The Halloween event is active again. It's got all the badges from the first Halloween event, plus two new ones. Additionally, and this is the good part, the event also offers a new costume slot to all characters, assuming you partake in a little Trick or Treating. Get four pieces of specific salvage, take them to a certain contact, and you get a new costume on that character. The salvage is tradeable, so you can load up your alts with it too.
The event runs until November 1st.
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Mooj said this about your mom:
Get four pieces of specific salvage, take them to a certain contact, and you get a new costume on that character. The salvage is tradeable, so you can load up your alts with it too.
The hero-side contact is in Croatoa. She's on the grass to the right as you exit the the train station. I don't know where the villian side contact is.
Remember to Trick-or-Treat in a zone fitting to your level.
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(not a bad deal considering we normally have to wait until lv 20 to open the first slot)
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Tron:
How does it work? You find the mystery contact and they give you...?
First, you go to a zone that matches your level range. Once there, you can click on a mission door (any door that might be used for a mission). You have 50/50 odds of getting either a trick or a treat.
Trick: Halloween monsters pop out and attack. Witches, zombies, vampires, pumpkin creatures, ghosts, and werewolves. Beat enough of them, and you get badges.
Treat: You either get a level 2 or 3 Inspiration, one of the special salvage items, or a rock (one shot of a minor damage temp power, where you throw a rock at someone).
There are also Giant Monsters. In each zone, Eiochi (sp?) the giant pumpkin creature appears with some Unselie spirits in tow. Defeat him for a badge, and enough of the spirits for another badge. In zones that are level 20+, there's a 10% chance that each spawn will be Jack in Irons instead. Beat him for a seperate badge. (Each time the GM is killed, a new one and only one spawns for that zone. So if you're looking for Jack, kill Eiochi every time he pops up.)
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Ctrl-Alt-Del enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
So there's nothing new about this halloween other then a new costume slot?
Two new badges that were not in the first one, a chance to earn the old badges if you don't have them, and an extra costume slot.
Mind you, that extra costume slot is a great thing to get. Especally with the new costume stuff coming with I8 and Vetran Rewards.
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Ctrl-Alt-Del wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
So there's nothing new about this halloween other then a new costume slot?
They're spending their time working on Issue 8, getting that out ASAP. I'm glad, I'd prefer them to just rehash last year's halloween event rather than delay I8 while they design, program, and test something completely new.
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Khyron's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
They're spending their time working on Issue 8, getting that out ASAP. I'm glad, I'd prefer them to just rehash last year's halloween event rather than delay I8 while they design, program, and test something completely new.
Yeah, I got some mail from that. My account was reactivated so I spend some time last weekend playing the game. And I know that WoW only shares the fact that it's an MMO with CoH, but the game was a huge step sideways from WoW, but it was fun, I may need to start playing CoH again -_-.
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Khyron had this to say about Punky Brewster:
They're spending their time working on Issue 8, getting that out ASAP. I'm glad, I'd prefer them to just rehash last year's halloween event rather than delay I8 while they design, program, and test something completely new.
Much like WoW where they've rehashed last years events exactly.
At least the quests are repeatable. Mmmm... faction.
I'll have to try this out if I can pry myself away from beta.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
Is it just me, the pace, or does it seem like you get a pretty decent chunk of XP off the mobs? I know I'm 15 and yeah those are some yellow mobs, and yes the fact they're yellow is mitigated by the inspirations I have, but it still feels like I'm XPing at an enhanced rate. Dunno. Might be me.
What badges are there? And are you sure the rock power's still in? I haven't seen it.
2. Maradon said it best: The nice thing about CoH/CoV is that if I only want to play for an hour I can still feel like I've had fun and accomplished something. I still like EQ2 of course...but EQ2 is where I go to settle in for the night and accomplish something...CoV (moreso than CoH; after playing a villain, the Hero side seems...painfully static) is what I play to kill some time. Looking forward to the added cake of I8. Any word on when the Heroes side is going to get some love?
That having been said, EQ2's expansion looks cool. I'm not in the beta, but I've ogled it on Lyinar's computer when she's doing the beta. I won't get into details, but it LOOKS like there's a lot of nice things going on mechanics and gameplay-wise with the expansion. So yeah. Tasty.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about the Spice Girls:
1. I completed the costume quest in CoV on a level 15 character. Got the costume slot. Wasn't too hard; went fast, and I have enough leftover masks and stuff that I could run through it with my other villains if I wanted to.Is it just me, the pace, or does it seem like you get a pretty decent chunk of XP off the mobs? I know I'm 15 and yeah those are some yellow mobs, and yes the fact they're yellow is mitigated by the inspirations I have, but it still feels like I'm XPing at an enhanced rate. Dunno. Might be me.
What badges are there? And are you sure the rock power's still in? I haven't seen it.
2. Maradon said it best: The nice thing about CoH/CoV is that if I only want to play for an hour I can still feel like I've had fun and accomplished something. I still like EQ2 of course...but EQ2 is where I go to settle in for the night and accomplish something...CoV (moreso than CoH; after playing a villain, the Hero side seems...painfully static) is what I play to kill some time. Looking forward to the added cake of I8. Any word on when the Heroes side is going to get some love?
That having been said, EQ2's expansion looks cool. I'm not in the beta, but I've ogled it on Lyinar's computer when she's doing the beta. I won't get into details, but it LOOKS like there's a lot of nice things going on mechanics and gameplay-wise with the expansion. So yeah. Tasty.
The rock power's in, but it's rare compared to the salvage and enhancements. I spent maybe an hour or so (~60 clicks on the doors) Trick or Treating, and only got two rocks. As for XP, the XP is pretty decent. Not nearly as good as running missions, if only because there's a 50% chance to spawn enemies every 60 sceonds, but still good enough that a lot of people group up and mass-click on doors in a small area to spawn tons of halloween mobs at once.
As for the halloween badges, there's one for killing Eochai during the halloween event, one for killing Jack, and several for smaller mobs. I know Unseelies that spawn with Eochai/Jack give a badge if you kill enough, and I think that werewolves from doors do as well, but I'm not sure about the rest.
I8 is coming along nicely, and I'm pretty pleased with it. Police Band missions are pretty much the same as newspaper missions (Though they do have a pretty cool new animation), safeguard missions I'm somewhat on the fence about. I've heard good and bad things about them, but mostly bad. I haven't had a chance to run any yet, but here's something I found on another forum :
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The one Safeguard mission that I ran was honestly rather disappointing. Instead of cops, there were Arachnos mobs idling around. A red legend lit the screen, informing me that the bank was being robbed right that second, so I zoomed over there to see a named villain with a handful of Tsoo lurking near the entrance to the bank's offices. The minions attacked while the named one scooted past, and a little while later another legend popped up telling me that the villain had robbed the bank and was trying to escape.Then he beat the shit out of me and scarpered off.
Apparently if you manage to defeat the robbers, you're given fifteen minutes to defeat marauding Arachnos forces. If they do too much property damage, you're kicked out of the mission. More troops are airdropped into the zone from time to time, with their location being marked on the minimap, and you have to go after them as well.
As much as I tend to rush through missions, I don't like to be railroaded through them in the way that the Safeguard mission seemed to work. You can refuse them at the contact, at least, and I didn't notice anything about a temporary power when I spoke to the contact. Unless they put badges in for X number of specific mayhem operations foiled, the whole thing seems rather useless.
Oh, and while I received the mission in Founder's Falls, I got sent out to Talos Island. Looks like the CoH mission-travel tradition is intact.
The person who posted this didn't mention their AT/Powers, the difficulty they'd set it to, etc... so it's possible they were running missions on Rugged or something, or were a defender and had difficulty soloing. Either way, I'm eager to see what tweaks are made to them. I8 is out on test, so it'll probably be within the next month that it goes live. Khyron fucked around with this message on 10-23-2006 at 09:07 AM.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Knight Rider:
...That having been said, EQ2's expansion looks cool. I'm not in the beta, but I've ogled it on Lyinar's computer when she's doing the beta. I won't get into details, but it LOOKS like there's a lot of nice things going on mechanics and gameplay-wise with the expansion. So yeah. Tasty.
Been thinking of reactivating for it, from the trailers and such, looks to be spiffy.
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How.... Lyinar Ka`Bael.... uughhhhhh:
And EQ2, with some new rewards. But Echoes comes out November 14th, so it's understandable. Hopefully the Christmas event will be original.I'll have to try this out if I can pry myself away from beta.
and hopefully the christmas event won't keep going till March like last year dear god...
