

That's awesome

How do you get the mechs and the warwolf? I know that the Decoys, Phantasm, and the Spectral Terror are Illusion pets, and that the Shivan Shard comes from that meteorite mish, but the acquisition of the rest is a mystery to me.

I think a Necro/Dark Mastermind is probably a contender for most pets ever. By level 50, you could have:
3 tier 1 pets
2 tier 2 pets
1 tier 3 pet
Dark Servant
Arachnos Mini-Blaster
Shivan Decimator
Snow Beast
Zombie (from Loa Bone)
Imp (from Summoning Amulet)
Wailer Queen (from Pandora's Box, assuming you're Magic origin)
Swarms
Deathrose (or whatever, from Creeper Seeds)
Rikti Drone
And an Arachnos heavy, if you're in RV.

The thing I liked about doing it with Pale Shadow, though, is that she was able to Speed Boost them all and then take them to molest the nearest pillbox.

The Warwolf is a temp power from the Striga Arc, and the Longbow Mechs are Recluse Victory temp powers.

nd BTW, Sky, you forgot dead zombies that I can summon back as Ghosts

The Warwolf is given to you in the Striga zone story arcs. The mech you get in Recluse's Victory if you manage to get 1000 temporal points (best way is to get a team together, take a bunch of pillboxes, and beat down the AV reinforcements) before the zone resets. The Snow Beast is from holiday present glowies. And Amy Jonsson, who is kind of hidden in this screenshot, is acquired from doing the Katie Hannon TF.

Oh yeah, and the Cataphract (bigger mech) is a feature in RV. You can control it, but only as long as you're inside the zone (and stay alive).

Ah yes, I knew that one as well. I really enjoyed having Amy as a pet, since she heals and such I usually go back and fetch Shivans on a regular basis, so I can have a little backup in case a solo mission goes south. A big boon to a solo blaster

Oh god this is priceless. This is one of the best After Mission de-briefings ever, right up there with Madeleine Casey's...

"So, the Carnival is supping on souls, eh? Sweet, delicious souls.

You know, HERONAME, I really wish you'd quit giving me that look."


***edit***: Now this looks Badass. Also, sneak peak at the Warstripe 2.0

His quote at the very end of that story arc is also great.

"Plan comes together I love it!"

Team: A For the: Win!

Kinky.

Mwah: Hah: Hah!

One day I'll finally get my villain out of the 20s (I think he's 28 right now).

Suppose this would be the place to ask around. As far as CoV goes. Er... what'd be a good server for a neeeewb looking for friends?

In otherwords. What server is everyone on. I'm lonely.

A whole lot of us hang on Pinnacle, but if you look enough you can find some Sparkers on other servers (I basically play on Pinnacle exclusively, unless I'm doing a side project like "City of Deadpool")

Pinnacle has a bit of a low population these days, it seems. If you're not afraid of looking for new friends, you could try a more populated server like Freedom (main PVP server) or Virtue (main roleplaying server).

I mainly play on Freedom on my char Phantom Gear. I also just made a hero named Telum, but dunno how much I'll use him.

I play mainly on Freedom, too. My lowest hero there is level 15, while my lowest villain is level 12.

Shoot me a /tell sometime, hoss. Would be nice to play with someone who isn't random.