Fixed exile animations!!! I've been waiting forever! Thank you! Already have the BT camera disabled in my useropts, but its a nice addition. I like the sound of the changes to the viral fx, as well as sitting. Doubling the levelscaling rewards is great. 

 

But those archive missions... I can't wait to get my Suit! The katana looks pretty neat too, but I'm going to wait on that and the zion/merv rewards untill the interlock fix.

After Patch Thursday we needz an updatez!!! :*)

You know for a harrowing, life-threatening ordeal, this whole thing hasn't worked out so badly.  My new hovercraft is a whole lot nicer than my old one.  My new pilot/operator isn't so bad either.  She's definitely better looking than old what's-his-name, but I suppose I shouldn't speak ill of the dead.

I'll stop rambling and get to the point.  I'm back, and it's all thanks to you.  The forces of the Merovingian came together beautifully to deliver me from my damp, slimy prison, and believe me, I won't forget it.  A heartfelt thank you goes out to everyone who contributed and made my release possible.  Extra special thanks are due to Bamaman and Gretyl, for cracking the code on the first message I got out there and making contact with my captors; Brazzz, DrSmith, Riac, and Tseng for carrying out a bold rescue plan; and Tasvyder for keeping everybody informed and focused.

For those who're interested, I still have BettyB00M captive on my ship.  Maybe we can find an appropriate way for her to make restitution.

RP and PVP are both alive on Vector, if you know where to look. The only problem we have stems from the majority of our population moving over to Recursion to participate in the Vector Olympics, er, Recursion Olympics or from the original migration of almost every large faction from Vector to Recursion. Dark Mavericks and Furious Angels were once very prominent groups of Mervs and Zion, respectively, until they opted to leave.

Personally, I've had a hard time stumbling across RP on Syntax and not so hard a time finding it on Vector. Unless all of the RP that takes place on Syntax happens through tells, I haven't really seen anything outstanding. If anything, I'm more bored to tears over the lack of anything to do on Syntax. With the exception of one person who has helped me quite a lot, I find that my life on Syntax is spent slow and boring. While running missions, I am flagged in the hopes that I'll stumble across someone who is my level to fight. If I stumble across someone who is much higher and they kill me, so be it. At least it's something... I'l just kill them when I am 50 in carebear land.

Tranque101 wrote:

Now you're getting the picture.

 

 

/bite /bite *will you Die already /bite /bite

Nice read..Gratz Tranque.............................................your still a nubby :*)

Don't get me wrong, i'm glad we are still here *Morpheeeuuuss cave speech rings in my head... but 3.5 yrs. later and where are we really??  Gamewise...

Linky

Sony Online Entertainment president, John Smedley reveals to Next Generation his plans for a DC Comics MMOG and how his cross-platform strategy will include handhelds like PSP.

On Friday, SOE announced a multi-part deal with Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment. The first component of the deal gave SOE control of WBIE's Matrix MMOG. The second and more significant part gave SOE rights to develop a DC comics MMOG for PC and consoles.

Clearly, SOE seeks to take a chunk of the considerable business that NCSoft's City of Heroes mustered in recent years. "On the design side, I think City of Heroes is a fantastic product. We have lots of people here who still play it," Smedley said. "It proved that a great comic book game can really bring in a subscriber base. What we're trying to do is make an even better game, and bring a very powerful brand to the mix. There are a lot of Superman and Batman fans out there."

Smedley laid out ambitious plans for the game. "It's early so we don't know everything just yet, but one thing we do know is that it's going to be multiplatform: PC, PS3 and potentially PSP. The specifics on that, well we don't know if they're going to share servers, but our thinking of the moment is that they could be slightly different games with different emphasis. Imagine if you could take your character across to different games. It'd be the same DC universe, but with different play styles for the console and PC," he said.

The general idea is that a player's character abilities in one platform version could carry over in some form and give benefit to your characters in the same series on another platform.

Different game

A successful title with a sizable base could dramatically impact the incremental sales of adjunct SKUs, though it could cut the other way too. If the first SKU doesn't sell well then retail will stock subsequent SKUs in low numbers.

"I'm not going to lie and say we have this all figured out, but we know what our goal is. We want to bring these products cross-platform," explained Smedley. "We also know that a PSP is not a PS3 so we need to do a different game. Maybe it's more of a top down game, but it's still going to be an MMO and have the same flavor, but the style and emphasis may be different on the PSP, PS3, and PC. You're looking at three different products, with the ability to carry your character across them if you so choose. This has become the core vision of our company and you're going to see this across a lot of products we do."

The as-yet-unnamed DC game is being developed internally at SOE's Austin studio.

Matrix management

So why did SOE buy The Matrix? By most retail accounts, the game's sales have been less than cosmic. Smedley says the potential exists for profits. "By offering The Matrix for play through Station access we saw an opportunity to make money on it and offer value to our subscribers. We think it's a great addition to the Station as a whole," he said.

Any retail issues surrounding The Matrix will remain in the hands of WBIE's original publishing partner, Sega. On the prospects of the Matrix as a going concern Smedley said, "We offered jobs to 25 of the Monolith core team that were running The Matrix. We intend to continue it and the live events as they were already going. Our plan is to do additional content and treat it like any of our other products." Those 25 employees will join SOE's studio in Bellevue, WA.

Smedley indicated that retail expansions may or may not be in the works for The Matrix "We aren't sure what we're going to do with that yet. We may offer something online digitally and we need to get our heads around the business as a whole and see what shape the game is in. The team is really good."

SOE was unwilling to share the number of active accounts on The Matrix or internal sales figures for the retail product.

*sigh...not surprised...we ARE the 'red headed step-child' of SOE........

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/clap

Congratz Syn...Well Deserved and long Overdue!!!

Doc

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blasted firefox and hyperlinks...phooy, well you all know how to get there

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you obviously just haven't figured out how to use Force Multiplier tree yet.