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Quote:Ah, see, some people agree. I do, it would be nice to have alternate, different animations for the set.Originally Posted by JKedan
Ah yes. The City of boards are so much more civilized than other games' forums.
Why, no one would ever come down on someone here for offering a negative opinion based on available information. Nope. We're all civilized, open minded folks here, who certainly don't make assumptions that everything will be awesome based on a flashy preview. And we're not at all blind dev fanbois and apologists.
Nope.
Never.
Not here.
Just good civilized open minded discussion.
I'm so glad that it's acceptable and even encouraged to offer up a differing opinion here without fear of the frothing herd blindly stampeding on you. It's refreshing.
That said, I will understand why there might not be/aren't. I also realise that there might be alternates, now the tech is in place
I think most people just object to the whiny, 'wants his cake now' attitude of the OP
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Quote:....Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Yeah - like a whip power set would have a lot of xXx1nd14n4-j0nzxXx types running around
Infantry! Load!
Aim!
Fire!
Execution performed. Dispose of the body.
I hope your fingers bled as you typed that, GG
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Quote:Willful jumping on slight error is willful.Originally Posted by MageX
But Praetoria might be.
By GR I meant Praetoria. GR in it's entirety will, with more likelihood than me eating chocolate (very likely) have full range of content. The Devs aren't going to take the time to make all this cool stuff, then make it 1-20. This is doomsaying.
There will be, at the very least, the stuff that will need to be done for side switching, which is guarenteed by Positron to be a fair chunk ('Not just a lightswitch')
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Quote:^ ThisOriginally Posted by EnigmaBlack
That's a good idea. Personally I've been neg repped and left stupid comments simply because I don't agree with certain popular forum posters.
I check once in a while. And I +rep people I think are polite and make good points, or do funny stuff. -
I can think of ways to do nearly all the attacks, bar maybe the 'Rain of shrapnel' attack, without flashy moves.
PBAoE Nuke. Stand up straight, both guns pointed forward, start firing, swing one way, the other, then full circle. Doesn't have to be so flashy, and more 'believable'. Hell, we could even get a whooshing trenchcoat in there.
As for the cone, similar, but just stood straight and the contemptous 'mow you down' arc of fire.
T'be honest, we DONT know what all the attacks do, therefore it's kinda hard to judge what alternates there could be.
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I don't get where people are coming from with all this 'GR is ONLY lvl 1-20'.
1-20 are the levels you can REMAIN NEUTRAL. Fully neutral, from the Praetorian origin. At that point, from what has been said, you must either pick Hero or Villain. I would hazard a guess that means Vigilante and Rogue too, as the Devs said in the past that it was a goal to allow characters to remain 'in the shades of grey'.
After 20, then there is the rest of Praetoria to get through. Given the side switching is not just a switch, as Positron said, that would logically mean some sort of missions, arcs, something like that. Thats just part of it. And thats open to all levels.
GR won't just be 1-20 content. Sure, I can't prove it until a redname drops in here and confirms that, but I will safely bet that I will eat one of my hats if Praetoria is only lvl 1-20 stuff. It doesn't gell with what we know and have been told. -
Quote:In the original video of CoH, with Statesman's first incarnation, he had dark hair. In some of the comics where he had a ripped costume, iirc, he had dark hair.Originally Posted by Melancton
My pitiful Search Fu efforts could not yield the thread that talked about Marcus Cole being blond. It was then said that he used shoe polish in his initial Statesman costume to help conceal his identity.
Or I could have taken one too many boulders from Warwolves, but I thought Marcus Cole was supposed to be blond.
Not that an Eeeeeeeeevil Marcus Cole could not dye his hair to match his heart (evil laugh.)
Anyone else remember anything to that effect? It is no biggie, but that is what I thought.
Reich's has brown hair, Emperor Cole has dark hair...
It looks MUCH better that way. Blonde doesn't really work with that sort of build, character or with the costumes. -
Quote:^ Also the point I was trying to get at.Originally Posted by Canine
The OP's speculation is a possibility, certainly.
However I'm seeing a lot of people getting hung up on the word 'Clockwork'.
From my reading of the arcs (and I've been through Tina Macintyres arc more than a few times), the name 'Clockwork' was attached to Antimatter/Neuron's robotic lackeys because they look at first glance like the larger Clockwork Princes.
Not because there's any connection to the loon with his brain in a jar.
The Radiation spewing bots of doom basically use a Clockwork Prince model with a new texture.
So if you would care to compare a Clockwork Prince to a Praetorian Nuon, you'll see the resemblance.
Play through Tina Macintyres arc with the original intent, i.e. that this is a completely new dimension with which you've had no prior contact and about which you have no information, and you can see why they'd be referred to using a term with which Tina is already familiar. That, and the fact that the first mission you get from Tina is pretty much universally the Psychic Clockwork King mission, thus informing Tina that Clockwork exist in other dimensions, and you can see even more opportunity for Tina to be mistaken.
However, this term is now causing confusion and making people seek connections with the Clockwork King when there is no such relationship implied other than by visual resemblance (and recycling mob geometry with a new texture about 20 levels after it stopped cropping up in the story arcs).
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Quote:Tell us something newOriginally Posted by Obscure Blade
Clearly the CoT and Carnival have great skill at cross dressing.
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Quote:Ha!Originally Posted by UnSub
I think there is a good chance that the people who "go overseas" might potentially end up as the Clockwork. Well, maybe not so much "good" as "possible".
It is too simple to just make the Clockwork King behind the Clockwork. Too easy. You know what would be more fun (and by fun, I mean "creepy")? The man behind the Clockwork is the Praetorian Dr Vahzilok. He's used to dealing with large numbers of automaton minions; in Praetoria he just gives them a chrome finish.
He'd be a lot more controllable than the incredible psychic power of the Clockwork King. And he could certainly be working under someone like Anti-Matter or Neuron.
Y'know, that would actually be kinda cool
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Quote:Faith...in....Humanity?Originally Posted by Lord_Thanatos
Don't you know!? Its a current fad to complain about how the game is starting to look its age and that one of the selling points of its competitor is that it looks better! But then when the development teams decides to do something about that, its not worth it anymore and its a waste of time!!!
And this is why my faith in humanity was lost a long time ago.
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Quote:I prefered:Originally Posted by Smash_Zone
Positron won five million internets that day upon making that quote.
After seeing Dual Pistols in action, all I can say is when the heck is Going Rogue going to come out!?
"Yeah...I took the cape off of Jack's cold dead body." - Positron
I grinned. A lot
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Devs said Base raids and CoP are in the pipeline. No ETA.
A LOT of stuff is still in the pipe. Again, with No ETA.
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Flight of Doves: Hero-Con only Easter Egg. So says BaBs.
Alternate animations: Possible, if not immediately than in future.
Guess: You really can't please everyone
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Fact:
We dont know.
Additional Fact:
We WONT know until GR comes out, or at least closer to release.
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Quote:Once every thousand posts, the Golden Girl shall break from her smilies, and smite the foe with sarcasm.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Yes - in the video, you can clearly see the only enemy is the big Clockwork who summons smaller robots - your only option is to defeat them to get the xp you need for the first 20 levels - this is all the new 1-20 content is - the video proves it.
And woe be upon the fool that earns her ire. Such mortals are never heard of again...
I wish we coulda saved the post where you actually flipped on someone, GG. The stunned silence was awesome
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Quote:I keep thinking of Desperate Guy and Turndown GirlOriginally Posted by ResidentBaka
I like how he thinks "cracking portal tech" is gonna get Dominatrix all up in his battle suit.
"Hey girl, I just synthesized an equation for transcending dimensional boundaries. Does that set your heart aflutter or what?"
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"Dominatrix, honey, I just found a dimension composed entirely of small, adorable puppies. What say you and I put on our stomping boots and we can leave our pants at the portal?"
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"Baby, you've invaded dimension Kappa-Phi 30-80. Also known as 'my heart.'"
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"What say we go back to my place and I launch my strike force into your transdimensional phasegate?"
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"Wanna do the robot?"
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"What say I relocate a search party to praetorian Uranus?"
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No FX Options would be nice.
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Quote:Well, there goes any hope I had...Originally Posted by Golden Girl
All the Sprint powers should be zero endurance, like Brawl
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Quote:That happened to me as soon as they started showing off the new graphics.Originally Posted by Dante
None from me either... just small squealing noises of joy...
They simply amplified and got more frequent when they showed off Dual Pistols.
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'Praetorian Clockwork' is the fault of the old (current) Praetorian minions of Anti-Matter and Neuron. Anti-matter built the blue robots, Neuron built the silver robots. They were, irrc, inspired by the Clockwork of Primal Earth. Anti-matters minions used radiation, while Neuron's minions stuck to using electricity.
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Quote:Want. Sick of doing 'Resisted by all' DamageOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
Tha basic idea if the same - AR could very easily use the DP ammo
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Hmm, we all love -reps. Unsigned, of course.
Quote:...Is it mineral? Possibly Vegetable.BAAAWWWWWWW
I'm sorry I didn't take you personal condition into account. I will try to develop psychic powers in future.Quote:The I r Rikti robot thing doesn't really help you make a point clearly. Especially when I've been up half the night. If it's meant to be funny, use it in funny threads. If you're trying to have a serious discussion about something: rethink.
I use the Rikti-speak occasionally in funny threads, when I can make it funny. The rest of the time I use it when I lose patience with people, or feel motivated enough to try and drum something into peoples heads. Results vary, as expected.
Hmm, let's see...nope. Not really. I was asking if people are just too stubborn to change the way things have been done 'Because we always do it that way'.Quote:This thread is dumb and you should feel bad for posting it.
You just proved the alternative meaning is in fact correct. Have a cookie. -
Quote:Shield powers work with the very base of, for the sake of argument, a Scrapper. Attack and defence. You need the defences to be able to use the attacks.Originally Posted by brophog02
There is such analogous argument in this game. This game has never applied that kind of argument to what is power balancing, and combat jumping is essentially free in terms of endurance (.07 is so neglible that it is, by all practical terms, a free power). By the same token, why does it cost more than 30 times the energy to swing the sword, than to swing the shield to block?
See, the argument completely, and totally, fails.
Your assumption is still that a shield power costs too much, and in that respect, Sprint costing a tiny fraction more is too much . The reality is still, in terms of actual endurance usage, that the shield power at .24 isn't costing much of anything, by itself. There are a lot more expensive toggles than that (just look at a Stormie, for instance)........but, of course, that doesn't fit the argument the framework for this incredibly weak argument.
I not only don't see it changed, but even if Sprint were made entirely free, it wouldn't help those having an endurance problem. It's nothing more than the tiny slice you turn off, with other tiny slices, when you're having major endurance problems. By itself, it's not much of anything.
The end use is small, but constantly ticking.
The attacks use more end, for one off damage.
Im not even sure why Im arguing that, because that is NOT the point of the OP. I seem to have missed the part where you became psychic somewhere.
Sprint is a basic power, given at level 1. Its the 'base movement power' if you will. It's cost, when compared with the other basic power and the powers in the 2 AT Sets is unreasonable.
If its not such an issue for certain, whats the problem with changing it? It'd be hard to say 'Give us a walk button, a stroll button and a run button, all of them customisable.'
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I thought you meant costume slots...which would have me mauling someone until it happened...