"Amigoid" <lbrown-amigoid.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Oct 18, 11:58 am, "Vorlonagent" <vor....RemoveThis@vorlonagent.com> wrote:
>
>> As of this writing, she has 309,047 to go before level 50.
>>
>> Asa BTW, tt is so worth unlocking the TV. The missions are a lot of fun
>> and
>> a little creepy at times. Whoever wrote them was had a whole lot of fun
>> doing it.
>>
>> --
>> John Trauger,
>> Vorlonagent
>
>
> Um... What is unlocking the TV? At least in this context? I have only
> played a couple lowbie CoV characters, a healer mastermind, a blaster
> hero gone psycho, and a Animatronic bear mastermind that escaped a
> theme park when his new AI chip malfunctioned.
>
> At least in the lower levels I haven't seen much distiction that makes
> it look like you are a villian versus a relabled hero grinding out the
> same mission stacks. Just snakes instead of gang bangers.
Mercy Island is like that. In fact Mercy Island is far more one-note than
Atlas or Galaxy. Standard policy for my villains is "Get off Mercy as quick
as possible!" Usually when I've finished Kalinda or Burke's arc, I'm big
enough to get newspaper missions in Port Oaks. Port has a greater variety
of stuff to fight and an interesting contact called "the radio". It's a
boombox sitting on a car in a parking lot where the disc jockey on the radio
talks to you and sends you on missions. Finishing a mission arc often means
the contact will send you to the Radio.
When/if you get around to your 40s and Grandville there's a contact like the
Radio: Television. It's a spot in some slums in Grandville where there's a
TV sitting out in the middle of the street. There's some people watching
it, a Freak Tank, a Canie Ring Mistriss and a few others. You can't fight
them. They're watching TV. At the moment, there's some kind of art bug
where the TV is invisible. If you get around to the same viewing angle that
the other people have, you can see a screen full of static hovering in the
air. You can still click on it (from any angle) and get missions.
Nobody gives you the TV as a contact. You unlock it by getting one of
Grandville's exploration badges. CoV has several on lockable contacts. Most
of the higher level zones have at least one such contact. How tounlock them
isn't documented anywhere in the game (but there are third-party websites
with the information). You get them by doing the right something, then
clicking on the right person to find that they're a contact today when they
weren't yesterday.
--
John Trauger,
Vorlonagent
"Methane martini.
Shaken, not stirred."
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