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Anybody else here a Defiance fan? :lol: It's not TERRIBLY popular, what with its plethora of glitches and that it isn't CoD or TES, but I'm a fan. I watch the show AND play the game. And perhaps my character will end up on the show, as they are having a contest, whereupon the winners' characters get a spot in a future episode of the show. But I probably won't win. But oh well. XD

Post-apocalyptic, sci-fi world. The gameplay is quite a lot like Borderlands--drive around, shoot stuff, there are lots of guns, lots of critters (which may have elemental attacks), lots of missions, and upcoming DLCs.

In the game, you're an Ark Hunter in the area 'round what used to be San Francisco--a treasure hunter, really. Arks are the ships that the Votanis Collective (aliens) used to escape their dying solar system. They arrived at Earth. Bigotry lead to war. And at some point, the Arks blew up for some reason. The debris rains from orbit--hence, Arkfalls came to be an occasional happening, and people with a taste for treasure will pursue the Arkfalls, to compete for their share of Votan tech. (The Arkfalls are also the reason for the world being really, really effed up. Terraforming technology and all sorts of alien biological samples, chemicals, and technologies smashing into the planet surface from the Arks meant the earth was vastly transformed and scarred--cities and structures being crushed, the geography of the planet shifting and changing, new alien species of critters and plants popping up everywhere...Fun stuff.)

In the show, Nolan and Irisa (A former soldier and his sorta adopted alien daughter) become Lawkeepers (self explanatory) in the town of Defiance (former St. Louis, after Old St. Louis was buried by the terraforming disaster, and was renamed after the Battle of Defiance, in which human and Votan soldiers threw down their weapons to help trapped and injured citizens).

So? Any other fans? Or soon-to-be fans? Or am I just fartin in the breeze, here? :roll:
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I'm a fan. Really enjoying both the show and the game. Show has a lot of potential.

As for the game, they need to add some new enemies. Specifically the Volge
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Oh, they will. And probably the Volge. They're going to be releasing DLC, at some point, and there may be lots of it--the game may live for as long as the show does, which could be many seasons. --I'm hoping to see more involvement from the other characters. Like Rosa. She's supposed to be an inventor, but...we don't see any of her inventions. And Von Bach...Avoiding spoilers, here, there are many unanswered questions, regarding Von Bach, and some things he'd experienced, so he has *got* to be in at LEAST *one* piece of DLC. And perhaps even the show? Hmmm.
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I've been watching the show, the pilot was good enough to keep my interest at least, but I haven't played the game as I haven't really heard anything special about it and with the plot so early I don't really feel like I NEED to be involved more with the lore
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What a lovely show and game, so here is a place for all of us Defiance fans can gather in peace! So here's some questions to get the party going:
Who's your favorite character? In the game? In the show?

Do you play the game or watch the show or both?

What's your favorite moment in the show?
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I think I made a Defiance topic, ages ago. :P Ah well.

In the game, Peter Nardone--haha, don't worry, you'll meet him eventually. In the show... ...Datak's wife, Stahma. Heh. Scheming haigi.

Both, as you know.
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Nicolette turning out to be an Indogene. Damn. Heh. ...I don't think she should have been killed off so soon, though.
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Nicolette wasn't indogene :S
Killed by one, but she was human
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Baloth-Kul wrote:I think I made a Defiance topic, ages ago.
Merged to keep things tidy.

P.S. - Ages seems to mean two months now. :|
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I didnt want to Necropost...
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Necropost = 3 months dead topic....
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Oh! Well that changes things :D
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born2beagator wrote:Nicolette wasn't indogene :S
Killed by one, but she was human
Watch the last half of the episode again :P

Did you watch the episode with the astronaut?
Spoiler:
HE was an Indogene. And try to put stuff like this in spoilers. Because it could spoil stuff for others who've not seen it. Anyway, they were BOTH part of a project by Indogene scientists, disguising Indogenes as humans--high ranking military or political figures.

The scene where Nicolette kills the bartender--he confronts her. He says she's an Indogene. And she says yes, she is. :P
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The wait for the first dlc is agonizing already and I just got the game.... I guess I'm just impatient because I am going to make my castithan character my main one
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Defiance season 1 finale; cliffhanger, cliffhanger, unanswered questions, cliffhanger. Gah.
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