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It has been over a month since my post about the upcoming move of Issue 16: Power Spectrum to the live servers. And just short of a month since the actual release. I thought I would talk about how things look at this point, since the Issue was very large and anticipated by so many players.
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- I survived, sort of.
- Bad Night for Games
- Good Night at Games
- City of Heroes Issue 14 Beta
- Mission Architect Open Beta: City of Heroes
- Another Night of Gaming: Lunar Rails
- Oooo Shiny! City Of Heroes: Issue 16 Power Spectrum
- How Shiny Is It? COH Issue 16 Reflections
With the pre-release download and the warning on the forums about an upcoming freespec (Free power respecification for all characters, for those who don’t speak the COH dialect of English.) it looks like Issue 16: Power Spectrum is just about ready to hit the live servers. It hit Open Beta on the Test server on August 26, so this is about right in the usual schedule. Having played with it for a little while in Closed Beta and more so in Open, I can say it is a lot of fun.
I spent most of my time either checking out the new colorization and/or animation choices or a couple of the new powersets that were moved around. I also spent a little bit of time looking at the new difficulty system that was added, but not that much.
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- I survived, sort of.
- Bad Night for Games
- Good Night at Games
- City of Heroes Issue 14 Beta
- Mission Architect Open Beta: City of Heroes
- Another Night of Gaming: Lunar Rails
- Oooo Shiny! City Of Heroes: Issue 16 Power Spectrum
- How Shiny Is It? COH Issue 16 Reflections
This is not where I want to be at all. Just sitting at home, reading various news sites and considering playing a game, but not really feeling like it. I finally figured out why I have been feeling this way.
My sister left Monday, with her daughter, to drive to California so that my niece can meet one of her grandparents. Yesterday, they went to Arches National Park. They are planning on doing a few other things along the way, maybe Bryce Canyon NP, Hoover Dam, Malibu Beach, the coast highway from LA to the Bay area. And that is just on the trip out. What they see depends on what they feel like doing and how much time they want to take.
At the same time, there is in Montreal, Quebec, the Anticipation Worldcon. Since I started going to Worldcons in 1994, I have missed Glasgow in 1995 and Nippon in 2007. And I at least made the NASFIC in 2007. But not this year.
There is fun going on on both ends of the continent and I sit in the middle and miss it. No wonder I don’t feel like doing anything.
But this too shall pass. Things will eventually get better, and I will be able to once more travel and go to conventions. Probably not in time to make AussieCon next year, but maybe I can make it to Raleigh for the NASFIC.
Well, the news of the day seems to be about the current attempts to get healthcare reform through Congress. Not surprising, it affects pretty much everyone in the country to some extent, which means all the news channels know they have an audience. And there are those doing everything they can to bring even more attention to it, using any method they can think of.
- Political Ramblings
- A Sad Failure of Principles?
- Let him decide...
- Minnesota Senate Race is slowly coming to a conclusion
- Incoming Senators
- How can Obama stand it?
- Franken Stealing the Election?
- The Obama Era Starts
- A Week of Politics
- The Change We Need from Obama
- I was wrong about the definition of bi-partisan
- Politics are strange.
- Jobs and the GOP
- Jindal didn't go over so well
- Closing arguments on the way
- Earmark, earmark, who has an earmark?
- Some bias from the Washington Post
- Europe on Obama
- Healthcare Crisis?
- Open Letter to the President
I was getting my morning news when I came across an article about the Senate and the “Cash for Clunkers” program funding. I didn’t like what I read, so I wrote the following email to both of my Senators here in Ohio. I expect at most a form letter in return, but maybe it will nudge them in the right direction.
Well, new words from me at any rate. I just looked at my front page and it has been 3 months since I posted anything. It certainly doesn’t feel as though I have been silent so long. And it certainly is not because I have been so busy with real life, quite the opposite in fact.
This has been a pretty busy time on City of Heroes. Issue 14: Architect just came out a few weeks ago, the 5th Anniversary celebration is starting today and running through May, and also today, they put up the first announcement about Issue 15: Anniversary.
The next issue looks nice, especially for those of us that have been missing beating up the 5th Column. They are back in a big way, with a separate Strike Force and Task Force for the Villains and Heroes in the game. New costumes, new faces, new emotes, and some needed updates to the Mission Architect UI. And the best news is, it should be coming fairly quickly. With a name like Anniversary, unless they want to push it back to November, they will want it out as soon as possible so it is at least close to the 5th Anniversary.
So I finally got over to my friend’s house again, to get some game time in. It had been far too long since I had made it there, due to conflicting schedules, a bad headache, and some stupidity on my part. But we all made it last night.
- I survived, sort of.
- Bad Night for Games
- Good Night at Games
- City of Heroes Issue 14 Beta
- Mission Architect Open Beta: City of Heroes
- Another Night of Gaming: Lunar Rails
- Oooo Shiny! City Of Heroes: Issue 16 Power Spectrum
- How Shiny Is It? COH Issue 16 Reflections
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