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Quote:Of course I'm not!Originally Posted by Fanservice
I've got to admit
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I'm dying to know.
...NOT a crazed gunman, an assassin damnit!
Well the difference is one's a job and the others mental sickness!
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Quote:I'm honoured XD Most people call me a borderline psychopath who'll grow up to be an axe murder. A grumpy, old man axe murderer.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Well, another good thing is that part of why I started this thread was to get a better idea of people who would find some of my own views unreasonable, thus, if we do ever end up RPing together (and you seem like a cool guy, so it would sound neat) I know not to bring that kind of thing up. (It's what I end up doing a lot anyway. I'm part of an RP group already and to be honest... No one seems to think such a theory is very valid...)
I say that they cling too tightly to their over-rated sanity
But theres nothing really to say 'stop being creative!' Just have a looksee at the setting and whatnot and what makes sense within it. And alongside other players
((Also kidding about the axe murderer part. It's a running gag I held onto from 6th form College XD
Or issss it?
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There should be a new pet set.
It should have only one tier of pet.
This guy;
*Imagines Sir Integra walking into Unionside Pocket D*
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Quote:...Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
Well that Certain Other MMO had both types of Orbital bombardment.
Without the specific advantage it acted like the Ion Cannon, a massive blast of damage. However WITH the advantage it turned it into a...well..the advantage was called Anvil of Dawn (guess which game that's from).
It was probably THE most awesome power in the entire game, I regularly used it in PvP purely for the fact it did terrify people and you'd see them running from this huge column of laser death.
/grabby hands
Want. Just...want..
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Quote:Energy Melee. And SS gets a decent ranged attack. And Rage. Energy Melee suffers more.Originally Posted by Angelxman81
Yo be honest, more AoE could be added to the set. Most of sets got at least 2 powers, SS having only one,tier 9.
I think handclap should do light/medium/moderate damage.
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Make.
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Yeah, that's pretty awesome. I couldn't find anything decent on google images
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QoL Buff;
Remove that Smegging awful whine from every. Damn. Power! Seriously! Its the one character I have to lower my volume quite considerably on, and the methods used to silence/change sounds don't seem to work for me.
On topic; Mez resistance in shields would be ace, as would a reworking of Photon Seekers and Light Form.
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The silencing sound methods never worked for me, mostly because I can't actually view that damn data folder.
Was trying to find a way to silence the godawful whine that comes baked into *every* damn PB power, but to no avail
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Quote:Couldn't agree more. This is why I loved the I17 arcs, because the story was all about you. The Agent might have been the one doing whatever, but you where the one either calmly responding or telling him where to stick it. And Dean was great, because he felt like an actual broker, not some random guy; He had the means to get info, info which you instructed him to go and find out.Originally Posted by UberGuy
I have to agree that I think the hero alignment mission is confusing. It's not that I feel like I don't understand what happened, it's that what happens is outrageously surreal. Why is there a duplicate of me there? Why is Silent Blade so deadpan about the fact that there are two of you, and she defeated one? I think part of the problem here may be her dialog. Both her dialog and the doppleganger's seem stilted and don't help explain anything, which adds to the surreality.
That out of the way, let me pitch in this positive note. The tip-based mission delivery system overall is great. I seriously wish that the game had worked like this from day one. Tips are my characters finding things and going out to look into them, not some other idle NPC doing all the thinking/investigating and telling me to go do the heavy lifting.
Yes, I understand that it's just a text box. So is what we get from the contacts (with the original hassle that you had to go poke them "physically" to get the text). But when the text in that box shifts from you being the muscle in someone else's story to the whole story being yours, that's a big improvement, at least IMO.
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Quote:No, it's just that every clone will get given the AE version of your sets.Originally Posted by GMan3
I would say not exact copies since on a few occasions now the clones used powers I chose not to take on my own toon. I think what happened is each AT and each Power Set that the AT could use was designed by the Dev's to have certain powers based on what they felt would be effective. Now if they picked the powers the same way you did, Eureka! Perfect Clone! If they didn't, then close enough and may not be noticed unless the specific powers are flashy. I do like the system though. Nothing like violently attacking yourself to relieve stre . . . never mind, don't want to let sent to the loony bin for that one.
In Alpha's case, I had to fight a vastly inferior Bots/Devices MM, because for reasons known only to the shadowy programmers AE mobs don't actually get Traps. But the clone Alpha had the pulse rifle attacks while my Alpha doesnt anymore.
Much the same as a Boss level SS char will have Handclap even though your char may not. Because they just get given the whole set. -
Quote:Fair enough, but how can you think about the rest of the world and not have it phase into stuff you do in-game? Otherwise that would require having another brain, or very good mental compartmentalisation.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
He wasn't asking about shared world stuff, just your personal take on it.
I was disagreeing because his version doesn't make sense given the game lore, nor does it make sense given real life either.
Japan has a very good army, well since it's not actually an 'army' they have a very effective, very well trained, very well equipped Defense Force (JDF/SDF) an army that is trained to defend Japan.
They would have this in CoH too, only with Mech's, ninja's, magical girls since the JDF/SDF has been around since 1954, it would of been there to protect Japan during the Rikti War. -
Quote:That's all well and good, but that only work until your version of events runs up against what Mr Stupendous thinks might have happend, or what Superawesome Girl's take on the world as they know it is.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
@Catus Brawler and Techbot:
Well, that doesn't mean anything for YOUR toons. This is about what your outlook on the rest of the world and your takes on what's presented to us.
Mostly I brought up mine as examples and to keep the first post from feeling too short.
Another reason why I like to try to think about what's going on in the outside world beyond the Isles and Paragon and such is because we're clearly presented with heroes and villains from all corners of the globe, in-game backstory tells about global events that metahumans were involved in.
But a lot of times, I see people tending to RP as though NOTHING out of the ordinary (except possibly themselves) EVER happens or happened outside of Paragon or the Isles of interest.
Thing is, RP in this game is a shared world. We can easily- fairly easily RP in Paragon (where there are no holes in canon, that is) because we all know what happens here.
We don't get any information about the rest of the world. So, really, it's safest to simply go with what we know as fact. Mostly the past, general locations of stuff.
Individual trips out to do stuff around the globe tend to work ok, as you can generally work under the assumption of not bumping into anyone in your own fiction. But trying to say that Tokyo is actually patrolled by giant robots and the Japanese began to clone dinosaurs simply doesn't cut it, because thats godmoding the world itself. Unless everyone agreed on it, theres no way it could happen.
And its less people RPing that the world outside the City has nothing interesting happening, but more that the stuff in Paragon and the Rogue Isles is altogther a lot closer and more imminent. -
Quote:Sorry, mention what?Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
You do know how broken PvP in this game is right?
Not only that, while being 'in character' for resistance and Loyalist to
go at each other. In Praetoria things are... restricted.
There is no way Cole would allow Powers Division to run rampant in the streets openly using powers around citizens without authorization from a Praetor.
Maybe in the underground but not in the Magisterium(sp)
But besides that, PvP is horrible in this game. When the most powerful attack chain is Flurry+Jump kick+Air Sup. then you'd have a lot of new players wondering why their high damage blast isn't doing anything.
Lets not even mention DR or Suppresion shall we.
The weather is lovely around here, isn't it?
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Quote:Well....Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I more meant an actual orbital laser coming down from space, with you just using a targeting laser like what they had in Tribes 2. If Robotics Masterminds can seem to have a space ship to airdrop Drones and tunnels everywhere to deliver Protector Bots, why can't all Pulse Rifle Blasters have an orbiting death ray?
The bigass laser is a cool idea, but I tend to have a problem with these unless they're very well done. The bigger you make a laser beam, the more scattered it looks, especially if it comes out of a small rifle. I could see a big-ish laser beam being used as as kind of Piercing Rounds knockoff, but a laser from space making a huge explosion, Ion Cannon style would just make my day
versus
Hmn....Hand-held laser is plausible...Ion Cannon looks more badass.
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Quote:=OOriginally Posted by Memphis_Bill
*steals*
I actaully found this one;
But I LOVE that one.
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I wouldn't agree with the actual interpretation of Japan's hero populace, simply because we know nothing about the world outside Paragon except for a few bits of backstory that all happened in the past. I'm always pretty loathe to try and interpret what I don't know. For example, my Japanese scrapper left the country with her family when she was twelve, and her favourite topic is more rooted in traditional and cultural Japanese stuff, not so much the modern stuff. She's quite westernised, while still hanging onto traditional practices, honour, stuff like that.
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Quote:Gundam, actaullyOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Hey, Tech, do you think you can find me a giant eyeroll pic in the spirit of your Optimus Prime facepalm? It's starting to get irritating to need one and not having it. If I could find a pic of Op facepalming I- .... Hold the phone *heads to google*
Eyerolls seem to be a lot harder....however, I did find one you might appreciate;
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Quote:Well...there is. FinalFantasy Tactics Advance Famfrit style 'Uber energy beam' blast, direct from the gun. If you think Dual Pistols bulelt curving is daft, just how little sense does firing a laser up to come down make? Shoot a GIANT smegging laser at them in the face.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Were it not for the problem of giving Masterminds powerful attacks, I would agree. I can certainly see why you'd want it as a temp power, and I... Guess I could see it as obtainable via a semi-rare activity.
But again - I want this as a regular nuke for a regular Blast set, because if we DO make a Pulse Rifle Blast set, there's no better nuke for it
Also, sad face; Orbital Lance does not scale generously on tankers
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Quote:Cruel!Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I'd love to see them available, too. I got a ton of people asking me how I had a character draped over the top of the Paragon Studios logo and I was so tempted to tease them saying you unlocked it by being slept for 1000 hours in-game.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Also, I'd kill for the huge ammount of emotes currently locked away behind AE exclusivity. Especially some of the ones that use rifles and weapons at idle. Got so many characters that would have a use for them. -
Quote:Yeah. Do they actually do anything now, or did I miss something?Originally Posted by Zombie Man
In context, the Dev is referring to editing six year's worth of existing missions so that the NPCs in them don't get confused by the player's alignment and attack when they shouldn't and become allies when they should.
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Quote:Wait, really?Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
There's no reason why we can't BOTH be picture-posting people!
Besides, my main character appeared in the video; I have the right to call upon The Norris.
Damn....you lucky goit
And I'll fight for my title as annoying picture poster person, damnit!
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Quote:No! BAD Goliath! No stealing my rights as picture poster person around here!Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
And damnit, Michelle, that intro had my spine tingling! And give your composer a hearty pat on the back, because the music was freaking win too. Loved it. -
I'm curious as to how they made the missions mostly psychic. Both the Rogue mission for Alpha and the Hero mission for my hero Chief Centurion Z1 have both been so right for the characters it was unbelievable. The Vigilante mission for my Warshade wasn't quite so good, but he's a tricky character anyway.
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Quote:You should come to Union, you ex-continental pat youOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Once upon a time, I liked to invite random low-level people to team with me because I enjoy company. I haven't done that since I realised that 100% of... Wait, let me try that again. Since I realised that 99.99999999999999% of people I run into at random are not interested in company, but rather in "XPs."