I use the third one as my laptop background now.
Patch 15.4 removed the wonderful trippy colouring of the Anti-Molokhs of Adonis. Fortunately I snapped of shot of a big kitty (Golly) admiring one before the change, and so it is preserved here for posterity. Some of the colourful ones still appear in Inferno.
Here is Golly looking all sparkly as his team enters the crater west
of Tir in the middle of the night. Greymatta's pet, Bandaid, is
nearby ready to heal party members, and our real-life friends
Amarthdur (an agent) and Khathryn (a soldier) are ready to provide
supporting fire. Poisynatra is a doctor who we met in the training
grounds and turned out to be a pretty good partner, especially
when Bandaid was not around. I like this shot because of its
moody ambience.
Penumbra Hollows sure is a pretty place, but I suspect many players
never go in there and really see it. You get in there by entering a
door from The Pipe, either on the west or the east. If you descend a
level from the hallways you really get to see how neat it is.
Rubi-Ka is in a binary solar system, and the sunrises and sunsets can
be quite beautiful. The suns rise in the north and set in the south, and here
is a view of the central market of Fair Trade one fine morning in
Tir.
While fighting in Inferno in kitty form (with the bobbing camera) and
in first person view, every three seconds I would bounce down and get
a brief face full of this. Stop looking at me like that, you're
freaking me out!
Not many people get to see Tri Plumbo, even after he was nerfed to not
drop the Rust-Pitted Ring. He lives in the sewers of the Biomare
static dungeon, and still gets killed pretty soon after every spawn by
people hoping for a Corroded Ring. Alas, he didn't drop any ring for me.
T.I.M. is the Slayerdroid at the end of the Biomare dungeon, and as a
special monster he is a difficult fight for his purported level of
100. For the targetted character levels of the rest of the dungeon,
he is pretty much impossible. He sometimes drops a scope which is
coveted by many people because it raises Ranged Initiative.
Almohada and Laslingis relax one evening outside of Fair Trade in Tir,
watching the spectacle of humanity and helping out our fellow partners
in the strife against Omni-Tek to the best of our buffing ability.
This is from an org raid on Agent Lamb, looking at the spot where he
spawns. I thought it was kinda cool how Fals's droid was standing
guard at the front of us. We all miss Fals ... hey dude, if you read
this, come back to the game!
That Ninj00 sure is a fashion plate. Vote Ninj00 for Playtrox of the Year!
Here is the crowd that gathered on Old Athen hill as an announcement
for Alien Invasion came across the server that, "Friends the time has
come... we must gather as one people... Make your way to either
outside Newland, Old athen hill or Southern end of Rome Red...". The
large number of people who did crashed the Old Athen zone repeatedly,
all just to see a hologram of Philip Ross. Omg, teh excitement.
This is Almohada, an Opifex Agent, atop the highest building in Stret
West Bank. We had a mission up there and it took us something like an
hour to figure out that we could get all the way to the top to find the
entrance to the mission. We searched repeatedly inside the bar Reet
Retreat thinking maybe the mission was somewhere in there. Classic
newbies.
I took this shot by accident as my fingers stumbled around the
keyboard in my first few days of playing. It shows Amarthdur, another
Opifex Agent, in "sneaking" mode, from which he can make a sniper's
aimed shot with his rifle. Golly, standing in front of him, would
still pound him into a pulp anyway, even though they were both level 1.
The perspective of this shot amused me.
Almo really likes being sparkly, having the offensive shield that
deals damage back to attackers automatically. We like her sparkly
because it enhances her bust line, which is not quite as obvious in
the picture as it is in the animated world. What is obvious is that
her helmet makes her head look like an eraser. Whether this is better
or worse than looking like a bug, as Volttron does, is clearly a
matter of personal preference.
We got a mission that took us into the strangest area we'd seen yet,
where we had to walk up the tongue of a giant beast (innocuously
behind a normal looking door in Tir) and past its fearsome teeth. For
some reason Almo thought this would be a nice place to stand and ask
for her picture to be taken. Brave woman. I did not get to frame it
as well as I would have liked because as I was trying to set it up our
companions ran down the throat and engaged some Rookie Poachers that
basically smacked down our asses. We all died. Thankfully death is
not a permanent condition in Rubi-Ka.
Keithr and Msaka, two members of the Souls of Eternity, sit with
teammate Golly in Old Athen East, preparing for their next mission
against the forces of Omni-Tek. Msaka has made himself
into a bird, which Golly is quite entranced with.