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Champions, we’re proud to say that part 1 of our Steel Crusade update is almost here! It’s launching on 9/10, and we’re going to be celebrating with a massive costume and vehicle giveaway.
Log in the weekend after it launches for a free Cyborg Beast costume set and new UNTIL Shuttle vehicle!
Starting on Friday 9/12, you’ll be able to talk with an NPC in Renaissance Center to claim your gifts. He’ll only be available for the weekend, though, so make sure to log in over the weekend!
The Cyborg Beast costume set is perfect for your new Reawakened Automaton character, combining the best bestial draconian design with the sharp angulation of a robotic superhero. With reverse-jointed knees and sweeping wings, this costume set can also be worked into non-robotic characters for a more alien appearance.
The UNTIL Shuttle is a brand-new vehicle, similar to the Mammoth in design but with a dark grey UNTIL color scheme. Its core power is Light Armor Piercing Rounds, and it also comes with a MOD for the Heavy Cannon Mk1. (As with all MODs, if you want to try it out on a different vehicle, you can un-slot the MOD and slot it into a different vehicle.)
The Shuttle has a total of 5 MOD slots available: 2 Weapons, 2 Defensive, and 1 Support. This is a Tier 1 vehicle, so you can upgrade it with a Vehicle Tune-Up Kit. (Look for the Shuttle to make an explosive appearance in Part 2 of the Steel Crusade update!)
These items will be free to claim, and the shuttle will be character-bound and available once per character (not account), but it'll only be available for a limited time. Make sure to log in and get yours in the time frames below, Champions, and get ready for part 1 of Steel Crusade on 9/10!
Start: Friday 9/12 @ 11am
End: Monday 9/15 @ 11am
(Want screenshots? Read the blog!)
Log in the weekend after it launches for a free Cyborg Beast costume set and new UNTIL Shuttle vehicle!
Starting on Friday 9/12, you’ll be able to talk with an NPC in Renaissance Center to claim your gifts. He’ll only be available for the weekend, though, so make sure to log in over the weekend!
The Cyborg Beast costume set is perfect for your new Reawakened Automaton character, combining the best bestial draconian design with the sharp angulation of a robotic superhero. With reverse-jointed knees and sweeping wings, this costume set can also be worked into non-robotic characters for a more alien appearance.
The UNTIL Shuttle is a brand-new vehicle, similar to the Mammoth in design but with a dark grey UNTIL color scheme. Its core power is Light Armor Piercing Rounds, and it also comes with a MOD for the Heavy Cannon Mk1. (As with all MODs, if you want to try it out on a different vehicle, you can un-slot the MOD and slot it into a different vehicle.)
The Shuttle has a total of 5 MOD slots available: 2 Weapons, 2 Defensive, and 1 Support. This is a Tier 1 vehicle, so you can upgrade it with a Vehicle Tune-Up Kit. (Look for the Shuttle to make an explosive appearance in Part 2 of the Steel Crusade update!)
These items will be free to claim, and the shuttle will be character-bound and available once per character (not account), but it'll only be available for a limited time. Make sure to log in and get yours in the time frames below, Champions, and get ready for part 1 of Steel Crusade on 9/10!
Start: Friday 9/12 @ 11am
End: Monday 9/15 @ 11am
(Want screenshots? Read the blog!)
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Speaking of costumes, anymore news on the Automaton Costume Contest you guys were going to do in the Forums?
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Nah, the NPC should trigger automatically.
Someone did say 11:00 on Sever but, not sure if that's true, however that whuold mean 7:00 for Europe people
I like the gray. Looks easy to recolor after I take pictures.
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Most probably not
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Or you could start asking 3 hours early in Zone where the npc is...
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UNTIL shuttle vehicle is bound to character, should be bound to account.
It cannot be traded between characters using the account bank.
Not a bug, actually, that's working as designed.
What?
Then why it was not stated clearly before people were buying vehicles?
Each and every vehicle in this game is bound to account.
The only exception should be very clearly stated.
Some people now have it on wrong characters, you know?
Sorry, but that's just stupid. It can't be called otherwise.
Especially after the return NPC will be probably selling only one shuttle per account...
So it sounds like the shuttle was meant to be claimed once per character, rather than once per account? I guess we'll find out when the NPC comes back...
Can you not get a vehicle with each character?
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Stop the logic!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!
There is a free vehicle and costume set available to everyone, Gold and Silver alike.
Normally, vehicles are an account unlock and usable by every character on an account, as the vehicle can be 'traded' through the account bank. And now with this give away, it's character bound?
So, since the vehicle is character bound, it only makes "sense" that the costume will be as well.
The vehicle and costume should be account bound, not one or the other, BOTH.
And re-reading the OP, it said
Once per account. So how were people claiming more than one vehicle? A bug you say? Fine, understandable. Fix it. And while you're fixing that, allow the vehicle and costume to be account bound as well.
A+ on the effort, Cryptic. F- on the implementation.
Bill Cosby predicted this.
What are they planning to do the the players who already have one on each of their heroes?
That said, I think I know why folks a junking them. There's no Gravity Pulse Mark anything on these machines. Faster travel power is nice, but...
Unless leaving the GP off was the real oops...
Now here's the bigger question: Is Dr. Destroyer supposed to be on up on those screens? If so, why is no one asking the cities heroes to take care of all of those Destroids standing in the RenCen? :eek:
EDit: oh and i saw a bunch of destroids and heard destoryer a few hours ago... now thier all gone. This years anniversery is going downhill fast.
-You are meant to be able to get one of these per character. I was incorrect when I wrote that it was a once-per-account thing.
-These are bound per character, as they were designed.
>>So yes, you can and will get one shuttle for each character you have right now. :biggrin:
The bug that we need to fix (and for which we disabled the event) is unrelated to players getting the shuttle, or how often. It's actually a little embarrassing: The shuttle is bound, but the MOD in it wasn't. You could claim the shuttle, un-slot the MOD for 1G, sell the MOD for 9G, delete the character, create another one, get the shuttle...
We've got a patch getting made right now, which will fix this issue. We'll need to do a quick maintenance this afternoon to implement it, then you'll grab the shuttle for all of your alts.
Thank you.
I actually have few rides equipped, the UNTIL shuttle is really needed by me only for flavor TP on my actual UNTIL character.
For all I care it could be even supplied with no weapons.
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Maybe Cryptic took into account people with no hideouts, or people complaining they have to trade things via account bank.
I believe...and this is me guessing:
If it's per account then the mod isn't bound and then could be sold as well. They are wanting to bound the mod and bound the vehicle.
Only thing I could say is separate the mod. Make the vehicle bound to acct and the mod per character and can't sell or trade.
So bound per character ain't a bad thing.
I could complain about having to log in with 15 toons, which is no more or less valid than having to trade via my hideout bank. Considering hideouts are all of $5 (or something like that) and can be purchased with Q, it's not like those people can't just get a hideout at some point. It just seems like it'd be simpler to make the vehicle account bound like all other vehicles, claimable once. Then it wouldn't matter if the mods were removable and sellable since you can only do it once for a whole 9g. Woo....
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Also don't you get one free (non-penthouse) hideout of your choice at a certain point or is that gold only?
That said, there's still incentive in that this free vehicle is on the lower end in terms of effectiveness, and people may want a different look for their character. So the tradeoff for that potential vehicle sale is that every single person who might want this one on a future character is going to be SOL, unless they put this vehicle in the store or something.
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I read on a thread that people are having trouble with the codes. They were not supposed to have ended, but they seem to have been ended any way.
Currently if you are Gold, you get one free Hideout. And two others just for trying ARC. However, that might just be the solution right there...
Make one hideout part of the every player package regardless of when you join. Make it so that everyone gets a Hideout. The Cave seems generic enough.
What error do they get? It should be working, strange to hear it isn't.
Seems to be just one person, getting an error with one of the codes - I have this vague recollection that some people experienced similar errors when the codes first came out? Not sure.
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