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If ambushes trigger several ta the same time you're either doing somthing wrong (eg. moving around while the first ambush is still moving towards you) or there's a bug somewhere.
The exception are I think, three missions (and gnerally those are distinguished by a big yellow "HORDE APPROACHING!" and those are weakened versions and not egular spawns) -
I think the Dr. Stefford on with the seer ambushes (yeah, thse were nasty) arne't endless: They're triggered at particular points but all you have to do is wait for them and kill them as they come (and I went through that arc as a stalker too, it was annoying, especially since I didn't have KB protection)
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At least a couple of these ambushes are rather clearly tagged as "Don't fight, RUN!"
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Quote:You mean like today's youth dress like 17th century gentlepersons?Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
Maybe they are trying to bring back the old-timey fashion of their forefathers. -
Quote:Well, duh, there are always better ways to do thingsOriginally Posted by Aura_Familia
I don't know but I do find some of the mechanics used in the BAF to be rather cheap. There should be better ways to do things.
It pretty much makes some sets (*cough* SR *cough*) useless.
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Quote:What rules? They deal a new damage type. It's no differen than invuln having a psi-hole, onlyit applies to all tankers. (and not just tankers) and thus require some different tinkering.Originally Posted by Toony
Well BM really is still just a brute force thing. All it requires is that the players move from her cheap "I WIN!" button power. Outside of that it is just brute forcing. Honestly, Recluse is probably the closest to requiring a specific strategy.
I'd also say the towers in the BAF falls under "game is cheating" that Sam said. From what I heard it basically magically kills tanks and cuts through them like a hot knife through butter, ignoring resistance (and thus the rules).
BM *isn't* a brute force thing precisley becuase of the mechanics (she has a very good DOT patch that forces you to move around) yes, in a sense it's a brute force thing in that it requires you to get her HP down to zero, but then again, this IS a superhero game, where ultimately, everything comes down to punching
One of the things I've always liked with COH is the wide variety of powers and tricks enemies throw at you. The DEV's seem set on expanding that.
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Quote:That's maifestly untrue: Ever since Romm there's been an emphasis on different strategies (that rommy is brute-forced moreoften than not nowadays is a result of us becoming more powerful) BM is a perfect example: She's far smaller a number than Reichsman, but she has some abilities that makes the encounter play differently. The same is true for the STF (LRSF less so, although even there the supporing abilities of the Freedom Phalanx make it a somwhat diferent fight)
and not even clever numbers, at that, just bigger numbers.
The BAF is similar what with the sequestration warnings, the towers, etc. etc.
EDIT: And of course, the new TF's are based on TEAMS. Yeah, you don't have a to-hit buff (unless you picked up Tactics) but hopefully SOMEONE does. (and if not, get a different team) -
Thermal and Cold.
With Kinetics and Sonic being close second. -
We did have this guy who tried to tank an ITF unslotted.
No, not unslotted with regards to IO's: He didn't have any enhancements slotted at all. -
Quote:Not to mention that the roman unfiorms are all wrong for that timeframe.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
And plundered them a bit poorly. They DO realize that Bres was NOT considered a good king or a hero? (Actually they don't, but that's not the point of this)
At best, he taught the Tuathua farming after trying to usurp the throne back with the help of BALOR.
Though the devs are clearly equal opportunity in their lack of research when they turned Romulus Augustus into a ten foot, power-hungry, psychopath who made deals with nazis from the future and space aliens.
(Hint: 5th century legionaires do not look like 1st century ones) -
Quote:Actually, the game was never balanced against even-level enemies. The TF's were always having you fight at least +1 or +2 enemies towards the end, sometimes more. (Rommie is level 52 minimum, for instance)Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Replace "future content" with "fighting level 54 enemies" and this thread becomes a lot more grounded.
For the longest time, this game was balanced against even level enemies, where enemy powers and mission design were used to provide quote-unquote "challenge." Everyone built for what the game was balanced around. Not everyone will rebuild for the poor man's version of challenge, otherwise known as "the computer is a cheating *******."
Historically, jacking up enemy stats and giving them palette swaps has been just about the cheapest, least inspiring method of adding fake difficulty, just trailing behind "supposed to lose" fights.
I will say one thing, though - it's becoming quite obvious that a completely different development team is working on the Incarnate system. -
I actually think the devs are fairly clever: They notice what people use to try to break the game and (try to) counteract it (unfortunately they can't go all out ball-busting or people would whine, but they d change stuff)
Eg. People with softcapped defence being invulnerable: Higher level foes and +to-hit and accuracy (and defense debuffs) on enemies.
They've also given a lot of enemies healing/regen debuffs, which is a nice way of keeping "saturate everything with greeen numbers" from being a no-brainer solution.
BM's death patches encourages range rather than melee.
There's more stuff to do, but they've actually been fairly good with leveraging existing mechanics. -
The problem really is that while general survivability goes up, that's not true of MM pets.
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Since this thread is A) too awesome to die and B) I just went through a Lady Grey TF and people were talking about "Pedojar" and such so...
GG, can you fix me a Mother Mayhem/Clockwork King picture?
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Quote:Because the you don't know Octavian unless you do the other arcs, and the Syndicate probably won't talk to you unless you have an "in" (they seem like a pretty insular group)Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It seems like the Crusader arc does the same. The initial stages of it were relatively good, in the "I just want to smash stuff!" sense of heedless anarchy, but by the time I got to Nova and accomplished Wardog's arc, it was back to business as usual. Why do I say this? Well, I just got past Wardog's moral choice mission.
I knew from scene one that we were going to detonate a neutron bomb in Nova Praetoria, and the reason why is we couldn't get it topside, so "poor" Wardog had to "sacrifice" himself to wipe out a whole bunch of PPD and TEST Rangers. So what choices am I given?
A. With the Seers broadcasting this to everyone, now is the time for the Resistance to make a stand!
or
B. With the Seers broadcasting, now is the time to suck up to the Loyalists!
At least that's how I read the options. I don't know, this just seems odd to me. Why is it that my only alternative outside of the Resistance is Cole's administration? What about an option to take the detonators, walk back topside and hand them over to Octavian, letting Wardog and Vagabond get killed by the TEST in the sewers. After all, the Syndicate were trying to stop the bombing. Why can't I help them?
Though, I suppose, given the limitations of faction-on-faction warfare, this kind of works. -
Quote:Hey, don't knock breeding pigs and growing vegetables!. That can be quite riveting. (especially worrying about a night of frost ruining your prize tomatoes...)Originally Posted by Emberly
Competitive farming in CoX sounds exactly as boring as competitive farming in real life.
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That or Enriche is only really fed to the people of Praetoria City (as I'll call the capital for brevity's sake) or at least only introduced in the water-system there, as an experimental thing.
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Apex/Tin Mage is perfectly doable with just SO's (or generic IO's) It's a bit more annoying, but it's not a real problem assuming people know what they're doing have at least slightly team-oriented builds (inherent stamina has helped a lot with this, since a lot of people pick up leadership powers, which are very helpful)
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I should note that cultic statues of Frey usually depict him with a hug erection.
And we're not talking about the architectural kind. -
Arcanaville is wise. */em praise*
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Quote:BS quite openly stated that teaming was going to be given preferential treatment.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Preface: I do not believe this is actually the case. I believe Vanden is extremely wrong about this.
However, if you're right, Vanden, then we're looking at a situation of the Devs more or less actively trolling their solo players. Do you really think that is healthy behaviour for a game?
As said, I'd actually prefer it if they lowered the shard-cost and upped the inf-cost, but you have your soloable path. -
Depending on the specific recipe, a purple will sell on the auction house for between 20 (that's the cheapest price i've seen for a purple recipe, which is not to say it is the cheapest price anyone has wrangled out of one) to hundreds of millions.
Even the Soulbound Allegience (generally the cheapest) sell for 20-30 million.
A level 50 common recipe will sell for roughly 100,000 (give or take a bit) from a vendor.
Doctored Wounds seeems to sell for 1-5 million or so (but I've seen people pay up to 15 million for them) some other yellows like Crushing Blow seems to go in a similar price-range.
Damage procs seem to sell for 10-20 milion (Cloud Senses: Chance for Negative Damage is for some reason really expensive and usually goes for like 40 million)
Some of the really good procs (Miracle + recovery, Numina +regen/recovery) sell for 40-80 million.
Simply by playing casually chances are you'll get at least one of these things.
EDIT: Or you can spend 30 minutes four days in a row to get two alignment merits, buy a LOTG 7.5% recharge, and sell it for 150 milion. -
Quote:He's specifically deployed there to do a job. (A job he enjoys, but that's a different matter) he's an arachnos agent, working under Arachnos orders.Originally Posted by Signpost
Westin Phipps != Arachnos, even if he's a tool. Like you, he has his own mind, and he uses it to do evil.
I repeat: By no metric possible is Lord Recluse better than Tyrant (except that he is less competent: He has not, after all, taken over the world, which makes Tyrant a greater *threat* but that's a different matter entirely) everything Tyrant does Recluse does and worse. He is more oppressive, his citizens live in greater squalor, Tyrant is constrained by at least trying to maintain the *facade* of benevolence. Recluse has no such constraints.
Which does not mean that he does not treat his lackeys well as long as they are successful (and has a grudging respect for those who manage to trick or overpower him) but then again: So does Cole. -
Quote:I wouldn't actually disagree with that, but in that case I'd double or triple the influence cost.Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid
I would strongly suggest removing the 40 shard cost, and leaving the rest as is.
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Quote:Yeah, it's not even like the A Certain Other game where you have to call the bosses health manuallyOriginally Posted by Furio
Was on the league that dropped them today, a couple of hours ago. Didn't take any particular coordination really. There's an objective window with their health bars and a numerical percentage readout that's visible no mater what you have targeted.