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mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
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No but really I recorded a video for anyone who can't get on the PTS (silvers) which you can see here:

http://youtu.be/1vYqxB8fnro

The knockback is an advantage you can add and happens if you charge over half way. I don't really think I'll be using it and it probably won ever see the light of PvP but seems like it could be fun to use in PvE.
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  • kharma23kharma23 Posts: 403 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    OOOOOH Fun! Thanks for sharing that! I have a toon all ready to go for this! really looking forward to it! :biggrin:
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  • joybuzzerxjoybuzzerx Posts: 882 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Is that the only new power from the AT? If so, not really impressed myself :( But I'm sure someone will find the novelty of the power fun.
  • monaahirumonaahiru Posts: 3,073 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Rocket Punch good. But I also want...
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  • lilsteffielilsteffie Posts: 598 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Been itching to see this power in action, thanks for the video man.
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  • mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    joybuzzerx wrote: »
    Is that the only new power from the AT? If so, not really impressed myself :( But I'm sure someone will find the novelty of the power fun.

    It's the only one with any real theme to it, the other one is a hybrid form that builds off getting killing blows.

    There is also a new advantage to Lock and Load where you can recharge it by using melee powers. (I'm pretty sure this is a new thing at least) Every hit of a melee power apparently takes off 1 second if I remember rightly.

    Rocket Punch isn't actually a new power, it's an NPC power. It'd be nice it they would do the same for more NPC powers, I'm surprised they didn't use more for this new AT. The power seems fun to use atleast with the knock advantage on, it's kind of funny when you knock 5 NPC's that are in a line at the same time.

    Also jewel I hope that idea never see's the light of a dev. :D
  • spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    So it's like Force Blast...if you spend points, but with the graphics and sound of tactical missile, just a bit fatter... neat o3o
    There is also a new advantage to Lock and Load where you can recharge it by using melee powers. (I'm pretty sure this is a new thing at least) Every hit of a melee power apparently takes off 1 second if I remember rightly.

    u_u I see someone never played the Specialist Archetype.



    psst, that's not new Imp >w<
  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited August 2014
    Rocket Punch isn't actually a new power, it's an NPC power. It'd be nice it they would do the same for more NPC powers, I'm surprised they didn't use more for this new AT. The power seems fun to use atleast with the knock advantage on, it's kind of funny when you knock 5 NPC's that are in a line at the same time.


    I'm also surprised it's only this one power.

    The power itself is taken from Destroids.

    Seems like no-brainer to scavenge also powers from become devices, like Black Talon. Or Lemurian PA. Or Cyberninjas.

    Then AT itself could be a complete crap, but people would level it anyway only to have more toys unlocked for FFs.

    Actually, I think average performing AT that works mostly as a gallery of new powers to be picked for Ffs would be the best solution. This way you don't end handing for free something that might undermine reason for paying for FFs or premium ATs.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    It's just the Destroidbot spiked glove, doesn't scale with character hand size.
    So you might as well shoot the Tactical Missile.
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  • dialamxdialamx Posts: 931 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    It's just the Destroidbot spiked glove, doesn't scale with character hand size.
    So you might as well shoot the Tactical Missile.

    Yeah, the power turns flaccid when you have a big, powerful looking robot that fires off a tiny fist.
  • vinxbrvinxbr Posts: 161 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Well, personally i'm excited with the new AT, it can not be a big deal for Gold members, but, as a Silver i think is a good thing. Anyway, i was looking for some robot powers a long time ago, i was about to buy the Power armor AT, but i think i wil not need it anymore :biggrin:
  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,883 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Rocket Punch is something we used to make in Uni with whiskey . Sorta like party punch only more whiskey involved.

    Also great vids as awlways Imp :3
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  • mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    spinnytop wrote: »
    psst, that's not new Imp >w<

    Facepalm.

    Okay then. :<

    So pretty much the only new thing they have actually added is the form? Seeing as the power was taken from an NPC and is pretty much a blatant copy and paste of tactical missile anyway. (it's energy numbers are exactly the same) Ah well, they made it so the new form can't be used in PvP too by doing it based off killing blows.
  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited August 2014
    vinxbr wrote: »
    Well, personally i'm excited with the new AT, it can not be a big deal for Gold members, but, as a Silver i think is a good thing. Anyway, i was looking for some robot powers a long time ago, i was about to buy the Power armor AT, but i think i wil not need it anymore :biggrin:

    No worries.

    If this "epic" AT will not be completely overhauled before being released, you will do better with the Invincible instead.

    Or literally anything performing better than RA. Like the Impulse, for an example.

    But really, better purchase the Invincible. It's a good AT.
    Ah well, they made it so the new form can't be used in PvP too by doing it based off killing blows.

    But... But this new form will be of great help!

    ...when farming Westside. Something like that.



    But the update itself is still in working and everything still can be improved.

    CO has a long history of crucial game changing improvements made after PTS feedbacks, right?

    I have all faith needed.
  • mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited August 2014

    But the update itself is still in working and everything still can be improved.

    CO has a long history of crucial game changing improvements made after PTS feedbacks, right?

    I have all faith needed.

    Yeah I expect they'll suddenly make changes a day before it goes live. :)
  • spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    dialamx wrote: »
    Yeah, the power turns flaccid when you have a big, powerful looking robot that fires off a tiny fist.

    :|

    CrypticGuy1: Okay, they really wanted the rocket fist power... especially that one guy... lets go ahead and make it.

    CrypticGuy2: Sure... and as a joke, we'll make it look really stupid for that one guy who wanted it the most.

    CrypticGuy1: Nishishishishi~!

    CrypticGuy2: Ufufufufu~!


    Facepalm.

    Okay then. :<

    So pretty much the only new thing they have actually added is the form? Seeing as the power was taken from an NPC and is pretty much a blatant copy and paste of tactical missile anyway. (it's energy numbers are exactly the same) Ah well, they made it so the new form can't be used in PvP too by doing it based off killing blows.

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  • humancamerahumancamera Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    www.spinnytop.com

    some good info there :)
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    monaahiru wrote: »
    Rocket Punch good. But I also want...
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  • monaahirumonaahiru Posts: 3,073 Arc User
    edited August 2014

    Yay most classic Rocket Punch!! ( ◜◡^)=~~~~~~~~~~~~=っ
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  • joybuzzerxjoybuzzerx Posts: 882 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Sadly disappointed :(
  • sistersiliconsistersilicon Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    monaahiru wrote: »
    Rocket Punch good. But I also want...
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  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited August 2014
    Boobs missile pads aren't only for ladies!

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  • crusader3025crusader3025 Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Well, if it doesn't use character costume pieces in the future, it's a skill that MIGHT look good when using Mechassassin or Warlord Gloves (Y'know, the 'gun hands' that mysteriously still have wrist animations, while Roin'Esh ones don't). A gun that shoots rocket powered fists. I find that thought rather hilarious, actually.

    But I'm only basing off the video. There really aren't a whole lot of powers in the game, from what I've seen, anyway, that can use those two costume parts without looking really stupid - "Im firing my beam at you, despite my gun aiming at space!"
  • monaahirumonaahiru Posts: 3,073 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Boobs missile pads aren't only for ladies!
    Yay!!
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  • jellycupsowbugjellycupsowbug Posts: 358 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Aren't those smaller ones already covered by Micro Munitions? We could probably still use a costume part that looks like a launcher.

    Why do the Fire All Weapons missiles come out of your legs?


    Also, if you use Rocket Punch with the Warlord Gun hand, scaled to have a wide barrel, you might get a decent looking cannon power.
  • kallethenkallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Makes me wish Micro Munitions had a better animation. Like some kind of actual launcher popping open. I suppose that's tough though considering it's a chest slot.
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  • jellycupsowbugjellycupsowbug Posts: 358 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Make it an emblem, so that it can be added to any kind of chest wear. Another version could be near the shoulders, as shoulder parts. I sometimes use the Alien Gladiator shoulders to get a similar effect, but it still leaves something to be desired.
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    edited August 2014
    R.I.P. Thread.

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    edited August 2014
    impnw wrote: »
    R.I.P. Thread.

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  • mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    You ever feel like you walked in a thread all...

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    That's what it was almost like though, I left this thread for like 6 hours come back and this happens. :<

    And now look what's happened... :'(
  • monaahirumonaahiru Posts: 3,073 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Naughty Jewel did it again.
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  • mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    monaahiru wrote: »
    Naughty Jewel did it again.

    It should be more like this. +_+

    I was actually thinking of using this one but I thought the lyrics were a bit dark. Really I've never actually read the lyrics for that song it's really messed up. :D

    Oh also for the record my favourite version of bad apple is this english version. <_<

    As for the original topic, I would like to see more of the NPC powers become usable powers. Saying that I'd also like to see current powers fixed.
  • ziselezisele Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I understand this better.
  • mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    zisele wrote: »
    I understand this better.

    Haha yeah AVANNA has a great portal sound.

    Porter Robinson used her for one of his songs here. It's pretty nicely done actually, shows that vocaloid can actually be used in a duet with an actual voice pretty well.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Boobs missile pads aren't only for ladies!

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    But, but Starscream is a chick. Right? It sounded like one in the animation series...
    How it made babies in Transformers 2(3?) then???
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  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited August 2014
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    But, but Starscream is a chick. Right? It sounded like one in the animation series...
    How it made babies in Transformers 2(3?) then???

    Nope.
    Most disturbing thing about Screamer, he's a "he".
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    edited August 2014
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  • mrhinkypunkmrhinkypunk Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Ooooo I remember that one. It was one of the 100's of memes we posted on that one hero games thread once... You know the stuff that was called borderline porn and under 18 girls? :O

    Just a... Hint.

    Yeah.
  • monaahirumonaahiru Posts: 3,073 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Ooooo I remember that one. It was one of the 100's of memes we posted on that one hero games thread once... You know the stuff that was called borderline porn and under 18 girls? :O


    NONONO me is not drunken at all. ( ◜◡^)っ✂╰⋃╯

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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    monaahiru wrote: »
    And meh is banned anyway because of Error :17 o3o
    You need 21 to continue.
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  • navisohpr0hnavisohpr0h Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    children and their "videos" lol
  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,883 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    But, but Starscream is a chick. Right? It sounded like one in the animation series...
    How it made babies in Transformers 2(3?) then???

    Depends on the country and the gen. But yeah Gen1 Starscream was a female http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Gender-switch_characters when the west dubbed the cartoon they screwed up the voice thinking she was male. This has worked its way into 'Formers cannon http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slipstream_%28Animated%29 so now Starscream's gender is what ever Starscream feels it should be :P

    Ironicly Starscream was my fave toy when I was a kid :P

    Starscream can make other Transformers dues to his ( or hers ) indestructable spark. He can take bits of his spark and put it in other things.
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  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited August 2014
    nepht wrote: »
    *snip*

    No, it do not depends on the country and continuity. I don't know where you found this anectdote about him being supposed to be female, but it's completely made up.

    Generation 1 Starscream is and always was male. TFA continuity is not from G1 continuity family.

    G1 Starscream, as he was created by Bob Budiansky in 1984, was "male" both in Sunbow G1 cartoon and Marvel G1 comic books.

    This is the earliest existing writeup for Screamer before Budiansky even gave this name to him:
    http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/4/40/Ulchtar.jpg
    http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(G1)#Notes

    The earliest official published bio, from his toy packaging:
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    And only slightly later bio from Marvel profile books:
    http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Starscream

    His G1 bios for both Hasbro toys and Marvel comics were written as "he", not "she". Both were written by Budiansky who was Marvel writer assigned to creating Transformers mythos.

    Screamer was also voiced by male actor, Chris Latta.

    There was never any ambivalency about Starscream being a guy when G1 cartoons and books were produced. Pretty much everything was set by Jim Shooter and Bob Budiansky in their production bible, and Hasbro approved.

    Moreover, both Thundercracker and Skywarp were also "males" (airquotes because in theory they were stated to be genderless, but male pronouns were used for them in both cartoon and comic books).

    "Female" seeker was purely fanfiction until Slipstream was added to canon, but Slipstream was Starscream's clone only in TFA series, otherwise she's completely independent character.


    Budiansky did try to put some female characters into G1 series, but was vetoed by Hasbro who back then did not want girl characters in series made for selling toys for boys. It took them only two decades to notice that girls also may want robot toys, but Hasbro never was quick to react, lol.
    But the character who was originally supposed to be a girl was... Autobot medic Ratchet.

    Also, the first wiki you linked is terrible and built from material ripped from TFWiki supplemented by pure fanwank. They are even stealing caption boxes and images... Lol.


    P.S.:
    Starscream's spark also isn't canon outside of TFA continuity.
    He had indestructible spark in the eighties G1 cartoon continuity, but it worked different way than in TFA.
  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,883 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    snip

    You gone way to srious here over Starscream here :P

    Look the 'Formers wiki has all teh info take up with them if they are wrong tell em :D , first up its a robot so yeah its neither, secondly no matter the Screams gender theres is something seriously bonkers going on in that robots head and its awesome , all those clones XD

    The industructable spark and Screams messed up head has made it into canon though >_>

    What is known is that Formers fans will be arguing about the Scream for years to come :P
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  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited August 2014
    nepht wrote: »
    first up its a robot so yeah its neither,
    You went seriously defensive hereconsidering when it was you who stated he's a girl... When the closest thing he ever had to gender was male-like.
    nepht wrote: »
    The industructable spark and Screams messed up head has made it into canon though
    Technically... It's not that simple.

    Because by Hasbro every TF reboot is considered a separate continuity in the same multiverse, so Screamer's spark is immortal in G1 cartoon and TFA continuities, but not, for an example in G1 Marvel continuity (bots there have no sparks whatsoever), or not in TF Prime and IDW continuities. :P

    Which is actually the best apporach to canon ever, as it cuts for good every fan war about of what is canon, and what is not.

    Everything officially aproved by Hasbro is canon... But within its own continuity. Genius.

    I don't really pay any attention to fandom discussions and fanon. With TF franchise if it's not official, it is very likely to be a fanfiction of the worst possible sort.
  • flowcytoflowcyto Posts: 12,740 Arc User
    edited August 2014
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    The girl in pink forgot to not use Firesnake indoors; meanwhile the Cryptic dev on the left is swinging a plaid cloth like 'lel, this is the model they wanted for Rocket Punch, right?'.

    Also, is that a pretzel on the ground? Maybe the firesnake got hungry.
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  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Posts: 3,797 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    monaahiru wrote: »
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    I get the feeling she is the child of this man.

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  • kaiserin#0958 kaiserin Posts: 3,078 Cryptic Developer
    edited August 2014
    -takes a look at the several pages of memes and animated gifs-

    Yup, think it's time to put this one down.
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