Angello

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Our base is still very much under construction. But, we do have our game room set up, with some neat wall art by our very own Stone of Amn

Game Room

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That is the farking coolest thing..

I have ever seen..

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Would be great if we could get some of the villan constume pieces. Remember not every hero is a boyscout who dresses in tights.

First

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Hey, Some Boy Scouts in tights are really badass =)

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Good grief Pilcrow, can your avatar get any better? Wait, I have an idea....

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Oh and um.... mission customization, that's whatever you are talking about for you.

I guess I should put a serious part in here somewhere since this is an official thread and all. I've only seen the new NPC hero/helper AI once in the tutorial. The AI certainly seemed adequate enough to have her follow me and shoot other villains that I faced. (It certainly did better than my Wumpus World hero that constantly fell in pits and was killed over and over by the wumpus monster.)

I really enjoyed to see this aspect come alive for NPC's and would love to see more of it. (cops in the street, etc) I certainly hope this is the case for the heroes that we rescue in the Eden Trial, although I'm certain it will be.

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Heroes in the Eden Trial already help you, you just gotta drag the monster over to them in order for them to help out =\.. they die pretty fast without assistance.. except the spines guy.. dudes pretty tough.

well Chronos was a God, equivilant to Saturn to the romans. Who's form has evolved to somewhat of a Grim Reaper, the ultimate evil. The keeper of time, destiny and death. I could be wrong though.

Jonathan Jones Status! (for anyone who knows what I'm talking about)

PvP is a nice way for them to compare heroes and re-assign their roles by pitting them against living thinking beings, as opposed to predictable AI. They are also making changes from the upcoming game CoV, where there is alot revolving around player controlled villains vs heroes.

Are people not getting yet that Blasters are supposed to be the black mage class?

They're very useful and skilled players and allies, but they're not the kings of 1v1..contrary to popular belief. Just because their archetype is at the top of the list does not make them the 'knight' 'all around' character, for those of you who havent noticed.. it's just going in alphabetical order..

This is the MAIN problem I see when Hamidon enh..

Now.. on my time in this forums.. I have definately not been one to complain. I usually think the devs do an excellent job, even when they nerfed regen (which my main is) since it really did unbalance things. One thing I've always seen people complain about is people accusing the devs on 'conspiring' forced teaming. And for the first time in a long while.. yes, this is forced teaming on a HUGE scale.

Note that I love playin CoH, and I wouldnt mind playing it hours upon hours to get a Hami-o or two. However.. it's not that easy.. to get Hami-o's we are forced to team.. and not just your average '8-man mission' this is a '100-player, needs a week of planning and a giant SG mission'. It's not so much that fighting Hamidon is boring, which some claim.. hell I'm sure fighting Hamidon is a ton of fun... but many players do not have the sources (friends, time zones, SGs) to defeat Hamidon. But those who want to match up with people who do have those things, must do the same. Is this forced teaming? Yes it is.

I like CoH alot, I think the devs are great, and I really like all you guys in-game and at these boards.. so it's not like I'd quit or threaten to cancel my account over something like this.

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OK, this is rediculous now. All you people quivering and quaking over HOs And why? Ooooo, they're not fair.....I don't wanna farm for extra stuff.......I do not think it evens out things when a lower lvl person or same lvl player goes up against someone when they do not have it. Well guess what? TOUGH SH#*!

Why are some people rich and others poor? What you don't wanna work and do some things like we have to in life to get ahead? Then settle for what you got or do something about it like say......Work for it. What you don't want to? Fine! But do not go and take it away from those willing to go the extra mile to be better. Do we put wieghted bands and Anklets on the better fighter in the ring to even things up when he has trained to be better than others? Do we shorten the bats on superior baseball players? Do we krack the knees of fast running backs? No we do not. So those of you who do not want to push and do the things you need to be superior for PvP when others are willing to? Man-up and accept your fate or do something about.

Goddamned communists!

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Not everyone has the resources to get there, Ivan Drago.

I must admit I am beyond dissapointed. Call me over-competitive.. but I have been awaiting PvP ever since I first got CoH last summer or so. Building my character towards it, and looking forward to it.. etc. It wasnt until level 40 or so that I noticed a 50 in the Abandoned Sewers.. showing off something that would piss me off for a long time.. an enhancement with a gold ring around it.. At first I had no idea what the hell it was.. thinking maybe it was a temporary enhancment or something? I wasnt bothered by it. But when I was told it has dual, or even triple effects (+ACC and +DMG in one slot) I became a little worried these would unbalance the game... then only rescently I heard the truth that was insane... not only do these things have multi effects.. but a %50 one at that!!! This is insane.. I felt like cancelling my account then and there.. and I am a hardcore player.. I think CoH is awesome, my favorite game ever!!


I play on Guardian.. which is probably one of, if not THE least populated servers on CoH, and I never hear of Hamidon being raided except for maybe once every few weeks..where I hear rumors that on Justice it is raided every other day. Prehaps I am being impatient when I say that fighting a boss every 14 days just is not soon enough. Mind you I have not even fought Hamidon and I've been level 50 for months. I know many of you can say the same.. but really.. SHOULD you be saying the same?! Now that loot is involved (Yes, this is loot, and yes.. this does heavily unbalance the game.) Some of us hardcore players, and solo-players are forced to push even beyond hardcore playing.. I mean you thought finding a balanced team of 8 for respec was hard.. do you know how impossible it is to find a 100-man team of +45s on a server like Guardian.. sometimes in Peregrine at night I fear I will /whoall and see "Tumbleweeds" and "The Wind". Maybe you should set up some kind've daily team-search system for +45's.. since the game is going in this direction. I heard someone say that they are wanting to have daily raids just to distribute hamidon enh among heroes to 'flood the market'..to keep things fair; Something the Devs should be doing (and note: that is the very first time I've said anything negative about the fine group of people at Cryptic.) And it is ironic.. that not even a day before this thread it was posted that stealing hami enh was 'griefing'.. well... lol.. NEWS FLASH! Do we really need to bring out the infamous 'Captain Obvious'.

Bottom line: Yes, this is loot. Yes, this does unbalance the game. No, the devs probably won't do anything about it. No, I will not threaten to cancel my account.. since we all know damn well I won't .


I say the only thing we, as the players, can do is raid Hamidon daily on every server. Does that seem impossible? Well.. yeah it does, so I guess we're all kinda F****d huh?

you guys wanna see something REALLY ancient?

http://www.fileplanet.com/80234/down...-movie-320x240

the year: 2001

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any clues on what might happen to regen?

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Why? Regen was just toned down some with I3.

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Regen has been "toned down" about 3 times =\.

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I still don't get how scrappers can have pistols, they're much more suited for blasters, IMO.

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When you look at it from the basic concept of ranged vs melee, then yes, pistols should be blaster primaries.

But, when you apply COH physics to it, and consider a pistol is a short ranged weapon, it is more suited to a scrapper. Blasters can't get close. I play one, I know. Pistol range will probably be lower than the 1st Blaster attack power. If you're a blaster thats not where you want to be standing! Pistol Scrappers, IMO will probably have a few punches and kicks thrown in there to keep it in line with other scrappers.

Pistol welders on TV and the like normally are pretty decent fighters too. Does Jack Bauer ever get one shotted? Hell no

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Chances are, it will probably have the lowest damage of any scrapper primary. But it will have range to compensate. I will still definately make a character for it regardless.

Anyone remember the Rifle Set actually being a set of guns?

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Issue 5, in my opinion..is a long way off, somewhere around next January.

So Issue 4 is technically the last free update we'll see til after CoV is live.

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I'm not known for clear answers, but I'll break with tradition and just say...

Nope. Issue 5 WILL come out earlier than next January.

And there are TWO development teams within Cryptic - one on City of Heroes and one on City of Villains.

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Damn.. for a minute there I thought you were actually saying I5 would come out in January States.. nearly had a heart attack until I realized you were just quoting.

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How about an old west dimension?

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I would absolutely hate having an old west dimension.. because if they added one I would never leave my computer, it would just be an overload of awesome and I wouldnt be able to pry my eyes from the screen...ever...

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The problem with scaling damage up or down based on target level is that you're basically denying the higher level player the just reward he's earned for leveling his character. If a level 10 shooting at a level 40 does 40th level damage, what's the point? They should not be on a equal footing. The 40th level player has presumably worked hard to earn his extra hp and his larger damage, so it is unfair to strip that from him. Scaling up the level 10's damage to the level 40's equivalent does just that.

PvP needs to be fun and something that doesn't get abusive. However, that doesn't mean a 1 on 1 fight has to be fair. If I decide to pick fistfight with a grizzly bear, well, I expect to lose. You can even give me a knife and I'll still expect to lose. That's just common sense. A level 10 should know that picking a fight with a level 40 is suicide. It should be common sense. At the same time the system needs checks and balances so the level 40 isn't deliberately hunting level 10's just so he can gank them.

There ARE things that can be done -- both to reduce ganking (I'm not promising it will ever completely go away) and allow a broader level range in PvP combat. Lower levels should have a chance to attack and defend themselves, even if it is hard. As we implement them we're going to test them internally and the ideas that survive that test will then move on to various stages of beta testing.

So at this point I won't say just what our plans are (because I like to test things first), but I just figured I'd shake the web here.

Lord Recluse

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wow, finally someone agrees with me, and it happens to be a dev.

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I want to see the ability to hover in an upright position with arms crossed.

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Yeah I was totally thinking that too.