I will admit that there aren't too many times solo that I feel the need to pull. But when you've got to fight a Vindicator, who has 3 Wardens next to it...who are empathy/psi, rad/rad, and illusion/FF, along with 15 or so minions and LT's....and 10 feet is another spawn full of 3 bosses and 15 LT's and minnions...yeah, pulling is a good idea.



And yeah, I'm never gonna try and set up some cool shot for the big ding, cause well...this tends to happen..

Haha, congrats.

I dunno, I kinda like that screen...

"You Fools! I have become more powerful then you can ever imagine! I SHALL RETUUUUUURRRRRRRNNN!"

1:

2: congrats, man!

Looks like your soul is trying to escape




A while back someone had posted a clip from YouTube of a CoH demo file set to Mambo No. 5. I tried looking it up again, but I can't find it. But I did find this and thought it was pretty funny

And today the mapserver keeps disconnecting me.

Guh.

Well, I don't know if it is just me, but it seems like AV's and heroes are much easier to hold now. I mean on the teams I have been part of lately, heroes and archvillains are constantly held...even in RV.

I mean like when Ghost Widow's own powers get used on her. Or when Ms. Liberty becomes Ms. Tied Up...and we all take Valkyrie for a spin.



Oh, and before I forget..what DP talked about a few days back about the team leader quiting, then bringing in even more people to the same mission. I don't think it is a bug, but rather an exploit. Similar thing happened to me yesterday morning. I was out in the Fab, when I was begged to join a team to take down a hero. Turns out it was the Vindicator mission, and upon entering there were two teams of 6/7 villains. I thought it was stupid, as if one team couldn't take down a hero then something was wrong. But there were so many people and pets in melee that I had to resort to doing ranged attacks and very little AStriking.


*Ponders posting CoX artwork.*

Do it. Do it now.

Nekrosys Commands you!!!













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And Zooty asks real nice.

Alright, alright. Though I admit it is nothing special...I'd post it elsewhere, like say Iacon, but then I don't really care to have it critiqued. Just like sharing....

Awesome artwork. I always love seeing your CoX pics...or any of your pics for that matter...

Awesome stuff as always

Makes me want to post my drawings. Of course, I'd actually have to have something drawn to post it. To the sketchpad!

Dazzle Girl and Lady Morose, nice.

....

You need to do a Conduit VS. Conductor pic. Like, now even.

Man those pics rock!

Ryno.... Needs a good drawing of Coldmaker...

Just realized how dirty that sounds when you sound it out...

You have warped my fragile little mind...


Thanks guys. I wish I was a bit better at more dynamic and active pics...rather than the 'stand around in some generic pose not really doing anything' type set ups. I haven't actually done anything for a few weeks, though I am tossing around a few ideas.

Awesome artstuffs, as always. Keep it up! And remember, your fellow players have no shortage of subjects for you in case you get bored of drawing your own characters.

Agreed on all the kudos. Great art all aroud.

And I second Sky's suggestion. Now if only you could find other players who would like to see their characters drawn...

Heh, Night Raider'd be stupid easy to draw - he's like Batman. Put him on a Balcony in the dead of night with his cape concealing 80% of his body.

Gah, I hate you all... I mean... I'll see what I can do. ¬_¬

Well, I got a sketch of Delta Seeker all done and drawn up, now I need to get my scanner working. I hate trying to find my disks after a move...

Oh you know you're just itching to do the Allspark Heroes of Paragon City and the Allspark Villians of the Rogue Isles (Or sometimes known as the Rouge Isles).

Ha ha, the Rouge Isles. World's prettiest archipelago!

I seem to recall other people making that typo and getting jive for it. I wanna say there was a stalker or something named 'Rouge Assassin'...



Yes, I dream of doing it every night....

I still wanna see Power Paladin in ink.

Hey Guys, for my Heroe Coldmaker, looking to join a good SG.

Been in a few lately and they all suck, I'm like the only member gaining prestige.

I'm an Ice/Ice Blaster Lvl 13, should hit 14 tonight.

RYNO

Well, the Omega Guardians is still around. I think you and I play at different times, though, since I never seem to see you on. I'm usually on from about 7pm - 11pm weekdays.

We do need to recruit some new players into the Omega Guardians. Right now I think there are 3 or 4 of us in it that are still active. My scrappers are working on earning enough prestige to pay the base rent, but that's all I can do at this time. Soon I won't be able to keep up with the rent.

I do know a few other SGs that are pretty good, too, if you want. The Superdupers, Dood's Doods, and League of Extraordinary Bickerers are the 3 I'm most familiar with.

Speaking of the OG, my current character in my Rotating order is Obscurantis. He's still SGless, so if you happen to catch me tonight playing him toss him a SG invite to the OG.

I got the Infiltrator badge finally, only to play postman for Viridian's evil tea party.

Tub Ci, the leader of the Tsoo, is one short hugger. He only came up to Saber's waist.

So we finally get to see him?

How many AVs mentionned in CoH that we finally see in CoV?

Duray (Sky Raiders) is in a SF

Uplink OOT mentionned that The Center (Council) is seen at the end of a story arc in a cutscene

And now Tub Ci.

Who are we still missing? Sebastian Frost (Family), Odyseus (Warriors), Baron Z-somwething (CoT)... Anyone else?

You can take Frost off your list. I don't think we'll ever see the Baron as we would know him, his soul was ripped out and trapped in a crystal...some CoT hugger is probably running around in his body, if it hasn't been destroyed.

I have some screenshots coming soon, one is classic Freakshow.

Yeah I know about the Baron, but we could see whoever/whatever is posessing the body claiming to be him.

Why can I take Frost off the list? Was he seen, or taken out of the picture?

Oh, and I forgot Reichsmann. There are still rumors floating about that he might show up eventually (J.V.S. is keeping his fingers crossed, and has his robots do the same ;-) )

GAH!!! And I also forgot about Grendel.

Yeah, but isn't Grendel dead...well for all we know he is?


And you can take off Frost because we do see him.

Grendel, to my last reckoning, is "missing".

Glad to know the bit about Frost. Can't wait to see that :-)

The disappointing thing about Frost is that they used a generic NPC citizen model for him. I did the mission twice and he had a different model each time.

Also, Mr. Von Shrapnel might be interested to read the latest addition to Requiem's bio:

GLEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

A new patch brings a new round of server instability. Joy!

I'm bummed I never got to experience the 5th Column. Everyone goes on about how awesome they were...

It's not that they were awesome per se...

Just that didn't suck like the Council do.

Plus, it's always cool to beat up Nazis.

Well, you're kind of still beating up Nazi's....they're just now helping an alien invasion force rather than the whole orginal Nazi ideals.

And um...classic Freak talk...

"I think I'm gonna need a new arm! COOL!"




Also...

"I know what the problem is! I'm too sober!"

OMFGROFLMAOWTFBBQ!!!

Dreck is a Pinnaclian!

Just wanted to post that pic of Delta Seeker I mentioned previously. I really need to learn how to ink and color better....

And... that's a big ol' DING.



As luck would have it, Lilith dinged 50 in the same zone that Skyra dinged in... sorta.

Gratz

Did it in the Peregrine Island Mayhem Mission, I assume?

Yes indeedy.

Grats on 50!



And I have to say the last two missions of Viridian's arc were pretty sweet, well the last one was neat until I got to the last room and it had two +1 ballistas in it. I kinda wussed out on the mission before it because there was simply no way for me to deal with a string of +1 EB's without leaving the mission to get some inspirations or wait for overload to recharge or whatever.

Hello, if you see me in the game, please come say hello. I'm on the European Defiant Server.

Dragons Hands

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Not sure how many of us you will see sadly, due to the European servers being seperate from the US servers. There are a few on the servers and maybe you'll run into them though.




I feel like a broken record at times about this, but I everytime I think about it I get even more frustrated. What am I talking about? Recluse's Strike Force.

I mean it's bad enough at how exclusive it is to certain AT's and powersets and how things like stalkers, masterminds and dominators get hugged out of participating as compared to corruptors and brutes. But then when people start talking strategy and the core of it revolves around temp powers from Warburg and Bloody Bay...you know that something is hugged up. I know it's not really fair to compare it to other task forces and strike forces or even to Hamidon, but the LRSF is the CoV equivalent of Hamidon, and yes it should be hard and require thought, but it should not be as utterly hugged up as it is. People should not have to consider going to Bloody Bay and getting the Shivan Summon or going to Warburg and getting nukes. I am sure there is a more manageable way to do the SF that doesn't rely on temp powers or teams of 6 /cold, /kin or /rad corruptors and a brute and whatever wildcard slot...but people are getting set into this type of approach and it's hugging over a ton of players. The devs really need to do something about this.

I am working on leveling up my corruptor to particpate in this SF, but then I realized something. No real PUG's are doing this, the only people doing this regularly or even attempting it are SG's and their friends. The VSG I am in is the villainous counterpart of my heroes' SG, and while the SG is great, our VSG is lacking, only maybe 4 of us play villains regularly. I don't really team with a lot of other villains and they don't know me...so even if I were to get my corruptor to 50 for this thing, I don't know if I should really even think I will be able to do it.

Least with Hami, anyone can come regardless of who you know or who you are or what you play. I really wish the LRSF was similar in that regard.

Villains seem to be quite prevalent on the European servers, judging by the domination of Sirens Call and the fact that you can't go there without being followed by some annoying Stalker (I'm sorry, but I hate them) or a Mastermind that looks like and is named like their minions (although clever, it is also very annyoing). I have CoV, but I don't really like playing as one.

Depends. I actually don't recall ever going into Sirens Call on Union (the other English language European server) and seeing the Villains winning.

Ever.

Phazer