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Quote:No meds for SRIUZ BZNES!Originally Posted by NarfMann
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I chuckle
It's even more amusing that people are getting all 'huhwhut?' about it.
Your humour amuses me. I shall let you live a while longer
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Quote:Now, thats just scary...Originally Posted by Willowpaw
And since everyone else has exhausted the supply of Hell No, I will go all Dr. Evil here and say...
"How about...NO!"
I actually looked at this thread, saying that out loud Oo get outta my head! -
Quote:^ Pretty much thisOriginally Posted by Ninus
May as well give it up; been suggested, and roundly, resoundingly slammed into the grave. PvP is not even barely on the radar for the vast majority of people in this game, and the foundation of non-PvPers was firm before PvP became even an option.
Plus the Devs already said that PvE'ers wouldnt have to even deal with PvP if they didnt wish to; which appears to include going into a Zone that has PvP for any reason unless they 'reeeeeeally' wanted to. A number of changes have been made to the game to make this point abundantly clear that the Devs respect their playerbase in this area absolutely.
SO, while it may pop up as a suggestion from time to time; it is just a waste of typing. And no your ideas arent new to the subject nor enticing to the vast majority of the gamers here.
PvP is sitll broken, at least in my opinion. It's like comparing the single player of Dawn of War 2 to the multiplayer....they're the same game..with similar units...but it's TOTALLY different?!
It's wierd, and not so fun. Much like PvP at the moment. -
Quote:Rualruu is awewsome. I realised this when doing a villain side team in the Shard.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Motion passed!
Now, then... how about Chularn the Slave Lord, Kuularth the Scavenger, Aloore the Watcher, and Uuralur the Mirror?
It's...like...there's floating.......fortress, thinger....the....
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Quote:I lol'd right thereOriginally Posted by Ninus
But Sparx; that's Rainbow Six. And I got bigger boots.
I...like the idea. Customisable MM pets ftw? But...eh, I just see it be far, far too complex execution wise.
Probably a 'Standard Code Rant' in there, too...(SCR? Is that taken?) -
Quote:WARNING! The following statement contains opinion!Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
I definitely agree the VEAT arcs are total weaksauce, especially when you compare them to the Kheld arcs. Whatever your opinion on the Khelds as characters, their story arcs are much better than what the VEATs got shafted with.
Kheldian Arcs story content > VEAT arcs story content
Kheldian arc enemy mobs < VEAT arc enemy mobs
Kheldian general enjoyment < VEAT general enjoyment
Kheldians looking awesome = VEATs looking awesome
/Opinion
More story goodness for VEATS, tweaks and fixes for HEATs please =P -
This thread is great.
Seriously, I haven't laughed at so many great responses in ages
Ah, you fleshlings, always providing me some measure of amusement.
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He wasn't serious, was he?
Was he?
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Quote:Bill...too complex. Two phrases can sum this up;Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I wish I knew. I buy other games, tear through them... and then log back into CHV.
I'd like to think it's nothing but addiction, but I know addiction. I'm a smoker. It isn't that.
It's a fun game. It's fun to start new characters. It's fun to realize the potential of powerset combos I've overlooked. It's fun to go into scrapperlock for hours on end.
SCRAAAAAAPP!!
or
BROOT SMARSH!!
But yeah...CityOf was made from Win. -
Quote:^ pretty much what the suggestion was.Originally Posted by Socorro
Nobody's suggesting just flipping few switches and calling it a day. Any theoretical shapeshifting redo would of course have to address Form Imbalances while keeping each different but still strong enough to be desireable options.
Personally, I wish the forms had just served as Modifiers to the base Human forms powers. The forms wouldn't have any powers of their own, per se, but used whatever you'd already slotted for Human, but modified.
Essentialy:
Human is Base: Medium Offensive and Defensive
Nova: Enhances Damage Powers but Defense takes a hit.
Dwarf: Beefs up Defense, but Damage is lowered
All that, with perhaps some additional 'flavor' effects, depending on the form.
Anyhow, as said, nothing like this is *ever* gonna happen; not sure why we even speculate on it *haha*
Although actually making the forms mod the numbers on eac would be...interesting.
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Quote:He has Domo on his side!Originally Posted by Commander
You should have seen the poster that was used before Recluse went back in time, via Ouroboros, and threatened the Japanese Prime Minister to come up with a new flag.
WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!
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/So signed
Dynamic music
Dynamic music is a fairly simple concept, and works on an 'Intensity' scale. A perfect example of this is used in the PS2 game, Transformers (the Armada version);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0uAjWz_mD4
The scale;
'Idle'; This is the base music. Nothings happening, really. It's calm, steady, it sets the scene.
'Potential'; Somethings looking like it could be happening. A mob has been spotted (more likely to work mechanics wise, it has come within a certain radius that will count as 'spotted' or 'within range').
'Confrontation'; Something is happening. Its not too major yet. Say a few minions, maybe an LT. Nothing too bad, but it's still a scrap.
'Major Conflict'; The peak. This isn't a confrontation, this is a whole mob or two, and you/the team are in the thick of it, busting heads and taking names. As far from idle as it can get.
'Boss theme'; A little add on, worthy of EB's and AV's, maybe tailored to the map, with unique versions for signatures like Positron, Serefina, Arbiter Sands, Nocturne, States and Recluse, etc.
Map specific; Outside of the main city zones, the music would be tied to the map itself. We already get certain entry music on things like Arachnos bases and Sewers and such, along those lines.
Theme examples;
Sewer
Sewer/cave
Office
Office/cave
Arachnos base 1
Arachnos base 2
Rikti Cave 1
Troll Cave 1
Orenbega
Etc. Obviously more than that, with variations for different map sets which are similar but not identical, to avoid it all being the same.
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Quote:Amen.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
I'll also say you'll find out *just* how visible you are, without making some very tight build choices (finding a stealth IO, picking up the stealth pool, etc.)
Any time I took my Stalkers into any zone from Siren's on up - because I chose *not* to make those (being mostly a PVE build, I might at most have a stealth IO) it was easier to just assume I was plainly visible. Hell, being a Stalker, I assumed I had a target right on my forehead, with a neon sign above me saying "Kill me first, I'm squishy for a melee."
Hell to the no to the sugestion. Theres enough +preception floating around as it is. Sure, its not all even, and most certainly ain't fair. It's PvP! What do you expect? My tank, who can wade through x8 purple conning bosses and barely take a scratch (not that he can kill *them* too well, but thats what team mates are for) gets absolutely mauled in PvP. These things happen.
...I now have an urge to go get my Claws/Ninja stalker and give him a run out...see if I can tear up some unsuspecting prey
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Quote:New Rogue Isles system; Civilians dont get targetted with tab (Like Vault doors atm) but can be selected AND attacked.Originally Posted by Smurch
How about, if you click on the NPC, they generate a comment about a recent deed of yours and praise you for it.
And to balance it, villain side, if we click on the NPC, we can TARGET AND KILL THEM.
Killing NPCs results in an Arachnos hit squad being sent after you, wanted for murder (read the background, Recluse does actually enforce the laws. Why do you think the Goldbrickers are always getting nabbed?)
Beating up the hit squad will result in more being sent, upgrading from, say, a few Wolf spiders to a Huntsman, his squad and some robotic back-up, moving steadily through to a whole Crab spider assault team, then a Bane Commando neutralisation unit, to the point of them sending in a Tarantula squadron, and then a Night Widow kill-team.
Etc, etc. Only targetted NPCs would be a trigger, not those caught in AoE. (Standard code rant?)
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Boosting the Arbiters sounds like a better idea. You already have Sands, who is quite a good example; cold, calculating, logical. Maybe different aspects that all mesh together.
Also, have you looked at the SIZE of them, at least the guys? They're as tall as a Council Cor Leonis, so I'd expect them to have quite an ammount of punch behind them. -
Quote:I think that wouldn't be a case of 'standard code rant' as much as 'broken'Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
I think this is the issue. It is not that it wouldn't make sense for, say, the Human form ranged attacks to be used in Nova form and the Human melee attacks in Dwarf form. Rather, as the animations are written for the Human form, they would look crazy in the Nova form at the least.
Mind you, I was just wondering why Novas can't fire off the main "novas", Dawn Strike or Quasar. It's not like Dwarf Form doesn't get an extra attack, there's no reason to limit them to four. Although I'm guessing the potential of firing off two in a row is the issue. Nova form damage levels plus a nuke?
Although I think I recall someone mention in another thread about how Kheld nukes are actually lower powered than, say, blaster nukes? Due to damage scale ot wahtnot.
Either whichway, anything that concerened Khelds to the level of an overhaul would require a lot of number and balance work right off the bat. -
A slightly half formed idea that is, to say the least, somewhat radical. I know even before I type it up what it will probably get a lot of 'hell no wtf' ing, which I can understand. It is, after all, just an idea.
Basically, the main hoo-ha people seem to have, myself included, with the Kheldians and shapeshifting is how its hard to slot both forms and human form powers effectively (if going Triform)
Human forms avoid this problem altogether, while sacrificing the the utility (and mez protection of dwarf form)
Twin-forms will partly avoid the slotting problem, while Tri-forms suffer the most from it.
Now, the idea itself.
Scrap shapeshifting as it is now. That is to say, do away with the 'shapeshift only' powers. Dwarf and Nova attacks.
Instead of that, allow both forms access to the standard attacks. Im...not sure about the secondary set. Although it would lock off such things as heals, buffs etc, stacking the forms on top of shields and such would be...well, as it is now it would be broken. But if this would be a whole overhaul...Dwarf form I see being the easiest, making the number smaller, so that it stacks like Crab Spiders Fortification does with the auto-armour...
(Note, Im not trying to make it a Veat-Heat thing, its just the only example I can think of off the top of my head)
Animation wise, this would indeed be shed loads of work. There would need to be new Nova and Dwarf form versions of each attack. Yes, Nova's cant punch, etc. They do, however, have a rather large, sharp looking mouth, and a whiplash tail. They fire energy from both ends, so using either to attack seems plausible. As for AoEs, simply a blast from the middle seems to work.
This is a very sketchy idea, at present. Number wise, it would require a lot of rebalancing, animation wise a lot of work, and I get the feeling it would create a lot of aggro amongst current users.
Still, just an idea. I do still feel the HEATs need work, in one way or another. At the very least, give them a freaking endurance balance, pre-stamina levels are crippling. Amongst other things. -
The Coming Storm is a lie.
What ISN'T a lie is the dawn of the new age...the Robotic Age. Humanity will fall, and the world will be preserved, while a new robotic empire expands into the galaxy and the universe, transcending history and the world-
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Oh damn, wrong prompt card...
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This makes me happy
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Stun in itself is a quite good power...hell, I nay-said things like Beanbag in AR and Taser in Devices, until I actually TRIED them and realised, hey, those LTs that were hurting me before are staggering around like sacks for me to wail on. My AR corr was laughing as the team demolished Spectral Demon Lords, let me tell you
But...its a stun...in a set whose secondary IS stun...its nonsensical. Now, if it did high enough mag stun to make a *Boss* stagger around for ages...hmm maybe.
Even so, I really think that needs changing, and TF needs to be made an AoE OR have its animation cut and damage output raised. Or make ET the AoE, and simply make TF animate faster. -
Digging: That Clockwork signature
Robots: Superior
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Quote:On my tanker, I found this was often the problem. I would go to kill something, knowing that TF would one or nearly one shot them, then someone with faster attacks that did as much damage ran in and floored them.Originally Posted by BrandX
THat may be the problem with some...but it wasn't my problem.
I was actually using my big hitters on enemies at full life and watching them die before the attack finished animating.
That's what I got tired of, personally.
Admittedly, I was running on some really great teams then.
If TF was an AoE that animated that slow, that'd be fine. But its too slow for what it does. -
Quote:^ I pulled a face like this guys user-pic.Originally Posted by Tripp Hazzard
And take a look as the bases section of the forum before you claim nobody uses them any more.
You may not, but many people get a great deal of enjoyment and utility out of them.
Bases ARE outadated...because they haven't recieved any TLC for too long. The editor is starting to show it's age, the item limit is starting to actually matter, and be a hinderance, the tech sections STILL have far fewer items than the Arcane sections do (Annoyance: Much) and...yeah. Bases need some updating.
But speak for yourself when you say people dont use them. A lot of people on Union and other servers disagree with you. -
I guess theres a number, especially given the zones are NOT the limit of Paragon. Given the zone map, theres a lot of city we don't see at all. Although I would guess at least one in each major zone, maybe two or three.
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Drop upkeep (Im sorry, this is MY evil lair, I built it and SHOT the guys who I stole the tech offa, alright?)
and make prestige drop in ammounts that make it viable for one person to have their own base/apartment, etc.
But, being honest, the base editor itself is in much need of an upgrade. Stability for one, placement for another....please much.