The Other Side of the Looking Glass - 10/21/05

**Walrus**

This thread is for discussing The Other Side of the Looking Glass posted on Friday, October 21, 2005 on Data Node One.

Message Edited by Walrus on 10-21-2005 04:26 PM
Message edited by Walrus on 10/21/2005 15:26:17.

**POwedMxOplayer**

Halelujah!!

Yo Lusid, I told ya!

If my earlier post had any influence, I will TRY to be humble. If not I'll just *CENSORED*.

But Seriously, thank you so very much Walrus.../bows

I'll hold you to the "weekly."

PS: hug the rest of the clan for me will ya?

Message Edited by POwedMxOplayer on 10-21-2005 05:18 PM
Message edited by POwedMxOplayer on 10/21/2005 16:18:04.

**Symmetric**

Walrus, you rule. I look forward to Halloween in the Matrix. SMILEY

P.S. Please send The Kings of Never's regards to Andy S. It was awfully cool of him to ask for a private meeting with us, and we're both honored and humbled. Thank you. SMILEY

Message Edited by Symmetric on 10-21-2005 08:31 PM
Message edited by Symmetric on 10/21/2005 16:31:15.

**VSLL**

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Love ya Walrus! Finally our dreams have come true and we can dress up for Halloween! I know I look forward to all the decorations!

Oh and...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

**Frink**

Well it is finally great to hear what is going behind the scenes. I would like to know more about the game issues (bugs being worked on, implements being planned, and new content) in your article. I would love to read about the following issues...

1. Zen Ability (Trader vendors?)

2. The three new disciplines (when or are they being worked on?)

3. Market Place (How far is it coming along?)

4. New Items (Will there be any better buffed items coming along?)

5. Level 50 items (When will an archive open up for level 50's, because a 60pt HJ cap is just not worth anything in the archives.)

6. Smoother Downtown (the lag is weird)

7. Neo's Insight (Why deactivate it, why deactivate it, why deactivate it???)

8. QA SERVER? (I want to have a QA server back, badly. Players since beta or launch deserve to test out new things, and those players will give much better feedback than the testing of new content now)

Thank you for reading, and hopefully replying to my feedback.

Frink

Jove226

Halloween costumes are great and all but I want SUBSTANCE WALRUS
SUBSTANCE! *bleep* Halloween and give us something that is oging to
last more than a week...... give us ship constructs........... give us
a Zion and Machine safe Zone like club Hell........ open up a new
district............. add in melee weapons........
car/motorcycles...........Zen Master/ Trojan................Drunken
Boxing............. New Dungeons.............. a Live Event that
doesn't *bleep*....... There are plenty of more things on the palate
other than Halloween costumes and making it Dark in the Matrix for 24
hours.

/Disappointment

Message Edited by Jove226 on 10-21-2005 05:38 PM
Message edited by Jove226 on 10/21/2005 16:38:12.

**RemagDiv**

"It’s time for The Matrix Online Halloween Masquerade 2005! This Halloween weekend there will be a little celebration going on in the Mega City and some of your favorite Exiles are coming out to play.

The Trick: Beginning with the patch currently scheduled for Tuesday, October 25, you’ll find Jack-O-Lanterns placed around the city. You can activate them to launch a wave of level-appropriate Exiles to do battle with: Blood-Drinkers, Lupines, Nightmares, and Succubi.

The Treat: These special NPCs will be dropping a treat for those who defeat them—a box that only the people who had the waves spawn on them can open. Inside you’ll find one of a series of Halloween masks that will allow you to change your RSI to that of a Blood-Drinker (Male or Female), Lupine (Male or Female), Nightmare, or Succubus. There is also a rare seventh mask that these Exiles will occasionally drop.

We’ll also be dressing up the hardlines and clubs Halloween-style during the event. Then, for Halloween itself, will give you 24 hours of pure nighttime to celebrate the Masquerade."

Very cool, Walrus! I'm wondering, was this planned before or after a thread was made about adding in decorations for the holidays? Either way, I am glad the Dev team is adding a little life and some extra content with disguises.

I am also really looking forward to the new Richland in November. SMILEY

**ZaneZavin**

I think this will be really fun. Thank you.

**MxO-Insertion**

Always nice to see another "The Other Side of the Looking Glass"...

lol, Walrus.. you played the part of Flood nicely.. You may need to
work on telling us to do orders.. Took you atleast 5 minutes to get
everyone to leave the club after the first try :smileytongue:

SMILEY

I was a little dissapointed not seeing one of the wachowskis playing
a role, woulda been real cool to find out afterwards. lol. (...Come to
think about it.. I never hear about them... Think you could persuade
them to use the forums once a month or so? :smileyvery-happy:)

Well, I liked this past event. Felt that LET interaction was lacking, but it was funny to see who was playing who after.

I'm interested in the new npc redesign thing for the slums.. maybe
we'll get some new missions from the contacts! (Any chance on setting
up a reputation with each of them. Because after running a mission from
Anti M. to stop Argon's men... I doubt he would be so keen on hiring me
right off the back.)

SMILEY

Teh Walrus has granted us the knowledge about Halloween weekend,
thus I am very happy. **Male Blooddrinkers** (Maybe club hel will be
open.. hmm..)

Looking forward to next Friday's edition of "The Other Side of the Looking Glass" by Walrus! :smileywink:

**Harpalos-mxo**

This will be the happiest Halloween since I was a kid. And maybe even better. Thanks a lot!

**SpikeDX**

sweet ness!!!!!!!! man mayube they should open up some house and we go trick or treating but instead nightmares and blood drinkers open the doors and we slaughter them! and raid their house for rare stuff

N1KO

You da man, Rus! YOU DA MAN! :smileyvery-happy:

**RemagDiv**

Insertion wrote:

I was a little dissapointed not seeing one of the wachowskis playing a role, woulda been real cool to find out afterwards. lol. (...Come to think about it.. I never hear about them... Think you could persuade them to use the forums once a month or so? :smileyvery-happy:)

Yeah, I would think the Wachowski's would at least have RSI's in-game secretly. It's too bad the Brothers aren't more directly involved with the game. It would be very cool to find out you were chatting and fighting alongside a Wachowski in an event. SMILEY

NanoHaxiaI

Glad for some sort of update, we really needed this. Also glad to see the return of Looking Glass.

**Shinryu**

SWEET!!! HALLOWEEN!!! My temporary sig may not be useless after all! :smileyvery-happy:

Whew, anyway. I was really hoping for more of a restructuring of the city than this "flow change". As a player that is nearing level 50, I can go almost anywhere in the city without much difficulty as it is. An alteration of the way neighbourhood difficulty works is great for new players, but it does nothing for higher levels. Once the story elements are brought in I guess it might make a difference to all players, but it doesn't sound like that's coming any time soon...

Oh well, I hope these Jack-O-Lanterns aren't too hard to find, because I want a full set of costumes... I wonder if they are going to be transferable between players... and I hope we get to keep them after Halloween is over. SMILEY