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Well i have just terminated my subscription to the game, i still have some time to play left but honestly i dont think i will, i just havent been able to play as much as i used to what with things going on around me between collage and such.

I feel a great sadness for the community im leaving behind, people whom i have been with from day 1 and those i met along the way, through the highs and lows of the game, friends and foe's....generaly more foes than friends really XD

ill still lurk around the forums keeping an eye on things, but when my sub expires i wont be able to post anymore... SMILEY

so thats it really, just a few goodbye's left:

Revelations/The Colony: Jermy, Artsefart, Swimming, Orteko,longhaul, Ja2ck6son,niskim,and everone else from both factions.....

And everone else:
smokeydemon,Gamisb,luciousbrujha,havocide,wvw,carloss,godgiver,juleus,rarebit,9mmfu and anyone i missed....

Phaydren aka Rafuji aka Rhalian

Subscription Started: 15-08-05

Subscription Expires: 26-06-08

who knows maybe ill be back sometime in the near future but for now im out....

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Rarebit wrote:

kou_urake wrote:
How about making each org's abilities functionally identical, but cosmetically different? Different animations and fx for the same type of ability? Sure, it'd throw away the diversity, but it'd maintain balance.
Yes, that's what I wrote down as what I'd have to do if I was actually going to implement them. The second point I mentioned above would still be an issue, though (and then the various technical and PvE balance issues are still there as well).

And then the question is, what's the point? It would just sort of be an all-around rep-based player power boost. The original idea for these things was that they'd be a mechanism to balance PVP by org numbers--the buffs would increase in proportion to how outnumbered your org was, plus they were all going to be tied into "control towers" to fight over around the city. When that turned out to be unfeasible, their design concept was changed to be based around different powers per org based on rep (which I don't like).

why not make the level 2 and up org abilities available to players of opposing factions, but they should be quite hard to get so that say if someone wanted to get the mero one for a particular loadout they could but it would require a pandoras box style arc, take quite a while (although not in the range of the patcher headgear) and be very dificult, possibly require'ing several dungeons and zones to be revisited.

They would be special *hacked* version so that you wont get them mixed up when checking a players loadout if there displayed under the health bar (possibly in a diffrent colour to denote there type).

I dont know if it would be possible but you could then make each tier a unique buff so you could not run the mero mech and zion tier 2 at the same time for example.

I know this would take out the diversity somewhat but it would also maintain game balance as if you put in enough work then you can be viable in pvp without having to org hop.

Im really sorry about the delay on this, its just that the week after my exams ended my graphics card decided to have a meltdown and while the game was playable to an extent , the texture artifacts and such made getting any decent quality pics for the guide nearly impossible (not to mention the card was shutting itself down to prevent further damage when the load got too great :/ ).

Now i have just built a new pc, but after assembling the thing it decided it dosent want to to turn on at all so i now have to troubleshoot it, which could take a while.

I will have this guide finished as soon as is humanly possible / when my new comp decides to start working. SMILEY

From the evolution poster it looks as though if they do introduce war-machine in the film, he's going to be using the old mark-2, talk about hand-me-downs SMILEY

Delicho wrote:

I might even lump together abilities and email them to myself (haven't decided if that's worth the risk of losing yet) to free up code archive space.

Just a suggestion to those of you thinging about doing this, just email the non-levelable abilities, that takes out about 5/6th of the tree, freeing up quite a lot of archive space, and if the email server does go south all you have to recode is the non-levelable ones so it saves you quite a lot of $info in the long run, just an evening of farming red frags is about all it would take.

**And When did i become a mainframe invader....**

Agent grey: i coulda sworn there was more than one redpill here a second ago....

The gold eyes were the first sign's of his infection in the first game, followed by rapid regenartation, and was marked by another main character (can't rember her name) as the progression of his chimera mutation , whatever he's turning into its not one of your garden verity chimera, but he's not under their controll either...at least he was not at the end of the last game.

He was less human towards the end of the first game, this leaves insomniac with many new avenues for the sequel to follow, could you still be hale, now working with the cloven, could you be a new operative from the british/american side sent in to retrieve hale or kill him if the mutation has gone too far or he has sided with the cloven for whatever reasons,
could hale have become a super chimera and sided with them and now poses a threat.......

and at those screenshots ...woah...blown away...looks like insomniac have really gotten to grips with the ps3's engine and are pushing it as far as they can SMILEY

krytical wrote:

Purity would sure as heck be a good counter against all those CR2 hackers spamming auto-hit DoTs in interlock.

I don't really understand why the devs don't bring back Zen Master. Sure, it was added to balance out the hacking fest in CR1, so what? It's already coded so might as well fix the damage numbers and implement it, I doubt people would care if it's a gimped semi Aikido tree. It's definitely better than nothing.

There is already a counter ingame, Antibiotics, they basicly make the ravager tree a joke, you spend IS and time applying the Dots and suddenly with one button click theres something like a 40% chance that all of them are removed, every 4 seconds.

perfect as in Oo or Ooo

have to host it on photobucket, some sites dont like you linking directly off em

deviljonny wrote:

Xfire + LOTRO Beta = Our convo in the hills O.o

The hills are alive with the sounds of..........Xfire !?

You might have mistaken the CR2 Test server for a live server ??

13 Mil

I've been keeping track of Sp3 and so far it seems there will be no performance boost, its just a culminative patch in essence, there are one or two new things, but its ony for interfaceing with the new windows server edition, so not many end users will get much benifit out of that, unless they runn server edition 08.

The main reason there releasing SP3 is to give users a patch baseline to workfrom, no more downloading 101 patches after upgrading to SP2, just havea backup of SP3 on disc and you should be good to go.

Well in my collage we have many socities for diffrent things like movies, comedy, etc but the one im most interersted in is the games society (which im a part of), last year the managed to get the collage to relax its restrictions in regards to certain ports, so now at this point we can play some games over the network (WoW is one of them, i havent had a chance to test MxO but it should work)

so see if there are any groups similar to mine on your campus, and try to get something worked out (might even be able to get a special gamer usergroup alloted allowing those in the society to play unrestricted on certain ports needed for gameing)

Well the distric rebundle was a posibility if they had to add additional mission spaces from currently unused building ingame to accomodate the extra mission instances.

From the way i read the op, after the third phase the mission splits into two seperate missions, which would mean an additional mission instance would have to be reserved for the secondary team. (thus a 5 phase becomes 6 in actuality as each team has a seperate phase to finish)

also just wondering , what would happen if one team were to fail an objective in another mission area, would it fail the mission altogether or would the mission just take a diffrent course in final phase with diffrent text from the opperator.

Criingey wrote:

phaydren wrote:
Acctually i think the first SP is allready out, or its equivelant in patches, not that there isint a lot of work to be done with vista.

I know there has been alot of patches but from what ive heard from my lecturers there is supposed to be an actual Service pack released. Dont quote me on that. Im currently working towards my MCSA but its on XP and server 2003 so im not up to date with VISTA.
I had Vista installed on a virtual machine at home but i took it off because ive got enough to work on with my current course. I thought it seemed ok but then again i was running it on Virtual PC which caused a few problems.

hehe quoted SMILEY

Anyway i went to the source of all evil, microsoft.com and did a quick search.

There is a Service PacK on release to consumers but it is in RC (Release Candidate) stage so its not the finished job,

More info here

Reeverb wrote:

imax wrote:
Creston Heights hideout requires at least 3 or 4 people to get to the bottom, long way from 20, but still. Same with the 01 taskmaster.
I can get to the bottom alone with Duelist and without using health pills, or any self buffs.
There's barely any content that requires more than two people. Sure, you can do the 4th Pandora's Box with 50 people but it's not necessary. I would certainly love to see some content that requires at least one full team.

Well although sporadic the tengu spawns need at least 2 teams (from what i gather) of exprienced players who know what there about or a single team to go toe to toe against the lv100 agents.

And although it is a bit of a grind the fumigator collection line could be considered raiding when a team goes after the corruptors. SMILEY

Still not a big and "epic" as wow but we do have our own version of raiding

That may not be possible with the current mission system as at the start of the mission it allocates a number of areas ingame for mission areas,
( ^ this may be wrong, its what i've cobbled togther from forums dev replies),
By doing this it would mean increasing the number of areas allocated per mission, which would reduce the total available for everone unless the secondary objectives areas were to be set aside specificaly for this from currently unused mission areas ingame.

But this would require a massive patch as each district would probably have to be rebundled, and just rebundling Richland added ~100megs to that patch i think :/ not to mention the world rebundler apparently has a vendetta against rarebit SMILEY

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Still a pretty nice idea and i would love to see it ingame, it just may not be possible with what we have right now.

9 mil on trolls hide

Acctually i think the first SP is allready out, or its equivelant in patches, not that there isint a lot of work to be done with vista.

Heh, it was no problem really

There may be a slight delay in the DT update as i have exams all this week and may not have the chance to get work done on the materials, but i will update asap, but its looking like a saturday at the earliest SMILEY

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Work in progress.

Update comming soon.

International

Akasaka (Petal)
76 1 33
Hardline: Akasaka SE
14 Silver Star Medallions
Petal Pants
Ballistic Accuracy Bonus (2%)
Ballistic Damage Resistance (12pts)
Min Level 15

Furihata (Tin Can)
-341 1 -507
Hardline: Furihata C
14 Dragon Medallions
Tin Can's Headgear (Hat)
Jump (10pts)
Super Jump (10pts)

Ikebukuro (Huang)
643 -10 -316
Hardline: Ikebukuro SE
12 Flaming Pheonix Medallions
Huang's Shirt (Shirt)
Inner Strength Regen Rate 10%
Min Level 10

Jurong (Lieutenant Chang)
-37 1 -179
Hardline: Jurong NE
14 Empty Leather Wallets
Viral Shades (Eyewear)
Viral Damage Bonus (2%)
Min Level 15

Kaede (Jonny)
266 -4 -335
Hardline: Kaede C
12 Small Gold Hourglasses
Jonnygun (SMG)
Reuse time: 3secs
Base Damage: 6-6pts
Range: 20m
Ballistic Accuracy (-6pts)
States: (10% Chance) Causes Stun: 6secs
Min Level 10

Kowloon (Tanto)
357 -4 507
Hardline: Kowloon NE
14 Ivory Disks
Kickin' Boots (Footwear)
Melee Damage Bonus (2%)
Force Combat Bonus (2%)
Min Level 15

Murasaki (Corman)
-504 1 283
Hardline: Murasaki C
16 Tiger Claw Pendants
Tiger Claws (Gloves)
Thrown Damage Bonus (2%)
Stealth (10 pts)
Min Level 20

Sai Kung (Egg)
400 -10 -175
Hardline: Sai Kung C
12 Golden Heart Medallions
Egg's Shell (Outerwear)
Viral Resistance (12pts)
Min Level 10

Shinjuku (Kenny Lee)
-88 1 576
Hardline: Shinjuku WC
16 Jade Crescent Medallions
Kenny's Gi (Shirt/Pants)
Melee Damage Bonus (2%)
Force Combat Bonus (2%)
Min Level 20

Shirakaba (ShockKidd)
291 -4 162
Hardline: Shirakaba C
15 Iron Badges
Security Glasses (Eyewear)
Concealment Detection (16pts)
Stealth (20pts)
Min Level 15

Ueno (Corrode)
-236 3 14
Hardline: Ueno NW
16 Platinum Shurikens
Shuriken's Launcher (SMG)
Reuse time: 3secs
Base Damage: 8-8pts
Range: 20m
Ballistic Accuracy Bonus (1%)
Ballistic Accuracy (-6pts)
Min Level 20

Westview

Bathary Row (Ethan)
-499 -6 308
Hardline: Bathary Row SE
16 Blood-Drinker Teeth
Mother Coat (Shirt/Pants)
Heals: (15% Chance) Healing H.P.S. 100-170
Health Regen Rate (15%)
Min Level 24

Gracy Heights (StraightEdgedJohn)
-799 1 -1277
Hardline: Gracy Heights NW
12 Small Hammers
Pugilist's Gloves (Gloves)
Melee Damage Bonus (2%)
(50% Chance) Ballistic Damage 20pts: 30secs
Min Level 15

Guinness Lake (Optix)
-375 1 -989
Hardline: Sobra Shores NW
14 Crown Coins
Optix Optics (Eyewear)
Concealment Detection (30pts)
Min Level 16

Lucero Point (Clarke)
-441 -4 -401
Hardline: Lucero Point SC
14 Flint Pendants
Sparkling Fedora (Hat)
Inner Strength Regen Rate (15%)
Min Level 23

Manssen Park (Gregore)
-692 1 -82
Hardline: Manssen Park SE
16 Small Vials of Blood
Vampire Coat (Outerwear)
Ballistic Defense Bonus (2%)
Melee Damage Bonus (2%)
Health Regen Rate (10%)
Min Level 23

Rogers Way (Elmore)
-576 -4 -648
Hardline: Rogers Way C
14 ASP ID Cards
Elmore's Automatic (Pistol)
Reuse time: 4.5secs
Base Damage 8-8pts
Armor Piercing
Range: 16m
Ballistic Accuracy Bonus (1%)
Ballistic Accuracy (-3pts)
Min Level 19

Sobra Shores (Father Jonas)
-208 3 -1287
Hardline: Sobra Shores SE
12 Pentagram Amulets
Devotional Shirt (Shirt)
Concentration (20pts)
Initiative Bonus (2%)
Min Level 13

Southard (Chaste)
-406 1 -1377
Hardline: Sobra Shores SE
12 Red Silk Ribbons
Chastity (Rifle)
Reuse time: 3.5secs
Base Damage 7-7pts
Armor Piercing
Range: 26m
Ballistic Accuracy (5pts)
Min Level 14

Stamos (Lucian)
-473 3 76
Hardline: Stamos C
16 Crow Feathers
Lucian's Launcher
Viral Defense Bonus (3%)
Inner Strength Regen Rate (15%)
Viral Damage Bonus (3%)
Min Level 27

Well i know that we allready have an excelent guide to the new collectors items buffs thanks to spha, but what if you wanted to see the actual diffrence pre/post patch, well here i have put together a list (original loc and buff list taken from an archived page of mxo-resouce)
Also the images are free for anyone to use so if any fansite oprators want to put togethr their own guide, thats some of the legwork allready done SMILEY<img src=

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~~Also note that some items such as the weapons have not changed~~. At a second glance it would seem they have as some have had their base damage and level increased.

Richland

Achan (Horace)
586 0 29
Hardline: Achan C
6 Small Bronze Bells
    Horace's Sneakers (Footwear)
Inner Strength Regen Rate (5%)
Movement Speed (5%)
Min Level 4

Apollyon (PartyGrrrl)
399 1 -1633
Hardline: Apollyon SE
6 Brass Pentacles
The Party Flavor (Shotgun)
Reuse time: 4secs
Base Damage: 4-4pts
Armor Piercing
Range: 16m
(10% Chance) 9-18 Damage
Ballistic Accuracy (5pts)
Min Level 12

Camon Heights (John Q)
1121 -4 -516
Hardline: Camon C
6 Razor Blade Pendents
Q-Gun (Revolver)
Reuse time: 4.5secs
Base Damage 4-4pts
Range: 16m
Damage (20% Chance) Causes 160 Damage over 20 seconds
Ballistic Accuracy (-2pts)
Min Level 7

Dannah Heights (Kraven)
489 5 -1281
Hardline: Dannah Heights E
9 Engraved Silver Rings
Ghost Shirt (Shirt)
Heals: (25% Chance) Healing H.P.S. 75-100
Min Level 11

Eshean Projects (Big Jimmy Z)
1286 -5 -1384
Hardline: Eshean Projects E
6 Red Coins
Z Gi (Shirt/Pants)
Melee Damage Bonus (1%)
Stealth 10pts
Min Level 12

Kedemoth (Lil Quick)
650 3 -985
Hardline: Kedemoth C
9 Platinum Disk Medallions
LilQuick's Sneakers (Footwear)
Invisibility Duration (3pts)
Disguise Duration 5pts
Stealth (25pts)
Min Level 9

Lemone (Cookie)
951 1 -1325
Hardline: Lemone C
9 Engraved Silver Rings
Heirloom Revolver (Revolver)
Reuse time: 4.5secs
Base Damage 4-4pts
Armor Piercing
Range: 15m
Damage (10% Chance) 7-14
Ballistic Accuracy (-3pts)
Min Level 10

Magog (Kerton)
224 -4 -330
Hardline: Magog S
6 Onyx Rings
Sublime Gloves (Gloves)
Thrown Damage Bonus (1%)
Min Level 4

Mannsdale Housing Projects (Caspian)
339 5 -713
Hardline: Kedemoth W
9 Miniature Toy Rockets
Caspian's Sunglasses (Eyewear)
Ballistic Damage Bonus (1%)
Min Level 7

Mara (Loripor)
289 1 -60
Hardline: Mara C
9 Onyx Rings
Loripor's Jacket (Outerwear)
Max Health (30pts)
States: (30% Chance) Causes Enraged: 10secs
Min Level 2

Midian Park (Reactor)
1346 1 1021
Hardline: Midian Park E
6 Rust Red Handkerchiefs
Reaction Sunglasses (Eyewear)
Melee Defense Bonus (2%)
Min Level 11

Moriah Projects (Jack)
1041 7 -184
Hardline: Moriah Projects C
6 Skull and Crossbones Medallions
Jack's Gloves (Gloves)
Melee Damage Bonus (1%)
Min Level 5

Tabor Park (Michel)
639 5 510
Hardline: Tabor Park East
6 Demon Head Medallions
Demonskin Shirt (Shirt)
Viral Resistance (3pts)
Ballistic Damage Resistance (3pts)
Melee Damage Resistance (3pts)

Uriah Industrial Park (Fastback)
5 -6 535
Hardline: Uriah Industrial NW
9 Chopper Keys
Industrial Boots (Footwear)
Ballistic Damage Resistance (4pts)

Zia (KatScratch)
746 1 -591
Hardline: Zia S
9 Platinum Disk Medallions
Kat Skin (Outerwear)
Heals: (25% Chance) Healing H.P.S. 50-75
Min Level 7

thats just a forums glitch where the signatuer overlaps the end of the post, give it a few seconds and its gone.

TBH if i read that and didnt know which game you were talking about (which i do)...at the min i would give it a Teen rating.

Certainly puts the game in a diffrent light.

Well teh difference there is that when you equip those items all your adding is points to the ability, whereas with my and cervacius's (i think) idea the game will acctualy look for athe ability hyperjum leveld to 50, in much the same way you cant load the grandmaster ability till you reach 50, this jump zone would not activate unless you have a lv 50 version of the hj ability working, so it dosent matter how many clothing items you waer, if it ain't 50, your going nowhere but up... SMILEY

What i was talking about when i said maxed out hj was the ability leveld to 50, this would be checked for before you would be allowed to port/jump
still just a straight up lv50 only port area could work too SMILEY

Another idea for the area could be the half finished reactor that was going to be implemented after launch, the rp reason for having to jump there could be that all road acees has been blocked off / restricted by agents patroling the main route due to say the instability of the area, which would result in the ffa pvp zone.

Annother addition for the contacts could be mission chains for new gear for each class, or more collectors along the lines of the fumigator and uriah but nowher near as long.

Hmm to acess another area of the game, instead of thinking upwards why not think outwards, rather than jumping up to the top of an impossibly high building, why not have a river (maybe the aqueduct) which is only crossable with maxed hj , and only at certain "jump points" with some sort of marker to indicate when you have enterd one (similar to pvp zone indicitations but only visible to those with maxed lv hj loaded).

These jump points could act like the white doorways, rather than physicaly jumping the distance which would possibly require new animations, you could simply have the person teleport to the far side, then when it loads it just play the tail end of the jump animation.

This way your not limited by the space one rooftop can provide, the area could even be free for all pvp just to give it another purpose aside from being an endgame area, maybe with some unique mission contacts who give specificaly tailored missions for the lv50 player(s).

Although it still does not solve the problem of recalling a player into the area, being ffa pvp means they probably wont last long, also the contacs will have some flavour text to turn them away, along the lines of :

"i dont have any work for you now, why dont you come back when you've gotten a bit stronger"

or something to that effect.

FFQ:

Would it be possible to put a timer of say 5 hours on the portable signal booster to prevent them acumulating as it makes tracking other luggables nigh on impossible, especialy if someone has gathered them together in one area.

Well i have just finished Terry Goodkinds Confessor, nice ending to the sword of truth saga.

Now im moving on to Crossroads of Twilight (wheel of time - book 10).

The Source Uplink

System Backdoor

Matrix Terminus

Iteration 7

Wireframe

Data Drop

All i can think of for now SMILEY

Maybe the items collected from these lv60s can be traded in 5's, with a reward of your org (and only your org's) pill in stacks of five (bear in mind that before it autostacks these items need 1 slot each, so im keeping the number low to allow for that).

With this in place it allows you to gather them faster, but maybe the collector should have a cooldown of say 30mins~1hour between trades so that while it is faster to gather from these guys, it still leaves the option of the normal org outpost between trade cooldowns.

Quick way to fix that is to turn on and off the ingame radio, resets the audio for me when i alt tab SMILEY

Silenci0 wrote:

After upgrading my gun abilities in real life I just had the idea to hit the streets. Best game ever: Nerd Sniping!

The funny thing is , thanks to collage...i understand the problem on that sign....man i have to be carefull crossing the road from now on.....

Or maybe a usefull tool slot item, along the lines of glimmer/boon/zhr but nowhere near as powerfull so as not to encroach on the veteran rewards

Guitar hero 3(pretty sweet list of downloadable tacks , and more on the way ftw)
World of warcraft
Command and conquer 3 (cant wait for kanes wrath, looks sweet)
Ratchet and clank : tools of destruction
Final Fantasy 12 ( i think i might acctualy finish it this time, got to the last section of the game the first time around,decided to get all the elite marks but just got bored, on the last 2 now before teh big guy, another contributing factor was getting the tournesol, if that aint a grind...took nearly 3 full days of farming just to get al lthe stuff)

This question is just hypotheticaly if you were to ever add a no org pvp zone to the city :

would it be possible to have an item that sits in your tool slot which when you enter one of these ffa-pvp zones allows you to ffa pvp ,

but if you dont have one / dont have it equiped then you won't auto flag in the zone, allowing those who dont want to pvp to continue on rping/missioning in peace.