The ORIGINAL Valheru is BACK

valheruprime

Hi Everyone. I hope your existence in the Matrix so far has been to your liking...:smileywink:

I'm back from a looonnnggg vacation from the game. Original beta player, play for months as a lvl 50 hacker, then had to break off for awhile. Last night I got the itch again and re-opened my character and now I am at a loss as to how to get back into it. It seems a lot has happened since I left which was right before the "Fly Guy" was put down.

I appreciate and help/comments you can provide.

Valheru

Dragn-Mastyr

Well, welcome back!

In terms of storyline, not as much has happened as you might think. The two big updates on that front are the LESIG, who are players that act as liaisons for the orgs, or people who act as a way for factions and individuals to set up meetings with the story characters like Niobe or whatever. Very cool stuff. The other thing is the availability of the CYPH and EPN tags, indicating Cypherite and E Pluribus Neo allegiance, respectively. Since CYPHs are still flagged as Machinist and EPN are Zion, this is almost entirely for RP purposes only.

But for real storyline, what's going on is this: The General has appeared, and he and the Commandos have sided with Zion. The machines have lost a case. We've been looking for it for quite a while, and we now know the "The Bike Messenger" has it. Or perhaps someone has retrieved it by now. We're also looking for the key to open the case, since inside is supposed to be something to make up godly. But Anome did a "butterfingers" and lost the key. In the middle there, Sleepwalkers showed up for the Anniversary Event. Kinda like super-radical Cypherites who wanted to reinsert everyone... but would have just destabilized the Matrix, so it was pretty idiotic of them.

But CR2... yeah, that takes a bit of getting used to. Check out this and this and this to get started. Start throwing yourself into duels with some people and figure out what works best for you. If you're on Recursion and want to be MA, might want to send me a tell. I'm pretty good (or so I tell myself) and can give you some tips.

valheruprime

Thanks for the information. I've been viewing a ton of forums and it seems today is the last day for ability buyback. I'm unsure if I am comfortable enough to risk selling some stuff I may need in the future...

I am on Recursion and I'll send you a tell later. I am full hacker atm the moment but it appears that may need to change. Thanks again.

Val

Message Edited by valheruprime on 04-26-2006 08:06 AM
Message edited by valheruprime on 04/26/2006 07:06:52.

Dragn-Mastyr

Actually, the ability buyback ended today. The patch went up this morning.

Hacker is pretty useful sometimes, but it got brought down several notches with the update. Area hacks are still really good. MA and guns tend to be the way to go now, though I've noticed a lot of people going Knife Thrower... which is pretty annoying to tell the truth - I'm really tired of being slowed to a crawl by people. *sigh* not a whole lot I can do about it, though.

**Fractor**

You can also do Pandora's box missions.

valheruprime

I was just thinking about that. So would you say the characters are pretty much balanced at this point? I realize this may start a WHOLE new rant from some people but I am just looking for a general idea. It seems that is what CR2.0 was all about and I was wondering if actual game play coincides with this. Thanks again.

Val