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The first mission in the FATAL ERR0R story arc is now live! Talk to any SOCRATES terminal in Millennium City to enter a digital frontier in "Intranet Deployment", save the Champions' supercomputer from being hacked, and earn exclusive costume pieces and an Action Figure.
We previewed the new instance earlier, but we haven't discussed one of the most important parts of the mission: rewards. "Intranet Deployment" is no slouch in that regard, with victors having a chance at two brand-new costume pieces and an action figure.
Get more details in the blog post...
We previewed the new instance earlier, but we haven't discussed one of the most important parts of the mission: rewards. "Intranet Deployment" is no slouch in that regard, with victors having a chance at two brand-new costume pieces and an action figure.
Get more details in the blog post...
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Socrates is now a major part of the game and you still have a major inconstancy in her functionality.
Here's a big old Socrates terminal with a nine foot naked hologram.
It lets you access a couple of missions that Socrates deems you are capable of.
Then over there, hidden on the minimap is a 64 pixel "Socrates" button, that lets you
"Search for Emergencies" to pick up or turn in dozens of missions from quest giving NPCs around the game globe. There are even multiple entries for "Socrates" in the this'Crime Computer as its known in the Mission Journal and Tutorial
Then you have Socrates Data Cache and Socrates costume parts. Consistency would be really awesome.
Especially now that you are going to publicly confuse the issue even more than before.
As for the new adventure. Bit too much similarity in all the corridors of this mission.
Maybe if I play it a hundred times I can say "This is the room with the extra cube and "this is the room with less cubes than the other room"
Tables and chairs makes no sense on the map.
Park vehicles and install some computers in the computer.
Floating programs with no function make no sense either, shouldn't they be repairing things with the repair emote and maybe angry talking to the malware or each other, you know like IE and Netscape.
Same old MMO BS loitering mobs.
Make them bring the pain on those other loitering programs, put those
slackerware hacks into the 'Please don't hurt me Mr. Malware! pose of the city's citizens.
Convert some healing drones into fearsome logic hammers!
"We have ways of making you awk!".
Deploy 'brutal and needlessly sadistic" evil laugh to give those deadly drones some personality.
Predominant red is irritating on the eyes.
I thought it was just my eyes, but now that I'm not in the game I'm feeling soothed instantly.
Might have to do with the infinite repetitions of the same patterns to.
Boss fight was a bit tough for my fallible freeform, not sure where I'd respawn if I died
in that fight but if its at the front door I'd probably not bother to finish the map.
Sound effects seem like they've taken a cue from the Secret World and decided to make the game feel as alienating as possible. What do I mean? There are no freakin' sound effects. No computer noises. No impact sound from touching anything. Enemies only ever go pew pew pew and we only hear the impact of their shots, not them actually shooting. Every room is the same ambient woowoowoo.
No sound from using the Socrates terminals.
I just removed all the pink from that suit I had in storage for over a year.
I swore war on pink in 2012, now all this red is everywhere. Did I win?
Lucky git.
I'm on my 20th and nothing but resources.
It's gonna be the Lemurian Invasion all over again isn't it?
Deliciously nutritious!
Enemies not effected by Nail to the Ground
I got the regular helmet in my second run. Thanks for making thse BoE. Though the AF...at least its a permanent daily.
We cannot collect the drops that occur from taking out the virus before the big ape brings us back.
At least put the "Leave in 60 Sec" dialog up and let us collect the fruits of our labors.
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I dunno why but I want an Error Byte/Bit AF
I find those Floating ELements incredible cute even through they are just Cubes with Binary on them! :biggrin:
Nice touch with the Socrates terminal error display.
I liked it. My forties seemed able to handle everything on their own until the cyper-spider appeared, but with a little help from the Indy Kid Sidekick received during from the last event, I've made it through with only a little trouble.
I would not send any lower level heroes in alone, though.
All said and done, I liked it.
Yeah, the guys are a bit nastier then I expected.
Always good though, just means I actually have to hit my heals once in a while.
Deliciously nutritious!
Try collecting WHILE your fighting, that's what I do anyway.
Mission was fun, though it is WAY TO EASY to just pass right by EVERYTHING on route to the end room. Boss Fight was fun. Solo'd it on elite fine with the toons I ran it with. Great for a story starting mission. Well done.
Yeah. I'd have to say that the right equipment is the cure for any imperfections in a build, be it FF or Arch. With my Tempest I'm still not sure if what I need is more a bit more Health, or just a shorter Cooldown, for the biggest battles. Both would be welcome, but you can't have everything.
On this mission, it was mainly a poorly time Block vs a Force Eruption that sent Bolt to the Rez. Since that meant going back in full up and since the spider was done except for a sliver of Health, no problem.
I will say that the only annoyance is not being able to gather any final drops once the spider falls.
Any chance we can get a clock on the departure rather than a very fast - YANK?
Edit - Oh, I see that it's been suggested.
I had fun with it.
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I haven't seen it yet.
If it's a case of bring your Lockbox Becritter Transform device and not a temporary transform for the duration of the mission, then I'm going to be more then a little miffed.
And I got my AF on my second run! :biggrin:
Wasn't expecting that, I thought I'd have to do it 10 times over minimum.
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I soloed it on a level 8 this morning. If you take it slow, it isn't impossibly difficult. You have to be really careful in the boss room. I didn't die at all before the spider. The spider killed me three times before I finished it off; I probably could have gotten it on the first try if I'd remembered to open my starter pack.
I'm not sure that ANY low level character could do it though. Shadow Strike took 3/4 of the boss' HP right away, and that's probably the only reason I could complete it.
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Bring your Become Device. There is no way built into the mission to transform into anything.
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We told them about this, like a couple of times at least... *sigh*
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Nah. I was using Night Warrior as a passive. I also had a full set of Samurai gear equipped. Anyone with the same setup and a bit of patience could have done it.
Night Warrior is total hax until level 25 or so. :biggrin:
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I hope big robots and beasts don't sound like high healed boots in there though.
Inside the system the sound of those foots steps should echo or reverb actually with that material.
Instead in the system what we get is a pencil tapping on wood per step.
Not even wood, its something artificial like linoleum?
tat tat tat
instead of
tam tam tam for the normal folks
and krang krang krang for big people.
Sound is so important.
Also the cut scene thing is tremendously annoying.
Love the actor voice but you can do holograms and sidekicked Npc/holograms
or miniature hologram people that float around us , without freezing the game and my mouse.
Right now my mouse is lost somewhere in the game because you stole control of it for your cut scene.
That is not USER friendly.
This is a condition that exists:
Enter HQ
Approach NPC
Cut Scene
Enter Cyberworld
Exit into Millenium
Enter HQ
Approach NPC
Cut Scene
Enter Cyberworld.
Every cut scene is unskippable.
Noobs and disconnects will screw this up over and over.
Patching will cause issues. Connect issues will cause issues.
This all has happened before.
Can we just get the cut scenes from a button by the NPC and the in/out
spout in the machine if we so desire and any other terminal should we have
totally ignored every opportunity to watch it up to that point?
Use some of those UI skills.
There are no waypoints in the mission journal.
Maybe each step could make Socrates a little more functional.
The way points could be all encrypted in the journal until players reach them then
players would have some sense of steps to take
and where team mates are when they trigger something.
If "Just keep doing what it looks like you should be doing and hope for the best." was
the result intended then that's pretty cool because I get that inside joke.
Ha ha, are you user?
I tried it as my Blade AT and solo'd it pretty well by using just two Major Power HOT Bot devices from the recog vendors. One at the boss and one half way in the mission when I ran afk too close to a group of mobs :rolleyes: Dang dog.
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Okay, it would have been nice if they clarified that a bit more!
I was expecting an optional transform, not a Bring Transform Device to play as Security Process!
And look at all the screenshots, every single one of them shows the Security Process Transform Device.
Now I'm thinking that was just a scam to get us to try and get the Transform Device, not a genuine promotion of the mission at all.
I was less then happy with that kind of con trick the last 3 times it was done to me and I'm not exactly thrilled CO stooped to it as well.
To explain, the company involved showed you something cool, but forgot to mention it wasn't actually included in what you recieved.
The first time was an accident, so I let that one go, even though I'm still angry about it.
The next two however, were on purpose and the second one was deliberate fraud, so I wasn't that forgiving to that company (it did both of them).
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
Unfortunately... her costume was crappy. Put it this way, I forgot to change her face from Metal to normal texture. That's why her face is hidden in the screenshot. All the screens I took of her in the instance just look bad -- plus she didn't really fit the style of the instance. The Process, on the other hand, looks freakin' great.
Hope that helps explain some of it.
-TrailTurtle
Fix this, please. It should be a character-only cooldown... shouldn't it?
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I play with freeforms AND archetypes.
I haven't had any issues with running it on multiple characters.
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Yep, just the virus AF.
With a solo Invuln/IDF rangetank, I had no problems with defense or health. In the final room, I was attracting adds faster than I could destroy the growths in the walls, but that was more of a nuisance than a threat. The Force Eruptions just added an element of ARGENT grenade spam to the final boss fight.
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This video of the preview was posted seven days before this content was released.
Within 30 seconds of being zoned into the map the guy says it burns his eyes.
A minute later he mentions it again. There are very few people who care enough
about this game to make a video, Cryptic should make the effort not to harm them.
I did not have burning itchy eyes when I watched a legacy movie last night after leaving CO.
Just Google the movie and hit the images tab to see how little red shows up in results.
The movie scenes and the colors in the scene shifted to something soothing often.
The actresses for instance are framed by the camera in a way that changed the flavor
being fed to our faces and none of them are soaked in red and black gravy.
My screenshot posted earlier in this thread is my desktop background, the
red on the left side of my desktop is exposed by my browser window and
I'm feeling partially blinded in my left eye while typing this.
Unless I stare directly into the red, how strange...I'm just gonna cover that.
I was thinking the map should go mostly gray scale or a sepia when its not blue and/or white.
Then they can apply the glow on the map and skinned objects effect that the infernal passive
is giving off to the enemies.
None of that soupy wavy aura though, just the map/skinned objects reflection.
This will create the sense of a corrupting influence and power lording to their general area. I saw some kind of big circuit explosion on the floor, more of that but different, where the bad guys roam instead of red everywhere would great.
Socrates selves and parts could get their own general area aura.
Or maybe they could get it after we beat the bad code.
At that point the good nodes can run over to the corpses of the downed foes and do /emote beast_forage
and get their rainbow of color and auras back (come on use everything!) on the floor effect
back adding more sense that we're doing something in this computer besides droning forward.
If you don't want to play morbid with me you cold have the friendly bits siphon/zap off some
memory from the downed guys and feed the starved Socratesians like friendly laser piranha.
A light effect moving over the floor with our attacks or at least from every impact would be astonishing.
Dogged and relentless.
I love these open betas.
Ty, TT! I luv this cute red onion !! xD
Wondered if I shouldn't get a bit more info about the people who sent this virus but now I find out it's only part one (head-desking commences). I look forward to probing deeper mysteries!
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My eyes got a little twitchy after awhile in the red areas...and at times I had difficulty spotting the enemies. My ff did it solo just fine. Busted out indy kid to help me beat it on my level 30 something Master AT.
Regardless, excellent level! I can see what some people mean by it being hard on the eyes. Mine were fine but there was a moment when I zoomed in close to one of the trees that my eyes said, "Staph!"
I say stuff and I say things, sometimes together but only when I'm feeling adventurous.
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I got slaughtered when I ran ahead and took on a group while everyone
else was taking on a group behind me. When as I was being bled to death, I tried to regroup
and pulled aggro from the two groups. One team mate was missing and the other
was running backwards looking for them, so that didn't help.
Then we all had to exit cyberspace, re-enter the HQ, not move for fear of triggering the
cut scene, wait for everyone to get inside again, then watch the cut scene again.
This is a Fatal Error that must be corrected.
Make watching the video optional.
Otherwise it was fun arcade game style combat stuff.
Black and Red costume + void powers was a nice combo in there.
Did I mention I found the Fatal Error mission tracker when my mission sidebar was closed?
Maybe that sidebar should only be big enough to show like 3 missions and
never overlap the default position of the mission tracker/team up/open mission widget.
Then I ran it again with a level 7 radiant teamed and sidekicked to a level 19 free form something.
He showed me how to fly over almost all the mobs there and have a hell of a fight at the end.
We died a lot, luckily the spawn point is real close.
Just saying.
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Going into it I had no clue it would be this hard since this was my first day in the game. I tried multiple times to find a teammate using that horrible beginner supergroup I got auto added into, but no one ever would respond. And because I'm a new player I couldn't ask for a team in zone chat before going in either.
Basically this instance 'feels like' it should only be run by players who have a ton of levels, or a lot of experience with working the system for 'cheap kills' by breaking the encounter with OP skill combos, or done in groups only. And definitely not something that a brand new player on their first gaming day should be subjected to.
PS: I apologize for the necro but I couldn't find any other threads really about this one instance.